Write a Word Problem – Variables on Both Sides

February 27th, 2009 · 21 Comments
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Write a word problem that requires someone to set up an equation with variables on each side. Solve the answer to make sure it works out, but do NOT provide the answer on the blog page. (Problems from your book and worksheets can provide helpful clues.)

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1 Sthefano A. // Mar 5, 2009 at 12:15 pm

Roxanne had X apples plus 20 in her bag, Rosalie, her sister, had X apples times 3 Roxanne’s; Maude had 126 which is 1/2 of Roxanne’s. How many did Roxanne and Rosalie have? (separate answer)
2 Giancarlo Bracero // Mar 5, 2009 at 12:23 pm

Claudia has N strawberries plus 40 in her refrigerator. Flor, has N strawberries 5 times more than Claudia. Sthefano has 450, 1/3 of Claudia’s. How many strawberries does Claudia and Flor?
3 Andrea L. // Mar 5, 2009 at 12:24 pm

One cellphone carrier charges $28.75 a month plus $0.10 a minute for local calls. Another carrier charges $18.50 a month plus $.015 a minute for local calls. For how many minutes is the cost of the plans the same?
4 Sam M // Mar 5, 2009 at 12:28 pm

John and His friend have each have 19 chocolates. Five times a number plus 4 equals john’s amount. 3 times a number minus 2 is his friend’s amount. What is that number?
5 Kartik. C // Mar 5, 2009 at 12:28 pm

Giancarlo has X teddy bears. PLus 20 in his cousins house. Tina has X teddy bears 17 times more than Ginacarlo. But the master of teddy bear collector, Stephano, has only 234, 1/4 of Giancarlo.
How may teddy bears do Tina and Giancarlo have?
6 Arianna C. // Mar 5, 2009 at 12:40 pm

The size Sam’s foot is 7 inches more than twice Abbey’s foot. It is also 13.25 inches bigger than Abbeys foot. What is the size of Sam’s foot? And Abbey’s?
7 Ariel B. // Mar 5, 2009 at 12:42 pm

Tina has x carrots in her lunch box. She also has 10 carrots in her house. Wendy has 12 carrots more than Tina. Abbey has 30 carrots in total. How many carrots do Tina and Wendy have in total???
8 Flor M. // Mar 5, 2009 at 12:44 pm

Arianna won F games, and won 7. Ian won twice as much games as arianna, and lost only 3.
How many games did Arianna win?
9 Mauricio Ortiz // Mar 5, 2009 at 12:44 pm

Arianna has 1/4 of the barbies Sthefi has in her house, but she has 10 more at her grandma’s house. Flor has half the amount barbies Sthefi has. But the master of barbies, Sthefi, has 410.
How many barbies do Arianna and Flor have?
10 Rosa M. // Mar 5, 2009 at 12:47 pm

Marianna has N rubberbands plus 6 on her arm. Sthefano decided who would have more, so he has N times more than Marianna. Together they have 432 ruberbands. What does N equal?
11 Flor M. // Mar 5, 2009 at 12:48 pm

Arianna won F games, and lost 7. Ian won twice as much games as arianna, and lost only 3.
How many games did Arianna win?
12 Rox M // Mar 5, 2009 at 12:49 pm

Abbey bought 4 pens which is the same price as a notebook. Together the 5 pencils and 4 pens cost $24 more than the notebook. 4 pens cost $0.60 more than the notebook. What is the cost of the notebook?
13 Adrian Seidner // Mar 5, 2009 at 12:51 pm

There are 10 marbles in a jar. Michael Jackson came and put y marbles inside. Then Stefano came and stole 1. The total amount of marbles after Michael Jackson came was x.

How many marbles did Micheal Jackson put?
14 Brian S. // Mar 5, 2009 at 12:56 pm

Bob has X soccer balls, plus 16 at his grandparents house. Tito, has Bob’s amount of soccer balls times 2 + 15 at his uncles house. What number is X?
15 Andres Solis // Mar 5, 2009 at 12:56 pm

Pepito ate X tacos for dinner, Bob ate 3 times as much tacos as Pepito, and a stranger ate the rest of the 24 tacos at the store. The stranger ate two times the tacos Bob ate. How many tacos did Bob and Pepito have?
16 Mari S. // Mar 5, 2009 at 12:57 pm

Pedro and Juan have X peanuts in a bag plus 8. Tina has has three times more than X more than Pedro and Juan, because she has chile-lemon peanuts that they don’t have. If they add all their peanuts together, including the chile-lemon ones, they have 20 peanuts in total. How many peanuts does X equal?
17 Clau S. // Mar 5, 2009 at 12:58 pm

Jean Carlo bought 7 Macbook Air computers, and sold 3. Brian bought twice as much computers as Jean Carlo, and sold 1. How many games did Jean Carlo buy?
18 Wendy Lin // Mar 7, 2009 at 1:50 pm

Abbey has X pens plus 10 in her house. Tina has X pens 5 times more than Abbey. Teresa has 30, 3/4 of Abbeys. How many pens does Abbey and Tina have?
19 David Z. // Mar 8, 2009 at 2:13 pm

Sthefano bought 4 hot dogs for himself to eat. He had already eaten twice the number of hot dogs Gerardo had eaten, but Gerardo wanted to eat more than Sthefano so he bought X more hot dogs, but he had already eaten 2. How many hot dogs did Gerardo buy?
20 Tina L. // Mar 8, 2009 at 10:09 pm

Gimena bought 12 cards last Friday. Tatiana bought N tickets twice the number of cards of Gimena’s. Sofia bought 2/7 of Gimena’s. How many cards did Tatiana and Sofia bought?
21 Teresa O. // Mar 26, 2009 at 10:36 pm

Wina loves to eat chocolate. She asked the candy man, Robert if she could have 2(t) pounds of chocolate. So he gave her the 2(t) pounds, and a free horse named Manuela. She ate the chocolate in three days, with the help of her three dogs, Christina, Cami, and her new pug. She loved her new pug so much that she bought 5 more pounds and gave 2 pounds to her dog, that got sick from all the chocolate. She did not eat the other 3 pounds of chocolate. She loved it so much that she went back to Robert. In total she had 3(t) pounds. What was the amount of chocolate she asked for in the first place??