Arithmetic - practice for 12 year olds - page 3 of 101
Number of problems found: 2017
- Attending school
Huang lives 1/4 of a mile from school, while Lily lives 2/3 of a mile from school. How much further does Lily live from school than Huang? - Class party
A 1/2 of a liter of soda is left after a class party. The 3 students on the clean-up crew will split the soda equally. How many liters of soda does each student get? - Shoes
Jim and Dora are collecting shoes for a yard sale. Dora collected 1/2 as many shoes as Jim did. Jim collected 3/7 of a bag of shoes. How many bags of shoes did Dora collect? - A surveyor
A surveyor estimated the distance across a river to be 300 m. The actual distance across the river was 286.4 m. Find the absolute error and the percent error of the surveyor's estimate. If necessary, round to the nearest tenth.
- The recipe 3
The recipe for cookies with cream requires 1 2/6 cups of cream for 1 tub. How many cups of cream will you need for 4 tubs? - Joel is
Joel is 2 1/2 inches shorter than Carlos. Carlos is 1 1/4 inches taller than Dan. If Dan is 58 1/4 inches tall, how many inches tall is Joel? - White paint
A painter needs 4 1/2 gallons of white paint. He has 1 1/4 gallons of white paint in his truck and another 3/6 gallons of white paint in a storage room. How many more gallons of white paint does the painter need? - Multiply 17
Multiply each of the following fractions. Show your work and write your answer as a fraction in simplest form and as a mixed number. You may or may not use the mixed number boxes. Multiply the Fractions ; Result of Multiplying ; Simplest Form ; Mixed Numb - Maria 6
Maria drank 3 liters of water last week. Her friend drank twice as much water as Maria. How many milliliters of water did they both drink?
- Ross is
Ross is using his understanding of place value to divide the decimal 72.56 by the decimal 0.2 Which of the division problems shown could he solve to give him the same answer? A. 7,256 divided by 0.2. B. 725.6 divided by 2. C. 72.56 divided by 2. D. 7,256 - Martha 4
Martha is making cookies for a birthday party. Her cookie recipe calls for 1/2 cup of sugar for one batch of cookies. If Martha wants to triple her recipe, how much sugar will she need? - Ketchup vs mustard
A 20-ounce bottle of ketchup costs $2.80. A 14-ounce bottle of mustard costs 2.38. Which item costs less per pound? How much less? - How many 34
How many groups of 34 are in 114? Write your answer as a mixed number in simplest form. - Chicken supermarket
Nela bought 5 3/4 kilos of chicken and gave 2 1/2 to her friend. How many chicken was left?
- Saw a board
A board of 16 3-fourths inches is cut from a board that is 3 feet long. If the width of the saw cut is one-eighth inch, what is the length of the remaining piece? - Veronica
Veronica walks dogs in her neighborhood for extra money during the summer. For each dog walk, she earns $5.25. On Monday, she completed 3 walks, and on Tuesday, she completed 2 walks. She estimates that to save up for a new purse that costs $86, she must - Anthony 2
Anthony wants to run 1½km. He has already run 9 over 10. How much further must he go? - Bus transportation
Your local varsity basketball team offers bus transportation for a playoff game. Each bus holds 56 people. A total of 328 people sign up. All buses are full except for the last bus. How many buses are used? Question 2: How many people are on the last bus? - Pizzas 2
Josiah's family is making four pizzas for dinner. They have one over two pounds of shredded cheese and put an equal amount on each Pizza. How many pounds of cheese did they put on each Pizza?
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