Word Problems
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 + 10 = __
55
1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, __
13
? รท3 = __ +5 = __ x2 = 60
? = 75
Tooni ate 3/8 of a pizza and her brother ate 4/8. How much pizza was left?
1/8
54
4, 11, 19, 28, 38, 49, __
61
A number is added to 6. The sum is then multiplied by 6. 6 is again subtracted from the product. When the difference is divided by 6, the result is still 6. What is this number?
1
Vihaan works at the school store in the mornings before school. He was unpacking an order of 24 boxes of erasers. Each box contains 50 erasers. How many erasers does Vihaan have in all?
24 x 50 = 1,200
In Science, Aarna's class learned that the diameter is 7,874 miles and the diameter of Jupiter is 88,000 miles. What is the difference between the diameter of Earth and Jupiter?
80,126 miles
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 + 10 + 11 + 12 + 13 + 14 + 15 = __
120
4, 15, 14, 25, 24, 35, __
34
On Monday, half of the total number of books were loaned out. Another 87 books were loaned out the next day. There were only 43 books left in the library. How many books were there in the library at first?
260 books
There were a total of 30 cars and motorcycles at a car park. There were 100 wheels in all. How many cars were there at the car park?
20 cars
Tooni donated $12 to the food bank. Monica donated triple the amount. Aarna donated double the amount Monica donated. What is the total amount the girls donated to the food bank?
The girls donated $120 to the food bank.
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 ...... + 47 + 48 + 49 + 50 = __
1275
3, 5, 9, 15, 23, 33, 45, __
59
A rope was cut into half. I fall of the rope was cut into half again. After four such cuts, the length of one such rope was 1 m. What was the original length of the rope?
16 m
An auditorium has 12 rows of seats. Each row has the same number of seats. The auditorium has 144 seats. How many seats in each row?
12 seats
There were 7 books in a series of mystery novels. Each book was written and published every 2 years. The 5th book in this series was written and published in 2003. In which years were the remaining books written and published?
1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007
1 + 3 + 5 + 7 ...... + 43 + 45 + 47 + 49 = __
625
1, 3, 6, 8, 16, 18, __, __, 76, 78
36, 38
16 sparrows were resting on two trees. 2 sparrows flew away from the second tree 5 sparrows flew from the first tree to the second tree. The two trees now had the same number of sparrows. How many sparrows were there on the first tree and how many sparrows were there on the second tree at first?
12 sparrows on the 1st tree; 4 sparrows on the 2nd tree
There are 30 questions in a mathematics competition. All questions must be answered. 5 marks are awarded for every correct answer. 2 marks will be deducted for a wrong answer. If Amy scores 122 marks, how many questions does she answer correctly?
26 correct questions