Word Problems 1
There are 1,904 dancers at the recital. They dance in groups of 9 in the first round. How many groups of dancers will there be?
212 groups of dancers
176 ÷ 8
22
Nancy has 325 books. Sara has 6 times more books than Nancy. How many books does Sara have ?
1,950 books
Kyle is a reporter for a magazine. He writes 65 articles that each have 9 paragraphs and 124 articles that each have 5 paragraphs. How many paragraphs does Kyle write?
(65 x 9) + (124 x 5)=1,205 paragraphs
Mr. Gravely drives 693 miles a day. How many miles will he drive in a week (Hint: 7 days in a week)?
4851
385 ÷ 7
Lacy has three sets of building blocks. She has a total of 4,335 blocks. If each set has the same number of blocks, how many blocks are in each set?
1,445 sets of blocks
The teacher is planning a field trip and is taking 167 students. All the students will be riding in a van. 9 students can ride in each van. The teacher says she will need 18 vans to transport all the student son the trip. Is she correct? Justify your answer.
The teacher is not correct. When you divided 167 by 9 you get 18 remainder 5. That means that 18 vans are completely full but 5 students aren't on a bus. The teacher will need 19 vans.
Rylee has 49 Shopkins. She has 7 times as many as her sister Kaylynn. How many Shopkins does Kaylynn have?
7
6365 ÷ 4
1591 r. 1
Larry buys 4,859 cakes for $8 each. How much money does Larry spend?
$38,872
Each student in 4th grade at Euharlee Elementary School uses nineteen pencils in a year. There are 57 students in 4th grade at EHES. How many pencils do the students use in one year?
1083 pencils
Zack filled 581 one-liter bottles with apple cider. He distributed the bottles evenly to 4 stores. How many one-liter bottles did each of the stores receive?
145 bottles
52 x 74
3848
2806 ÷ 5
561 r. 1
The art teacher is making art boxes for the 4th and 5th grade classrooms. She has 188 bottles of paint that she is putting one at a time into 7 boxes. until she runs out. Each box will have the same number of bottles. How many bottles of paint will be in each box? How many bottles of paint will be left over?
26 bottles will be in each box and 6 bottles will be left over.
The Turner family uses 548 liters of water per day. The Hill family uses 4 times as much water per day. How much combined water is used by both families per day (make sure to include an equation)?
(548 x 4) +548 = 2740 liters of water
Rebecca’s rug in her room is 83 inches by 99 inches. What is the area of the rug?
8217 square inches
6572 ÷ 8
821 r. 4
Frank has 67 cartons of eggs. Each carton has 12 eggs. How many eggs does Frank have?
804 eggs
A long roller coaster card hold 6 people across each row of seats. The roller coaster car can seat 132 people. How many rows of seats does the roller coaster car have?
22 rows of seats