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Practice Problems for Fourth Grade in Probability/Statistics 4P-15)
Answer:
20/120 or any fraction equal to 1/6 If
Anna rolled one di 120 times, what fraction of the time should it come up a
five? Write
to help explain your best thinking using words, numbers, or pictures. 4P-14)
Answer:
249 pages Lane
read 5 books during his spring break. In
order, he read books that were the following lengths:
125 pages, 278 pages, 97 pages, 114 pages, and 346 pages.
What was the range of pages that he read?
Write to
help explain your best thinking using words, numbers, or pictures.
4P-13)
Answer:
356 milliliters Bonnie
went to the grocery store to buy some soda pop.
She noticed that different brand’s cans contained varying amounts of
pop. GatorDew cans contained 355
milliliters, SweetCola came in 360 milliliter cans, OkraCola was sold in 352 ml
cans, and SugarUp came in 357 ml cans. What
was the average size the four cans? Write
to help explain your best thinking using words, numbers, or pictures. 4P-12)
Answer: 32°
F Hans
checked the temperature in his apple orchard at 10:00 P.M.
His thermometer read 37°F.
Hans kept checking his thermometer every hour for the next 8 hours and
got these readings: 37°,
35°,
33°,
32°,
30°,
30°,
29°,
30°.
What was the median temperature during this 8 hour period?
Write to
help explain your best thinking using words, numbers, or pictures. 4P-11) Answer:
34,33,37,39,43,44,47,49,73,74,77,79,93,94,97,99 List
all of the two digit numbers that can be made using the numbers 3,4,7,and 9.
Write to
help explain your best thinking using words, numbers, or pictures. 4P-10) Answer:
R-G, R-W, R-B, Y-G, Y-W, Y-B Julia
is dressing her new Barbie doll. She has 2 blouses, a red and a yellow. She has
3 skirts, a green one, a white one, and a blue one. She can dress Barbie in 6
ways. List the ways on your paper. Write
to help explain your best thinking using words, numbers, or pictures. 4P-9) Answer:
24 Betty was dealing out the cards for Ned. After she dealt out 4 cards, she told Ned to turn them over. "Now," she said, "how many different four digit numbers can you arrange your cards in?"
Ned had these four cards: 3, 5, 7, and 9. How many ways are there?
Write to
help explain your best thinking using words, numbers, or pictures. 4P-8) Answer:
192 We are going to the ball game. There are 12 different gates from the outside. Then there are 16 different stairways into the stadium. How many different ways can we go into the stadium? Write
to help explain your best thinking using words, numbers, or pictures. 4P-7) Answer:
27 Josh is going to the beach. He is looking for a towel, a T-shirt, and something to play with. He finds three T-shirts: red, green, and blue. He finds three towels: striped, plaid, and dotted. He finds three things he can play with at the beach: a frisbee, a kite, and a ball. He picks out one towel, one T-shirt, and one thing to play with. What are all the different combinations of things he could choose? Write
to help explain your best thinking using words, numbers, or pictures. 4P-6) Answer:
12 I need 45 cents worth of stamps to send a letter to my pen pal. I looked at the stamps my mother has, and they are all 15-cent, 10-cent, and 5-cent stamps. How many different combinations of stamps can I put on my letter?
Write to
help explain your best thinking using words, numbers, or pictures. 4P-5) Answer:
16 paths Jenny
and Joan are going to swim in the pool at the city park center. They can get
into the building through four doors. Two of the doors open into the front
locker room. The other two doors open into the back locker room. There are two
different stairways from each locker room to the swimming pool. How many
different paths can Jenny and Joan take from outside the city park center to the
pool? Write to help
explain your best thinking using words, numbers, or pictures. 4P-4) Answer:
16 Manuel
and Grace can hear their friends' voices at the entrance to the cave. Manuel and
Grace are exploring a small room at the back of the cave. There are four tunnels
leading from the small room to the large room where water is dripping down the
walls. In the large room there are four different stairways that Manuel and
Grace can climb to join their friends at the entrance to the cave. How many
different paths can Manuel and Grace take to get from the small room to their
friends at the entrance? Write
to help explain your best thinking using words, numbers, or pictures. 4P-3) Answer:
(1st-2nd) 9-7; 9-5; 9-3; 7-5; 7-3; 7-9; 5-3; 5-9; 5-7;
3-9; 3-7; 3-5 There
are four fire trucks in Fast Fire Station: truck number 9, truck number 7, truck
number 5, and truck number 3. When the station gets a fire call, two trucks
leave the station. One of the trucks goes out first, the other one goes out
second. For example, number 9 goes out first and number 7 goes out second; or
number 7 goes out first and number 9 goes out second. What are all the different
ways in which the four numbered trucks could come out of the station?
Write to
help explain your best thinking using words, numbers, or pictures. 4P-2) Answer:
17 combinations How
many different combinations of coins total exactly 31 cents?
Write to
help explain your best thinking using words, numbers, or pictures. 4P-1) Answer:
9 combinations If
you have 3 hats and 3 jackets, how many different combinations of a hat and a
jacket can you wear? Write
to help explain your best thinking using words, numbers, or pictures.
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