Word Problems

6

A bus departed from New York at 11 pm with 44 passengers. An hour later, a few passengers got o! at New Jersey. The number of passengers who boarded the bus at New Jersey were twice the number of passengers who got o! the bus. If the bus has 50 passengers now, how many passengers got o! at New Jersey?

7

Abigail invites her friends over for a pajama party. She bought 12 tubs of popcorn for her friends. Her brother, Aiden took away a few tubs of popcorn for his friends. If 5 tubs of popcorn remain, how many tubs did Abigail share with her friends?

652

Gary's !sh tank gravel consists of 567 white pebbles and 85 black pebbles. How many pebbles are there in total?

170

Jenna, a florist, orders 250 roses, some red and some white. If there are 80 white roses, how many roses are red?

316

Kelly buys four cardigans of the same price from an apparel store. How much will she be billed, if each cardigan costs $79?

2,642

The Hogwarts library has 15,852 reference books arranged in 6 racks equally. How many books does each rack hold?

384

12 different decorative punches are punched on a piece of metal to create a pattern. How many punches should be punched to create 32 such patterns?

689

A Ferris wheel completes a rotation in 53 seconds. How many seconds in all would it take to complete 13 rotations?

84

A lecture was attended by 95 people in the university auditorium. Eleven of them were students who had volunteered to manage the event and the rest were senior professors. How many senior professors attended the lecture?

297

A rack in Javier's study can hold up to 27 medium-sized books. If there are 11 such racks, how many books will they hold in all?

211

A ranch in Texas has a total of 1,266 horses. If they are sheltered equally in 6 barns, how many horses are housed in one barn?

1322

A ski resort is spread over 5,288 acres. The resort is split equally into 4 key areas. How many acres will each key area comprise of?

1305

A small dairy farm produces 87 gallons of milk in a day. How many gallons of milk will it produce in 15 days?

300,250

A soda factory produced 960,900 bottles of soda in May. The factory produced 660,650 bottles in June. How much did the production drop by?

1740

A team of soccer players spend an average of 15 minutes on weight training per practice session. How many minutes of weight training on an average would they have completed in 116 practice sessions?

250

A total of 750 students attended a conference at Avenel High school. The attendance of the number of girls was twice that of the number of boys. How many boys attended the conference?

6468

A train that connects two towns has 42 stops on its route. The train halts for 154 seconds at each stop. How many seconds in total would the train halt during the entire journey?

374

A two-ton boiler consumes 22 gallons of fuel a day. How many gallons of fuel will the boiler consume in 17 days?

648

An afforestation plan states that 36 saplings must be planted for every acre of land cleared for commercial purposes. How many saplings should be planted across 18 acres of land?

209

An orchard yields 1,463 apples in August 2016. They are packed into 7 boxes and delivered to a nearby supermarket. How many apples does each box contain?

9

Andrew paid $72 as bike rental charges. If he is billed at $8 an hour, how many hours has he used the bike for?

112

Anne uses 1,008 beads to make stranded necklaces for 9 of her friends. How many beads did Anne use for each necklace she made?

380

Apples picked from an orchard are put into 5 sacks and are loaded into a small truck. If each sack contains 76 apples, how many apples are there in all?

3296

Bennett, a craftsman receives an order to silver-plate 103 teapots. He charges $32 to silver-plate a teapot. How much is the order worth?

15

Betty bakes a Texas sheet cake. She cuts the cake evenly and packs eight pieces for her mother and is left with seven. How many pieces of the cake did Betty cut in all?

47

Brad, a teenager, saves up his monthly allowance over a period of six months to buy a pair of high-resolution headphones. He lends his friend, Jorge $10 from his savings. If Brad has $272 now, calculate his monthly allowance.

182

Clara and her friends take an average of 13 hours to mow a community lawn over a weekend. How many hours on an average will they take to mow 14 such lawns?

16

Clara lends half her collection of formal attires to her sister, Susan. Clara then buys four more attires. If she has 12 attires now, how many attires did Clara had initially?

45

Dalia bought a few swirl marbles and divided it equally among four of her friends and her brother, Jake. While playing, Jake lost 2 marbles and has only 7 marbles at present. Find how many marbles did Dalia buy in all.

10

Ella bought two packs of blackberry juice for $15 and three candy bars from a store. If her total purchase was worth $45, how much did each candy bar cost?

320

Ethan's ball pit has 225 blue balls and 95 red balls. What is the total number of balls in the pit?

574

Gina is employed by the Wilsons as a full-time babysitter. If she earns a total of $2,296 a month, how much will she earn in a week?

175

If Bob has 35 nickels in his piggy bank, how many cents does he have in all?

6000

If Joe earns an annual salary of $72000, calculate his monthly income.

1260

If a large egg contains 70 calories of energy, how many calories of energy would 18 such eggs contain?

14222

In Cody's state, there are 3,677 private schools and 10,545 public schools. How many schools are there in all?

304

In the event of a blackout, a commercial building uses 16 portable generators to light up a single floor. How many generators will be required to light up 19 floors in the building?

616

It takes an hour for a car manufacturing company to assemble 11 cars. How many cars can the company assemble in 56 hours?

48

Jane ordered a few moving boxes from a local store as she is relocating to Atlanta. She returned 28 damaged boxes. She allotted the remaining boxes equally for each of the four rooms from which her belongings had to be packed. If 5 boxes were used for each room, how many boxes did she receive from the store initially?

50

Janet won the jelly bean hunt on Easter for which she was gifted a pack of candies. She distributed 23 candies among her friends and took the remaining 27 candies home. How many candies did the pack contain?

72,075

Jason's father makes 95,650 a year at his new job. This is 23,575 more than the money he used to make at his old job. How much did Jason's father make a year at his old job?

200

Jeremy withdrew $1,000 from his account. On his way home, he stopped at the local grocer's shop and exchanged the $1,000 bill for $5 bills. How many five dollar bills did Jeremy receive from the grocer?

288

John lives on the thirteenth floor of a high-rise apartment. He is on the first floor and there is a power failure. It takes 24 steps to get to each floor. How many steps will he need to climb to get home?

24

John was gifted a pack of crayons. He gave 13 crayons to his friend Rhea and was left with 11 crayons. How many crayons did the pack contain?

14

Lara and Mae participated in a quiz contest. They scored 23 points in all. If Lara scored 9 points, how many points did Mae score?

1,111

Lexie studied for a total of 3,456 minutes in November. She stepped up her efforts in December, when she spent 4,567 minutes studying. How many minutes did Lexie increase her study time by?

265

Louise has 500 cents in her piggy bank. Uncle Jim gave her a few cents on his visit. If Louise has 765 cents, how many cents did Uncle Jim give her?

4

Megan and four of her friends plan to go for a long drive. She buys 12 bottles of frappe and a few bottles of orange juice from a supermarket. The total number of bottles they have are four times that of orange juice bottles. How many bottles of orange juice did Megan buy?

560

Melanie works as a nanny and is paid $14 per hour. If she puts in 40 hours of work in 7 days, how much does she earn in a week?

31,127

Mike, John and Ryan went on a three-day trip to Atlantic City. Mike won $93,381 at the slot machine in the airport. If Mike decides to split the money equally with his friends, what share will each person get?

100

Natalie buys organic almonds priced at $77 from the grocery store. How much did she pay the cashier, if she received $23 in change?

264

Payton runs a kiosk on Route 66. Half the canned drinks in stock were sold out and empty cans were sent for recycling. Payton bought 68 more canned drinks to restock the kiosk. If there is a total of 200 cans now, how many canned drinks were in stock initially?

830

Sam divided his salary equally into two. One part was saved for his family and the other part was for his expenses. He withdrew $200 from his share to purchase a watch. If he has $215 in his account now, calculate Sam salary.

11

Smith and his friends are gaming online on a popular website. An hour later, 6 friends go offline. Five of them continue playing. How many of them were gaming online initially?

24

Susan, Lillian, John and Polly participated in an Easter egg hunt. At the end of the hunt, 96 eggs were shared equally among them. How many Easter eggs did each of them receive?

625

The E.T. parking facility at Universal Studios, Hollywood can accomodate up to 5,000 vehicles at a time. If the parking structure is 8 levels tall, how many vehicles can be parked on each level?

577,452

The Museum in Jodie's city had a total of 556,798 visitors last year. The number of visitors increased by 20,654 this year. How many people visited the museum this year?

420

The New York City Subway has a total of 15 compartments. If 28 passengers get into each compartment at Queens, how many passengers in all would have boarded the train?

12

The Rock Zoo nurses 37 species of big cats. Recently, a few species of big cats were sponsored to other zoos around the country. The zoo now nurses only 25 species. How many species of big cats were sponsored to other zoos?

4500

The San Jose team won a baseball tournament and the prize money was shared among the nine players. If each player received $500, what was the total prize money?

2660

The auditorium at Lion's school has 28 rows in all. If each row consists of 95 seats, calculate the total capacity of the auditorium?

18

The bartender of a poolside bar prepares 96 fluid ounces of mocktail by blending the juice of cranberries and oranges. He uses three times the amount of cranberry juice than orange juice to prepare the mocktail. He also adds 24 ounces of lemon extract. How many fluid ounces of orange juice was used in all?

180

The kindergarten section of Lehigh Valley has 12 classrooms. If each classroom can accomodate 15 kids, how many kids can the kindergarten section accomodate in all?

8976

The non-fiction section of the Montgomery County Library has 17 racks. If each rack holds 528 books, what is the total collection of non-fiction books in the library?

19

The perimeter of a rectangular carton is 60 inches. If the width of the carton is 11 inches, calculate its length.

113

There are 164 students in Union County High School's drama club. If 51 of the students are girls, how many boys are in the club?

130

Thirteen logs of wood are required to keep a campfire burning for an hour. How many logs will be required to keep the fire burning for 10 straight hours?

3965

Timothy's !ight to his sister's city has a layover after 2,622 miles. It travels another 1,343 miles before reaching its destination. What is the total distance !own?

31

Tom has 25 bumblebee marbles and Marcus has a few more than Tom. If they have 56 marbles in all, how many bumblebee marbles does Marcus have?

165

Tony used 120 red blocks and 45 blue blocks to build a tower. How many blocks did he use in all to build the tower?

25

Trevor takes up a test at school and completes it in an hour. The test has two sections. If he takes 35 minutes to complete the first section, how much time does he have left to complete the second section?

26

Uncle Fred gifted nine books to his niece from his Sci-Fi collection. If he is left with 17 Sci-Fi books, how many Sci-Fi books did Fred's collection have?