Bar Modeling Word Problems
1. There are 16 boys and 9 girls in Mr. Roger’s class. How many students are in his class?
2. Pedro wants to read 100 pages of his book by the end of the week. He has already read 63
pages. How many more pages must he read to reach his goal?
3. A baker made 243 cookies in the morning and 189 in the afternoon. How many more cookies
did the baker make in the morning than in the afternoon?
4. Karen has 24 apples. She puts an equal number of apples into 4 bags. How many apples does
she put into each bag?
5. Tom has 8 baseball cards. Sarah has 3 times as many baseball cards as Tom. How many more
baseball cards does Sarah have than Tom?
6. Two thirds of a number is 6. What is the number?
7. Four fifths of a number is 15. What is the number?
8. The ratio of boys to girls in the chorus was 3:2. If there were 45 children in the chorus, how
many were girls?
9. There were 45 people in a chart road race. Four-fifths of them were adults. The rest were
children. How many adults were in the race?
10. Justin earned money mowing lawns. He put 1/3 of it in savings and gave 1/3 of the remaining
money to his mother. He had $24 left. How much money did Justin earn doing yard work?
11. There is ½ of a candy bar that needs to be divided evenly among 3 children. What fraction of
the total candy bar will each child receive?
12. Marissa spent 2/3 of her money at the mall and had $10 left. How much money did she spend
at the mall?
13. Terra’s monthly allowance is $48. She puts ½ of her allowance into savings and gives ¾ of the
remaining money to a local charity. How much money does Terra have left for herself each
month?
14. The ratio of children to adults at the football game was 2:3. If there were 140 children at the
football game, how many adults were there?’
15. Is a photographer can copy pages at the rate of 20 per minute, how many pages can it copy in ½
hour?
16. Sixty percent of the animals at the neighborhood pet store were dogs. If there were a total of
40 animals at the pet store, how many of the animals were dogs?
17. Maria rented 2 video games and 3 DVDs for a total of $23. Each video game cost $1.50 more to
rent than each DVD. What was the cost of renting the DVDs?
18. Alma and Elmo sold a total of 96 raffle tickets for a school fundraiser. Alma sold 14 more tickets
than Elmo. How many tickets did each student sell?