Whole Numbers
A classroom has 6 boxes of crayons. Each box has 24 crayons. If 35 crayons are used, how many crayons are left?
109 crayons
(6 × 24 = 144, 144 − 35 = 109)
A notebook costs $1.75. Sam buys 4 notebooks. How much does Sam spend?
$7.00
A recipe uses 1/4 cup of sugar per batch. How much sugar is needed for 4 batches?
1 cup
A farmer plants 48 trees in each of 4 rows. Then 36 trees die. How many trees remain?
156
A teacher buys 5 packs of stickers with 30 stickers each. There are 20 students in the class. How many stickers were bought?
150
A factory packs 9 boxes with 48 cans in each box. After shipping some cans, 185 remain. How many cans were shipped?
247 cans
(9 × 48 = 432, 432 − 185 = 247)
A movie ticket costs $8.50. Two friends buy tickets and pay with $20. How much change do they get?
$3.00
Each ribbon is 3/8 meter long. How much ribbon is needed for 5 ribbons?
1 7/8 meters
A train travels 120 miles on Monday and twice that distance on Tuesday. What is the total distance traveled?
360 miles
A zoo has 6 enclosures with 18 animals in each enclosure. Each animal eats 4 pounds of food per day. How many animals are there?
108
A library received 8 shelves of books with 125 books on each shelf. It donated 275 books. How many books are left?
725 books
(8 × 125 = 1,000, 1,000 − 275 = 725)
A water bottle costs $2.45. Maya buys 6 bottles and pays with $20. How much change does she receive?
$5.30
A baker uses 2/3 cup of flour per batch. She makes 3 batches and already has 1 1/2 cups. How much more flour does she need?
1/2 cup
A school buys 15 packs of paper with 80 sheets each and gives away 325 sheets. How many sheets remain?
875
A school orders 24 boxes of pencils with 50 pencils each. Pencils cost $0.25 each. How many pencils were ordered?
1,200
A warehouse stores 36 pallets. Each pallet holds 275 boxes. If 4,890 boxes are shipped, how many boxes remain?
5,010
(36 × 275 = 9,900; 9,900 − 4,890)
A bucket holds 3.75 liters of water. Jake fills 4 buckets and spills 2.5 liters. How much water remains?
12.5 liters
(3.75 × 4 = 15; 15 − 2.5)
A jug holds 5/6 gallon of juice. Three jugs are poured into a container. Then 1 1/4 gallons are used. How much juice remains?
1 1/4 gallons
A gym has 12 boxes of balls with 15 balls each. After a tournament, 38 balls are lost. How many balls remain?
142
A delivery truck carries 48 crates with 36 bottles each. Each bottle weighs 2 pounds. How many bottles are delivered?
1,728
A stadium sold 245 tickets on Friday. On Saturday, it sold 3 times as many tickets as Friday. On Sunday, it sold 175 fewer tickets than Saturday. How many tickets were sold in all?
1,450
(Friday 245; Saturday 735; Sunday 560 → total = 1,450)
A jacket costs $18.75. A hat costs $7.60. Mia buys 2 jackets and 1 hat and pays with $50. How much change does she receive?
$4.90
A fence requires 3/4 yard of wood per section. After building 6 sections, a builder has 1 1/2 yards left. How much wood did the builder start with?
6 yards
A company makes 125 toys per day for 4 days. The toys are packaged equally into 5 boxes. How many toys are in each box?
100
A farmer collects 48 eggs each day for 7 days. She sells eggs by the dozen for $3. How many eggs did she collect?
336