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On the last day of school our teacher gave each of the students in her class an equal number of tickets to the circus. There were twenty-one students in our class. Our teacher had one hundred eighty-nine tickets. How many tickets did each student get?
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Sierra and her two brothers built a huge sandcastle on the beach. It was surrounded by a moat that was fifteen feet long and seven feet wide. What was the perimeter of the moat?
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Mr. and Mrs. Cage and their children are going to New Orleans on vacation. It is four hundred seventy miles from their house to the hotel in New Orleans. If they travel two hundred seventy-two miles the first day, how many more miles will they have to go on the second day to reach New Orleans?
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Everyone in Taylor's class has plans for the summer. One-fourth of the students in her class are going to the beach. The rest are going other places. There are twenty-four students in her class. How many students are going to the beach?
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Rebecca and Emily looked for shells on the beach. They found a total of twenty-two shells. If Emily found six more shells than Rebecca, how many shells did Emily find?
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Summer is finally here and Benjamin and Zachary are building their own river raft. They made a list of supplies and are going to the hardware store tomorrow to buy everything. They need a saw, fifty-nine feet of rope, forty-seven nails, four boards, and an oar. They will cut the logs themselves. How much money will they spend on the raft? (Refer to the price list.)
Saw | | $19.62 | Rope | | $1.24 per foot | Nails | | $0.08 each | Boards | | $3.81 each | Oar | | $24.98 |
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