Math: Practice Problems

Question 1

A farmer picked 64 apricots. She needs to divide the apricots into baskets to sell at the market. The farmer wants to put the same number of apricots in each bag with no apricots left over. How many apricots could the farmer put in each bag?

Select all the possible numbers:

2
10
5
8

Answer 1

The correct answer is 2 and 8.

64 is divisible by 2 and 8, but not the other numbers.

Question 2

Bill collected 270 eggs to sell. He will sell the eggs in baskets. He wants to put the same number of eggs in each basket without any eggs left over. How many eggs could Farmer Bill put in each basket?

Select all the possible numbers:

3
8
10
4
9

Answer 2

The correct answer is: 3, 10 and 9.

270 is divisible by 3, 10 and 9, but not by the other numbers.

Question 3

Write this number in standard form:

Seventy thousand, eight hundred twenty

Answer 3

70,820

Question 4

Write this number in word form:

12,022

Answer 4

Twelve thousand, twenty-two

Question 5

Find all the common factors for these 2 numbers

24 and 36

Answer 5

Factors of 24:
1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 24

Factors of 36:
1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 12, 18, 36

Answer: the common factors are:
1, 2, 3, 4, 6