Reduction problems

1. Sam wrote a number in a piece of paper. He said “if you add 9 to this number, then compute the half
of the sum, you would get 5”. Do you know what is this number?
1.Because (1+9)÷2 = 5

2. Sam wrote a number in a piece of paper. He said “if you add 6 to this number, multiple 6 to the sum,
subtract 6 from the product, then divide the previous result by 6, you would get 6”. Do you know
what is this number?
still one.because the previous has to be 36.then I need to add 6 so it is 42, and 42 divided by 6 equals 7.7-6
=1.

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3. Sam wrote a number in a piece of paper. He said “if you add 8 to this number, multiple 8 to the sum,
subtract 8 from the product, then divide the previous result by 8, you would get 8”. Do you know
what is this number?

4. Sam wrote a number in a piece of paper. He said “if you add 100 to this number, multiple 100 to the
sum, subtract 6 from the product, then divide the previous result by 100, you would get 100”. Do you
know what is this number?

5. Sam wrote a number in a piece of paper. He said “if you add 2 to this number, subtract 3 from the
sum, multiple 4 to the different, then divide the previous result by 5, you would get 12”. Do you know
what is this number?

6. Kevin’s mum gave him some money before Christmas. Kevin used half of the amount bought a toy.
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Then used half of the rest bought book. After that, he had $1.5 left. How much did Kevin get from
his mum?

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 7. Kevin’s mum gave him some money before Christmas. Kevin used half of the amount bought a toy.
Then used $2 to buy book. After that, he had $3.5 left. How much did Kevin get from his mum?

8. Kevin had a bag of candies. He gave half of the amount to Kale. Then he met Kate and gave Kate
half of the rest candies. After that he met Kaylee and he gave half of candies in his bag. Then, Kevin
had only one candy in the bag. How many candies did Kevin have?

9. Kevin had a bag of candies. He gave half of the amount to Kale. Then he met Kate and gave Kate
half of the rest candies. After that he met Kaylee and he gave half of candies in his bag. Then, Kevin
had 4 candies in the bag. How many candies did Kevin have?

10. Sam delivered eggs to Andrew and Barb. He put all eggs in one basket. Andrew bought half of the
amount in the basket. On the way going to Barb’s, an egg fell off and Kevin lost it. Barb bought half
amount of eggs in the basket. On the way back home, Kevin lost another egg. When Kevin arrived
home, he counted. There were 4 eggs left in the basket. How many eggs were there originally in the
basket?

11. A store start selling notebooks from two week ago. In the first week, if extra 12 notebook were sold,
there would be half of the notebooks sold. In the second week, half of the storage notebooks and
extra 12 notebooks were sold. There are 19 notebooks left in the storage. How many notebooks were
originally there?

12. There are 60 birds in three trees. If 4 birds fly from the first tree to the second one and 7 birds fly
from the second tree to the third one, the amount of birds would be the same in every tree. How many
birds are there in every tree?

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 13. Andrew, Barb and Chris altogether have $750. Barb borrowed $30 from Andrew and lent $50 to Chris.
Now every one of them has the same amount of money. How much money do they originally have?

14. There is a type of worms. In the first few weeks after hatched, they can double their length. A 10
day old worm is measured, as long as 20 cm. How many days after hatched, would this worm be 5 cm
long?

15. Kevin dropped a bag of marbles onto a table. The marbles are split into 3 equally sized piles and
Kevin found there was one marble left in the bag. Put one pile back in the bag and mixed the 2 piles
on the table. The marbles on the table could be split into 3 equally sized piles with one marble left. In
the third time, Kevin kept 2 piles on the table and put the rest in the bag. The marbles on the table
could be split into 3 equally sized piles with one marble left. What are the possible amount of marbles
originally in the bag? (There are more than one possible answers)

Calculating exercise

Exercise 1

45 + 18 = 16 + 15 = 17 - 8 = 77 - 55 =

28 + 17 = 44 + 36 = 26 - 18 = 62 - 44 =

39 + 21 = 55 + 17 = 30 - 14 = 72 - 38 =

46 + 15 = 84 + 13 = 33 - 18 = 51 - 17 =

75 + 25 = 36 + 27 = 37 - 18 = 50 - 15 =

Exercise 2

34 + 28 = 53 + 18 = 45 - 17 = 65 - 31 =

22 + 25 = 16 - 7 = 33 - 15 = 54 - 18 =

24 + 16 = 46 - 28 = 41 - 26 = 56 - 37 =

25 + 16 = 26 - 17 = 21 - 15 = 12 - 6 =

56 + 6 = 84 - 58 = 73 - 46 = 87 - 49 =