Word Problems

A book store had 260 books in the bargain bin. If they sold 72 books, but then put 27 more in the bin, how many books would be in the bin?

• 215 books
• 188 books
• 200 books
• 161 books

A painter needed to paint 11 rooms in a building. Each room takes 7 hours to paint. If he already painted 2 rooms, how much longer will he take to paint the rest?

• 2 hours
• 63 hours
• 77 hours
• 9 hours

Amy had 50 files on her computer. She deleted 18 of them and put the rest into folders that could hold 5 files each. How many folders did Amy end up with?

• 32 folders
• 10 folders
• 7 folders
• 6 folders

Laura went to the store and got 5 books and 6 bookmarks. Each book cost $4, and each bookmark cost $2. 
How much did Laura spend in all.

• $24
• $20
• 6$
• $32 

The fourth grade is taking a field trip. They need to rent minivans to get there. There are 99 people going. Each minivan can hold 10 people. How many minivans will be completely full?

• 99 vans
• 10 vans
• 9 vans
• 1 van