1) Ms. Henderson has $0.75 in her pocket. The coins have a total mass of 20.9 g. Name the coins in Ms.
Henderson’s pocket.
2) Which has a greater mass; 10 nickels or 6 quarters?
3) School lunch costs $1.55. If you have 4 quarters, 5 dimes, and 1 nickel to pay for lunch today; what is
the mass of your lunch money?
4) Which has a greater mass: 3 pennies from the 1970s or 3 pennies from the 1990s?
5) How many foam tiles do you need to equal the mass of 2 foam cubes?
6) A roll of nickels is worth $2.00. What is the mass of a roll of nickels?
7) Dice that are manufactured for casinos must all have exactly the same mass so that everyone’s
“odds” of winning are the same. A certain game requires players to roll four dice at the same time.
What is the total mass of dice used per roll in this game? (assume that our dice have the same mass as
casino dice)
8) A tomato sauce recipe calls for 3 tbsp. of sugar; how many grams of sugar does the tomato sauce
recipe call for?
9) How many dominos does it take to total a mass that requires you to move all three riders on a triplebeam balance?
10) A roll of dimes is worth $5.00. Alyssa has 150 g of dimes; does she have enough dimes to make at
least one full roll?
11) Suppose the manufacturer of the wood blocks only sold them by the kilogram. What would be the
minimum number of wood blocks we would have to order?
12) Chris’s birthday cake calls for ½ cup of sugar. Suppose Chris’s mom does not have a measuring cup
in her kitchen. Oddly enough however, she has a triple-beam balance. How many grams of sugar
should we tell her to measure out for Chris’s cake?
13) Brad and Baily went to the arcade this weekend. Brad played pinball while Baily played skee ball.
They gave the tickets that they won to the man working the prize counter. The man placed the tickets
on an electronic balance rather than counting them. The man converted the mass to number of tickets:
they had 100 tickets total. However, the prize they wanted was worth 125 tickets. If one ticket has the
same mass as one foam tile (ironic, I know!); how many more grams of tickets do Brad and Baily need?
14) We know that Sunkist orange soda has a whopping 84 g of sugar per 22 oz. bottle. How many
bottles of Sunkist would we need to boil to retrieve 1 kilogram of sugar? (hint: you do not need the
balance for this one)
15) According to these nutrition facts, each of
these particular cookies has 5g of sugar. The
cookies are baked in batches of 10. Assuming each
cookie contains the same amount of sugar, how
many teaspoons of sugar does the full recipe call
for?