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1.  Par nal hour that he worked, he made double the previous amount. If they both worked 20 hours over the summer, who made more money? and what was the difference in their amounts?

 

 

2. Jack and Anna are racing to see how long it takes to write their names 100 times.  Jack writes his name 5 times every 10 seconds.  Anna writes her name 2 times every 5 seconds.  Who won

the race?

 

       2.Anwer Jack- Armaan

 

3. Puss in  Boots and Ginger Bread Man raced for 10:00 to destroy pumpkins at Jack and Jill's farm. Gingy destroryed 20 pumpkins every 10 sec. and Puss destroyed 6 every 4 sec. Who won?

 

    3.Anwer Gingy- Armaan

 

4. There are 3000 people in a bus station. All off them are going on a bus. If there are 60 buses, how many people are in each bus?-Armaan

 

4. Answer 50 people on each bus-Arpit

 

5.   17 people  at  the  party  and  16  people  had  to  go  how  many  people

was  at the party?  

 

     5.Answer 1 person left - Arpit

 

6. A roller coaster siholds a total of 184 people. If each car holds 8 people, how many cars are there?-Arpit           

6.Answer 23-Armaan

 

7.There are 50 marble cases in the shop.They get 2 more cases each day. Each case has 32 marbles in it. If there are no customers for a week how many marbles are in the shop?-Armaan

 7. Answer - 2048 (Darshan)

 

8. How many seconds are in a full day? -Armaan

8. Answer - 86160 seconds for a day which makes a leap year (Darshan)

 

9. You are the bus driver, 80 people get on at the first stop, 30 people get off at the second stop, 4 people get on at the third stop, and 29 people get off at the forth stop, and then 25 people get off at the last stop - how many people are left on the bus? - Darshan

 0 people only the driver left-Arpit

 

10.The area of a rectangle is 943 square inches. The length of the rectangle is 41 inches. What is the width of the rectangle?-Arpit

    10.Answer 23 inches-Armaan

 

 

 

 11.  There  was  127 people at the school  and  200 new people  came this year how many in all ?  By Jakenya

 11. 327 people at the school.-Arpit

12. anna got home  from dance at 4:00 abby got home from dance at 7:00.How many more hours was anna home before abby?

                                              anwser 3 hours-Armaan

13. There are 587 boxes of candy. There are 470 peices of candy in each. How many peices are there in all?-Armaan

 

   13. Answer - 275, 890 - Darshan

 

14. You are the bus driver, 25 people get on at the first stop, 10 people get off at the second stop, 5 people get on at the third stop, and 14 people get off at the forth stop, and then 2 people get off at the last stop - What is the name of the bus driver? - Darshan

 

 

15.Gabriel built a cage for his tropical birds.The cage measures 14 feet by 12 feet. What is the perimeter of the cage?-Arpit

 15.answer-52-darshan

 

16.My sister and me are interested in the planets.We found out Saturn is about 74,566 miles wide and Earth is about 7,926 miles wide. How much wider is Saturn?-Arpit

 16.answer-665 40miles longer-darshan             

 

 

 

 

 

17.Jack and Annie raced to the tree house Jack ran 4mile in 2min Annie ran 8miles in 4min who won the race?

 

It was a tie  because  if you make Jack and Annie run 8 minutes they both will have run 16 miles-Armaan

 

 

18. Robert arrives at school at 8:25 a.m.He leaves for home at 3:40 p.m How long is he at school?-Arpit

3:40+40 Min=4:20+5 min=4:25+4 hours=8:25 40 min= 5 min 240+min=285 min or 4 hours 45 min

60+60+60+60=240 min-Armaan Fix- 8:25+35 min= 9:00+3hours=12:00+3hours= 3:00 +40 min=3:40  total time 7hours  15 minites.

 

 

 

 19.In the movie theater, there are 9 rows of seats with 10 seats in each row. The seats are numbered starting with with 1. If you buy a ticket to next movie, what is the probability that you will sit in a seat that is a multiple of 10?-Arpit

 

 

 

20.There are 75 boxes with 34 serpants in each. If all the serpants have 4 babies how many 
serpants are there? Also how many babies are there?

 

 

20. 2,550 serpents and  10,200 babies.      75x34=2,550   2,550x4=10,200-Arpit

 

 21.One day it was snowing and Sarah decided to have a snow ball fight.So she made some snow balls. She threw 6 of them at her little sister Rachel and they had a snow ball fight. 3 of sarah's snow balls melted in the sun. Then Ben, the boy who lives beside sarah came and stole 4 of the snow balls. Next, sarah threw 7 more. It was lunch time, but when sarah came back 2 of her snow balls rolled down the hill so Rachel gave her 5 more. sarah had 7 left over. How many snow balls did sarah start out with? -Melissa

                            Sarah started with _______ snow balls. 

                                                          

 21.7-5=2 2+2+7+4+3+6=24

24-6=18 18-3=15 15-4=11 11-7=4 4-2=2 2+5

Sarah started with 24 snowballs.-Arpit

 

 

 

Comments (5)

nicolas said

at 5:22 pm on Sep 12, 2007

I love math.

Parv Gondalia said

at 5:25 pm on Sep 12, 2007

I like to do long division.

armaan said

at 5:17 pm on Oct 3, 2007

I like math because it's the easiest subject for me!!

melissa said

at 10:51 am on Dec 5, 2007

Math is OK, but I like Science and writing a LOT better.I think I am good at some things in math but Bad at others and like I said math is OK, I just have to get better at it!

Ms. Forbes said

at 6:09 pm on Mar 16, 2008

Math is cool! Although there is usually only one right answer, there are often several ways to find it!

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