If one apple costs 17p, how much do four apples cost?
John and his sister collect postage stamps.
He has 777 postage stamps, and his sister has 333.
How many more stamps does John need to collect in order to reach his goal of 1000 postage stamps?
Berlin is +6oC.
London is +3oC.
Moscow is -11oC.
New York is +5oC.
Oslo is -7oC.
Paris is +10oC.
Rome is +12oC.
Sydney is +21oC.
How much higher is the temperature in New York than the temperature in Moscow?
Ben's grandmother asked him to go to the store to buy strawberries.
He only had $7.
Which set of baskets did he buy?
Alex has started painting a fence.
By twelve o'clock, he has painted this much of the fence:
Which fraction of the total fence is painted?
Mr. Johnson has a large piece of land, as pictured here.
He divided the land into 4 parts by 2 red lines.
Which is the smallest part?
At a local school, students sold post cards for a fundraiser. The bar graph shows how many cards were sold by each student.
How many cards did the students sell in all?
The total land area of the United States is 9,172,389 square kilometers.
What is this value rounded to the nearest thousand square kilometers?
The price of an apple is 31 cents.
The price of a tangerine is 40 cents.
When one brother owes the other money, he pays the debt in apples and tangerines, with “change” received in the form of apples or tangerines.
For example, a 49 cents debt could be paid with two tangerines, with one apple received in change.
What is the amount of the smallest debt that can be paid in this way?
John had $89 in his piggy bank.
He added $10.
How could he split the money in the piggybank at a ratio of 10:1?
A team has $90.00 to buy balls.
One ball costs $7. The team gets every fifth ball for half-price.
What is the largest number of balls the team can purchase?
A clock shows this time.
How long is it from this time until 11am?
Remember, there may be more than one correct answer.
A sign shows how much time it takes to walk from Montheron Abbey to different places.
Which of the places is the closest to the abbey?
John ate a piece of a pizza and left the rest for his friends, Jim and Jack.
The diagram shows the amount of pizza Jim and Jack equally shared.
Who ate the smallest amount of the pizza?
Eugenia is learning to play the piano.
She practices 45 minutes a day on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
On Saturday she practices for one hour and 15 minutes.
How much time per week does Eugenia spend practicing piano?
John and his sister collect postage stamps.
He has 567 postage stamps, and his sister has 129.
How many more stamps does John have compared to his sister's collection?
[The stamps shown are from the Swiss Confederation, Helvetia being an abbreviation of the Latin Confoederatio Helvetica.]
The figure shows the diagram of a living room floor.
The walls are shaded.
What is the interior perimeter of the living room?
I saw the lightning strike the ground near the far side of the lake and heard a thunderclap 12 seconds later.
Estimate the width of the lake if the sound speed was about a kilometer in three seconds.
Your dad pays you $144 a day for the 6 seconds that you take to wash your hands.
How much did you make for washing your hands?
In April a car is driven 22 miles, 23 miles, 38 miles, and 37 miles.
What is the average daily mileage in April?
A 165 R15 radial tire costs $59.95 and the Federal Excise Tax is $2.39.
What is the total cost of the tire?
At the next stop, 3 students get off while 5 get on.
If initially there were 4 students on the bus, how many people are there on the bus now?
A sign shows how much time it takes to walk from Montheron Abbey to different places.
How much more time does it take to go to Lausanne than to the closest place?
Gerry gets $5 each week for his pocket money.
Jane gets double that amount.
How much did they get together in February?
How many dimes are worth 22 quarters?
A quarter dollar, or quarter, is a U.S. coin worth 25 cents, and a dime is a ten-cent coin.
A mile long train travels 2 miles a minute.
How much time does it take for the train to go through a 3-mile tunnel?
There are 555 students in a school.
How many desks does the school need if two children sit at each desk?
What is the minimum number of people needed in a boat to be certain that at least two of them were born in the same day of the week?
If Edgar cleans his teeth twice per week and changes the toothbrush every time he uses it, how many brushes does he need every month?
The evening temperature is shown in the picture below. The temperature dropped 6° by midnight.
What was the midnight temperature?
Ann bought shampoo ($7), conditioner ($4), gel ($6), a comb ($3), and a brush ($5).
How much money would she have saved if she had refused to buy all these items?
The Summer Olympic Games are held every four years.
How many Summer Olympic Games are held in a century?
Four sisters are all 3 years apart in age.
The youngest is only 4 years.
How old is the eldest sister?
John wants to buy as many bags of cacao as possible. A bag costs $28.
He gives the seller $100.
How much change does the seller give to John?
Four blocks make an up-and-down staircase with two steps up and two steps down.
How many blocks would be needed to build an up-and-down staircase with four steps up and four steps down?
Four friends each spent a total of 15 hours working on their master's project. They completed it in 4 days.
If they spent an equal amount of time each day on the project, how much time would they have spent per day?
Jane prepares small sandwiches with two slices of biscuit each. A package of biscuits has 24 slices.
How many sandwiches can she prepare from three and a half packages of biscuits?
Jane prepares small sandwiches with two slices of biscuit each. A package of biscuits has 24 slices.
How many packages does she need to prepare 30 sandwiches?
A cake weights 1200 grams.
Evguenia cuts off a half, and then cuts that half into 3 equal pieces.
What is the weight of one of the small pieces?
Sixteen European teams enter a football tournament.
Each team plays one match against each of the other teams, with three points for a win, one point for a draw and none for a defeat.
Which of the four teams below has a greater score?
Jane cuts a pizza into quarters. Then she cuts every quarter into halves.
What part of the whole pizza is one of the pieces?
Jane wants to see a knife on the right side of each plate and a fork on the left side.
What is the least number of exchanges of a knife and a fork that Jane needs to make?
Jane bought 3 ice-creams. She gave the cashier $10 and got $2 and 80 cents change.
What was the price of an ice-cream?
Four teams are in group A of a soccer (football) tournament for young girls.
Each team plays one match against each of the other teams, with three points for a win, one point for a draw and none for a defeat. If the score is the same for two teams, the winner is the team that wins in the individual game.
Which two teams go to the next stage of the competition?
Four teams are in group A of a soccer (football) tournament for young girls.
Each team plays one match against each of the other teams, with three points for a win, one point for a draw and none for a defeat.
What is the largest possible total score (the sum of scores of all teams) in such a group?
Jane buys three ice cream cones that cost two dollars and twenty-four cents each, and pays with two five-dollar bills.
How much change should she receive?
If seven pencils cost one dollar and 19 cents in all and each pencil costs the same amount, how many pencils can you by with a dollar?
Gerry buys a tennis racket for $67.90 and a dozen of balls for $19.90.
He gives the cashier two fifty-dollar bills.
How much change does he expect to receive if the cashier can count?
Gerry loves eating eggs in the morning.
It takes 5 minutes to boil an egg, 4 minutes to cool, and 3 minutes to eat it.
How much time does it take to prepare and eat 3 eggs for Gerry?
A 7-mile walking trail has a distance marker at the start, finish, and every half-mile.
How many markers are along the trail?
Gerry needs 270 feet of wood to build a fence.
The wood comes in lengths of 15 feet.
How many pieces of wood will Gerry buy?
Gerry has a pegboard with 9 pegs in a 3 by 3 square array.
The side length of the square pegboard is 30 cm.
He also has a piece of string that he wants to put from the top of pegs, so that it touches all of the pegs on the way only once.
What is the length of the string he uses?
It usually takes Little Red Riding Hood 35 minutes to get to her Granny.
However, after a recent snowstorm it took her an hour and 5 minutes to get to her Granny.
What was the increase in her time to reach her Granny's house?
Mary works as a baby sitter.
If she charges $8 an hour plus $2 for each child, how much is it for three kids for four hours?
Jan and Gerry together eat 3 to 5 apples every day.
Which is a reasonable number of days that it will take them to consume a bag of 30 apples?
Gerry combined 777 stacks of 8 coins into a single pile.
He then split the resulting pile into stacks of 7 coins.
How many stacks did he get?
The picture shows a road from crossroad A to crossroad B (a solid green line), and a detour (a red line).
How many meters further does
one have to travel using the detour?
A subway train takes 3 minutes to start, to reach the next station and to stop. It always stays 1 minute at the station before moving forward again.
How much time does it take for Gerry to travel from his station, which is the first on the subway line, to the the seventh station?
Dates can be represented as DD.MM.YYYY.
For example, January the fifteenth 2018 can be written as 15.01.2018.
What is the earliest date among these four dates below?
Jane's mother ordered 8 bottles of 100%-natural fresh apple juice for Jane's birthday.
Each of the bottles contained two and a half full glasses of juice.
There were 18 children at the party including Jane.
How much juice is left over if each child drunk one full glass of juice?
Jane scored 10 points in her last game.
If baskets are worth one, two, or three points, what is the smallest possible number of the successful shorts?
Which is the best estimate of the total cost of these toys? 
What time is 137 minutes before noon?
How many streets are there on the map?
What time will the clock show in 65 minutes?
What is the speed of a ball that flies 48 meters in 8 seconds?
Jane paid six dollars and thirty cents for 9 eggs. 
If each coin has a value of 50 centimes, how much money is there?
A puzzle used to cost $49.95 but now the price is $33.45. 
A puppy sleeps a total of 84 hours per week of 7 days. 
Estimate how many cubes there are in the first layer (base) of the tower.
I throw a bowling ball and knock down a pin. 
How many hundred dollars are there in $12,345 ?
What would be the speed if the car moves 5 times faster?
Len's number is 31 (12 + 5 + 14). 
How many small white complete squares are there in the picture?
The picture shows different ways of writing dates. 
What is the difference between two and a half dollars and fifty five-cents?
Six concert tickets cost $72. 
Find the elapsed time from 7:45 a.m. to 5:15 p.m.
The size of the side of the square is 60cm. 
The sign shows the hours when a shop is open. 
Ten matchsticks form three squares.
How many times did I turn right in the maze?