The document contains 30 word problems involving arithmetic calculations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. The problems cover a range of topics including counting objects, money, fractions, time, measurement, and geometry.

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2. Seven girls blew some bubbles. Three girls each blew 6 bubbles. Four girls each blew 3 bubbles. How many bubbles did they blow in all? Restate Illustrate or Pull out Important Information Compute (+, -, x, -) Explain

3. Mr. Walker hid 55 eggs. The children found 48 eggs. How many eggs were not found? Restate Illustrate or Pull out Important Information Compute (+, -, x, -) Explain

4. Ms. Young made a cake for her class. They had their own holiday. It was called "So Smart Second Graders Day." She had 48 blue candy stars. She put some on the cake. There were 17 stars left. How many did she put on the cake? Restate Illustrate or Pull out Important Information Compute (+, -, x, -) Explain

5. Hunter plays basketball for JHHS. During Friday's game, he made eight baskets and eight free throws . A basket scores two points and a free throw scores one point. How many points did Hunter make in Friday's game? Restate Illustrate or Pull out Important Information Compute (+, -, x, -) Explain

6. Christopher had to pay tax on each of the items he bought. He paid sixty-two cents tax on the lock, $6.90 tax on the wooden chest, and $3.09 tax on the new toy. How much tax did Christopher pay altogether? Restate Illustrate or Pull out Important Information Compute (+, -, x, -) Explain

7. 9 boys in a boy scout troop washed the same number of cars at the car wash. They washed 63 altogether. How many cars did each scout wash? Restate Illustrate or Pull out Important Information Compute (+, -, x, -) Explain

8. Jill gave $7.38 to buy a book and received $2.45 cents back as change. how much did the book cost? Restate Illustrate or Pull out Important Information Compute (+, -, x, -) Explain

9. Albert and 3 friends had a total of 12 books. They put an equal number of books onto 2 shelves. What was the total number of books on each shelf? Restate Illustrate or Pull out Important Information Compute (+, -, x, -) Explain

10. The Mississippi river was 37 inches below normal at the end of January. During February the river rose 9 inches. How far below normal was the river at the end of February? Restate Illustrate or Pull out Important Information Compute (+, -, x, -) Explain

11. A taxi charges seventy-one cents for the 2 miles 15 cents for each additional mile. Brad took a taxi for 7 miles. How much did Brad pay? Restate Illustrate or Pull out Important Information Compute (+, -, x, -) Explain

12. Alexis likes to chew bubble gum. Monday she bought three packages of bubble gum for $1.41 each. She gave the clerk $5. How much change should Alexis get? Restate Illustrate or Pull out Important Information Compute (+, -, x, -) Explain

13. Jo has a collection of coins in her pocket. She has nickels, dimes and pennies. If the total amount of money she has in her pocket is $.83 cents, what coins could she have? Restate Illustrate or Pull out Important Information Compute (+, -, x, -) Explain

14. The sum of two numbers is 9. The difference of the same two numbers is 1. What are the two numbers? Restate Illustrate or Pull out Important Information Compute (+, -, x, -) Explain

15. Bill has some quarters, 3 dollars, 6 dimes, and 5 pennies. If Bill has $4.55 all together, how many quarters does Bill have? Restate Illustrate or Pull out Important Information Compute (+, -, x, -) Explain

16. The Simpsons' trip to Madagascar will last from May 23 to June 7. How many days is this? Restate Illustrate or Pull out Important Information Compute (+, -, x, -) Explain

17. Alex is making a pattern. He has 10 red beads, 15 white beads and 12 blue beads. How can he string the beads so that his pattern repeats at lest 4 times. You do not have to use all the beads. Restate Illustrate or Pull out Important Information Compute (+, -, x, -) Explain

18. Greg measured an area of a square to be 16 ft. Albert measured one side of the square to be 4 ft. What is the perimeter of this square? Restate Illustrate or Pull out Important Information Compute (+, -, x, -) Explain

19. Ashanti cut a ribbon into 6 yards. How many feet of ribbon does she have? Restate Illustrate or Pull out Important Information Compute (+, -, x, -) Explain

20. Cortez wants to put fence around his vegetable garden. The garden is a square. He measured on side and it is 6ft. How much fencing will he need to go around the entire garden? Restate Illustrate or Pull out Important Information Compute (+, -, x, -) Explain

21. Mr. Moore made up a holiday. His holiday is "Tall as a Tower Day." Mr. Moore is very tall. He is 6 ft 2 in. tall. His best friend is 5 inches shorter than he is. How tall is Mr. Moore's best friend? Restate Illustrate or Pull out Important Information Compute (+, -, x, -) Explain

22. Jasmine baked an apple pie for her family for dinner. She cut the pie into eight pieces. Her father ate one-fourth of the pie, her mother ate one-eighth of the pie, her older brother ate three pieces of pie, and Jasmine ate the rest. How many pieces of pie did Jasmine eat? Restate Illustrate or Pull out Important Information Compute (+, -, x, -) Explain

23. Stephanie needs at least 35 minutes to get ready for the Easter parade. The parade begins at 3:00 p.m. What is the latest she can start getting ready? Restate Illustrate or Pull out Important Information Compute (+, -, x, -) Explain

24. A diagram included seven hexagons, eleven circles, eight pentagons, twelve squares, and six rays. How many polygons are in the diagram? Restate Illustrate or Pull out Important Information Compute (+, -, x, -) Explain

25. Amy's playhouse is exactly 7 feet by 8 feet. If Amy wants to put a carpet on the floor, how much carpeting is needed Restate Illustrate or Pull out Important Information Compute (+, -, x, -) Explain

26. If a car can hold 4 people, how many cars are needed for 25 people? Restate Illustrate or Pull out Important Information Compute (+, -, x, -) Explain

27. The drama club would like to have fifty-four people see a play at the same time. If they want to have 6 rows, how many chairs should they put in each row? Restate Illustrate or Pull out Important Information Compute (+, -, x, -) Explain

28. Jane is flying from New York to San Francisco with a stop in Chicago. The plane will land in Chicago at 1:23 p.m. and will take off for San Francisco at 3:06 p.m.. How much time will Jane be at Chicago? Restate Illustrate or Pull out Important Information Compute (+, -, x, -) Explain

29. Thomas needs 3 quarts of water for his aquarium. He only has a pint jar to measure the water in. How many times will he need to fill the jar to get the 3 quarts? Restate Illustrate or Pull out Important Information Compute (+, -, x, -) Explain

30. Southside is collecting pennies for charity. The fourth grade used Pringle cans. Each can holds 600 pennies. The fourth grade collected 4 cans. Third grade is using coke cans. Each can holds 250 pennies. Third grade collect 9 cans? .Which grade collected the most money? Restate Illustrate or Pull out Important Information Compute (+, -, x, -) Explain

31. The diameter of a circle painted by Michael is 12 feet. What is the length of its radius? Restate Illustrate or Pull out Important Information Compute (+, -, x, -) Explain

32. Alexandra made up a holiday. She called it "Pink Popcorn Day." She made 6 cups of pink popcorn. She put the same amount of popcorn in 3 bowls. How many cups of popcorn were in each bowl Restate Illustrate or Pull out Important Information Compute (+, -, x, -) Explain

33. Monday Derrick found 23 seashells. On Tuesday he found 12 seashells. On Wednesday he found 37 seashells. He lost 15 seashells on Thursday, but found 32 more on Friday. How many does he have now? Restate Illustrate or Pull out Important Information Compute (+, -, x, -) Explain

34. Raul is planting a garden. He has 4 rows of corn and 6 rows of peas. Each row has 8 plants. How many plants does he have in all? Restate Illustrate or Pull out Important Information Compute (+, -, x, -) Explain

35. Sanchez has finished 2/3 of his project. Maria has finished 33% of her project and Nicholas has finished .50 of his project. Who has finished the most? Restate Illustrate or Pull out Important Information Compute (+, -, x, -) Explain

36. Mr. Yang gets the newspaper everyday. The paper cost fifty cents Monday-Saturday. It cost a $1.50 on Sunday. How much money would his newspaper cost for the month of May? (Hint: May has 31 days, but only 4 of them are Sunday). Restate Illustrate or Pull out Important Information Compute (+, -, x, -) Explain