Money
John earns $20 per week more than Frank.
John earns $210 per week.
How much does Frank earn per week?
$190
Bob is thirteen years younger than Anne.
Bob is 83 years old.
How old is Anne?
96 years old
A bookshelf is 3m shorter in length than the wall.
The bookshelf is 1.5m long.
How long is the wall?
4.5m
A train takes 20 minutes than longer to complete its journey.
It leaves the station at 3:45 PM and arrives at its destination at 6:55 PM.
How long does the journey usually take?
2 hours and 50 minutes
A swimmer trains for thirty minutes more today than usual.
He normally trains 14 hours each week.
How long did the swimmer did train today?
2 hours 30 minutes
Jessica earns $5000 per year less than than Kyeisha.
Jessica earns $45000 per year.
How much does Kyeisha earn per year?
$50000
Jennifer is sixteen years younger than Michael.
Jennifer is nineteen years old.
How old is Michael?
35 years old
A table cloth is 2 metres longer than the table it sits upon.
The table cloth is 7.4m long.
How long is the table?
5.4m
The drive to school takes 15 minutes less than usual.
The car leaves home at 7:34am and arrives at 8:02am.
How long does the journey usually take?
43 minutes
A gymnast scored 8.5 in the vault, 9.2 on the bars, and 9.0 on the beam.
Their total score is 2.4 above the next placed competitor.
How many points did the next placed competitor get?
24.3
Dougie earns twice as much as Billy.
Dougie earns $900 per week.
How much does Billy earn per week?
$450
Nindi is twice as old as Ben.
Nindi is twenty-eight years old.
How old is Ben?
14 years old
A rope wraps around a tree six times.
The rope is 19.8m long.
What is the distance around the tree?
3.3m
Two movies start at the same time.
One is movie is twice as long as the other.
The longer movie starts at 9:20pm and finishes at midnight.
How long is the shorter film? And what time does it finish?
1 hour and 20 minutes. It finishes at 10:40pm.
A cyclist rides at one fifth the speed of Olympic cyclists.
The cyclist rides at 16 kilometres per hour.
How fast do Olympic cyclists ride?
80 kilometres per hour.
Claire earns half as much as Paula.
Claire earns $4000 per month.
How much does Paula earn per month?
$8000
Phillip is six times as old as Phillipa.
Phillip is 84 years old.
How old is Phillipa?
14 years old
An escalator is covers half as much distance horizontally as it does vertically.
The escalator goes horizontally 6.27m.
How much vertical distance does the escalator cover?
12.54m
James goes in a long-distance race. He runs at one third the pace of the winner.
The winner of a race begins at 10:00am and ends at 7:30pm.
How long does James take? When does he finish?
28 hours and 30 minutes. He finishes at 2:30pm the next day.
A soccer team had 11 players on the field and two substitutes.
Each team member paid $190 to play, which was reduced by 20% thanks to a sponsor.
How much in total did the team and sponsor pay?
$3 087.50
Travis earns $1 000 000 per year.
This is 0.8 times the amount that Trisha earns.
How much does Trisha earn?
$1 250 000
Jannali owns three dogs.
The sum of the dogs' ages is 40.
If the youngest dog is 5 years old and the oldest dog is 4 times as old as the youngest, how old are the other two dogs?
15 and 20 years old
Aiden owns a car that is 5.26m long.
His garage is 7.32m long.
How much space will there be at each end if he parks in the middle of his garage?
1.03m
Emelyn's train arrives at a station at 3:00 PM Wednesday after travelling for 80 hours.
Due to rainy weather the train was travelling at 80% of its usual speed.
When should the train have arrived?
11pm Tuesday
Jackson is a talented basketball player.
He averages 12 points per game for four games.
If he scores 20 points in his fifth game, what is his new average?
13.6