Measurement Word Problems
A lizard was 1 1/2 feet long. Now it is 1 9/12 feet long. How much did the snake grow?
3/12 of a foot or 3 inches
1 1/2 = 1 6/12
1 9/12 = 1 9/12 The difference is 3 inches
Jon wants to buy a book of synonyms that costs $9.98, a soccer book that costs $13.49, and a children's cookbook that costs $11. He has saved $50 from his allowance. How much change will Jon get back if he buys all three books?
$15.53
Petra and Juno have equal‐sized desserts. Petra's dessert is cut into 7 slices. Juno's dessert is cut into 9 slices. Petra eats 2 slices of her desert and Juno eats 3 pieces of her dessert. Who ate more of their dessert? How do you know?
Petra ate 2/7 of her dessert.
Juno ate 3/9 of her dessert.
2/7 = 18/63
3/9 = 21/63 Therefore, Juno ate more.
1/2 - 2/5
1/10
A swimming pool holds 2,000 liters of water. If you want to fill it with a hose that delivers 100 liters per minute, how long will it take to fill the pool?
20 minutes
Peter started his own landscaping business. He charges $16 an hour for mowing lawns and $25 for pulling weeds. In September he mowed lawns for 17 hours and pulled weeds for 3 hours. How much money did he earn in September?
$347
Jasmine feeds her cat 1/3 cup of food each day. The bag came with 10 cups, but she has used 1/2 of the bag. How many days will the rest of the bag of cat food last?
15 days
Simplify 56/8
7
Bob wants to build a fence that will be 16 yards long and 6 feet tall. If a gallon of paint will cover 120 square feet of the fence, how many gallons of paint should he buy?
There are 3 feet in 1 yard
3 gallons of paint
For a bake sale, the Key Club needed to sell $500 worth of goods to meet their goal. Each item cost $3. Each club member made 30 items. There are 20 members in the Key Club. They sold 143 items. How much money short were they of their goal?
$71
A box of paper clips fell on the floor. It was a new box of 200 paper clips. Betty picked up 75 paper clips and Joanne picked up the rest. What fraction of the all of the paper clips did Joanne pick up? Simplify your answer.
125/200 = 5/8
Joanne picked up 5/8 of the paper clips
Solve and simplify if needed:
7 and 5/8 - 3 7/12
7 15/24 - 3 14/24 = 4 1/24