Mystery
Word Problems
100
What equation does this model represent? 
20 x 4
100
Carmen keeps her card collection in a folder that holds 20 pages. Each page has 8 cards. How many cards does Carmen have in her collection?
160 cards
200
Each bus can carry 40 people. This number line can be used to find how many people 3 buses can carry
3 x 40 = 120
200
In 1 day, a restaurant sells 300 burgers for $6 each. How much money did the restaurant take in from the sale of burgers on that day?
$1,800
300
Ms. Lopez has 5 rows of tomato plants. There are 30 plants in each row. How many tomato plants does Ms. Lopez have?
5 x 30 = 5 x __ tens
__ tens = ___ tomato plants
3 tens
15 tens = 150 tomato plants
300
A store has 3 crates of oranges. Each crate holds 2 boxes. Each box holds 20 oranges. How many oranges are there?
120 Oranges
400
What is the unknown number in each equation?
4 × ___ = 16
4 × ___= 160
4 × ___= 1,600
4
40
400
400
Ryan buys 4 boxes of crayons. Each box contains 38 crayons. How many crayons does Ryan buy?
152 Crayons
500
Keri practices her music lesson for 40 minutes each day for 7 days. What is one way to find the total number of minutes Keri practices.
Use distributive property (Break apart the scary number)
(7 x 20) + (7 x 20)
500
There are 7 bookcases in the library with 200 books in each bookcase. How many books are in the library? Use place value to find the number of books.
7 × 200 = 7 × ___ hundreds
____hundreds = ____books
7 x 2 hundreds
14 hundreds = 1,400 books