1. What is the place value of the underlined digit in 793,211?
Ans.: tens
Sol.: The given number is equal to 7(100,000) + 9(10,000) + 3(1,000) + 2(100) + 1(10) + 1(1). Hence the place value of the the underlined digit is tens.
2. Write five hundred ninety four thousand eight hundred fifteen using Hindu-Arabic numerals.
Ans.: 594,815
Sol.: The given number is equal to 594(1,000) + 8(100) + 1(10) + 5(1) = 594,815.
3. How many common divisors (including 1) do 24 and 80 have?
Ans.: 4
Sol.: The number of common divisors (or factors) of any two counting numbers is as many as the divisors of their greatest common factor (GCF). The GCF of 24 and 80 is 8 and this GCF has 4 divisors.
Observe that the prime factorization of 80 = $ 2^{4}5^{1} $ and the prime factorization of 24 = $ 2^{3}3^{1} $.
It follows that their GCF is $ 2^{3} = 8 $, which has 3 + 1 = 4 divisors.
4. Find two integers whose sum is 17 and whose product is 70.
Ans.: 7 and 10
Sol.: Since the sum of the two numbers is positive and the product is also positive, each number must be positive.
So we can try number pairs such as 1 and 16, 2 and 15, 3 and 14, 4 and 13, 5 and 12, among others. One can show that the choice of 9 and 8 is too big since 72 $>$ 70. However, the choice of 7 and 10 is fine since 10+7=17 and (10)(7)=70.
5. How many 4ths are in 3/2?
Ans.: 6
Sol.: This answer is obtained by dividing 3/2 by 1/4 giving (3/2)/(1/4) = (3/2)(4) = (3)(4/2) = (3)(2) = 6.
One can speedily verify that 6(1/4) = 3/2.
6. Covert the mixed fraction $ 5 \frac{4}{5} $ into an equivalent improper fraction in lowest terms.
Ans.: 29/5
Sol.: $ 5 + \frac{4}{5} = 5(\frac{5}{5}) + \frac{4}{5} = \frac{(5)(5)}{5} + \frac{4}{5} = \frac{(5)(5)+4}{5} = \frac{29}{5} $
or
$ a + \frac{b}{c} = \frac{a(c) + b}{c} $.
Here, $ a=5$, $ b=4$ and $ c=5$. So that $ 5 \frac{4}{5} = \frac{(5)(5)+4}{5} = \frac{25+4}{5} = \frac{29}{5} $.
7. If $\frac{45}{10} = \frac{N}{100}$, what is the value of $ N$ ?
Ans.: 450
Sol.: Notice that the left-hand side ratio $\frac{45}{10} = \frac{5(9)}{5(2)} = \frac{9}{2} $ in lowest terms, and that the denominator of the right-hand side ratio, 100, is obtained from the denominator of the left-hand side ratio by multiplying the denomiator of the left-hand side (lowest terms form) by 50. Hence, also multiplying the left-hand side numerator (lowest terms form), 9, by 50 should give us the numerator of the right-hand side: (9)(50) = 450.
8. Mr. Chef bought exactly $ 2 \frac{1}{4}$ dozen eggs and used $ 1 \frac{1}{3}$ to cook a certain egg dish. How many of the eggs that he bought for cooking this egg dish remained (that is, were not used for cooking the dish)?
Ans.: 11 eggs
Sol.: Since there are 12 eggs in a dozen of eggs, the answer is $ 12(2 \frac{1}{4} - 1 \frac{1}{3}) = 12(\frac{8+1}{4} - \frac{3+1}{3}) = 12(\frac{9}{4} - \frac{4}{3}) = 11 $ eggs.
9. A certain Grade 4 class contains 40 students. If 32 of the students are boys, what is the ratio of boys to girls?
Ans.: 4:1 or 4/1
Sol.: If 32 of the students are boys, then 40 - 32 = 8 of the students are girls. So the ratio of the number of boys to girls for this class is $\frac{32}{40-32} = \frac{32}{8} = 4$.
10. A certain Grade 4 class contains 40 students. If 32 of the students are boys, what percentage of the class are girls?
Ans.: 20 percent
Sol.: If 32 of the students are boys, then 40 - 32 = 8 of the students are girls. So the percentage of girls in the class is $\frac{8}{40}\times 100\% = 20\% $.
11. Which has the smaller angle measure: obtuse angle or right angle?
Ans.: right
Sol.: Recall that an acute angle has a measure that is less than $ 90^\circ$ while an obtuse angle has a measure that is more than $ 90^\circ$; a right angle measures exactly $ 90^\circ$.
12. The length of a rectangle is twice its width. If the perimeter of the rectangle is 78 meters, find the measurement of the width.
Ans.: width = 13 meters or 13 m
Sol.: Let $ w$ and $ l$ be the width and length, respectively, of the rectangle. Since the length is twice the width, the the ratio of the length to the width is 2:1, or that $\frac{l}{w}=\frac{2}{1}$.
Since the perimeter is twice the sum of the length and the width, then the sum $ l + w = 78/2 = 39.$
So the width must be $ \frac{1}{2+1}(l+w) = \frac{1}{3}(l+w) = \frac{39}{3} = 13$ m.
13. The length of a rectangle is twice its width. If the length of the rectangle is 26 meters, find the area of the rectangle.
Ans.: 338 square meters (or 338 m$ {}^2$)
Sol.: Area is length times width or $ A=l\times w$. Since the length of the given rectangle is twice its width, then its width $ w = \frac{l}{2} = \frac{26}{2} = 13$ m. So its areas is $ A = l\times w = (26)(13) = 338$ square meters (m$ {}^2$).
14. Trees were planted 6 meters apart along a straight line segment so that the distance between the first tree and the last tree planted is 162 meters. How many trees were planted along this straight line segment?
Ans.: 28
Sol.: For a line segment 1(6)=6 m long, two trees; for a line segment 2(6)=12 m long, three trees; for a line segment 3(6)=18 m long, 4 trees; ...; for a line 27(6)=162 m long, 28 trees. So, in general, divide the length of the line segment that was planted with trees by the constant distance between two adjacent trees, then add 1, i.e., 162/6 + 1 = 27 + 1 = 28.
15. The base of a rectagular prism has a width of 5 meters and a length of 6 meters. If the height of the prism is 2 meters, find its total surface area.
Ans.: 104 square meters
Sol.: The total surface area of a rectangular prism is equal to the sum of the areas of its six faces. These six faces are all rectangles. Two opposite faces each has an area of length times width $ (l\times w)$ square meters. Another pair of opposite faces each has an area of length times height $ (l\times h)$ square meters while the third pair of opposite faces each has an area of width times height $ (w\times h)$ square meters. Hence, the total surface area $ S$ of any rectangular prism is $ S = 2( l\times w) + 2(l\times h) + 2(w\times h)$. For this particular problem, length $ l=6$ meters, width $ w=5$ meters, and height $ h=2$ meters. So the total surface area is $ S = 2(6)(5) + 2(6)(2) + 2(5)(2) = 60 + 24 + 20 = 104$ square meters.