Decimal Addition
There are two hiking trails in a park.
Trail Y is 2.7 miles long
Trail Z is 5.84 miles long
Wat is the total length of these two hiking trails?
8.54 miles
Mrs. Allen uses 10 ounces of flour in one batch of cookies and 5.3 ounces of flour for a pie. How much more sugar does Mrs. Allen uses in the cookies than the pie.
4.7 ounces
A baker baked 12 trays of cookies. Each tray has 8 cookies. If he sells 3 batches of trays, how many cookies did he sell in total?
288 cookies
Mrs. Allen’s fourth-grade classroom made flowers to decorate the cafeteria. There are 5 fourth-grade classes at this school. To make each flower, 4 sheets of paper were used. The classes used a total of 300 sheets of paper. Each class made the same number of flowers. How many flowers did each fourth-grade class make?
15 flowers per class
Detective Donut is investigating a crime at the bakery. He sees 8 trays of doughnuts on the counter, and each tray has 6 doughnuts. Suddenly, 4 sneaky raccoons run in and eat 2 doughnuts from each tray! How many doughnuts are left for Detective Donut?
32 doughnuts left
Collen buys a roll of craft paper for $7.99 and some glue for $3.69. She saves $0.75 by using a coupon. What is the total cost after she applies the coupon?
$10.93
Ms. Stansberry drew straight lines on her driveway with chalk. Line P was 1.8 meters, Line Q was 4.05 meters, Line R was 7 meters and Line S was 7.75 meters. What is the difference in meters between the length of line S and the length of line P?
5.95 meters
A school bought 15 boxes of pencils. Each box contains 24 pencils. If 4 classrooms get an equal number of boxes, how many pencils does each classroom get?
90 pencils per classroom
Ms. Stansberry is making cakes. It takes 9 eggs to make each cake. She has 8 cartons of eggs, and each carton contains 12 eggs. What is the greatest number of cakes she can make using these eggs?
10 cakes
Professor Pickle’s pet parrot stole 5 crackers every morning for 7 days. Each cracker costs 3 cents. How much money in crackers did the parrot steal that week?
$1.05
Ms. Truter jogged 2.86 miles in the morning and 3.47 miles in the afternoon. Later, she walked 1.95 miles in the evening.
How many miles did Ms. Truter travel in total?
8.28 miles
The principal of a school rented 4,506.23 square feet of space in an event center for an event. The principal plans to use 281.6 square feet of the space for the punch station. How much square feet of space is left?
4,224.63 square feet
Ms. Stansberry bought 4 shirts that were $13 each. She also bought a pair of socks for $4.29. What was the total amount Ms. Stansberry paid for the shirts and socks?
$56.29
A school library received 7 boxes of books. Each box has 36 books. The librarian wants to place the books evenly on 6 shelves. How many books will go on each shelf?
42 books per shelf
The Great Jellybean Heist! Sam the squirrel wants to divide 240 jellybeans equally among 8 friends, but 3 jellybeans roll away for every friend while dividing. How many jellybeans does each friend actually get?
27 jellybeans
Mrs. Allen purchased one table that cost $21.89 and 2 chairs that cost $16.49 each. What was the total cost of these items?
$54.87
A rope is 18.75 meters long. A gardener cuts off 6.48 meters to use for a project and later cuts off another 3.67 meters.
How much rope is left?
8.6 meters
Ms. Truter baked 24 cakes each day for 2 days. She used 4 cups of flour for each cake she made. What was the total number of cups of flour Ms. Truter used on these 2 days?
192 cups
Ms. Truter had 12 packages of erasers to put into bags. Each package had 43 erasers. She put 6 erasers into each bag. What is the greatest number of bags Ms. Truter could have put erasers into?
86 bags
The Case of the Missing Tacos: Detective Taco counted 96 tacos for a party. He puts them into plates, 5 tacos per plate. Suddenly, a dog snatches 3 plates. How many plates of tacos are left for the party guests?
16 full plates and 1 lonely taco
Ms. Stansberry purchased three patio chairs that cost $57.65 each and a table that cost $146.22. What was the total cost Ms. Stansberry spent?
$319.17
A store had $100.00 at the start of the day. During the day, the store spent $27.85 on supplies and $46.79 on equipment.
How much money does the store have left?
$25.36
Workers in a school cafeteria made 53 pizzas for lunch. They cut each pizza into 8 slices. Each serving of pizza was 3 slices. What is the greatest number of servings that can be made from these pizzas.
141 servings
A teacher has 125 markers and wants to put 12 markers into each supply kit. How many complete supply kits can she make? Will she have leftover markers, and if so, how many? Should she make one more kit using the leftovers?
10 kits, 5 markers left over. Cannot make another full kit.
Alien Andy wants to share 137 chocolate bars with his 12 alien friends evenly. How many bars does each alien get? Will there be leftovers? Should Andy try to cut some bars to make another full share?
11 bars per alien, 5 leftover bars, cannot make another full share