Additive and Multiplicative Comparison Problems

Tyrone has 16 model airplanes. He has four times as many model airplanes as model trains. How many model trains does Tyrone have?

(a)  

Victor collected 5 times as many seashells as Diana. Diana collected 8 seashells. How many seashells did Victor collect?

(a)   is 10 times as many as 5.

Blue Park has 4 trees and Orange Park has 36 trees. How many times as many trees are in Orange Park as in Blue Park?

(a)  

(a)  

Jordan read 485 pages last month and 391 pages this month. How many pages did Jordan read altogether?

A parking garage has 7 times as many silver cars as red cars. The parking garage has 21 silver cars.

7 x s = 21

How many red cars, s, are in the parking garage?

Bob has 6 pencils at his desk. Sue has twice the number of pencils as Bob. Write an equation that can used to find the number of pencils that Sue has.