1)  Mrs. Whipple baked a cake for the boarders' dessert.  The cake as 16 inches wide and 20 inches long.  If the cake was cut in 4 inch squares, how many pieces of cake was cut?

 2)  Lucy and Butte helped Prairie plant her garden.  Prairie planted 3 times as many seeds as Lucy.  Lucy planted half as many seeds as Butte.  Butte planted 84 seeds.  How many seeds were planted?

 3)  Lucy sold  2/3  of the pies she baked.  If she has 7 pies left, how many pies did she bake?

 4)  At the Fourth of July celebration, Lucy sold her pies for  $  .25 each.  She sold  3/4  of the pies she made and has 8 pies left.  How much money did she collect?

 5)  Lucy collected 12 ounces of gold in her pie business.  She paid Butte  1/4  of the gold and she used  1/2  of the gold to replenish her supplies.  How much gold did she add to her pickle crock?

 6)  California was the thirty-first state to join the union.  How many more states will join the union?

 7) The distance from Massachusetts to California is approximately  3,150 miles. If a wagon averaged 25 miles a day, how many months would the trip take?

 8)  Traveling by ship, a trip from Massachusetts to California would take approximately 200 days.  If Lucy left Massachusetts August 15, 1848, on what date did she arrive in California?

 9)  Mr. Scatter uses a balance scale to weigh the prospectors' gold.  On one side of the scale, he has  45.25 ounces and on the other side of the scale, he has 18.08 ounces.  How many more ounces are needed to balance the scale?

10)  What is the value of 35 ounces of gold if 1 ounce is valued at  $ 16.00?

11)  Gold was  $ 16.00  per ounce.  Room and board at the boarding house was  $ 18.20  per week.  How  much gold was needed to stay at the boarding house the months of January, February, and March during Leap Year?   Round your answer to the nearest tenth of an ounce.

12)  Lucky Diggins has a population of  36.  Six of the people are female.  What is the female to male ratio?

13)  If seventy-five percent of Lucky Diggins' population is prospectors.  Ho many prospectors live in Lucky Diggins?

14)  California became a state one year after the arrival of the  "Forty-niners".  How many years has California been a state?

15)  When the Whipple family arrived in California, Butte was 6 years older than Prairie and Prairie was  1/3 the age of Lucy.  Lucy was 12 years old.  How old were Prairie and Butte when they arrived in California?