Construction Word Problems

3

How many feet long is a standard yardstick?

5500

If a house measures 110 feet long and 50 feet wide, what is the area in feet?

144

In feet, what is the area of a square driveway measuring 12 feet across?

53

In the back of storage, you find 265 boxes of nails. You have 5 crews who need them. How many boxes can each crew have?

4

In your work truck, you find a 12 foot piece of rope that needs to be cut into 3" strands. How many strands will you have when you are finished?

26

One of the guys gives you 260 inch long pipe. You need to cut it into 10 equal pieces. How many inches will each piece be?

30

The logging company sends you 330 poles. You have 11 crews waiting for equal shares of the shipment. How many poles should each site receive?

.75

What is 3/4 written in decimal form?

.33

What is 3/9 written in decimal form?

.47

What is 7/15 written in decimal form?

360

What is the SUM of ALL triangles?

75

You are making 50 pounds of cement that requires 1.5 liters of water for each pound of cement. How many liters of water do you need to add?

125

You are mixing 250 pounds of asphalt, for each pound, you need .5 pounds of tar. How much tar will you need?

4

You found a box with 164 device boxes. You have 41 guys in the shop that need them. How many will each man get when they are equally divided?

5

You have 200 feet of 12' gauged wire. It needs to be cut into 40 foot pieces. How many pieces will you get?

7

You have a surplus of 56 hammers in your inventory. You want to give each linemen team an equal number of hammers. How many hammers can 8 teams receive?

2

You purchased 112 nail guns, you supervise 56 teams, how many nail guns can you give to each team?

12

You receive 96 flats of concrete. You need to equally distribute them to 8 job sites. How many flats does each site get?

105

Your boss gives you 525 boxes of bolts. Your job is to equally distribute them to the five job sites. How many boxes does each site get?

8

Your order of 72 bolts of wire comes in on Tuesday. Your 9 sites need them by Friday. How many bolts should each site expect to receive?