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
From our database of math word problems and examples, we offer the following:
- Paper example compilation
The examiner has prepared 20 examples from arithmetic. He wants to choose seven samples for the paper. The order of the examples does not matter. How many different papers can he compile? - Working group
20 men complete one-third of a piece of work in 20 days. How many more men should be employed to finish the rest of the work in 25 more days? - Road signs
The total length of a road trip was 18.9 hours. If highway signs are posted every 0.07 hours, including one at the end of the road trip, how many highway signs will there be on the road trip? - Dress price reduction
The dress costs 250 euros. Its price was reduced twice, first by 10% and then by 20%. What is the price of the dress? - Plane
How many parts are divided in the plane 9 parallels? - Flower bed tiles
A gardener lays tiles around a square flower bed. It needs 12 tiles around the 2x2 bed. How many tiles will he need around the size of the bed? a) 9x9 b) nxn? How big was the bed for which the gardener consumed c) 112 d) 4n tiles? - Doubling
The message is spreading that each day has doubled the number of people who know about it. All know a message for 20 days. How long known it, eighth people? - Time passing
Six years ago, Marcela's mother was two times older than her and two times younger than her father. When Marcela is 36, she will be twice as young as her father. How old are Marcela, her father, and her mother now? - The tailor
The tailor estimated the rest of the fabric in the package at 11 m. By measuring, he found that he could cut the same pieces of this fabric without a residue in 150 cm or 210 cm increments. How many meters of fabric were in the package? - Ratios
Divide: a) 250 CZK in the ratio of 2:3 b) 1000 CZK in the ratio 4:7:9 - Middle finger
Jana counts on one hand one by one. She starts counting from her thumb through her index finger, middle finger, and ring finger and comes to her little finger and has the number 5. Then she immediately returns to her ring finger (6), to her middle finger - Tent air volume
The tent's floor consists of a square with a side of 2.4 m, and the front and back wall is an isosceles triangle with a height of 1.6 m. Calculate the volume of air in the tent in liters. (Laid triangular prism.) - Egg Incubator Hatch Percentage
92% of the eggs hatched in the incubator. 168 eggs remained unhatched. How many eggs have initially been in the incubator? - Sailing
Solve the following problem graphically. The fishing boat left the harbor early morning and set out to the north. After 12 km of sailing, she changed course and continued 9 km west. Then, When she docked and reached the fishing grounds, she launched the n - Table paper coverage
The table has the shape of a rectangle with dimensions of 80 × 100 cm. Ten identical sheets of paper measuring 20 x 30 cm lie next to each other on it. Papers do not overlap or extend beyond the surface of the table. What part of the table surface is cove - Storm 3
If the temperature yesterday was 56 and Today is 13 degrees cooler, what is Today's temperature? - Competition participants
In the mathematical competition, its participants solved two tasks. Everyone solved at least one problem, while 80% of the participants solved the first problem, and 50% solved the second problem. Sixty participants solved both tasks. How many participant
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