n ” Word Problems Hama, . I'm thinking of two number, 12 and another number. 12 and my other number have a greatest common factor of 6 and their least common multi- ple is 36. What's the other number I'm thinking of? Answer—18 Tom had a platter of chocolate wafers. He ate $ of them and then gave his brother 3, he then handed them to his ball team of 8 members. The first player to arrive took 1, the second player took 3, the third player took 5 and so on. When the last player took his, the platter was empty. How many chocolate wafers did Tom start with? Answer—72 Jasmine has 50 marbles in a bag. 20% of the marbles are blue. How many marbles are blue? Answer—10 An Olympic runner set a record for the 100m dash. The time was ten and sixty-two hundredths seconds, How would you write this a5 a number? Answer—10.62 seconds . The tables at the party are shaped like the hexagon. If you put the tables together, how many would you need for SO people? Answer 12 tables At your birthday party, you had 7 8-slice pizzas. 41 slices were eaten, What fraction of pizza is left? Answer— 5/8Name Date Grade 6 Word Problem Set 1 1) Katy was driving to a concert with her friend. The concert was 150 miles away, and she made it there in 3 hours. How many miles per hour was Katy travelling on her way to the concert? 2) Lucas started off with $1.00. he gave away 20% of his money to his sister, and 30% of his money to his brother. How much money did Lucas have after giving away that money? 3) Lily was supposed to attend a party at 3:15 pm. She ran into car trouble that delayed her :30 minutes. Once she got her car fixed she also ran out of gas which delayed her :15 minutes. What time did Lily arrive to the party? 4) Sharon inherited Y2 of her grandfather's estate. Out of sympathy she gave away ‘ of the property that she inherited. How much property did Sharon have remaining? 5) Susan purchased 8 pizzas which had 12 pieces each. after the party there were 3 pizzas left. How many pieces of pizza got eaten during the party? is worksheet is from www.teach-nology.comName Date PERCENTAGE OF NUMBER PROBLEMS 1B Ex Find the answers to these percentage of number word problems. Can you spot the impossible/trick problem? 1) Ina class of 30 children, 60% of the children are girls. How many girls are there in the class? 2) Ina packet of 40 skittles, 30% are red. How many skittles are not red? 3) Ina group of 30 children, 80% can’t swim. How many children can’t swim? 4) Frazer scores 75% in a spelling test with 40 questions. How many did he get right? 5) Toronto FC have lost 25% of their games. If they have played 36 games, how many didn’t they lose? a 7) 28% of the animals in an animal rescue centre are cats. What wt 6) Ina group of 20 children, 50% have blue eyes and 40% have brown eyes. How many children have brown eyes? S&S 8) A toy car costing $50 is reduced by 10% in the sale. How much does it cost now? bees percentage are dogs? 9) Ina study of 200 students under 25 years old, 5% have not yet learned to drive. How many of the students cannot drive? 10) In a survey of 300 adults, 15% did not know how to ride a bike. How many people is this? Did you manage to find the impossible prob! nee Mme on Ma ey SALAMANDERSOMA,Name Date PERCENTAGE OF NUMBER PROBLEMS 2A ER Find the answers to these percentage of number word problems. Can you spot the impossible/trick problem? 1) A shop sells 100 chocolate, vanilla and strawberry ice creams. 40% of the ice creams sold are vanilla, and 30% are strawberry. How many chocolate ice creams are sold? 2) An animal park has lions, tigers and zebras. 20% of the animals are lions and half the animals are zebras. If there are 120 animals at the park, how many lions are there? 3) LA Galaxy have won 60% of their soccer matches. If they have played 40 matches, how many have they won? a 4) Acar can travel 400 miles on a full tank of petrol. A more efficient car can travel 30% further. How many miles further can it travel on a tank? = 5) Ina fruit survey, 30 children choose their favourite fruit out of apples, bananas and watermelon. 10% chose apples, 30% chose bananas. How many children chose watermelon? 6) Ina traffic survey of 80 vehicles: bikes, buses and cars were recorded. % of the vehicles were cars and 20% were buses. How many buses were there? 7) In Salamanderville, there is a 24% chance it will rain on any given day. How many days of rain would you expect in 50 days? Answer: Did you manage to find the impossible problem? 8) Sally either walks, cycles or drives to work. She walks about 15% of the time. In 100 days, how many times would she cycle?Name. Word Problems On Wednesday you saw 12 robins on one tree and 7 on another tree. How many robins did you see altogether? » Your friends just gave you 12 sparkle markers, now you have 19! How many did you have before your friends gave you 12 more? . You picked 8 flowers and your friend picked 17 flowers. How many more flowers did your friend pick? . You have 17 birthday gifts! 9 came from your family, the rest came from your friends. How many gifts did your friends give you? . You saved 17 dimes and your brother saved 8 dimes. How many more dimes did you save? . Today is May 4th and your birthday is on May 21st, how many more days until your birthday? . In your class today, only 18 of the 26 students were at school. How many were absent? . Your 8 friends all have 2 wheeled bicycles, how many wheels is that altogether?Name : —_______________ Score: Teacher: mm. Date: Word Problems 1) Acertain number wasmuttipied by 7.4 was then taken ainay from the product. Finell, thet difference was then divided iy 9, resutting in 8. Find the initial numiver. 2) First, 38.28 was divided by some num ber. The resulting qutient wasthen multiplied y 7. Following this, $:9 was subtracted from the produc giving 18.6. What was the intial divisor? 3) 9 nas added to a certain number. This sum was then divided by 3. Finally, the quatient was multiplied by 5. This product came outta S. What was the number? 4) 72-was divided by some number, then addedlto 12. Nev, this lifference was multiplied by 4, which gave a product of 12. Find this number. 5) Some number was civided by6. After which, the quotient is addedto 11. Nex, the sum is multiplied by 6, which resutted in 60. Given this product, find the initial number. 6) 103 was subtracted from a number. Then, that difference was mutiplecl by 7, atter which that result was divided by 2.5, tthe result of that division is-7, then what wes the iniial rum her? 7) Some number wes divided into 176.9. This quotient was then multiplied by 4, ater which the resulting procuct was added to 10.2. Given this sum totalled ta -38.6, find the intial number. 8) 01.2 was diviced into a particular number. This quotient nasthen multiplied by 7, and 2.8 vas taken tom that product. Ifthe previous operstion resulted in 499 8, find the intial number. 8) Apatticular number was divided by 5 andthen 6 wastaken away ftom that quotient. Finally this difference was multiplied by 4. Given the product was -20, what was that number? 10) 824 vasdivided by a particular number, then 2 ‘nes taken ftom the quotient. Aterwands,, thisdifierence was multiplied by?. Giving product of-70. Find the particular number. EG] MathAids.com BeName : Score : Teacher: —_______________...__ Date: Word Problems 1) Mike has } week's werth ofp ayin a wallet and 6 3 week's of pay in the Bank. Howmany mare weeks of pay daes Mike have stored inthe bank? 2) Sandyhas 4} books|ett to read for school. Sandy read 4 $ bookson Saturday. Howmany mare kooks does Sandy have to read? 3) Sam picked 1 & buckets ofpears, and Nancy picked 22 buckets of pears. Howmany more buckets did Nancy pick? 4) Joan has to walk 1 § miles te get tothe mall. Mike has tetravel1 7p miles tw also get tothe mall Howmuch futher des Joan ha vet wetk than Mike to get tothe mali? 5) 1% fot fabric is needed to make pillows, while 33 t of fabric is required to make a fag. Howmuch more fabric isneeded to make a tag versus plows? 8) Mary spends 2 j hours running and alse spends 1 § hours at the mall Howlmuch less time oes Mary spend at the m all compared to running? 7) Keith wants to complete 2 crosswordstoday. Keith has already done 1 $ crosewords.Wht fraction of crosswords does Keth have lotto trish? 8) Arecipe called for 1 § cupsat chopped onions and 2% cups of eiced spinach. Howmany more cups of-spinach dd the recipe cll fr? 9) Saraist J ttal, wheteasSendyist } tall, Howmuch taller in feet is Sara than Sandy? 101) Tim was toldto practice playing cello for 3% hoursper day. Tim hasalready played 1 HE hourstodey, Howmany hours does Tim sll need! 0 pradice today? a EQ Math-aids.c om Be