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
760cuboid
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
2523volume
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:
- Decimal to fraction
Write the decimal number 8.638333333 as a fraction A/B in the basic form. Given decimal has infinite repeating figures. - Cyclist meeting
From Děčín and Ústí nad Labem, which are 24 km apart, two cyclists rode against each other at the same time. One drove at an average speed of 28 km/h, and the other, which left Ústí, drove at a speed of 20 km/h. How long did the cyclists meet, and at what - Sidewalk cleaning
Three temporary workers will clean 60 meters of the sidewalk in 5 hours. How many meters of sidewalk will clean by seven temporary workers in 8 hours? - Square painting puzzle
The abcd square is composed of 36 small squares. Six of them are painted. How many small squares do we still need to color so that a quarter of the area of the abcd square remains unpainted? - Train speed
The troop fired two guns from the same place at 10 minutes and 30 seconds intervals, but a person on a train approaching the place heard a second shot 10 minutes after the first. The speed of the train (in km/hr), supposing that sound travels at 340 m/s, - Parallelogram - area
Calculate the area of the parallelogram if a = 57cm, the diagonal u = 66cm, and the angle against the diagonal is beta β = 57°43' - CuSO4 mixture
How many grams of solid CuSO4 do we have to add to 450g of 15% CuSO4 solution to produce a 25% solution? - School trip
The class has 19 students. How can students be accommodated in the hostel, where available 3× 2-bed, 3× 3-bed and 1× 4-bed rooms? (Each room has its unique number) - I visited
I visited my grandmother over the weekend. On Saturday, I arrived at her house or 10:35:02. I left on Sunday at 12:45:00. How long was my visit to my grandmother? - Class swim calculation
Seven of the 28 pupils cannot ski, and x pupils cannot swim. How many students in this class can swim? - Car acceleration speed
The car has a speed of 5 m/s and accelerates to 35 m/s in 12 seconds. Calculate the acceleration of the car at a speed of 34.5 m/s. - Part-time workers
On Saturday, 210 part-time workers arrived in the village. One hundred five part-time workers worked in the first field, 60 in the second. The other part-time workers worked in the third field. They all worked in equal groups. How many workers worked in e - Percentage calculation
What is 15% of 30% of 600? - Dividing Money Among Children
A family has 5,000 € to divide between their two children aged 10 and 14. They will open an account for each child at the same bank, compounded quarterly at a fixed annual interest rate of 2.75%. Determine how the family must split the available sum betwe - Non-skiers
All fifth-graders went together on a ski course. There were more than 30 but fewer than 40 of them. First they were divided into skiers and non-skiers. Half of all the girls ended up in the non-skiers group, along with the same number of boys. In the skie - Ramit
Ramit bought 10 pens,8 pencils, and 4 books; pens were Rs.5 1/2 each, pencils were Rs.2 1/2 each and books were Rs. 11 1/2 each; how much did they cost together? - Similarity coefficient
The triangles ABC and A'B'C' are similar to the similarity coefficient 2. The sizes of the angles of the triangle ABC are α = 35° and β = 48°. Find the magnitudes of all angles of triangle A'B'C'.
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