Mixed Bag
What color socks do bears wear?
Bears don't wear socks. They always have "bear" feet!
Write in the missing number: 23 + 4 = ___ + 14
13
If Jack gives 21 marbles to each of his 4 friends, how many marbles did he give away?
84 marbles
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
53,741/ 9,023 = What? (ESTIMATE!)
54,000 / 9,000 = 6
Mom and dad have four daughters, and each daughter has one brother. How many people are in the family?
7. Mom, Dad, 4 daughters, and only 1 son!
Mary has D dollars as the balance in her checking account. She deposits $25 within a month. How much money does Mary have after one month? (Represent using an algebraic expression)
D + 25
Carly has 27 packs of baseball cards, and each pack has 12 cards in it. How many cards does Carly have in total?
324 cards
If Katie has 84 marbles and gives them away to her 4 friends, how many marbles will each friend get?
84 / 4 = 21
37,951 * 99 = What? (ESTIMATE!)
38,000 * 100 = 3,800,000
Solve this riddle: The person who makes it has no need for it. The person who purchases it does not use it. The person who does use it does not know they are. What is it?
A coffin
See Pan Balance Problem #1
Answer: 12
Lisa gave $72.85 to charity. If that was 1/10 of the money in her bank account, how much money did she have to start with?
$728.50
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
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
Four years ago, Alex was twice as old as Jake. Four years from now, Jake will be 3/4 of Alex's age. How old is Alex?
12
A library charges 10 cents for each overdue book. It adds an additional charge of 5 cents per day that the book is overdue. The charge for a book that is "D" days over due is: (Show the problem using an algebraic expression)
10 + (5 x D) or 5D + 10
If you drove 73 miles every day for 4 weeks, how many miles will you drive in total?
4*7 - 28, 28* 73 = 2,044 miles
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
69,423 * 687 = What? (ESTIMATE!)
70,000 * 700 = 49,000,000
Joe bought a bag of oranges on Monday, and ate a third of them. On Tuesday he ate half of the remaining oranges. On Wednesday he looked in the bag to find that he only had two oranges left. How many oranges were originally in the bag?
6 oranges (he ate 2 the first day, and 2 the second day!)
See Pan Balance Question #2
1 Apple = 12 Blocks
Mikey wins the lottery, and is given a choice in how he gets his money. He can either take it as A) $5,350 a week for 40 weeks, B) $18,000 each week for 12 weeks, or C) a one-time payment of $215,000. Which choice gives Mikey the most money?
B) $18,000 over 12 weeks = $216,000 total
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!)
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