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Solve the following problems. If necessary, show your work on graph paper: you may write the
answers on this worksheet and attach the graph paper. Please write neatly.
1. Sam and 3 friends had lunch together. The
total bill for lunch came to $33140. If they
shared the bill equally, how much did they each
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6. An albatross has a wingspan greater than the
length of a car - 3.7 meters! Wingspan is the
length from the tip of one wing to the tip of the
other wing. What is the length of each
albatross wing (assuming the wing goes from the
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2. Jamal spent $6.75 on wire tobuild a rabbit
hutch. Wire costs 45¢ per foot. How many feet
of wire did Jamal buy?
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7. Luis bought two pieces of wax to make
candles. One piece weighed 3.49 kgo and the
other weighed 4.71 kg. If wax costs $1.80 per
kg, holw much did Luis spend altogether?
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13. The City Zoo feeds its three giant pandas
181.5 Ibs of bamboo shoots every day. Each
panda is fed the same amount of bamboo. How
many pounds of bamboo does eacg.b_panda e_ÿat
8. Mark earned $ÿor working 23.5 hours
everyday?
last week. He earned the same amount of money
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for each hour that he worked. What is Mark's
hourly rate of pay?
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4. Iona's favorite peaches are $2.50 per pound
at the local farmers' market. She bought 3.5 Ibs
of peaches. How much did she spend?
9. Aerobics classes coÿt $15ÿ?ÿ'ÿoÿor 14
sessions. What is the fee for one session?
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5. Lisa's family dr6ve830.76 miles to visit her
grandparents. Lisa calculated that they used
30.1 gallons of gas. How many miles per gallon
did the car average?
10. Aria bought a van that holds 20.75 gallons of
gas and gets an average of 15.5 mpg. How many
miles can she expect to go on ÿfull tank?
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11. A chef bought 84.5 pounds of ground beef.
He uses 0.5 pounds of ground beef for each
hamburger. How many hamburgers can he make?
17. Manny is on vacation in France. He rented a
car to drive 233.3 kilometers from Paris to
Brussels and wants to figure out the distance in
miles. To convert from kilometers to miles, he
needs to multiply the total kilometers by 0.62.
How many miles will Manny drive?
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12. An entire apple pie has 36.8 grams of
saturated fat. If the pie is cut into 8 slices,
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how many graÿs oil- fat are in each slice?
18. Emma bought 22.5 yards of cloth to make
curtains for two windows in her apartment. She
used the same amount"of cloth on each window.
How much cloth didshe use to make each set of
13. Ishi makes $8.50 an hour rolling sushi at
curtains?
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Kyoto Japanese Restaurant. His paycheck shows
that he worked 20.88 hours over the past two
weeks. How mÿlÿdid Ishi make before taxes?
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19. Alicia wants to cover a section of her wall
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that is 2 feetlwide and 12 feet long with mirror
tiles. Eachlmirror tile is 2 feet wide and 1.5
14. John ranthe city marathon in 3.275 hours.
feet long. How many mirror tiles does she need
The marathon is 26.2 miles long. On average,
to cover that section?
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how many miles per hour did John run the race?
20. Sound is used to measure ocean depth.
15. Shaneeka is saving $5.75 of her allowance
Sound travels 1.5 km per second through water.
If it takes 3.7 seconds for a sound to reach the
each week to buy a new camera that costs
bottom of the ocean, how deep is the water?
$51.75. How many weeks will she have to save to
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have enough money to buy it?
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16. There are 7.2 milligrams of iron in a dozen
eggs. How many milligrams of iron are in 1 egg?
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