Basic Equations
A number added to 12 totals 63. What is the number.
What is 51?
Jacob earned a number of Scholarships this week. He paid 11 scholarships for stance socks. He only has 3 Scholarships left. What is number of scholarships he paid.
n - 11 = 3
What is 14?
Michael and Matthew paid $28 in total. Michael paid $15, how much did Matthew pay?
$15 + n = $28
What is $13?
Lily had 174 followers on Instagram. She gained this many followers in three weeks. How many followers did she gain per week?
3n = 174
What is 58 followers?
Jessica and Jewels made cookies for the picnic. They made 78 cookies and divided them equally for each age category; 1-10, 11-19, 20 and older. How many cookies went to each age category.
78/n = 3
What is 26 cookies?
A number times 4 totals 28. What is the number
What is 7?
Mr. Denston has presidential pins he made for his campaign. He passed out 75 pins to his friends so he had enough left for his 25 family members. How many pins did he pass out?
n -75 = 25
What is 100?
Kayden paid $15 for a burger, fries, and shake. If both Kayden and Jayden paid $32 for both their meals, how much did Jayden pay for pizza, garlic bread and a soda?
$15 + n = $32
What is $17?
Maddy is using 5 times more megabytes on her Chromebook than she was last year. How many megabytes did she use last year if she is using 90 megabytes?
5n = 90
What is 18 megabytes?
Nicole has 525 stuffed animals in her garage. She gave the stuffed animals to 5 different charities equally. How many stuffed animals went to each charity
525/n = 5
What is 105 stuffed animals?
A number minus 14 totals 30. What is the number?
What is 44?
Mrs. Korth had a number of badger bucks. Stefanie, Alyssa, and Madeline got a total of 24 badger bucks so that Mrs. Korth has 54 left. How many badger bucks were passed out to Stefanie, Alyssa, and Madeline?
n - 24 = 54
What is 78?
A number added to 69 totals 86. What is the number?
n + 69 = 86
What is 17?
Sammy makes $108 a day at her new job at Chili's. If she works 9 hours a day, how much does she make in an hour? Let n equal the amount of hours.
9n = 108
What is $12
Isabelle sings 68 times a day. She sings 17 times each hour. How many hours does it take for her to sing 68 eight times?
68/n = 17
What is 4 hours?
A number added to 37 totals 46. What is the number
What is 9?
There were a certain number of people at a party. At the end of the party 6 people slept over and the people who left totaled 9. What is the number of people that came to the party?
n - 9 = 6
What is 15?
Lauren got 27 emails in a week. If she gets a total of 59 emails in two weeks, how many e-mails did she get in the second week?
27 + n = 59
What is 32
Logan makes $56 a day from his chores. He needs $112 to buy a new penny board. How many days does he need to work to make enough money?
56n = $112
What is 2?
Talia made a number of origami swans. She divided them into 2 equal groups. If each group had 43 swans, how many swans did she have in all?
n/2 = 43
What is 43 swans?
A number subtracted from 46 totals 25. What is the number?
What is 21?
Hector was making cookies. He burnt 16 cookies which left 32 good cookies. How many cookies did he make?
n - 16 = 32
What is 48?
Kennedy and Jarod filed 273 pieces of paper in an hour. If they filed a total of 411 pieces of paper that day, how many more pieces of paper did they file?
273 + n = 411
What is 138?
$45 is the price for a Six Flags one day admission ticket. If the Myers family pays $180 for tickets, how many people are in the Myers family?
45n = 180
What is 4?
Brendan plays piano 25 times per hour. He plays piano 7 hours per week. How many times does he play piano?
n/7 = 25
What is 175?