Word Problems
You went to the store with $5.50. You bought gum for $1.25, a chocolate bar for $1.15, and a sucker for $.050. How much money do you have left?
What is $2.60?
4(6n+4) when n=6
What is 160?
A circle with radius 2 will have this circumference.
What is 4pi?
If 4+2=26
8+1=79
6+5=111
Then, what is 7+3=??
What is 410
Triangle PQR has right angle Q. If sin R = ⅘, what is the value of tan P?
What is 3/4?
Frank earns $6 an hour babysitting. Last week his mom gave him $86 including his $20 allowance. How many minutes did Frank spend babysitting?
What is 660 minutes?
b when b/36=9/4
What is 81?
A right triangle with legs of 5cm and 12cm will have a perimeter this many meters in length.
What is 0.3m?
I am a three digit number. My second digit is four times bigger than the third digit. My first digit is three less than my second digit. Who am I?
What is 141
The world’s population has grown at an average rate of 1.9 percent per year since 1945. There were approximately 4 billion people in the world in 1975. Write a function that represents the world’s population P, in billions of people, t years since 1975.
What is P(t)=4(1.019)t ?
A salesman sold 200 pairs of slippers. Some were sold at $6 per pair and the rest at $11 per pair. The salesman made a total of $1,600 in a day. How many $6 slippers did the salesman sell?
What is 120?
Equation of the line that passed through (1,3) and (4,9)
What is y=2x+1?
Expressed as a fraction, this number is equivalent to how many degrees are in a radian.
What is 180/pi?
Leon works at the aquarium. When he tries to put each turtle in its own tank, he has one turtle too many. But if he puts two turtles per tank, he has one tank too many. How many turtles and how many tanks does Leon have?
What is 4 turtles and 3 tanks
For the function g(x) = a(x^2)+ 24, a is a constant and g(4) = 8. The value of g(−4) is this.
What is 8?
A random variable X has a mean of 14 and a standard deviation of 12. What is the corresponding z-score for x=-50?
What is -3?
5x2+C=27, find C when x=2.
What is 7?
An angle of a right triangle has a tangent value equal to 1 and an adjacent side length equal to 5. When, in simplest form, the hypotenuse of this triangle has this length.
What is 5sqrt(2)
A grandfather, two fathers, and two sons went to the movie theater together, and everyone bought one movie ticket each. How many tickets did they buy in total?
What is 3
At a lunch stand, each hamburger has 50 more calories than each order of fries. If 2 hamburgers and 3 orders of fries have a total of 1700 calories, how many calories does a hamburger have?
What is 370?
A 52-foot ladder rests 8 feet from the wall. What angle does the ladder make with the ground? Round to the nearest tenth.
What is 81.2 feet?
Solve for y: 8=(3y-58)3
What is 20?
The book, Elements, written by this greek mathematician, outlines the system of geometry we all are familiar with.
Who is Euclid?
A small number of cards has been lost from a complete pack. If I deal among four people, three cards remain. If I deal among three people, two remain and if I deal among five people, two cards remain. How many cards are there?
What is 47
If (ax+2)(bx+7)=15x2+ cx+14 for all values of x, and a+b=8, what are the two possible values for c?
What are 31 and 41?