What is the value of the digit 5 in the number 456?
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Answer: B. 50
In 456, the 5 is in the tens place, so its value is 50.
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What is the value of the digit 5 in the number 456?
Answer: B. 50
In 456, the 5 is in the tens place, so its value is 50.
Tom has 87 marbles. He gives away 25 marbles. How many does he have left?
Answer: D. 62
87 - 25 = 62. Check: 62 + 25 = 87.
What is 6 × 7?
Answer: A. 42
The 6 times table: 6 × 7 = 42.
A chocolate bar is cut into 8 equal pieces. Sam eats 2 pieces. What fraction is left?
Answer: B. 6/8
If 2 out of 8 pieces are eaten, then 6 out of 8 pieces are left: 6/8.
A pencil costs 35 cents. Maya pays $1. How much change does she get?
Answer: D. 65 cents
$1 = 100 cents. 100 - 35 = 65 cents change.
What is the next number in the pattern? 2, 5, 8, 11, ___
Answer: A. 14
The pattern adds 3 each time. 11 + 3 = 14.
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Rushing place value questions and reading the wrong digit.
Forgetting to regroup in subtraction.
Mixing up perimeter with area.
Reading only one bar in a simple graph instead of comparing categories.
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