A 4th Grade standardized test practice question from my 4th grade daughter [View all]
At the Village Gift Shop, balloons are sold in two different sizes. The picture below shows the cost of each size of balloon.
<There's a picture of a small balloon for $1.25 and a large balloon for $2.99>
Then there's several easy questions before the final question, which is this...
Sam has $10 to buy balloons at the Village Gift Shop. He will follow all of the rules listed below to choose his balloons.
He will buy at least one of each size of balloon
He will buy as many balloons as he can
He will spend as close to $10 as he can without going over.
Using his rules, how many small balloons and large balloons can Sam buy for $10? Show your work or explain your answer.
My daughter came up with two different answers following the rules above, and found, what I think, a flaw in the question.
She asked me. "I'm in 4th grade and I found the problem with the question in a few minutes. Some adult has a full time job coming up with these questions. How could they not see this?"
For those of you more familiar with these sort of tests (my oldest just started taking them), are poorly worded or ambiguous questions unusual?
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