Using Book for Problem Solving Strategies

Using this book:
1. Allow students to use whatever tools they need to solve problems.

Some students will choose to use manipulatives, while others will want
to make drawings. Encourage warriors to practice their mental math
skills.
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2. It is important that students share their solutions. Modeling a variety
of problem-solving techniques makes students aware that there are
different paths to the correct answer.
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3. Teach student to follow problem-solving strategies:
• Read the problem carefully more than one time. Think about it as
you read.
• mark the important information in the problem.
• What is question does the problem ask?
• What words will help you know how to solve the problem (in
all, left, how many more, etc.)?
• What facts will help you answer the question?
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• Think about what you need to do to solve the problem (add,
subtract, multiply, or divide).
• Solve the problem. Does your answer make sense?
• Check your answer.
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Daily Word Problems Name:
Monday-Week 1
Work Space:
There were 16 schools at the regional

track meet. An average of 14 runners
were on each school team. How many
runners were at the track meet?
Answer:

Tuesday-Week 1
Work Space:
When the teams arrived, the

temperature of the room was 72.6
degrees. By the time the meet
started, the temperature had gone up
5.6 degrees. What was the
Answer:
temperature of the when the meet
started?
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Wednesday-Week 1
Work Space:
One coach wanted her team to run 4

laps to warm up before the track
meet. To complete each lap, they had
to run 400 meters. How far did each
runner run? Answer:

Thursday-Week 1
Work Space:
Lumumba finished the first race in 1

minute and 15 seconds. Sankara
finished 12 seconds faster than
Lumumba. Shaka finished 8 seconds
faster than Sankara. How long did it Answer:
take Shaka to finish?

Friday-Week 1
Use the clues below to determine who placed first, second, third, fourth, and fifth in
the 100-meter medley.
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When you know that a name and a place do not go with each other, make an X under
the place and across from the name. When you know that a name and place do go
together, write YES in the box. You can then X that name and place for all others.
1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th

Sizwe
Juma
Mali
Jalia
Emeka
Clues:
1. Sizwe finished the race in second place.
2. The runners who place first and fourth have names that start with the same
letter
3. Mali finished immediately after Juma.
4. Jalia finished before Emeka.

Monday-Week 2
Work Space:
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The Camara family started their
garage sale one half hour after the
Tyehimba family. The Tyehimba family
started their garage sale one hour
before the Akoto family, who started Answer:
theirs at 8:30 a.m. At what time did the
Camara family start their garage sale?

Tuesday-Week 2
Work Space:
Sadiku picked out a small drum for

$3.50. If she gave the family a ten-
dollar bill, what is the fewest number
of bills and coins that she could
receive as change? Answer:

Wednesday-Week 2
Work Space:
At the end of the day, the Shabazz

family announced that all items were
half price. If the sticker on a jacket
read $3.00, how much would it sell
for? Answer:

Thursday-Week 2
Work Space:
Taja and her friend Mazina made a

one-gallon pitcher of bissap drink
because it was so hot. They drank 5
glasses that each held 2 cups of
bissap drink. How much bissap drink
was left in the pitcher? Express the
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answer in two different ways. (hint:
There are 4 cups in 1 quart and 4
quarts in 1 gallon.)

Friday-Week 2
Sadiku’s family recorded the amounts of money that were collected at their garage
sale.
Amounts of Money
Person Collected
Malcolm $4, $1, $3, $.75
Marley $2, $2, $1.50, $10
Olu $5
Tosin $3, $1.75, $7
Chinua $4, $1, $9, $.50, $8
What was the average amount of money that the five people in Sadiku’s family
collected during the adage sale?

Monday-Week 3
Work Space:
Igwe wants to sit in the front seat on

the bus on the trip to the Marcus
Garvey Museum. The front seat is the
full width of the bus and seat 5
students. If Igwe selects his place on
the seat at random, what is the
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probability that he will sit at either
end by a window?

Tuesday-Week 3
Work Space:
The sixth grade class from W.E.B

Dubois Middle School is going to the
zoo on a field trip. There are 270
students who want to on the field trip.
If the school requires one adult for
every 15 students, how many adults Answer:
will be needed for the trip?

Wednesday-Week 3
Work Space:
The statue of Marcus Garvey weighs

about 7 tons. How many pounds does
that statue weigh? (Hint: 1 ton equals
2,000 pounds)
Answer:

Thursday-Week 3
Work Space:
The regular price for admission to the

Marcus Garvey museum is $7.00.
There is a 25% discount off the price
of each ticket for school groups. How
much will each ticket cost with the
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discount?

Friday-Week 3
The exhibit on Kemet has the following shape.
32 feet
10 feet
15
feet
20 feet
What is the area of the exhibit?

Monday-Week 4
Work Space:
During intermission, Samire bought a

bottle of water for 79 cents. If she
paid with a one dollar bill, what are
three different combinations of coins
that she could have received as
change? Answer:
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Tuesday-Week 4
Work Space:
There were three Fela Kuti concerts.

The first concert had 953 people in
attendance. The second and third
concerts each had a full house of
1,100. What was the average number
of people at the three concerts? Answer:
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Wednesday-Week 4
Work Space:
The tickets for the Stevie Wonder

concert are selling for $12.00.
Kwadwo is going to the concert with a
group of 25 people. There is a
discount of 1/5 off each ticket for
groups. How much will each ticket Answer:
cost after the discount?
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Thursday-Week 4
Work Space:
The stage lights for the concert were

suspended on a metal rack
constructed in three sections. The
bottom section was 12 feet tall. The
section above that was 3 yards tall.
The top section was only 35 inches Answer:
tall. How tall was the entire metal rack
in feet and inches?

Friday-Week 4
Use the clues below to determine what number seat each of these five students sat
in for the concert.
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Use the clues to help you fill in the seat numbers in the top row. When you know
that a name and a seat number do not go with each other, make a X under the seat
number and across from the name. When you know that a name and seat number do
go together, write YES in that box. You can then X that name and seat number for
all others.
Kori
Themba
Wale
Ogbe
Makao
Clues:
1. The seats were numbered consecutively, starting with 10 and ending with seat
number 14.
2. Kori and Themba sat in the odd-numbered seats.
3. Wale’s seat number is three more than Kori’s seat number.
4. Ogbe’s seat number is two less than Makao’s seat number.

Monday-Week 5
Work Space:
There are 208 Liberation buses. One-

eighth of the buses are reserved for
special trips. Of the remaining ones,
half start their routes at 5:30 am and
the other half start their routes at
6:00 am. How many buses start at Answer:
5:30 am?
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Tuesday-Week 5
Work Space:
An annual community bus costs $26.

Adon and his three friends each
bought an annual pass. How much
money did they pay in all for the
passes?
Answer:
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Wednesday-Week 5
Work Space:
Adwoa left her house at 6:45 am. It

took her 8 minutes 45 seconds to
walk to the bus stop. She waited 3 ¾
minutes for the bus and then rode the
bus 7 ½ minutes to her school. At
what time did she arrive at school? Answer:
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Thursday-Week 5
Work Space:
There were 15 warrior students on the

Liberation bus before Akil’s stop. Twelve
students, including Akil, got on the bus
at his stop. The bus went to a high
school and 6 students got off and 3
more got on. Then the bus went to the
middle school where all the remaining Answer:
students got off. How many students
got off at the middle school?
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Friday-Week 5
The map below shows several cities that buses pass through when they travel
from Garvey to Malcolm. The numbers represent the number of minutes it takes to
travel each road.
Use the map to determine the fastest bus route from Garvey to Malcolm. Write
the names of the cities and the number of minutes it takes on that route on the
lines below.
Bettytown 49 Garvey
Sankara 46
43 28
Yassa 24 65
Mali 61
34
11
Chad
14 54 14
Fard Center
39
27 Lumumba
Malcolm

Monday-Week 6
Work Space:
Each chair in the Natural Hair Salon

can hold a maximum weight of 450
pounds. A large gentleman walked
into the shop. He told his stylist that
he weight 75 pounds less than a
quarter of a ton. By how many
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pounds is the gentleman over or
under the maximum weight? (Hint:
One ton equal 2,000 pounds)
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Tuesday-Week 6
Work Space:
There are 18 people who work at the

Natural Hair Salon. They put all the
tips they earn into a pot and equally
divide the money at the end of each
month. Last month the money in the
pot totaled $2,232. How much did Answer:
each person receive?
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Wednesday-Week 6
Work Space:
Amma is getting her locs retwisted.

She wants to give a 20% tip to her
stylist. If the service cost $15.00, how
much should she give?
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Thursday-Week 6
Work Space:
When the Akoto triplets walked into

the Natural Hair Salon, there were
three empty chairs. How many
possible ways could the three
children be seated in the three chairs?
Answer:
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Friday-Week 6
The Natural Hair Salon wants to paint a red, black, and green stripe around the
inside wall of the building. The diagram below shows the floor plan for the salon.
26 feet
6 feet
29 feet
28 feet 15 feet 12 feet
10 feet
40 feet
How long will the red, black, and green stripe be?
Is there a shorter way to solve this problem without adding up all the dimensions
on the diagram?

Monday-Week 7
Work Space:
There were seven serving lines at the

annual vegan pancake breakfast. The
total number of the seven lines were
126, 118, 127, 134, 98, 132, and 121. What
was the median number of people
served? Answer:
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Tuesday-Week 8
Work Space:
The warrior students have 2,500

forks at the vegan pancake
breakfast. There are four service
stations. To evenly spread out the
forks, how many forks were at each
service station?
Answer:
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Wednesday-Week 7
Work Space:
The recipe for the vegan pancake

batter calls for ¾ cup of almond milk.
The warrior students want to make a
batch of vegan pancake batter that
will quadruple the recipe. How much
almond milk will they need in all? Answer:
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Thursday-Week 7
Work Space:
There are 36 tables set up for the

annual Vegan Breakfast. Each table is
8 feet long. The warrior students plan
to cover each table with a paper
tablecloth that extends an extra 4
inches over each end so they can Answer:
tape it underneath. What is the total
length of paper needed to cover all
the tables?
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Friday-Week 7
At the vegan breakfast, there were four stations set up where people donated
money toward new playground equipment. Use the clues below to determine how
much money was donated at each of the four stations.
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Use the clues to help you fill in the different amounts of money. When you know
that a station and an amount of money do NOT go with each other, make a X under
the amount of money and across from the station. When you know that a station
and an amount of money do go together, write YES in that box. You can then X that
station and amount of money for all others.
Station 1
Station 2
Station 3
Station 4
Clues:
1. Station 3 collected the most with $343.
2. The range of the money collected was $231.
3. Station 4 collected the least amount of money.
4. Station 2 collected $88 less than station 3.
5. Station 1 collected $94 more than station 4.

Monday-Week 8
Work Space:
Tubor is buying some bananas for 19

cents. He has only dimes, nickels, and
pennies in his pocket. List all the
different combinations of dimes,
nickels, and pennies he could use to
pay for the candy. Answer:
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Tuesday-Week 8
Work Space:
Think about a box. What geometric

shape is a box? What geometric shape
is each face of a box?
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Wednesday-Week 8
Work Space:
Taraji has a coupon for one–third off

her total bill at the Elijah Muhammad
grocery store. She bought 2 six packs
of soda for $1.45 each, three bags of
chips for $2.49 each, and a half
gallon of ice cream for $4.60. How Answer:
much was Taraji’s bill with the
discount?
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Thursday-Week 8
Work Space:
In each variety pack of fruit juice,

there are 3 boxes of apple juice, 2
boxes of grape juice, and 1 box of
orange juice. In a display in the store,
there are 16 cases of juice with 8
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variety packs in each case. How many
boxes of juice are in the display?

Friday-Week 8
Muhammad’s store needs new tiles for the floor. The owners want to purchase
tiles that cost $1.19 each. Each tile is a 1-foot by 1-foot square. The figure below
represents the floor plan of the store.
38 feet
12 feet
40 38 feet
feet
38
What will be the cost of the new tiles?

Monday-Week 9
Work Space:
Tibious took a jar of blueberries to

school to share with his classmates.
There were 900 blueberries in the jar.
The blueberries were divided equally
among 28 students and the teacher.
How many blueberries did each Answer:
person receive? How many
blueberries were left over?
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Tuesday-Week 9
Work Space:
At Tamar’s Bornday celebration,

there will be eight kids including
Tamar. They will place each person’s
name in a hat. Without looking, they
will draw one name out of the hat to
see who will begin the African dance. Answer:
What is the probability that Tamar’s
name will be drawn?

Wednesday-Week 9
Work Space:
Samira wants her study group to last

for 3 hours and to be over at least 30
minutes before his bedtime. If her
bedtime is at 9:00 pm, what is the
latest time he can start his study
group? Answer:
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Thursday-Week 9
Work Space:
Sekou wants to take 12 friends to see

a musical that celebrates the wisdom
of their Ancestors. The tickets for the
musical cost $6.50 each. How much
money does she need for all of them?
Answer:
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Friday-Week 9
When Sekou’s little brother finished his birthday dinner, he needed a bath.
He closed the drain in the bathtub and turned on the water faucet at 6:00
p.m. The following graph represents the depth of the water in the bathtub
from 6:00 p.m. until 6:20 p.m.
Depth of Water in Bathtub
14
12
Depth (in inches)
10
0
6:00 p.m.
6:02 p.m.
6:04 p.m.
6:06 p.m.
6:08 p.m.
6:10 p.m.
6:12 p.m.
6:14 p.m.
6:16 p.m.
6:18 p.m.
6:20 p.m.
Time
Describe some possible reasons for the changes in water depth at each of
the following times.
Time Possible reason for change in water depth

6:00 p.m. He closed the drain and turned on the water faucet.
6:04 p.m.
6:09 p.m.
6:14 p.m.

Monday-Week 10
Work Space:
Koro drove his African made car 10%

farther using gasoline from Ghana’s
Station compared to gasoline from
Jack’s Station. After Koro filled his
gas tank at Jack’s Station, he traveled
480 miles. How far did he travel on a Answer:
tank of gas from Ghana’s Station?

Tuesday-Week 10
Work Space:
Usain finished the race in 11 seconds.

Asuka finished 0.08 seconds faster
than Usain. Jamal finished 0.1
seconds faster than Asuka. How long
did it take Jamal to finish the race?
Answer:
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Wednesday-Week 10
Work Space:
Usain won several races last season.

The following list shows the cash
prizes he won at the races.
$7,000; $25,000; $6,500; $10,050;

$650
What was Usain’s total winnings last Answer:

season?
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Thursday-Week 10
Work Space:
The races had 3,832 people in

attendance on Thursday, 4,295
people on Friday, and 4,783 people
on Saturday. If the track seats 5,000
people, how many empty seats were Answer:
there in all for the three races?

Friday-Week 10
Adinkra Cars tested five cars on a short track.
The chart below shows the length of time each car took to complete the track
once.
Car Time
1 4 minutes 30 sec
2 5 minutes 12 sec
3 4 minutes 24 sec
4 4 minutes 51 sec
5 5 minutes 3 sec
What is the range of time for these five cars?
What is the average length of time it took the five cars to go around the track one
time?

Monday-Week 11
Work Space:
Kamali Academy is having a bake sale

to raise money to go to Africa. They
are selling vegan pies for $5.00 each
and vegan muffins for $2.50 a dozen.
Omar want to buy 3 pies and 2 dozen
muffin. If he pays with a twenty dollar Answer:
bill, what change should she get
back?
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Tuesday-Week 11
Work Space:
Ochen is baking vegan muffins. The

recipe makes 144 muffins. If Ochen
and his 5 friends divide the cookies
evenly, how many cookies will each
person get?
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Wednesday-Week 11
Work Space:
There are 4 sticks to one pound of

butter. Each stick is equal to 8
tablespoons or ½ cup. The recipe
that Naja is making calls for 1 ½ cups
of butter. How many sticks of butter
does she need? What is the weight of Answer:
the butter she needs for her recipe?
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Thursday-Week 11
Work Space:
Mandisa is baking vegan muffin. For

one batch of muffins she needs ¼ cup
of brown sugar and 1 ½ cups of white
sugar. If she doubles the recipe, how
much brown sugar and white sugar will
she need?
Answer:
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Friday-Week 11
Five people each volunteered to bake a different kind of pie for the vegan bake
sale. The five pose are pecan, bean, peach, cherry, and apple. Use the clues below
to determine who baked each pie.
Use the clues to help you fill in the names of the people. When you know that a
person and pie do not go with each other, make an X under the pie and across from
the person. When you know that a person and pie do go together, write YES in that
box. You can then X that person for all others.
Pecan Bean Peach Cherry Apple
Clues:
1. The names of the five people are Nia, Imani, Yemoja, Oshun, Obatala.
2. Obatala did not make a fruit pie.
3. Yemoja made either the peach pie or the bean pie.
4. Oshun made either the cherry pie or the pecan pie.
5. Nia made a pie that starts with the letter “p”.
6. One of the girls made the peach pie.

Monday-Week 12
Work Space:
A weather map has a scale of 1 inch

equal 10 miles. On the map, this
distance from Maalik’s village to his
cousin’s village is 1 foot 3 inches. How
many miles is it between the two
villages? Answer:
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Tuesday-Week 12
Work Space:
The following list shows that number

of centimeters of rain that fell each
day on Mount Kilimanjaro.
14, 13, 7, 3, 11, 14, 28, 108, 84, 67
What was the total snowfall for the 10 days

listed?
Answer:
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Wednesday-Week 12
Work Space:
Rain fell for 20% of the days in

N o ve m b e r . H o w m a n y d a y s i n
November did it snow? (hint: There
are 30 days in November.
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Thursday-Week 12
Work Space:
At 7a.m., the temperature was 26

degrees Fahrenheit. At noon, a
snowstorm started, which caused the
temperature to drop 32 degrees. What
was the temperature at noon?
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Friday-Week 12
Using the following circle graph, calculate the number of days during the month of
October that were snowy, rainy, sunny, and cloudy. (Hint: There are 31 days in
October.)
Weather for October
Cloudy
Snowy
19%
45%
Sunny 13%
23%
Rainy

Monday-Week 13
Work Space:
The vending machine requires exact

change. Kaza wants to purchase
some gum for 45 cents. List all the
different combinations of dimes and
nickels she could use to purchase the
gum. Answer:
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Tuesday-Week 13
Work Space:
The vending machine in the bookstore

has five rows to choose from with six
items in each row. Currently, there are
seven items that are sold out. If Ayi
randomly pushes a button, what is the
probability he will select an item that Answer:
is already sold out?
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Wednesday-Week 13
Work Space:
Jamiliah described the shape of a

soda can as a cone. Sheryl described
it as a cylinder. Draw a cone and a
cylinder. Which shape should be used
to describe a soda can?
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Thursday-Week 13
Work Space:
A Black-owned vending machine sells

each bottle of water for $0.65. If 14
people bought water, how much
money was deposited into the
machine?
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Friday-Week 13
The following figure represents a vending machine at Kaza’s school.
28 inches
Soda Machine
5 feet
1 1/2 yards
What is the volume of the vending machine in cubic inches?

Monday-Week 14
Work Space:
A total of 453 people entered the

Liberation Bike Race. All of the
money from the entrance fees was
being donated to research. If the
entrance fee was $28 for each
participant, how much money was Answer:
raised for cancer research?
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Tuesday-Week 14
Work Space:
The Liberation Bike Race had

hundreds of competitors. The last
competitor finished the race at
4:43p.m. The range of the completion
times was 2 hours and 36 minutes. Tye
finished 4 minutes after the first place Answer:
finisher. At what time did Tye cross
the finish line?

Wednesday-Week 14
Work Space:
Adana’s bike is twice as heavy as

Akili’s bike, but only 3 pounds heavier
than Ola’s bike. If Ola’s bike weighs 15
pounds, how much does Akili’s bike
weigh?
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Thursday-Week 14
Work Space:
Ngozi rode her bike daily to get ready

for a bike race. The following list
shows the number of miles she rode
each day of the week: 30, 27, 22, 32,
35, 18, 39. How many miles did Ngozi
average per week? Answer:
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Friday-Week 14
Use the clues below to determine who placed first, second, third, and fourth in the
Liberation Bike Race.
When you know that a person and a place do NOT go with each other, make an X
under the place and across from the person. When you know that a person and
place do go together, write YES in that box. You can then X that person and place
for all others.
Ngozi
Noliwe
Idawa
Isanusi
Clues:
1. Ngozi finished the race in third place.
2. Noliwe finished directly behind the Idawa.
3. The person who finished in second place is either Noliwe or Isanusi.
4. Isanusi did not come in first place.

Monday-Week 15
Work Space:
Jabari had 23 points at the end of the

first round of the game. At the end of
the second round, his total score was
-8. How many points did she lose
during the second round?
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Tuesday-Week 15
Work Space:
At the end of the game, the loser

divides his or her points evenly among
the other players. When Kwabena
lost, he had 3,248 points and had to
divide them among the remaining 4
players. How many points did each Answer:
player receive?
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Wednesday-Week 15
Work Space:
Mossi, Abu, and Omari played a card

game. Mossi had one-third the
number of points that Omari had.
Abu had one –half the points that
Omari had. If Omari had 240 points,
how many points did Mossi and Abu Answer:
have?
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Thursday-Week 15
Work Space:
Issa played a card game using a deck

of 52 cards. After she dealt the same
number of cards to 4 players, she had
24 cards left over. How many cards
did each player get?
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Friday-Week 15
The following graph represents the number of votes that each game
received from the students in Baba El’s classroom. Each student was
allowed to vote twice.
16
12
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Taboo Chess War Mancala School
boys girls
How many more girls than boys are in Baba El’s classroom?
Which games received more votes from girls than from boys?

Monday-Week 16
Work Space:
Ami arrived at 9:13 a.m. for her 9:30

a.m. appointment. She waited for 37
minutes before the nurse called her
name. The nurse took Ami’s weight,
height, and temperature, which took
4 minutes. After that, she waited Answer:
another 17 minutes before the doctor
came in. At what time did the doctor
enter her room?
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Tuesday-Week 16
Work Space:
Akili decorated her flowerpot. She

wrapped 20 inches of kente cloth
around the base of the flowerpot. A
roll of kente cloth material is 15 feet
long. How much cloth material was left
on the roll? Answer:
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Wednesday-Week 16
Work Space:
Kali’s normal temperature is 98.6

degrees. Today, his temperature is
101.2 degrees. How much higher than
normal is his temperature?
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Thursday-Week 16
Work Space:
To d a y , t h e re a re 3 9 6 p e o p l e
scheduled for appointments and 12
nutritionists on duty at the free clinic.
How many patients should each
nutritionists see in order to keep the
number of appointments for each Answer:
doctor as even as possible?
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Friday-Week 16
The following table lists the arrival times and the waiting times for
six of the seven patients at Dr. Sebi”s office.
Patient’s Name Arrival Time Waiting Time

Afua 9:06 7 minutes
Zamani 9:10 11 minutes
Lima 9:11 12 minutes
Kojo 9:14 4 minutes
Femi 9:26 10 minutes
Hanifa 9:29 11 minutes
Kesho ? ?
Use these clues to determine the arrival time and waiting time for Jerome.
1. The mode of the waiting times is 11 minutes.
2. The median of the waiting times is 10 minutes.
3. The mean of the waiting times is 9 minutes.
4. Kesho was called to see the doctor at 9:45.

Monday-Week 17
Work Space:
Amari has a stamp in his collection

that his grandfather purchased for
24 cents. The value of the stamp is
now 300 % of the original value. What
is the current value of the stamp?
! Answer:
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Tuesday-Week 17
Work Space:
Ode keeps his stamp collection in a

box that is 12 inches tall, 10 inches
wide, and 3 inches deep. What three-
dimensional geometric term can be
used to describe the shape of her
box? Answer:
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Wednesday-Week 17
Work Space:
Imani bought a new sheet of stamps

that has 10 thirty-four cent stamps on
the page. If she paid with a ten- dollar
bill, how much change did she get
back?
! Answer:
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Thursday-Week 17
Work Space:
Fenuku and Myra collect stamps.

Fenuku has 150 fewer stamps than
Myra. Together, they have collected
500 stamps. How many stamps does
each person have in his or her
collection? Answer:
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Friday-Week 17
Esu, Jomo, Kamuzo, and Sankofa all collect stamps. They have their stamp
collections stored in books that are different colors. Use the clues below to
determine the color of each person’s book and the number of stamps each book
contains.
When you know that a person and a color or a person and a number of stamps do
not go with each other, make an X under the color or number of stamps and across
from the person. When you know that a person and color or a person and number
of stamps do go together, write YES in that box.
Black Blue Green Red 315 720 1,205 2,403
Esu
Jomo
Kamuzo
Sankofa
Clues:
1. Kamuzo has 1,205 stamps.
2. Sankofa has the black book.
3. Neither Esu nor Jomo has the green book.
4. Esu has the red book.
5. The blue book contains the most stamps.
6. One of the boys (Esu or Jomo) has the fewest number of stamps and the other
has the largest number of stamps.

Monday-Week 18
Work Space:
The Nsoahs’ twin boys play in a

playpen with a base that measures 4
feet by 4 feet and height of 2 feet.
The floor has a good pad in it, but the
netting on the four sides is rather
worn and needs to be replaced. What Answer:
is the area of the netting that they
need to replace?
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Tuesday-Week 18
Work Space:
The Bunseki family has six ndezi

(Babysitters) they call regularly. Four
of the ndezi are boys and two are
girls. If they randomly call one of the
ndezi, what is the chance that it will be
a boy? Answer:
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Wednesday-Week 18
Work Space:
For Parent’s Night, several older youth

offered to practice Kindezi and baby sit
the younger children for 4 hours. They
charged $2 per hour for the first child and
$1 per hour for each additional child from
the same family. The following list shows
the number of children that were brought
Answer:
from 6 families: 3, 2, 5, 2, 3, and 4. What was
the total amount paid to the ndezi
(babysitters)?
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Thursday-Week 18
Work Space:
Daija was baby-sitting a baby that

weighed 264 ounces. How many
pounds did the baby weigh? (Hint:
One pound equals 16 ounces.) Answer:

Friday-Week 18
Daija, Yaa, Akelah, Amira, and Sanaa are practicing Kindezi or baby-
sitting. They have agreed to pool their money and then divide the total
evenly among the five of them. Use the following bar graph to determine
how much each person should receive.
Money Collected for Baby-sitting
Daija $32.00
Yaa $10.00
Akelah $16.50
Amira $30.00
Sanaa $24.00
$0.00 $10.00 $20.00 $30.00 $40.00
Amount in Dollars

Monday-Week 19
Work Space:
A class has 432 Great Revolutionary

cards. They decided to lay the cards
end to end down the hallway to see
how far they would stretch. Each
card is 3 ½ inches long. How many
feet long is the line of cards? Answer:
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Tuesday-Week 19
Work Space:
Mama Hester collected Black Panther

comic books when her children were
very young. Now that her children are
older, she wants to give each of her
three children the same number of
comic books to start their own Answer:
collections. She has 3,732 copies of
comic books. How many books
should each child receive?
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Wednesday-Week 19
Work Space:
In Baba Baruti’s class, three warrior

students brought their Black Panther
comic book collections. For their
three collections, the mode was 126
and the range was 26. What are two
possibilities for the number of cards Answer:
in each student’s collection?
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Thursday-Week 19
Work Space:
Sauni purchased African print fabric

pants at Mama Njeri’s clothing store.
The original price for the pants was
$22.80, but the store was having a
sale with ¼ off the price of all pants.
How much did the pants cost with the Answer:
discount?
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Friday-Week 19
The following line graph represents the value of Nile’s revolutionary card
collection.
Value of Nile’s Collection

$135.00
$130.00
Value in Dollars
$125.00
$120.00
$115.00
$0.00
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun July
Month
If this trend continues, what would be a reasonable estimate for the value
of his collection in July?

Monday-Week 20
Work Space:
Gyasi’s watering can is in the shape of

a cylinder. If the radius is 3 inches and
the height is 10 inches, what is the
volume of the can?
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Tuesday-Week 20
Work Space:
Manuli bought several plants for the

following prices: $2.97, $3, $3.50,
$9.98, $5, and .79. What was the total
cost of these plants?
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Wednesday-Week 20
Work Space:
Some of Nabila’s plants need water

every day, some need water every
other day, and others need water
every third day. If she waters them all
today, how many days will be before
she waters them all again? Answer:
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Thursday-Week 20
Work Space:
Kosi planted 200 tomato plants in the

community garden. He plans to sell
the plants this spring. How much
should he sell each plant for if he
wants to make a total of $150.00?
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Friday-Week 20
Use the clues below to determine the size of the pot for each plant.
Use the clues to help you fill in the names of the plants. When you know that a plant
and a pot size do not go with each other, make an X under the pot size and across
from the plant. When you know that a plant and pot size do go together, write YES
in that box. You can then X that plant and pot size for all others.
3 inch 4 inch 5 inch 6 inch 8 inch
Clues:
1. The geranium is planted in the smallest pot.
2. The sum of the spider plant’s pot and the had plant’s pot is 14 inches.
3. The Cuban rose is planted in a pot with a prime number for it’s diameter.
4. The African violet is planted in a pot 2 inches smaller than the jade plant’s pot.

Monday-Week 21
Work Space:
Mushi had 24 videotapes. Ensun had

half as many videotapes as Kofi. Ada
had half as many as Ensun. If each
videotape has 90 minutes of
recording time, how many hours of
recording time do they all have on all Answer:
their videotapes?
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Tuesday-Week 21
Work Space:
Fifi went to the store and bought a

new DVD. What is the geometric
shape of a DVD?
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Wednesday-Week 21
Work Space:
Lumo has four CDs. Each one

contains 120 minutes of recorded
African music. What is the total length
of time recorded on all the CDs?
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Thursday-Week 21
Work Space:
Minke bought a DVD of a tutorial

explaining how to create a web page
design. The DVD costs $3.55. If
Minke paid with a ten-dollar bill, what
is the fewest number of bills and coins
he could have received as change? Answer:
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Friday-Week 21
This chart represents the recording times of six Dead

Prez music videos.
Song Number Length of Song

One 3 minutes 38 seconds
Two 4 minutes 12 seconds
Three 3 minutes 48 seconds
Four 6 minutes 24 seconds
Five 5 minutes 8 seconds
Six 4 minutes 23 seconds
Minke would like to record all of these songs on a DVD that has 27 minutes left at
the end. He would like to include a 5-second blank space between each of the
songs. Does he have enough space to record all six songs? Explain your answer.

Monday-Week 22
Work Space:
Mensah’s family went on a hike. They

kept a log of the changes in elevation
each half hour. They started the hike
at an elevation of 6,080 feet. The
changes in elevation for the hike were
+45, +200, -80, +35, -20, and +110. Answer:
What was the elevation at the end of
their hike?
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Tuesday-Week 22
Work Space:
Nsiah went on a long hike. He started

out with a full canteen of water.
During the first hour, he drank ¼ of
the water. During the next hour, he
drank ½ of what was left. How full
was his canteen at the end of the Answer:
hike?
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Wednesday-Week 22
Work Space:
Osei’s family went hiking and came to

a bridge that had a weight limit of 500
pounds. Her father weighed 250
pounds, her aunt weighed 145
pounds, her brother weighed 65
pounds, and she weighed 65 pounds. Answer:
Could they all walk on the bridge at
the same time? Explain your answer.
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Thursday-Week 22
Work Space:
Baba Oko placed 14 markers along a

hiking trail to an African mountain.
Each marker weighed 24 ounces.
When they started out, they put them
all in a larger backpack that weighed 3
pounds. How much did the backpack Answer:
weigh with all the markers?
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Friday-Week 22
The following map represents different trails from the park entrance to Mountain
Park. List all the possible rites from the entrance to Mountain Park without going on
any trail more than once during a single route.
(Hint: There are 8 different routes.)

African Peak
Assata
Ukali
Trail
Trail
Nzinga
Trail
Valley
Trail Gomela
Trail Wilson
Entrance Trail
RBG
Trail

Monday-Week 23
Work Space:
The first quarter of the Liberation

championship game lasted 48 minutes.
The second quarter lasted 52 minutes.
There was a special presentation at
halftime that lasted 25 minutes. The
third quarter lasted 54 minutes and the
fourth quarter lasted 49 minutes. If the
Answer:
game started at 6:30 p.m., at what time
did the game finish?
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Tuesday-Week 23
Work Space:
The distance from the three–point

line to the center of the basketball
hoop is 19 feet 9 inches. What is the
equivalent length in inches?
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Wednesday-Week 23
Work Space:
The basketball court is 50 feet across

by 94 feet long. There is a black line
painted around the entire basketball
court. What is the total area of the
basketball court?
! Answer:
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Thursday-Week 23
Work Space:
Sixteen teams are playing in the

Liberation basketball tournament. Each
team will play one game against another
team during the first round of the
tournament. There is only one gym, so
only one game can be played at a time.
Answer:
They have 6 hours to complete the first
round. What is the maximum length of
time that can be allowed for each game?
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Kamali Academy
! 70 Kamali Academy Word Problems
Friday-Week 23
Five middle schools played in the Liberation Basketball Tournament. Use the clues
below to determine how each school placed.
Use the clues to help you fill in the names of the schools and the places. When you
know that a school and a place do not go with each other, make an X under the
place and across from the school. When you know that a school and place do go
together, write YES in that box. You can then X that school and place for all others.
Clues:
1. Dunbar Middle School finished in third place.
2. Kamali Middle School placed immediately after Dunbar Middle Schools.
3. Malcolm X Middle School finished immediately ahead of H. Rap Middle School.
4. Woodson Middle School placed directly after Kamali Middle School.
5. Woodson’s place was the sum of Malcolm X’s and Kamali’s places.

Monday-Week 24
Work Space:
Daija baked 250 mini bean pies and

wants to put them in packages of 12
pies each. How many full packages of
pies can she pack? How many pies will
be left over?
! Answer:
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Tuesday-Week 24
Work Space:
Tse made 10 blankets. He made 25%

out of bark cloth, 25% out of mud
cloth, and the remaining 50% out of
kente cloth. How many of each type
of cloth did he make?
! Answer:
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Wednesday-Week 24
Work Space:
Akosua is adding embroidery patches

to the blankets. She wants to buy
three large patches of the Sankofa
adinkra symbol and two small patches
of the Akoma adinkra symbol. Each
small patch costs $0.79 and each Answer:
large patch cost $1.29. How much will
these items total?
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Thursday-Week 24
Work Space:
Manu made blankets for the elders in

her community. She used 12 yards of
fabric for each blanket. If she made
24 blankets, how many yards of
fabric did she use in all?
! Answer:
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Friday-Week 24
The following chart shows the number of votes cast by the sixth-grade
class for the students’ favorite warriors.
Favorite Warriors
150
130
Number of Votes
110
90
70
0
Assata Garvey Fannie L. Hamer Imhotep
What is the range of the votes cast for the all the warriors?
Is it accurate to say that there are twice as many votes for Garvey as for
Fannie Lou Hamer? Explain your answer.

Monday-Week 25
Work Space:
In the center of the Yaa Asantewaa

library is a fountain that hold 500
gallons of water. For every 25 gallons
of water, they must add ¼ cup of
water treatment. How many cups of
water treatment must they add to the Answer:
fountain to treat 500 gallons of
water?
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Tuesday-Week 25
Work Space:
In the Yaa Asantewaa Library, about

one-tenth of the books are overdue
when they are returned. An average
of 580 books are returned to the
library each day. About how many
books could be expected to be Answer:
returned on time each day?
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Wednesday-Week 25
Work Space:
Tano’s books were due on October

14th. He didn’t turn in his books until
December 5 th . How many days
overdue were his library books?
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Thursday-Week 25
Work Space:
Adika’s book is one day overdue and

he must pay the overdue fine of 25
cents. He has only nickels and
pennies in his pocket. List three
different combinations of nickels and
pennies he can use to pay his fine. Answer:
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Friday-Week 25
There is a shelf in the library for the books by authors with the last names of Adisa,
Afua, Armah, Baako, Badu, and Biko. The following table shows the number of
books that the library has by these six authors and how many of those books are
currently checked out.
Number of Books Number of Books

Author’s Last Name
the Library Has Checked Out
Adisa 8 2
Afua 12 3
Armah 1 0
Baako 5 2
Badu 4 1
Biko 7 1
If Kweku randomly selects one book from the remaining books on the shelf, what is
the probability that the author of the book he selects will be Badu?

Monday-Week 26
Work Space:
A t a re c e n t A f r i c a n - c e n t e re d
education conference, a total of $924
was collected in registration fees. In
addition, another $527 was collected
at the concession stand. The costs
for the day totaled $895. After Answer:
subtracting the total costs from the
total money collected, how much
money was left?
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Tuesday-Week 26
Work Space:
The average length of the eight words

Addae was asked to spell was nine
letters. The first 7 words has the
following lengths: 8 letters, 9 letters, 6
letters, 10 letters, 7 letter, 9 letters,
and 11 letters. What was the length of Answer:
the eighth word?
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Wednesday-Week 26
Work Space:
At the African Proverb competition,

there were 120 warrior students. One –
fourth of the students were eliminated
during the first round. One-third of the
remaining students were eliminated
during the second round. Two – thirds
o f t h e re m a i n i n g s t u d e n t s w e re
Answer:
eliminated during the third round. How
many students were left after the third
round?
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Thursday-Week 26
Work Space:
There were 350 warrior students

competing at the African proverb
competition. During the first round,
2 0 % o f t h e c o n t e s t a n t s w e re
eliminated. How many contestants
were still in the competition at the Answer:
beginning of the second round?
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Friday-Week 26
The following figure represents the stage area where the African Proverb
competition was held.
14 yards
6 yards 6 yards
18 feet
Each contestant started at the podium (represented as a gray box). After their
turn, they followed the arrows around the stage in a line until it was their turn again.
Jeffarie was first in line for the first round. When Jeffarie stood at the podium for
her fifth word, how far had she walked around the staging area?

Monday-Week 27
Work Space:
Aku’s family donated 12 cases of soup

for the food drive. Each case had
four rows with six cans of soup in
each row. How many cans of soup did
Aku’s family donate in all?
! Answer:
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Tuesday-Week 27
Work Space:
Each fresh food item contributed to the

local Black Panther food bank is
recorded as a positive number, while
each food item donated to a family is
recorded as a negative number. The
food bank started with 508 items. How
many items were on the shelves after the Answer:
following contributions and donations?
-8, -29, +17, -12, -9

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Wednesday-Week 27
Work Space:
For every can of corn that was

donated at Aku’s school, 1.2 cans of
green beans were donated. If there
were 590 cans of corn donated, how
many cans of green beans were
donated? Answer:
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Thursday-Week 27
Work Space:
Kamali Academy collected 2970 cans

of food during their food drive. If
they can put 35 cans in each box, how
many boxes will they need for all the
food?
! Answer:
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Friday-Week 27
Five eighth-grade classes collected canned food for the local food bank. Each
class collected a different number of cans. Use the following clues to determine
how many cans were collected in each class.
1. The five classes that collected cans include two classes with totals in the three
hundreds, two classes with totals in the four hundreds, and one class with a total
in the five hundreds.
2. The smallest total was 308 cans.
3. The range of the total cans collected was 262.
4. The median number of cans collected was 421.
5. The total of the two classes in the three hundreds was 706.
6. The total number of cans collected from all the classes was 2,130.

Monday-Week 28
Work Space:
On a baseball diamond there are 90

feet between each of the four bases.
When Oko runs, he travels about one
yard for each step. About how many
steps does he take to go around the
baseball diamond? Answer:
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Tuesday-Week 28
Work Space:
There are 14 boys and 15 girls in Baba

El’s class playing baseball. If he
randomly pulls a name out of a hat to
determine who will bat first, what is the
probability that Oko will bat first?
! Answer:
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Wednesday-Week 28
Work Space:
Abeeku was at bat 20 times during

the last game. He hit the ball one-
fourth of the times that he was at bat.
How many times did he hit the ball?
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Thursday-Week 28
Work Space:
A baseball diamond is formed by

putting four bases 90 feet apart at
each corner of the infield. If each
corner of the infield forms a 90-
degree angle, what shape is a
baseball diamond? Answer:
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Friday-Week 28
The following table lists the batting averages of five

players.
Player’s Name Batting Average
Raheem 0.263
Anton 0.125
Eleba 0.300
Tema 0.248
Marcus 0.150
A batting average of 0.500 means that the batter hits the ball 50% of the times he
or she is at bat.
Which of the players has the highest batting average?
What percent of the times at bat did that player hit the ball?

Monday-Week 29
Work Space:
The Camara family was seated in the

movie theatre at 6:53 p.m.. Eight
minutes later, 12 minutes of the movie
previews were shown before the movie
finally started. The movie finished at
9:27 p.m.. How long was the movie? Answer:
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Tuesday-Week 29
Work Space:
Noliwe bought 2 larger bottles of

water and 2 larger freedom smoothies
for $8.50. She paid with a twenty-
dollar bill. What is the fewest number
of bills and coins that she could have
received as change? Answer:
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Wednesday-Week 29
Work Space:
When Aba’s family entered the Garvey

movie theatre, 45% of the 600 seats
were filled. How many people were
already in the theatre?
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Thursday-Week 29
Work Space:
The Garvey movie theatre has 360

seats. There are 500 students in the
sixth grade. If 80% of the sixth grade
warrior students want to go to the
Garvey theatre for a class field trip,
will there be enough seats for all of Answer:
them?
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Friday-Week 29
The Garvey Theater shows a different movie in each of its

eight theaters. The wind blew some of the letters off the sign
that shows which movie is shown in which theater.
1 t o 5 te we
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2 h pp 6 t eet
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3 e e 7 W ea
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4 it eap 8 i ow
Aku and her friends wanted to see the movie entitled White Death. They looked at
the sign and tried to figure out which titles could possibly be White Death. Then
they picked one of those possibilities at random. What is the probability that they
picked the theater that was actually showing White Death? Explain your answer.

Monday-Week 30
Work Space:
There was a fish tank for sale at the

C o m m u n i t y Ya rd S a l e . A t t h e
beginning of the auction, it had 10
gallons of water in it. Thirty minutes
later, 1 cup of water had leaked out.
How much water was left in the tank? Answer:
(Hint: There are 4 cups in a quart and
4 quarts in a gallon.)
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Tuesday-Week 30
Work Space:
The seats at the Malcolm X

Celebration were each 0.47 meters
wide. If there were 12 seats in each
row, how long was each row in meters?
(Assume that there was no space
between the seats.) Answer:
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Wednesday-Week 30
Work Space:
At the auction last week, there were

16,887 African proverb cards in several
boxes for sale. Three people got
together to buy all of the African
proverb cards. If they divided the
cards equally among themselves, how Answer:
many cards would each person get?
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Thursday-Week 30
Work Space:
Melik purchased several items at the

Dr. Martin Luther King bookstore.
He bought an African drum for $85, a
collection of books by Amos Wilson
for $45, a desk for $80, and a
computer for $225. How much did he Answer:
spend?
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Friday-Week 30
Shamette went to King bookstore’s garage sale and bought five different items. Use
the clues below to determine the price she paid for each item.
Use the clues to help you fill in the items and the prices. When you know that an
item and a price do not go with each otter, make an X under the price and across
from the item. When you know that an item and a price do go together, write YES in
that box. You can then X that item and price for all others.
Clues:
1. The chair was the most expensive item, which sold for $95.
2. The range of the prices of the five items was $75.
3. The stereo was the least expensive item.
4. Shamette bought the TV for $25.
5. The video game system was $20 more than the TV.
6. The bed was $60 more than the stereo.

Monday-Week 31
Work Space:
The vendor is purchasing RBG flags.

The flags come in packages of 12. He
sells an average of 130 RBG flags a
day. If he purchases flags for a three
day event, how many packages
should he get? Answer:
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Tuesday-Week 31
Work Space:
Safiya wants to buy a RBG flag for

$1.40, an ankh necklace for $1.70, and
a black power sticker for $1.30. If she
gets ¼ off her total purchase, how
much will all three items cost?
! Answer:
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Wednesday-Week 31
Work Space:
The RBG flags contain 8 flags in one

package. If the vendor has room for
90 flags in his booth, what is the
greatest number of full packages that
will fit on the booth?
! Answer:
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Thursday-Week 31
Work Space:
Malcolm wants to buy six RBG flags

for himself and his two brothers. If
each RBG flag costs $1.40, how much
will six RBG flags cost?
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Friday-Week 31
The following graph represents the number of RBG flags that were sold on
each day of the week.
RBG Sales
160
140
Number of Flags
120
100
80
0
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Day of the Week
What is the average number of RBG flags sold for the five days?

Monday-Week 32
Work Space:
Baba Yimla has 20 students in his

class. The following list shows the
number of bean pies each student
sold.
11, 9, 7, 12, 41, 37, 18, 10, 11, 13, 15, 37, 11, 13, 1,
32, 11, 25, 19, 27 Answer:
What is the median, the mode, and the
range for the subscriptions sold?
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Tuesday-Week 32
Work Space:
The warrior students in Mama Irie’s class

will sell bean pies to raise money for the
new playground equipment. The
statistics from a survey the students
administered in the community showed
that one out of every 5 people asked will
buy a bean pie. Based on the statistics, Answer:
if Kwame ask 355 people, how many pies
could he expect to sell?
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Wednesday-Week 32
Work Space:
The big slide that the warrior

students want to build is 4 yards tall.
The swing set is 14 feet tall. The
climbing set is 156 inches tall. Which
piece of equipment is the tallest?
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Thursday-Week 32
Work Space:
Baba Baruti's class wants to raise

money for some new playground
equipment. A slide costs $240.00, a
swing set costs $300.00, and a
climbing set will cost $1,680.00. What
is the total cost of all the playground Answer:
equipment?
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Friday-Week 32
The class earned $5 for every subscription sold for Africa World
Magazine, $10 for every subscription sold for Garvey Speaks Monthly, $4
for every subscription sold of Freedom Magazine, and $6 for every
subscription sold for Warrior Scholar Weekly.
The following chart shows the number of subscriptions sold for each
magazine.
Number of Subscriptions
Magazine
Sold
Africa World 65
Garvey Speaks 95
Freedom Magazine 92
Warrior Scholar 108
Based on the subscription totals given, did the class earn enough money to
purchase $2,220 worth of playground equipment? Explain your answer.

Monday-Week 33
Work Space:
The community market was

replenished with 455 mangoes. If a
total of 27 mangoes are allowed to be
sold each day, how many days will it
take for all the mangoes to be sold?
! Answer:
!
!

Tuesday-Week 33
Work Space:
Ama and her family went fishing. They

put their minnows in a rectangular
container that was 20 centimeters by
12 centimeters by 15 centimeters. What
was the volume of the container?
! Answer:
!

Wednesday-Week 33
Work Space:
Amira went fishing with her sister and

caught a fish that was 31 inches less
than twice the length of her sister’s
fish. Her sister’s fish was half a yard in
length. How long was Amira’s fish?
! Answer:
!
!

Thursday-Week 33
Work Space:
Kweku went fishing with Baba Kojo

and his brother. Baba Kojo caught a
fish that weighed 2 pounds 4 ounces.
Kweku’s brother’s fish weighed 6
ounces less than Baba Kojo’s. Kweku
caught a fish that weighed twice as Answer:
much as his brother’s fish. How much
did Kweku’s fish weigh?
!
!
! Academy
Friday-Week 33
Asili, Mande, Khadija, Yeye, and Kaka all went fishing. They each caught one fish,
Use the clues below to determine the length of each person’s fish.
Use the clues to help you fill in the length of each fish and the person who caught it.
When you know that a person and a length do not go with each other, make an X
under the length and across from the person. When you know that a person and
length do go together, write YES in that box. You can then X that person and
length for all others.
Clues:
1. The mode of the lengths was 10 inches. This was also the median value of the five fish.
2. The longest fish was 12 inches.
3. Three of the lengths are consecutive even numbers starting with 8 inches.
4. The range of the lengths of the fish was 7 inches.
5. Kaka caught the smallest fish.
6. Mande and Khadija were the only ones to catch fish that were the same length.
7. Asili’s fish was 4 inches shorter than Yeye’s fish.

Monday-Week 34
Work Space:
Eyi is listening to her new CD. The time for

each song is listed below.
4 minutes 22 seconds
9 minutes 58 seconds Answer:

7 minutes 3 seconds
If she starts listening to the CD at 3:45 in the

afternoon, at what time will the CD end?
!
!
!
Tuesday-Week 34
Work Space:
Adowa has been saving her allowance

to buy three books. Each book costs
$14.98. What will be the total for the
books?
!
! Answer:
!

Wednesday-Week 34
Work Space:
Afia prefers to buy books in sets of 6.

If she has 138 books from these sets,
how many sets does she have?
!
!
! Answer:
!

Thursday-Week 34
Work Space:
Danso and Nkrumah are looking at

the shape of a CD. Danso says that
CDs are shaped like a circle. Nkrumah
says that CDs are shaped like a
cylinder. Which geometric term
describes the shape of a CD? Answer:
!
!
!
!
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Friday-Week 34
The following graph represents the portion of the CD that each song uses.
Song Lengths on the CD
5% 7%
18% 15%
5%
15% 10%
25%
If the entire CD is one hour, how much longer is the longest song than the shortest
song?

Monday-Week 35
Work Space:
Ago is saving money to build his own

business. He has 15 one-dollar bills
and 5 five-dollar bills. He also has 83
quarters, 90 dimes, 120 nickels, and
208 pennies. How much money has he
saved for his business? Answer:
!
!
!

Tuesday-Week 35
Work Space:
Last year during the Rites of Passage,

there were 520 warrior students in
grades 6 through 8. The projected
enrollment for this year will be +29
warrior students in sixth grade, -53
warrior students in seventh grade, Answer:
and +16 campers in eighth grade. What
is the total expected enrollment for
this year?
!
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!
Wednesday-Week 35
Work Space:
During summer vacation, Tchala is

planning to take his fourteen cousins
to a water park near his house. The
entrance fee for the park is $24. How
much will it cost for all of them to get
into the water park? Answer:
!
!
!

Thursday-Week 35
Work Space:
There are 30 students in Baba

Fugar’s class. One third of the
students are traveling to Africa. Of
those traveling, one-fifth are traveling
to Ghana. How many students are
traveling to Ghana? Answer:
!
!
!
!
Friday-Week 35
Wale, Kuna, Rafiki, and Tunde each plan to take a family trip to a different African
country, each during a different month (June, July, August, and September). Use
the clues below to determine to what country and in what month each person will
travel.
When you know that a person and a country or a person and a month do not go
with each other, make an X under the country or month and across from the
person. When you know that a person and a state or a person and a month do go
together, write YES in that box.
Clues:
1. Kuna’s family is not planning a trip to Angola or Mali.
2. Wale is going on his family trip during the month of August.
3. One of them is going to Egypt.
4. The family that is going to Mali is traveling during the month of August.
5. Kuna’s family is traveling to Ghana the month immediately after Tunde’s family.

Monday-Week 36
Work Space:
Taking a cab in New York City is

expensive. There is a base charge of
$2.50 as soon as you enter the cab,
plus an additional $2.50 per mile
traveled. Suppose you only have a
single $20 bill in your pocket and you Answer:
don’t plan to give any tip.
How many miles can you ride?

Tuesday-Week 36
Work Space:
An apple grower has three types of apple

trees. He has 30 Golden Delicious apple
trees, which each produce 300 apples each
year. He also has 50 Granny Smith apple
trees, which each produce 500 apples each
year. Finally, he has 20 Red Delicious
apple trees, which each produce 200 Answer:
apples each year.
How many apples does the grower produce

overall each year?
!
Wednesday-Week 36
Work Space:
Ashanti just finished a great meal at Soul

Veg restaurant. The sales tax in Atlanta is
5%, and it is customary to leave a tip of 15%
for the server. The tip amount is calculated
on the price of the meal before the tax is
applied. (Sales tax is not calculated on
tips.)
Answer:
If Ashanti ordered a $15 meal, how much
money will he have to pay with tax and tip?
!
!

Thursday-Week 36
Work Space:
Shiheem is helping his baba build a

tiled walkway in their backyard. The
walkway will be 60 feet long and 2 feet
wide. The local hardware store sells
tiles which are 2 by 2 feet and come in
boxes of 6. Answer:
How many boxes of tiles do they
need?
!
!
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! 109 Kamali Academy Word Problems
Friday-Week 36
Use the clues below to determine who placed first, second, third, fourth, and fifth in
the Robert F. Williams Book Challenge.
!
When you know that a name and a place do not go with each other, make an X under
the place and across from the name. When you know that a name and place do go
together, write YES in the box. You can then X that name and place for all others.
1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th

Sye
Jeffarie
Demarri
Jani
Kobi
Clues:
1. Sye finished the race in second place.
2. The runners who place first and fourth have names that start with the same
letter
3. Demarri finished immediately after Jeffarie.
4. Jani finished before Kobi.

Answer Key Week 10
Week 1 Mon: 528 miles
Mon: 224 runners Tues: 10.1 seconds
Tues: 78.2 degrees Wed: $49,200
Wed: 1600 meters Thur: 2,090 empty seats
Thur: 55 seconds Fri: Range is 48 seconds; average is 4 minutes 48 seconds.
Fri: Sizwe-second, Juma-fourth, Mali-fifth, Jalia-first, Emeka-third !
! Week 11
Week 2 Mon: No change.
Mon: 8:00 a.m. Tues: 24
Tues: 4 bills and 1 coin. Wed: 3 sticks of butter, 3/4 pound
Wed: $1.50 Thur: 1/2 cup of brown sugar; 3 cups of white sugar
Thur: 6 cups; 1 quart 2 cups Fri: Nia-Peach, Imani-apple, Yemoja-bean, Oshun-cherry, Obatala-
Fri: $12.70 pecan
! !
Week 3 Week 12
Mon: 2/5 Mon: 150 miles
Tues: 18 adults Tues: 349 centimeters
Wed: 14,000 lbs Wed: 6 days
Thur: $5.25 Thur: -6 degrees
Fri: 790 ft. Fri: 14 snowy, 7 rainy, 4 sunny, 6 cloudy.
! !
Week 4 Week 13
Mon:2 dimes 1 penny, 4 nickels 1 penny, 2 nickels 1 dime 1 penny Mon: 4 dimes and 1 nickel; 3 dimes and 3 nickels; 2 dimes and 5
Tues: 1051 nickels; 1 dime and 7 nickels; 9 nickels
Wed: $2.40 Tues: 7/30
Thur: 2 feet 11 inches Wed: A can of soda is a cylinder
Fri: Ogbe 10, Kori 11, Makao 12, Themba 13, Wale 14 Thur: $9.10
! Fri: 90,720 cubic inches
Week 5 !
Mon: 78 Week 14
Tues: 78 Mon: $12,684
Wed: 7:07 am. Tues: 2:11 p.m.
Thur: 24 Wed: 9 pounds
Fri: Bettytown, Yassa, and Mali, 125 minutes Thur: 29 miles
! Fri: Ngozi-third, Noliwe-second, Idawa-first, Isanusi-fourth
Week 6 !
Mon: 425 Ibs Week 15
Tues: 124 Mon: lost 31 points
Wed: $18.00 Tues: 812 point
Thur: 6 Wed: Mossi had 80 points, Abu had 120 points
Fri: 166 Thur: 7 cards
! Fri: 1 more girl; Chess, War, Mancala
Week 7 !
Mon: 126 Week 16
Tues: 625 Mon: 10:11 a.m.
Wed: 3 cups Tues: 13 ft 4 in
Thur: 20 ft. Wed: 2.6 degrees higher
Fri: Station 1-206, Station 2-255, Station 3-343, Station 4-112 Thur: 33 patients
! Fri: Arrival time is 9:37 a.m.; waiting time is 8 minutes
Week 8 !
Mon: rectangle Week 17
Tues: 19 pennies;1 nickel and 14 pennies; 2 nickels and 9 Mon: 72 cent
pennies; 1 dime and 9 pennies; 3 nickels and 4 pennies; 1 dime, 1 Tues: prism
nickel, and 4 pennies. Wed: $6.60
Wed: $9.98 Thur: Fenuku has 175 stamps, Myra has 325 stamps
Thur: 768 boxes Fri: Esu has 315 stamps in a red book, Jomo has 2403 stamps in a
Fri: $3,074.96 blue book, Kamuzo has 1205 stamps in agreed book, Sankofa has
! 720 stamps in a black book
Week 9 !
Mon: 31 pieces of blueberries, 1 piece left over. Week 18
Tues: 1/8 Mon: 32 sq ft
Wed: 5:30 p.m. Tues: 4/6 or 2/3
Thur: $84.50 Wed: $100
Fri: There are many possible answers. Thur: 16 1/2 pounds
Fri: $22.50
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Week 28
Week 19 Mon: About 120 steps
Mon: 126 ft Tues: 1/29
Tues: 1,244 cards Wed: 5 times
Wed: 100, 126, 126, 126, 126, 152 Thur: square
Thur: $17.10 Fri: Eleba 30%
Fri: Answers will vary, but should be around $132.00.
! !
Week 29
Week 20 Mon: 2 hours and 14 minutes
Mon: 282.6 cubic inches Tues: 2 bills and 1 coin
Tues: $25.24 Wed: 270 people
Wed:6 days Thur: No, there are 400 students but only 360 seats.
Thur: 75 cent each Fri: 1 out of 4.
Fri: 3 inch geranium, 4 inch African violet, 5 inch Cuban rose, 6
inch jade plant, 8 inch spider plant.
!
Week 30
! Mon: 9 gallons, 3 quarts, and 3 cups
Week 21 Tues: 5.64 meters
Mon: 63 hours Wed: 5,629 cards
Tues: cylinder Thur: $435
Wed: 8 hours Fri: $20 stereo, $25 TV, $45 video game system, $80 bed, and $95
Thur: 5 bills and coins. chair.
Fri: No, the length of time needed is 27 minutes 58 seconds, which
is 58 seconds too long.
!
Week 31
! Mon: 33 packages
Week 22 Tues: $3.30
Mon:6,370 ft Wed: 11 full packages
Tues: 3/8 full Thur: $8.40
Wed: No, they are over the maximum weight by 8 pounds. Fri: 133 rbg flags
Thur: 24 pounds
Fri:
!
Week 32
! Mon: Median is 13, mode is 11, and range is 40.
Week 23 Tues: 71 subscriptions
Mon: 10:18 p.m. Wed:The swing set
Tues: 237 inches Thur: $2,220
Wed: 4,700 sq ft Fri: Yes, they earned $2,291, which is enough to buy the
Thur: 45 minutes playground equipment.
Fri: Dunbar is third, Kamali is fourth, Malcolm X is first, Woodson is
fifth, H. Rap is second.
!
Week 33
! Mon: 17 days
Week 24 Tues: 3,600 cubic centimeters
Mon: 20 full bags, 10 bean pies left over. Wed: 5 inches
Tues: 30 bark cloth, 30 mud cloth, and 60 kente cloth. Thur: 3 pounds 12 ounces
Wed: $4.95 Fri: Kaka-5 inches, Asili-8 inches, Khadija-10 inches, Mande-10
Thur: 288 blankets inches, Yeye-12 inches.
Fri: The range is 60 votes; No, the bar looks twice as long because
the vertical axis goes from 0-70 in the first interval.
!
Week 34
! Mon: 4:15 p.m.
Week 25 Tues: $44.94
Mon: 5 cups Wed: 23 sets
Tues: about 522 books Thur: Cylinder; A cylinder has three dimensions like a CD.
Wed: 52 days Fri: 12 minutes longer
Thur: Any three of the following: 5 nickels; 4 nickels and 5 pennies;
3 nickels and 10 pennies; 2 nickels and 15 pennies; 1 nickel and
!
Week 35
20 pennies; 25 pennies. Mon: $77.83
Fri: 3/28 Tues: 512
! Wed: $360
Week 26 Thur: 2 students
Mon: $556 Fri: Wale to Mali in August, Kuna to Ghana in July, Rafiki to Angola
Tues: 12 letters in September, and Tunde to Egypt in June.
Wed: 20 students
Thur: 280 contestants
!
Week 36
Fri: 384 feet or 128 yards Mon: 7
! Tues: 38,000
Week 27 Wed: $18
Mon:708 cans Thur: 5 boxes
Tues: 85 boxes Fri: Sye is second, Jani is first, Kobi is third, Jeffaire is fourth, and
Wed: 288 cans Demarri is fifth.
Thur: 467 items
Fri: 308, 398, 421, 433, and 570 cans
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When the teams arrived, the

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One coach wanted her team to run 4

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Lumumba finished the first race in 1

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1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th

1. Sizwe finished the race in second place.

3. Mali finished immediately after Juma.

4. Jalia finished before Emeka.

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Sadiku picked out a small drum for

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At the end of the day, the Shabazz

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Taja and her friend Mazina made a

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Igwe wants to sit in the front seat on

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The sixth grade class from W.E.B

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The statue of Marcus Garvey weighs

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The regular price for admission to the

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The exhibit on Kemet has the following shape.

What is the area of the exhibit?

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During intermission, Samire bought a

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There were three Fela Kuti concerts.

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The tickets for the Stevie Wonder

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The stage lights for the concert were

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2. Kori and Themba sat in the odd-numbered seats.

3. Wale’s seat number is three more than Kori’s seat number.

4. Ogbe’s seat number is two less than Makao’s seat number.

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There are 208 Liberation buses. One-

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An annual community bus costs $26.

Adwoa left her house at 6:45 am. It

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There were 15 warrior students on the

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Each chair in the Natural Hair Salon

There are 18 people who work at the

Amma is getting her locs retwisted.

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When the Akoto triplets walked into

28 feet 15 feet 12 feet

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There were seven serving lines at the