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Word Problem Assessment

Flying Through Fourth Grade
Directions: Solve each word problem. Show your work and write your answers on the
answer lines.
1) Alejandro will sew ribbon around the perimeter 2) Brianna built a rectangular flower garden. The
of his quilt. The quilt is 8 feet long and 6 feet wide. garden is 10 feet long and 8 feet wide. What is the
How many feet of ribbon does Alejandro need? area of Brianna’s flower garden?

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3) Jamal bought 12 boxes of candles. Each box 4) The pears from one tree at Olivia’s Orchard fill 14
holds 15 candles. Use the area model method to baskets. If there are 12 pear trees in one row and
find the total number of candles Jamal purchased. there are a total of 48 rows, how many baskets of
10 2 pears will Olivia fill?

10

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5) The product of 35 x 45 is more than 34 x 45. How 6) If one crate of apples weighs 85 pounds, how
much more? much less do 13 crates of apples weigh than
15 crates of apples?

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How do you know that the first product is more than
the second without multiplying?
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7) Mt. Mickey is 14,831 feet tall, whereas Mt. Minnie 8) California is the third largest state in the United
is 18,940 feet tall. How much taller is Mt. Minnie States by area. Its land area is 163,696 square miles
than Mt. Mickey? and the area of water is 7,928 square miles. What is
the total area of California?

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