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Basic Word Problems

Directions: Write the answer to each problem in the space to the right.

1. Paul and Jill both have colds. Paul sneezed 6 times. Jill sneezed 4 times. How many times did sneeze all together? ___________________

2. It snowed 4 days in December. It also snowed 3 days in January. How many total days did it snow in December and January?

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3. Greg ran 4 miles on Thursday. Greg walked for 2 miles on Friday. How many total miles did Greg run or walk all together?

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4. A fruit basket has 5 oranges and 3 pears. How much fruit is in the fruit basket? ___________________

5. There are four chickens and three cows on a farm. How many animals on this farm? ___________________

6. Bill has 2 candles on a birthday cake. Greg adds 1 candle to the cake so that the candles will match Bill's age. How old is Bill?

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7. Bill caught 2 fish. Brad caught 3 fish. How many fish did Bill and Brad catch all together? ___________________

8. A parking lot has 5 cars and 2 minivans. How many vehicles are in the parking lot? ___________________

9. Brad has 3 violet shirts and 1 red shirt. How many shirts does Brad have? ___________________

10. To get to Jill's house, first go 3 miles on 2nd Street. Then, turn right onto 4th street and go for 4 miles. You will then reach Jill's house . How far is it to Jill's house?

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Basic Word Problems


1. Three letters arrived in the mail on Monday. Five letters arrived on Tuesday. How many letters arrived all together between Monday and Tuesday?

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2. If your teacher gave you 6 puzzles last week and 1 puzzle this week, how many puzzles do you have? ___________________

3. Albert has 2 fiction books and 2 non-fiction books. Albert also has 12 magazines. How many reading materials does Albert have?

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4. Greg has 5 candles on a birthday cake. Brad adds 2 candles to the cake so that the candles will match Greg's age. How old is Greg?

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5. There are four chickens and three cows on a farm. How many animals are on this farm? ___________________

6. There are four cows and two bulls on a farm. How many animals are on this farm? ___________________

7. Michael ran four miles on Thursday. Michael walked for three miles on Friday. How many total miles did Michael run or walk all together?

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8. Jane has 2 brown shirts and 1 gray shirt. How many shirts does Jane have? ___________________

9. The black dog ran 4 miles. The white dog ran 3 miles. How many miles did the dogs run all together? ___________________

10. Two letters arrived in the mail on Monday. Three letters arrived on Tuesday. How many letters arrived all together between Monday and Tuesday?

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1. A stored had a sale on all of its 4 cameras. It only sold 3 cameras. How many cameras does the store have left? ___________________

2. Jill ate 3 fruit. Before Jill ate, there was 4 fruit. How much fruit is left in the bowl? ___________________

3. Albert has 2 fiction books and 2 non-fiction books. Albert also has 12 magazines. How many reading materials does Albert have?

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4. Albert is 1 year old. Jill is 4 years old. How much older is Jill? ___________________

5. You have finished 2 questions out of 6. How many more questions do you have to work on to finish? ___________________

6. A fruit basket has four oranges. If two oranges are eaten, how many are left? ___________________

7. A store has 2 yellow candles and 1 violet candle. How many more yellow candles does the store have than violet? ___________________

8. Only 1 cheerleader out of 4 cheerleaders led cheers at the game. How many cheerleaders did not lead a cheer? ___________________

9. On Monday, Michael saw 5 snowmen at the park. When Michael came back to the park on Thursday, Michael noticed that 4 snowmen had melted. How many snowmen did Michael see on Thursday?

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10. Jane found a shortcut. Instead of driving three miles to Greg's house, Jane now only drives two miles. How many miles does the shortcut save Jane from driving?

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Basic Word Problems

Read each of the following. Work out the problem and choose the correct answer.

1. Ginger has an accelerated reader book to read that has 312 pages. She read 219 pages over the weekend. How many more pages does she have to read before taking the test?

a. 103 b. 93

c. 75 d. none of these

2. Mr. Sims went to a reading conference in New York. He drove 714 miles on Thursday, and 326 miles on Friday. How many miles did he drive all together to attend the conference?

a. 1,140 b. 898

c. 1,040 d. 988

3. The Smile Now Company sells pencils to schools. It shipped out 3 boxes of pencils to the Oakland Elementary School. Each box weighed 7 pounds. How many pounds of pencils were shipped to the Oakland School?

a. 15 b. 12

c. 10 d. 21

4. Each box of pencils shipped to the Oakland School contained 144 pencils. If each of the 3 boxes contained 144 pencils, what was the total number of pencils ordered?

a. 500 b. 432

c. 161 d. 147

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5. Mrs. Glenn had 9,234 books in the media center at the beginning of the school year. Grandparents donated 188 books during the year. How many books did she have at the end of the school year?

a. 9,522 b. 1,044

c. 8,422 d. 9,422

6. Use the answer in number 5 to work through this problem. If 3,588 of the books in Mrs. Glenn's media center are non-fiction books, how many are fiction books?

a. 5,834 b. 12,908

c. 4,872 d. 4,281

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Basic Word Problems


1. Sally bought two fantasy fillies for $9 each. She then took $8 out of her savings account, and now she has $26. How much money did she have before the fantasy fillies?

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2.Mike bought a baby shark for $22 and food for $3. Later Mr. Summit gave him $5. Then Mike had $7. How much money did he have before he had bought the shark and food?

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3. Tom ran 4 miles on Thursday. Tom walked for 2 miles on Friday. How many total miles did Tom run or walk all together?

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4. Shannon and Mike went to the store to buy their mom a birthday present. Shannon bought a jewelry box that cost $21.50. Mike bought his mom a sweater that cost $15.99. When they added up how much they had left over they discovered that they had $4.76. How much did they go to the store with?

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5. Ross Perot gets ten votes a state. How many total votes would he get from 50 states? ___________________

6. Jamie has to find the perimeter of a square. The top and bottom of the square is 6 inches, the other sides are 3 inches. What is the perimeter of the square?

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7. Steve is going to bring 3 gallons of surge to a baseball game. If each person drinks 1 quart of surge, how many persons can drink form this jug?

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8. Bill Clinton has 45 statues in the white house. Each shelf will hold nine statues. How many shelves are needed to hold all the statues?

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9. Sarah made a pie. She cut it into 8 pieces. Sharon ate 3/8 of the pie. Terry ate 1/8 of the pie. How much pie was there left for me?

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10. Sarah needs a total of three oranges for her fruit cup. She already has two oranges. What fraction of oranges has she already added?

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1. There were 18 dolls at Jan's house. Jan's friends Alison, and Nancy came over to play. Each girl played with the same number of dolls. How many dolls did each girl play with?

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2. I'm getting ready for a party. I have 200 pieces of candy. If I put 20 pieces in each box, how many boxes are there? ___________________

3. Drew has a pet chameleon named Cornelius. Cornelius ate 413 chameleon crunchies yesterday, 373 this morning, and just now 229! How many chameleon crunchies did Cornelius eat all together?

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4. At the circus there where 4 elephants, each weighing a different amount. Sally, the mama elephant, weighed 8,548 pounds. Jane the daughter weighed 5,241 pounds. Bobby the son, weighed 3,222 pounds, and Jonathan the dad weighed 9,975 pounds. How much did the entire family of elephants weigh?

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5. You are invited to cook spaghetti and meat -balls for a group of pasta fans. They are expecting 738 fans in the first hour, 1,243 fans the second hour and 3,943 fans in the third hour. You are to give each fan a plate of spaghetti and one meatball. How many meatballs will you need?

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6. Seattle had 239 inches of rain in 1993, 178 inches in 1994 and 145 inches in 1995. How much rain did Seattle have from 1993 through 1995?

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7. Drew has a pet baboon named Barnaby. Barnaby loves ___________________

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surprise Barnaby. Barnaby immediately devoured 1,769 of them. How many of Barnaby’s bagels are left?

8. The Dallas Cowboys played against the New York Giants. When the game was over the Giants had 123 points and Dallas had 78 points. Who won the game and by how many points?

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9. A hot air balloon can fly up to 5,233 feet high, and a 747 airplane can travel 35,000 feet high. How much higher can a 747 fly than a hot air balloon?

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10. You have 4,821 marbles. When you are walking to the marble championship the bag breaks. You are able to find 2,534 marbles. How many marbles did you lose?

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1. There are 1,836 polka dots on Hal’s long johns. 1/6 of them are green. How many of the dots are green? ___________________

2. Hal has a pet panther name Petunia. Petunia eats 5,365 pistachios a year. How many pistachios does she eat in 1/5 this time?

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3. There are 5,257 sunflower seeds in the bird feeder. Six chickadees and a baby black bear wish to divide the seeds up evenly among themselves. How many seeds will each receive?

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4. If you had to travel 1,092 miles in seven days, how many miles would you have to travel a day to make the trip? ___________________

5. A peanut farmer has 8 children and he harvests 784 peanuts. How many peanuts can he give each child? ___________________

6. You are making cookies for 4 of your friends and yourself. Instead of making lots of small cookies, you decide to make 5 big cookies. If you have 785 chocolate morsels, how many morsels can you put in each cookie?

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7. Hal has a pet Kudu named Cucumber. Cucumber loves kumquats and consumes 58 a day. How many kumquats will Cucumber eat in a year?

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8. Hal has planted 39 strawberry plants. If each plant yields 129 strawberries, how many strawberries will he have growing in his garden all together?

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9. On the race-track, one lap is 12 miles long. On Sunday they will hold a race that has 132 laps. How many miles long is the race?

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10. A comet traveling at 783 miles an hour can travel how many miles in one day? ___________________

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1. Sue was going to Oregon on Monday the 10th. Her plane took off at 1:30 P.M., but she got there 1 hour early. The plane landed at 2:00 P.M.. She stayed 12 days. On what day did she get home?

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2. Charlie lives in Seattle. He planned a trip to California. He left on August 2, 1999. He went to the airport at 5:00 P.M.. The plane left at 5:30 P.M.. Charlie arrived in California at 10:00 P.M, Seattle time. How long did the flight take?

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3. Stephanie lives in Shoreline. She was planning a trip to California. She left at 8:30 A.M.. She arrived in California at 7:00 P.M.. How long did it take her to get to California?

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4. Kayla lives in Seattle, Washington. She planned a plane trip to Korea. She sent a letter by e-mail at 4:53 P.M. and got a letter back at 5:04 P.M.. How long did Kayla have to wait for her letter back?

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5. Blake arrived at his destination, by plane, at 5:40 A.M.. The plane left at 6:40 P.M.. How long did Blake’s flight take?

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6. Gerard went to Canada at 7:00 A.M.. When he got there it was 12:00 P.M.. How many hours did it take for him to travel to Canada?

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7. A box of apples weighs nine kilograms plus the weight of half a box of apples. What is the weight of a box of apples?

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8. A man is now three times as old as his son and was 30 years old when his son was born. How old is the son now? ___________________

9. The difference between two numbers is 56. The sum of these two numbers is 208. What is the smaller number of the two?

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10. If Charlie buys 5 oranges at 2 cents, and sells 4 for three cents, how many oranges must he buy to sell for a profit of 420 cents?

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1. My washing machine needs to be fixed. It made 7 loud noises on Monday, 15 loud noises on Tuesday, and 17 loud noises on Wednesday. On Thursday, it tore big holes in all of my socks. How many noises did it make altogether this week ?

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2. Oscar Harris had a new job. He was supposed to watch all the sheep on Arnold's Sheep Ranch. There were 6,779,002 sheep on the ranch. After a week on the job, Oscar decided to count the sheep. There were only 79,843 sheep! How many sheep were missing ?

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3. A woman with 2 children is chosen, at random, among all women that have two children. She has at least one boy. What is the probability her other child is a boy? Assume every pregnancy has a 50/50 chance to be a boy or a girl.

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4. Sue is ten years older than Billy. Next year she will be twice as old as Billy. How old are they now? ___________________

5. A farmer grows 252 kilograms of apples. He sells them to a grocer who divides them into 5 kilogram and 2 kilogram bags. If the grocer uses the same number of 5 kg bags as 2kg bags, then how many bags did he use in all?

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6. An 800 seat multiplex is divided into 3 theatres. There are 270 seats in theatre 1, and there are 150 more seats in theatre 2 than in theatre 3. How many seats are in theatre 2?

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average number of kilometers traveled by each person is 152 km per month. How many kilometers will be traveled in one year?

8. Bacteria in a petri- dish double the area they cover every day. If the dish is covered after 16 days, on what day was only one quarter of it covered?

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9. Jenny bought 7 t-shirts, one for each of her seven brothers, for $9.95 each. The cashier charged her an additional $13.07 in sales tax. She left the store with $7.28. How much money did Jenny start with?

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10. If Best Buy buys 8 oranges for 5 cents, and sells 4 for 11 cents, how many oranges must the store buy and sell to make a profit of about 500 cents?

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Intermediate Basic Word Problems


1. Bill sold 2 used books for $452.00 each. However, the cost of each book was different. As a result a profit of 22% was made on the first book sold, but a loss of 22% was made on the second sale. What is Bill's total profit or loss on both books?

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2. A school uniform can be created with 4/5 yards of material. How many uniforms can be created if you have 22 yards of material?

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3. At the baseball game, you saw Jane. Jane told you that he made $52.09 at the last game selling a total of 31 items consisting of beer or popcorn. If Jane makes $1 selling popcorn and $2.11 selling beer, how many items of popcorn was sold?

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4. A large juice jug holds the equivalent of 10 drinking cups. Four jugs hold 189 ounces more than 13 drinking cups. How many ounces does a cup hold?

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5. An Internet company went out of business and was forced to pay all of its cash to its creditors. It could only pay $0.447 for every dollar it owes. However, if it is allowed to sell the customer database for $735 it could pay $0.482 for every dollar owed. What is the total amount the company owes if it had to pay the full amount?

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6. Brad sold two-thirds of his candy bars for 6 cents each. He has 15 left for sale in his store. How much money does Brad have from those bars already sold?

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7. Amy and Jane have 27 coins. Jane and Greg have 24 coins. Amy and Greg have 23 coins. How many coins do they have altogether?

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8. A person calls you on the phone and offers you a deal you cannot refuse. If you switch to Nice Boy Long Distance you will only have to pay 6 cents per minute, but this offer requires you to pay a fixed monthly fee of $7.27 in addition to per minute charges. Currently you pay 15 cents per minute with no additional monthly fee. How many minutes do you need to talk on the phone, for this offer to be worth switching to?

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9. Paul has three times more money invested at 8% than in another bank where 10% is earned for the year. If Paul earned $4,760.00 in interest for the year, how much does Paul have invested at 8%?

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10. You purchased one pound of coffee for $20. At what price do you need to mark the coffee for sale in your coffee shop, if you wish to offer a 22% discount to your customers, yet earn a 39% profit on the original cost?

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1. A large juice jug holds the equivalent of 8 drinking cups. Five jugs hold 232 ounces more than 11 drinking cups. How many ounces does one cup hold?

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2. At the baseball game, you saw Paul. Paul told you that he made $44.14 at the last game selling a total of 27 items consisting of beer or popcorn. If Paul makes $1.22 selling popcorn and $2.62 selling beer, how many items of popcorn was sold?

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3. At $3.72 per hour, what is the least amount of full hours needed to work to earn at least $299.00? ___________________

4.Family one paid $69.04 for 8 cups of coffee, 6 sandwiches, and 6 pieces of cake. Family two paid $79.32 for 7 pieces of cake, 9 cups of coffee, and 7 sandwiches. What is the cost of 1 sandwich, 1 coffee, and 1 piece of cake?

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5. In New York, a taxi costs 85 cents for the first 1/10 of the first mile and 12 cents for every additional 1/10 mile. How much does it cost to drive 12 miles?

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6. Paul can paint a room in 6 hours. Jill can paint a room in 7 hours. How long will it take both of them to paint a room together?

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7. A large juice jug holds the equivalent of 10 drinking cups. Six jugs hold 312 ounces more than 8 drinking cups. How many ounces does a cup hold?

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8. Bill sold two-thirds of his candy bars for 38 cents each. He has 10 left for sale in his store. How much money does Bill have from those bars already sold?

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9. At $3.58 per hour, what is the least amount of full hours needed to work to earn at least $261.00? ___________________

10. If after 25 games in chess, the winner was ahead 23 points, how many points does the loser have? Assume a win is worth 1 point, a tie a half a point, and no points to a loser.

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1. Ordering fresh ground meat from the meat factory costs 1/10 of the meat. If you need 2 pounds of meat, how much meat will the meat factory have to grind?

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2. Charles sold two-thirds of his candy bars for 44 cents each. He has 12 left for sale in his store. How much money does Charles have from those bars already sold?

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3. If after 31 games in chess, the winner was ahead 41 points, how many points does the loser have? Assume a win is worth 1 point, a tie a half a point, and no points to a loser.

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4.You purchased one pound of candy for $7. What price do you need to mark the candy for sale in your candy shop, if you wish to offer a 48% discount to your customers, yet earn a 56% profit on the original cost?

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5. Tickets for the opening day basketball game are available for $18 in advance or $34 if purchased on the day of the game. During half-time it is announced that 2,155 tickets were sold. If you find out that they had revenues of $60,502.00 for the game, how many tickets were sold in advance?

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6. 23% of the seniors at a high school failed pre-calculus. If 1,138 students failed pre-calculus, how many seniors are at this high school?

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7. Jill is paid $991 per week, plus receives 15% commission on sales made during the week. If Jill receives a $3965.35 paycheck this week, how much did Jill have in sales?

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another bank where 6% is earned for the year. If Zane earned $5,040.00 in interest for the year, how much does Zane have invested at 9% ?

9. At $4.47 per hour, what is the least amount of full hours needed to work to earn at least $240? ___________________

10. Zane can paint a room in 5 hours. Terry can paint a room in 6 hours. How long will it take both of them to paint a room together?

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Answer Key Page 1 1. 10

2. 7 3. 6 4. 8 5. 7 6. 3 7. 5 8. 7 9. 4 10. 7

page 2 1. 8

2. 7 3. 16 4. 7 5. 7 6. 6 7. 7 8. 3 9. 7 10. 5

page 3 1. 1

2. 1 3. 16 4. 3 5. 4 6. 2 7. 1 8. 3 9. 1 10. 1

pages 4-5 1. b

2. c 3. d 4. b 5. d 6. a

pages 6-7 1. $43.00

2. $27.00 3. 6 4. $42.25 5. 500 6. 18 7. 12 8. 5

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9. ½ 10. 2/3

pages 8-9 1. 6

2. 10 3. 1,015 4. 26,986 5. 5,924 6. 562 7. 1,578 8. Giants, 45 points 9. 29,767 10. 2,287

pages 10-11 1. 306

2. 1,073 3. 751 4. 156 5. 98 6. 157 7. 21,170 8. 5,031 9. 11 10. 18,792

pages 12-13 1. Saturday

2. 4 ½ 3. 10 ½ 4. 11 5. 13 6. 17 7. 13.5 8. 30

Pages 14-15 1. 39 2. 6699159 3. 50 4. Bill = 11, Sue = 21 5. 36 6. theater 1 = 270, theater 2 = 380, theater 3 = 150 7. 5472 8. day 4 9. $90.00

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