Word Problems
Liam has 4 packs of gum. Each pack has 5 pieces. How many pieces does he have total?
20 pieces
What is 236 + 412?
648
What is 500 − 275?
225
What is 6 × 8?
48
What is the formula for finding the volume of a rectangular prism?
Length x width x height
A pencil costs $2 and an eraser costs $1.50. If you buy 3 pencils and 2 erasers, how much do you spend?
$9
Find the sum of 3,482 + 4,619.
8,101
A store had 1,200 apples. They sold 875. How many are left?
325
There are 12 cookies in one box. How many cookies are in 9 boxes?
108
Find the volume of a box that is 3 cm long, 2 cm wide, and 5 cm tall.
30 cm cubed
Maya read 45 pages on Monday and 38 pages on Tuesday. Her book has 120 pages. How many pages does she have left to read?
37 pages
Add 6,784 + 9,432 + 1,289.
17,505
Find the difference: 9,002 − 6,798.
2,204
Multiply 36 × 24.
864
A tank is 8 ft long, 4 ft wide, and 3 ft high. What is its volume?
96 ft cubed
A baker makes 24 muffins per tray. If she bakes 6 trays, and sells half of them, how many muffins does she still have?
72 muffins
The population of Town A is 23,456 and Town B is 17,982. What is the total population?
41,438
Maya earned $250 babysitting. She spent $87 on clothes and $45 on games. How much money does she have left?
$118
A teacher buys 25 folders for each of her 6 classes. How many folders does she buy?
150
If a cube has a volume of 64 cubic units, what is the length of one side?
4 units
A swimming pool holds 2,400 liters of water. Each minute, a pump removes 75 liters. How long will it take to empty half the pool?
16 minutes
The school library has 2,378 fiction books, 4,295 nonfiction books, and 1,674 magazines. How many total reading materials are there?
8,347
The distance from Seattle to Portland is 173 miles. A car already traveled 96 miles. How many miles are left to go, and how far would it be round-trip?
77 miles left; 346 miles round trip
A factory produces 128 pencils per hour. How many pencils are made in 9 hours?
1,152 pencils
A rectangular prism is 12 m long, 5 m wide, and 2 m high. If half of it is filled with water, what is the volume of water?
60 m cubed