5th grade Prerequisite Skills Inventory

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40 questions
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An office supply store sold 310,409 pencils last year. What is the EXPANDED form of 310,409?

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The population of Yuba City, California is 60,360 people. What is 60,360 rounded to the nearest thousand?

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Last year, the local animal shelter found homes fro 12,308 dogs and 7,953 cats. What is the total number of dogs and cats the animal shelter found home for last year?

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The area of South Dakota is 77,353 square miles. The area of North Dakota is 70,700 square miles. How many square miles greater is the area of South Dakota than the area of North Dakota?

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Juan wrote this pattern on his paper.
3 x 6 = 18
3 x 60 = 180
3 x 600 = 1,800
3 x 6,000 = ?
What is the unknown number in Juan's pattern?

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James uses the Distributive Property to find how many cans of paint are in the art supply closet. There are 5 boxes in the closet. Each box holds 14 cans.

How many cans of paint are in the closet?

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Ling's parents buy 4 tickets for the nature museum. Each ticket costs $13. What is the total cost of the 4 tickets?

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The theater has 1,678 seats. A magician performed 3 sold out shows at the theater. How many people were able to see the magician's show?

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Erin has 4 bags with 19 marbles in each bag. She also has 7 bags with 14 marbles in each bag. She gives 23 marbles to her brother. She wrote this expression to find how many marbles she has left. How many marbles does Erin have left?
4 x 19 + 7 x 14 - 23

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Risley's Restaurant charges $12 for a spaghetti dinner special. During one hour 16 people ordered the spaghetti dinner special.
What is the total amount Risley's Restaurant charged during that hour for the spahetti dinner specials?
See question #10 for area model.

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Anya used buttons to model a division problem.
* see question #11 for model

The division problem this model represents is __________. For this problem, the quotient is _____ and the remainder is ______ or _____.

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The Distributive Property can help you divide. Show how you can break apart the dividend to find the quotient for 224 ÷ 7.

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On Saturday, a total of 1,292 people went to see a new movie. There were 4 different showings for the new movie and the same number of people atteneded each showing. How many people attended each showing?

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A dentist bought 9 bags of prizes for his patients. Each bag had 12 prizes. The prizes were divided equally among 3 boxes. How many prizes were in each box?

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Rylee is learning about prime numbers in math class. Her friend asked her to name all the prime numbers between 10 and 20. What numbers should Rylee name?

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Cassie wrote some numbers in a number pattern.

14, 17, 12, 15, 10, 13, 8, 11, ____

What should be the next number in her pattern?

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Mrs. Dalton needs 1/2 cup mixed nuts for her granola recipe. She only has a 1/4 cup measuring cup. Write the equivalent fraction that shows the amount of mixed nuts she will use for the recipe.

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Michael is practicing the piano. He spends 1/2 hour practicing scales and 1/4 hour practicing the piece for his recital. What is a common demoninator for 1/2 and 1/4?

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Julia and Sam rode their bikes on the bike path. Julia rode her bike 3/10 of the path's distance. Sam rode his bike 4/8 of the path's distance. Compare the distances using, <, >, or =.

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Ali needs 4/10 yard of red ribbon and 5/10 yard of blue ribbon to make a tail for her kite. How much ribbon does Ali need in all?

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Bryan brought 8/10 gallon of water on a hiking trip. He drank 4/10 gallon of water. How much water is left?

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Lily has two kittens. One kitten weighs 15/16 pound. The other kitten weighs 12/16 pound. What is the difference in the weights of the two kittens?

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Jamie put 2 and 3/12 pounds of green apples into a bag. He then added 3 and 5/12 pounds of red apples to the same bag. What is the total weight of the apples in the bag?

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Mrs. Laska buys 4 and 5/8 yards of blue fabric and 2 and 1/8 yards of green fabric. How many more yards of blue fabric than green fabric does Mrs. Laska buy?

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In Crosby's model collection, 5/16 of the models are trains and 7/16 of the models are card. What part of Crosby's model collection is trains and cars?

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Leo walks his dog 7/8 mile. He walks his dog 3 times a day. How far does Leo walk his dog every day? Show how you can use repeated addition to solve.

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On Tuesday, Lily spent 1/4 hour working on her science fair project. Ben worked 3 times as long on his science fair project as Lily did. How much time did Ben spend on his science fair project?

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It takes Akio's family 2 and 1/2 hours to drive from their home to the beach. It takes his family 3 times as long to drive to the mountains as it takes to drive to the beach. How long does it take Akio's family to drive from their home to the mountains?

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The stout infantfish is one of the world's smallest fish. It is only about 8 and 4/10 millimeters long. What is this length written as a decimal?

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The distance from Davina's house to her school is 2 and 75/100 miles. What is this distance written as a decimal?

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Jill buys a tomato that weighs 0.9 pound. Write the weight of the tomato as a fraction with a denominator of 100.

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Use <, >, or = to compare 0.36 and 0.4.

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Henry draws an obtuse triangle. How many obstuse angles does Henry's triangle have?

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What term BEST describes the lines shown?
* see question #34 for lines.

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Tyler uses craft sticks to make a quadrilateral like the one shown.
* see question #35
Tell whether she made a trapazoid, parallelogram, rhombus, rectangle, or square.

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A puppy weighs 3 pounds.
What is the puppy's weight in ounces?
* see question #36

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The line plot shows the lengths of some leaves Madison collected on a hike.
* see question #37 for line plot

How many leaves were LONGER than 5/8 inch?

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A piece of ribbon is 86 centimeters long.
Using the information in the chart, find the length of the ribbon in meters.
*see question #38 for chart

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Mr. Rourke is 5 feet 8 inches tall. How tall is Mr. Rourke in inches?

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Greta wants to put ribbon around the perimeter of her art project. How many centimeters of ribbon will she need?