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At George's Restaurant a group with six adults and three children came in to eat. If each meal cost eight dollars, how much was the bill?
6+3= 9 customers
9x8= $72
A chef needs twelve potatoes for a meal. He has already cooked eight. If each potato takes seven minutes to cook, how long will it take him to cook the rest?
12-8=4 uncooked potatoes
4x7= 28 min
The cafeteria had seventy-five apples. For lunch they handed out forty-seven to students and decided to use the rest to make pies. If each pie takes four apples, how many pies could they make?
75-47=28 apples
28/4= 7 pies
A baker made 2 batches of chocolate chip cookies. Each batch had 6 cookies in it. Then he made an additional 5 oatmeal cookies just in case someone didn't want chocolate chip. How many cookies did he bake total?
2x6=12 chocolate cookies
12+5=17 cookies in all
John was working as a sacker at a grocery store where he made three dollars an hour. On Monday he worked seven hours and on Tuesday he worked three hours. How much money did John make in those two days?
7+3= 10 hrs
10x3= $30
Edward invited six friends to a birthday party, but three couldn't come. If he wanted to buy enough cupcakes so each person could have exactly two, how many should he buy?
6-3=3 friends
3x2= 6 cupcakes
Gwen's team won their baseball game and scored forty-two points total. If Gwen scored eighteen of the points and everyone else scored six points each, how many players were on her team?
42-18=24 points
24/6= 4 points
At the arcade Megan had 5 tickets she saved from the last time she went. This time she played a game 6 times and earned 7 tickets each time she played. How many tickets does she have now?
6x7=42 tickets
42+5= 47 tickets
Paige was playing a video game where she scores nine points for each treasure she finds. If she found three treasures on the first level and two on the second, what would her score be?
3+2= 5 treasures
5x9= 45 points
A worksheet had four problems on it. If a teacher had seventeen worksheets to grade and had already graded nine of them, how many more problems does she have to grade?
17-9=8 worksheets
8x4= 32 problems
A store had twenty-one coloring books in stock. They ended up putting them on sale and getting rid of seven of them. The put the ones they still had onto shelves with seven on each shelf. How many shelves did they use?
21-7=14 books
14/7= 2 shelves
A music teacher had 5 recorders, but she decided to buy 3 more boxes with each box having 2 recorders in it. How many recorders did she have after buying the 3 boxes?
3x2= 6 recorders
6+5=11 recorders
April's discount flowers was having a sale where each flower was seven dollars. If Tiffany bought five roses and four daisies, how much did she spend?
4+5= 9 flowers
9x7= $63
There were five friends playing a video game online when three players quit. If each player left had three lives, how many lives did they have total?
5-3=2 friends
2x3= 6 lives
Tom bought forty-eight tickets at the state fair. He spent thirty-eight tickets at the 'dunk a clown' booth and decided to use the rest on rides. If each ride cost five tickets, how many rides could he go on?
48-38=10 tickets
10/5= 2 rides
A pet store sold 2 kittens and 1 puppy over the weekend. The kittens sold for $9 each and the puppy sold for $8. How much money did they earn from selling the pets?
2x9= $18 kittens
18+8= $26 in all
Robin had seven pages of math homework and two pages of reading homework. If each page had eight problems on it, how many problems did she have to complete total?
7+2=9 pages
9x8= 72 problems
Each chocolate bar in a box cost $eight. If a box had eleven bars total and Sarah sold all but five bars, how much money would she have made?
11-5=6 chocolate bars
6x8= $48
Amy had sixty-seven homework problems. She finished twenty-five of them but still had seven pages of problems to do. If each page has the same number of problems on it, how many problems are on each page?
67-25=42 problems
42/7= 6 pages
A malt shop used 4 ounces of chocolate syrup in their shakes and 7 ounces of syrup on their cones. If they sold 9 shakes and 1 cone, how many ounces of chocolate would they use total?
4x9= 36 oz
36+7= 43 oz