Friday Fun 1/27

Ken hosts a radio show 6 times a week. He hosts the show 49 weeks a year. Which shows the most reasonable estimate of the number of times Ken hosts the show in one year?

• 5 × 40 = 200

• 5 × 50 = 250

• 6 × 40 = 240

• 6 × 50 = 300

Julia has 4 bookshelves. Each bookshelf has 56 books. How many books does Julia have?

• 224

• 200

• 44

• 24

David plays a baseball game 18 times a month. How many times does he play baseball in 3 months?

• 243

• 64

• 54

• 21

A flower shop sells many kinds of bouquets. To the left is part of a bouquet chart. How many stems are needed for 7 bouquets of daisies?

• 168

• 167

• 151

• 118

Tim is multiplying 36 by 7. Which are the two partial products he would add to find the product?

• 42 and 12

• 42 and 80

• 42 and 100

• 42 and 210

John Deere developed the ___, which helped farmers break up the land easier to plant their crops.

• combine

• tractor

• steel plow

• iron planter

Along with corn, wheat and barley, the Franciscans and American Indians grew _ that they processed.

• cotton seed

• sunflowers

• olives

• soybeans

The honeybee population, which is important for pollinating many plants that produce the food that we eat, has been decreasing in number because of pesticides and __________.

• disease

• habitat loss

• increasing global temperatures

• parasitic mites

When the Central Pacific Railroad decided to create a new station, the city of __________ was born.

• San Francisco

• Fresno

• Los Angeles

• Millerton

In an effort to use milk before it spoiled, priests and American Indians made __________.

• yogurt

• ice cream

• cheese

• butter