Sum, Difference & Multiple (2)( Week 45 Evaluation) 2. There were the equal number of books on two bookshelves. After 70 books were removed from the first shelf, and 119 books were added to the second shelf, the number of books on the second shelf was 8 times as many as on the first shelf. How many books were there on the second bookshelf originally? 3. The quotient of two numbers is 9 and their difference is 24. What is the larger number of the two? 4. Steve has a pile of pennies, nickels, and dimes with a total value of $4.70. There are 7 times as many pennies as nickels and there are 7 times as many nickels as dimes. How many dimes are there in the pile? 5. There are 81 more maple trees than oak trees. The number of maple trees is 9 more than 4 times the number of oak trees. How many maple trees are there? 6. A farmer sold some flowers at $9 per bunch, and sold twice as many as that at $4 per bunch. He received a total of $289 for all the sales. How many bunches of flowers did he sell at $9 per bunch? 7. Alice and Andy both have some glass balls. If Alice gives 24 balls to Andy, they will have the same number of balls. If Andy gives Alice 9 balls, the number of Alice's balls will be 4 times as many as Andy's. How many balls does Alice have? 8. There is a pile of nickels, dimes and quarters with a total value of $4.40. There are 2 more dimes than quarters and 10 more nickels than dimes. How many nickels are there? 9. The total number of apples, oranges, and pears is 279. The number of apples is 5 times the number of oranges, and the number of pears is 5 times the number of apples. How many pears are there? 10. The number of books in shelf B is 15 more than the number of books in shelf A. If 30 books were removed from shelf A, the number of books in shelf B would be 6 times as many as in shelf A. How many books are there in shelf B? |