Word Problems
A clerk ordered 72 boxes of paper clips. There are 250 paper clips in each box. How many paper clips are there in all?
what is 18,000 paper clips
{(24 / 6) + (36 / 6)} + 2
what is 12
10,000 (in exponential notation)
what is 10 to the 4th power
377 x 4 = ?
what is 1,508
244 / 4
what is 63 r 2
The school library received a donation of 42 boxes of books. Each box contains 15–18 books. The library has 10 empty bookshelves. Each bookshelf can hold up to 60 books. Does the library have enough shelf space for all the new books?
what is no (there is only enough room for about 600 books)
24 x 10 to the 3rd power
what is 24,000
70,000,000 in exponential notation
what is 7 x 10 to the 7th power
87 x 46
what is 4,002
3,216 / 8
what is 402
Renee is in charge of the school carnival for 380 students. She has 47 boxes of prizes. Each box has 22 prizes. She wants to make sure she has enough prizes for each student to win 2 prizes. Does Renee have enough prizes?
what is yes. (Renee only needs about 800 prizes, so she has enough)
I have 5 digits. My 4s are worth 4 [10,000s] and 4 ∗ 10. One of my 3s is worth 3,000. The other is worth 1/10 as much. My other digit is a 2. What number am I?
what is 43,342
write 29,141 in expanded form with exponents.
(2 ∗ 10 to the 4th) + (9 ∗ 10 to the 3rd) + (1 ∗ 10 to the 2nd) +(4 ∗ 10 to the first) + (1 ∗ 10 to the 0 power)
The distance from Chicago, Illinois, to Boston , Massachusetts, by plane is 851 miles. A pilot flew from Chicago to Boston 37 times in one year. How many miles was that?
what is 31,487 miles (if you do not have miles written down it is NOT correct!)
Allie is distributing copies of the school newsletter. There are 1,225 copies and 36 classrooms. If Allie gives the same number of copies to each room, how many copies will each class get?
what is 34 copies (must have the word copies written down)
Two fifth-grade students had a running race. It took one student 2 minutes to run from one end of the playground to the other. It took the other student 98 seconds. How much faster was the second student’s time?
what is 22 seconds
(2 ∗ 60) - 98
I have 4 digits. My 7 is worth 7 ∗ 1,000. My 2 is worth 200. One of my 4s is worth 40. The other is worth 1_10 as much. What number am I?
what is 7,244
6 ∗ 10 to the 3rd power x 3 ∗ 10 to the 2nd power
what is 1,800,000
238 x 47 =
what is 11,186
892 / 19
what is 46 r. 18
A restaurant chef has 5 pounds of steak. He wants to cut it into 8-ounce portions to serve to customers. How many 8-ounce portions can he make?
what is 10 portions
(5 ∗ 16) / 8
Add 300 to the difference of 926 and 452. Write the expression and then solve. (must have both correct)
what is (926 - 452) + 300 = 774
2 ∗ 10 to the 4th power x 7 ∗ 10 to the 2nd power
what is 14,000,000
An average fifth-grader is 11 years old. How many months is that? How many weeks is that?
months = 132 months (11x12)
weeks = 572 weeks (11 x 52)
A group of students are walking from Denver to New York City, a distance of 1,771 miles. If they walk 24 miles each day, how many days will the trip take?
what is 74 days (73 r 19)