Name ___________________
Date _______________
The Brain Teaser Version 7
1. How is the moon like a dollar?
2. How many books can you put in an empty bag?
3. How many times can you subtract 6 from 60?
4. What the next number in this sequence? 31, 41,
43, 47, 53, ___
5. A Taxi charges you $1.50 for the first mile and $.90
for each additional mile. How far could you go for $20
if you give the driver a $2 tip?
Name ___________________
Date _______________
The Brain Teaser Version 8
1. A boy needs to be at school by 8:15 am. If it takes him 15
minutes to take a bath, 20 minutes to get dressed, 25 minutes
to eat, and 15 minutes to ride his bike to school, what time
does he need to get up?
2. If Darla has enough money to purchase 8 cd's per week,
how many weeks would it take her to purchase 72 cd's?
3. If George has 12 minutes to get to school, how many
seconds does he have?
4. If you begin a problem with a one-digit integer, multiply the
number by 4, add 7, divide by 3, subtract 5, and get an
answer of 0, what is the beginning integer?
5. A local church is collecting clothes for the needy. The
church plans to help 32 families. If each family has 4 people
and the church gives them 3 outfits per person, how many
outfits does the church need to collect?
Name ___________________
Date _______________
The Brain Teaser Version 9
1. If there are 12 inches in a foot and 3 feet in a yard,
how many inches are in a yard?
2. John picked 340 oranges. If he had 17 buckets to
carry the oranges in, how many oranges would be in
each bucket?
3. If there are 4 quarts in a gallon and 2 pints in a
quart, how many pints are in 6 gallons?
4. Jake decides to mow lawns for the first two weeks
in June to earn enough money to buy a new bicycle. If
the bicycle costs $153.75 and Jake charges $10.25 to
mow each lawn, how many lawns will he need to mow
in two weeks to buy the bicycle?
5. If there are 2.54 centimeters in an inch and 12
inches in a foot, how many centimeters are in 3 feet?
Name ___________________
Date _______________
The Brain Teaser Version 10
1. If 376 people went to the mall on Saturday and three times
as many people went to the mall on Sunday, how many
people went to the mall for the whole weekend?
2. Jane had $20.00 to buy her mother something for her
birthday. If she bought a rose for $2.10 and a purse for
$15.95, how much money would she have left to buy her
mother a birthday card?
3. If your grades in math are a 97, 82, 79, and 60, what is
your average?
4. If there are 60 minutes in an hour and 60 seconds in a
minute, how many seconds are in an hour?
5. Grandma has 8 apples. If she uses 6 1/4 apples to make
an apple pie, how many apples does she have left?
Name ___________________
Date _______________
The Brain Teaser Version 11
1. Four boy scouts troops totaling 42 boys went
camping. If the same number of boys were in each
van, how many vans did it take to get the boys to
camp?
2. How do you write the standard form of eight million
seven hundred twenty five thousand four hundred and
ninety two
3. What is the next number in this sequence 7512,
7514, 7518, 7524, 7532, 7534?
4. Is this a true statement 25,471 < 25,147
5. If a new movie sells 563 tickets on Friday night,
1297 tickets on Saturday night, and 316 tickets on
Sunday night, how many more tickets were sold on
Saturday than on Friday?
Name ___________________
Date _______________
The Brain Teaser Version 12
1. What is the word name for this amount 0.05?
2. What is the sum of 6 quarters, 3 dimes, 2 nickels, and a
penny?
3. If 212 people can be seated on the main floor of a theater
and 76 can be seated in the balcony, how many can be
seated in all? Write a number problem and solve for the
answer.
4. Betty's daughter is 13 years old. Betty just turned 42
years old. How old was Betty when her daughter was born?
5. How many hundreds of balls are there in a box holding
90,000 balls?
Name ___________________
Date _______________
Brain Teasers Worksheet Answer Sheet
Version 7
1. They both have 4 quarters.
2. Only 1, after that the bag is
not empty.
3. Once, after that it is no
longer 60.
4. 59. They are prime
numbers.
5. 19 miles. 19.33 miles to be
exact.
Version 8
Version 9
1. 7am, (8:15 - 75 minutes
(15+20+25+15))
1. 36, (12 x 3 = 36)
2. 9, (8 x 9 = 72)
2. 20, (340 / 17 = 20)
3. 720, (12 minutes x 60
seconds per minute = 720)
3. 48, (4 x 2 = 8 x 6 = 48)
4. 15, ($153.75 / $10.25 = 15)
4. 2, (2 x 4 = 8 + 7 = 15 / 3 =
5 -5 = 0)
5. 91.44, (2.54 x 12 = 30.48 x 3 =
91.44)
5. 384, (32 x 4 x 3 = 384)
Version 10
Version 11
Version 12
1. 1128, (376 x 3 = 1128)
2. $1.95 ($20.00 - $2.10 =
$17.90 - $15.95 = $1.95)
3. 79.5 (97 + 89 + 72 + 60 =
318 / 4 = 79.5)
4. 360, (60 minutes x 60
seconds = 360)
1. 6, (6 x 7 = 42)
1. Five hundredths
2. 8,725,492
2. $1.91
3. 7538
3. 212 + 76 = 288
4. No, (it is > greater than)
4. 29, (42 - 13 = 29)
5. 734, (1297 - 563 = 734)
5. 900, (900 x 100 = 90,000)
5. 1 3/4 (8 - 6 1/4 = 3/4)
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