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| Grade 5 Problem Of The Week | |||||||||||||||||
| The number of my hundreds plus the number of my thousands is 3. The number of my tens is 7 times the number of my hundreds. The number of my ones is 3 times the number of my thousands. All my digits are different. What number am I? | |||||||||||||||||
| A caterpillar is crawling out of a jar that is 14 cm tall. It crawls up 3 cm and then slides back 1 cm each day. On which day will the caterpillar crawl out of the jar? | |||||||||||||||||
| What two numbers have a sum of 645 and a difference of 151? | |||||||||||||||||
| The sum of two numbers is 113. Their difference is 13. What are the numbers? | |||||||||||||||||
| I am a number. Rounding to the nearest thousand makes me 1000. All my digits are even; their sum is 12; they are in order from greatest to least; and no digit is repeated. What number am I? | |||||||||||||||||
| A bar graph shows the number of advertisements in a magazine for 3 months. Each bar represents the advertisements for 1 month. The quantity represented by the sum of all 3 bars is 225 advertisements. The first bar is twice as tall as the second is. The height of the third bar is midway between the first and the second. What is the number represented by each bar? | |||||||||||||||||
| The line graph for projected monthly sales a Juan�s Records show a steady increase of 5 albums per month during the year. In January, 100 albums were sold. How many are expected to be sold during the year? | |||||||||||||||||
| A special pair are we. Our sum is 100, your see. Our product lets you know some more. It�s our sum times 24! What numbers are we? | |||||||||||||||||
| See sheet in the classroom. | |||||||||||||||||
| I am a number. If you double me and add 20, the result is the same as when you triple me and add 5. What number am I? | |||||||||||||||||
| The animals come to swim in Stanley�s pond. A beaver comes every 3 days. An otter comes every 7 days. Stanley saw both the beaver and the otter today How many times in the next 6 weeks will Stanley see the beaver and the otter on the same day? | |||||||||||||||||
| How many 4-digit numbers can be formed using the numbers 5, 6, 7, and 8? How many of the 4-digit numbers are less than 7000? | |||||||||||||||||
| George, Sara and Jeff each have a piece of string. Sara�s piece of string is 14 cm longer than George�s. Jeff�s piece of string is 3 cm shorter than Sara�s. When all three pieces of string are placed end to end, the overall measurement is 1 meter. How long is each person�s piece of string? | |||||||||||||||||
| There are 3 children in the Moto family. The sum of their ages is 13. The product of their ages is 60. How old are the 3 Moto children? | |||||||||||||||||
| Rhonda has a collection of blocks. The blocks can be arranged in piles, with 2 blocks in each pile. Her blocks can also be arranged in piles of 3,4, and 5 blocks. What is the least number of blocks that can be in Rhonda�s collection? | |||||||||||||||||
| The train holds 66 passengers. It starts out empty. It picks up 1 passenger at the first station, 2 passengers at the second station, 3 passengers at the third station, and so on. Nobody one gets off. After how many stations will the train be full? | |||||||||||||||||
| Rashad had 5 coins: a penny, a nickel, a dime, a quarter, and a loonie. How many different amounts of money could he pay using any combination of these coins? | |||||||||||||||||
| Here is how to make five 4s equal 400:444-44. Here is how to make four 5s equal 35:5X5+5+5. Solve each problem: Make up 4 of your own. 1) Make four 2s equal 12. (2) Make three 5s equal 20. (3) Make four 6s equal 66. (4) Make four 8s equal 640. | |||||||||||||||||
| I am thinking of a number between 1 and 100. If it is divided by 3 or 5, the remainder is 1. If it is divided by 7, there is no remainder. What is my number? | |||||||||||||||||
| Marco�s dog buried 1/2 of his bones in Jean�s backyard. He buried 1/3 of his bones in Guido's backyard. He still had 4 bones left to bury. How many bones did Marco�s dog have in all. | |||||||||||||||||
| A 3-digit and a 1-digit number have a sum of 147, a difference of 133, and a product of 980. Find the numbers and then give their quotient. | |||||||||||||||||
| A book is opened. The product of the two page numbers is 600. What are the two page numbers? | |||||||||||||||||
| Imagine one large cube made of 1000 white centimetre cubes. Suppose the outside of the large cube was painted black. How many of the small white cubes would have the following? (1) 0 faces painted black. (2) 1 face painted black (3) 2 faces painted black (4) 3 faces painted black. | |||||||||||||||||
| Jamie read 50 books in 5 months. Each month he read 3 more books than the month before. How many books did he read each of the 5 months? | |||||||||||||||||
| Myles bought a stamp collection for $10. He sold it for $15 and bout it back for $20. Finally, Myles sold it for $25. How much money did Myles make or lose? | |||||||||||||||||
| Zoe had two 6-sided number cubes. One was red and other blue. She decided that the red cube represented tens and the blue cube represented ones. How many different 2-digit numbers could she form by tossing the cubes? | |||||||||||||||||
| Geraldo is mailing 3 different sizes of parcels. The parcels have a total mass of 25 kg. The mass of the small parcel is one-half the mass of the medium-sized parcel. The mass of the large parcel is 1 kg more than the total mass of the other 2 parcels. What is the mass of each parcel? | |||||||||||||||||
| There are 2 sizes of tables in the cafeteria. One-size seats 5 people, and the other size seats 8 people. At lunch today, 63 people were seated at fewer than 10 tables. There were no empty places. How many tables of each size were used? | |||||||||||||||||
| The clock in the tower on top of the town hall chimes once at 1 o�clock, twice at 2 o�clock, 3 times at 3 o�clock and so on. It also chimes once every quarter hour. How many times does the clock chime in 24 hours? | |||||||||||||||||
| If 30 is added to 1/3 of a number, the result is double the number. What is the number? | |||||||||||||||||
| Andrew, Betty, Clark and Dino each called the local radio station to enter a contest. In how many different orders could their calls have been received? List all of them. | |||||||||||||||||