Arbogast Chapter 1

A country music concert will be held at a local city park. The promoters have already sold 3,000 concert tickets. Each ticket costs $20. How much money have the promoters already collected?

Chen burns 354 calories in 1 hour swimming. He swam for 28 hours last month. How many calories did Chen burn in all last month from swimming?

Nathan's orchestra has 18 string musicians, 9 percussion musicians, 15 brass musicians, and 12 woodwind musicians. Six of the musicians CANNOT play in the next performance. If the remaining musicians plan to sit in rows of 6 chairs, how many rows of chairs are needed?

Plaza Pizza sells large pizzas for $10. Each additional topping costs $2. Mr. Perkins is buying 1 large pizza with 3 additional toppings. He will pay with a $20 bill. He used the expression 20-10-3x2 to find how much change he should receive. How much change should Mr. Perkins receive?

A publisher reports that it sold 2,419,386 children's magazines. What is the value of the digit 2 in 2,419,386?

A Coast Guard ship is responsible for searching an area that is 5,000 square miles. Which shows 5,000 as a whole number multiplied by a power of ten?

Clinton decided to buy 300 shares of stock in an electronics company. Each share costs $60. Which of the following could he use to find the total amount he will pay for the stock?

Marta has 16 postcards from each of 8 different cities in Pennsylvania. She can fit 4 postcards on each page of her scrapbook. How many pages in the scrapbook can Marta fill with postcards?

A bus driver travels 234 miles every day. How many miles does the bus driver travel in 5 days?

Meredith and her brother Liam are saving to buy a basketball hoop that costs $75. Meredith earns $15 each week for babysitting and spends $6 of it. Liam earns $10 each week for walking dogs and spends $4 of it. Which expression can be used to find how many weeks it will take to save for the basketball hoop?

Jamie baked 24 cupcakes. Her sister Mia ate 3 cupcakes, and her brother David ate 2 cupcakes. Which expression can Jamie use to find how many cupcakes are left?

Hector does 165 sit-ups every day. How many sit-ups does he do in 7 days?

Francine took 42 photos with her digital camera. She stored an equal number of photos in each of 3 folders on her computer. Which number sentence could Francine use to find the number of photos in each folder?

The diameter of Saturn at its equator is about 120,540,000 meters. What is 120,540,000 written in word form?

Martin is going mountain climbing at Snowmass Mountain in Colorado. The height of the mountain is about 14x10 to the third power. What is the height of Snowmass Mountain written as a whole number?

Sherry's family is going to a beach resort. Sherry bought 7 beach towels that cost $13 each to take to the resort. To find the total cost, she added the products of 7x10 and 7x3, for a total of $91. What property did Sherry use?

Amber baked 120 cookies to give to 5 friends. she wants to put the same number of cookies in each bag. Which of the following can she use to find how many cookies to put in each bag?