Word Problems/ Finding Operation

Ruffle Truffle Candy Company got an order for 850 chocolate truffles from the candy shop. They also got an order for 7,309 truffles from a food store. Then one more order came in for 3,125 truffles from a restaurant. How many truffles does the factory have to make to fill these orders? What kind of equation will need to write to solve this problem?

• 850

  7,309

  x 3,125

• 7,309

  3,125

  - 850

• 7,309

  ÷3,125

• 3,125

  x 850

• 850

  7,309

  +3,125

Flyaway Airlines has 3 flights to New Park City every day from San Jose. Each plane seats 400 passengers. On Monday, the first flight had 325 passengers. The second flight had 387 passengers. The third flight had 221 passengers. If you had to solve for the number of seats left empty for the day, which operations would you use?

• Addition

• Subtraction and Division

• Multiplication, Addition, or Subtraction

• Multiplication and Division

Birthday candles from The Happy Hippy Candle Company are sold in packs of 8. They manufactured 6,000 boxes this past week and sold 8,000 candles. How many boxes of candles did they sell this past week? What is one part of the equation that could help you solve this problem?

• 6,000

  x 8

• 8,000

  -6,000

• 8,000

  ÷ 8

• 6,000

  x8,000

There are 96 frozen turkeys and 65 hams in the meat freezer at Frosty Food Mart. Each turkey weighs 19 pounds. Each ham weighs 10 pounds. How much does all the meat weigh in all?

• 190 lbs

• 2,876 lbs.

• 2,474 lbs.

• 829 lbs.

The Kwik Kar Rental Company has 27 locations in 12 states. They have 1,350 cars to rent out. If they distribute all the cars evenly among their locations, how many cars will each location get? Which equation will help you solve this problem?

• (27 x 12) ÷ 1,350

• 1,350/27

• 1,350 x 27 x 12

• 1,350

  27

  - 12

It was a sellout crowd at the baseball game. There were 42,500 fans in attendance. Every seat was filled. There are 85 rows of seats that wrap around the stadium. There is the same number of seats in every row. How many fans were seated in each row? And, which operation would you use?

• 500, division

• 97, multiplication

• 41,915, subtraction

• 487, division

A number code is used to unlock the special vault. Three numbers must be entered in the correct order on a keypad numbered 0-100. The first is an even number less than 30 that has 2 digits, both the same. The second number is even and is ½ of the number that is ¼ of 16. The third number is the product of the first two numbers and then doubled. What is the code?

• 22,2,88

• 33,16,2

• 11,16,4

• 11,4,88

Explorer Francis Drake found an ancient site with Mayan gold bars. He found three. The first was 5/12 of a pound. The second bar was 7/16 of a pound, and the third was 3/8 of a pound. How much did the bars weigh all together?

• 2 lbs.

• 1 11/48 lbs.

• 1 12/16 lbs.

• 1 16/59 lbs.

Clayton Kershaw is a professional baseball player and practices pitching every day. He spent 12,000 minutes practicing his pitching in July. He practices batting for 1 hour each week. How many hours did he practice his pitching in July? What operation do you need to use to solve this, and what is the answer?

• Multiplication, 200 hrs.

• Division, 187 hrs.

• Multiplication 4 hrs.

• Division, 200 hrs.

Gary’s professional baseball cards are divided among 4 teams. 1/5 of his cards are San Francisco Giants players. 0.25 are New York Yankees players. 0.10 of the cards are Los Angeles Dodgers. The rest play for the Atlanta Braves. What would best describe how much of his collection is Braves players?

• 9/20

• 0.40

• 0.55

• 2/5