"leopard" story problems

Math Cats
Story Problems:
Leopard #9

Friends of Math Cats have been sending in math story problems... scroll on down and read a few! We'd love to see your math story problems, too!

(1) Baseball Cards John bought 1 box of baseball cards. There were 12 packs in the box, and there were 4 cards in each pack. How many cards are in the box?		by Ryan, age 9, grade 4 Kings Highway School Ms. Loss's class Westport, Connecticut, U.S. November 4, 2002
(2) Cookies There are 90 cookies and four kids. How many cookies does each kid get?		by Ryan, age 9, grade 4 Kings Highway School Ms. Loss's class Westport, Connecticut, U.S. November 4, 2002
(3) Halloween Candy There were 38 Halloween candy bars with 68 nuts in each. How many nuts in all?		by Steven, age 9, grade 4 Kings Highway School Ms. Loss's class Westport, Connecticut, U.S. November 4, 2002
(4) Hot Fudge Sundaes Sue made 99 hot fudge sundaes for the crew. There are 32 people in the crew, plus me. How many hot fudge sundaes does each person get?		by Karley, age 12, grade 6 Morenci Middle School Morenci, Michigan, U.S. November 8, 2002
(5) Hearts There are 100 hearts in the basket. 50 more got added to the basket. Then 36 got taken out. After that 35 more got added. Then 6 got taken away. How many hearts are left?		by Helendria, age 10, grade 4 Glen Oaks Elementary School Mrs. Curry's class Fairfield, Alabama, U.S. November 14, 2002
(6) Little Kids There were 100 kids at the day care. If each kid had two markers to draw with, how many markers did they use?		by Chi-Chi, age 9, grade 4 Holly Hill Elementary School Mrs. Smith's class Holly Hill, Daytona Beach, Florida, U.S. November 14, 2002
(7) Cats There are 16 cats. Later, twice that number of cats joined them. But then 8 cats went away. How many cats are left?		by Dana A., age 10, grade 4 Holly Hill Elementary School Mrs. Evans' class Holly Hill, Daytona Beach, Florida, U.S. November 14, 2002
(8) Reading One day Katie's teacher asked her to read 1/4 of her book. There's 852 pages in the book. If she starts on page 1, what page is will she be on after reading 1/4 of the book?		by Rachael, age 11, grade 5 Marshall Elementary School Mr. Young's class Tucson, Arizona, U.S. November 18, 2002
(9) Cats and Dogs I had 100 dogs and 100 cats. 60 dogs ran away. 10 came back. 80 cats ran away. How many cats and dogs do I have?		by Ashley, age 11, grade 5 West Bradford Elementary School Mrs. Cook's class Coatesville, Pennsylvania, U.S. November 19, 2002
(10) Eggy Day I had 99 eggs. 35 fell out. 20 of those were saved. I went and got 99 more. How many eggs do I have?		by Fernando, age 9, grade 4 St. Peter's School M. Nikither's class Washington, D.C., U.S. November 19, 2002

* We hope you'll send in a math story problem, too!

mailroom (We are happy to get lots of story problems from one class in the same e-mail message. If you want to send drawings, too, you can scan them or use a drawing program and send them with your story problems as e-mail attachments in the Math Cats' Mailroom.)