4th Grade Word Problems

Directions: Use estimation to select all possible answers.

The Rogers children believe it will cost about $200 total if they each buy their mother a surprise for her birthday. Which combinations could be possible gift choices?

• purse, shoes, and bracelet

• shoes and purse

• shoes, perfume, and flowers

Mrs. Tallmon has 168 bags that she is filling with jelly beans for the 4th graders.  She put 9 jelly beans in each bag.  How many jelly beans did she use altogether?

• 19 jelly beans
• 1,512 jelly beans
• 1,514 jelly beans
• 18 jelly beans

Tags

CCSS.3.OA.A.3

Our class was collecting cans for the canned food drive.  We have 26 students in our class and each student collected 36 cans.  How many cans did our class collect altogether?

• 936 cans
• 2 cans
• 636 cans
• 396 cans

Tags

CCSS.3.OA.D.8

My daughter Ava went to the Amazing Pizza machine and earned 464 points playing the games.  She is trying to buy prizes where each prize costs 8 points.  If she uses all of her points, how many prizes will she earn?

• 54 prizes
• 60 R 3 prizes
• 3,712 prizes
• 58 prizes

Tags

CCSS.5.NBT.B.6

CCSS.6.NS.B.2

Jacob was selling his old games. He started out with sixty-eight but sold four of them. He packed the rest up putting eight games into each box. How many boxes did he have to use?

• 9 boxes
• 10 boxes
• 7 boxes
• 8 boxes

Tags

CCSS.3.OA.D.8