WHOLE NUMBER WORD PROBLEMS

1. Bella’s book is 872 pages long. She has already read 188 pages of her book. Bella plans to finish reading
her book during the next 3 weeks. If she reads an equal number of pages each week, how many pages
will she be reading each week?
a) 353 pages
b) 228 pages
c) 2,052 pages
d) 219 pages

2. Daana put her glass animal figures on 7 shelves. Each shelf had 14 figures. One day, her cat knocked over
and broke 3 figures from each of 2 shelves. Then, her mother replaced one broken figure on each shelf.
How many glass animals does Daana have now?
a) 94 animals
b) 110 animals
c) 96 animals
d) 16 animals

3. At Gage's baseball park, the bleachers have 20 rows that each hold 25 people. At one game, 5 rows each
have 18 people, 4 rows each have 25 people, and 10 rows each have 9 people. How many more people
could fit in the bleachers?
a) none, the bleachers are full
b) 500 people
c) 280 people
d) 220 people

4. The costume store has 8 racks of costumes with 16 costumes on each rack. Six groups of 3 people enter
the store, and each person buys a costume. How many costumes are left in the store?
a) 128 costumes
b) 110 costumes
c) 28 costumes
d) 40 costumes

5.

a) 17 students
b) 37 students
c) 314 students
d) 13 students
6. Daniel took four sets of 24 pictures of his dog. In two of the sets, all of the pictures came out well. He did
not like 5 pictures in each of the remaining two sets. How many pictures did Daniel like?
a) 96 pictures
b) 86 pictures
c) 10 pictures
d) 91 pictures

7. The art teacher used rolls of tickets to reward students during class. This first nine weeks she passed out
8 rolls of tickets. The second nine weeks she passed out 5 rolls of tickets and the third nine week she
used 4 rolls of tickets. Each roll of tickets contained 65 tickets. How many tickets did she pass out the
first and second nine weeks of school?
a) 845 tickets
b) 1,105 tickets
c) 520 tickets
d) 780 tickets

8. Elisabeth the june bug ate 17 meals today. Yesterday she ate 9 times more than today. How many more
meals did she eat yesterday than today?
a) 136 meals
b) 153 meals
c) 8 meals
d) 144 meals

9. Betty has 3,570 candies to split with her ten friends. She eats 310 of the candies before sharing. How
many candies will each of her ten friends receive?
a) 326 candies
b) 357 candies
c) 324 candies
d) 31 candies

10. There was 9,890 players and 20 hackers on a Fortnite server together. 5,405 players rage quit. If the
remaining players formed teams of 5, how many complete teams will there be?
a) 1,974 teams
b) 897 teams
c) 901 teams
d) 869 teams

11. The seniors are going on a class trip to Disneyland. There are 162 seniors and 24 chaperones. One bus
can hold 65 people. How many buses do they need to order to take everyone to Disneyland?
a) 2 buses
b) 3 buses
c) 4 buses
d) 5 buses
12. Niki's mom is buying every student a math notebook. The notebooks are sold by a case of 22 or
individually. There are 14 classrooms with 16 students in each one. How many cases and individual
notebooks should she buy?
a) 11 cases and 0 individual
b) 10 cases and 8 individual
c) 10 cases and 4 individual
d) 11 cases and 7 individual

13. In a home revocation competition, you get:

 9 points for every wall built
 5 points for every light switch installed
 2 points for every outlet installed
The Grey’s built 6 walls, installed 5 light switches, and 3 outlets
How many points did the Grey’s earn in all?
a) 105 points
b) 54 points
c) 79 points
d) 85 points

14. Myself and 5 friends are going apple picking. After we finished each of our baskets weighed 35 lbs. We
are going to make apple pies and need 15 lbs for each pie. How many pies can we make?
a) 11 pies
b) 8 pies
c) 17 pies
d) 14 pies

15. A family of 12 are going on vacation for four nights to Sea World. They purchased 1 ticket for each
person to enter the park, one ticket cost $104. They also had to book a hotel room that cost $134 a
night. How much did their vacation cost in all?
a) $2,098 in all
b) $1,784 in all
c) $987 in all
d) $1,409 in all

16. Mr. Johnson’s class is selling boxes of Washington apples to raise money for a class trip. Every student
was given 24 boxes to sell. Each box had 12 apples. All 18 students sold all of their boxes. How many
apples did Mr. Johnson’s class sell all together?
a) 288
b) 432
c) 4524
d) 5184
17. Sam has 45 cat stickers, 56 dog stickers, 18 bird stickers and 21 snake stickers. He wants to share them
equally with his 5 friends. How many stickers will each friend get?
a) 28
b) 140
c) 30
d) 139

18. Mrs. Needham bought 18 bags of candy for Halloween.

12 of the bags had 56 pieces of candy each.
6 of the bags had 112 pieces of candy each.
How many pieces of candy did Mrs. Needham buy?
a) 672
b) 1.420
c) 1,344
d) 850

19. Mrs. Patterson bought a case of pencils at the beginning of the school year.
● The case had 52 boxes with 24 pencils in each box.
● She wants to give 6 pencils to each of her 24 students to begin the year.
How many extra pencils will she have after she gives the pencils to her students?
a) 1,200
b) 144
c) 1,248
d) 1,104

20. A large math event was held for 5th grade students in North Carolina.
· 45 different schools sent students to the event.
· Each school sent 32 students.
· Students were placed into teams with 12 students on each team.
How many teams were formed?
a) 150
b) 1,440
c) 120
d) 130