Mystery Word Problems #1
Aurelia read 7 books over the summer. Each book has 90 pages. How many pages did she read total?
She read 630 pages.
Name a shape with 4 sides that are all equal. Name a shape that is similar.
A square and a rectangle
How many apples are left?
150 apples are left.
There are 14,000 people affected with COVID each day. How many are infected with COVID each week?
98,000 people are infected with COVID each week.
Ms. Sabian is gifting a pet frog and turtle to the class. The frog costs $69.99 and the turtle costs $259.99. Ms. Sabian only has $400.00 dollars left in her school account. Does she have enough for class pets?
Round the cost of the animals to solve.
Yes she has enough money to get both animals, $260+$70=$330.
Angeline has 73 cherries. There are two cherries on each stem but she must count every cherry. How many cherries are there total?
146 cherries
A flat surface of a shape is known as:
A. A vertex
B. A face
C. An edge
B. A face
There are 20 boxes of apples on Adam's truck. Each box has 20 apples in it. How many apples are there in all?
There are 400 apples total.
Sophia works at a pet store. They have 54 animals total. They have 24 dogs, 20 cats/kittens and 10 birds. To feed the animals each month it costs, $359 dollars for dogs, $283 dollars for cats/kittens and $165 for the birds. How much do they spend total for the month?
They spend $807 dollars a month on pet food.
Mr. Math gave his class this number: 730,918. He challenged his class to rearrange the digits to make the highest number possible. What number did his class come up with?
The number they came up with was 987,310.
Mary started P.E. at 10:50 AM and finished at 11:30 AM. After that she ate lunch and went back to class at 12:30 PM. How many minutes did P.E. and lunchtime take?
70 minutes or an hour and 10 minutes.
_____ is the name of a shape with 8 sides.
Octagon
Lucy works for a smoothie shop. She has 24 fruits and vegetables total. 1/3 of her fruits are berries. Half of those berries are strawberries. How many berries does she have?
(24x1/3)
There are 1,853 books that get imported in the library each week. How many do they get in the month of January?
7,412 books are imported in the library each month.
Luna and her mom are known for hosting an event to celebrate spring every year. Their famous garden has 8,455 flowers split into 5 long rows. How many flowers are there in each row?
1,691 flowers in each row.
There are 36 bikes, each has 6 wheels. On the way to the bike store, the truck driver noticed that 8 wheels popped. How many wheels are left on the remaining bicycles?
208 wheels left on the remaining bikes.
(216-8=208)
What is the name of two lines that will never cross each other, but are going in the same direction?
Parallel lines
There are 64 pineapples, each family gets 8 pineapples. Unfortunately, 2 families didn't show up. How many pineapples are leftover?
16 pineapples are leftover. (Between the 2 families that didn't show up there are 8 pineapples each or 16 total)
There are 4,027 people in the mall each day. How many are there in a week?
28,189 people enter the mall in a week.
Mrs. Division wrote a challenge problem on the board:
____ x 35 = 1,680. What number goes in the missing space?
A rectangle has a length of 13 cm and a width of 26 cm. The area of this rectangle is:
What shape has 3 sides? Does it have any parallel lines?
A triangle has 3 sides, it has NO parallel lines
Abdenor is doing a survey on what his customer's favorite fruits are. 25 customers voted for strawberries, 15 voted for mangos, 5 voted for kiwis and 10 voted for apples. Create a bar graph to show Abdenor's results.
(See whiteboard)
Mila is baking cookies for her class. There are 4 rows in class and each row has 7 students. Mila baked 34 cookies total, does she have enough?
How many extra cookies does she have?
Does she have enough cookies to share with the 7 teachers in her school?
There are 28 students in her class so yes she has enough.
Mila has 6 extra cookies.
She doesn't have enough cookies to share with each teacher because there are 7 teachers and she only has 6.
Each Friday, Target receives 35 orders of toys. Each order has 491 different toys inside. How many toys does target receive each Friday in total?
17,185 toys