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Problem Solving
Level 7
(Answer ID # 0229158)
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Greg bought 39 cents worth of candy
at the store. Greg gave the cashier a
dollar bill. How much change should
Greg receive?
2
122 cents
61 cents
84 cents
139 cents
11 cents
None of the above
3
If a car can hold 5 people, how many
cars are needed for 41 people?
7
5
3
9
1
8
The museum had one hundred
ninety-seven visitors on Monday, one
hundred eighty-one visitors on
Tuesday, one hundred seventy-two
visitors on Wednesday, and one
hundred seventy-one visitors on
Thursday. How many people visited
the museum on Wednesday and
Monday?
721 people
347 people
90 people
193 people
369 people
4
The drama club would like to have
eighty people see a play at the same
time. If they want to have 8 rows,
how many chairs should they put in
each row?
12
11
16
9
10
5
Jane bought twenty-six pens and
gave 8 of them to Brad. During the
month, Jane used up the ink in 5 of
the pens. How many pens with ink
does Jane have left?
6
15 square feet
81 square feet
44 square feet
33 square feet
58 square feet
7 square feet
18
21
11
13
3
None of the above
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Anna added 20 gallons of gas to her
car last week and read the odometer
to be 14,175 miles. This week, the
gas has been used up and the
odometer reads 14,475 miles. How
many miles per gallon did the car
perform (number of miles on one
gallon of gas)?
25 miles per gallon
30 miles per gallon
35 miles per gallon
15 miles per gallon
10 miles per gallon
Jane has a desk which is four feet
wide and eleven feet long. What is
the area of the desk?
8
Albert signed up for Internet access
at $20 a month. How much will it
cost Albert for five months of
service?
$80
$20
$60
$40
$120
$100
9
The cost for 10 pears at EdHelper
Foods is $4. If Jane wants to
purchase one pear, how much will it
cost?
10
120 cents
200 cents
20 cents
40 cents
80 cents
11
Austin walked 7 blocks to meet
Michael, then 8 blocks to meet
Justin, then 6 blocks to meet
Nicholas, and then 5 blocks to meet
Jonathan. Each block is eighty
meters. Justin walked with Austin
to meet Jonathan. How many fewer
meters did Justin walk?
68 meters
1200 meters
326 meters
880 meters
1487 meters
It is 1100 miles from Atlanta to
Boston and 1000 miles from Boston
to Chicago. How many miles is it
from Atlanta to Chicago?
2100
100
2292
2825
2114
12
Bill is three years and sixteen weeks
old. How old, in years, is Bill?
2
3
12
2
13
13
7
11
3
3
13
4
3
26
13
13
It took Savannah 9 hours to drive
360 miles. If she drove at a constant
speed, how many miles per hour
was she driving?
14
55 miles per hour
45 miles per hour
40 miles per hour
50 miles per hour
65 miles per hour
60 miles per hour
15
300,000 people visited the
EdHelper website in July. What was
the average number of people who
visited the web site per day?
33,333 people
10,000 people
30,000 people
3,000 people
23,076 people
None of the above
Brandon walked 3 1/2 blocks to the
store. He then went to visit his
friend Benjamin who lives 1 3/5
blocks from the store. They both
went to the park 2 1/2 blocks from
Benjamin's place. How far did
Brandon walk?
6 1/10 blocks
6 3/10 blocks
7 3/5 blocks
6 1/5 blocks
6 7/10 blocks
None of the above
16
Paul went to EdHelper Music where
all CDs are $8 each. Paul bought
one CD. Paul had $57 before the
purchase. How many more CDs can
Paul buy?
3
5
12
6
8
17
Jane is going to bed at 10 p.m. and
needs to wake up at 5 a.m. How
many hours will Jane sleep?
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10 hours
7 hours
8 hours
6 hours
12 hours
None of the above
19
Paul spent $8.83 at EdHelper
Foods. Paul bought one carton of
orange juice for $4.04, one bag of
bread for $0.80, and one bag of
potato chips. How much was the
bag of potato chips?
$4.12
$4.28
$4.17
$4.34
$4.84
$3.99
Tyler has a picture album book with
ten pages. Each page has room for
12 pictures. Tyler has 205 pictures.
How many of his pictures can he
put into the album?
83
120
360
139
56
None of the above
20
Albert bought a computer for
$1,830, a monitor for $360, and a
printer for $390. How much did all
three items cost?
$2,580
$2,760
$2,410
$2,400
$2,540
$2,620
21
Michael works 5 hours and 40
minutes per day, three days a week.
If Michael earns $9.75 an hour, how
much will Michael make in eight
weeks?
22
13
16
17
25
11
20
$1,326
$1,558.25
$2,430.24
$783.75
$1,170
$899.07
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The distance between two cities is
104 miles, but is represented on a
map as 5 1/5 inches. How many
miles is one inch on the map equal
to?
75 miles
70 miles
50 miles
20 miles
85 miles
55 miles
460 students crowded into the
auditorium. There were 23 rows.
How many seats per row are there?
24
Bill works at the gift shop from
3:27 p.m. until 5:39 p.m. four days
a week. How long does Bill work
each week?
2 hours and 12 minutes
1 hour and 46 minutes
6 hours and 36 minutes
8 hours and 48 minutes
None of the above
25
During the first four weeks of
October, Brad worked 24 1/6 hours
the first week, 22 4/5 hours the
second week, 31 2/3 hours the third
week, and 33 1/2 hours the fourth
week. If the average worker works
40 1/5 hours a week, how many
hours fewer per week did Brad work
in comparison to the average
worker?
26
720
960
809
655
None of the above
10.2 fewer hours per week
12.2 fewer hours per week
26.2 fewer hours per week
0.2 fewer hours per week
1.8 fewer hours per week
27
A picture frame is 5 5/6 inches wide
and 2 2/3 inches long. What is the
area of the picture frame?
1
4
8
66
2
1
9
13
41
5
15
18
5
9
18
At EdHelper High, the ratio of
students who take the bus to
school to those who don't take the
bus is 2 to 1. There are 240
students who don't take the bus.
How many take the bus?
28
Anthony received a raise of 3%.
His salary is now $27,617. What
was his salary before the raise?
$27,340
$27,064
$26,813
$26,236
$26,512
29
Jane spends 1/3 of the day sleeping,
8.3% of the day eating, and 29.2%
of the day at school. How much
time does Jane have left to do other
things?
30
1 hour
1 hour and 12 minutes
12 minutes
1 hour and 24 minutes
None of the above
1/2 of the day
19/24 of the day
1/4 of the day
3/8 of the day
7/24 of the day
31
Amy had a grade of 97% on the
exam. Each question on the exam
was valued equally. Amy answered
68 questions correct. How many
questions were on the exam?
119
70
102
121
90
40
Jill walked 5 blocks in 10 minutes.
At this rate, how long will it take
Jill to walk 12 blocks?
32
Seventy percent of the 4,330 people
questioned in a survey indicated
they were satisfied with the
customer service at EdHelper
Electronics. How many of the
people surveyed were satisfied with
the customer service?
2,537 people
3,780 people
1,299 people
3,031 people
1,709 people
2,085 people
33
Greg went on vacation. Greg spent
$22.30 on gas, $75.29 on meals,
and $94.61 on entertainment. Greg
also spent money on lodging. If
Greg spent $443.07 in total, how
much did Greg spend on lodging?
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$6.97
$11.60
$4.33
$2.94
$8.32
$250
$250.34
$251.67
$251.74
$250.87
None of the above
35
What is the average of the odd
integers between negative sixtynine and negative fifty-four?
61.5
-61.500
-61.000
61
-62.000
Brad was on the phone for 37
minutes. If the telephone company
charges 11.7 per minute, how
much did the call cost?
36
On a map, 2.3 inches are equivalent
to 10 miles. Two cities are 3.4
inches apart on the map. How many
miles are they apart?
17.7 miles
8.1 miles
34 miles
14.8 miles
17.4 miles
11.1 miles
37
What number is sixty-three more
than negative twenty-eight?
38
thirty-five
two hundred eighty
negative thirty-five
ninety-one
None of the above
39
Fifteen less than eight times a
number is 225. What is the number?
9
30
5
4
2
None of the above
Brad works in sales and earns a 7%
commission on all sales. Last year
Brad had sales of $142,874. This
year Brad had sales of $221,455.
How much did Brad make for these
two years?
$25,370
$25,635
$29,323
$21,853
$29,152
$25,503
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What number is fifty less than
negative thirty-six?
eighty-six
two hundred thirty-six
negative two hundred thirtysix
fourteen
sixty-five
None of the above
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