For Young Mathletes 5 Mental Math: 1. = 4. 5. 3. = Number line questions: 1. Distance from -5 to 12 2. Mid-point between 3 and 25 3. Mid-point of 7.

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4. 3 quarters, 5 dimes and 2 nickels = ____________ 5. 6. 7.

A is 11 and C is 35 on the number line 8. 11 9. 501 299 = 10. 27 25 + 23 21+ 7 5 + 3 1 = Fraction addition: different denominator Ratio, proportion questions: Method I: 1. In a math enrichment class, if the ratio of boys to girls is 2 to 3 and there are 30 students, how many boys and how many girls? 2. 3 to 4 ratio = ____ to 20 = Now you solve it!! 3. One out of 3 students likes to listen to music. Of these same students, one out of 2 likes to read. What fraction of these students like both listening to music and reading. 4. In June, 2 out of every 5 days it rains, how many days are not rainy days?
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above. If the length of AB is of length of AC, what is B? 5. Continue with the previous question, which point is halfway between A and B?

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More challenging problems: 1. A23A45 is divisible by 9, what is A? 2. Fill in the magic square using the following numbers 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17 so the sum of each vertical, horizontal and diagonal line is the same.

3. How many ways to make 25 cents using quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies? 4. Francis stood on the middle rung of a ladder. She climbed up 5, down 2, up 7 and up 3 more to get to the top of the ladder. How many rungs are there in this ladder? 5. A + B = 10, B + C = 15 and A + C = 11, what is A + B + C? What is A, B or C? 6. A restaurant has 3 legged stool and 4 legged stool. There are 19 stools total with 67 legs. How many of each type of stools are there? 7. Complete the pattern (from Taran, a 4th grader) 16- 48- 8- 24- 4- 12- ___-____-____-____-____ 8. (from Shaily, a 5th grader) Wendelin took 3 empty cans of Pepsi and labeled them 1, 2, and 3. Then she juggled with them. What is the probability of the cans ending up in the order 3, 2, 1? 9. (from Sandy, a 4th grader) Lolas hair grows 10 centimeters every 2 days. How long will her hair be in 34 days? 10.(from Abinaya, a 5th grader) There are 20 markers in a container. There are 3 red markers. There are 2 times as many yellow markers as there are green. There are 5 purple markers and the number of yellow markers is of purple markers. You must also find out how many blue markers there are. How many markers are there of each color? (including blue)

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