5th Grade Word Problem Review

Which operation should you use when the problem has the word: "DIFFERENCE"

• add

• subtract

• multiply

• divide

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CCSS.5.NF.A.1

CCSS.5.NF.A.2

A. Mr. Brown bought 2 2/3 pounds of bananas and 3.5 pounds of peaches. How many more pounds of peaches than bananas did Mr. Brown purchase

• 1 1/6 lb

• 5/6 lb

• 1/6 lb

• 1 1/2

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CCSS.5.NF.A.1

CCSS.5.NF.A.2

G. Ray has 12 baseball cards in his collection. Three-fourths of the cards have been autographed. How many cards have been autographed?

• 12

• 9

• 6

• 3

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CCSS.5.NF.B.4

CCSS.5.NF.B.5

CCSS.5.NF.B.6

H. Lindsey spent 7 hours in a science lab on Wednesday.

• She spent 1 5/6 hour preparing materials for an experiment.

• She spent 3 3/4 hours conducting the experiment.

• She spent the rest of the time cleaning her lab station.

How much time did Lindsey spend cleaning her lab station?

• 5 7/12

• 4 7/12

• 1 5/12

• 2 7/12

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CCSS.5.NF.A.1

CCSS.5.NF.A.2

Of the 95 children in 6th grade, 3/5 went to holiday parties. How many students went to holiday parties in all?

• 285 students
• 75 students
• 57 students
• 258 students

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CCSS.5.NF.B.4

CCSS.5.NF.B.5

CCSS.5.NF.B.6

Amy has 72 sweets in a bag. She keeps ¼ of them for herself and shares the rest with friends. How many sweets will she give to her friends? 

• 72 sweets
• 54 sweets
• 18 sweets
• 4 sweets

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CCSS.5.NF.B.3

CCSS.5.NF.B.4

CCSS.5.NF.B.6

30 people watched the soccer game last night. Tickets cost $2.75 each. Half of these fans bought a program at $1.50 each. How much money was collected altogether? 

• $82.50
• $22.50
• $125.00
• $105.00

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CCSS.5.NBT.B.5

CCSS.5.NBT.B.7

What is the value of twelve divided by one third?

• 4
• 1/12
• 36
• 24

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CCSS.5.NF.B.3

CCSS.5.NF.B.7

An electrician has 6 feet of copper wire. He needs to cut the wire into pieces that are each 3/4 foot long. How many pieces of wire can he cut from the 6-foot wire

• 4   1/2
• 8
• 9  1/2 
• 10 

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CCSS.5.NF.B.3

CCSS.5.NF.B.7

Sybil had three boxes of pencils.  Each box contains eight pencils.  Sybil divides all of the pencils evenly between four of her friends.  How many pencils does each of her friends get?

• 24
• 6
• 4 R 4

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CCSS.5.NBT.B.6