3rd Grade Word Problems

Amar had 43 jelly beans. He gave 21 jelly beans to his little sister. How many jelly beans does Amar have left?

Answer:

22 jelly beans

Kara filled up 16 water balloons. Miguel brought her another 23 water balloons. How many water balloons do they have now?

Answer:

39 water balloons

Dawid has 94 blue and green beads. He makes a blue necklace using all 48 blue beads. How many beads does he have for the green necklace?

Answer:

 46 green beads

Fleur brought 72 sodas for the class party. During the party the class drank some of the sodas. After the party there were 25 sodas left. How many sodas did the class drink?

Answer:

47 sodas

Kora read 50 pages in her book last night. Masha read 23 pages in her book last night. How many more pages did Kora read than Masha?

Answer:

27 pages

Ahmed had a bag of chocolates. He ate 12 pieces and has 28 pieces left. How many pieces did Ahmed start with?

Answer:

40 pieces

Mara has 37 crayons. Luna has 45 more crayons than Mara. How many crayons does Luna have?

Answer:

82 crayons

Max has 38 fewer coloring pages done than Thoma. Thoma has 67 pages done. How many pages does Max have done?

Answer:

 29 pages

There are 314 pennies and 457 dimes in a piggy bank. How many coins are in the piggy bank?

Answer:

771 coins

Some chickens laid eggs yesterday. Today chickens laid 54 more eggs for a total of 93 eggs. How many eggs were laid yesterday?

Answer:

39 eggs

Marco and his sister, Wanda, go trick or treating and get a lot of candy. By the end of October, Marco has eaten 232 pieces of candy and Wanda has eaten 427 pieces of candy. They still have 119 pieces left. How many pieces of candy did they collect trick or treating?

Answer:

778 pieces of candy

Kaan read 21 short stories this past summer. Millie read 27 more short stories than Kaan over the summer. During the school year Millie read 103 short stories. How many total stories did Millie read during the summer and school year combined?

Answer:

151 short stories

Ailsa’s driveway is 92 feet long. Ailsa’s driveway is 48 more feet long than Neve’s driveway. How long is Neve’s driveway?

Answer:

 44 feet long

Johnny has 422 baseball cards. He has 167 fewer baseball cards than Arthur. Arthur and his sister together have 831 baseball cards. How many baseball cards does Arthur’s sister have?

Answer:

242 cards

Kai has 560 stickers. Kai has 230 more stickers than Margo. Margo got some more stickers for her birthday and now has 450 stickers. How many stickers did Margo get for her birthday?

Answer:

120 stickers

Yasmine buys a bag of peanuts at a baseball game. There are 106 peanuts in the bag. Yasmine’s dad buys a family-sized bag of peanuts at the game, which has 324 peanuts in it. At the end of the game, they have 181 peanuts remaining all together. How many peanuts did they eat at the game?

Answer:

249 peanuts

Kristen harvested 568 grapes. Yared harvested 248 grapes. Yared harvested 107 fewer grapes than Elmas. How many more grapes did Kristen harvest than Elmas?

Answer:

213 grapes

Ms. Hyunh had a bunch of pens and pencils at the beginning of the school year. She gives away 149 in total to her students over the course of the year. She now has 457 pens and pencils to reuse next year. She started with some number of pencils and 320 pens. How many pencils did she start with at the beginning of the year?

Answer:

286 pencils

Aynur has 309 stickers. Aynur has 136 fewer stickers than Mahesha. Mahesha has 87 more stickers than Phil. How many stickers does Phil have?

Answer:

358 stickers

There are 6 cars with 2 people in each of them. How many people are there in all the cars?

Answer:

12 people

Molly has 20 books and is able to fit 5 books in each box. How many boxes does she need to fit all the books?

Answer:

4 boxes

If Alexina wants to pack 70 candies into 10 different goodie bags, how many candies should she put in each bag?

Answer:

7 candies

If Lazar has 10 cans of soda in one container and 5 cans in a different container, how many cans of soda does he have?

Answer:

15 cans of soda

The principal put 24 chairs into 2 rows in the gymnasium for a meeting. How many chairs are in each row?

Answer:

12 chairs

Dilara has 3 sizes of plates and 8 of each size plate. How many total plates does Dilara have?

Answer:

24 plates

If Avila puts 16 pictures into 4 rows on her bedroom wall, how many pictures are in each row?

Answer:

4 pictures

Pavle puts 27 bunches of bananas into crates with 3 bunches in each crate. How many crates does Pavle use?

Answer:

9 crates

Duncan paints 12 watercolors in class. He plans to give an equal number to each of his 4 grandparents. How many watercolors will each grandparent get?

Answer:

3 watercolors

Edna arranges her toy houses into 3 rows of streets with 5 houses in each row. How many toy houses does she have?

Answer:

15 toy houses

Roman has 4 packs of sodas, each pack has 10 sodas. Roman puts his sodas into 5 equal rows in the refrigerator. How many sodas are in each row?

Answer:

8 sodas

Flo has 27 milk chocolate bars and 18 dark chocolate bars. She puts an equal number of chocolate bars into 5 separate bags. How many chocolate bars are in each bag?

Answer:

9 chocolate bars

Ake organized 5 rows of 4 candles on a birthday cake. Ake’s mom asked him to clean up the candles and put them back into their original containers that each hold 10 candles. How many containers does Ake need?

Answer:

2 containers

Kieron bought 130 plastic utensils for his 10th birthday party. After the party he had 90 utensils left. 10 people used utensils at the party and they each used the same number. How many utensils did each person use?

Answer:

4 utensils

Rue has 3 colors of toy skateboards and 7 of each color. Rue has 19 fewer toy skateboards than Madi. How many toy skateboards does Madi have?

Answer:

40 toy skateboards

Kalla is making summer camp groups for ages 5-7, each group will have 10 kids and there are 8 groups. In the whole camp (ages 5-12) there are 345 kids. How many kids are in the camp from ages 8-12?

Answer:

265 kids

Wolfe and Amit go apple picking. They represent the number of apples they each picked in the picture graph below. How many total apples did they pick?

Answer:

32 apples

Xia and Rosa are running for class president. Votes are recorded on the bar graph below. How many more votes does Rosa have than Xia?

Answer:

6 votes

Idan surveys 50 students about whether they prefer sweet or salty foods. The graph below shows how many students preferred sweet foods. How many students prefer salty foods?

Answer:

20 students

Doris, Vic, and Gunda sold a total of 100 pretzels at the local fair. Their boss wants to represent the number of pretzels they each sold in the bar graph below. How many pretzels did Gunda sell? How many pretzels should Gunda’s boss draw on the graph?

Answer:

10 pretzels

Ligia and Sarah sell pencils as part of a fundraiser. The bar graph below represents how many pencils each of them has sold. Ligia has sold 5 more pencils than Sarah. How many pencils has Sarah sold? Draw a bar on the bar graph to represent how many pencils Sarah has sold.

Answer:

3 pencils

Lonny and Fred sold a bunch of doughnuts at the breakfast fundraiser, as shown in the picture graph below. Albert and Kalev sold 53 doughnuts. How many more doughtnuts did Albert and Kalev sell than Lonny and Fred?

Answer:

21 doughnuts

Elva owns a bookstore. She has a bunch of books she wants to lay out on a table to display. Elva lays her books in rows of 6 and makes 4 rows. How many books does Elva put on the table?

Answer:

24 books

Ferran wants to know how many weeks (7 days) there are until his birthday. There are 7 days in a week. There are 56 days until Ferran's birthday. How many weeks are there?

Answer:

8 weeks

Sherron is running a water station at the Boston Marathon. He has 54 water bottles he wants to arrange in an array. He lines the water bottles up in rows of 6, how many rows does he make?

Answer:

9 rows

Minoo has 9 loaves of bread, each loaf is cut into 8 slices. How many slices of bread does Minoo have?

Answer:

72 slices of bread

Bora is the security guard at a bank. She has 18 keys to 6 different safes, each safe has the same number of keys. How many keys does each safe have?

Answer:

3 keys

Beau is a chef. He puts all the plates he’ll need for dinner service into 3 rows of 8. There are 6 people he is serving. How many plates will each person use?

Answer:

4 plates

Sharona has 3 packs of Twizzlers, each pack has 8 Twizzlers in it. How many Twizzlers does Sharona have?

Answer:

24 Twizzlers

Marion made 54 cupcakes for a party. There are 9 flavors of cupcakes and an equal amount of each flavor. How many of each flavor of cupcake are there?

Answer:

6 cupcakes

Zuan has planted a bed of 56 flowers in rows of 8, how many rows did he plant?

Answer:

7 rows

Gwen has 36 onions that she has in bags of 9. How many bags of onions does Gwen have?

Answer:

4 bags of onions

Samson buys 9 packs of yogurt at the grocery store. Each pack has 4 yogurt containers. He expects this to be enough yogurt for 6 days.If his family eats the same number of yogurt containers every day, how many do they eat daily?

Answer:

6 yogurt containers

Flora buys a chocolate bar that can be broken into pieces. The pieces are arranged in an array of 7 rows with 8 chocolates in each row. She gives some pieces of her chocolate bar to her brother and 30 chocolates remain. How many chocolates did Flora give her brother?

Answer:

26 chocolates

Javor has some mini brownies he is bringing to a party in 4 boxes of 20. How many mini brownies is he bringing to the party?

Answer:

80 mini brownies

Juhan has 43 paper planes. His brother has 47 paper planes. Juhan and his brother sort the planes by their 9 different colors and notice each group has the same number of planes. How many planes are in each group?

Answer:

10 paper planes

Clara is a stamp collector. She has 6 rows of stamps that each have 5 stamps in them. She has 10 of each kind of stamp she has collected. How many different kinds of stamps has she collected?

Answer:

3 kinds of stamps

Samir has set up 5 rows of 40 cans of soda for a display in a grocery story. His friend Deniel has set up a display with 265 cans of soda elsewhere in the store. How many cans of soda are on display?

Answer:

465 cans of soda

Eva has a bunch of Twizzlers. She decides to give her friends 30 Twizzlers. After Eva winds up with 40 Twizzlers left. She bought the Twizzlers in packs of 10. How many packs of Twizzlers did Eva buy?

Answer:

7 packs of Twizzlers

Darija has 7 binders that each have 5 tabs. How many tabs are in all of the binders?

Answer:

35 books

Jimmy has 36 action figures that he puts into rows of 4. How many action figures are in each row?

Answer:

9 action figures

Mr. Felix has 8 copies each of 5 different books in his classroom library. He puts an equal number of books onto each of 4 rows of his bookshelf. How many books are on each shelf?

Answer:

10 books

The zoo has 40 birds split into 5 different bird cages. Each of the bird cages holds 3 more animals than the chimpanzee cages. How many chimpanzees are in each cage?

Answer:

5 chimpanzees

Alice has 18 Uno cards. She draws 14 more cards on her next turn. Now, she has an equal number of cards of each color. How many of each color does she have?

Answer:

8 of each color

During a school fundraiser, Habib sells 8 half-year magazine subscriptions of 6 magazines each. Habib sold 27 fewer magazines than Habib. How many magazines did Ebru sell?

Answer:

75 magazines

Kaja owns a restaurant. She puts all of the restaurant’s coffee mugs into 6 rows of 9. How many coffee mugs does Kaja’s restaurant have?

Answer:

54 mugs

Felix planted 7 rows of tomato plants, each row with 5 tomato plants. How many tomato plants did Felix plant?

Answer:

35 tomato plants

Iggy is painting the front door to his new house. The dimensions of the door are shown in the figure below. How much space will Iggy be covering with paint on one side of the door?

Answer:

12 square feet

Iza has a drawing she knows has an area of 40 square inches and a width of 8 inches. What is the length of Iza’s drawing?

Answer:

5 inches

The town needs to know the area of the playground so they can find how much mulch they need to cover it. The layout of the playground is shown below. What is the area of the playground?

Answer:

90 square meters

Petros is making a rectangular sandbox for his little sister. The area of the sandbox is 24 square feet and the length is 4 feet. What is the width of the sandbox?

Answer:

6 feet

Mats is making a rectangular puzzle that has a length of 10 inches and a width of 7 inches. How much space, in square inches, on a table will the puzzle take up?

Answer:

70 square inches

Zain wants to cover one wall of his bedroom with wallpaper. The wall is 8 feet by 9 feet. How much wallpaper will cover Zain’s wall?

Answer:

72 square feet

A tile setter creates a backsplash that is 9 tiles long and 4 tiles high. How many total tiles are in the backsplash?

Answer:

36 tiles

A carpet installer is using carpet squares to cover the floor of an entryway. She uses 40 carpet squares in rows of 5 to cover the floor. How many rows of carpet squares are there? 

Answer:

8 rows

A square, pictured below, has a side length of 7 feet. What is the area of the square?

Answer:

49 square feet

Silvie is designing a rectangular porch with an area of 54 square feet and a width of 6 feet. How long will the porch be?

Answer:

9 feet

Anat is calculating how much floor space her new dining room table will be. The rectangular shaped table is 7 feet long and 3 feet wide. How much floor space will it take up?

Answer:

21 square feet

Lexine is buying seaweed to lay along the rectangular base of her hermit crab cage. She knows the area of the base is 72 square inches and the length of the base is 8 inches. How wide is the base?

Answer:

9 inches

Rahim is putting in new tiling for his rectangular bathroom floor. His bathroom measures 4 feet by 7 feet. How much tiling will Rahim need?

Answer:

28 square feet

Chloe is building a fence around the patio in her backyard. She has made a diagram to determine how many meters of fence she will need. The diagram is shown below. Use it to help Chloe figure out many meters of fencing she will need.

Answer:

40 meters of fence

Lopo wants to know how many steps it will take him to walk around his new rug. Each step he takes is equal to one foot. The outline of the rug is shown below. How many steps will it take Lopo?

Answer:

20 steps

Milda wants to put a rubber bumper around her dining room table for when her 3 year old niece visits. The table measures 4 feet by 6 feet. How many feet of rubber bumper will Milda need?

Answer:

20 feet

Anton is putting up string lights around the perimeter of the ceiling in his room, which is shaped like a rectangle. He uses 16 yards of string lights, and knows one side of his room is 3 yards long. The figure below represents Anton’s room. How wide is his room?

Answer:

5 yards

Vinnie is putting caution tape around a construction hole in the road. The hole is in the shape of a rectangle and is 4 feet wide and 6 feet long. How many feet of caution tape will Vinnie need?

Answer:

20 feet

Yara has a stall for her horse that has an area of 63 square feet and is 7 feet wide. What is the perimeter of the stall?

Answer:

32 feet

Yara also has a rectangular fenced space for her bull that has 34 yards of fencing around it. The fenced space has a width of 9 yards. What is the area of the fenced space?

Answer:

72 square yards

Edgar is decorating a rectangular cake that has an area of 80 square inches and is 10 inches across. He needs to put candy string around the edge of the top of the cake. How long will he need the string to be?

Answer:

36 inches

Deepak is painting a mural in his city. He knows the space he has to paint has a perimeter of 28 meters and is 5 meters high. What is the area of the space he has for the mural?

Answer:

45 square meters

Aili wants to raise $81 to support the local youth programs. She makes 9 bracelets to sell as a fundraiser. How much should she sell each bracelet for in order to raise $81?

Answer:

$9

There are some jelly beans in a candy jar. Jen empties a bag container of 429 jelly beans into the candy jar. Now there are 903 jelly beans in the jar. How many jelly beans were there to begin with?

Answer:

474 jelly beans

Mark is setting up chairs for an event he is staffing tonight. He arranges the chairs in 10 rows of 8. How many chairs does he set up?

Answer:

80 chairs

Kofi has 4 boxes of award pins, each box has 10 pins in it. Kofi wants to arrange the pins in rows of 8 on his display board. How many rows will he need to make?

Answer:

5 rows

Senan has 30 baby carrots and Omran has 40 baby carrots. They decide during lunch to split the carrots between their friends so that each person has 10 baby carrots. How many many people did they split the baby carrots between?

Answer:

7 people

Inge has a bunch of beads. She decides to give 357 beads to her little sister and has 531 beads left over. How many beads did Inge have before giving any to her sister?

Answer:

888 beads

Nila has 6 bags of potatoes, each bag has 9 potatoes in it. How many potatoes does Nila have?

Answer:

54 potatoes

Rut has 8 rows of 9 soda bottles she needs to recycle. She then collects more bottles from her friends and winds up with 329 bottles. How many bottles did she get from her friends?

Answer:

257 bottles

Jodene has 167 fewer beads than Lamar. Jodene has 238 beads. How many beads does Lamar have?

Answer:

405 beads

Dorete, Michael, and Diego go on a fishing trip. They record how many fish they caught in the bar graph below. How many more fish did Dorete and Michael catch than Diego?

Answer:

24 fish

Moisey buys 56 bottles of soda for a school cookout. He puts them in bags of 8 at the grocery store. If each reusable bag costs $2, how much will the bags add to the cost of the grocery bill?

Answer:

$14

A tarp (a plastic covering) has an area of 48 square feet. The width of the tarp is 8 feet. How long is the tarp?

Answer:

6 feet

Vastimila has 4 boxes of action figures each with 7 action figures. She gives some action figures to her little sister and then has 16 remaining. How many action figures did she give to her sister?

Answer:

12 action figures

Angelica’s hens lay 62 eggs. She uses 8 eggs to make a quiche (an egg pie) and puts the rest into cartons of 6. How many cartons of eggs does Angelica have?

Answer:

9 cartons

Kelvin has 696 more legos than Sif. Kelvin has 840 legos. How many legos does Sif have?

Answer:

144 legos

Kojo sells 6 boxes of limes. Each box had 40 limes in it. Kojo’s friends sell some more boxes of limes. Together they sell 730 limes. How many limes did Kojo’s friends sell?

Answer:

490 limes

Monica and Jen sell chocolate bars for their Girl Scout troop and want to record their sales in the bar graph below.  Jen has 15 more chocolates than Monica. How many chocolates do Jen and Monica have together? Use the scaled bar graph below to help you answer the question.

Answer:

55 chocolates

Emer is roping off a rectangular section at her presentation for the science fair  for special guests. The area of the section is 50 square feet and the section is 5 feet long. How much rope will she need to surround the section once?

Answer:

30 feet of rope

Ivan has 4 rows of corn plants, each row with 5 plants. He picks the same number of ears of corn off each plant and has 60 ears of corn. How many ears of corn did he get from each plant?

Answer:

3 ears of corn

Amjad had 7 bags of lollipops, each bag containing 9 lollipops. He gave some to his little sister. He has 45 lollipops left. How many lollipops did Amjad give to his little sister?

Answer:

18 lollipops

Katja made a painting in art class today. She wants to frame her painting and knows the perimeter of the frame will need to be 32 inches and the bottom of the frame is 7 inches across. How much wall space will her painting take up?

Answer:

63 square inches

Ferran has 5 boxes of tea bags, each box has 8 tea bags. He puts the tea bags into 4 jars to keep them fresh. How many tea bags are in each jar?

Answer:

10 tea bags

There are 35 green cups and 45 red cups on the table. Mark arranges the cups into stacks of 10. How many stacks of cups does Mark make?

Answer:

8 stacks of cups

Jillian has 7 rolls of pennies, each roll has 50 pennies in it. She combines her pennies with her brother’s pennies so that they can buy a snack. Together, Jillian and her brother have 632 pennies. How many pennies does Jillian’s brother have?

Answer:

282 pennies

Hatice had 85 pieces of gum. She gave 25 pieces to her little brother and split the rest of the pieces into groups of 6 to give to her friends. If Hatice gave each of her friends the same number of pieces how many friends did she give gum to?

Answer:

10 friends

Narek had 38 gold reading stars. Max had 32 gold reading stars. They decide to combine their stars and put them into 7 rows. How many stars are in each row?

Answer:

10 stars

Hiroki buys 8 bags of potatoes. Each bag has 6 potatoes in it. He adds this to the 20 potatoes he already has in his pantry. How many potatoes does he have now?

Answer:

68 potatoes

In the production area of a factory there are 8 rows of car tires, each row with 9 tires in it. In the storage area of the factory there are 348 tires. How many tires are in the entire factory?

Answer:

420 tires

Maya goes running for 45 minutes each morning. If she starts her run at 7:30 a.m. what time will she finish?

Answer:

8:15 a.m.

Zuan arrives at work at 9:05 a.m. If it took him 40 minutes to get to work what time did he leave?

Answer:

8:25 a.m.

Rio leaves for school at 7:50 a.m. and arrives at 8:24 a.m. How long did it take Rio to get to school?

Answer:

34 minutes

Bran watched a TV show last night that was 48 minutes long. The TV show ended at 9:12 p.m. What time did Bran start the TV show?

Answer:

8:24 p.m.

Roxie went to boxing class at 6:30 p.m. and left at 7:10 p.m. How long was her boxing class?

Answer:

40 minutes

Jamie has 6 barrels of grapes that each weigh 9 kilograms. 22 kilograms of grapes are green grapes and the rest are purple grapes. How many kilograms of purple grapes does Jamie have?

Answer:

32 kilograms

Ian swam laps for 18 minutes Monday and 25 minutes Tuesday. Saxon swam laps for 52 minutes over the two days. How much longer did Saxon run over the two days?

Answer:

9 minutes longer

Arya is going camping. She brings 40 liters of water to drink over 8 days. This will provide her one fewer liter per day than she thinks she will need. How many liters of water does Arya think she needs per day?

Answer:

6 liters of water