Word Problems
Ms. Guerrero bought new shoes every day for three days. Each pair of shoes cost $42. About how much did Ms. Guerrero pay for all three shoes?
120 dollars
Position (x) Expression Value (y)
1 10
3 12
5 14
10 19
What is the relationship between the position of a number and the value of that number?
x + 9 = y
or
y - 9 = x
Lightening McQueen has 30 Pokemon cards. Mater has twice as many cards as Lightening McQueen. Mater then bought 10 more cards. Which equation can be used to find p, the number of Pokemon cards Mater has now?
(30 x 2) + 10 = p
or
p = (30 x 2) + 10
Position (x) Expression Value (y)
1 10
3 12
5 g
10 19
What equation can be used to solve for g?
5 + 9 = g
Mickey has a $10 bill to spend at Walt Disney World. He buys one set of Mickey ears for $2.00, three buckets of popcorn for $2.00, and a key chain for $1.00.
How much change should Mickey receive from his $10 bill?
$1.00
Mrs. Edwards ran 3,000 miles last summer during the months of June, July, and August. She ran 2,000 miles in June and 400 miles in July. How many miles did she run in August?
600 miles
Position (x) Expression Value (y)
4 40
6 60
10 100
x 250
Solve for the variable, x?
x = 25
Mrs. Edwards ran 2,300 miles in three months during the summer of 2019. She ran 1,000 miles in June and 1,000 miles in July. What equation can be used to find m, the number of miles she ran in August?
m = 2,300 - (1,000 x 2)
or
2,300 - (1,000 x 2) = m
Position (g) Expression Value (h)
1 10
3 30
5 50
10 100
What two equations can be used to describe the relationship between input and output?
g x 10 = h
h ÷ 10 = g
Bill collected 4,314 Pokemon cards in three weeks. In the first week he collected 1,000 cards, and in the third week he collected 310 cards.
What is the total amount of Pokemon cards Bill collected in the second week?
3,014 cards collected in week 2
Dr. F bought 3 packs of plastic spider rings each week. There are 10 spiders in each pack. How many spiders will Dr. F buy in 4 weeks?
120 spiders
Can the table below be used to show the relationship between the position and the value of that number using the rule x100?
Position (p) Expression Value (v)
1 100 + 1 101
3 100 + 3 103
5 100 + 5 105
10 100 + 10 110
No, because the expression should be p+100
Mrs. Ortiz bought 432 pieces of candy at the beginning of the week. Her students ate 130 pieces on Monday and 2 pieces on Tuesday.
Which equation can be used to find c, the number of candy Mrs. Ortiz has now?
c = 432 - (130 + 2)
or
432 - (130 + 2)
Position (b) Expression Value (p)
1 10
3 30
5 50
b
If b represents the amount of boxes and p represents the amount of pencils per box, how many boxes are needed to fit 150 pencils?
15 boxes
2 ounces
Kelly Clarkson has $100 to spend at the mall. She buys one shoe for $14.03, two buttons for $3.01 each, and a marshmallow for $0.52.
How much change should Kelly receive from her $100?
$79.43
What is the pattern that represents the relationship between the position of a number and the value of that number?
Position (x) Expression Value (y)
2 2x10 y
3 3x10 y
4 4x10 y
5 5x10 y
20, 30, 40, 50
Cinderella bought 623 bags of apples on Wednesday. Aladdin bought twice as many bags as Cinderella. Pikachu bought five more bags than Aladdin.
What equation can be used to find a, the amount of apples Pikachu has?
(623 x 2) + 5 = a
or
a = (623 x 2) + 5
Position (b) Expression Value (p)
145 100
260 215
298 253
b 4,545
Solve for b, the number of boxes.
b = 4,500
Sonic sold 95 cheeseburgers in 3 hours. They sold the same number of cheeseburgers each hour.
What is the best estimate of the number of cheeseburgers Sonic sold each hour?
about 30 cheeseburgers each hour
Papa Johns has 2,318 ounces of pizza sauce to put on pizzas. Papa Johns put 7 ounces of pizza sauce on each personal pizza until there was not enough sauce left to make another pizza.
How many ounces of sauce was left after making all personal pizzas?
1 ounce of sauce left
What is the rule that represents the relationship between the position of a number and the value of that number?
Position (x) Expression Value (y)
2 12
3 13
4 14
5 15
+10
Crayola created 1,322 new colors this year. Target brand colors created half as many new colors as Crayola. Cra-Z-Art created half as many new colors as Target.
What equation can be used to find c, the amount of new colors Cra-Z-Art created?
(1,322 ÷ 2) ÷ 2 = c
or
c = (1,322 ÷ 2) ÷ 2
Position (b) Expression Value (p)
145 100
260 215
298 253
b 4,545
What two equations can be used to show the relationship between input and output?
b + 45 = p
p - 45 = b
Mrs. Ortiz will bake 2,310 cookies for the five fourth-grade classrooms. Each classroom will receive the same number of cookies.
How many cookies will each classroom receive?
462