Word Problems
Kathy loves to pick flowers. On Monday, she picks 10 flowers. On Tuesday, she picks 15 flowers, and on Wednesday her dad gives her 25 flowers. She then makes 10 bouquets to give to her friends. How many flowers are in each bouquet?
there are 5 flowers
4. A company makes games. Each game uses 96 marbles. The company buys 75 bags of marbles. Each bag has 675 marbles. How many games can they make?
(675 x 75) ÷ 96
the sum of 3 fives and 9 eights
(3 x 5) + (9 x 8)
(10 + 2) x 5
The sum of 10 and 2 times 5
(20 + 5) x 4
100
Yuna uses beads to make bracelets. She needs 42 beads to make each bracelet. Yuna has 3,906 beads. How many bracelets can she make?
93 bracelets
Kathy loves to pick flowers. On Monday, she picks 20 flowers. On Tuesday, she picks 35 flowers, and on Wednesday her dad gives her 15 flowers. She then makes 7 bouquets to give to her friends. How many flowers are in each bouquet?
(20 + 35 + 15) ÷ 7
The sum of 15 and 5, tripled
(15 + 5) x 3
(8 x 5) - (7 x 4)
The difference between 8 fives and 7 fours
6 x (50 - 39)
66
Miss Baker’s class earns 8,920 tokens for the school fair. There are 20 students in her class. Each student gets the same number of tokens. Mary loses 6 of her tokens. How many tokens does Mary have?
440 tokens
Amy spends 5 minutes on the phone with her brother, 15 minutes on the phone with her mom, and 30 minutes on the phone with her best friend Riley. If she does this every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, how many minutes does she spend on the phone each week?
(5 + 15 + 30) x 3
The difference of 6 tens and 4 tens divided by 2
(6 x 10 - 4 x 10) ÷ 2
(8-5) x (15 +5)
The difference of 8 and 5 times the sum of 5 and 15
(12 x 6) + (11 x 6)
138
Amy spends 15 minutes eating a snack, 25 minutes watching a cartoon, and 60 minutes doing her homework. If she does this every day after school, how many minutes does she spend eating watching cartoons and doing homework each week?
425
A recipe uses 3 ounces of blue cheese, 12 ounces of cheddar cheese, and 24 ounces of swiss cheese. Kelly makes 5 batches of the recipe. How many ounces of cheese does Kelly use altogether?
(3 + 12 + 24) x 3
The sum of of 6 and 12 divided by the difference of 13 and 5
(6 +12) ÷ (13-5)
(100-50) ÷ 2 + 25
The difference of 100 and 50 divided by 2 plus 25
7 + 15 x 4 - (16+4)
47
A school buys 1,082 fiction books and 594 nonfiction books. The library gets 884 of the books. The rest of the books are divided equally among 24 classrooms. How many books does each classroom get?
Each classroom gets 33 books
A teacher buys 2,436 pencils for her classroom. Each of her students bring in 25 pencils to add to the collection. If there are 20 students in her class, and each student loses 40 pencils by Christmas break, are there any pencils left? How many?
2,436 + (20 x 25) - (20 x 60)
double the sum of 7 eights and the difference of 18 and 8
2 x (7 x 8 + (18-8))
3 x ((100-25) + (25 + 50)) ÷ 2
3 times the sum of the difference between 100 and 25 and the sum of 25 and 50) then divided by 2
4 × (47 +74) − (488 ÷ 4)
362