5th Grade Math Test

Student Name _________________________ Date ___________________ Rules: You have 30 minutes to complete this test. You must work independently, and calculators and other reference tools are not permitted. Each question has exactly one right answer. Do your best! 1. Which of these has the largest answer? A. 43 + 48 B. 130 – 42 C. 9 ´ 9 D. 10 ´ 8 E. 200 - 111 2. One hundred nickels is worth the same amount of money as how many quarters? A. 16 B. 20 C. 24 D. 50 E. 500 3. If a beluga whale eats 50 pounds of food per day, how much food would three beluga whales eat in a week? A. 150 pounds B. 350 pounds C. 500 pounds D. 1,050 pounds E. 1,500 pounds 4. If x – 125 = 137, what is the value of x? A. 12 B. 212 C. 252 D. 257 E. 262 5. If four people want to share 13 miniature brownies fairly, how many brownies can each person have? A. 3 B. 3 C. 3 D. 3 E. 3 6. In a long-jumping contest, the first-place finisher jumped a distance of 5 yards, 1 foot, 4 inches. The second-place finisher jumped 4 yards, 2 feet, 6 inches. By what distance did the first-place finisher out-jump the second-place finisher? A. 22 inches B. 24 inches C. 26 inches D. 46 inches E. 50 inches 7. If a certain movie begins at 7:48 p.m., and it lasts for 103 minutes, at what time does that movie end? A. 8:51 p.m. B. 9:01 p.m. C. 9:11 p.m. D. 9:21 p.m. E. 9:31 p.m. 8. If it rained 0.13 inches on Monday, 0.4 inches on Tuesday, 0.005 inches on Wednesday, and 0.5 inches on Thursday, how much did it rain on those four days combined? A. 0.27 inches B. 0.225 inches C. 1.035 inches D. 1.35 inches E. 0.935 inches 9. Trisha runs a lemonade stand. It costs her 10¢ to make a glass of lemonade, but she sells each glass of lemonade for 30¢. If Trisha makes $3.00 in profit, how many glasses of lemonade did she sell? A. 10 B. 15 C. 20 D. 25 E. 30 10. In math class, Rachel is asked to draw a triangle with a perimeter of nine inches. What could the lengths of the three sides of Rachel’s triangle be? A. 5 inches, 3 inches, and 1 inch B. 4 inches, 3 inches, and 2 inches C. 4 inches, 4 inches, and 4 inches D. 5 inches, 2 inches, and 2 inches E. 7 inches, 3 inches, and 1 inch 11. Which of the following division problems has no remainder? (Hint: You shouldn’t need to actually solve all of these division problems to figure out the right answer!) A. 453 ¸ 2 B. 279 ¸ 4 C. 430 ¸ 5 D. 719 ¸ 8 E. 477 ¸ 10 12. There are six children in the Baker family. From oldest to youngest, they are 17, 13, 10, 6, 4, and 4 years old. (The two four-year-olds are twins.) What is the average (or “mean”) age of these six children? A. 6 B. 8 C. 9 D. 10 E. 11 13. How many cubes are in the prism below? (The prism is not hollow in any location.) A. 20 B. 24 C. 25 D. 30 E. 36 14. In a certain election, 300 people voted for one of three candidates. If the second-place finisher received 84 votes less than the winner, but also received 84 votes more than the third-place finisher, how many votes did the winner receive? A. 142 B. 184 C. 200 D. 216 E. 268 15. A plate of cookies was set out at a party. Paul got to the cookies first, and he ate one-third of the cookies on the plate. Sarah came next and ate one-third of the cookies that were left on the plate. When the third person, Samantha, got to the plate, four cookies were left. How many cookies were there when the plate was first set out? (Hint: Sarah did not eat the same number of cookies as Paul.) A. 8 B. 9 C. 10 D. 12 E. 15