Word Problems 4 Operations

Mrs. Jackson had 342 paint brushes.

-She threw away 87 broken paint brushes .

-Then she bought 150 more paint brushes.

Which equation shows how to find the number of paintbrushes she has now?

Mrs. K bought 9 boxes of recorders. Each box contained 8 recorders.

How many recorders did Mrs. K buy?

A classroom currently contains 5 rows of chairs with 7 chairs per row. On parents’ night the classroom had TWICE as many chairs.

Which number sentence can be used to find the number of chairs in the classroom on parents’ night?

Will has 54 books to put on 6 shelves. He wants to put the same number of books on each shelf.

How many books should Scott put on each shelf?

Ms. Jones shipped yogurt cups to a store on Monday.

•She shipped 653 cups of peach yogurt.

•She shipped 219 cups of banana yogurt.

•She shipped 257 cups of vanilla yogurt.

How many more cups of peach yogurt did Ms. Jones ship than cups of banana and vanilla yogurt combined?

Timothy wants to buy a camera that costs $75. He has saved $23, as shown in the model.

Which equation can be used to find how much more money Timothy needs in order to buy the camera?

The table above shows the number of coats and sweaters donated during a clothing drive.

What is the difference between the number of coats and the number of sweatersdonated during the clothing drive?

The table shows the number of towns in five Texas counties.

What is the best estimate of the total number of towns in Harris, Galveston and Montgomery Counties?

There were 45 pretzels at a bakery. A baker made 20 more pretzels. The bakerthen sold 8 pretzels. Which equation shows how to find the number of pretzelsthere are now?