Word Problem (1)( Week 6 Evaluation) 1. 6 boxes of oranges and 2 boxes of apples weigh as much as 3 boxes of pears. One box of pears weigh as much as 1 box of oranges plus 1 box of apples. How many boxes of oranges weigh the same as 1 box of apples? 2. A farmer has ducks, geese, and hens. He feeds them with a certain amount bird food every day. A duck eats twice as much as a hen and a goose eats 3 times as much as a hen. Half of the food is fed to 5 ducks and 3 geese, and another half is fed to hens. How many hens does the farmer have? 3. There are four boxes each contains a certain number of cards. The first and second boxes contain a total of 38 cards, the second and third contain a total of 53 cards and the third and fourth contain a total of 71 cards. What is the sum of cards in the first and fourth boxes? 4. George and Jennifer are both walking north on a street. George walks 2 blocks in 2 minutes and Jennifer walks 6 blocks in 4 minutes. At 10:00 A.M., George is 6 blocks ahead of Jennifer. How many minutes later will Jennifer catch up with George? 5. A group of 20 people went to a trip, some by cars and some by bus. When they were going, 14 people rode on a bus and 2 people rode in each car. When they were coming back, 3 people rode in each car. How many people came back home by bus? 6. A package of tennis balls sells for $3, while a box of 6 packages will sell for $17. Joe, Andy, and Larry each want to buy 4 packages of the tennis balls. How much (in dollars) will they save in total if they buy together instead of separately? 7. A tiger starts to chase a deer 130 feet ahead of it. For every 12-foot leap of the tiger, the deer makes two 5-foot leaps. How many leaps will the tiger have to make to catch up to the deer? 8. In a list of 36 different numbers, 23 of the numbers are less than 10, and 18 of the numbers are greater than 3. How many of these numbers are both greater than 3 and less than 10? 9. A pond had only 16 water lilies at the beginning. But then it rapidly became covered with water lilies. The number of water lilies doubled daily. The whole pond was covered with water lilies after 15 days. How many days would it take to completely cover the pond if the pond had 8 water lilies at the very beginning? 10. Eric runs 4 meters every second. Hillary runs 3.5 meters every second. Eric let Hillary start a race 20 meters ahead of him, and reached the finish line 3 seconds before Hillary did. How many meters did Eric run in the race? |