Word Problems
Chris and Jeff sold 15.5 pounds of trail mix. They sold the trail mix for $ 3.98 per pound. How much money did they collect?
What is $ 61.69
3 -: 4 1/2
What is
2/3
Factor
What is a number multiplied by another number?
14 + 9.8 =
What is 23.8?
A student pays for 8.9 pounds of apples with a $ 10.00 bill. Apples cost .99 cents a pound. How much change will the student receive? What do you do first to solve this problem?
What is multiply the lbs of apples times the cost per pound?
Charleston has 1,242 law enforcement officers in the police department. If the officers are divided equally into 18 groups, how many officers will be in each group?
What are 69 officers?
2 2/3 -: 8
What is
1/3
3 1/5 x 2/3
What is
2 2/15?
27 + 0.185 =
What is 27.185?
The first step to solving a problem is....
What is read the question?
Mrs. Jones has a car that averages 9.8 miles per gallon. Ms. Dodson's car averages 39.2 miles per gallon. How many times more miles per gallon does Ms. Dodson's car average than Mrs. Jones?
What is 4 time more miles per gallon?
3 1/2 written as an improper fraction
What is
7/2
If 7/8 is multiplied by 4/5, will the product be greater than either of the two factors?
What is NO, when multiplying a fraction by a fraction, the product is always smaller than both fractions being multplied.
3.42 x 5.15 =
What is 17.613?
Ms. Tweedy has carrot that is 3 inches long and another carrot that is 5 inches long. She cuts the carrots into 3/8 inches thick slices and adds them to a salad. How many 3/8 inch thick slices does Ms Tweedy have? Write an expression to represent the above problem.
What is
8 -: 3/8
Ms. King is making pillows. Each pillow requires 3/5 yard of fabric. Ms. King has 6 yards of fabric. How many pillows can Ms. King make?
What are 10 pillows?
Reciprocal of
3/10
What is
10/3
4 1/8 x 5 1/2
What is
22 11/16
Ms. Bishops running time for a race was 23.1 seconds. Another runner's time was 5.86 seconds faster. What was the other runner's time...
What was 17.24 seconds?
Answer to a division problem....
What is a quotient?
A model train is 15 3/4 inches long. Each car in this train is 2 5/8 inches in length. How many cars are in the train?
The area of a rectangular painting is 1/6 square yards. The width is 2/3 yards. The length of the painting is....
What is 1/4 of a yard?
In Ms. Stovers classroom, 2/3 of the students play chess. Of the students who play chess, 5/6 also play sudoku. If there are 30 students in Ms. Stovers class, how many play chess and sudoku?
What are 10 students?
The students at Horace Mann Middle School are selling tins of popcorn to raise money for new technology. They sold 42 tins in the first week. How much money did they earn in the first week if each tin cost $ 9.25....
What is $ 388.50?
What is 1/8?