One-Step Word Problems
Ben shops for clothes online. He buys 9 shirts for $4 each. How much money does he spend in all?
$36 in all
John's room is 6 inches wide and 5 inches long. What is the area of his room?
30 square inches
Timmy went shopping at the mall. He bough 6 shirts for $3 each. He paid with a $20 bill. How much change will he recieve back?
$2.00
Doug has 42 chocolate chips. He wants to put an equal amount of chocolate chips on 6 cupcakes. How many chocolate chips will go on each cupcake?
7 chocolate chips
Tom builds a rectangular garden. The length of his garden is 7 feet and the width is 9 feet. What is the area of his garden?
63 square feet
George bought 6 packs of candy with 10 pieces of candy in each pack. He wants to split the candy equally among his 12 friends. How many pieces will each friend receive?
6 x 10 = 60
60/ 12 = 5
5 pieces
Megan buys 3 pairs of shoes for $80 each. How much money does she spend on shoes?
$240 in all
Claire wants to paint her bedroom wall. The length of her wall is 8 feet. She needs enough paint to cover 72 square feet. What is the width of her wall?
9 feet
Nicole bakes 4 batches of cookies with 7 cookies in each batch. If she eats 2 cookies a day, how many days will her cookies last?
4 x 7 = 28
28/ 2 = 14
14 days
It took Jesse 8 days to read 640 pages from a book. If he read the same number of pages each day, how many pages did he read each day?
80 pages each day
A square room has a length of 8 feet. What is the area?
Area= 64 square feet
A store sells bracelets in packs of 3. Kim buys 7 packs of bracelets and Jessica buys 9 packs. How many bracelets did they buy in all?
3 x 7 = 21
3 x 9 = 27
21 + 27 = 48 bracelets
Matthew puts his Legos in 20 groups. He puts 40 Legos in each group. How many Legos does he have in all?
800 Legos
Mary's bedroom measures 5 feet by 8 feet. Adam's room measures 10 feet by 4 feet. Who has a bigger area? Who has a bigger perimeter?
Mary's Area= 5 x 8 =40 sq. ft.
Adam's Area= 10 x 4 = 40 sq. ft.
Mary = Adam
Chad read 138 pages on Monday. He read 40 fewer pages on Tuesday. How many pages did he read on Monday and Tuesday altogether?
236 pages altogether