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Victor, Austin, and Brian made traps to catch shrimp. Victor's trap caught 26 shrimp and Austin's trap caught 8 less than Victor's. Brian's trap caught half of Victor and Austin's total number of shrimp. How many shrimp did Victor's trap catch?
26
Pat's stick is 30 inches long. He covers 7 inches of the stick in dirt. The portion that is not covered in dirt is half as long as Sarah鈥檚 stick. Jane鈥檚 stick is two feet shorter than Sarah鈥檚 stick. How long is Pat's stick?
30
Nicole has 4 fish tanks. The first two tanks need 8 gallons of water each and the other two need 2 fewer gallons of water each than the first two tanks. How many gallons of water do the first two tanks need?
8
Jackson's oldest son gets 4 cookies after school and his youngest son gets 2 cookies after school. How many cookies does Jackson's oldest son get after school?
4
You walk twice as fast as Mr. Harris, and Mr. Harris took 2 hours to walk to the store. How many hours did it take Mr. Harris to walk to the store?
2
In a school with 800 students, 5/8 of the students are girls. Seven-tenths of the girls and two-fifths of the boys are in the primary grades, while the rest are middle schoolers. How many students are there in the school?
800
In India, it cost $1 to purify a gallon of fresh water. Each person needs 1/2 a gallon of fresh water a day. How much fresh water does each person need a day?
1
A school bus has 4 columns and 10 rows of seats. How many columns does a school bus have?
4
Four people in a law firm are planning a party. Mary will buy a platter of pasta for $20 and a loaf of bread for $2. Elle and Andrea will split the cost for buying 4 cans of soda which cost $1.50 each, and chicken wings for $10. Joe will buy a cake that costs $5. How much does the cake that Joe will buy cost?
5
Dabbie bought 3 turkeys for thanksgiving, the first turkey is 6 kilograms, the second turkey is 9 kilograms, and the weight of the third turkey is twice the weight of the second turkey. How many turkeys did Dabbie buy for Thanksgiving?
3
Carl buys index cards for his class. He gives each student 10 index cards. He teaches 6 periods a day and each class has 30 students. How many periods does he teach a day?
6
The balance of Pam's bank account tripled during the year. At the end of the year, Pam withdrew $250. How much money did Pam withdraw at the end of the year?
250
The distance between Robin's house and the city center is 500 meters. He leaves the house to go to the city center. After he walks 200 meters he realizes that he forgot his bag. So he returns to his house, then goes back to the city center. What is the distance between Robin's house and the city center?
500
A baseball team has averaged 15 hits per game over their first 5 games. There are 11 players on the team. Their best player has 25 total hits. How many total hits does their best player have?
25
Cornelia likes to travel. She visited already 42 different countries. 20 of them were in Europe and 10 in South America. From the rest of the countries, only half of them were in Asia. How many different countries did she visit?
42
Maurice is getting $2 for every finished task. And for every 10 tasks finished, he receives a $6 bonus. How many tasks does he need to finish in order to receive a $6 bonus?
10
In a restaurant, one cup of coffee is $6 and a piece of cheesecake $10. When buying them together, the client gets a 25% discount. How much does one cup of coffee cost in the restaurant?
6
The gauge on a water tank shows that the tank is 1/3 full of water. To fill the tank, 16 gallons of water are added. How many gallons of water are added to fill the tank?
16
In a car dealership, Fiona worked for 40 hours a week, John for 30 hours, and Jeremy for 25 hours. How many hours did Fiona work in the car dealership?
40
Jeanine bought 18 pencils and Clare bought half as many pencils. How many pencils did Jeanine buy?
18
Mark is a lawyer who works at the county courthouse every day. It takes him 5 minutes to find parking and 3 minutes to walk into the courthouse. 2 days of the week it takes him 30 minutes to get through the metal detector and the other 3 days are less crowded so he gets through in 10 minutes. How many days of the week does it take him 30 minutes to get through the metal detector?
2
At Ken's local store, a pound of steak is going for $7. He decides to get two pounds. At the till, he pays using a $20 bill. How much does he pay at the till?
20
Edmund is buying a new computer and needs to save up $75 before he has enough. He convinces his parents to pay him for extra chores. He normally has to do 12 chores a week. His parents agree to pay him $2 for every extra chore he does during the week. How many chores does he normally have to do a week?
12
Mrs. Amaro has 80 roses in her garden. Three-fourths of her roses are red, one-fourth of the remaining are yellow, and the rest are white. How many roses does Mrs. Amaro have in her garden?
80
A construction company is building 2 apartment buildings with 12 floors each. The apartments are almost ready to sell but all of them need doors to be completed. Each floor has 6 apartments, and each apartment needs 7 doors in total. How many apartments are there on each floor?
6
James buys 2 notebooks with 50 pages each. He pays $5. How much does he pay?
5
Marcy keeps a 2-liter bottle of water by her desk. She takes a sip every five minutes, and each sip is 40 ml. How many liters of water does Marcy keep by her desk?
2
Haily wants to go to the salon and do her nails, cut her hair and do a facial cleaning. She doesn't want to spend much, so she called 3 salons to get their prices: Gustran Salon, Barbara's Shop, and The Fancy Salon. At Gustran Salon, the haircut is $45, the facial cleaning is $22 and the nails are $30. At Barbara's shop, the nails are $40, the haircut is $30 and the facial cleaning is $28. And, at the Fancy Salon, the facial cleaning is $30, the haircut is $34 and the nails are $20. How much does a nail cost at Barbara's shop?
40
Mike spent 37 dollars on notebooks. He bought a total of 12 notebooks. He bought 3 red notebooks at 4 dollars each, 2 green notebooks at 2 dollars each, and the rest were blue notebooks. How many red notebooks did he buy?
3
Gretchen is a scuba diver. She likes to hunt for treasure on the ocean's floor, but when she finds something to keep, she must carry it back to the surface of the water to give it to her shipmate on the boat. She can only carry 3 objects at a time while she swims underwater. How many objects can she carry at a time while swimming underwater?
3
To support the school outreach program, Einstein wants to raise $500 by selling snacks. One box of pizza sells for $12, a pack of potato fries sells for $0.30, and a can of soda at $2. Einstein sold 15 boxes of pizzas, 40 packs of potato fries, and 25 cans of soda. How many boxes of pizzas did Einstein sell?
15
A small pizza can gives 4 slices, and a large pizza gives 8 slices. George purchased 3 small and 2 large pizzas. George would like to eat 3 pieces. His friend Bob would like to eat one more piece than George. Susie will eat half as many as Bob. Bill, Fred and Mark would each like 3 pieces. How many pieces would Bill, Fred, and Mark each like?
3
Arthur wants to sell his basketball card collection and use the money to buy comic books. The store owner tells him that each card is worth 5 cents and comic books cost $6 each. How much is each card worth?
5
Bobby wanted pancakes for breakfast. The recipe on the box makes 21 pancakes. While he ate 5 pancakes, his dog jumped up and was able to eat 7 before being caught. How many pancakes does the recipe on the box make?
21
The bakery has 8 indoor tables and 12 outdoor tables. Each indoor table has 3 chairs and each outdoor table has 3 chairs. How many chairs are there on each indoor and outdoor table?
3
Geordie takes a toll road on his drive to work and back every day of his five-day workweek. The toll is $12.50 per car or $7 per motorcycle. Both his car and his motorcycle get 35 miles per gallon of gas and the commute to work is 14 miles. Gas costs him $3.75 per gallon. Geordie drives his car to work three times a week and his motorcycle to work twice a week. What is the toll per car?
12.5
Carla is dividing up chores for her two kids, Anna and Billy. She wants each of them to spend the same number of minutes working. Sweeping takes 3 minutes per room, washing the dishes takes 2 minutes per dish, and doing laundry takes 9 minutes per load. How many minutes does it take to sweep a room?
3
Uncle Ben has 440 chickens on his farm. 39 are roosters and the rest are hens. 15 of his hens do not lay eggs, and the rest do. How many of them are roosters?
39
Steve has 25 socks. He has 4 pairs of socks that match, and all the others don't match. How many socks does Steve have?
25
Mrs. Jackson has four boxes of Christmas decorations. There are 15 decorations in each box. She was only able to use 35 decorations and decided to give the rest to her neighbor. How many decorations are there in each box?
15
Philip has a farm with animals. He has 20 cows, 50% more ducks. Philip also has as many pigs as one-fifth of ducks and cows in total. How many cows does he have?
20
To make a lasagna Martha needs 1.5kg of cheese and 500 grams of meat. The cheese costs $6 per kilogram, and the meat $8 per kilogram. How many kilograms of cheese does Martha need to make a lasagna?
1.5
The Tampa Bay Bucs have 13 football players and 16 cheerleaders. How many football players do the Tampa Bay Bucs have?
13
Twenty people pre-bought plane tickets at a price of $155 per ticket. Thirty people bought their plane tickets at the gate and they each paid $200 for their ticket. How much did each person pay for their plane ticket?
200
Marco owns an ice cream truck. His ice cream cones are $5 each. How much does each ice cream cone cost?
5
If Beth had $35 more, she would have $105. If Jan had $10 less, he would have the same money as Beth has. How much money does Jan have less than Beth?
10
Bob's school track is 400 meters. How long is Bob's school track?
400
A snack machine accepts only quarters. Candy bars cost 垄25, each piece of chocolate costs 垄75, and a pack of juice costs 垄50. How much do candy bars cost?
25
Jordan's dog, Max, was born on the same day that Luka turned 4 years old. Luka is exactly 2 years older than is Aubrey. How many years older is Luka than Aubrey?
2
Every bedtime, Juwella reads a book. Three nights ago, she read 15 pages. Two nights ago she read twice that many pages, while last night she read 5 pages more than the previous night. She promised to read the remaining pages of the book tonight. How many pages did she read three nights ago?
15
An ice cream vendor has 50 chocolate-flavored ice creams and 54 mango-flavored ice creams in his cart. How many chocolate-flavored ice creams does the ice cream vendor have in his cart?
50
Erika and her 3 siblings are drawing with chalk outside. Another 3 friends join them and ask if they can help with the drawing. Erika loses 2 pieces of chalk as they are counting and the group realizes there isn't enough chalk for everyone. Erika鈥檚 mom brings out another 12 pieces of chalk for them to share and there is now enough chalk for everyone to have 3 pieces each. How many pieces of chalk did Erika's mom bring out for them to share?
12
Diana needs to bike 10 miles to get home. She can bike 3 mph for two hours before she gets tired, and she can bike 1 mph until she gets home. How fast can she bike before she gets tired?
3
Salem loves to write poems, and she always stores her poem in a creativity box kept safely in her home library. Last week, she created a poem with 20 stanzas. How many stanzas did she create in her poem last week?
20
Lucille is wondering who has the tallest house between her and her neighbors. His family's house is 80 feet tall. One neighbor's house is 70 feet tall. Another neighbor's house is 99 feet tall. How tall is his family's house?
80
At a UFO convention, there are 120 conference attendees. How many conference attendees are there at the UFO convention?
120
George wants to borrow $100 from a loan shark. The finance fee starts at 5% and doubles every week. What is the starting finance fee?
5
Tabitha adds 1 serving of honey per cup of tea in the evening. She usually has 2 cups of tea before bed. She buys her honey in a 16-ounce container. How many ounces is the container she buys her honey in?
16
A pumpkin patch allows people to come pick pumpkins to carve in the fall every year. They charge $3 per person for a pumpkin. The remaining pumpkins get turned into cans of pie filling, 3 pumpkins to a can. They grew 83 pumpkins this year and made $96 selling pumpkins for carving. How much do they charge per person for a pumpkin?
3
Tom plants a tree that is 1 year old and 5 feet tall. It gains 3 feet per year. How much does it gain per year?
3
Macey saves to buy herself a shirt that costs $3. She was able to save $1.50 already. How much does the shirt that Macey wants to buy cost?
3
The leak in Jerry's roof drips 3 drops a minute into the pot he put under it. Each drop is 20 ml, and the pot holds 3 liters. How many drops does the leak in Jerry's roof drip into the pot per minute?
3
Gail has some bills in her wallet which amount to $100. She has four $5 bills and three $20 bills, and the rest are $10 bills. How much money do Gail's bills in her wallet amount to?
100
At a party, there are 50 people. 30% of them are boys. What percentage of them are boys?
30
Amelia has laundry to do. She has a load of whites that will take 72 minutes in the washing machine and 50 minutes in the dryer. She has a load of darks that will take 58 minutes in the washing machine and 65 minutes in the dryer. She has a load of colors that will take 45 minutes in the washer and 54 minutes in the dryer. How many minutes will it take to wash the load of whites in the washing machine?
72
85 paper stars are required to fill a glass jar. Luke has already made 33 stars, but he needs to fill 4 bottles. How many stars has Luke already made?
33
Mason has 3 cartons of 200 blueberries. He makes as many muffins as he can with 10 blueberries per muffin. Then he makes 60 cinnamon muffins. How many cartons of blueberries does Mason have?
3
Noa scored 30 points to win a bowl, and Phillip scores twice that number. How many points did Noa score to win a bowl?
30
Nathan planted 5 strawberry plants and 7 tomato plants. He harvested 14 strawberries from each plant and 16 tomatoes from each plant. He then distributed the strawberries and tomatoes into baskets of 7. He sold a basket of strawberries for $9 and a basket of tomatoes for $6. How much did he sell a basket of strawberries for?
9
Three different 6th grade classes are combining for a square dancing unit. If possible, the teachers would like each male student to partner with a female student for the unit. The first class has 17 males and 13 females, while the second class has 14 males and 18 females, and the third class has 15 males and 17 females. How many males are there in the first class?
17
Wendy spent 25 years as an accountant and 15 years as an accounting manager. How many years did Wendy spend as an accountant?
25
At the patisserie, a single layer cake slice is $4 and a double layer cake slice is $7. Dusty buys 7 single layer cake slices and 5 double layer cake slices. How many single layer cake slices does Dusty buy?
7
Christina walks 7km to school every day from Monday to Friday. She returns home covering the same distance. Last Friday her mother asked her to pass by her friend, which is another 2km away from the school in the opposite distance from home. How far is her mother's friend's house from the school?
2
Carol has $60 and saves $9 per week. Mike has $90 and saves $3 per week. How much money does Carol have?
60
There are three machines in a factory. Machine A can put caps on 12 bottles in 1 minute. Machine B can put caps to 2 fewer bottles than Machine A. Machine C can put caps to 5 more bottles than Machine B. How many bottles can Machine A put caps on in 1 minute?
12
Janet is considering two options to retile her bathroom. The turquoise tiles cost $13/tile and the purple tiles cost $11/tile. How much does each turquoise tile cost?
13
Jason is planning a parking garage that will have 12 floors. Every 3rd floor has a gate where drivers have to show ID, which takes two minutes. To get from one floor to the next, drivers have to drive 800 feet at 10 feet/second. On which floor is the gate where drivers have to show ID?
3
On Black Friday a popular electronics store sells 327 televisions. This is 50 more than they sold last Black Friday. What is the difference between this and what they sold last Black Friday?
50