Level 1 Customizable Word Problems / Equations

Level 1 Customizable Word Problems with +, -, x, / Equations
Each of the problems below can be customized by inserting your own names. When you find each answer, look for it in the "decoder grid" at the bottom and cross off the letter above that answer. When you are done with all 20 problems there will be a few letters remaining. These letters form the PASSWORD to the treasure room. Click the "TreasureFinder" link on the bottom navigation bar, then type in the password to claim your treasure.
1	has forty-three turtledoves. All official turtledove farmers must own 500 doves. How many more doves does need to become an official farmer? Define your unknown: Let = What happens to your unknown? (Equation) ... Solve step(s) Answer.........
2	loves to Tango. He danced his heart out yesterday with the girl next door . They Tangoed for 3.5 hours. Well mom is upset about all this dancing. She thinks he spends entirely too much time with the girls. So she has made a new rule, John can only dance 40 minutes per day! How many minutes must he cut off of his 3.5 hour sessions? Define your unknown: Let = What happens to your unknown? (Equation) ... Solve step(s) Answer.........
3	just had her fortune told by a gypsy at the Indiana Fair. The gypsy told her that her final height would be 1.75 times as tall as her present height, and that she would stop growing at seventy-one inches. About how tall is Kayla now if the gypsy is correct? Define your unknown: Let = What happens to your unknown? (Equation) ... Solve step(s) Answer.........
4	races motorcycles. She has three bikes that she takes with her on tour in the summers. She gets new tires every summer for all three bikes. This year she spent $795.42 on identical tires. How much did each one cost? Define your unknown: Let = What happens to your unknown? (Equation) ... Solve step(s) Answer.........
5	has twenty-two students in her third grade classroom this year. teaches the other third grade class in the room beside . This morning at 10:12AM, had a severe attack of appendicitis and had to be taken from the school by an ambulance. Seeing students without a teacher, quickly took charge and directed them into her room. After doing this, she counted a total of fifty-seven students! How many kids did she bring over? Define your unknown: Let = What happens to your unknown? (Equation) ... Solve step(s) Answer.........
6	is a radio disc-jockey. She loves to play heavy metal music and crack jokes on the air with the morning weather man . She worked twenty-four hours last week and made $276. How much is she paid every hour? Define your unknown: Let = What happens to your unknown? (Equation) ... Solve step(s) Answer.........
7	is holding a check for $1,000,000. He is also thinking of a number. Jack says to , "If you divide the number in my head by thirty-seven you will get an answer of fourteen. If you can tell me the number I am holding in my head, I'll give you this $1,000,000 check." What is his number? Define your unknown: Let = What happens to your unknown? (Equation) ... Solve step(s) Answer.........
8	loves dogs, especially the rare and strange looking ones. She just bought a rare hairless Chihuahua named Chester for $1300. This brings the total that she has spent to buy dogs to $15,782. How much had she spent before she bought Chester? Define your unknown: Let = What happens to your unknown? (Equation) ... Solve step(s) Answer.........
9	has a kangaroo named Kassandra, or Kassie for short. Kassie is FAT!!! Her veterinarian says she needs to lose 305 pounds to get to her optimum weight of 570 pounds. How much does Kassie weigh now? Define your unknown: Let = What happens to your unknown? (Equation) ... Solve step(s) Answer.........
10	is a policewoman who works at night. Night police get paid more. They make 1.5 times as much as day police make. works in the day and makes $25 every hour. How much does make every hour? Define your unknown: Let = What happens to your unknown? (Equation) ... Solve step(s) Answer.........
11	is a marble jumping champion. Her blue marbles, which are 10mm wide, can jump three times as high as her red marbles, which are 22mm wide. How high do the blue marbles jump if the red marbles can jump 7.75 inches? Define your unknown: Let = What happens to your unknown? (Equation) ... Solve step(s) Answer.........
12	builds boats the old fashioned way, with wood and his own two hands. He puts five coats of oil-based marine varnish on each boat. On his last boat, he used 16.5 gallons. How much varnish did one coat require? Define your unknown: Let = What happens to your unknown? (Equation) ... Solve step(s) Answer.........
13	loves to wrestle alligators. He works at "Madame Elaine's Jungle Safari" in south Florida. He made $2700 last week wrestling 15 gators. How much did he earn for each gator? Define your unknown: Let = What happens to your unknown? (Equation) ... Solve step(s) Answer.........
14	works for a legal firm. She reviews case documents trying to find mistakes in wording that might enable the firm's clients to win their cases. In her career she is proud to boast that she has found 312 such mistakes and is responsible for over 250 legal wins. In Indiana there is only one other person who even comes close to legal eyes. Yes, you guessed it, the famous .If you add all the mistakes that both have found, you will get an even 600. How many mistakes has found? Define your unknown: Let = What happens to your unknown? (Equation) ... Solve step(s) Answer.........
15	plays the piano for a living with some of the greatest symphony orchestras in the world. He travels wherever the gigs take him. Last month he flew 7,582 miles to Tokyo Japan. When he got there, the airline informed him that he had just earned 1,000,000 airline miles. How many miles had he flown before he took that Tokyo trip? Define your unknown: Let = What happens to your unknown? (Equation) ... Solve step(s) Answer.........
16	is the lead singer in the heavy metal band "Purple Blood". She also writes most of the songs the band performs. Because she has a dual role in the band, she makes more when the royalty checks come in. She gets 1.75 times more money than the other band members. Her friend is the drummer and he just got a royalty check. So did . Her check was for $1,750. How much was his royalty check? Define your unknown: Let = What happens to your unknown? (Equation) ... Solve step(s) Answer.........
17	just swam the entire way across lake Erie and landed in Canada. She did this with a small motorboat following behind in case she might become unconscious and begin to drown from exhaustion. She made it however. Upon landing in Canada she was rushed to the Mount St. Edna's medical center for observation. How fast was she swimming if it took her 19 hours to go 53 miles? Define your unknown: Let = What happens to your unknown? (Equation) ... Solve step(s) Answer.........
18	lives in New York City. He is trying to break into show business as a stand up comedian. He's pretty funny actually. He bills himself as the man who makes you laugh by saying everything BUT the swear words. Yes has made up all kinds of words that he uses INSTEAD of swear words. He keeps them all in his palm pilot, and adds to the lists whenever a new one comes to his mind. Why for the infamous "F" word, he has already created thirty-seven substitutes. Among these are flibberdegibber, funtastifudal, fubermeister, and futnick. In his latest show he uses all of the "F" word substitutes twice and he still needs to use other substitute words as well. His wife counted a total of 357 substitute words used. How many are not "F" word substitutes? Define your unknown: Let = What happens to your unknown? (Equation) ... Solve step(s) Answer.........
19	is a rather quiet and peaceful man. He likes to take long walks in the woods, play with his pet bird "Sniffles", and make blueberry pancakes for breakfast. However, one evening per week he turns into "T-HAG" the monster from the Red Lagoon. This is his stage name when he is studio wrestling at the Johnstown War Memorial. Tyler wrestles every Friday in the entire year and makes a total of $57,304. How much does he make each Friday? Define your unknown: Let = What happens to your unknown? (Equation) ... Solve step(s) Answer.........
20	is married to a famous football player. She vowed when she married him to never miss one of his games. They have been together for seven years now, and her promise has held true. Tonight she is traveling the seventy-two miles to the Cleveland Brown's stadium to see his 250th game. She has a car that she uses only for going to his games. When she gets to the stadium, she notices that the car, which she bought brand new, has a total of 57,500 miles on the odometer. How many miles were on the odometer BEFORE she left for the game tonight? Define your unknown: Let = What happens to your unknown? (Equation) ... Solve step(s) Answer.........
21	owns a tattoo parlor for women only. The fame of her store, known as "The Garden of Body Design", comes from the fact that every tattoo is an original work of art, a one of a kind design, never to be seen on another person. She also has a reputation for feminine colors and placement over unsightly scars or birthmarks. Ugly women go in, and babes come out. So as you might suspect, she is becoming RICH! Last month alone the store served 156 people and brought in $19,500. On the average, how much is each woman spending in "The Garden"? Define your unknown: Let = What happens to your unknown? (Equation) ... Solve step(s) Answer.........