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100

I have $6352 in my savings account. If I want to have $10,560 in total, how much more do I need to save?

$4208

100

A store had 1584 boxes of cookies. They sold 125 on Monday, 89 on Tuesday, and 267 boxes on Wednesday. How many boxes of cookies were left in the store after these sales?

1,103

100

If a box holds 136 items, how many total items are there in 12 boxes?

1,632

100

If 2,252 candies are shared among 8 friends, how many candies does each friend get?

281 R4

100

What is the word for the answer you get when you add and when you subtract numbers?

Add: sum 

Subtract: difference

200

A farmer harvested 1,237 pounds of tomatoes and 1,456 pounds of cucumbers. If he sells 516 pounds of tomatoes, what is the total weight of vegetables he has left?

2177

200

What number must I take away from 2,652 to get 672?

1980

200

Susan bought 9 bags of candy. There were 299 pieces of candy in each bag. How many pieces of candy did Susan buy?

2,691

200

A carpenter has $1961 to buy wood. If each piece of wood costs $6, how many pieces of wood can the carpenter buy?

326 (the remainder means he could not afford another piece of wood)

200

What is the word for the answer you get when you multiply numbers?

Product

300

Jacob saves $315 from his monthly paycheck and has been saving his checks for 6 months. He has also saved $350 he received in birthday gifts, and $562 in Christmas gifts. How much money has he saved in total?

$2800

300

Subtract 1,234,567 - 890,123

344,444

300

A juice company ordered 5 shipments of oranges on Monday and 7 shipments on Friday. There were 434 oranges in each shipment. How many oranges did the company order in all?

5208

300

Greenwood Publishing needs to ship 3713 new math textbooks to a high school. If each box can hold 8 textbooks, how many boxes will the publisher need?

465 (in this case, the remainder means the publisher would need another box to ship all of the books)

300

What is the commutative property?

The order in which you multiply whole numbers does not matter. 

400

There are 45 students going on an end of the year field trip with 6 teachers. Student tickets for the field trip cost $172 and teacher tickets cost $156. How much does the field trip cost in total?

$8676

400

Clementine has tomato plants in her backyard. This year, the plants grew 2537 tomatoes. Birds had eaten 219 of the tomatoes, and 67 had been ruined by bugs. Clementine picked the remaining tomatoes. How many did she pick?

2,251

400

A farmer plants 2,890 trees per acre. If he has 52 acres, how many trees does he plant in total?

150,280

400
A company needs to ship 7,419 new shirts to their Alachua store. If each box can hold 31 shirts, how many boxes will the company need?

240 (the remainder means I would need an additional box)

400

What are the dividend and the divisor in a math problem?

A dividend is the number being divided, and the divisor is the number by which we divide.

500
Find the sum of 185,071 and 294,768

479,839

500

Before Cam broke his arm, he was able to type 135 words per minute on his phone. After he broke his arm, he could only type 128 words per minute. What is the difference between the number of words he could type in 7 minutes before and after he broke his arm?

49 

500

A library has 3,456 books on each of its 182 shelves. How many books does the library have in total?

628,992

500

Madison County has $1077 to buy new street signs. If each sign costs $25, how many new street signs will the county be able to buy?

43 (the remainder means they would not have enough money to purchase another sign)

500

What does it mean to compose a ten or hundred, and what does it mean to decompose?

Compose: when you carry over to compose a new ten or hundred when adding.

Decompose: when you borrow to create a new ten to subtract.