End of the Year Word Problem Challenge

Detective D. Vinson needs to return some phone calls.  He needs 7 minutes for each call.  He has 120 minutes before his next meeting.  How many calls can he make before his meeting starts?

• 18
• 17
• 1
• 119

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

• 15
• 13
• 18
• 12

Jeff had sixteen dollars. For his birthday he got twenty-eight more dollars but spent twenty-five on a new game. How much money does he have now?

• 19
• 44
• 3
• 12

Jared made sixty dollars mowing lawns over the summer. He spent thirty-nine dollars buying new mower blades. With the rest of his money he wants to buy video games for $7. How many seven dollar games could he buy with the money he had left?

• 21 games

• 3 games

• 7 games

• 99 games

The cafeteria had fifty-one apples. For lunch they handed out forty-one to students and decided to use the rest to make pies. If each pie takes five apples, how many pies could they make?

• 51 pies
• 41 pies
• 10 pies
• 2 pies

The Carlyle family drove for 11 days for their summer vacation. If they drove a total of 1,012 miles, then how many miles did they drive per day? 

• 90 Miles
• 920 Miles
• 92 Miles
• 43 Miles 

The local zoo has 24 cats. The cats range from Lions and Tigers to Mountain Lions. If each cat eats 8 lbs of meat a day, then how much food is eaten per day by the cats? 

• 3 lbs
• 192 lbs
• 92 lbs
• 212 lbs

A local medical facility (a.k.a. hospital) has a total of 48 rooms in the children's wing. If a cleaning crew has 12 hrs to clean all of the rooms, about how many minutes will they spend on each room?

**Remember that each hour has 60 minutes

• About 15 Minutes
• About 25 Minutes 
• About 18 Minutes
• About 21 Minutes 

Walter Payton played 12 seasons in the NFL. He played 172 games in the NFL. Payton ran for 112 yards per game. How many yards did Payton run for in his NFL career?

• 18,864 yards
• 22,555 yards
• 18,764 yards
• 19,264 yards 

For two weeks, Kimberly must walk her neighbor's dog two times a day. Kimberly's neighbor will pay her $15 for each day. How much money will Kimberly make? 

• $310
• $180
• $240
• $210