Word Problems 1
Estimating Only
Word Problems 2
What Do I Do?
Equivalent Fractions
100
Jeremy has $47. He wants to buy a few packs of baseball cards, which cost $7 each. How many baseball card packs can he buy?
6 packs
100
53,741/ 9,023 = What? (ESTIMATE!)
54,000 / 9,000 = 6
100
If Katie has 84 marbles and gives them away to her 4 friends, how many marbles will each friend get?
84 / 4 = 21
100
3 people have 8 slices of pizza to share. How many pieces of pizza does each person get?
8/3 = 2.66 slices or (2 and 2/3)
100
Please write at least 3 equivalent fractions for 1/5.
2/10, 3/15, 4/20, 5/25, 6/30, 7/35...
200
A store owner has 7.5 lbs of candy. If she puts them into 10 jars, how much candy will be in each jar?
7.11 / 10 = .75 lbs
200
There are about 2820 M&Ms in the bowl. 40 people want to share them. About how many M&Ms will each person get?
2800 / 40 = 70 M&Ms each
200
There are 752 pencils on in the bucket. If they are split between 16 people, how many pencils will each person get?
752 / 16 = 47 pencils each
200
There are 73 tickets sold for the show. If there are only 5 seats allowed in each row, how many rows will there be?
73 / 5 = 14 r3, which means there must be 15 ROWS
200
Simply 24/36 into its lowest form.
2/3
300
Julia and her 3 sisters went to the movies. Their total bill was $48.64. If they split the cost evenly, how much will each person need to pay?
48.64 / 4 = $12.16 each
300
Kimberly drove 2,087 miles last week. About how many miles did she drive on average each day?
2,100 / 7 = 300 miles each day
300
If it took you 50 hours to count to 500,000, how many numbers did you count each hour?
500,000 / 50 = 10,000
300
There are 324 people waiting in line for the roller coaster. 22 people fit on the ride at one time. How many times will the roller coaster need to run for everyone to have a chance?
324/22 = 14 r16, or 15 times
300
True or False: 7/98 is equivalent to 1/14
True
400
If you ran 3,434 miles in a year, about how many miles on average will you run every day? (ROUND TO HUNDREDTH)
3,434 / 365 = 9.41 miles per day
400
65423 / 687 = What? (ESTIMATE)
63,000 / 700 = 90
400
Jennie makes $15.75 each week. If she gives 1/3 of it to charity, how much will she keep for herself?
$15.75 / 3 = 5.25 5.25 * 2 = $10.50
400
Charlie runs for 3.4 miles each day. He wants to run a total of 520 miles this season. How many days must he run before he reaches his total?
153 days
400
Simplify: 36 / 180
1/5
500
Cam and his 3 friends started a business together shoveling driveways in the winter. They make a total of $65 each week and split the money evenly. Cam would like to go on a ski trip that costs $113.75. How many weeks would he need to shovel driveways before he would have enough to go on the trip?
$65 / 4 = $16.25 each week $113.75 / 16.25 = 7 weeks
500
If there are 258,374 words in a novel and you read at a rate of 124 words per minute, about how long will it take you to finish the book?
240,000 / 120 = more than 2,000 minutes, or nearly 34 hours
500
Mark bought a new car with a loan of $40,068. He makes $4,452 each month at his job and wants to use 1/4 of his weekly paycheck to pay off his car loan. How many weeks will it take Mark to pay off the car?
4452 / 4 = $1113 $40,068 / 1113 = 36 weeks
500
The Freezie Pops Corporation donated 10,984 popsicles to a school for a school carnival. The school has 532 students in it. How many popsicles will each student get?
20 popsicles (with 364 left over!)
500
Simplify: 88/14 (Hint: Create a mixed number)
6 and 2/7