Are you smarter than a fifth-grader?

Before you go too hard on the students who didn't pass – or their teachers – you might want to try taking the test for yourself. Here are some of the sample math questions the state Education Department released from this year's Common Core-aligned tests. How many of them can you answer? And no cheating!

Are you smarter than a fifth grader? Do you have what it takes to graduate school? Take this quiz to find out if you will be repeating your grade or graduating with honors.

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  1. Noel read 90 minutes each day for 6 days. Tyra read 60 minutes each day for 8 days. What is the difference, in minutes, between the total amount of time Noel read and the total amount of time Tyra read?
  2. Which number sentence is true?
  3. A high-speed elevator can rise 480 feet in 30 seconds. Which expression represents the rate, in feet per minute, of the elevator?
  4. Which statement best classifies the figure below?
  5. The price of a board game is $24. The price of the board game is 2 times as much as the price of a jigsaw puzzle. What is the price of the jigsaw puzzle?
  6. The fifth-grade classes at Brookfield School used five identical buses to go on a field trip. "¢ There were a total of 40 seats on each bus. "¢ All of the seats on four buses were filled. "¢ The fifth bus had of the seats filled. "¢ of all the passengers on the buses were adults. How many adults went on the field trip with the fifth-grade classes?
  7. In a math game, a player chooses two numbers, as described below. "¢ First number: a mixed number between 2 and 10 "¢ Second number: 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 Which statement describes the product of the two numbers a player chooses?
  8. Erica drew the parallelogram below. Which expression can Erica use to find the area of the parallelogram?
  9. During a sale, a store offered a 40% discount on a particular camera that was originally priced at $450. After the sale, the discounted price of the camera was increased by 40%. What was the price of the camera after this increase?
  10. The winning time for the men's 400-meter race in each of the Olympic Games from 1976 to 1996 can be modeled by the equation y = − 0.054x + 44.54 , where x is the number of years after 1976 and y is the winning time in seconds. If the relationship continues, which equation could be used to predict the winning time in the year 2020?

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