Math in Action 2013-2014
Solutions
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2.
Mary’s cat drinks 2 cups of milk every day. How many days will it take her cat to drink one
gallon or 16 cups of milk?
A small tank contained 12 gallons of water. Sam scooped out 4 gallons of water. He then
poured 7 gallons of water into the tank. How many gallons of water is in the tank now?
3.
Estimate the capacity of these paint cans.
a) 5 ounces
b) 5 quarts
c) 5 milliliter
4.
Container A can hold 7 liters more water than container B. Container B can hold 15 liters of
water. How much water can the two containers hold in all?
paint
B=15 then A=22, so 15+22=37
Answer:
8
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Answer:
15 [gallons]
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Answer:
b) 5 quarts
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Answer:
37 [liters]
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5.
Lina bought 6 bottles of mineral water. Each bottle contains 2 cups of mineral water. She
poured all the mineral water into jugs. Each jug contained 3 cups of mineral water. How many
jugs did she use?
6.
Dana’s mom bought 2 gallons of milk at the beginning of the week. At the end of this week
they have 2 cups of milk left. How many cups did they drink this week?
Answer:
30 [cups]
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7.
A cube that measures 1 inch on each side have a volume of 1 in³. What would be the volume
of a cube that measures 3 inches on each side?
Answer:
27 in³
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8.
Container P holds 28 pints of water. Container Q holds 4 cups more water than container P.
Container R hold 9 pints less than container Q. How many pints of water are in container R?
Answer:
21 [pints]
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9.
If a cubic foot is equal to 7.48 US gallons, how many gallons of water does the tank below with
measurement of 4 feet by 2 feet by 2.5 feet hold when it is full?
Answer:
149.6 [gallons]
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10.
Container A is filled with 4 times as much water as container B. Container C is filled with 2
gallons less water than container B. When combined, container C and container D have the
same volume of water as container A. If container A is filled with 16 gallons of water, what is
the volume of water in container D?
Answer:
A thermos can hold 2 liters of water. A jug can hold 9 times as much water as the thermos. If
the volume of a bottle is 3 liters, how many bottles can be filled with all the water from the
jug?
Answer:
6 [bottles]
12.
A rectangular container, measuring 25 cm by 21 cm by 18 cm, is 3/5 filled with water. How
much more water can it hold? Give your answer in liters and milliliters. (1 liter = 1000 cm³).
Answer:
3 liters 780 milliliters
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13.
What is the maximum number of cubes measuring 3 cm that can be cut from a wooden block
that measures 36 cm by 21 cm by 12 cm?
Answer:
336
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14.
A tank was 2/3 filled with water. The tank become ¾ filled with water when another 5 liter of
water was added. How much more water is needed to fill the tank completely?
Answer:
11.
Answer:
4 [jugs]
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14 [gallons]
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15 [liters]
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15.
Tank A contained 3 times as much oil as tank B. After 62.5 gallons of oil were removed from
tank A and 14 gallons were removed from tank B, tank B contained 3.5 gallons more oil than
tank A. What was the new capacity in tank B?
Answer:
8.5 gallons
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