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Wandering Woolly - Math Word Problems

	1. Smilodon cats had saber-teeth 7 inches long. Scimitar cats' teeth were 4 inches long. How much longer were smilodon teeth than scimitar teeth? 11 inches 8 inches 3 inches

	2. If each of the mammoths has two "fingers" on their trunk and there are 10 mammoths, how many fingers do they have among them? 10 15 20

	3. Fifteen lions rest in a field. If a third of them leave to chase a mammoth, how many are left? 5 10 15

	4. The are 150 people living in a village of stone houses. Thirty people go out in a hunting party to follow a mammoth herd. How many are left in the village? 120 130 140

	5. In the above question, what fraction of the people leave with the hunting party? 1/5 5/1 4/5

	6. There are 7 adult mammoths in the herd. If each mammoth has one baby, how many mammoths are there in all? 7 10 14

	7. The glaciers covered only a small part of North America 36,000 years ago. They covered most of the continent 18,000 years ago. How many years were there in between these two points? 6,000 years 12,000 years 18,000 years

	8. A large woolly mammoth was 13 feet tall. A large Asian elephant is 11 feet tall. How much taller was a large woolly mammoth than a large Asian elephant is today? 15 feet 5 feet 2 feet

	9. The Clovis people lived from 13,500 years ago to 11,000 years ago. How long did the Clovis civilization last? 25,000 years 2,500 years 250 years

	10. Adult mammoths ate 400 pounds of food every day. If the average human eats 5 pounds of food in a day, how many days would it take for a human to eat as much food as a mammoth consumes in a day? 800 days 80 days 8 days

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