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Which is better - a) to work 7 days at $20 a day or b) to start at $2 for the first day and have your salary double every day for a week?
  1. a
  2. b
  3. they're the same
 
You found a roll of 15 cent stamps.  Can you use a combination of 33 cent stamps and 15 cent stamps to make $1.77?
  1. yes
  2. no

If the length of each side of a rectangle is an odd number, then the perimeter of the rectangle could be?
  1. 15
  2. 17
  3. 19
  4. 20

What is the area of the rectangle at the right?
  1. 22.8 cm2
  2.  27.2 cm2
  3. 64 cm 2
  4. 24 cm2
What is the volume of the cube right?:
  1. 5 cm3
  2. 25 cm3
  3. 30 cm3
  4. 125 cm3

A chicken lays 5 eggs each week; how many weeks to lay 15 dozen eggs?:
  1. 18
  2. 36
  3. 60
  4. 180

Of the following which number is nearly doubled when the order of the digits is reversed?
  1. 1002
  2. 2003
  3. 4668
  4. 6003

Which of the following is not a polygon? 
  1. triangle
  2. rhombus
  3. pentagon
  4. circle

Which number is 900 less that 1001?
  1. 99
  2. 100
  3. 101
  4. 1901
10 quarters + 10 nickels + 10 pennies have the same value as 
  1. 11 dimes
  2. 21 dimes
  3. 30 dimes
  4. 31 dimes
 
How old is a 3456 year old Wooly Mammoth to the nearest hundred years:
  1. 3000
  2. 3400
  3. 3500
  4. 3460

6 kids are standing in line.  George is 5th in line.  How many are in front of him?
  1. 3
  2. 4
  3. 5
  4. 6

What is another name for forty thousand thirteen?
  1. 4013
  2. 4130
  3. 40 013
  4. 40 130

 
The figure at right shows that 1/4 means the same as which numeral?
  1. 2/4
  2. 2/8
  3. 4/4
  4. 2/6

 
Which is an even multiple of 8?
  1. 12
  2. 20
  3. 28
  4. 32
 
How could this number sentence be solved?: 3 x ? = 21
  1. add 3 and 21
  2. subtract 3 from 21
  3. multiply 3 times 21
  4. divide 21 by 3
 
Which symbol should replace the O in the number sentence? 3 + 5 = 4 O 4
  1. +
  2. -
  3. ×
  4. ÷

If the 7 in 4763 is changed to a 5, by how much is the value changed?
  1. 2
  2. 20
  3. 200
  4. 500

If it's 11:00 a.m. now, which time below is the time two and one-half hours from now?
  1. 1:30
  2. 1:50
  3. 2:30
  4. 11:30
Which of the following numbers has a value between 9180 and 9260?
  1. 9170
  2. 9250
  3. 9270
  4. 9520

 

One meter is closest in value to which measurement ?
  1. 1 cm
  2. 11 cm
  3. 102 cm
  4. 997 cm

 

Which numeral has the greatest value? 
  1. 2129
  2. 1921
  3. 2911
  4. 2291

 

Which unit is most reasonable to describe the amount of water in a full bathtub?
  1. kilograms
  2. meters
  3. square centimeters
  4. liters
Which set of numbers has the greatest average?
  1. 3, 4, 8
  2. 1, 5, 6
  3. 1, 2, 9
  4. 1, 6, 6

What is the value of the 6 in 72.63?
  1. 6 tenths
  2. 6 ones
  3. 6 tens
  4. 6 hundredths
Which is another way of writing twenty-three hundredths?
  1. 0.023
  2. 0.23
  3. 2.3
  4. 2300
What is the area of this cross?:
  1. 84 cm2
  2. 147 cm2
  3. 196 cm2
  4. 245 cm2
Two people want to plant 36 trees on their property.  They planted 12 in Fall.  How many will they have to plant next year to reach their goal?
  1. 3
  2. 24
  3. 48
  4. Not Given

 
Mildred planted 1/3 of the 12 trees.  How many did Winnifred plant?
  1. 3
  2. 4
  3. 8
  4. 36
A fruit tree produces about 200 kg of fruit a year.  Mildred plans to keep 100 kg and sell the rest.  What does she need to know in order to estimate how much she will have to sell?
  1. The number of trees 
  2. The price of the fruit
  3. The height of the trees
  4. The location of the trees
Four of the twelve trees they planted were evergreen.  The rest were not.  How many were not evergreen?
  1. 3
  2. 4
  3. 8
  4. 16
Mildred learned that the pine tree would grow to 30 meters, the birch tree to 1/2 of the pine and the fruit trees would be half of the birch.  what does she need to do to figure out how tall the fruit trees will be?
  1. divide 30 by 2
  2. multiply 30 by 2
  3. multiply 30 by 2 and then multiply the answer by 2
  4. divide 30 by 2 and then divide the answer by 2
They wrapped the trunk of each of 12 trees with tape.  If they used 2 meters of tape per tree, how many meters did they need for all? 
  1. 6
  2. 14
  3. 25
  4. 50
Joe and Joyce counted horses in a field.  Joe saw 17 and Joyce saw 11.  8 horses were the same ones.  how many ore did Joe see than Joyce? 
  1. 6
  2. 16
  3. 28
  4. not given
Of the 17 that Joe saw, 5 were brown and 8 were black.  The rest were white.  How many white horses did he see? 
  1. 4
  2. 12
  3. 13
  4. not given
How many different horses did they see? (count each horse only once)
  1. 12
  2. 20
  3. 28
  4. 36
The first horses Joe saw were in a barn.  Then he saw twice as many in a field.  We could tell how many horses he saw each of these times if he told us... 
  1. how many more she saw than Joyce
  2. the number of white horses he saw near the barn
  3. the number of black horses he saw in the field
  4. the total number he saw near the barn and in the field
The cost of a 1 liter bottle of coke is 5 times the cost of 1 can of juice. If a 2 liter bottle costs 60 cents more than 3 cans, how much does 1 two-liter bottle cost?
  1. $1.00
  2. $1.20
  3. $1.50
  4. $1.80
If the sum of 2 consecutive odd numbers is 1000, what is the smaller of the 2 numbers? 
  1. 1
  2. 499
  3. 500
  4. 999
Captain Ahab sailed 200 km across the Pacific then 3 times as far to Oyster Island.  Altogether he sailed ____ km? 
  1. 203
  2. 600
  3. 800
  4. 1200
Which of the following is not a polygon? 
  1. rhombus
  2. heptagon
  3. octagon
  4. sphere
Bob has only enough paint to cover a wall 12 x 15m.  At least how many different squares of size 3m x 3m can he paint? 
  1. 9
  2. 18
  3. 20
  4. 60
A bakery lowered its price for cookies from 25 cents each to 20 cents each.  For $4.00 how many more cookies can you buy now than before? 
  1. 1
  2. 4
  3. 5
  4. 20
We can eat 40 sandwiches every 3 days.  How many sandwiches can we eat in 12 days? 
  1. 160
  2. 120
  3. 80
  4. 60
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