Four boys work together painting houses for the summer. For each house they paint they get $256.00. If the boys work for 4 months of the summer and their expenses are $152.00 per month, how many houses must they paint for each of them to have one thousand dollars at the end of the summer?

Read each question several times and then break it down.  Make certain you understand when you are adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing or doing a combination of calculations.