Word Problems #3

There were 28 children swimming in the public pool.

Twice as many children arrived on a school bus and joined the others in the pool. Then half of the kids left the pool to go down the water slide.

How many kids were still in the pool?

• 42

• 28

• 56

• 64

Amherst school district is collecting coats for the winter.

The goal is to collect 800 coats for the winter.

On Monday the district collected 20 boxes with 18 coats each.

On Tuesday the county collected 10 boxes with 13 coats each.

Which is closest to the number of coats the district still needs to collect to meet its goal?

• 200

• 300

• 400

• 700

Amherst Middle School had a school play this weekend. There were three shows in all. 362 people went to the Friday night show and 206 people went to the Saturday night show. If 673 people went in all, how many people went to the Sunday show?

• 134 people

• 116 people

• 1,241 people

• 105 people

For Halloween Bella scored 47 pieces of candy. She ate 25 pieces the first night and then her sister gave her 40 more pieces. How many pieces of candy does Bella have now?

• 75 pieces

• 193 pieces

• 112 pieces

• 62 pieces

For breakfast, Jack bought a muffin for $1.60 and a cup of coffee for $0.55. For lunch, Jack had soup, a salad, and lemonade. The soup cost $2.75, the salad cost $7.85, and the lemonade cost $0.65. How much more money did Jack spend on lunch than on breakfast?

• $13.40

• $11.25

• $9.10

• $2.15

The school went to the fair. 102 students spent $13 on popcorn and a drink and 34 spent $15 on cotton candy and a drink. How much did they spend all together?

• $1,851 all together

• $567 all together

• $2,560 all together

• $987 all together

A family of 12 are going on vacation for four nights to Sea World. They purchased 1 ticket for each person to enter the park, one ticket cost $104. They also had to book 3 hotel rooms that cost $134 a night. How much did their vacation cost in all?

• $1,650 in all

• $2,784 in all

• $1,248 in all

• $2,856 in all

A store sold 336 XBOX games last Christmas. 
the store sold 8 different brands of game consoles.
The store sold the same number of each brand of game console.
How many of each brand of game console did the store sell?

• 40
• 42
• 44
• 48

At the flea market Josh found 7 buckets of LEGOs with each bucket containing 9,792 LEGO pieces. If he wanted to split the LEGO pieces into 6 piles, how many pieces should he put into each pile?

• 12,424

• 13,424

• 5,424

• 11,424

Bryce started his own landscaping business. He charges $6.25 an hour for mowing lawns and $11.75 for pulling weeds. In September he mowed lawns for 63 hours and pulled weeds for 9 hours. How much money did he earn in September?

• $18.00

• $90.00

• $499.50

• $467.75