WORD PROBLEMS

1.    A soccer league has $32 to buy new soccer balls. If each ball costs $4, how many balls can the league buy?

• 5

• 6

• 7

• 8

2.    Alan always takes the same route when he walks his dog. First, he walks 9 blocks to the park. Then he walks 4 blocks to the primary school. Finally, he walks 5 blocks to get back home. How many blocks does Alan's dog walk each day?

• 20

• 18

• 19

• 17

3.    Mr. Murphy sells gems. He finds a diamond in Sydney and buys it for $1,960. Then, he flies to Cairo and purchases a bigger diamond for the bargain price of $8,674. How much does Mr. Murphy spend on the two diamonds?

• $6345

• $9634

• $8735

• 10,634

4.   A petri dish originally contained 1582 bacteria. A scientist let the bacteria grow and now there are 7736 of them. How many more bacteria are there now?

• 8136

• 7859

• 9318

• 3919

5.    There are 534 centimetres of tape on each roll. How many centimetres of tape are there on 96 rolls?

• 46261 cm

• 63258 cm

• 34568 cm

• 51264 cm

6.    A printing press needs to ship 918 new textbooks to the publishing company. If each box can hold 9 textbooks, how many boxes will the printing press need?

• 102

• 101

• 100

• 99

7.    Brody is writing a report on the fishing industry. He found that last year, one company caught 8,455 fish in the Atlantic Ocean and 5,981 in the Pacific Ocean. How many fish did the company catch last year?

• 15698

• 14436

• 13258

• 12589

8.    Last year, a total of 7,869 children attended school in Princeton. 3,875 of those children were boys. How many of the children were girls?

• 2345

• 4362

• 3994

• 3994