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 3 ducks and 4 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 35 cards, the second and third contain a total of 55 cards and the third and fourth contain a total of 70 cards. What is the sum of cards in the first and fourth boxes? 4. Josh and Nancy are both walking north on a street. Josh walks 3 blocks in 3 minutes and Nancy walks 6 blocks in 4 minutes. At 10:00 A.M., Josh is 6 blocks ahead of Nancy. How many minutes later will Nancy catch up with Josh? 5. A group of 28 people went to a trip, some by cars and some by bus. When they were going, 16 people rode on a bus and 4 people rode in each car. When they were coming back, 5 people rode in each car. How many people came back home by bus? 6. A package of tennis balls sells for $5, while a box of 5 packages will sell for $24. Michael, Steve, and Tom 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 140 feet ahead of it. For every 14-foot leap of the tiger, the deer makes two 6-foot leaps. How many leaps will the tiger have to make to catch up to the deer? 8. In a list of 33 different numbers, 22 of the numbers are less than 9, and 16 of the numbers are greater than 4. How many of these numbers are both greater than 4 and less than 9? 9. A pond had only 4 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 10 days. How many days would it take to completely cover the pond if the pond had 1 water lily at the very beginning? 10. Joe runs 3 meters every second. Emily runs 2.5 meters every second. Joe let Emily start a race 40 meters ahead of him, and reached the finish line 9 seconds before Emily did. How many meters did Joe run in the race? |