Theme Park
Theme park admission tickets cost $7 for
children and $10 for adults. Two parents and
three children buy tickets with a $50 bill. How
much change do they get back?
What is $9?
Juan saved his weekly $2 allowance for 8 weeks
to save money for games and souvenirs at the
park. He also mowed 12 lawns for $5 each. How
much money did he save?
What is $76?
A pet store had ninety Siamese cats and forty-five house cats. During a sale they sold fifty-six cats. How many cats do they have left?
What is 79?
At the carnival Adam bought 120 tickets. After riding the carnival rides he had 23 tickets left. If each ticket cost $2, how much money did Adam spend riding the rides?
What is $194?
McKenzie had fourteen hundred flowers for her friend’s wedding. She was making center pieces for the tables with eight flowers in each one. If sixteen of the flowers wilted before the wedding, how many center pieces could she still make?
What is 173?
The park concession stand took orders for 127
cheese pizzas, 62 supreme pizzas, and 111
pepperoni pizzas. Each of the 5 concessions
cooks made an equal number of pizzas. How
many pizzas did each cook make?
What is 60 pizzas?
Ravin rode 11 rides that required 2 tickets each,
and 18 rides that only required one. If tickets are
four for a dollar, how much money did she
spend?
What is $10?
Jocelyn bought two coloring books. One had two-hundred twenty-four pictures and the other had four-hundred thirty-nine. After one week she had already colored twenty-four of the pictures. How many pictures does she still have to color?
What is 639?
A worksheet had 17 problems on it. If Mrs. Herring had 97 worksheets to grade and had already graded 8 of them, how many more problems does she have to grade?
What is 1513?
The cafeteria had two-hundred fifty-one apples. For lunch they handed out forty-seven to students and decided to use the rest to make pies. If each pie takes six apples, how many pies could they make?
What is 34?
The roller coaster has 17 cars. Each car holds 3
people. If there are 79 people in line, how many
people will have to wait for the next turn?
What is 28 people?
In the concession stand, each table seats 4
people. How many tables are needed for a
class of 30 students?
What is 8?
For Halloween Priscilla and her sister combined the candy they received. Priscilla had eighty-nine pieces of candy while her sister had sixty. If they each ate eight pieces the first night, how many pieces do they have left?
What is 133?
A trivia team had 19 members total, but during a game 2 members didn't show up. If each member that did show up scored 16 points, how many points were scored total?
What is 272?
Alex bought one-hundred sixty-seven tickets at the state fair. He spent twenty-two tickets at the 'dunk a clown' booth and decided to use the rest on rides. If each ride cost five tickets, how many rides could he go on?
What is 29?
Six adults and 4 classes of 32 students went on a
field trip to the theme park. If each bus holds 25
people, how many buses were needed for the
trip?
What is 6 busses?
A teacher bought three boxes of 24 cookies for
her class of 31. If each student gets an equal
number of cookies, how many will be left over?
What is 10?
Ned was trying to expand his game collection. He bought one-hundred fifty games from a friend and bought twenty-seven more at a garage sale. If seventy of the games didn't work, how many good games did he end up with?
What is 107?
Mike had 34 video games but eight of them weren't working. If he wanted to sell the working games for $21 each, how much money could he earn?
What is $546
Eddie was selling his old games. He started out with two-thousand sixty-eight but sold forty-four of them. He packed the rest up putting eight games into each box. How many boxes did he have to use?
What is 253?
A father purchased 75 ride tickets. He gave
each of his three children 21 tickets and kept
the rest for himself. How many tickets did he
keep?
What is 12 tickets?
Frannie is a skee-ball master. She earned 356
prize tickets, and pooled tickets with her sister,
who had 82 tickets. If the giant stuffed monkey
costs 600 tickets, how many more tickets does
Frannie need to win?
What is 162?
Cody had forty-five dollars. For his birthday he got $19 more but spent $12 on a new game. How much money does he have now?
What is $52?
Nickolas earned $12 for each lawn he mowed. If he had 15 lawns to mow, but forgot to mow two of them, how much money did he actually earn?
What is $156?
Peter made sixty dollars mowing lawns over the summer. He spent fifteen dollars buying new mower blades. Peter bought 5 games with the money he had left. How much did each game cost?
What is $9?