Math Word Problems

Khloe has 5 red fish, 7 blue fish and 2 yellow fish. How many fish does she have in all?

14

Justin has 4 dogs. His brother has 1 cat and his sister has 8 fish. How many pets do they have all together?

13

Jane has 9 balloons. 6 are green and the rest are blue. How many balloons are blue?

3

Jayden ate 7 cookies and Michelle ate 2 cookies. How many more cookies did Jayden eat than Michelle?

5

You have to share your 8 candies with your sister. How many will each of you get?

4

A blow pop is $0.05 . How many blow pops can you buy with $0.10?

2

There are 3 frogs on a log. 5 more frogs jump on. How many are on the log now?

8

Hazel picked up 5 bags of leaves. Josiah picked up 2 and Darrell picked up 3. How many bags did they pick up in all?

10

How many corners are on 2 squares?

8

I have a dime, nickel and 3 pennies. How much money do I have?

$0.18

Cody bought a roll of film for $6.25. The tax was $.38. What was the total cost for the roll of film?

$6.63

Ed bought 4 packs of playing cards. Each pack has 52 cards. How many cards did he buy in all?

208 cards

The cook could make 52 hamburgers every hour. How many could he make in 2 hours?

104 hamburgers

Sarita is reading a book that is 360 pages long. She has read 219 pages so far. How many pages does she have left to read?

141 pages

Ed and Tom decided to start an aquarium. They bought 9 guppies, 7 goldfish, and 15 other fish. How many fish did they buy in all?

31 fish

James got an order for 3 dozen eggs from Mrs. Johnson. How many eggs should James take to her?

1 dozen = 12 eggs

36 eggs

Ed and Craig played horseshoes. Ed scored 28 points and Craig scored 19 points. How many more points did Ed score?

9 points

Ed bought his grandmother a plant for her birthday. It cost $8.13. He gave the clerk a 10-dollar bill. How much change did he get?

$1.87

Tom has 27 marbles. Ben has 12 more marbles than Tom. How many marbles does Ben have?

Ben has 39 marbles.

Lia’s grandma gave her 6 books. Now, Lia had 31 books. How many books did Lia have to begin with?

Lia had 25 books to begin with.

Peter has a set of 40 pencils. 12 of the pencils are broken. How many pencils are not broken?

28 pencils are not broken.

Tom and Sam have 42 toy cars. 30 of the cars belong to Tom and the rest belong to Sam. How many of the toy cars belong to Sam?

12 cars belonged to Sam.

Mrs. Brazel has 2 small books, 6 medium sized books and 5 large books. She gave away 4 medium sized books. How many books does she have in total?

9 books

Sarita rides her bike 6 days a week for the same distance each day. She rides 24 miles a week. How many miles does she ride each day?

4 miles

At the beach I collected 35 shells. My friend collected 7 more shells than I did. How many shells did my friend collect?

42 shells

Doug has 17 buttons. He gives 8 to some friends. How many buttons does Doug have now?

9 buttons

There were 16 bananas on a plate. Sue made banana bread with some. Now there are 7 bananas on the plate. How many bananas did Sue use?

9 bananas

The 6th grade classes are going on a field trip. They will take 3 buses. Each bus can hold 35 students. How many students will be going on the field trip?

105 students

Each box contains 3 marbles. Sarah owns 6 boxes. How many marbles does she have in all?

18 marbles

What is 50 × 3?

150

What is 72 × 3?

216

What is 26 × 4?

104

Tim owns 7 shirts. He sells each shirt for $0.75. How much money does he make selling 5 shirts?

$3.75

A box contains 6 cookies. Each cookie has 7 grams of sugar. How much sugar does 6 cookies have?

42 grams of sugar

What is 44 × 3

132

What is 123 × 2?

246

Sam earns $25 every hour. How much money can Sam make in 3 hours?

$75

Anna has 3 cookies. Bob has 6 times the amount of cookies Anna has. How many cookies does Bob have?

18 cookies

Sasha ran 4 miles. Anna ran 7 times the distance Sasha ran. How many miles did Anna run?

28 miles

Kai owns 11 butterflies. Ethan owns 3 more than 2 times the number of butterflies Kai owns. How many butterflies does Ethan own?

25 butterflies.

Challenge: If 6 textbooks cost $354, how much do 13 textbooks cost?

Since 1 textbook cost $59, 13 textbooks will cost $59* 13= $767