4th Math Word Problems 4/6-4/10

1. Mr. Olivares has to practice piano

from 3:45 until 4:10 each day in order to prepare for his recital. If he practices for four days this week, how many total minutes did he practice his piano this week?

• 25 minutes

• 55 minutes

• 220 minutes

• 100 minutes

2. The owners of a business rented

4,506.23 square feet of space in an

office building. They plan to use 281.6

square feet of the space for the

kitchen.How many square feet of space are

left?

• 4,224.63 square feet

• 4,385.43 square feet

• 4,478.07 square feet

• 4,225.17 square feet

3. It took Ian three years to collect

25,413 aluminum cans to recycle. In

the first year he collected 8,917 cans,

and in the second year he collected

7,639 cans.Which equation can be used to find x ,the number of cans Ian collected in

the third year?

• x = 25,413 - 8,917 - 7,639

• x = 25,413 + 8,917 + 7,639

• x = 8,917 + 7,639

• x = 8,917 - 7,639

4. The rectangular top of Kathleen’s desk

has a length of 24 inches and a width

of 17 inches. What is the area of the

top of Kathleen’s desk in square

inches?

• 192 square inches

• 82 square inches

• 408 square inches

• 41 square inches

5. Every Fall, Littlefield Elementary School PTO hosts a Pumpkin Patch fundraiser. The stem-and-leaf shows the weights of the pumpkins sold during the fundraiser.

Jackson sold the lightest pumpkin. Maribel sold the heaviest pumpkin.What is the difference between the weight of the pumpkins?

• 46

• 64

• 4

• 166

6. Yasmine made waffles for her family.

What fraction of the waffles did not have blueberries or chocolate chips?

• $\frac{5}{7}$

• $\frac{12}{7}$

• $\frac{3}{7}$

• $\frac{2}{7}$

7. Amy asks her friends the number of

homemade dinners they eat per

week. The results are shown in the

dot plot below.

How many of Amy's friends eat less

than 3 homemade

dinners per week?

• 7

• 5

• 2

• 9

8. Alexa had a total of 36 bottles of

water. She drank half of the bottles of

water last week. Alexa will drink the

remaining water bottles during the

next 6 days. She will drink the same

number of bottles each day. Which

strip diagram shows a way to find w ,

the number of water bottles Alexa will

drink during each of the next 6 days?

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9. The coaches at Xavier Elementary School bought cases of sports drinks for a field day. They bought 76 cases of drinks. Each case contained 24 drinks. All the drinks were given out to students. Each student received 3 sports drinks. How many students received sports drinks?

• 5,472

• 300

• 1,824

• 608

10. The list below shows the lengths of

twelve caterpillars in millimeters.

59, 68, 58, 60, 70, 66, 71,

65, 63, 59, 70, 66

Which plot represents the data in the

list?

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