ISEE Lower Level Math : ISEE Lower Level (grades 5-6) Mathematics Achievement

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Example Questions

Example Question #61 : How To Multiply

Anita owns a store. She buys twenty sweaters for  each and sells them for  each. If she sells all of the twenty sweaters that she bought, how much profit will she earn in dollars?

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Correct answer:

Explanation:

If Anita buys twenty sweaters for  each and sells them for  each, this means that she makes  profit per sweater. If she sells  sweaters, the profit that she makes will be , which is equal to

Example Question #231 : Isee Lower Level (Grades 5 6) Mathematics Achievement

Find the product of  and .

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Correct answer:

Explanation:

Find the product of two numbers by multiplying them together. , so the correct answer is .

Example Question #232 : Isee Lower Level (Grades 5 6) Mathematics Achievement

Find the product of:

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Correct answer:

Explanation:

When multiplying one negative factor with one positive factor the product will always be negative. 

Thus, the solution is:

Example Question #233 : Isee Lower Level (Grades 5 6) Mathematics Achievement

Find the product of:

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

When multiplying two negative factors the product will always be positive. 

Thus, the solution is:

Example Question #234 : Isee Lower Level (Grades 5 6) Mathematics Achievement

Find the product of:

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

When multiplying one negative factor with one positive factor the product will always be negative. 

Thus, the solution is:

Example Question #235 : Isee Lower Level (Grades 5 6) Mathematics Achievement

Find the product of:

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

When multiplying a negative factor times a positive factor times and then multiplying that product times a negative factor, the final product will always be positive. 

Consider the solution using partial products: 

Example Question #236 : Isee Lower Level (Grades 5 6) Mathematics Achievement

Find the product of:

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

When multiplying a negative times a negatives times a negative, the resulting product must be negative. 

Thus, the solution is:


 

Example Question #237 : Isee Lower Level (Grades 5 6) Mathematics Achievement

Find the product of:

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

When multiplying two positive factors with one negative factor, the resulting product must be negative. 

The solution is:

Example Question #234 : Numbers And Operations

Kendra has  bags of candy. Each bag has  pieces of candy. Half of the candy is chocolate. How many pieces of chocolate does Kendra have in all? 

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

Half of every bag of candy must be chocolate. All  bags have  pieces of candy. Thus,  pieces must be chocolate in every bag. 

Kendra's total amount of chocolate is:



An alternative solution is to find the total amount of candy that Kendra has and then divide that amount in half:



Example Question #75 : Operations

John and Jose both enjoy writing lines of programming code. John has written  lines of code. If Jose has written  times as many lines of code as John, how many lines of code has Jose written? 

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Correct answer:

Explanation:

Since Jose has written  times as many lines of code as John, multiply the total amount of code that John has written by .

The solution is:

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