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Category 1: Writing equations
Category 2: Evaluating multi-step problems
Category 3: Writing equations and finding solutions
Category 4: Solve what you get and don't throw a fit!
Category 5: Write equations or solve.
100
A toy store had three-hundred eighty-two stuffed bears in stock when they got another shipment with ten bears in it. Summer put the bears onto shelves with fourteen on each shelf. What is the first expression that must be solved to find how many shelves there were? Use b for bears and s for shelves.
What is 382 + 10 = b?
100
While playing a trivia game, Antonio answered sixteen questions correct in the first half and forty questions correct in the second half. If each question was worth twenty-three points, what was his final score?
What is 1288?
100
A pet store had ninety Siamese cats and forty-five house cats. During a sale they sold fifty-six cats. Write an equation and solve to show c, how many cats do they have left? (Write the equation and solve it.)
What is c= 90 + 45 - 56, so c= 79?
100
At the carnival Adam bought 120 tickets. After riding the carnival rides he had 23 tickets left. If each ticket cost $1.50, how much money did Adam spend riding the rides?
What is $145.50
100
McKenzie had fourteen hundred flowers for her friend’s wedding. She was making center pieces for the tables with eight flowers in each one. If sixteen of the flowers wilted before the wedding, how many center pieces could she still make?
What is 173
200
Zoe and her friends were recycling paper for their class. For every eight pounds they recycled they earned 25 points. If Zoe recycled 73 pounds and her friends recycled twenty-three pounds, what equation is used to find p, how many points they earned? (Hint: the last step in solving the problem.)
What is 12 x 25 = p?
200
At the town carnival Kloee rode the Ferris wheel seventeen times, the Hurricane 16 times and the bumper cars three times. If each ride cost twelve tickets, how many tickets did she use?
What is 432?
200
Jocelyn bought two coloring books. One had two-hundred twenty-four pictures and the other had four-hundred thirty-nine. After one week she had already colored twenty-four of the pictures. How many pictures does she still have to color? (Write an equation and solve it.)
What is p = 224 + 439 - 24, so p = 639?
200
A worksheet had 17 problems on it. If Mrs. Herring had 97 worksheets to grade and had already graded 8 of them, how many more problems does she have to grade?
What is 1513
200
The cafeteria had two-hundred fifty-one apples. For lunch they handed out forty-seven to students and decided to use the rest to make pies. If each pie takes six apples, how many pies could they make?
What is 34
300
Brandon was organizing his baseball cards in a binder with five on each page. If he had seventy-three new cards and 242 old cards to put in the binder, what is the first step in finding p, how many pages would he use?
What is 73 + 242=p?
300
Tyler was collecting cans for recycling. On Saturday, he filled five bags up and on Sunday he filled eight more bags. If each bag had 379 cans in it, how many cans did he pick up total?
What is 4927?
300

For Halloween Prisella and her sister combined the candy they received. Prisella had eighty-nine pieces of candy while her sister had sixty. If they each ate eight pieces the first night, find p, the number of pieces they have left?  (Write an equation and solve it.)

 What is p= 89 + 60 - 8 - 8, so p= 133?
300
A trivia team had 19 members total, but during a game 2 members didn't show up. If each member that did show up scored 16 points, how many points were scored total?
What is 272
300
Alex bought one-hundred sixty-seven tickets at the state fair. He spent twenty-two tickets at the 'dunk a clown' booth and decided to use the rest on rides. If each ride cost five tickets, what equations are needed to find how many rides could he go on? (Write all the equations needed to solve this word problem.)
What are 167 - 22 = t 

and 

t / 5 = r OR 145 / 5 = r?


400
Caidyn had saved up three-hundred twenty-five dollars. He received another $200 dollars for his allowance over the summer. What equation would be used to find g, how many fifteen dollar games could he buy?
What is $525 / 15 = g? 
400
There were fourteen friends playing a video game online when five more players joined the game. If each player had fourteen lives, how many lives did they have total?
What is 266?
400
Ned was trying to expand his game collection. He bought one-hundred fifty games from a friend and bought twenty-seven more at a garage sale. If seventy of the games didn't work, how many good games, g, did he end up with?

What is 150 + 27 - 70 = g, so g = 107?



400
Mike had 34 video games but eight of them weren't working. If he wanted to sell the working games for $5.75 each, how much money could he earn?
What is $149.50
400
Eddie was selling his old games. He started out with two-thousand sixty-eight but sold forty-four of them. He packed the rest up putting eight games into each box. How many boxes did he have to use?
What is 253
500
Shelby uploaded thirteen hundred pictures from her phone and fifty from her camera to Facebook. If she sorted the pics into nine different albums with the same amount of pics in each album, what is the last equation needed to find p, how many pictures were in each of the albums?

What is 1350 / 9 = p?



500
While shopping for music online, Hannah bought sixteen country CD's and two pop CD's. Each CD came with a lyric sheet and had eleven songs. How many songs did Hannah buy total?
What is 198?
500
Cody had forty-five dollars and 17 cents. For his birthday he got $9.50 more but spent $19.99 on a new game. How much money, m, does he have now?

What is $45.17 - $9.50 - $19.99 = m, so m = $34.68?

500
Nickolas earned $9.85 for each lawn he mowed. If he had 15 lawns to mow, but forgot to mow two of them, how much money did he actually earn?
What is $128.05
500
Peter made sixty dollars mowing lawns over the summer. He spent thirty-nine dollars and 40 cents buying new mower blades. Peter bought 5 games with the money he had left. How much did each game cost? Write all the equations needed to solve the problem and find the answer.

What is $60 - $39.40 = m

m / 5 = g

g= $4.12?