Michigan Student Test of Educational Progress Mathematics Grade 5
Decimals, fraction operations, volume, and numerical expressions.
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1.A cook at a cherry stand in Traverse City pours 1/3 cup of cherry juice into a pitcher and then adds 1/6 cup of apple juice. How much juice is in the pitcher?
2.A paddle blade hanging in a shop in Glen Arbor is 0.2 meter wide. A reflective sticker covers 0.4 of that width. How many meters wide is the sticker?
3.A crate of pasties at a bakery in Calumet is 5 units long, 4 units wide, and 2 units high. What is the volume of the crate?
4.While labeling a lighthouse chart in Marquette, a student evaluates 4 + 3 × 5. What is the value of the expression?
5.A place-value chart in a classroom in Lansing shows 10 to the fourth power. What is that value?
6.On a grid of dune trails at Sleeping Bear Dunes, a marker is plotted at (2, 5). How is that point located from the origin?
7.Rangers at Pictured Rocks have 4.2 liters of water to pour into bottles that each hold 0.7 liter. How many bottles can they fill?
8.The afternoon ferry leaves the dock in Mackinaw City at 3:10 and reaches the harbor at Mackinac Island at 3:55. How long is the crossing?
9.A depth post in a lagoon at Belle Isle reads 8.36 meters. Which digit is in the tenths place?
10.After a storm, a rain gauge in a school garden in Flint shows 5.274 inches. Which digit is in the hundredths place?
11.Visitors measure a model lake freighter in a museum in Detroit and get 1.508 meters. Which digit is in the thousandths place?
12.Two baskets at a farm market in Suttons Bay hold 0.7 kilogram and 0.68 kilogram of cherries. Which statement is true?
13.A shoreline path in St. Clair Shores is 6.28 miles long. What is that length rounded to the nearest tenth of a mile?
14.A bike route that passes near the Mackinac Bridge is 9.41 miles long. What is that distance rounded to the nearest whole mile?
15.A pine board at a lumberyard in Cadillac is 4.18 feet long. Which expression has the same value as 4.18?
16.A sap bucket in Kalkaska is labeled six and forty-two thousandths liters. Which decimal matches that name?
17.A bean row in a community garden in Kalamazoo is 3.6 meters long. On a drawing, every length is multiplied by 10. How long is the row on the drawing?
18.A fish market in Bay City divides 52.8 pounds of whitefish equally among 10 trays. How many pounds go on each tray?
19.A weather log in Houghton records 47.391 inches of snow. What is the value of the digit 9?
20.Three jars of beach sand from Frankfort contain 0.52 liter, 0.5 liter, and 0.48 liter. Which list shows the amounts from least to greatest?
21.Students in Ann Arbor build a large cube with 10 unit cubes along each edge. How many unit cubes are in the large cube?
22.Gardeners in Holland plant tulips in a square bed with 10 plants along each side. How many tulip plants fill the bed?
23.A display in a library in East Lansing shows the product 10 × 10 × 10 × 10 × 10. What is that product?
24.A canoe measured at a harbor in Ludington is 2.45 meters long. How many centimeters is that length?
25.A dock board in Petoskey is 680 centimeters long. What is that length in meters?
26.A marked trail in the Porcupine Mountains is 0.4 kilometer long. How many meters is that trail?
27.A floor tile in a train station in Niles has 4 equal sides and 4 right angles. Which figure matches the tile?
28.A festival booth in Frankenmuth sells tickets in packs of 24. A school buys 16 packs. How many tickets is that?
29.A theater in Grand Rapids sets out 35 rows with 18 seats in each row. How many seats are there?
30.An orchard crew in Fennville packs 156 apples into boxes that each hold 12 apples. How many boxes do they fill?
31.A field day in Saginaw places 245 students into 7 equal teams. How many students are on each team?
32.A marina worker in Charlevoix joins a 3.6-meter rope to a 2.45-meter rope with no overlap. What is the total length?
33.A fishing boat in Alpena starts with 8.3 gallons of fuel and burns 2.75 gallons. How much fuel is left?
34.Volunteers in Muskegon fill 3 bags, and each bag holds 2.4 kilograms of dune-grass seed. How many kilograms do they use?
35.A craft table in Rochester has a ribbon that is 0.6 meter long. A student uses 0.5 of that ribbon. How long is the piece that is used?
36.A lunchroom in Dearborn has 3.6 liters of juice to pour into pitchers that each hold 0.9 liter. How many pitchers can be filled?
37.A woodshop in Iron Mountain cuts an 8.4-meter board into pieces that are each 1.2 meters long. How many pieces does the board make?
38.On Saturday, 4,286 people ride a bus loop in Detroit, and on Sunday 1,739 people ride that loop. How many riders are there over the two days?
39.A concert in Auburn Hills has 5,000 seats. After 1,864 tickets are sold, how many seats are still empty?
40.A school in Jackson orders 487 notebooks and 312 folders. About how many items is that if each count is rounded to the nearest hundred before adding?
41.A camp in Wellston has 47 campers to seat in canoes that hold 6 campers each. After as many canoes as possible are filled, how many campers are left without a seat?
42.A bottling line in Midland packs water in cases of 125 bottles. How many bottles are in 8 cases?
43.Volunteers in Battle Creek arrange 432 chairs into rows of 18 chairs. How many rows do they make?
44.A baker in Zeeland puts 1/4 cup of sugar into a pie and then adds 3/8 cup more. How much sugar is in the pie?
45.A painter in Grandville mixes 2/5 liter of blue paint with 1/10 liter of white paint. How much paint is in the mixture?
46.A quilter in Ypsilanti has 5/6 yard of cloth and cuts off 1/3 yard. How much cloth is left?
47.A carpenter in Manistee starts with a board that is 7/8 foot long and cuts off 1/4 foot. How long is the remaining piece?
48.A hiker near Tahquamenon Falls planned to walk 3/4 mile but stops after 2/5 mile. How much of the planned distance is left?
49.A classroom banner in Pontiac uses a stripe that covers 2/5 of the banner's width. Which fraction names that same part of the width?
50.A cabin kitchen in Gaylord uses 3/4 cup of oats for one batch of breakfast bars. The group makes 8 batches. How many cups of oats are needed?
51.A choir in Haslett has 36 singers, and 1/4 of them stand in the front row. How many singers are in the front row?
52.At a bake sale in Ada, 2/3 of a pan of lemon bars is left, and volunteers pack 3/5 of that leftover portion. What fraction of the whole pan do they pack?
53.A weaver in Saugatuck has 4/7 yard of blue yarn, and a scarf uses 1/2 of that piece. What fraction of a yard goes into the scarf?
54.An ice-cream shop in St. Joseph has 1/2 cup of cherry topping. Each sundae uses 1/4 cup. How many sundaes can get topping?
55.A shop teacher in Escanaba has a dowel that is 3/4 yard long and cuts it into pieces that are each 1/8 yard long. How many pieces does the dowel make?
56.A park path in Royal Oak is 4 miles long. Walkers want to know how many 1/2-mile loops fit along that path. How many loops fit?
57.A baker in Chelsea combines 2 1/3 cups of flour with 1 1/2 cups of flour. How much flour is that altogether?
58.A marked hike near Munising is 4 1/4 miles. After walking 1 3/4 miles, how much of the hike remains?
59.Two jars at a roadside stand in Beulah hold 3/8 pound and 1/2 pound of honey. Which statement is true?
60.A class in Grayling measures six pencils: three are 4 1/2 inches, two are 5 inches, and one is 5 1/2 inches. What is the total length of the six pencils?
61.Friends in Hamtramck share a pizza cut into 12 equal slices and eat 8 of them. Which fraction, in simplest form, names the eaten part?
62.A ferry office in Port Huron has 40 tickets, and 3/5 of them are sold before noon. How many tickets are sold before noon?
63.An art class in Birmingham mixes 1/6 cup of red paint with 1/4 cup of yellow paint. How much paint is in the mix?
64.Two trail signs in Empire mark distances of 3/4 mile and 2/3 mile to the beach. Which statement compares those distances correctly?
65.A coil of rope in a boathouse in Onekama is marked 11/4 yards. Which mixed number names the same length?
66.A bookshelf in the public library in Howell is 250 centimeters tall. What is that height in meters?
67.A marked section of the Kal-Haven Trail measures 3,000 meters. How many kilometers long is that section?
68.A nature center in Tawas City displays a beetle model that is 40 millimeters long. What is that length in centimeters?
69.A crate of cherries packed in Leland has a mass of 2.5 kilograms. What is that mass in grams?
70.A cider press in Dexter yields 3.2 liters of cider. How many milliliters is that yield?
71.A charter ride from Lansing to Grand Rapids takes 180 minutes. How many hours is that ride?
72.A film showing in Novi lasts 2 hours and 15 minutes. How many minutes long is the film?
73.A gym in Troy hangs a banner that is 4 feet wide. What is that width in inches?
74.A tailor in Marshall cuts 5 yards of wool. How many feet of wool is that?
75.A shop on Mackinac Island sells a box of fudge with a mass of 3 pounds. How many ounces is that box?
76.A folk festival in Alma runs for 3 full days. How many hours is that if each day counts as 24 hours?
77.A paddle route on the Au Sable River is 1.6 kilometers long. How many meters is that route?
78.Ice anglers in Cheboygan use a cooler whose inside edges measure 6 units, 3 units, and 4 units. How many cubic units of space are inside?
79.A raised bed behind a greenhouse in Zeeland is 10 units long and 2 units wide, and the soil is 3 units deep. How much soil fills the bed?
80.A museum case in Dearborn is packed with centimeter cubes in 8 layers, and each layer is 5 cubes by 4 cubes. How many cubes fill the case?
81.A hardware store in the Kent County city of Wyoming has a tile box with a volume of 36 cubic units. The box is 6 units long and 2 units wide. What is its height?
82.A shipping room in Romulus packs one carton that measures 2 by 2 by 2 units and another that measures 3 by 2 by 2 units. What is the combined volume?
83.A produce bin at Eastern Market in Detroit is 7 units long, 3 units wide, and 2 units high. Which expression gives the volume of the bin?
84.A sandbox in South Haven has a base area of 12 square units and is filled to a height of 3 units. What is the volume of the sand?
85.Students in St. Ignace build a model fort from unit cubes. The model is 2 cubes wide, 3 cubes deep, and 4 cubes tall. How many unit cubes are in the model?
86.On a boating chart of Lake Charlevoix, a buoy is plotted at (0, 4). Which description matches that point?
87.A mile-marker map near Manistique plots a stop at (6, 0). Where is that point from the origin?
88.A park map in Flushing puts the origin at the gate. A picnic table is 3 units right and 1 unit up from the gate. Which ordered pair names the table?
89.On a trail grid in Okemos, one marker is at (1, 2) and another is at (1, 7). How far apart are the markers?
90.A path map of Belle Isle plots a bench at (4, 3). Which statement describes where the bench is?
91.A coordinate grid on the floor of a classroom in Mount Pleasant marks the origin where the axes cross. Which ordered pair names the origin?
92.At a kite field in Grand Haven, a student starts at the origin, walks 4 units right, and then walks 2 units up. Which ordered pair names the stopping point?
93.A lighthouse map near Whitefish Point shows a point that is 7 units right and 3 units up from the origin. Which ordered pair is that point?
94.On a harbor grid in Harbor Springs, one dock cleat is at (2, 5) and another is at (8, 5). What is the distance between the cleats?
95.Beads in a class in Ferndale follow a rule: the y-coordinate is 1 more than the x-coordinate. A bead has x-coordinate 4. Which ordered pair names it?
96.A scorer in a gym in Livonia evaluates 20 − 4 × 3. What is the value?
97.A quiz bowl in Bloomfield Hills scores a round with the expression (6 + 2) × 5. What is the value?
98.A teacher in Davison shares 18 markers using the expression 18 ÷ (2 + 4). What is the value?
99.A farm stand in Cedar Springs packs 2 bags of 5 apples and 3 bags of 4 pears. The total pieces of fruit match 2 × 5 + 3 × 4. What is that total?
100.A puzzle card in a library in Big Rapids shows 30 − 12 ÷ 3. What is the value?
101.A robotics club in Hancock evaluates 4 × (9 − 6) + 1. What is the value?
102.At a fair in Allegan, a prize rule says to add 5 and 3, then multiply that sum by 2. What is the result?
103.A warehouse in Benton Harbor moves crates using the expression 3 × (12 − 4). What is the value?
104.A relay in Ishpeming uses (8 + 4) ÷ (3 − 1) to decide how many teams to form. What is the value?
105.A number puzzle in Owosso asks for the value of 7 + 2 × 6 − 3. What is that value?
106.A student in Brighton buys 4 packs with 6 pencils in each pack and then buys 5 loose pencils. How many pencils is that?
107.A blueberry stand in Bangor compares 2 + 6 × 3 with 3 × (2 + 6). Which statement is true?
108.At a band shell in Interlochen, row A of lights starts at 3 and adds 4 each time: 3, 7, 11, 15. Row B starts at 2 and adds 4 each time: 2, 6, 10, 14. How does each term in row A compare with the term in the same position in row B?