Word Problems

The cafeteria had fifty-one apples. For lunch they handed out forty-one to students and decided to use the rest to make pies. If each pie takes five apples, how many pies could they make?

• 51 pies
• 41 pies
• 10 pies
• 2 pies

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CCSS.3.OA.D.8

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.7.EE.B.4A

Alyssa eats 3 sandwiches every day.  After 6 days, how many sandwiches will Alyssa eat in all?

• 18
• 24
• 2
• 9

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CCSS.3.OA.A.1

CCSS.3.OA.A.3

Allison is reading a book with 99 pages.  She read 37 pages on Monday.  Then she read 42 pages on Tuesday.  How many pages does she still have to read?

• 178
• 79
• 20
• 62

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CCSS.3.OA.D.8

Kayla has 20 photos of dogs and 30 photos of cats. She displayed an equal number of them on 10 posters for a fund raiser for an animal shelter. How many photos were on each poster? 

• 5
• 150
• 60
• 20

Tags

CCSS.3.OA.A.3

Vanessa was making 7 salads. She opened a can of olives and put 6 olives on each salad. Then she ate the rest of the olives in the can. If there were 51 olives to start with, how many olives did Vanessa eat? 

• 9
• 64
• 38
• 11

Tags

CCSS.3.OA.A.3

There are 45 students taking a trip to the museum. They form 3 groups with 7 students in each. How many students still need to be placed in groups?

• 21 students
• 55 students
• 35 students
• 24 students

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CCSS.3.OA.A.3

A teacher bought twelve packets of crayons. 7 of the packets had 9 crayons and the other 5 packets had 10 crayons How many crayons did the teacher buy in all?

• 113
• 50
• 63
• 120

Tags

CCSS.3.OA.D.8

Aubrey wrote her name 5 times. Ohnjawhit erased 8 of the letters. How many letters are left on the paper?

• 13
• 22
• 19
• 30

Boxes of muffins have 3 rows with 3 muffins in each row. Mrs. Samson needs 45 muffins for the open house. How many boxes of muffins should she buy?

• 6 boxes
• 45 boxes
• 9 boxes
• 5 boxes

Tags

CCSS.3.OA.A.3