WORD PROBLEMS

1. School lunches cost $14.50 per week. how much would 15.5 weeks of lunches cost?
2. A student earns $11.75 per hour for gardening. If she worked 21 hours this month, then how
much did she earn?
3. Rick's car gets 29.7 miles per gallon on the highway. If his fuel tank holds 10.45 gallons, then
how far can he travel on one full tank of gas?
4. A member of the school track team ran for a total of 179.3 miles in practice over 61.5 days.
About how many miles did he average per day? Round each given to nearest ones before
computing.
5. A store owner has 7.11 lbs. of candy. If she puts the candy into 9 jars, how much candy will each
jar contain?
6. Paul will pay for his new car in 36 monthly payments. If his car loan is for $19,061, then how
much will Paul pay each month? Round your answer to nearest cent (hundredth).
7. What is the average speed in miles per hour of a car that travels 956.4 miles in 15.9 hours?
Round your answer to the nearest tenth.
8. Estimate the amount of money you need to pay for a tank of gas if one gallon costs $3.04 and
the tank holds 11.9 gallons.
9. A student earned a grade of 80% on a math test that had 20 problems. How many problems on
this test did the student answer correctly? (round to the nearest whole number)
10. There are 36 carpenters in a crew. On a certain day, 29 were present. What percent showed up
for work? (round to the nearest tenth)
11. A metal bar weighs 8.15 ounces. 93% of the bar is silver. How many ounces of silver are in the
bar? (round to the nearest thousandth)
12. A woman put $580 into a savings account for one year. The rate of interest on the account was
6½%. How much was the interest for the year in dollars and cents? (Round to the nearest cent)
13. A student answered 86 problems on a test correctly and received a grade 98%. How many
problems were on the test, if all the problems were worth the same number of points? (Round
to the nearest whole number)
14. Manuel found a wrecked Trans-Am that he could fix. He bought the car for 65% of the original
price of $7200. What did he pay for the car? (Round to nearest dollar)
15. Pamela bought an electric drill at 85% of the regular price. She paid $32.89 for the drill. What
was the regular price? (Round to the nearest cent)
16. A crew is made up of 8 men; the rest are women. 66 3 2 % of the crew are men. How many
people are in the crew?
17. Ben earns $12,800 a year. About 15% is taken out for taxes. How much is taken out for taxes?
18. At a sale, shirts were sold for $15 each. This price was 80% of their original price. What was the
original price?
19. There are 32 students in a class. Nine of those students are women. What percent are men?
(round to the nearest tenth)
20. The Royals softball team played 75 games and won 55 of them. What percent of the games did
they lose? (round to the nearest tenth)
21. While he was drawing plans for his new invention, Patrick drew a circle with a radius of 7 inches.
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Using for pi, what is the circle's area?
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 22. Alice has two flying disks. One is 12 cm in diameter and the other is 24 cm in diameter. Leaving
the answer in term of pi, what is the difference in square centimeters between the areas of two
flying disks?
23. Pet Smart sells fish tanks in two sizes. The smaller fish tank has a length, width and height of
12in, 4in and 6in, respectively. The larger fish tank has a length, width and height of 15in, 7in
and 5in, respectively. How much water can the two tanks hold? What is the difference of their
difference?
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24. A box with the dimensions 1 ft ×2 ft × ft was being filled with smaller boxes. Each of the
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smaller boxes are shaped like a cube. The smaller cube-shaped boxes have the dimensions
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ft × ft × ft . How many smaller boxes can be packed into the larger boxes? You can solve it
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by dividing the the volume of the larger box by the volume of the smaller box.
25. The temperature on a cold winter day is 20°F. Express this temperature in °C.
26. If the volume of an empty box that looks like a cube is 64 ¿ 2, what is the length of each side?
27. Meg and her mom went shopping to buy Meg new pink polka-dotted winter boots. They came
in a shoebox that was 14 inches long, 8 inches wide, and 5 inches tall. What is the volume of the
shoe box?
28. Ruth's grandmother gave her a beautiful hand-carved cedar chest for storing sweaters. The
chest is shaped like a rectangular prism and has a volume of 12 cubic feet. It is 3 feet long and 2
feet wide. What is the volume of the chest?

29. The average body temperature of a house cat is 101.5 °F. What is this temperature in Celsius?
30. Bernardo skates at a circular rink that has radius of 4 yards. If he uses 3.14 for pi, what area
would he estimate for the skating rink?
31. Juan is making a collage and puts together a circle made out of various pieces of construction
paper. The circle has a diameter of 40cm. If he uses 3.14 for the pi, what would he estimate for
the area of the circle?
32. Dry ice, carbon dioxide, goes from a solid to a gas without melting at 78.5°C. Express the
temperature in Fahrenheit.
33. Juanita's circular table has a diameter of 4 feet. She wants to know the area of the table in term
of pi. What is the area of her table?
34. A recipe calls for baking a cake at 400°F. Express this temperature in °C.

Perform the following operations

1. 6 × 0.7=¿
2. 4.5 × 8=¿
3. 2.7 × 9.1=¿
4. 5.6 ÷ 8=¿
5. 9.18 ×3.5=¿
6. 0.9 ÷ 0.3=¿
7. 0.7 ÷ 0.2=¿
8. 16.75 ×1.3=¿
9. 8.1 ÷ 0.3=¿
10. 12.5 ×2.4=¿