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Example Questions
Example Question #56 : Operations
If there are bananas in a bunch and Joe buys
bunches, how many bananas does he buy in total if one bunch is missing a banana?
If there are bananas in a bunch and Joe buys
bunches, that means he buys
bananas because the product of
and
is
. However, because a banana is missing from one bunch, the number he buys will be one less, at
.
Example Question #57 : Operations
Jane's cat is sick, so she must give it a pill three times a day. If she gives her cat its pills for a week, how many pills does she give it during this time?
If Jane's cat is sick and she must give it a pill times a day, then she will give it
pills in a week. This is because there are
days in a week, and the product of
and
is
.
Example Question #58 : Operations
Rebecca receives four letters. It takes her five minutes to read a letter and ten minutes to respond to a letter. How many minutes will it take her to read and respond to all four letters?
If it takes Rebecca minutes to read a letter and then
minutes to respond to a letter, this means that it take her
minutes to read and respond to a letter, because the sum of
and
is
.
Therefore, in order for Rebecca to respond to 4 letters, the following equation reveals how many minutes she will need:
Thus, is the correct answer.
Example Question #56 : Operations
Which of the following is the best estimate of the expression below?
To estimate , the first step is round each number to the nearest tens place. This gives us:
Example Question #222 : Isee Lower Level (Grades 5 6) Mathematics Achievement
If Brenda rides her bike to work and then home every day, how many miles does she ride her bike in five days if her work is four miles away from her home?
If Brenda's work is miles away from her home, that means that she rides
miles every day that she rides from her home to work (
miles), and then from work back to her home (another
miles).
Therefore, the number of miles she rides in days is equal to
.
Example Question #61 : Operations
Mindy bought a box of granola bars for
. She sold each bar for
. If Mindy sold all
bars, how much of a profit would she make in dollars?
If the box of granola bars was
, this means that each granola bar cost
because
divided by
is
.
If Mindy then sold each granola bar for , the profit per bar would be
minus the
cost of the bar, which is equal to
.
If she sold all granola bars, then she would have made a profit of
, which is
.
Example Question #223 : Isee Lower Level (Grades 5 6) Mathematics Achievement
Maria makes jewelry with beads. She can make a pair of earrings with beads, a bracelet with
beads, and a necklace with
beads. If Maria has
beads, which of the following could she make?
necklaces
pairs of earrings
bracelets
bracelets and
pairs of earrings
pairs of earrings
Given that each pair of earrings requires beads, the number of beads that
pairs of earrings would require is equal to:
Since Maria has beads, she has a sufficient number of beads to make
earrings. The other jewelry arrangements will result in there being a shortage of beads: Maria would need
beads to make
necklaces (
),
beads to make
bracelets (
), and
beads to make
bracelets and
pairs of earrings (
).
Example Question #222 : Isee Lower Level (Grades 5 6) Mathematics Achievement
The cost for two people to be part of a tennis club is a month. If Jon and Marie share the annual cost of the club membership, how much does each person have to pay per year?
If the cost of being part of a tennis club for two people is a month, that means the annual cost for two people will be
.
If two people share this cost, that means that each person will have to pay because half of
is
.
Therefore, the correct answer is .
Example Question #61 : Operations
On average, Lisa sends twelve emails a day. How many emails would she send in a week if she sent her average number of emails every day of the week?
If Lisa sends an average of emails a day and sends emails over a course of
days, that means that the total number of emails that she sends will be equal to
. Therefore, the correct answer is
.
Example Question #62 : How To Multiply
Andrew recorded a song with his band that is minutes and
seconds long.
of the way into the song, he begins a drum solo. For how long does the song play before the solo begins?
minute
minutes and
seconds
minute and
seconds
minute and
seconds
minute and
seconds
If a song is minutes and
seconds long, this is the equivalent of being
seconds long. (
minutes is equal to
seconds and
.)
of
is
because
. Therefore,
of
is equal to
. Therefore,
seconds (or
minute and
seconds) will go by before the drum solo begins.
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