1) Jen bought 5.6 kilograms of apples and 6.2 kilograms of oranges. How much fruit did she buy in all? a) 11.8 b) 1.18 c) 0.118 d) 118 2) A construction company bought 3.26 tons of gravel and 8.41 tons of sand. How many tons of material did the company buy in all? a) 1.167 b) .1167 c) 11.67 d) 116.7 3) Gina bought 6.13 yards of striped fabric and 5.33 yards of floral fabric. How many more yards of striped fabric than floral fabric did Gina buy? a) 8 b) 0.7 c) 1.8 d) 0.8 4) Kylie bought a new roll of tape. There were 5.8 yards of tape on the roll. Then Kylie used 2.2 yards of the tape to make a collage. How much tape is left on the roll? a) .36 b) 3.06 c) 36 d) 3.6 5) A bee colony produced 78.25 pounds of honey, but bears ate 77.04 pounds of it. How much honey remains? a) 1.21 b) 121 c) 12.1 d) .121 6) In March it rained 0.28 inches. It rained 0.14 inches less in April than in March. How much did it rain in April? a) 1.4 b) 0.14 c) 14 d) 1.04 7) Amanda measured the composition of items in a sample. The sample contained 73.1 kilograms of copper, 13.6 kilograms of nickel, 25.9 kilograms of iron, 78.6 kilograms of gold, and 67.6 kilograms of cobalt. How many kilograms was Amanda's sample? a) 258.8 b) 258 c) 2.588 d) 25.88 8) An apple farmer weighed each barrel of apples as it came in from the orchard. The first barrel held 98.02 kilograms of apples. The second barrel held 98.61 kilograms and the third barrel held 69.89 kilograms. How many total kilograms of apples were in the barrels? a) 2665.2 b) 26.652 c) 266.52 d) 2.6652 9) Doug's science class measured the volume of gases using balloons. They found that there were 0.8 liters of gas in the first balloon, 0.9 liters of gas in the second balloon, 0.5 liters of gas in the third balloon, and 0.2 liters of gas in the fourth balloon. How many liters of gas did Doug's class measure in all? a) 24 b) 2.4 c) .24 d) 2.8 10) A cheese maker made 55.62 ounces of cheddar cheese and 40.63 ounces of Swiss cheese. How much cheese did she make in all? a) 96.24 b) 97.25 c) 96.25 d) 962.5

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