Problems

Leah has $13$ coins, all of which are pennies and nickels. If she had one more nickel than she has now, then she would have the same number of pennies as nickels. In cents, how much are Leah's coins worth?

A taxi ride costs $1.50 plus$0.25 per mile traveled. How much does a 5-mile taxi ride cost?

What is $\frac{2+4+6}{1+3+5} - \frac{1+3+5}{2+4+6}$ ?

Cagney can frost a cupcake every $20$ seconds and Lacey can frost a cupcake every $30$ seconds. Working together, how many cupcakes can they frost in $5$ minutes?

Each third-grade classroom at Pearl Creek Elementary has 18 students and 2 rabbits. How many more students than rabbits are there in all 4 of the third-grade classrooms?

A cell phone plan costs $\$20$ each month, plus $5$ ¢ per text message sent, plus $10$ ¢ for each minute used over $30$ hours. In January Michelle sent $100$ text messages and talked for $30.5$ hours. How much did she have to pay?

What is $$\dfrac{2+4+6}{1+3+5} - \dfrac{1+3+5}{2+4+6}$$

Mary’s top book shelf holds five books with the following widths, in centimeters: $6$ , $\dfrac{1}{2}$ , $1$ , $2.5$ , and $10$ . What is the average book width, in centimeters?

What is $100(100-3)-(100\cdot100-3)$ ?

One can holds $12$ ounces of soda, what is the minimum number of cans needed to provide a gallon ( $128$ ounces) of soda?

Each morning of her five-day workweek, Jane bought either a $50$ -cent muffin or a $75$ -cent bagel. Her total cost for the week was a whole number of dollars. How many bagels did she buy?

A bakery owner turns on his doughnut machine at $\text{8:30}\ {\small\text{AM}}$ . At $\text{11:10}\ {\small\text{AM}}$ the machine has completed one third of the day's job. At what time will the doughnut machine complete the job?

A basketball player made $5$ baskets during a game. Each basket was worth either $2$ or $3$ points. How many different numbers could represent the total points scored by the player?

One ticket to a show costs $$$20$ at full price. Susan buys 4 tickets using a coupon that gives her a 25% discount. Pam buys 5 tickets using a coupon that gives her a 30% discount. How many more dollars does Pam pay than Susan?

Isabella's house has $3$ bedrooms. Each bedroom is $12$ feet long, $10$ feet wide, and $8$ feet high. Isabella must paint the walls of all the bedrooms. Doorways and windows, which will not be painted, occupy $60$ square feet in each bedroom. How many square feet of walls must be painted?

Sandwiches at Joe's Fast Food cost $\$3$ each and sodas cost $\$2$ each. How many dollars will it cost to purchase $5$ sandwiches and $8$ sodas?

What is $(-1)^{1} + (-1)^{2} + ... + (-1)^{2006}$  ?

While eating out, Mike and Joe each tipped their server $\$2$ . Mike tipped $10\%$ of his bill and Joe tipped $20\%$ of his bill. What was the difference, in dollars, between their bills?

A scout troop buys $1000$ candy bars at a price of five for $2$ dollars. They sell all the candy bars at the price of two for $1$ dollar. What was their profit, in dollars?

You and five friends need to raise $1500$ dollars in donations for a charity, dividing the fundraising equally. How many dollars will each of you need to raise?

Each row of the Misty Moon Amphitheater has $33$ seats. Rows $12$ through $22$ are reserved for a youth club. How many seats are reserved for this club?

What is the difference between the sum of the first $2003$ even counting numbers and the sum of the first $2003$ odd counting numbers?

Which of the following is the same as $$\frac{2-4+6-8+10-12+14}{3-6+9-12+15-18+21}?$$

The ratio $\frac{10^{2000}+10^{2002}}{10^{2001}+10^{2001}}$ is closest to which of the following numbers?

The ratio $\frac{2^{2001}\cdot3^{2003}}{6^{2002}}$ is: