Word Problems

Jacob has 990 marbles. Zeke has 438 marbles. How many fewer marbles does Zeke have than Jacob?

• 560 marbles
• 552 marbles
• 622 marbles

Tickets to  the museum are $15 for adults and $12 for students. If the 50 students and 8 adults go to the museum, how much will we need to pay?

• $720.00
• $750.00
• $846.00
• huh?

Julie walks 10 dogs a day and gets paid $2.75 every day for each dog. How much money does she make in one week?

• $192.50
• $27.50
• $275.00

A custodian is setting up chairs in an auditorium for a school play. The custodian wants to set up 58 rows of chairs and place 32 chairs in each row. How many chairs will the custodian set up for the school play?

• 290
• 980
• 1,856
• 1,976

Quentin was gathering spending money before his 5 day trip to Disney World.  He found $21 in his bank and $3 stuffed in his wallet.  His grandmother sent him $35 for the trip, and he spend $14 of that money on a new camera.  If he split his money evenly among each day of his trip, how much would he be able to spend on day 4?

• $59
• $45
• $5
• $9

Tags

CCSS.5.NBT.B.6

A family sent 4,312 text messages in the month of October, 5,798 text messages in November, and 8,458 text messages in December.  About how many text messages did they send in those three months?

• 18,000
• 19,000

Tags

CCSS.3.OA.D.8

CCSS.7.EE.B.3

CCSS.4.OA.A.3

Suzy bought 2 pounds of grapes for $2.49 per pound and 3 muffins for $0.75 per muffin.  How much did she pay for the grapes and the muffins?

• $3.24

• $7.23
• $6.48
• $10.72

Tags

CCSS.7.EE.B.3

Sybil had three boxes of pencils.  Each box contains eight pencils.  Sybil divides all of the pencils evenly between four of her friends.  How many pencils does each of her friends get?

• 24
• 6
• 4 R 4

Tags

CCSS.3.OA.A.3

A teacher bought 12 packets of crayons. Seven of the packets had 9 crayons and the other five packets had 10 crayons How many crayons did the teacher buy in all?

• 113
• 50
• 63
• 120

Tags

CCSS.3.OA.D.8

The temperature was 80 degrees in the afternoon.  It was 50 degrees in the evening.  How much did the temperature change?

• 25 degrees
• 30 degrees
• 130 degrees
• 20 degrees

Tags

CCSS.7.NS.A.1C