Word Problems 1
Tricky Questions
Make You Think
Double Jeopardy
100
A toy store had three-hundred eighty-two stuffed bears in stock when they got another shipment with ten bears in it. Summer put the bears onto shelves with fourteen on each shelf. How many shelves did she use?
What is 28
100
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
100
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
100
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
200
Zoe and her friends were recycling paper for their class. For every eight pounds they recycled they earned 25 points. If Zoe recycled 73 pounds and her friends recycled twenty-three pounds, how many points did they earn?
What is 300
200
At the town carnival Kloee 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
200
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
200
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
300
Brandon was organizing his baseball cards in a binder with five on each page. If he had seventy-three new cards and 242 old cards to put in the binder, how many pages would he use?
What is 63
300
Tyler 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 4927
300
For Halloween Prisella and her sister combined the candy they received. Prisella 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
300
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
400
Caidyn had saved up three-hundred twenty-five dollars. If he received another $200 dollars for his allowance over the summer, how many fifteen dollar games could he buy?
What is 35
400
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
400
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
400
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
500
Shelby uploaded thirteen hundred pictures from her phone and fifty from her camera to Facebook. If she sorted the pics into nine different albums with the same amount of pics in each album, how many pictures were in each of the albums?
What is 150
500
While shopping for music online, Hannah bought sixteen country CD's and two pop CD's. Each CD came with a lyric sheet and had eleven songs. How many songs did Hannah buy total?
What is 198
500

Cody had forty-five dollars For his birthday he got $19 more but spent $38 on a new game. How much money does he have now?

What is $26

500

Peter made sixty dollars mowing lawns over the summer. He spent thirty-five dollars  buying new mower blades. Peter bought 5 games with the money he had left. If each game was the same price much did each game cost?

What is $5

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