Word Problems
Ms. Guerrero bought new shoes every day for three days. Each pair of shoes cost $42. About how much did Ms. Guerrero pay for all three shoes?
120 dollars
Position (x) Expression Value (y)
1 10
3 12
5 14
10 19
What is the relationship between the position of a number and the value of that number?
x + 9 = y
or
y - 9 = x
Lightening McQueen has 30 Pokemon cards. Mater has twice as many cards as Lightening McQueen. Mater then bought 10 more cards. Which equation can be used to find p, the number of Pokemon cards Mater has now?
30 x 2 + 10 = p
or
p = 30 x 2 + 10
You borrow money from the bank to buy a house. You now have to make house payments in order to pay the bank back the money you borrowed.
What kind of expenses are house payments?
Mickey has a $10 bill to spend at Walt Disney World. He buys one set of Mickey ears for $2.00, three buckets of popcorn for $2.00, and a key chain for $1.00.
How much change should Mickey receive from his $10 bill?
$1.00
Mrs. Edwards ran 3,000 miles last summer during the months of June, July, and August. She ran 2,000 miles in June and 400 miles in July. How many miles did she run in August?
600 miles
Position (x) Expression Value (y)
4 40
6 60
10 100
x 250
Solve for the variable, x?
x = 25
m = 2,300 - 1,000 - 1,000
or
2,300 - 1,000 - 1,000 = m
Mrs. Ortiz bought groceries for $123 in January and $319 in February.
What type of expenses are groceries?
variable expenses
Bill collected 4,314 Pokemon cards in three weeks. In the first week he collected 1,000 cards, and in the third week he collected 310 cards.
What is the total amount of Pokemon cards Bill collected in the second week?
3,014 cards collected in week 2
Dr. F bought 3 packs of plastic spider rings each week. There are 10 spiders in each pack. How many spiders will Dr. F buy in 4 weeks?
120 spiders
Can the table below be used to show the relationship between the position and the value of that number using the rule x100?
Position (p) Expression Value (v)
1 100 + 1 101
3 100 + 3 103
5 100 + 5 105
10 100 + 10 110
No, because the expression should be px100=v
Mrs. Ortiz bought 432 pieces of candy at the beginning of the week. Her students ate 130 pieces on Monday and 2 pieces on Tuesday. Mrs. Ortiz bought 100 more pieces of candy later in the week.
Which equation can be used to find c, the number of candy Mrs. Ortiz has now?
c = 432 - 130 - 2 + 100
or
432 - 130 - 2 + 100
Ariana Grande made necklaces to sell last holiday season. She spent $532.00 for the jewels and $200.00 for the chains. She sold all her necklaces for 3,005.00.
What was Ariana's profit from selling the necklaces?
$2,273.00 profit
2 ounces
Kelly Clarkson has $100 to spend at the mall. She buys one shoe for $14.03, two buttons for $3.01 each, and a marshmallow for $0.52.
How much change should Kelly receive from her $100?
$79.43
What is the pattern that represents the relationship between the position of a number and the value of that number?
Position (x) Expression Value (y)
2 2x10 y
3 3x10 y
4 4x10 y
5 5x10 y
20, 30, 40, 50
Cinderella bought 623 bags of apples on Wednesday. Aladdin bought twice as many bags as Cinderella. Pikachu bought five more bags as Aladdin.
What equation can be used to find a, the amount of apples Pikachu has?
623 x 2 + 5 = a
or
a = 623 x 2 + 5
Mater needed to buy new tires for his truck, but he didn't have any money. Mater asked Doc Hudson for a loan and agreed to pay the amount back in equal payments each week.
What type of expense is the payments?
fixed expenses
Sonic sold 95 cheeseburgers in 3 hours. They sold the same number of cheeseburgers each hour.
What is the best estimate of the number of cheeseburgers Sonic sold each hour?
about 30 cheeseburgers each hour
How many ounces of sauce was left?
1 ounce of pizza sauce
What is the rule that represents the relationship between the position of a number and the value of that number?
Position (x) Expression Value (y)
2 12
3 13
4 14
5 15
+10
Crayola created 1,322 new colors this year. Target brand colors created half as many new colors. Cra-Z-Art created half as many new colors as Target.
What equation can be used to find c, the amount of new colors Cra-Z-Art created?
1,322 ÷ 2 ÷ 2 = c
or
c = 1,322 ÷ 2 ÷ 2
Buddy the Elf bought a bundle of wood for $200.50 to use for making rocking horses. He made 10 rocking horses and sold all of them for $3,000.00.
What was Buddy the Elf's profit from selling rocking horses?
$2,799.50 profit
Mrs. Ortiz will bake 2,310 cookies for the five fourth-grade classrooms. Each classroom will receive the same number of cookies.
How many cookies will each classroom receive?
462