Comparison Problems
Lizzy has 7 times as many paint brushes as Cooper. Cooper has 14 paint brushes. How many paint brushes, p, does Elizabeth have?
98 paint brushes
While playing a trivia game, Chaz 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?
1288 points
A pet store had ninety siamese cats and forty-five house cats. During a sale they sold fifty-six cats. How many cats do they have left?
79 cats
Gabe bought 192 baseball cards. Brody bought 118 more than Gabe. How many baseball cards, b, did Brody buy?
310 baseball cards
At the town carnival Katie rode the Ferris wheel 17 times, the Hurricane 16 times and the bumper cars 3 times. If each ride cost twelve tickets, how many tickets did she use?
432 tickets
Lynsie 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?
639 pictures
Mr. Bailey has 12 times as many Star Wars toys than Caleb has. Caleb has 56 Star Wars toys at home. How many toys, t, does Mr. Bailey have?
672 Star Wars toys
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 79 cans in it, how many cans did he pick up total?
1027 cans
For Halloween Katie and Rebekah combined the candy they received. Katie had eighty-nine pieces of candy while her Rebekah had sixty. If they each ate eight pieces the first night, how many pieces do they have left?
133 pieces
Lily has 770 magazines. That is 7 times as many magazines as Ashlyn has. How many magazines, m, does Ashlyn have?
110 magazines
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?
266 lives
Noah 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 did he end up with?
107 games
Alyssa walked 288 minutes. That is 4 times as many minutes as Alex walked. How many minutes, m, did Alex walk?
72 minutes
While shopping for music online, Karina bought sixteen country CD's and two pop CD's. Each CD came had 23 songs. How many songs did Karina buy total?
414 songs
Cody has saved one hundred forty-five dollars. For his birthday, he got triple what he earns for his allowance in one week. He earns $12 a week. He's spent $72 on a new game. How much money does he have now?
$109