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100

What is the area of a rectangle that has a length of 8 inches and a width of 3 inches?

What is 24 square inches? 

100

Hillary collects 12 red apples and 12 green apples. She puts all apples into bags with 6 apples in each bag. How many bags of apples does she have? 

What is 4 bags. 

12+12=24 divided by 6 = 4

(12+12) / 6 = 4

100

If one square has an area of 25 sq inches and it is added on to a rectangle with an area of 40 square inches, what is the total area of the square and rectangle combined?

What is 65 square inches? 40+25=65

100

Kristina has 40 photos of her friends. She puts 5 photos on each page in her photo album. How many pages does Kristina have?

What is 8 pages. 40/5=8.

200

What is the are of a square if a side length is 5 centimeters?

What is 25 square centimeters?

200

Jenny has 4 five dollar bills. Then her parents give her 1 ten dollar bill. How much money does Jenny have now?

(4x5)+10=30 

Jenny has $30.

200

Rectangle A: 25 square feet

Rectangle B: 35 square feet

What is the area of both rectangles combined?

What is 60 square feet?

200

Tommy puts 21 apples into 3 baskets. He puts the same number of apples in each basket. How many apples are in each basket?

What is 7 apples in each basket. 7x3=21 or 

21 divided by 7 equals 3.

300

What is the area of a rectangle that has a width of 6 inches and a length of 10 inches?

What is 60 square inches?

300

Savannah has 24 origami paper stars. Then she makes 6 more stars. Savannah puts all of the stars on a table in rows of 5. How many rows of stars, r, does Savannah make? What is the equation used to solve the problem? 

What is (24+6) divided by 5= r

30 divided by 5 = 6 

She makes 6 rows of stars. 


300

Rectangle A area: 15 square inches

Rectangle B area: 40 square inches

Rectangle C area: 25 square inches

What is the area of all 3 rectangles combined? 

What is 80 square inches?

300

Bob uses square tiles with an area of 1 square foot each to build a rectangular patio with an area of 54 square feet. He uses 9 tiles in each row. How many rows of tile are there? 

What is there are 6 rows of tiles. 

54 divided by 9 equal 6. 

400

What is the area of a rectangle if it has a length of 11 inches and a width of 5 inches?

What is 55 square inches? Area= Length x Width, which is 11x5=55.

400

A tulip farm had 222 visitors last week. This week the farm had 65 more visitors than last week. How many visitors did the farm have during the two weeks? 

222 + (222+65) = visitors total 

222+287= 509

In two weeks, there were 509 visitors total.

400

Square area: 25 sq feet

Rectangle A: 40 sq feet

Rectangle B: 35 sq feet

What is the area of the square and rectangles combined? 

What is the area is 100 square feet? 

400

There are 8 rows of squares on a game board. There are 9 squares in each row. How many squares are on the game board? 

What is there are 72 squares on the game board.

500

Shea's kitchen has a width of 8 feet and a length of 11  feet. What is the are of his kitchen?

What is 88 square feet?

500

Kacy reads 215 pages of her book during the first week of vacation. During the second week, she reads 62 more pages than in the first week. How many pages does Kacy read in the two weeks? 

215+ (215+ 62) = 492

She reads 492 pages in two weeks.

500

Mrs Heywood's porch area is 20 meters and her garden area is 10 square meters. What is the area of the garden and porch together? 

What is 30 square meters?

500

Dave cuts a tray of cornbread into 15 square pieces. There are 3 pieces in each row. How many rows of pieces does Dave cut? 

What is he cuts 5 rows of cornbread?