Question 1

A. Divide and B. check answer by multiplication: 279 x 58

Accepted Answer

16,192 divided by 58 is 279 with 10 left over

Question 2

Express 8,732,649 in verbal form:

Accepted Answer

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Question 3

Divide by the shortcut method: 1,500 ÷ 50

Accepted Answer

Discard the common zero and divide 150 by 50 to get 30

Question 4

Express this verbal form in number form: Two million, thirty-eight thousand, five hundred three

Accepted Answer

Express each digit in the number separately with its correct place value

Question 5

Art Missan has his oil tank filled 12 times per year. His oil tank has a 300-gallon capacity. Assuming the price of home heating fuel is $3.00 per gallon and the tank is completely empty each time Art has it filled, what is Art's average monthly bill? Try to complete blueprint aid to dissecting a word problem.

Accepted Answer

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Question 6

Express this verbal form in number form: Eighteen thousand, one hundred sixty-five

Accepted Answer

Express each digit in the number separately with its correct place value

Question 7

Peter Broom, who lives in Boston, bought a round-trip ticket to Chicago for $473. He handed the ticket agent five $100 bills. What change does Peter receive?

Accepted Answer

Multiply the five by 100 to get $500 and then subtract $473

Question 8

Round the number 15,915 All the Way:

Accepted Answer

The 5 to the right of the 1 forces the 1 to round up to a 2, since 15,915 is closer to 20,000 than to 10,000

Question 9

Multiply by the shortcut method: 629,510 × 1,000

Accepted Answer

Attach three zeros to 629,510

Question 10

Fleet Center seats 19,580 people. Total attendance for the season was 453,500. Assuming a 25-game home schedule, what is the average attendance per game? If each ticket cost $180, what would a sellout (all seats filled)bring in for revenue for a game?

Accepted Answer

$3,524,400
The average attendance would be the total season attendance divided by the 25 home games. The revenue for a sellout game would be the total capacity times the ticket price. 453,500/25 = 18,140
19,580 × 180 = 3,524,400.

Question 11

John's Pizza sold $11,130 worth of pizza for one week. The same number of pizzas were sold each day. Each pizza sells for $6. How many pizzas were sold each day, assuming a seven-day work week.

Accepted Answer

Take the total sales amount divided by the sale price and then divide by the number of days in the week
$11,130/$6 = $1,855/7 = 265

Question 12

Round the number 686 to the Nearest Hundred:

Accepted Answer

686 is closer to 700 than to 600

Question 13

Earl Miller plans to buy a boat for $19,500 with an interest charge of $2,500. Earl figures he can afford a monthly payment of $650. If Earl has to pay 36 equal monthly payments, can he afford the boat?

Accepted Answer

Add the amount borrowed and the interest charge to get $19,500 + $2,500 = $22,000. Divide by 36 to get $611.11. Since this is less than $650, he can afford the payments.

Question 14

Round the number 65 to the Nearest Ten:

Accepted Answer

The 5 in the 65 forces the nearest 10 to 70

Question 15

What is the total of the following verbal forms? Twelve thousand, four hundred eighty-four plus Fourteen million, eight plus Eleven thousand, six hundred twenty-two

Accepted Answer

12,484 + 14,000,008 + 11,622 = 14,024,114

Question 16

Round the number 7,108 to the Nearest Thousand:

Accepted Answer

7,108 is closer to 7,000 than to 8,000

Question 17

A. Estimate by rounding all the way and B. Do actual calculation: 5,218 × 605

Accepted Answer

The actual answer should be close to the estimate of 3,000,000, which is the result of 5,000 × 600

Question 18

Round the number 95 to the nearest ten:

Accepted Answer

Since 5 is to the right of 9, round the 9 up to a 10, so answer will be 100

Question 19

In 2018, Lucy Eutner earned $66,000 in real estate commissions. If Lucy's average commission was $6,000 per house, how many houses did Lucy sell?

Accepted Answer

Remove the three common zeros and divide 66 by 6

Question 20

Estimate by rounding all the way, work actual problem, and check by adding each column of digits separately.
1,905
3,755
+ 6,939
A. Estimate B. Actual C. Check

Accepted Answer

A. The estimate, rounded all the way, equals 2,000 + 4,000 + 7,000. B. The actual resulting sum is 12,599. C. which is closer to 13,000 than to 12,000, as noted in the estimate.

Quiz 1: Whole Numbers: How to Dissect and Solve Word Problems