Word Problems
Elijah spent $8.75 for lunch every day
for 5 school days. He spent $5.25 on Saturday. How much did he spend in all?
What is $49?
An airplane took off and reached an altitude of 12,000 feet in 24 minutes. How many feet per minute, on average, did the airplane climb?
What is 500 feet?
The temperature at noon was −4°C. By 10 P.M. on the same day the temperature decreased by 6.4°. What was the temperature at 10 P.M.?
What is -10.4 degrees?
Solve -12 x (-32)?
What is 384?
WHAT IS THE PRODUCT OF 1 2/5 and 1 3/4?
What is
2 9/20
Briana played a trivia game in which she lost 6 points for each incorrect answer and gained 12 points for each correct answer. If Briana answered 11 questions correctly and 4 questions incorrectly, what was her total score?
What is 108 points?
Jake’s family is moving to a new home.
They packed 22 boxes in
1 6/8
hours. What is the average number of boxes they packed per hour?
What is
12 4/7 ?
On a certain day the temperature in Seattle was −4°C and the temperature in Houston was 22°C. How many degrees lower was the temperature in Seattle?
What is 26 degrees lower?
What is the result when −2.3 is divided by 1.6?
What is 1.438?
Solve
-3 1/3 divide 2/3
What is -5?
Each year a store decreased the price of a certain model of TV by $35. If the price in 2001 was $1,950, what was the price in 2009?
What is $1,670?
At Daria’s school,
3/5
of the students are left-handed. If there are 320 students, how many of them are left-handed?
Tori bought a sandwich for $5.50, a bag of dried fruit for $1.85 and a bottle of water for $1.05. She paid the cashier with a $20 bill. How much change did she receive?
What is $11.60?
Alexis sold boxes of homemade granola bars for $8.50 each. It costs her $2.25 to bake and package each box of granola bars. What was her profit from selling each box of granola bars?
What is $6.25?
What is the value of
-4/6 divide -1 3/5
What is
5/12
Alyssa rode her bicycle 14.6 miles in 0.5 hours. What is the average number of miles she rode per hour?
What is 29.2?
Kenneth shared a basket of apples with four of his friends. The basket weighed 12.25 pounds. What is the weight of the apples that each of the friends received?
What is 2.45 pounds?
What is -3.4 + (-2.3) + 4.3 - 2.3?
What is -3.7?
What is the product of −4.7 and 3.8?
What is -17.86?
A test has 42 questions. Denise finished
1/3
in the first 5 minutes and
1/2
of the remaining questions in the next 15 minutes. How many questions had Denise answered after 25 minutes?
What is 14?
Alex wants to purchase a set of
12 figurines that cost $37 each. So far
he has saved $230 towards this purchase. How much more money does he need
to save?
What is $214?
The number of students enrolled at Hill School decreased by 120 students over an 8-year period. What was the average decrease in student enrollment per year?
What is 15 students?
A seal is swimming in the ocean 5 feet below sea level. It dives down 12 feet to catch some fish. Then, the seal swims 8 feet up towards the surface with its catch. What is sea's final elevation relative to sea level?
What is -9?
Three brothers each have their own savings. They borrow $72 from their parents for concert tickets. Each brother must pay back an equal share of this amount. Also, the youngest brother owes his parents $15. By how much will the youngest brother's savings change after he pays his parents?
What is -$39?
George ate
3/4
of a container of Chinese food. Silvia ate
1/6
of the same container of Chinese food. What fraction of the container of Chinese food did they eat together?
What is
11/12 ?