Solve Comparison Problems
Mieko has 4 times as many pencils as Holden. Holden has 8 pencils.
How many pencils, p, does Mieko have?
32 pencils
Jordan has 4 bookshelves. Each shelf has 56 books. Amy has 5 bookshelves. Each of Amy’s shelves has 47 books.
How many books does Jordan have?
How many books does Amy have?
How many more books does Amy have than Jordan?
Jordan has 224 books.
Amy has 235 books.
Amy has 11 more books than Jordan
Helmut is making a mosaic with a total of 290 blue tiles and green tiles. He chooses these number of tiles in three shades of green: 68, 64, and 72. How many blue tiles does he need to finish his mosaic?
86 blue tiles
Keisha follows two different patterns to make bracelets. The first pattern uses 8 buttons per bracelet and the second uses 37 beads. Keisha makes 56 button bracelets and 15 beaded bracelets and uses up all her buttons and beads. How many more beads does Keisha use than buttons?
107 beads
Sabrina jogged 54 laps around the
football field. Harry ran 9 laps. How
many times as many laps did Sabrina
run than Harry?
6 times
Juan has 253 marbles. Ellia has 38 more marbles than Juan.
How many marbles does Ella have? Enter your answer in the box.
291 marbles
David plays baseball 18 times each month for 3 months. He also plays soccer 15 times each month for 3 months. How many more times does he play baseball than soccer each month?
David plays baseball 3 times more than he plays soccer each month.
Ms. Okeke’s students plant flowers in the beds around the school as a service project. There are two round beds, one with an area of 128 square feet and the other with an area of 396 square feet. They also plant the bed that runs in front of the building. This bed is rectangular and is 268 feet long by 4 feet wide. What is the total area of the flower beds they plant?
1596 square feet
Joseph has saved $325. He wants to purchase a surfboard that costs $785. If he saves $12 each week from the money he earns mowing yards and another $6 each week from his allowance, how many weeks will it take Joseph to save enough to buy the surfboard?
26 weeks
Mandi had $260 to spend at the jewelry
expo. She already spent $125 and then
bought 3 bracelets for $27 each. How
much money does Mandi have left?
$54 left
Mary wants to buy a bookcase to hold all of her 138 books.
Bookcase A has 4 shelves and can hold 35 books on each shelf.
Bookcase B has 5 shelves and can hold 26 books on each shelf.
Which bookcase should she buy?
Bookcase A
Ken writes the outline for a radio show 6 times a week for 49 weeks each year. He also writes a blog 2 times a week for 52 weeks each year. Which equation can be used to find how many more radio show outlines Ken writes than blogs each year?
A: S = (6 x 49) + (2 x 52)
B: S = (6 + 49) x (2 + 52)
C: = (6 x 49) – (2 x 52)
D: = (6 – 49) x (2 – 52)
C: = (6 x 49) – (2 x 52)
Mari harvests 374 pounds of potatoes and carrots from her garden. She has 13 baskets of potatoes that each weighed 24 pounds and 2 baskets of carrots. How many pounds of carrots are in each basket?
31 pounds
Hannah needs 350 colored pencils for the craft kits for summer camp. The pencils are sold in packages of 8, and there are 12 packages in each box. How many boxes of pencils does Hannah need to buy for the craft kits?
4 boxes
Doug walks 3 miles a day and 4 days a week. How many weeks will it take Doug to walk 89 miles? Identify and answer the hidden question. Then solve the problem.
○ The hidden question is “How many miles does Doug walk in a week?” Doug walks 3 × 4, or 12 miles in a week. It will take him 7 weeks to walk 89 miles.
○ The hidden question is “How many miles does Doug walk in a week?” Doug walks 3 × 4, or 12 miles in a week. It will take him 8 weeks to walk 89 miles.
○ The hidden question is “How many miles does Doug walk in a week?” Doug walks 3 + 4, or 7 miles in a week. It will take him 13 weeks to walk 89 miles.
○ The hidden question is “How many miles does Doug walk in a day?” Doug walks 3 miles in a day. It will take him 30 weeks to walk 89 miles.
○ The hidden question is “How many miles does Doug walk in a week?” Doug walks 3 + 4, or 7 miles in a week. It will take him 13 weeks to walk 89 miles.
A dress is on sale for d dollars. The regular price is 3 times as much.Janine has enough money to buy 2 dresses at the regular price.
How many dresses can Janine buy at the sale price?
6 dresses
Factory A can make 52 toys an hour. The factory is open for 8 hours a day. Factory B can make 48 toys an hour and is open 9 hours a day. Which factory makes the most toys by the end of the day?
Factory B
Ninety-eight fourth graders, 109 fifth graders, and 28 chaperones are going to the circus. They will be going on 4 busses that have a maximum of 66 riders each. How many people will be on each bus?
One bus will have 58 people and three busses will have 59 people.
Bree sold 2 paintings for $95 each,
5 stone sculptures for $64 each, and
1 mini-bronze sculpture for $150 in the
month of April. Bree doubled her sales
in May. How much were her total sales in
April and May?
Jessica and her 2 sisters want to take
a camping trip. They have $225 saved.
Each of them will save $21 a week until
they have at least $512 to pay for the
trip. How much money will they save
after 4 weeks?
How much money will they save after 4 weeks?
$252
Select all the sentences that can be represented by the equation 25 + p = 38.
☐ 25 more than 38 is p.
☐ 25 times as much as p is 38.
☐ 38 is p more than 25.
☐ Will jogged 25 blocks. Rachel jogged 38 blocks more than Will. How many blocks did Rachel jog?
☐ Drew has 38 pens. Jenny has 25 fewer. How many more pens does Drew have than Jenny?
Select all the sentences that can be represented by the equation 25 + p = 38.
☐ 25 more than 38 is p.
☐ 25 times as much as p is 38.
☑ 38 is p more than 25.
☐ Will jogged 25 blocks. Rachel jogged 38 blocks more than Will. How many blocks did Rachel jog?
☑ Drew has 38 pens. Jenny has 25 fewer. How many more pens does Drew have than Jenny?
Francois is paid $52 per day for a job that lasts 4 days. He is paid $67 per day for a different job. Francois earned a total of $610. How many days was he paid $67 per day?
6 days
Flour and sugar are sold in 5-pound bags. There are 28 bags of flour and 15 bags of sugar on a store’s shelves. Which of the following equations can be used to find the total number of pounds, p, of flour and sugar on the shelves? Select all that apply.
☐ A. 5 × (28 × 15) = p
☐ B. (5 × 28) + (5 × 15) = p
☐ C. (28 + 15) × 5 = p
☐ D. 5 + 28 + 15 = p
☐ E. (5 + 28) × (5 + 15) = p
☐ A. 5 × (28 × 15) = p
☑ B. (5 × 28) + (5 × 15) = p
☑ C. (28 + 15) × 5 = p
☐ D. 5 + 28 + 15 = p
☐ E. (5 + 28) × (5 + 15) = p
Bill ordered 5 boxes of blue markers and
6 boxes of red markers for the school’s
art department. He ordered a total of
66 markers. How many markers are in
each box?
6 markers
Jessica and her 2 sisters want to take
a camping trip. They have $225 saved.
Each of them will save $21 a week until
they have at least $512 to pay for the
trip. Will they have enough
money to pay for the trip?