1) Shelby made two types of cakes: chocolate and vanilla.
She cut all of the
chocolate cakes into 7 slices each and all of the vanilla cakes into 12 slices each. If Shelby ended up with the same total number of slices of each type of cake, what is the minimum number of slices of each type? 2) Lyla is creating sewing kits for local college students who are heading off to university. She has 8 needles and 6 spools of thread, which she wants to divide evenly, with no materials left over. What is the greatest number of sewing kits Lyla can make? 3) Shane has two pieces of yarn, one 15 feet long and the other 12 feet long. For a craft project, he wants to cut them up to produce many pieces of yarn that are all of the same length, with no yarn left over. What is the greatest length, in feet, that he can make them? 4) Two friends, Maria and Layla, are working together at the Arlington Cafe today. Maria works every 2 days, and Layla works every 11 days. How many days do they have to wait until they next get to work together? 5) Gabe's Bath Shop sells bars of soap in boxes of 5 bars and bottles of soap in boxes of 4 bottles. An employee is surprised to discover that the shop sold the same number of bars and bottles last week. What is the smallest number of each type of soap that the shop could have sold? 6) A carpenter bought a piece of wood that was 0.87 metres long. Then he sawed 0.15 metres off the end. How long is the piece of wood now? 7) Darren bought 0.7 kilograms of apples and 0.7 kilograms of oranges. How much fruit did he buy in all? 8) On a school trip, a class travels 2.14 kilometres by train and 5.44 kilometres by bus. How far did the class travel? 9) Ezra has a set of wooden boards. Each board is 0.9 metres long. If Ezra lays 3 boards end-to-end, how many metres long will the line of boards be? 10) Trent used 2.94 kilograms of almonds to make 3 batches of snack mix. How many kilograms of almonds, on average, were in each batch? 11) Over the past few years, Erik has made 6 trips to visit the funfair. He drove 119.4 kilometres in all. How far did Erik drive on each trip? 12) Josh's dog eats 0.3 kilograms of dog food each day. How much dog food will Josh's dog eat in 7 days? 13) Tom has $60 to spend for the week. He buys 4 apples for $6. He spends twice as much for apples as for 3 oranges. How much does he have left and what is the price of 1 apple and 1 orange? 6 14) Write 58 as an improper fraction, decimal and percentage. 15) Sasha's Coffee Shop can make lattes with either whole milk or skim milk. On Saturday, Sasha's Coffee Shop went through 3/8 of a carton of whole milk and 1/4 of a carton of skim milk. How much more whole milk was used than skim milk? 16) A fancy restaurant put dishes of butter at each table. They divided 2/3 of a kilogram of butter evenly to put 1/3 of a kilogram in each dish. How many butter dishes did they fill? 17) Ryan operates a hot dog stand. On Wednesday he used 4/5 of a bag of hot dog buns. On Thursday he used 2 times as many hot dog buns as on Wednesday. He earned $20 from selling hot dogs on both days. How many bags of hot dog buns did Ryan use on Thursday? What is the price of 1 hot dog? 7 18) Evaluate this (10 )0 . 8 3 19) Evaluate this 5 − 0.053 + 125 20) A car costs $200 and a house costs $500. If Tom wants to buy a car and a house , how much more would he need if he is earning $40 and he has some saving of 20% of his earning in his bank account.