MATH QUIZ BEE VI

EASY:

1. In 6,023, what digit is in the thousands place?

2. Divide 8,091 29 =_____

3. How do you write 0.1 as a fraction?

AVERAGE:

1. Two numbers N and 16 have LCM = 48 and GCF = 8. Find N.

2. In a given school, there 240 boys and 260 girls. What is the ratio of the number of
girls to the number of boys?

3. If Tim had lunch at $50.50 and he gave 20% tip, how much did he spend?

DIFFICULT:

1. Before district play, the basketball team won 45 of their basketball games. During
district play, they won six more games and lost two, to finish the season having won half
their games. How many games did the team play in all?

2. In the garden of Kristin, there are two plants. One is 44 inches high, and it grows 3
inches in each 2 years. The other is 80 inches high, and it grows 5 inches in each 6
years. In how many years will the two plants be equally high?

3. Each of the 39 students in the sixth grade at Jayhawk Middle School has one dog or
one cat or both a dog and a cat. Twenty students have a dog and 26 students have a
cat. How many students have both a dog and a cat?

CLINCHER:

1. Some estimates say that the volume of Arctic sea ice has decreased over the last
decade by 12% to 27,720 km3. If these figures are correct, what volume of Arctic sea ice
has melted over the last decade?

2. A bag contains 3 red balls and two green balls. A ball is drawn at random from the
bag and replaced. Then a second ball is drawn at random from the bag. What is the
probability that they are both green?

3. A machine fills 150 bottles of water every 8 minutes. How many minutes it takes this
machine to fill 675 bottles?

EASY AVERAGE DIFFICULT CLINCHER

1. 6 1. 24 1. 102 games 1. 3,780 km

2. 279 2. 260:240 or 13:12 2. 54 yrs. 2. 4/25 or 4:25

3. 1/10 3. $60.60 3. 7 students 3. 36 min.