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There were 19 apples on a tree. Juan picked 3 apples. 5 apples fell to the ground. How many apples were left on the tree?
11 apples
Lorena ate 14 carrot sticks. She now has 9 sticks left. How many carrot sticks did she have to start with?
23 carrot sticks
Coffee costs $13 per pound. How much does 8 pounds of coffee cost?
$104
A candy company puts 6 gumdrops in each bag. How many gumdrops will the company need to fill 40 bags?
240 gumdrops
Emily watched a meteor shower in August and saw 364 shooting stars. In November, she watched another meteor shower, during which she saw 63 shooting stars. How many shooting stars did Emily see in total?
427 shooting stars
The door to Sean's room is 129 inches high. In the morning he painted up to 84 inches. How many inches of the door's height were left without paint?
45 inches
A family needs to buy 40 rolls of paper towels. If each package has 4 rolls, how many packages should the family buy?
10 packages
A clothing store has 50 sweaters. If the sweaters are stored in piles of 5, how many piles should the store make?
10 piles
Recently, the value of Will's college savings fund decreased by $621. If his fund was worth $794 before, how much is it worth now?
$173
The total length of a fence is 72 meters. Kamil painted 38 meter and Jenny painted the rest. How many meters did Jenny paint?
34 meters
Jessica had $30 to spend on books. Each book cost $7. How many books was Jessica able to buy?
4 books
Addison is a beekeeper. Last year, she harvested 1,052 kilograms of honey. This year, she bought some new hives and increased her honey harvest by 1,089 kilograms. How many kilograms of honey did Addison harvest this year?
A crayon company recently changed its labels. It currently has 13,174 crayons with the old label and 56,809 crayons with the new label. How many crayons does the company have in stock?
69,983 crayons
Girl Scouts in Oxford are collecting blankets for local animal shelters. So far, they have collected a total of 9,432 blankets. 1,252 of these blankets are new and the rest are used. How many of the blankets are used?
8,180 used blankets
Warren organized a bike race that was 9 miles long. All 522 riders completed the race. How many miles were biked in all?
4,698 miles
Charles had 59 buttons. 12 buttons were large. 23 buttons were of medium size. There rest of the buttons were small. How many small buttons did Charles have?
24 small buttons
A mint factory puts 9 mints in each box. How many mints will the factory need to fill 820 boxes?
7,380 mints
Before the recent housing boom, there were 26,647 houses in Columbia County. Now, there are 46,048 houses. How many houses did developers build during the housing boom?
19,401 houses
A farmer packs 109 apples onto trays for the market. Each tray holds 8 apples. How many full trays could the farmer pack?
13 trays
There is a snail problem in Springtown. People worked together and got rid of 40,637 snails, but 51,494 of them remain. How many snails were originally in Springtown?
92,131 snails
James bought a camera for 105 dollars and now he only has 86 dollars left. How much money did he have to start with?
191 dollars
For his famous seafood gumbo, Jim uses jumbo shrimp and blue crab. His recipe calls for 5/12 of a pound of shrimp and 3/4 of a pound of crab. How many total pounds of seafood does Jim use in all?
1 2/12 pounds
After their soccer game, Marie and her teammates ate at their favorite restaurant, The Dancing Chicken. They ordered a big platter of chicken wings. After they ate 40 chicken wings, there were 12 left over.
Let t represent the total number of chicken wings the team ordered. Write an equation to model the problem
t - 40 = 12
Mrs. Patton baked apple pies for her family. The boys ate 3/4 of a pie and the girls ate 1/8 of a pie. How much more pie did the boys eat than the girls?
5/8 of a pie more
Jack is moving houses and needs to pack his 38 books into boxes. He can fit 6 books in each box. How many books could not fit into boxes?
2 books