Word Problems
Ms. Miller’s class needs 45 notebooks for the semester. So far, they have collected 12 notebooks from the supply closet and 15 notebooks from students. How many more notebooks does the class need to collect to reach their goal?
The class needs 18 more notebooks.
The class grew 48 tomatoes and 12 cucumbers. They want to divide all these vegetables equally into 6 baskets. Write an equation to find out how many vegetables (v) will be in each basket.
(48 + 12) ÷ 6 = v
2 1/5 + 1 2/5=
3 3/5
Sarah has a piece of ribbon that is 4 feet long. How many inches of ribbon does she have?
She has 48 inches.
A rectangular garden has a length of 6 meters and a width of 4 meters. What is the total length of the fence needed to go all the way around the garden?
20 meters
Perimeter is the sum of all sides: 6 + 4 + 6 + 4 = 20.
An apple orchard has 6 rows of trees, and each row has 8 trees. If the farmer sells 15 of those trees to a local park, how many trees are left in the orchard?
There are 33 trees left.
You baked 4 trays of 9 cookies each. You then ate 3 cookies yourself. Write an equation to show how many cookies (c) are left for the bake sale.
(4 x 9) - 3 = c
5 4/7 - 3 2/7=
2 2/7
A caterpillar crawled 300 centimeters across the sidewalk. How many meters did the caterpillar crawl?
The caterpillar crawled 3 meters.
A square tile used for a kitchen floor has sides that are each 5 inches long. How much space does the tile cover on the floor?
25 Square Inches
Area of a square is side x side: 5 x 5 = 25.
A group of 4 friends goes to the movies. Each ticket costs $9. They also decide to share a large bucket of popcorn that costs $7. How much money did the group spend in total?
The group spent $43 in total.
You have $50. You buy a backpack for $32 and 2 notebooks that cost $3 each. Write an equation to show how much money (m) you have left.
50 - (32 + (2 x 3)) = m
3 3/4 + 2 3/4=
6 1/2
A bag of apples has a mass of 5 kilograms. How many grams of apples are in the bag?
There are 5,000 grams of apples in the bag.
A rectangular play area has a perimeter of 24 meters. If the length of one side is 8 meters, what is the width of the play area?
4 meters
Two sides are 8 + 8 = 16. Remaining perimeter is 24. 24 - 16 = 8. Divide by 2 for the widths. 8 ÷ 2 = 4.
Leo wants to read a book that has 120 pages. He decides to read the same amount of pages every day for 4 days. On the 5th day, he reads an extra 10 pages to finish the book early. How many pages did he read on each of the first 4 days?
He read 27 R 2 pages per day.
OR
He read 27 1/2 pages per day.
Sam started with n cards. His friend gave him 12, but then he lost 5 of them on the playground. Now he has 85 cards. Write an equation to show how many cards he started with.
n + 12 - 5 = 85
3 1/8 - 1 3/8 + 2 5/8=
1 6/8
A pitcher holds 2 gallons of lemonade. How many quarts of lemonade is that?
There are 8 quarts of lemonade.
A room is shaped like an "L." One rectangle part of the room is 4 ft by 3 ft, and the other attached rectangle part is 5 ft by 2 ft. What is the total area of the entire room?
22 Square Feet
Add the areas of the two rectangles: (4x3) + (5x2) = 12+10 = 22.
The school is raising money by selling spirit stickers. They have 200 stickers to sell in total. On Monday, they sold 5 packs of 10 stickers each. On Tuesday, they sold 4 packs of 15 stickers each. How many stickers are left to sell?
There are 90 stickers left.
Maya has read 15 books. She wants to read 40 books total by the end of the year. If she reads 3 books each month for the next 5 months, how many extra books (e) will she still need to read to hit her goal?
40 - (15 + (3 x 5)) = e
Sarah had 3 1/8 yards of ribbon. She used 1 3/8 yards to wrap a gift and then bought 2 5/8 yards more. How many yards of ribbon does she have now?
She has 4 3/8 yards now.
A water bottle holds 2,000 milliliters of water. How many liters of water does it hold?
It holds 2 liters of water.
You have 20 feet of decorative ribbon to frame a rectangular photo. If you make a rectangle 6 feet long, how wide must it be to use exactly 20 feet of ribbon for the perimeter?
4 feet.
6+6=12
20-12=8 remaining
8 ÷ 2 = 2