Jeopardy +/- Fractions ×/÷ Fractions +/- Decimals ×/÷ Decimals 3 M’s

100 You find a mistake after sewing 25 3/7 inches of a scarf. You have to pull out 2 2/5 inches of the stitching. How many inches of stitching are left?

200 You are fencing a rectangular plot of land. The length is 46 5/18 feet and the width is 12 7/16 feet. How many feet of fencing do you need in total?

300 Two boards are placed on top of one another. One is 5 7/8 inches thick and the other is 8 ¾ inches thick. How thick are the two pieces stacked?

400 You are building a brick wall 25 feet long. You build a 14 ⅓ feet wall on Monday and 6 ¾ feet on Tuesday. How much wall do you have left to build?

500 The gold medal winning boy’s pole vault at the 2008 District Championships was 8 19/20 meters. The school record, set in 1994, is 9 1/50 meters. How much higher is the school record than the gold medal winning vault at the 2008 Championships?

100 A index card is 3 ½ inches long and 4 ¾ inches wide. Find the area of the index card.

200 You take 20 of the 24 pictures of a roll of film on your first day of vacation. At this rate, how many days will 6 rolls of film last?

300 A hiker’s backpack should be no more than 3/5 his weight. If Joe weighs 135 pounds, how much weight should he carry in his backpack?

400 It took Andrew 5/8 of an hour to complete a writing assignment. How many assignments can he complete in 18 hours?

500 How many pizzas can you make from 26 pounds of dough if you use ¼ pound of dough per pizza?

100 With a calculator change the following fraction into a decimal: 5 13/16

200 With a calculator change the following fraction into a decimal: -17/33

300 You run 800 meters in seconds. What is the difference of your time and the school record time or seconds?

400 The school record for men’s shot put is feet. The women’s record is feet. How much longer was the men’s throw than the women’s throw?

500 If Susie built 4.56 feet of the wall on Monday and 5.78 feet of the wall on Tuesday. How much does she still have to build if she needs feet altogether?

100 With a calculator change the following decimal into a fraction: 0.56

200 With a calculator change the following decimal into a fraction: -4.43

300 A mother giraffe weighs 4600 pounds. Her baby weighs of her weight. How much does the baby weigh?

400 You are buying balloons that cost $.95 per package, including tax. You have $24.75 to spend. How many packages of balloons can you buy?

500 A lava flow is a stream of molten rock that pours from an erupting vent of a volcano. A lava flow traveled at a rate of 93.4 miles per hour for 3.4 hours. How far did it travel?

100 Find the mean, median, mode and range of this data: 6, 7, 9, 2, 5, 3, 7, 10, 4, 5

200 Find the mean, median, mode and range of this data: 15, 12, 21, 27, 13, 11, 29, 16, 14

300 Troy running the mile in gym class. His times are 7.8 min, 7.6 min, 6.9 min, 6.85 min, and 7.15 min. What is his mean time?

400 In basketball practice, the numbers of free throws made out of 16 shots are listed below. Find the mean, median, mode, and range for Kate. Kate: 7, 6, 8, 8, 9, 5, 10, 8 Skylar: 8, 5, 9, 10, 8, 9, 9, 7

500 You went golfing. The following are your scores relative to par: -3, 1, 2, 0, 2, -1, -1, -2, -4, 0, 2, 0. What are the mean, median, mode and range of your scores?