Word Problem 1
The students in Mr. Lee’s science class are ordering the materials they will need for a science experiment. Each student will need a bag of plant seeds that costs $2.50. If x represents the number of students in Mr. Lee’s science class, which equation can be used to find y, the amount in dollars spent by Mr. Lee’s students?
What is y = 2.5 x?
A hardware store has professional paint services. The initial cost is $45 plus $15 per wall. Write an equation to best represent the cost of painting any number of walls
What is C=45 + 15x
A rental company rents a car for $100. Each kilometre costs $2. Write an equation to show how far someone can travel for $200.
What is 200=100+2x?
Domino's sells a plain cheese pizza for $5 and additional toppings for $1 extra. Write an equation that can be used to work out the number of toppings if a pizza costs $9.
What is 5+t=9?
A cell phone company charges $20 for a phone. Text messaging costs $10 extra per month. Write an equation to represent how much money a phone and texting costs for any number of months.
What is y=20+10x?
A pet store sells membership cards for $15. If you have a card, you get bags of pet food for $5 each. Write an equation to find the cost of getting a membership and x bags of food?
What is 15 + 5x?
A library has 500 books. Every hour, 10 books are checked out. Write an equation to show the total number books left after any number of hours.
What is N = 500 - 10x?
A baseball game costs $25 to attend per person. Write an equation to represent how much a game would cost for any number of people (x).
What is y=25x?
An art gallery starts the week off with 300 paintings. Each day, 25 paintings are sold. Write an equation to represent the number of paintings left on after x amount of days.
What is y=300-25x?
A bouncy castle hire place charges $100 to hire the bouncy castle plus $3 per person. What equation would represent the cost to hire the bouncy castle? Hint: let x be the number of people
What is C=100+3x?
A bakery has cupcake parties. The party has a $25 fee plus $3 per person. Write an equation representing the total cost of having a cupcake party.
What is y=25+3x?
A museum sells an all day pass for $20 and has side shows that cost $6 each. Write an equation to represent the total cost with any number of side shows.
What is y= 20+6x?
A soccer game costs $7 to attend. Write an equation to work out how many people attended the game if $805 was collected.
What is 805=7x?
Lake Ohio has 5 000 fish. Each day, about 300 fish are caught and taken out of the lake. Write an equation to represent the number of fish left on any number of day.
What is y=5 000-300x.
Edgewood Middle School has 300 cookies at the beginning of each day. Each day, 7th graders buy 20 cookies. Write an equation to represent the number of cookies that left after any number of days (x).
What is y=300-20x?
An ice cream shops sells a scoop of ice cream for $3 and toppings for $2 a piece. Write an equation to represent how many toppings are on an ice cream that cost $7.
What is 3+2x=7?
A cruise ship has 300 rooms. About 10 rooms are rented daily. Write an equations to show how many rooms are left on any given day.
What is y=300-10x?
A video game store has a credit card. The card starts off with $200 and each game you buy costs $15. Write an equation to show how much money is left on the card after any number of game purchases.
What is y=200-15x?
A Kings Island ticket costs $65. Each game costs $5. Write an equation to work out how many games can be played if a person has $100.
What is 65+5x =100?
A classroom field trip has an initial cost of $50 plus an additional cost of $10 per person. What is the total cost of the field trip for any number of students (S).
What is C=50+10s?
Polly had 50 carrot sticks in her lunch. She gave 2 carrots to each friend. Write an equation to show how many carrot sticks were left after any amount of friends took carrots.
What is y= 50 -2x?