Word Problems

1. Jacob and his two sisters paid $8 each to enter a corn maze. How much did they
pay in all?
2. A movie and video game rental store rents older games for $4 and new games
for $9. Chase rented 3 new games. How much did Chase pay to rent the games?
3. The freshman class is selling beeswax candles as a fund raiser. Trisha sold 6
boxes of candles. Each box holds 12 candles. How many candles did Trisha sell in
all?
4. Yamin's garden has 5 rows of hot peppers with 4 plants in each row. How many
hot pepper plants are in Yamin's garden?
5. When Allen goes to work, he spends $2 each day for parking. How much does
Allen spend for parking after 14 days of work?
6. Morgan spends 10 minutes each night doing shoulder exercises her physical
therapist assigned. How many minutes does she spend a week on her shoulder
exercises?
7. A vending machine package contains 2 sugar cookies. Michael ate 5 full
packages. How many cookies did Michael eat?
8. One pizza is cut into 8 slices. How many slices are in 4 pizzas?
9. A computer game allows you exactly 3 minutes to score as many points as you
can. If you played the game 9 times, how many minutes did you spend playing?
10.The high school guidance office is encouraging students to attend the annual
college fair by handing out college fair pencils. Each pencil costs the school 2.
What is the total cost for 1000 pencils?
11.If Jaila reads 100 pages a night, how many pages will she have read in two
weeks?
12.There are 40 members in Jake's science club. Each member planted 8 trees as a
community service project. How many trees did the club members plant in all?
13.A clarinet reed costs $2 when the reeds are sold in a case of 3 reeds. The band
has 16 clarinet players. How much would it cost for every player to buy a case of
reeds?
14.Students are rewarded with $3 in food coupons every time they earn an A on a
report card. Eddie had a total of 24 As this year. How many dollars in food
coupons did he receive?
15.Brad drove 72 kilometers in one hour. About how many kilometers can he drive
in 8 hours?
16.A school in Japan has a school year of 193 days. Arya has 3 full years left before
she graduates. How many school days are there before Arya graduates?

17.Tickets for a concert are $23 per person. If 108 people buy tickets, what is the
total amount in ticket purchases?
18.Ruth bought 6 tank tops. The price with tax for each tank top was $7.18. How
much did Ruth pay in all?
19.Shane works in a pizza shop. An order was placed for 8 pizzas. The customer
wants 1/2 of the pizzas to be pepperoni, 1/8 of the pizzas to be mushroom only,
and the rest to be cheese pizzas. How many cheese pizzas does he need for the
order?
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20.Cade helps coach a winter basketball league for elementary students. There are
54 students who are divided evenly into 6 teams. How many students are on
each team?
21.On a field trip to the park, students must stay in groups of 2. There are 16
students in all. How many groups are there?
22.The football team scored 42 points in the first half. All of the points were scored
in touchdowns. How many touchdowns were scored? (Hint: A touchdown is worth
6 points.)
23.A travel club is spending a weekend in the city. The trip cost is $96, and it is
divided into three equal payments. How much is each payment?
24.There are 6 weeks in a grading period. Students earn a party for their class if
each student reads at least 25 chapters at his or her reading level. On average,
how many books does each student need to read each week?
25.A boat livery rents paddle boats for 2-hour, 4-hour, and 8-hour excursions. The
boats can hold up to three people, and there must be at least two people in each
boat. If a group of 19 people are renting boats, what is the least number of
paddle boats they can rent?
26.Jerald drove 350 miles in 5 days. On average, how many miles did he drive each
day?
27.The state science fair had 256 projects displayed. There were 16 projects
displayed in each row. How many rows of projects were on display?
28.A window has an area of 7.2 meters. The window is 3 meters tall. How wide is
the window?
29.The tables used for the fall sports banquet have 6 seats per table. There are 236
people who are planning to attend. Estimate the number of tables that must be
set up.

Money
1. Find the sum of:
(i) Rs. 8 and paise 25 + Rs. 4 and paise 40
(ii) Rs. 18 and paise 40 + Rs. 20 and paise 25
(iii) Rs. 112 and paise 45 + Rs. 235 and paise 45
(iv) Rs. 58 and paise 70 + Rs. 21 and paise 25

2. Find the difference of:

(i) Rs. 75 and paise 85 - Rs. 15 and paise 25
(ii) Rs. 127 and paise 35 - Rs. 27 and paise 20
(iii) Rs. 239 and paise 65 - Rs. 112 and paise 25
(iv) Rs. 460 and paise 95 - Rs. 21 and paise 45

3. A pencil box costs 25 rupees and a note book costs 15 rupees. How much money
is needed to pay for both?
4. The price of a bag is 55 rupees and the price of a purse is 75 rupees. How much
do we have to pay for both?
5. Soni had a 100 rupee note. She buys a book for 65 rupees. How much money is
left after paying for the book?

6. Sunil buys a pen for 15 rupees. He gives the shopkeeper a 50 rupee note. How
much money does the shopkeeper return to Sunil after deducting the cost of the
pen?

1. (i) Convert 6085 paisa into rupees and paisa.

(ii) Convert Rs. 57.50 into paisa.
2. (i) Add Rs. 12.65, Re. 0.95 and Rs. 136.65
(ii) Subtract Rs. 30.57 from Rs. 75.30.
(iii) Ram and Sam have Rs. 360.45 and Rs. 638.95 respectively. Luis has an amount
equal to the sum of the amount of Ram and Sam. What is the amount Luis has?

3. Riana bought the following things:

2 flower bouquets each for Rs. 11.25, a doll for Rs. 24.61, a book for Rs. 27.67 and a
notebook for Rs. 16.10. Find her total expenditure. If she gave a Rs. 100 note to the
shopkeeper, what amount was returned to her?
4. How many paisa are there in Rs. 7.00? How many 25-paisa coins make Rs. 7?
5. Three pairs of sleepers cost Rs. 366. What is the cost of one pair of sleepers?
6. A packet of biscuits cost Rs. 15.50. What is cost of 6 packets?
7. Which is less and by how much (Rs. 115.35 + Rs. 75.05) or (Rs. 415.35 - Rs.
102.00)?

6. If Ron distribute Rs. 39.60 among 6 boys, how much will each boy get?
2. Multiply Rs. 25.60 by 7
3. Add 25.30 and Rs 40343 without regrouping.