Math word problems
Put your math skills to work! Word problems connect classroom concepts to real-life scenarios—from splitting restaurant bills to calculating travel times. Each problem challenges you to read carefully, set up the right equation, solve it step-by-step, and check your answer.
Pick a topic below and start practicing!
Pick a topic below and start practicing!
1034surface area
761cuboid
559cube
555prism
487cylinder
262pyramid
246cone
231sphere
56frustum
4827equation
437divisibility
308sets
511probability
314variations
263permutations
38variance
5mean
2272multiplication
1932division
1630subtraction
1557addition
1386square root
604third power
600comparing
560rounding
205cube root
3281time
3270length
3159area
2636unit conversion
2524volume
2096money
1542mass
1269angle
1130velocity
604power
402density
309temperature
256acceleration
197energy
327sine
311tangent
294cosine
62arcsine
3005square
2617area of a shape
2508triangle
2508right triangle
1011perimeter
995circle
978rectangle
547diagonal
292trapezoid
227polygon
201rhombus
79chord
50annulus
48rhomboid
22parabola
themes, topics
848work
173map scale
107Ohm's law
582line
178line segment
127vector
2223percentages
2168reason
1647ratio
248functions
180maximum
139factorial
110minimum
102logarithm
89per mil
25modulo
10integral
3134fractions
1834natural numbers
345integers
162real numbers
41matrix
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- The boy
The boy scouts spent 10/12 hours doing their daily exercises. They only used 1/4 hour in hiking. How much time did they use for other body exercises? - One ticket 2
In a lottery, 10000 tickets are sold and ten prizes are awarded. What is the probability of not getting a prize, if you buy one ticket? - Triangle area proof
Squares are constructed above the overhangs and the transom. Connecting the outer vertices of adjacent squares creates three triangles. Prove that their areas are the same. - Storm distance sound
The sound travels at a speed of 1km in 3 seconds. If the thunder is heard 12 seconds after the lightning, what distance is the storm? - A fair 2
A fair die is thrown two times. What is the probability that the sum of the score is almost 8? - Axial cut of a rectangle
Calculate the volume and surface of the cylinder whose axial cut is a rectangle 15 cm wide with a diagonal of 25 cm long. - Pool filling time
Pool in the shape of a cylinder with a diameter of 10 meters and a height of 1m 80cm. How long will it be filled with a pipeline with a flow rate of 5,000 liters per hour? - Complementary angles 2
Two complementary angles are (x+4) and (2x - 7). Find the value of x. - Decibel
A circuit has an input power of 73 mW. Its output power is 18 mW. What is the loss in decibels? - Boys school count
Two-thirds of boys are in sports school. How many boys are there in school if there are 212 girls? - Tv dinner tray
I'm trying to calculate the total number of unique potential combinations, but I'm trying to solve for a TV dinner tray with four little sections each: meat, veggie, starch, and dessert. This is more complex because we have different types of meats/veggie - Free fall
The free fall body has gone 10m in the last 0.5s. Find the body speed at the moment of impact. - Crimson Lynx
Captain Emily has a ship, the H. M. S Crimson Lynx. The ship is five furlongs from the dread pirate Umaima and her merciless band of thieves. If her ship hasn't already been hit, Captain Emily has a probability of 3/5 of hitting the pirate ship. If her sh - Trapezoid section area
The cross-section of the railway embankment is an isosceles trapezoid, the bases of which are in a ratio of 5:3. The arms have a 5 m embankment height v = 4.8 m. Calculate the section area S. - Flower watering options
Alena, Ivana, Edo, Filip, and Martin came late to school. As a punishment, two will water flowers all over the school after class, and the other three will clean up the classroom. The class teacher couldn't decide who to send to water the flowers, so Juro - Evaluate - order of ops
Evaluate the expression: 32+2[5×(24-6)]-48÷24 Pay attention to the order of operation, including integers. - A dumpster
A dumpster is shaped like a rectangular prism. It is 8 feet wide, 5 feet high, and has a volume of 880 cubic feet. What is the length of the dumpster?
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