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Achoo! Why Pollen Counts - Math Word Problems

	1. Three bear cubs all start sneezing from the pollen. What percent of the bear cubs have allergies? 100% 66% 0%

	2. Honeybees pollinate 15% of all flowering plants. Write 15% as a fraction. 1/5 3/20 1/15

	3. If Sandy Spiderling only eats pollen in the spring and there are four seasons in the year, what fraction of the year does Sandy eat pollen? 4/4 2/4 1/4

	4. A bee hive is in a tree 10 feet off the ground. When Baby Bear stands on his back legs, he is 5 feet tall. How much taller would he need to be to reach the hive? 4 feet 5 feet 6 feet

	5. A pine tree has 15 branches. Each branch has 3 pine cones. How many pine cones are there in all? 45 55 65

	6. Sandy Spiderling catches 6 insects in her web each day. How many insects does she catch in a week? 35 42 48

	7. If each honeybee has two pollen baskets and there are 32 bees in the hive, how many pollen baskets are there? 32 64 96

	8. There are 15 berry bushes. Only 10 are pollinated and will bloom next year. How many will not bloom? 15 10 5

	9. In the above question, what fraction of bushes was pollinated? 1/3 2/3 3/3

	10. In the past ten years, a third of all honeybee colonies in the US have disappeared. What percent is this? 33% 50% 66%

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