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Kalis Story: An Orphaned Polar Bear Rescue - Math Word Problems

	1. At birth, polar bears weigh only about 1 pound. If a human baby weighs 7 pounds at birth, how much heavier is a newborn human than a newborn polar bear? 5 pounds 6 pounds 7 pounds

	2. It is more than 3000 miles by plane between the Alaska Zoo in Anchorage, Alaska, and the Buffalo Zoo in New York. If the plane flies at a speed of 500 miles per hour, how many hours would the flight take? 4 5 6

	3. Kali was about 3 months old when he was found. There are 12 months in a year. If you were to write Kali's age as a fraction of a year, how many years old would he be? 1/2 1/3 1/4

	4. Polar bears swim at a rate of six miles per hour. If the average walking speed for humans is three miles per hour, how many times faster can a polar bear swim than a human walks? 2 3 4

	5. Some polar bears have been recorded swimming as far as 200 miles away from land! If a car is traveling on the road at 50 mile per hour, how long would it take the car to travel 200 miles? 2 hours 3 hours 4 hours

	6. If a polar bear needs to eat an average of approximately 4 pounds of fat each day, and a ringed seal has 32 pounds of fat, how many days's worth of fat can that seal provide? 6 days 7 days 8 days

	7. Most polar bear cubs are born in litters ranging from one to 4 cubs. If 5 female polar bears each have a litter of 2 cubs, how many cubs have been born? 7 10 13

	8. As a young cub, Kali played with toys to practice his hunting skills. If Kali "killed" a toy every three days and there are 30 days in a month, how many toys could Kali go through in a month? 5 6 10

	9. An adult female polar bear weighs 550 pounds. An adule male polar bear weighs 900 pounds. How much heavier is the male polar bear? 450 pounds 400 pounds 350 pounds

	10. If a bearded seal weighing 600 pounds is hunted by a female polar bear weighing 550 pounds, how much larger than the female polar bear is her prey? 100 pounds 75 pounds 50 pounds

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