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Single-Step Real World Problems

1. Hank drinks 59.44 fluid ounces of water per day. How much water does he drink in 6 days?

A. 297.2 fluid ounces

B. 65.44 fluid ounces

C. 416.08 fluid ounces

D. 356.64 fluid ounces

Multi-Step Real World Problems

2. Every day, Jason runs for 39 minutes and lifts weights for 45 minutes. How many minutes will

Jason spend working out in 8 days?

A. 92

B. 672

C. 312

D. 360


3. Lindsey went skydiving. When she jumped out of the plane, its elevation was 13,000 feet. She was

in free-fall for 10,000 feet, and then she deployed her parachute. At what elevation did Lindsey deploy

her parachute?

A. -3,000 feet

B. 16,000 feet

C. -16,000 feet

D. 3,000 feet


4. Jenna earns $9.75 per hour working at the mall. If Jenna worked hours last week, how much

did she earn before taxes were taken out?

A. $292.50

B. $292.00

C. $284.70

D. $282.75


5. Steve bought a guitar for $118.60 and a set of drums for $252.08. What was the total cost of his

purchase?

A. $373.58

B. $371.68

C. $372.78

D. $370.68


6. For a scavenger hunt, Jim's mom distributed a bag of 832 jelly beans evenly into 32 plastic

containers and hid them around the yard. If, after the hunt, Jim has a total of 182 jelly beans, then how

many of the plastic containers did he find?

A. 224

B. 7

C. 6

D. 650


7. Pablo bought 6 sodas for him and his friends to share. If he spent $7.26 for all 6 sodas, how much

did each soda cost?

A. $1.26

B. $1.21

C. $13.26

D. $43.56


8. The price of a gallon of gasoline is $3.15. The price when Ryan's mother started driving was of the

current price. What was the price of gasoline when Ryan's mother started driving?

A. $3.01

B. $0.95

C. $3.29

D. $0.45


9. Rita earns $19.00 per hour. If she gets a 4% raise, what will be her new hourly wage?

A. $19.04

B. $18.24

C. $19.76

D. $23.00


10. Tonya has a small picture with a length of inches. She wants to enlarge the picture by a factor

of 7 and frame it. Which of the following is true?

A. The enlarged picture has a length of inches.

B. The enlarged picture has a length of inches.

C. The enlarged picture has a length of inches.

D. The enlarged picture has a length of inches.


11. Steven swam 200 meters in 25.4 seconds while Michelle finished in 26.8 seconds. How much

faster did Steven swim than Michelle?

A. 0.6 second

B. 0.4 second

C. 1.9 seconds

D. 1.4 seconds


12. Steven swam 200 meters in 25.3 seconds while Michelle finished in 26.7 seconds. How much

faster did Steven swim than Michelle?

A. 0.6 second

B. 0.4 second

C. 1.4 seconds

D. 1.9 seconds


13. Mrs. Jones decided to buy some pencils for her class. She bought 6 packages of pencils, and each

package contained 38 pencils. There are 19 students in her class and she divided up the pencils so that

each student had the same amount of pencils. If there were no pencils left over, how many pencils did

each student get?

A. 12

B. 25

C. 2

D. 114


14. A rectangular cake has a length of inches and a width of inches. How many whole, square pieces

of cake with side lengths of inches can be cut from the cake?

A. 36

B. 38

C. 34

D. 37


15. A diver descended at a constant rate of 16.68 feet every 3 minutes. Which of the following is true?

A. After one minute, the diver was at -8.34 feet.

B. After one minute, the diver was at 8.34 feet.

C. After one minute, the diver was at -5.56 feet.

D. After one minute, the diver was at 5.56 feet.


16. Pasha works as a food scientist. He designed a recipe for crackers that are 35% wheat flour by

weight. He made a test batch of the crackers from total pounds of ingredients. What weight of

wheat flour did Pasha use in the test batch?

A.

B.

C.

D.


17. Paul drinks 54.69 fluid ounces of water per day. How much water does he drink in 4 days?

A. 58.69 fluid ounces

B. 218.76 fluid ounces

C. 273.45 fluid ounces

D. 164.07 fluid ounces


18. Britney is buying a shirt and a hat at the mall. The shirt costs $34.66, and the hat costs $20.33. If

Britney gives the sales clerk $100.00, how much change should she receive? (Ignore sales tax.)

A. $54.76

B. $41.91

C. $54.99

D. $45.01


19. Antonia bought a set of dishes, a towel, and a candle at a housewares store. The set of dishes cost

$35.79, the towel cost $21.41, and the candle cost $9.22 before any coupons or discounts.

She used a $0.50-off coupon on the candle, a $2.75-off coupon on the towel, and the set of dishes was

on sale for 10% off the regular price. Which of the following best describes the amounts that Antonia

saved?

A. She saved the same percentage on the towel and the set of dishes.

B. She saved the greatest percentage on the set of dishes.

C. She saved the greatest percentage on the towel.

D. She saved the greatest percentage on the candle.


20. Barney has feet of lumber that he is going to cut into 4 equal pieces for a border on his

garden. Which of the following is true?

A. Each piece of lumber is feet long.

B. Each piece of lumber is feet long.

C. Each piece of lumber is feet long.

D. Each piece of lumber is feet long.


21. NeNe tripled a cookie recipe for a party. The original recipe called for 4.25 cups of sugar. NeNe

tripled the sugar amount and poured it into a mixing bowl. The mixing bowl got knocked over and

3.46 cups of sugar spilled. How many cups of sugar were left in the mixing bowl?

A. 10.38

B. 9.29

C. 12.75

D. 0.79


22. Workers Inc. just bought 13 boxes of pens to put in their storage room for employees to use as needed.

Each box contains 35 pens. If each of the 28 employees working for Workers Inc. takes 3 pens when

they are first brought into the office, how many pens will be left in the storage room?

A. 259

B. 427

C. 371

D. 452


23. Griffin ordered a pair of sneakers online. He had a $19 credit that he applied toward the purchase,

and then he used a credit card to pay for the rest of the cost. If the shoes cost $60, how much did

Griffin charge to his credit card when he bought the sneakers?

A. $22

B. $41

C. $79

D. $98


24. Chester has a coupon for off the price of a shirt. If the shirt originally costs $33.50, what discount

would Chester receive from using his coupon?

A. $13.40

B. $0.60

C. $6.70

D. $26.80


25. A ceiling fan can rotate 150.06 times per minute. The fan rotated a total of 4,501.8 times. Which of

the following is true?

A. The fan rotated for 29 minutes.

B. The fan rotated for 32 minutes.

C. The fan rotated for 31 minutes.

D. The fan rotated for 30 minutes.


26. Lois made a dish with cups of pasta. One serving of the pasta is 0.4 cups. How many servings

of pasta were in the dish Lois made?

A.

B.

C.

D.


27. Mrs. Martinez is putting gas in her car. If each gallon costs $3.61, how much did it cost her to put

in 15 gallons of gas?

A. $57.76

B. $18.61

C. $54.15

D. $11.39


28. Carl, Gilda, Conroy, and Kyla are the four candidates in a school election. Carl received of the

votes, Gilda received 5% of the votes, and Conroy received of the votes. If Kyla received all of the

remaining votes, what percentage of the votes did she receive?

A. 30%

B. 5%

C. 50%

D. 35%


29. The table shows the amount of flour needed for six cookie recipes.

What is the total amount of flour needed for all six cookie recipes?

A. 15 cups

B. 15.5 cups

C. 16.25 cups

D. 14.5 cups


30. The altitude of an airplane is decreasing at a rate of 41 feet per second. What is the change in

altitude of the airplane over a period of 30 seconds?

A. 1,230 feet

B. -71 feet

C. 71 feet

D. -1,230 feet


31. Pilar used six reusable shopping bags on a recent purchase she made at a grocery store. Each bag

decreased the amount she spent by 15 cents. What was the change to the amount Pilar spent at the

grocery store by using the reusable bags?

A. 21 cents

B. -90 cents

C. -21 cents

D. 90 cents


32. Lisa is on a trip of 1,890 miles. She has already traveled 105 miles. She has 5 days left in her trip.

How many miles does she need to travel each day to complete the trip?

A. 1,785

B. 1,428

C. 462

D. 357


33. Tyrone's bank account had a balance of -$90.50 last week. His paycheck of $283.21 was deposited

this week. If there have been no other transactions, which of the following is true?

A. Tyrone's current account balance is -$373.71.

B. Tyrone's current account balance is $373.71.

C. Tyrone's current account balance is $192.71.

D. Tyrone's current account balance is -$192.71.


34. Justin rode his bicycle 5.4 miles a day for 15 days straight. How many miles did Justin ride

altogether during the 15-day stretch?

A. 96

B. 81

C. 86.4

D. 66


35. Angela is on the swim team. Below are four of her times swimming 100 meters.

22.82 seconds, 22.9 seconds, 22.85 seconds, 22.74 seconds

What is the difference between her best time and her worst time?

A. 0.16 second

B. 0.11 second

C. 0.08 second

D. 0.05 second





A. 10.38

B. 0.79

C. 12.75

D. 9.29


37. Avery had $25.06 in her wallet. If she bought lunch with dollars from her wallet, how much

money did she have in her wallet after lunch?

A. $14.76

B. $13.31

C. $15.06

D. $14.31


38. Angie read 2 books in 5 days, and each book contained 345 pages. If Angie read the same number

of pages each day, how many pages did she read per day?

A. 690

B. 345

C. 76

D. 138


39. Mike put 282 baseballs into 6 trash bins. He put the same number of baseballs in each bin. He took

3 trash bins of baseballs to the baseball field. How many baseballs did Mike take?

A. 2,205

B. 188

C. 141

D. 94


40. It takes Shonda of an hour to dry one load of laundry in her dryer. How many hours will it take

her to dry 10 loads of laundry?

A.

B.

C.

D.


41. The temperature outside is -1°F, and the wind chill is -15°F. What is the difference between the

temperature and the wind chill?

A. 16°F

B. -14°F

C. 14°F

D. -16°F


42. Wesley input his data from an experiment, shown in the table below, into a spreadsheet.

Density is equal to mass divided by volume. What is the density of sample 3? Round to the nearest

hundredth, if necessary.

A.

B.

C.

D.


43. Frederico's checking account balance is -$27, and Neela's checking account balance is -$405. How

many times the balance of Frederico's checking account is Neela's checking account balance?

A. 378

B. 15

C. -15

D. -378



A. $22.00

B. $18.72

C. $17.28

D. $18.04


45. A scuba diver descended feet below sea level. Then, he descended another feet. Which

of the following is true about the scuba diver after both descents?

A. The location of the scuba diver in relation to sea level was feet.

B. The location of the scuba diver in relation to sea level was feet.

C. The location of the scuba diver in relation to sea level was feet.

D. The location of the scuba diver in relation to sea level was feet.


46. Ben weighs 140.9 pounds, and Jennifer weighs 110.7 pounds. How many more pounds does Ben

weigh than Jennifer?

A. 29.8

B. 30.2

C. 29.2

D. 32.2


47. Cody filled a container with quarts of iced tea. How many -quart glasses can be served from

the container?

A.

B.

C.

D.


48. Leslie goes to the pet store to buy a goldfish. The sign below is on the tank.

4 GOLDFISH FOR $2.48!!!

Assuming there is not a discount for buying multiple fish, how much would it cost Leslie to buy one

goldfish?

A. $3.38

B. $1.86

C. $0.62

D. $0.31


49. Mandana is ordering new tile for her kitchen floor. The area of the floor is 117.5 square feet, and

she wants to order between 15% and 20% extra of the materials. Which of the following is a

reasonable amount of tile for Mandana to order?

A. 139 square feet

B. 132 square feet

C. 142 square feet

D. 134 square feet


50. John has 8 boxes of apples. Each box holds 8 apples. If 5 of the boxes are full, and 3 of the boxes

are half full, how many apples does John have?

A. 32

B. 52

C. 64

D. 24


51. The table shows the estimated driving time between the cities Kendall will visit on his vacation.

What is the total estimated driving time between these cities?

A. 55.35 hours

B. 55.75 hours

C. 56.35 hours

D. 56.75 hours


52. Joey is putting all of his trophies onto 7 shelves. If he places 5 trophies on each shelf but still has 2

trophies left over, how many trophies does he have?

A. 37

B. 35

C. 19

D. 14


53. Kenneth drove 184.25 miles in hours. What was his average speed?

A. 55 mph

B. 57 mph

C. 61 mph

D. 50 mph


54. The temperature outside changed from 60°F to 42°F over a period of six days. If the temperature

changed by the same amount each day, what was the daily temperature change?

A. -18°F

B. 3°F

C. 18°F

D. -3°F


55. Garnet has a container with cups of flour in it. She can make one dozen muffins with

cups of flour. How many dozens of muffins can Garnet make with the flour she has?

A.

B.

C.

D.


56. Fredo has a coupon for $1.00 off the price of a loaf of bread at the grocery store. After he arrived

at the store, he found out the bread had already been marked down $2.00. What is the total discount on

the price of the bread?

A. -$1.00

B. $3.00

C. $1.00

D. -$3.00



A. $14.40

B. $19.00

C. $15.04

D. $15.60


58. Robert delivers papers every morning. On Sundays he has to deliver 65 papers and on each of the

other days he only has to deliver 35 papers. How many papers does Robert deliver each week?

A. 455

B. 310

C. 275

D. 345


59.

Lance baked a pie. Justin ate of the pie, and Joey ate of the pie. How much of the pie is left?

A.

B.

C.

D.





A. 7.29

B. 0.79

C. 9.75

D. 7.38


61. Brian rides his bike 0.27 of a mile per minute. If it takes him 14 minutes to ride his bike to his

friend's house, how far away does his friend live?

A. 4.05 miles

B. 3.78 miles

C. 13.73 miles

D. 14.27 miles


62. Jimmy is writing a paper for one of his classes. The paper has to be 2,000 words long, and so far

he has written 500 words. If he only has 4 more days to write his paper and wants to write the same

number of words each day, then how many words must he write per day to finish the paper?

A. 1,500

B. 875

C. 399

D. 375


63. Foster makes sandwiches at a deli. There are pounds of turkey at the deli. How many -pound

turkey sandwiches can he make?

A. 32

B. 64

C. 33

D. 66


64. Lainey is sliding down a water slide that is 462 feet long at a rate of 42 feet per second. How long

will it take Lainey to travel from the top to the bottom of the slide?

A. 11 seconds

B. -420 seconds

C. -11 seconds

D. 420 seconds


65. Mike's mom gave him $15.00 on Monday morning to use on lunches. At his school, the school

lunch costs $1.50, which he bought Monday through Thursday. On Friday, he decided to buy 2 slices

of pizza instead of buying the school lunch. If the pizza costs $1.80 per slice, then how much of the

money is left at the end of the school week?

A. $6.90

B. $12.00

C. $7.20

D. $5.40


66. Colby is making a home video consisting of a 5-minute introduction followed by several short

skits. Each skit is 8 minutes long. If Colby's video is 181 minutes long, how many skits are in his

video?

A. 22

B. 23

C. 17

D. 27


67. Cady found that she uses of a roll of paper towels each week. How many rolls of paper towels

will she use in 6 weeks?

A.

B.

C.

D.


68. Jodie ran a total of 157.6 minutes in 8 days. If she ran for the same amount of time each day, how

many minutes did she run per day?

A. 19.7

B. 165.6

C. 149.6

D. 27.7


69. A rectangular cake has a length of inches and a width of inches. How many whole, square pieces

of cake with side lengths of inches can be cut from the cake?

A. 26

B. 24

C. 23

D. 22


70. Amy is making a cookie recipe which uses teaspoon of sugar per batch. She wants to make 3

batches. How many teaspoons of sugar will she use?

A.

B.

C.

D.

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