Sports Stats
A basketball player scored 15 points in the first quarter, 12 in the second, and twice as many as the second quarter in the third. If she scored 8 more points in the fourth quarter, how many did she score in total?
59 points
A magician has 7 stacks of cards, each with 9 cards. He gives away 15 cards and splits the remaining among 5 people. How many does each person get?
10 cards each, with 3 left over
A roller coaster has 12 cars, and each car holds 6 people. If the coaster makes 8 trips, how many people ride it in total?
576 people
A spaceship travels 6,000 miles per hour. How far does it travel in 4 hours?
24,000 miles
A paleontologist finds 5 fossils per day for 6 days. On the 7th day, she finds 3 times as many. How many in total?
45 fossils
A soccer team plays 12 games in a season. They win 8 games and lose the rest. If they score 3 goals per win and 5 goals per loss, how many total goals do they score?
44 goals
A detective counts 18 cars in the morning, twice as many in the afternoon, and 25 fewer at night than in the afternoon. How many at night?
11 cars
Tickets to an amusement park cost $25 per person. A family of 5 buys tickets and also spends $60 on food. How much do they spend in total?
$185
A satellite completes 3 orbits per hour. How many orbits does it complete in a full day (24 hours)?
72 orbits
A museum has 8 dinosaur skeletons, each with 52 bones. 34 bones are missing. How many bones are displayed?
382 bones
A baseball team plays 5 games in a week. They score 3 times as many runs in the first game as in the second. In the third game, they score 6 more runs than the second game. In the fourth and fifth games, they each score 10 runs. If they scored 4 runs in the second game, how many total runs did they score?
46 runs
A safe has 5 shelves, each holding 12 gold coins. A thief takes 18 coins but returns 6. How many coins are left?
48 coins
A ride lasts 3 minutes, and there is a 2-minute wait time between rides. If the ride operates for 3 hours, how many times does it run?
36 times
A planet is 9 times farther from the Sun than Earth, which is 93 million miles away. How far is the planet from the Sun?
A dig team finds 15 fossils per week for 4 weeks, but in the last two weeks, they find 8 extra fossils each. How many total?
76 fossils
A football stadium has 15 sections, each with 25 rows of 30 seats. If 2,000 fans don’t show up, how many seats are filled?
9,250 seats
A mystery book has 250 pages. Sarah reads 20 pages a day for 5 days, then 30 pages a day for 3 more days. How many pages does she still have left to read?
60 pages
A game booth has 240 prizes at the start of the day. By noon, 80 prizes are won. By closing, another 75 prizes are given away. How many prizes remain?
85 prizes
A spaceship has 3 sections, each carrying 250 astronauts. If 50 astronauts go on a spacewalk, how many astronauts stay inside the spaceship?
700 astronauts stay inside
A researcher stores 24 teeth per case in 9 cases but moves 40 to another museum. How many left?
176 teeth
A runner trains by running 3 miles on Monday. Each day, he runs 2 more miles than the previous day for 6 days. How many total miles does he run?
48 miles
A detective is investigating three suspects. The first suspect has 132 files, the second has twice as many, and the third has 50 fewer than the second. How many files do they have in total?
610 files
A theme park has 4 roller coasters, and each operates for 9 hours a day. If each ride takes 4 minutes and each coaster carries 20 riders per trip, how many total riders can all four coasters carry in a day?
10,800 riders
A moon base needs 500 gallons of water per day. A spaceship delivers 6,000 gallons every 2 weeks. Will they have enough water for 2 weeks?
No, they will be short by 1,000 gallons.
12 scientists find 9 fossils each. They donate 30 fossils to a museum. How many fossils do they keep?
78 fossils