Winter Holiday Math & Reading — Answer Key
Part A: Fill in the Blank
Write the missing word or number on each line.
1. A holiday punch recipe uses 3 cups of juice for every 1 cup of soda. For 20 cups total, you need 15 cups of juice.
The answer is "63." Multiply 7 sleds by $9 each: 7 x 9 = $63 in total earnings.
2. Out of 40 party guests, 38 chose hot cocoa. That means 15 guests chose hot cocoa.
The answer is "purpose." Author's purpose refers to the reason behind writing a text, whether to inform, persuade, or entertain the reader.
3. A class voted on winter activities: 12 chose sledding, 8 chose skating, and 10 chose snowball fights. The mean of these three numbers is 10.
The answer is "38." Eating 3 slices out of 8 total means you consumed 38 of the pizza, with the denominator representing the total number of equal slices.
4. If 5 friends share 3 pizzas equally, each person gets 35 of a pizza.
The answer is "36." Since 1 foot = 12 inches, multiply 3 x 12 = 36 inches in three feet.
5. A bag has 6 red ornaments and 4 gold ornaments. The ratio of red to gold is 6 to 4, which simplifies to 3 to 2.
The answer is "9." Divide 54 ribbons equally into 6 bundles: 54 ÷ 6 = 9 ribbons per bundle.
6. A chart shows snowfall totals of 4, 7, 3, and 6 inches over four days. The total snowfall is 20 inches.
The answer is "equivalent." Equivalent fractions represent the same value, like 12 and 24, even though they use different numbers.
7. If 60% of 50 students brought holiday cards, then 30 students brought cards.
The answer is "mark." A question mark (?) is the punctuation placed at the end of interrogative sentences to signal that a question is being asked.
8. A comparison of two quantities using division is called a ratio.
The answer is "pounds." Pounds is the standard U.S. unit used to measure how heavy something is, and 10 pounds is a typical weight for a bag of ice melt.
9. The number that appears most often in a data set is called the mode.
The answer is "32." Multiply 8 groups by 4 singers per group: 8 x 4 = 32 singers total.
Part B: Matching
Match each item on the left to the correct answer on the right.
1. Match each item to its correct answer.
The average of a data set
→ Mean
Mode
The middle value when data is ordered
→ Median
Range
The difference between the highest and lowest values
→ Range
Median
The value that appears most often
→ Mode
Mean
Correct matches: Blizzard → A severe snowstorm with strong winds; Hibernate → To sleep through winter; Frost → A thin layer of ice on surfaces; Migrate → To move to a warmer place for winter.