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(1) Candy Canes There were 3 red, 1 green, and 4 yellow candy canes. Each candy cane had 8 stripes. How many stripes in all? |
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(2) Evergreen Trees There was an evergreen tree farm. There were 72 trees to start with. 8 times more trees were brought in. Then 17 trees were bought. How many trees are left?
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(3) Math Trouble There are 900,000,000,000 cats in my neighborhood. If you take away ten, what do you get?
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(4) Two Tall Boys There are two boys, Chris and Mike. Mike is five feet tall. Chris is six feet and five inches. How much taller is Chris than Mike? |
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(5) Christmas Lights Sara has 6 trees in her backyard. It taks 20 lights to cover half a tree. She wants to cover all but 2 trees. How many lights does she need? |
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(6) Lots of Presents There were 21 presents for Isabelle, 68 presents for Bob, and 54 presents for Mom under the tree. If 143 presents were opened, how many weren't opened? |
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(7) Christmas Amy had 68 presents and 32 more ornaments than presents. Her sister had 54 presents and 23 fewer ornaments than presents. How many Christmas things did they have??? |
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(8) Grade Average Kit got a 90%, 103% (she got extra credit), 78%, and a 10%. What is her grade average??? |
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(9) Time Riddle What is it that occurs once a second, once in a month, once in a century yet not all in a year or week? |
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(10) Eat at Joe's There was a restaurant called Joe's. One night there were 31 couples. So they ate and 11 couples walked out. How many PEOPLE are left? |
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