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Ms. Laychock needs to fill up her gas tank. Gasoline costs 3 dollars for one gallon. If her gas tank holds 16 gallons, and she already has 3 gallons filled, how much money will it cost to fill the car’s tank completely?
What is 39 dollars?
A pet store had ninety Siamese cats and forty-five Tabby cats. During a sale they sold fifty-six cats. How many cats do they have left?
What is 79 cats?
While playing a trivia game, Antonio answered sixteen questions correct in the first half and forty questions correct in the second half. If each question was worth twenty-three points, what was his final score?
What is 1288 points?
This operation might use the key word "per"
What is multiplication?
When solving a word problem, you should ______ the key words.
What is box?
The Doughertys board an airplane to head to Disney World. The flight attendant wants to count how many passengers are on board. Every row consists of 7 seats. If there are 51 horizontal rows, and 13 seats are empty, how many passengers are on board?
What is 344 passengers?
Savannah 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 pictures?
At the town carnival Ava rode the Ferris wheel seventeen times, the Hurricane 16 times and the bumper cars three times. If each ride cost twelve tickets, how many tickets did she use?
What is 432 tickets?
This operation might use the key word "sum"
What is addition?
When solving a word problem, you should ______ and _____ to make sure your answer makes sense.
What is solve and check?
Addison and her friends are making their own puzzles by drawing and painting on pieces of cardboard. Addison cuts her puzzle so that there are 12 rows and 15 columns. How many pieces are in Addison‛s puzzle?
What is 180 pieces?
At McDonald's, Anna and her best friend combined the french fries that they bought. Anna had eighty-nine french fries while her best friend had sixty. If they each ate eighteen french fries, how many fries do they have left?
What is 113 french fries?
Mohammed was collecting cans for recycling. On Saturday, he filled five bags up and on Sunday he filled eight more bags. If each bag had 379 cans in it, how many cans did he pick up total?
What is 4,927 cans?
This operation might use the key word "separate"
What is division?
When solving a word problem, you should ______ key numbers.
What is circle?
Isabella and her friends ate pizza for lunch. There were 5 pizzas with 12 slices each. If Anna and her 12 friends had 4 slices each, how many slices were left over?
What is 8 slices?
Keegan 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 working games did he end up with?
What is 107 working games?
There were fourteen friends playing a video game online when five more players joined the game. If each player had fourteen lives, how many lives did they have total?
What is 266 lives?
This operation might use the key word "factor"
What is multiplication?
When solving a word problem, you should _______ the question.
What is underline?
Manar practiced with his coach for 1 1/2 hours on Monday, 1 hour on Thursday, and 2 1/2 hours on Saturday. For how many minutes did Manar practice in all? (Remember, 1 hour = 60 minutes)
What is 300 minutes?
Chase had forty-five dollars and 17 cents. For his birthday he got $9.50 more but spent $19.99 on a new game. How much money does he have now?
What is $34.68?
While making books in class, Billy made sixteen superhero books and nine science fiction books. Each book had 15 pages. How many pages did Billy make in total?
What is 375 pages?
This operation might use the key word "difference"
What is subtraction?
When solving a word problem, you should _____ and _____ to determine what steps to take.
What is eliminate and evaluate?