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While playing a trivia game, Chaz answered 16 questions correct in the first half and 40 questions correct in the second half. If each question was worth 3 points, what was his final score?
168
A pet store had 90 Siamese cats and 45 house cats. During a sale they sold 56 cats. How many cats do they have left?
79
At the carnival, Aidan bought 120 tickets. After riding the carnival rides, he had 23 tickets left. If each ticket cost $2, how much money did Aidan spend riding the rides?
$194
On Friday night, Pizza Hut sold 5 Large pizzas that cost $9 each. They also sold 3 medium pizzas. If Pizza Hut made $63 dollars, how much was each medium pizza?
$6
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At the town carnival Katie rode the Ferris wheel 17 times, the Hurricane 10 times and the bumper cars 4 times. If each ride cost 5 tickets, how many tickets did she use?
155
Lynsie bought 2 coloring books. One had 224 pictures and the other had 439. After one week she had already colored 24 of the pictures. How many pictures does she still have to color?
639
A worksheet had 5 problems on it. If Mr. Bailey had 97 worksheets to grade and had already graded 8 of them, how many more problems does he have to grade?
445
The cafeteria had 83 apples. For lunch, they handed out 47 to students and decided to use the rest to make pies. If each pie takes 6 apples, how many pies could they make?
6
If I have a total and I see the word each, that means I will...
Divide
Tyler was collecting cans for recycling. On Saturday, he filled 5 bags up and on Sunday he filled 4 more bags. If each bag had 79 cans in it, how many cans did he pick up total?
711
For Halloween Katie and Rebekah combined the candy they received. Katie had 89 pieces of candy while Rebekah had 60. If they each ate 8 pieces the first night, how many pieces do they have left?
133
A trivia team had 19 members total, but during a game 9 members didn't show up. If each member that did show up scored 16 points, how many points were scored total?
160
Carter bought 167 tickets at the state fair. He spent 67 tickets at the 'dunk a clown' booth and decided to use the rest on rides. If each ride cost 10 tickets, how many rides could he go on?
10
If I don't have a total and I see the word each, that means I will...
Multiply
There were 14 friends playing a video game online when 5 more players joined the game. If each player had 7 lives, how many lives did they have total?
133
Noah was trying to expand his game collection. He bought 150 games from a friend and bought 27 more at a garage sale. If 70 of the games didn't work, how many good games did he end up with?
107
Chase had 34 video games but 8 of them weren't working. If he wanted to sell the working games for $6 each, how much money could he earn?
$156
Boston was selling his old games. He started out with 152 but sold 71 of them. He packed the rest up putting 9 games into each box. How many boxes did he have to use?
9
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While shopping for music online, Karina bought 16 country CD's and 2 pop CD's. Each CD had 8 songs. How many songs did Karina buy total?
144
Cody had $45. For his birthday he got $9 more but spent $20 on a new game. How much money does he have now?
$34
Nickolas earned $10 for each lawn he mowed. If he had 15 lawns to mow, but forgot to mow 2 of them, how much money did he actually earn?
$130
Gage made $60 mowing lawns over the summer. He spent $39 buying new mower blades. Gage bought 7 games with the money he had left. How much did each game cost?
$3