Story Problems
Dylan has 8 times as many football cards as Josh. If Josh has 319 cards, how many does Dylan have?
2,552 cards
Mr. Smith has $987. He buys a DVD player for $171 and some movies for $112. How much money does Mr. Smith have left
$704
Which number is composite?
21, 37, 43, 59
21
(17+13) / (15-9) = n
n=5
What are the next 3 numbers in the pattern?
Rule: multiply by 2
7, 14, 28, 56
112, 224, 448
A truck Driver delivers 245 gallons of milk to one store. He delivers 185 gallons of milk to a second store. How many gallons of milk does the driver deliver?
430 gallons of milk
Zack bought 3 pads of drawing paper, 4 charcoal pencils, and 5 color pencils. The pads of drawing paper cost $8 each. The charcoal pencils and color pencils cost $3 each. How much money did Zack spend?
$51
Which number is prime?
15, 29, 57, 63
29
(16-7)x6=n
n=54
What are the next 3 numbers?
Rule: add 35
50, 85, 120, 155
190, 225, 260
A box holds 112 cans of cat food. How many cans are there in 8 full boxes of cat food?
896 cans
A website gets a large number of hits. On Monday and Tuesday it gets 11,060 hits, and on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday it gets 7,834 hits. The website gets 112,565 hits for the whole week. How many hits did it get on the weekend?
93,671 hits
Which number is a multiple of 9?
32, 49, 56, 63
63
(25-5) x 13 = n
n=260
What are the next 2 numbers in the pattern?
Rule: multiply by 4
28, 112, 448,
1,792, 7,168
There are 18 umbrellas at the beach shop. There are 3 times as many chairs as umbrellas. How many chairs are there?
54 chairs
Two friends are planning a 116-mile canoe trip. The first day they went 37 miles, and the second day they went 16 miles. They only have 3 days left in their trip. How many miles should they go each day?
21 miles
Which number is a multiple of 6?
28, 32, 48, 56
48
(81/9) + (72/9) = n
n=17
What are the next 3 numbers in the pattern?
Rule: add 46
55, 101, 147, 193
239, 285, 331
Gwen sold 2,412 movie tickets last weekend. That is 4 times the number of tickets sold on Wednesday. How many tickets were sold on Wednesday?
603 tickets
A store has DVDs on sale. The store has 5 racks of cartoons with 13 in each rack. It has 3 racks of movies with 12 in each rack. There were 25 cartoons sold the first hour of the sale. How many cartoons and movies are left?
76 movies
What are the factor pairs for 35?
1 and 35, 7 and 5
(134-20) / (57-55) = n
n= 57
What are the next 2 numbers in the pattern?
Rule: multiply by 6
13, 78,
468, 2,808