Worded Problems - Maths

Question 1

4 divided by 2 is added to 8, then subtracted by 5. What's the answer?

Accepted Answer

5

Question 2

Bob has 1,284 candies. He only wants to eat the amount in the hundreds place, so he eats...

Accepted Answer

2 candies.

Question 3

A snail crawls along the ground 3 metres a day. After 2 weeks, he has crawled...

Accepted Answer

42 metres.

Question 4

As a builder, Bob has a hammer. Each metal bar he makes uses 3/39 of his hammer. He can make...

Accepted Answer

13 metal bars.

Question 5

The miner Mary has a salary of $105, and a gold nugget is worth $20. When will she break even?

Accepted Answer

When Mary has 4 and 1/4 nuggets.

Question 6

Haley has 18 books with 11 pages each. For a project, she rips out 1 page from each book.

Accepted Answer

There are now 180 pages left total.

Question 7

10 worms are drinking 1 litre of water. If each drinks 10mls per minute, how long will it take?

Accepted Answer

10 minutes.

Question 8

Martyn is climbing. He has climbing shoes that last for 15m, and he has to climb 300m. So he...

Accepted Answer

...brings 20 pairs of shoes.

Question 9

Claire reads a thermometer, which says it is 5.342 degrees. She rounds to the nearest whole.

Accepted Answer

It is now 5 degrees.

Question 10

Adam has 18 apples. He gives half to Horton, then 2 to Terry, and gets 1/3 back from Horton.

Accepted Answer

Adam now has 10 apples.

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