GEOMETRY
Time and Measurement
Word Problems
Word Problems #2
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100

The angle measures of a triangle are 59 degrees, 60 degrees, and 61 degrees. What type of triangle is this?

Acute

100

How many hours are in 300 minutes?

5 hours

100

There are 196 students going on a field trip. Each bus can hold 28 students. How many buses are needed?

7 buses

100

There are 14 teams at Field Day. Each team has 9 students.

How many students are participating?

126 Students 

100

A triangle has angles measuring 40° and 65°. What is the measure of the third angle?

75 degrees 

200

Two lines intersect and form one angle that measures 45°. What are the measures of the other three angles?

45°, 135°, 135°

200

How long is 483 seconds? - Convert to minutes. 

8 minutes 3 seconds 

200

A craft club made 317 bracelets. They want to pack them into bags of 9 bracelets each. How many full bags can they make, and how many bracelets will be left over?


35 remainder 2.

200

A rectangular garden is 17 feet long and 6 feet wide.

What is the area of the garden?

102 square feet

200

A notebook costs $4. A pack of pencils costs $3. If a student buys 3 notebooks and 2 packs of pencils, how much does she spend?

$18

300

A company chooses a shape for its new logo. The shape has only obtuse angles and exactly three sets of parallel line segments. Which ship could be the new logo?

Hexagon 

300

After working on her report for 3 hours and 35 minutes, Lauren is finally finished! It is now 11:30 PM. What time did Lauren start writing her report?

7:55 PM

300

Coach buys 729 cones for soccer practice. She puts 25 cones in each equipment bag.

After filling all possible bags, she uses the leftover cones to set up 4 equal practice stations.

How many cones go at each station?

1 cone

300

The art teacher buys 14 boxes of markers. Each box has 18 markers. She wants to give 6 markers to each student in her class.

How many students can get a set of 6 markers?

42 students

300

A book has 120 pages. On Monday, Jordan reads 1/5 of the book. On Tuesday, he reads 2/5 of the book.

How many pages has he read in total?

72 pages

400

The opposite sides of the window are parallel. No pair of sides is perpendicular. Which is the shape of the window?

Parallelogram 

400

The bus leaves school at 2:37 PM and arrives at the museum at 3:19 PM. On the way back, it leaves the museum at 4:05 PM and arrives at school at 4:47 PM. How long is the trip from school to the museum? Is the trip back longer, shorter, or the same? By how many minutes?

42 minutes, same amount of time

400

A class buys 275 pretzels for a party. Each snack cup holds 12 pretzels.

After filling as many cups as possible, the teacher puts the leftover pretzels into a bowl. Each student gets 3 pretzels from the bowl. How many students can get pretzels from the bowl?

1 students

400

For Field Day, volunteers make 27 snack bags. Each bag has 15 pretzels. They want to place the pretzels into cups of 20 for each station.

How many full cups can they make?

20 Full Cups

400

A garden is divided into 10 equal sections.

  • Tomatoes take up 3/10 of the garden.

  • Carrots take up half as much space as tomatoes.

What fraction of the garden is used for carrots?

3/20

500

A square and a rectangle have the same area. The square has a side length of 8 cm. The rectangle’s width is 4 cm. What is the rectangle’s length?

Answer: 16 cm Explanation:   Square area = 8×8=64   Rectangle: 4×L=64 → L=16


500

A container holds 2 liters of water. Each cup holds 250 milliliters. How many cups of water can fill the container?

8 cups 

Explanation: 2 liters = 2000 mL 2000 ÷ 250 = 8

500

The librarian has 542 sheets of colored paper. She uses 18 sheets to make each set of bookmarks.

After making as many sets as possible, she gives the leftover sheets to 4 helpers equally.

How many sheets does each helper get?

0

500

A school sells 23 rows of tickets for a show. Each row has 28 seats. Tickets cost $4 each.

How much money does the school make if every seat is sold?


$2,576

500

A book has 180 pages.

  • On Monday, Ava reads 2/9 of the book.

  • On Tuesday, she reads 15 more pages than she read on Monday.

How many pages does she read on Tuesday?

55 pages