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Survey
A survey shows that some students like to play baseball. The survey also shows that some students like to play soccer. The survey also shows that some students like to play both baseball and soccer. Which category would be found in the overlap section of a Venn diagram?
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Grade 5
Venn Diagram
Sports Arena
A survey question asked residents what kind of sports arena the town should have. 0.3 of the people in the town said an ice hockey rink. 1/3 of the people said a basketball court. 37% of the people said a swimming pool. List these responses from greatest to least.
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Grade 5
Decimals, Fractions, Percents
Spinner
Matt spins a 4-section spinner. Matt's spinner is labeled 1, 4, 7, 10. Suzanne spins a 10-section spinner. Suzanne's spinner is labeled 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Who has a greater chance of spinning an even number?
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Grade 5
Probability, Ratios
Baby-Sit
Marie is paid $13 to baby-sit for 4 hours. Daniel is paid $13.75 to baby-sit for 5 hours. Leonard wants to charge $8 per hour to baby-sit. Is his fee reasonable? Explain.
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Grade 5
Reason/Ratio
Box
Suni is painting the faces of a box. The box is 12 inches long. The box is 6 inches wide. The box is 4 inches high. What is the surface area of the box that Suni is painting?
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Grade 5
Surface Area
Doghouse
The Future Architects want to cover the floor of a doghouse with a waterproof mat. The doghouse is 6 feet long. The doghouse is 6 feet wide. Tell whether perimeter or area is needed and then solve the problem.
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Grade 5
Area
Metal Balls
A sculpture is made of boxes holding metal balls. The number of balls in each consecutive box is 8, 11, 14, 17, 20. Explain what the pattern could be. Tell how many balls would be next.
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Grade 5
Patterns
Fence
Eduardo built a fence around his new painting studio. Two of the sides of the fence are parallel. Two of the sides of the fence are not parallel. What type of quadrilateral is the fence?
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Grade 5
Quadrilaterals
Trees
The Boy Scouts are planting trees in an empty lot in the city. The Boy Scouts have $129.50. White oak trees cost $25.90 each. How many trees can they buy? Write an equation and solve.
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Grade 5
Division
Water Samples
A group of students is helping the Salisbury Nature Center collect water samples. Each student collects 5 samples of water. The park ranger collects 3 samples of water. Write an expression that describes the number of samples collected, s, and the number of students, n, that help collect them.
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Grade 5
Writing Variable Expressions
Bakery
The Whole Grain Bakery donated 36 loaves of bread to a bake sale for the Science Club. Half the loaves are rye. 12 of the loaves are multigrain. The rest of the loaves are whole wheat. How many loaves of whole wheat bread did the bakery donate?
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Grade 5
Division/Subtraction
Epicenter
Scientists locate 2 epicenters of earthquakes from a seismograph recording. Epicenter A is 4,612 feet below the surface. Epicenter B is 4,968 feet below the surface. Which epicenter is farther below the surface?
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Grade 5
Subtraction
Cell Phones
Phillip is comparing cell phones. Phillip finds one phone that has a mass of 48.9 grams. Phillip finds another phone that has a mass of 0.05 kilograms. Which phone weighs less?
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Grade 5
Converting Grams to Kilograms
Rain
A telephone pole left a hole in the ground when it was removed. It rained that day. 1 1/2 cups of rainwater collected in the hole. Rick says that 64 fluid ounces is 1 1/2 cups. Is his estimate reasonable?
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Grade 5
Estimating
Stamps
Susan collects stamps. Susan has 10 1/2 albums filled with stamps. Some of Susan's stamps are foreign stamps. 2/3 of Susan's stamps are United States stamps. How many albums are filled with stamps from the United States?
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Grade 5
Division of Fractions
Film
Martine has 3/4 of a roll of film left in her camera. Today Martine takes pictures using half of that amount. What fraction of a whole roll did she take today?
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Grade 5
Division of Fractions
Grass Seed
Jerry buys a 1 1/2-pound bag of grass seed. There is only 1/4 left in the bag. How much did he use? Write an equation and solve.
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Grade 5
Adding Mixed Numbers
Presentation
Sales representatives sometimes give presentations to large groups of customers. A presentation takes a 1/2 hour to prepare. The presentation takes 3/4 hour to present. How much time does the presentation take altogether?
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Grade 5
Addition of Fractions
Play
Lila made a chart to show the number of ticket sales for the play in the last 12 days. In what fraction of the days were the ticket sales in the range from 100 to 109? Write the fraction in simplest form.
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Grade 5
Fractions
Dance Class
Last semester, 360 students attended the Performing Arts School. Of those students, 120 attended the dance class. Eighty of the students in the dance class are state residents. Express as a fraction the number of dance class students who are state residents.
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Grade 5
Fractions
Bulletin Board
A teacher wants to select a small group of students. That small group of students will help the teacher put up a bulletin board about inventors. The teacher puts the names in a hat and pulls out 6 names. Tell whether or not the sample is a random sample or a representative sample and explain.
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Grade 5
Sampling
Trains
You work as a train engineer. You want to convince your boss that she should remove cars from train B. Make a bar graph that will support your argument.
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Grade 5
Bar Graph
Museum
A trip to the Natural History Museum costs $80 for the bus. There is a $10 admission charge for each student. The whole trip cost the school $330. How many students went on the trip?
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Grade 5
Subtraction/ Division
Butterflies
The World of Butterflies is open for 9 hours each day. A 7-minute movie about butterflies plays continuously. How many times does the complete movie play each day?
Hint: 9 hours=540 minutes
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Grade 5
Division
Shirts
Billy buys souvenir shirts. Long-sleeve shirts cost $8. Short-sleeve shirts cost $6. He buys shirts for 10 friends and spends a total of $70. How many of each kind of shirt does he buy?
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Grade 5
Guess and Check, Multiplication/Addition
Books
Students plan to send books to another school. They must pay a customs duty when they send the books. The fee is $4 for each box. How much must they pay for 18 boxes? Tell whether the problem requires an estimate or an exact answer to solve
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Grade 5
Multiplication, Estimate/Exact Answer
Trainspotter
The most successful trainspotter, or person who keeps track of all the trains he or she sees, is Bill Curtis. Bill has spotted 60,000 locomotives. He has spotted 11,200 electric units. Bill has spotted 8,300 diesel units. How many trains has he spotted in all?
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Grade 5
Addition
Social Studies
Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier in his Bell XS-1 plane in 1947. Chuck flew at 822.18 miles per hour. What is the place value of the 1 in the number? Write an equivalent decimal for Yeager's speed.
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Grade 5
Place Value