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Brother Kwame has 4 marbles. He buys 7 more. He then gives his sister 3. How many marbles does he have now?
8
Jaelle has 3 packs of cards with 5 cards in each pack. She gives 4 to her brother. How many cards does she have now?
11
Elijah Moses earned 6 dollars for every lawn he mowed. If he mowed 3 lawns and he already had 4 dollars saved up, how much money does he have total?
$22
There are 45 bags of dog food. 3 are given away. The rest are split up even between 6 dogs. How many packs of food does each dog get?
7
Josiah has 12 candy bars. He keeps 3 for himself and gives each of his three friends the rest. Each friend got the same amount of bars. How much candy does each person get?
3
Sister Sarzakyah scored 10 points. Brother Amadou scored 15. The bench players scored the rest of the points. If the team had 55 total points. How many points did the bench score?
30
Brother Eli has 12 apples. He throws out 4 rotten ones. He cuts the rest of the apples into 4 slices. How many slices of apple does he have?
32
At band practice there were 9 rows of students with 8 students in each row and then another 7 students in the back. How many students were there total?
79
Sister Gigi had $43. If she spent 19 bucks on a new game, how many $3 toys could she buy with the money she had left?
8
At the fair Aaquilah bought 10 tickets. After riding the ferris wheel she had 4 tickets left. If each ticket cost 5 dollars, how much money did Aaquilah spend riding the ferris wheel?
$30
Bliss needs to reach 300 points to meet her AR goal. She gained 53 points in the first quarter. She earned 78 more in the second. How many more points will she need to score in the 3rd and 4th quarter to reach her end of the year goal?
169
Brother Amari earns $12 an hour. He works for 8 hours. After work he spends $16 of the money he just earned. How much money does he have left?
$80
Brother Michael scored 66 goals in a season. One game he scored 6 goals. He scored the same amount of goals in the next 12 games. How many goals did he score in each game?
5
There are 50 3rd graders and 45 4th graders. Each student is given two pencils. How many pencils were given out?
190
A zoo has 702 animals split into three sections. There are 205 in the arctic section and 187 in the forest section. How many animals are in the desert section?
310
There are 75 dogs at the park. 45 leave. How many paws are now at the park?
120
The farming company had 500 apples. 10 had to be thrown away. The rest were equally distributed between 7 trucks. How many apples were in each truck?
70
There are 150 second graders signed up to go on a field trip. They are split into 10 groups. Each group has one child who does not show up. How many students are in each group?
14
A high school has a student population of 9000. There are 2925 freshmen, 3280 sophomores, and 1094 juniors. How many seniors attend this school?
1701
There are 400 boxes with 3 computers in each. During the shipping process 36 get damaged. How many of the computers are undamaged?
1164
There are 50 pages in each spiral notebook. Sister Brielle grabs 4 notebooks and Michael gets 9. How many pages do the two have combined?
650
There are 1300 freshmen at the University of Ember. 100 took their college math in high school. The rest of the freshmen are split up evenly into 6 math classes. How many students are in each math class?
200
A company tests 40 drones a day. In the month of April, 59 failed testing. How many passed testing?
1141