A student left home at 8:35 am and returned at 4:45 pm. How long were they away from home?
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Answer: C. 8 hours 10 minutes
Count the hours and minutes from 8:35 am to 4:45 pm. The total is 8 hours 10 minutes.
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A student left home at 8:35 am and returned at 4:45 pm. How long were they away from home?
Answer: C. 8 hours 10 minutes
Count the hours and minutes from 8:35 am to 4:45 pm. The total is 8 hours 10 minutes.
The spinner has 8 equal sections. A player wins if the arrow lands on a blue section. What is the probability of winning on the next spin?
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Answer: C. 1/4
There are 8 equal sections and 2 are blue. Probability = 2/8 = 1/4.
A larger shape is made from tiles with equal side lengths of 3.5 cm. The larger shape has 16 outside sides. What is its perimeter?
Answer: B. 56 cm
Perimeter = number of outside sides × side length = 16 × 3.5 = 56 cm.
A plan increases exercise time steadily: 20 minutes, 30 minutes, 45 minutes, 67.5 minutes. Which statement is true?
Answer: A. 1.5 times as long as the previous day
Each term is multiplied by 1.5 to get the next term.
The numbers are 17, 22, 17, 24, 20. What is the mean?
Answer: B. 20
Add the numbers to get 100 and divide by 5. The mean is 20.
Two adjacent angles lie on a straight line. One is 45°. The other is labelled x. What is x, in degrees?
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Answer: 135
Adjacent angles on a straight line add to 180°. Therefore x = 180° − 45° = 135°.
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