Year 2 Extension Maths Word Problems Week 2 Term 4

1. Mr Wilde bought some new pets for his pet shop.

He added twenty four more goldfish to one tank and

six birds to the cage. He bought seven more rabbits,

three more guinea pigs and fifteen white mice. After

add the pets to those he already had, he had a total

of eighty pets.

How many pets did he have before he bought the new

ones?

2. Ryan was a skilled tenpin bowler. In one week of

practice, Ryan bowled 13 fives, 16 threes, 37 twos,

53 ones. The rest were strikes. A strike is when all

ten pins are knocked over.

If the total number of pins he knocked over in the

week is 320, how many strikes did Ryan get in his

week of practice?

3. Stephanie drew some crazy creatures. Each crazy

creature had three eyes on each of the two head and ten

legs with four toes. She got bored in the middle of drawing

the legs and toes of the last creature. She had already

drawn 156 toes.

How many whole creatures did Stephanie draw?

How many legs did she have left to draw on the last creature?

How many eyes and heads did Stephanie draw?

4. Each box of fruit at the wholesalers holds 10

rows of apples with 8 apples in each row. The fruit

shop owner bought two boxes of apples. He packed

the apples in bags of 6.

How many bags of apples did he have and how many

did he have left over?