4th Grade Word Problem of Day

Begin in November

Day 1

Darlene picked 7 apples. Juan picked 4 times as many apples. How many apples did he pick?

Day 2

Franco’s daughter is 2 feet tall. Franco is 3 times as tall as his daughter. How tall is he?

Day 3

Anna picked 6 apples. Sabrina picked 7 times as many apples. How many apples did Sabrina pick?

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Day 7

After breakfast, their mom said, “We’re going to stop near Sacramento for lunch. That’s 295 miles from here.” When they stopped for gas that morning they still had 147 miles left to go. About how many miles had they driven so far?

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Day 12

I had 357 books and got 23 more for my birthday. I put them into piles, with 38 books in each pile. How many piles of books did I make?

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Mr. Liz divided $300 equally among his 5 children. His daughter, Lisa, used the money to buy 12 gifts that each cost the same amount. What was the price of each gift?

Day 16

Six adults and five classes of 32 students went to the museum by bus. If each bus held 25 passengers how many buses were needed?

Day 17

Jake’s grandmother lives 8 miles away from him. His aunt lives 6 times as far away from him as his grandmother. How far away does his aunt live?

Day 18

On Friday evening a pizza shop had orders for 4 pepperoni, 97 vegetable, and 335 cheese pizzas. If the 4 cooks each made an equal number of pizzas, how many pizzas did each cook make?

Day 19

Sara looked at the map and said, “We have 424 miles left to go until we get to Disneyland.” Her mom said, “We’re going to stop for lunch near Merced, which is 127 miles from here. About how much farther will we have to go after that?”

Day 20

Luke has lived in Suntown for 6 year. Yuson has lived in Suntown for 3 times as many years. How many years has Yuson lived in Suntown?

Day 22

Mr. Smith baked 3 trays of 36 cookies. After they cooled he divided the cookies evenly into 4 bags. How many cookies did Mr. Smith place in each bag?

Day 23

A teacher bought 12 packets of crayons. Seven of the packets had 9 crayons and the other five packets had 10 crayons. How many crayons did the teacher buy in all?

Day 24

Day 25

Tom has 114 baseball cards. He kept 10 and shared the best evenly among his 8 friend. How many baseball cards did each friend get?

Day 26

Day 27

9 scouts want to split a bag of 262 peanuts equally. About how many peanuts will each of the scouts get?

Day 28

A bus has 60 seats for passengers. There are three stops on the way to the baseball game. At the first stop, 35 people get on the bus. At the second stop, 18 people get on. Are there enough seats for 10 people to get on at the third stop?

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You are organizing a school trip to a museum for 122 students, teachers and

parents. You need to order enough buses to seat 25 people to a bus. How

many buses do you need?

Day 31

Tonya’s farm is 9 acres. Emma’s farm has 4 times as many acres. How many acres is Emma’s farm?

Day 32

Matt built a model of the Great Pyramid in Egypt. Sue also built a model of the pyramid. It is 6 inches taller than Matt’s. The combined height of the two models is 18 inches. How tall is Matt’s model?

Day 33

Over the summer Nana read 9 books. Sara read 4 times as many books. How many books did Sara read?

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Day 36

You are organizing the tables in the cafeteria to seat 12 students at a table.

How many tables would you need to seat 211 students?

Day 37

The scouts in Lincoln City collected 594 cans of food Now they’re going to put the cans into bags to take to the Food Bank. If they put 21 cans in each bag, about how many bags of food can they make?

Day 38

A tree is Helana’s yard is 35 feet tall. Helena is 5 feet tall. The tree is how many times as tall as Helana?

Day 39

On Monday, 345 people visited Victoria Falls. There were 215 fewer visitors in the morning than in the afternoon. How many people visited in the morning?

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Day 41

A tour group ordered 14 adult tickets for $35 each and 8 student tickets for $20 each. The group also paid a $2 fee for each ticket ordered. What was the total cost of the tickets?

Day 42

Amelia has 24 marbles. She has 6 times as may marbles as Steve. How many marbles does Steve have?

Day 43

I earn $5 per hour babysitting and $4 per hour for weeding the garden. Last week I did 7 hours babysitting and 6 hours weeding. How much more money do I need to buy a game that costs $80.00?

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Day 44

Marisol has 12 stamps in her stamp collection. Cheyenne has 3 times as many stamps. How many stamps does Cheyenne have?

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Day 46

You have 65 baseball cards that you want to share equally with your 3 friends. How many cards would each of your 3 friends receive?

Day 47

Mrs. Pina is using white paper and pink paper to make a scrapbook. She makes several sections, each with 6 sheets of white paper. She makes another section that has 14 sheets of pink paper. There are 32 sheets of paper in the scrapbook altogether. How many sections have white paper?

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Day 50

Della is counting the books in her bookcase. She has 3 times as many science fiction books as mystery books. She has 2 more mystery books than comic books. She has 27 science fiction books. How many comic books does Della have?

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Day 52

Fliers for a school play will be displayed around town. Kelly has agreed to post 78 fliers. Kyle will post 42 fliers. Paulo will post 12 fliers. Manny will post 36 fliers. The school buys fliers in packages of 6. How many packages does the school need to buy?

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Talia is at the mall with her friends. She buys a DVD for $10.99. Then she buys a new pair of earrings for $8.25. Lastly, she gets her mother a bouquet of flowers for $9.50. If she starts with $50, how much does she have after she goes shopping?

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Sam and Sara are on vacation with their mom. They live in Seattle, Washington, and they’re driving to Disneyland in California. The first day, they drove 172 miles to Portland, Oregon, and stopped for lunch. After they’d gone another 128 miles, they stopped for gas. About how many miles had they driven so far?

Day 59

Rudy received $24.75 for his birthday. He wants to split the money into groups to save for three things: movie tickets; art supplies; music downloads. If he wants the same amount for each activity, how much money will he put into each group?

Day 60

Sol wants to buy a candy bar for $0.75. If he buys 4 candy bars, how much total money will he spend?

Day 61

Day 62

Jessica has $25.00 to spend in the video game store. She buys a used game for $15.83. How much money does she have left over?

Day 63

Day 64

Stephanie received $15.25 for babysitting on Friday night and $17.75 for babysitting on Saturday night. How much did she make in total?

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Day 66

My family is moving to a new house. Our old house is 3 kilometers from the new house. How many meters is the old house from the new house?

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Day 68

Tina went to the store to buy three liters of orange juice for a party. The store only sold the juice she wanted in 250ml cartons. How many 259ml cartons did Tina need to buy?

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Day 71

A chimpanzee weighs 52kg. A zebra weighs 408kg. What is the combined weight of the two animals?

Day 72

Day 73

The volume of 1 can of Pepsi is 400 ml. What is the volume of 10 cans?

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A chocolate cookie has a mass of 12 grams. What is the mass of 50 cookies?

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Day 82

Sam poured a two liter container of apple juice into cups that each held 250ml. How many cups could he fill?

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Day 84

Sarah cut a 20cm length of ribbon to wrap around a gift. How many millimeters is the ribbon?

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Day 86

A box containing 4 identical books weights 5 kg. If the weight of the box is 600g, what is the weight of each book?

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Day 88

They stopped in Ashland, Oregon to spend the night. It cost them $74.99, including tax, to stay in a motel. Dinner cost $24.97 for the three of them. Breakfast the next morning cost $14.99. About how much money did they spend while they were in Ashland?