error and mistakes
1 step word problem
2 step word problems with 2 different operations
unknown variables
Reasonableness problems
100
John has 17 soccer balls for his team. If each soccer ball cost 1.50, he said he would have to pay 20.00.What is his mistake?How much will he have to pay?
His mistake is that he multiplied 17 by 1.50 wrong, and he will have to pay 25.50.
100
Ryan has 54 grapes.If he ate one ninth of his grapes.So how much grapes did he eat.
He eats 6 grapes.
100
Jessica makes 72 necklaces in 1 week.How much weeks will it take for her to have 214 necklaces?
It will take 2 weeks for her to have 214 necklaces.
100
At the beach there are 42 shells, 1 fourth of X of the shells were taken, so there was now 35 shells.What does X equal?
X equals 7
100
Rick has 64 bottles of water, he drank half of 8 water bottles ,and then drank half of whats left.He thought that he has 30 left, do you think that is right.Why or Why not?
He is right because 64-4 is 60 and 60 divided by 2 is 30
200
Ruby has 49 earrings, she wanted to split it among 7 friends.If 2 of the 7 friends wanted 5 earrings from her, because of the these she thought she would have not have any extra.What is her error?
Her error is that she did not count the 4 earrings from the two friends that only wanted 5 earrings.
200
There are 32 desks in one of the classes in 4th grade.There are six more classes in 4th grade, if all the classes have the same amount of desks in it, how many desks are in the 4th grade?
There are 192 desks in 4th grade.
200
Zane has 96 toy cards, he plays with 7 every day for 8 days.How many cars has he played with in the 8 Days and how much cars has he haven't used?
He has played with 56 and has not played with 40 of his toy cars.
200
Kate has a collection of rocks.She has 18 metamorphic rocks, 15 sedimentary rocks and 8 igneous rocks, she has R rocks in total, what does R equal?
R equals 41
200
Jordan soccer 58 goals on her first season of soccer, she scored 89 goals on her third season. She scored eleven-twenty ones of the total number of goals she scored on her first season and third season. She thinks she scored an estimate of 80.Is she right.
she is right
300
Mark has 28 friends at school, he has 87 letters.If he wants to give each one of his friends an equal amount of letters, how much letters will each friend get?
Each one of his friends will get 3 letters.
300
There are 2464 students in 5th and 4th grade.The school split all the students into 616 equal groups.Altogether how much students are in each group.
There will be 4 students in each group.
300
Rick wants to buy a bike that is 83.00, but he only has 18.00.Every week he gets 9.00 for doing the dishes and laundry.How many more weeks will it take him to get enough money for the bike he wants?Explain.
It will take him 8 more weeks because 83.00 subtracted by 18.00 is 65.00. So 65 divided by 9 is 7 but there is a remainder of 2 so he has to do the dishes and the laundry for one more week.
300
Jake has Z basketball cards, he gives his brother 29. Now he has 67 left. Then he gave his friend 19 more.Now he has Z left.How much does Z equal?
Z equals 96 and 48
300
Bob has 246 basketballs. He gave his brother one-sixth of his cards, but hen buys another three-sixth of what he usually had. He said now he has 318, do you think he is right?Why or why not?
He is not right because 246-41 is 205,and 246 divided by six is 41 so you multiply it by 3 and get 123. Finally you add 205 plus 123, and get 328.
400
Eden has 872 head bands, she gave her little sister two-eighths of her head bands then gave her sister half of what she had left.Eden said she would have an estimate of 400, what is her error.
Her error is that the estimate she has of head bands is 300
400
Amr has 567,872 toy soccer balls, he gave his brother one eight of the toy balls. How much toy soccer balls does Amr's brother have?
He has 70,984
400
Victoria has 546 minutes of play time to go outside,if she only plays for one-sixth of the time on Sunday and on Monday he got 954 time to play outside, but she only played two-ninth of the time.In total how much time does she have left to play outside.
She has 1195 time left to play outside in total.
400
A camp made 56 pancakes and 58 waffles, each student at the camp gets 1 pancake and 2 waffles. If X is how much students are at camp,what is X?
X is 38.
400
Mike has 256,872 dollars in his bank, his saves half for collage,one-fourth for charity and one-fourth for him. By the end of the week he has double the amount of money for Collage, triple the amount of money for charity, and double the amount of money for him.He estimated that altogether he has 500 dollars. Do think his right? Why or why not?
He is not right because he has an estimate of 600 dollars
500
The neighborhood has 2894 residents, the neighborhood manger said he was going to split the huge neighborhood into 3 parts.He split the groups by how much the house cost.Two parts of the neighborhood are going to be for the rich houses and one part for the no so rich houses.He thought that the estimate of residents in the rich houses is 1500 and the not so rich houses 1200.Did he make an error, yes or no?
yes he did
500
Josh has 57,778,152 pennies, he wants to split the pennies into 43 groups. How much pennies will be in each group?
1,343,864
500
Jackson had 28,372,800 jokes.He shared jokes with each of his 6 friends.He tells each friend the same amount,and had no more jokes left.How much jokes did the 6 friends get.
The 6 friends each get 4,728,800 jokes
500
Joe has 2,826,992,000 pairs of socks.He gave away 24-fifty sixth of them to charity, he has X left.What does X equal?
X equals 1,615,504,000
500
Morgan has 4,852,728 bracelets.She gave her mom nine-fifty fourths and her little sister two-twenty sevenths.She thinks that she has an estimate of 2,000,000.Is she right?
She is not right