Word Problems
Mr. Juarez buys 5 packs of notebooks. Each pack has 6 notebooks. He gives an equal number of notebooks to each of his 3 children. How many notebooks does each child get?
10
Which fraction is equivalent to 3?
3/1
What is the value of 7 X 70?
490
Joe and Mike both ran the same race. Joe finished the race 4 minutes before Mike. If Mike finished the race at 4:02pm, what time did Joe finish the race?
3:58pm
Colton and his dad bought a gallon of paint that cost $13. They also bought 2 brushes that cost $9 each. What was the total cost, not including tax, of the brushes and the paint they bought?
$31
A worker has 3 bags of pebbles to use in a garden. The mass of each bag is 9 kilograms. What is the total mass, in kilograms, of all of the bags of pebbles?
27
The list below describes the distances between Manny’s home, his school, and a park.
The distance between his home and his school is 3/4 mile.
The distance between his home and the park is 3/8 mile.
Does Manny live closer to the school or closer to the park?
Manny lives closer to the park.
What number makes the equation below true? 48 ÷__ = 8
6
A number pattern is shown below. 1, 5, 9, 13, . . . What are the next three numbers in the pattern?
17, 21, 25
A librarian receives two boxes of books for the library. The first box has 136 books. The second box has 58 fewer books than the first box. What is the total number of books the librarian receives?
214
A pet store has 4 fish tanks of the same size. A worker puts 10 liters of water in each fish tank. What is the total number of liters of water the worker puts in all of the fish tanks?
40
Which fraction is equivalent to 2/8?
1/4
Jess scored 18 points during her last basketball game. Each basket she made was worth 2 points. How many baskets did she make?
9
It takes Heidi 15 minutes to walk from her home to school. If she leaves her home at 8:35 a.m., what time will Heidi get to school?
8:50am
There are 24 boxes. Two of the boxes are empty. Each of the other boxes contains 2 erasers. How many erasers are there altogether?
44
A student has 27 cupcakes in a box. There are 10 cupcakes with chocolate frosting and 11 cupcakes with vanilla frosting. The remaining cupcakes, s, have strawberry frosting. What is the value of s ?
6
Sandra ate 2/6 of a pizza and George ate 3/6 of the same pizza. Sandra says she ate more of the pizza than George. George says he ate more of the pizza than Sandra. Who is correct?
George ate more pizza than Sandra.
Gayle earns 32 tickets at an event. She uses all of her tickets to buy 4 prizes and uses the same number of tickets to buy each prize. How many tickets does Gayle use to buy each prize?
8
A rule was used to create the number pattern shown below.
__ , 9, __ , 21, 27 What two numbers are missing from the pattern?
3 and 15
Last weekend Sanjay watched 3 television shows that were each 30 minutes long. He also watched 1 movie on television that was 90 minutes long. What is the total number of minutes Sanjay watched television last weekend?
180
Ms. Thompson buys 3 packages of clay for a project. Each package weighs 25 pounds. An equal amount of all the clay is given to each of 5 groups of students. How many pounds of clay does each group get?
15
A list of fractions is shown below. Which two fractions from the list are equivalent?
2/8, 1/3, 3/4, 2/6
Be sure to include what you know about fractions in your answer.
1/3 and 2/6
The cost of one ice cream carton is $6. How many ice cream cartons can be purchased if the total sum is $60?
10
John starts reading a book at 5:20 p.m. He reads for 45 minutes and then plays a video game for 30 minutes. At what time does John stop playing the video game?
6:35pm
Carmen saved 592 pennies. Her sister saved 128 pennies. Together, they put 250 pennies in wrappers and took them to the bank. What is the total number of pennies, rounded to the nearest hundred, Carmen and her sister have left?
500