Easy word problems
A bakery sold 45 cupcakes on Monday, 68 on Tuesday, and 87 on Wednesday.
Each cupcake costs $3.
How much money did the bakery make in total from Monday to Wednesday?
600
Mars
A school has 14 boxes of markers. Each box has 36 markers. They use 3/8 of all the markers during art week. Then they split the remaining markers equally into 6 classrooms.
52.5
A farmer has 8 baskets. Each basket holds 24 apples.
He sells 110 apples at the market.
How many apples does he have left?
82
What is the fastest land mammal on earth
The cheetah
A cookie recipe needs 2 1/2 cups of flour per batch. Maria wants to make 7 batches. She already has 8 3/4 cups of flour. How many more cups does she need?
Answer:
8 3/4
There are 12 students in each row of chairs, and there are 9 rows.
If 25 students are absent, how many students are in the classroom today?
83
How many stars on the american flag?
50
Notebooks cost $4.75 each. A student buys 12 notebooks and gets 15% off the total. She pays with a $100 bill. How much change does she get?
51.55
Ben walked 3 miles each day from Monday to Thursday.
On Friday, he walked 2 more miles than his usual distance.
How many miles did he walk in total that week?
17
Who wrote Hamlet
Shakespeare
A rectangular garden is 18.5 m by 12.2 m. It’s divided into square plots 1.3 m on a side. How many whole square plots can fit in the garden (without cutting a plot)?
126
A pack of markers costs $4, and a notebook costs $3.
If Sophia buys 6 packs of markers and 4 notebooks,
and pays with a $50 bill, how much change does she get back?
14
What is the chemical symbol for gold
Au
Pipe A fills a pool in 4 hours, Pipe B in 6 hours, and Pipe C (a drain) empties it in 12 hours. If all three are open, how long to fill the pool?
Answer:
3