Word Problems 1
The neighborhood pool is only open during certain times of the day during the summer. The pool is open for 4 2/3 hours in the morning. It is also open 4 4/12 hours in the afternoon. How many hours is the neighborhood pool open each day?
9 hours
Mrs. Burns needs to take her daughter to dance practice. She drives 2 1/2 miles from her job to the school to pick up her daughter. Then Mrs. Burns drives 8 3/4 miles to the dance studio. How many miles did Mrs. Burns drive altogether?
11 1/4 miles
The school cafeteria is making cupcakes for the 6th grade graduation. The recipe calls for 3/4 of a cup of sugar and 1/8 of a cup of powdered sugar. How much total sugar is needed to make the cupcakes?
7/8 cup of sugar
Mrs. Scheftner has one cup of food left for her guinea pig. She splits the food up into three equal servings and gives one of the servings to the guinea pig. He only eats 1/2 of the food he was given. How much food does Mrs. Schefter have left for her guinea pig?
5/6 cup
The adult picnic table at the park is 3 meters long. The kids picnic table is 150 centimeters long. How much longer is the adult picnic table than the kids picnic table?
150 centimeters longer
Alice opens a lemonade stand over the summer to earn extra money. On the first day her stand is open, she uses four bags of sugar. The next day, she uses 2/3 as many bags of sugar as she used on the first day. How many bags of sugar did Alice use on the second day?
2 and 2/3 bags (or 8/3)
Dylan goes to soccer practice for 1 1/4 hours every night. During practice, she stops to grab a drink of water and notices she has been at practice for 1/2 of an hour already. How much longer does Dylan have until her soccer practice is over?
3/4 of an hour
Brooks and Jax are both on the track team. They both like to do an additional run after practice. Brooks runs 5 3/6 miles after practice. Jax runs 2/3 of the distance that Brooks runs. How many miles does Jax run after practice?
3 12/18 or 3 2/3 miles
Grandpa Owen's favorite peanut butter cookie recipe makes 2 dozen cookies. The recipe calls for 1 1/4 cups of powdered sugar and 2/3 cup of brown sugar. How much total sugar is needed to make 72 peanut butter cookies?
5 3/4 = 5 9/12
Kathryn poured 3 pints of apple juice into a pitcher. She added 5 cups of cranberry juice and 1 quart of lemonade. How many cups of liquid did she pour into the pitcher?
15 total cups
The relay race at the fundraising event is nine laps around the track. Team Eagles has already run 5 2/4 laps around the track. How many more laps does Team Eagles need to run to complete the relay race?
3 1/2 laps
The team that manages the state park is planing to make a new parking lot near the park entrance. The parking lot will be 7/8 of a mile long and 2/3 of a mile wide. What will be the area of the new parking lot? Is it more or less than 1/2 square mile?
14/24 square miles - this is more than 1/2 square mile
A chicken recipe calls for 6 pounds of chicken, 1 1/2 sticks of butter, 4 1/3 teaspoons of garlic, and 2/3 cups of onion. How much of each ingredient will be needed to make half of the recipe?
3 lbs. of chicken, 3/4 stick of butter, 2 1/6 tsp. garlic, 1/3 cup of onion
The width of the window is 4 feet 7 inches. How many inches wide is the window?
55 inches
A soccer team has 5 gallons of water for their game on Saturday. If the team drinks 15 pints of water during the game, how many pints of water are left over?
25 pints
There are eight cups of ice cream in a large container of Berry Blast ice cream. Each scoop of ice cream is 1/2 of a cup. How many scoops of ice cream are in an entire container of Berry Blast ice cream? Write an equation and solve.
16 scoops - Eight cups divided into halves = 16
Ayda was cutting small pieces of ribbons to make bows for her friend's birthday presents. She was able to make 4 bows out of a string of ribbon that was 1/3 of a yard long. How long is each of the bows Ayda made?
1/12 yard
A painter brought two gallons of paint so he could paint the walls in a new home. He used 1 1/2 gallons to paint the basement. The remaining paint was used to paint a closet. If the painter used what was left to paint each of the four walls in the closet, how much paint was used on each closet wall?
1/8 gallon
A dressmaker needs 5 yards and 2 feet of fabric to make a dress. How many feet of fabric should the dressmaker purchase for the dress?
17 feet
A painter paints 7 yards of a fence on Saturday. On Sunday, he paints 9 more feet of the fence. How many total feet of fence did the painter paint over the weekend?
30 feet
Ms. Sanders is baking cookies for the school bake sale. She has 3 2/5 cups of sugar in the sugar jar. She used 2 3/4 cups of that sugar for the cookie recipe. How much sugar does Ms. Sanders have now?
13/20
Students in Mrs. Price's PE class spent the class period running around the track. Taj ran 1 3/4 miles and Brizzy ran 1 7/16 of a mile. Who ran the further distance? How much further?
Taj - he ran 5/16 of a mile further
Lane plans to run 11 miles this week for a school fundraiser. She wants to run 1 3/5 miles each day after school. She plans to run the remaining miles over the weekend. If Josie runs the same number of miles on Saturday and Sunday, how many miles will she have to run each day to meet her goal?
1 1/2 miles
A baker used 3 kilograms of flour for last week's cupcake orders. He used 4,326 grams of flour for this week's orders. How many grams of flour did the baker use altogether?
7,326 grams
Nora read for 4 hours this week. Maren read for 172 minutes this week. How many more minutes did Nora read than Maren this week?
68 more minutes