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Fifth Grade 2nd Nine Weeks Benchmark

1. The diameter of Mercury is 3,032 miles. Mars is 4,218 miles in diameter and Pluto is 1,430 miles in diameter. Which of the following statements is NOT true about the diameter of Mercury?

a. Mercury’s diameter is greater than the diameter of Pluto.

b. Mercury’s diameter is less than the diameter of Mars.

c. Mercury’s diameter is less than the diameter of Pluto.

  1. The estimated cost to build a new park is nine hundred sixty-three thousand dollars.

What is this number in standard form?

a.$9,630

b.$96,300

c.$936,000

d.$963,000

  1. Camden Yards sold 25,864 adult tickets and 32,543 student tickets to last Friday’s Baltimore Orioles baseball game. How many tickets were sold for last Friday’s game? Show your work.
  1. Kendra solved a math problem this way:

325,632

-215,178 Is her answer correct or incorrect?

110,546

Use pictures, numbers, and/or words to show your reasoning.

  1. There were 4,536 people at the carnival. Each person bought 8 tickets. How many tickets were bought at the carnival?
  1. 36,288
  2. 32,046
  3. 567
  4. 562
  1. Maria baked sugar cookies and peanut butter cookies. She baked 15 sugar cookies and 3 times as many peanut butter cookies. What is the total number of cookies that Maria baked?
  1. 18
  2. 34
  3. 52
  4. 60
  1. Using the digits 1, 2, 3, and 4 only one time each, write a two-digit by two-digit multiplication problem that will result in the greatest possible product using those digits. Then find the product.
  1. Six friends are sharing a game with 540 cards. Each friend gets the same number of cards. How many cards does each friend get?
  1. Write a story problem for 3000 ÷ 6. Show how you would solve the problem.
  1. A store sold 344 DVD players last year.
  • The store sold 8 different brands of DVD players.
  • The store sold the same number of each brand of DVD player.

How many of each brand of DVD player did the store sell?

  1. 40
  2. 41
  3. 42
  4. 43
  1. Charlotte has a box of 200 nails. She needs 8 nails for each birdhouse she builds.

What is the total number of birdhouses Charlotte can build with 200 nails?

  1. 10
  2. 15
  3. 20
  4. 25
  1. Sabrina rounded the size of a park to the nearest thousand acres. Her estimate was

277,000 acres. What number could be the exact number of acres?

  1. 276,543
  2. 276,479
  3. 275,424
  4. 275,289
  1. A post office delivered seventeen thousand, ninety-six pieces of mail in a week.

What is this number of pieces of mail written in expanded form?

  1. 10,000 + 7,000 + 900 + 6
  2. 10,000 + 7,000 + 90 + 6
  3. 17 + 1,000 + 90 + 6
  4. 17 + 1,000 + 900 + 60
  1. A river rafting company has rafts that each have room for up to 8 people.
  1. On the first river-raft tour, there are 18 full rafts and 1 raft with 5 people in it. How many people are on the first tour? Show or explain how you found your answer.
  1. On the second river-raft tour, there are 30 people. What is the fewest number of rafts needed for this river-raft tour?
  1. Which of the number patterns below follows the rule subtract 8to get to the next

number?

  1. 79,71,55,50,46,43
  2. 66,59,52,44,35,25
  3. 43,35,28,23,18,11
  4. 51,43,35,27,19,11
  1. The math team went to the aquarium to do research. Each team member paid $27

for the trip. There were 25 team members on the trip. What was the total amount the

team members paid? Show your work.

  1. Write a division problem using a 4-digit dividend and a 1-digit divisor that results in an

even quotient. Show your work.

  1. a. Represent the decimals on the grids.

0.7 0.70

b. Compare the two decimals using the symbols <, >, or =.

0.7 0.70

  1. What is the value of the x, y, and z on the number line?

x = ______y = ______z = ______

  1. How much does it costs in electricity a month to use the dishwasher and the DVD

player at Maggie's house?

Device / Cost/month
DVD Player / $1.42
Microwave / $3.57
Ceiling Light / $0.89
Dishwasher / $2.37
  1. Darius likes to walk his dog on the beach to the pier. It is 1.24 miles to the pier one-

way. If Darius walks to the pier and back with his dog, how far do they walk?

22. Kenya is measuring the sides of a triangle in class. The first side is 2.13 in long, the

second sideis 1.4 in long, and the third side is 1.56 in long. How many total inches

are the sides of the triangle?

  1. Susie and Charlie brought in candy for the class. Susie brought in 2.67 pounds of

candy, while Charlie brought in 1.5 pounds of candy. How many pounds of candy did

they bring in overall?

Bonus Problems

  1. The rule for the function table is n + 2.45. Find the missing output.
  1. Stephanie added two numbers that had a sum of 14.64. She subtracted 2 numbers that had a difference of 14.64. What numbers might she have added and what numbers might she have subtracted?