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There is a parking lot in front of a building. There are
two rows of parking spots. There are 15 spots in each
row.
1. How many parking spots are there in total?
2. There are 8 cars parked in the first row. How
many empty parking spots are there in the first
row?
3. There are 11 cars parked in the second row. Are
there more cars in the first row or the second
row?
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4. What fraction of parking spots in the second row
are empty?
5. The fee for parking is $2 for one hour. How much
is the parking fee if a car is parked for 3 hours?
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6. of the belong to the people working at the
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building. How many cars belong to the visitors to
the building?
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Answers
1. 15 + 15 = 30
There are 30 parking spots in total.
2. 15 – 8 = 7
There are 7 empty parking spots in the first row.
3. There are more cars in the second row than the first row.
4
4. of the parking spots in the second row are empty.
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5. 2+2+2=6
The parking fee is $6.
6. 3 cars belong to the visitors.
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There are 14 pieces of fruit in the fruit basket. There
are 4 green apples, 3 red apples and 4 bananas. The
rest are lemons.
1. How many lemons are there?
2. How many apples (both green and red) are
there in total?
3. Mrs. Barn paid a quarter for each green apple.
How much do all the green apples cost?
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4. What fraction of the fruit are red apples?
5. In the morning, Mrs. Barn packed 2 bananas for
the children’s lunch. How many bananas are
left?
6. Mrs. Barn is going to soak the apples in syrup for 2
hours to make a special apple pie. If she starts
soaking the apples at 3 o’clock in the afternoon,
when will the apples be done soaking?
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Answers
1. 14 – 4 – 3 – 4 = 3
There are 3 lemons.
2. 4+3=7
There are 7 apples altogether.
3. 25 + 25 + 25 + 25 = 100
All the green apples cost one dollar (100 cents).
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4. of the fruit are green apples.
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5. 4–2=2
There are 2 bananas left.
6. 5 o’clock
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There is a vending machine in the school cafeteria. In
the morning, there are 7 packs of cookies, 7
chocolate bars and 5 bags of chips inside the
vending machine.
1. Are there more cookies or more chips in the
vending machine?
2. A pack of cookies costs 75 cents. A chocolate
bar costs 80 cents and a bag of chips cost a
dollar. Which one is the most expensive?
3. Sean has 5 nickels and 2 quarters.
Which snack can Sean afford?
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4. What fraction of snacks are chocolate bars?
5. In the afternoon, the cookies are sold out. There
are 3 chocolate bars and 3 bags of chips left in
the machine. How many chocolate bars were
sold?
6. The staff at the cafeteria refill the machine by
putting 10 packs of cookies and 3 chocolate
bars and 5 bags of chips in the machine. After
the refill, how many bags of chips are there?
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Answers
1. There are more cookies in the vending machine.
2. The bag of chips is the most expensive.
3. 25 + 25 + 5 + 5 +5 + 5 + 5 = 75
Sean has 75 cents.
Sean can afford to buy a pack of cookies.
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4. of the snacks are chocolate bars.
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5. 7–3=4
4 chocolate bars were sold.
6. 3+5=8
8 bags of chips are in the machine after the refill.
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There is a flower shop at downtown which is having a
sale on roses. In the display, there are 10 white roses,
8 pink roses and 7 red roses.
1. What fraction of the roses are pink?
2. How many roses are there in total?
3. The stem of a rose is 18 cm long. If the florist cuts
6 cm off of the stem, how long is the stem?
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4. A white rose is 60 cents and a pink rose is 75
cents. A red rose is 90 cents. Abby wants to buy a
rose for her mother. She has 3 nickels and 2
quarters. Which rose can she afford to buy?
5. When the shop closes, there are 2 white roses left.
How many white roses were sold?
6. The shop opens at 10 in the morning and closes
at 7 in the evening. How many hours does it open
for in a day?
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Answers
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1. of the roses are pink.
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2. 10 + 8 + 7 = 25
There are 25 roses in total.
3. 18 – 6 = 12
The stem is 12 cm long.
4. 25 + 25 + 5 + 5 + 5 = 65
Abby has 65 cents.
She can afford to buy a white rose.
5. 10 – 2 = 8
8 white roses are sold.
6. 9 hours
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Joe works at stationary store.
1. There are 5 kinds of pens and 8 kinds of pencils
on display. Are there more types of pens or
pencils?
2. There are two kinds of notebooks. The red one is
4 cm thick and the blue one is 2 cm thinner. How
thick is the blue one?
3. The pencil crayons come in two different boxes.
A larger box contains 12 pencils and a smaller
box contains 6 pencils. If Ashely decides to buy
one of each size of box, how many
pencil crayons will she get?
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4. A bookmark is 15 cents. Jenna has 6 nickels.
What is the highest number of bookmarks she
can get?
5. In an assorted pack of 16 envelopes, there are 10
white envelopes, 3 blue envelopes, and 3 grey
envelopes. What is the fraction of envelopes that
are grey?
6. The store opens at 8 in the morning. If it opens for
10 hours, when does the shop close?
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Answers
1. There are more types of pencils.
2. 4–2=2
The blue notebook is 2 cm thick.
3. 12 + 6 = 18
She will get 18 pencil crayons.
4. 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 = 30
Jen has 30 cents.
15 + 15 = 30
2 bookmarks cost 30 cents.
Jen can get 2 bookmarks.
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5. of the envelopes are grey.
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6. 6 o’clock in the evening
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There are 3 floors in this office building. There are 3
offices on the first floor and 6 offices on the second
floor.
1. If there are total of 15 offices in the building, how
many offices are on the third floor?
2. On the second floor, two of the front doors of the
offices are white and three of the front doors are
black and the rest is made of glass. What fraction
of the front door are made of glass?
3. There are 5 staff in each of the 3
offices on the first floor. How many
staff are working on the first floor?
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4. There are 9 vending machines in the building but
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only 9 of them are working.
How many vending machines are working?
How many vending machines are not working?
5. A new vending machine is ordered to replace an
old vending machine. The old vending machine
is 24 inches wide and it is 3 inches wider than the
new vending machine. How wide is the new
vending machine?
6. To save energy, the elevator in the office building
only runs from 8 o’clock to 10 o’clock in the
morning and 3 o’clock to 6 o’clock in the
afternoon. How many hours does the elevator
run everyday?
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Answers
1. 15 – 3 – 6 = 6
There are 6 offices on the third floor.
2. 6–2–3=1
1 door is made of glass.
1
of the doors are made of glass.
6
3. 5 + 5 + 5 = 15
There are 15 staff working on the first floor.
4. 5 of the vending machines are working.
4 of the vending machines are not working.
5. 24 – 3 = 21
The new vending machine is 21 inches wide.
6. 8 o’clock to 10 o’clock in the morning is 2 hours.
3 o’clock to 6 o’clock in the afternoon is 3 hours.
2+3=5
The elevator runs for 5 hours each day.
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