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
560cube
555prism
487cylinder
262pyramid
246cone
231sphere
56frustum
4827equation
437divisibility
308sets
511probability
314variations
263permutations
38variance
5mean
2273multiplication
1932division
1631subtraction
1557addition
1386square root
604third power
600comparing
562rounding
206cube root
3282time
3271length
3160area
2638unit conversion
2524volume
2097money
1542mass
1269angle
1130velocity
604power
402density
309temperature
256acceleration
197energy
327sine
312tangent
294cosine
62arcsine
3005square
2618area 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
2224percentages
2168reason
1647ratio
248functions
180maximum
139factorial
110minimum
102logarithm
89per mil
25modulo
10integral
3135fractions
1834natural numbers
345integers
162real numbers
41matrix
From our database of math word problems and examples, we offer the following:
- Age Twice Sister Ago
I was twice as old as my sister four years ago. How old am I today? - Slow traveler
A little mouse travels 3.6 km in 1 hour. What is its speed in m/s? - One-third
A one-third of an unknown number is equal to five times as great as the difference between the same unknown number and the number 28. Find the unknown number. - Mountain climbing
Ken and his brother decided to go on mountain climbing 8 miles from their house to Mt. Daraitan at a rate of x mph (miles per hour). For the return trip, it was 2 mph faster. It took them 6 hours for the entire round trip. What is the x? - Touch circle
Point A has a distance (A, k) = 10 cm from a circle k with radius r = 4 cm and center S. Calculate: a) the distance of point A from the point of contact T if the tangent to the circle is drawn from point A b) the distance of the contact point T from the l - Sneaker discount
Igor paid only 12 euros for sneakers instead of 15 euros. What percentage did he pay less? What percentage of the original amount of sneakers has become cheaper? - Compartment ball options
We have eight compartments where we put three indistinguishable balls and two distinguishable ones. How many options do we have? - Expression with Unknown Number
From the sum of the unknown number and the number 17, subtract the difference of these numbers in that order. - School trip seats
There were x boys on the school trip. There were 6 fewer girls than boys. Everyone took the two-seater cable car from the lower to the upper station. Decide which expression expresses the number of double seats students occupy if two students occupy each. - Bag of marbles
In a bag full of marbles, 1/4 of these marbles are green, 1/8 are blue, 1/2 are yellow, and the remaining 26 are white. How many marbles are blue? - Number sum
What is 2/3 of the sum of numbers (0.10) and (-5.3)? - Liz makes
Liz makes footprints in the snow with her boots that are 3/4 foot long. Liz's feet are only 2/3 foot long. What expression can be used to find out how much longer Liz's boot prints are than her feet? - Digits How many natural numbers greater than 4000 are formed from the numbers 0,1,3,7,9 with the figures not repeated, B) How many natural numbers will be less than 4000, and can the numbers be repeated?
- Soil transport
Excavated soil increases the pile's volume by 1/3. Can a 6 m, 2.5 m, and 1.8 m truck body be used to transport excavated soil to a 5 m, 2 m, and 1.5 m block-shaped pool? - Garden fence
The garden has the shape of a rectangular triangle with an area of 96 square meters and a 16 m long leg. How many meters of the fence need to be fenced? - Recipe ingredients
Monica's cookie recipe calls for Three-fourths of a cup of flour. Her mother's recipe calls for Two-thirds as much as Monica's. How many cups of flour does her mother's recipe require? - Motorcyclist
From Trutnov, the motorcyclist started at an average speed of 60km/hour. At 12.30hrs, Peter began driving the passenger car at 80km/hour. How many hours and at what distance will a car catch a motorcycle from Trutnov?
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