Word ProblemsSeptember 3, 2014

After Ms. Overton purchased a Husky Hooligan T-shirt for $15.78, she had $11.34 remaining. How much money did she have to begin with?

Mr. Manville and the Culinary Arts classes sold several dozen chocolate cupcakes the first day of school. On the second day, they sold 8 dozen. They sold 12 dozen all together. How many dozen did they sell the first day?

Mr. Einstein has three classes with an equal number of students in each class. He has 72 students all together. How many students are in each class?

Mrs. Sharpe is making 48 hot dogs for the

upcoming tailgate at the HHS home football

game. How many dozen hot dogs is she

preparing?

Bobby’s birthday party costs $7 for every guest he invites. How many guests can be there if Bobby can afford to spend a total of $63 on his birthday party?

I ordered four new CDs by mail. Each costs the same amount and there was an additional $5.00 shipping and handling charge that brought the total to $33.00. Write and solve an equation to find the cost of one CD.

Trevor is a salesperson who is paid a salary of $500 plus 2% commission.

Write and solve an equation to determine how much Trevor must sell to

earn $2,000 this month.

Four-year old Anna Jane has been working hard all day making sandcastles. She was able to make twice as many sandcastles before uncle as she made after lunch (nap time got in the way!). If the total number of sandcastles Anna Jane made that day was three times her age, write and solve an equation to determine how many sandcastles she made after lunch.

Hayden is on her school’s Battle of the Books team. She still has 40 pages to read in her final book

before the competition. If she reads 5 times the number of pages tonight as she read last night, and then the last 10 pages tomorrow night, she will be

finished with her book. Write and solve an equation to determine how many pages Hayden has to read

tonight.

Brandy had $50 from doing chores around the house. If she spent $3.50 to get lunch every now and then at school, how many times did Brandy buy lunch if she now only has $29 left?

Daniel Davis Dillard is proud of the lawn care business he runs after school. He charges a flat rate of $10 plus $5 per quarter acre of lawn. After mowing Mr. Stafford’s lawn 5 times, he made a total of $125. Write and solve an equation to determine how many acres of lawn Mr. Stafford owns.

Sean has a stomach ache! He ate some cupcakes at breakfast, three times that number of cupcakes

at lunch, and six cupcakes at dinner. If he ate 18 cupcakes total, write and solve an equation to determine how many cupcakes he ate at lunch.

Mindy found a great sale on bracelets. With the money in her pocket, she can buy 5 bracelets and have $3.00 left or she could buy 2 bracelets and have $9.00 left. Write and solve an equation to find out how much each bracelet cost.

Samantha is selling Girl Scout cookies. This week Ms. Coleman bought 3 boxes, Mr. Phillips bought 4 boxes, and her friend Carroll bought 1 box. Mr. Smith cannot eat cookies so he gave a $7.00 donation to Samantha’s troop. If Samantha sold 10 boxes last week and the amount of money she collected last week equals the amount of money she collected this week, write and solve an equation to determine how much each box of cookies costs.

Megan is getting an ice cream sundae. Two scoops of ice cream is $2.50 and an extra $.80 per topping. If Megan spends $4.90 for her sundae, how many extra toppings did she get on her sundae?