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!
1047surface area
774cuboid
566cube
565prism
491cylinder
267pyramid
248cone
230sphere
57frustum
5002equation
450divisibility
329sets
536probability
342permutations
774mean
41variance
2315multiplication
1984division
1641subtraction
1574addition
1451square root
632comparing
609second power
609third power
579rounding
214cube root
3410time
3336length
3206area
2692unit conversion
2549volume
2144money
1571mass
1279angle
1167velocity
609power
407density
313temperature
268acceleration
207energy
330sine
314tangent
295cosine
63arcsine
3051square
2697area of a shape
2520triangle
2520right triangle
1031perimeter
1002circle
998rectangle
553diagonal
294trapezoid
229polygon
205rhombus
80chord
50annulus
48rhomboid
22parabola
themes, topics
1009motion problems
173map scale
110Ohm's law
40proofs
600line
180line segment
133vector
2277percentages
1755reasoning
1670ratio
252functions
186maximum
141factorial
133minimum
86per mil
27modulo
10integral
3169fractions
1877natural numbers
348integers
165real numbers
42matrix
From our database of math word problems and examples, we offer the following:
- Children in Theater
The theater is watched by 3900 spectators, 3200 of whom are women and 700 men, the rest being children. How many children are watching the theater? - Opposite numbers
Calculate opposite numbers (additive inverse) to given ones: - An electrician
An electrician needs 1 1/3 rolls of electrical wire to wire each room in a house. How many rooms can he wire with 6 2/3 rolls of wire? - Unit rate (speed)
What is the unit rate for 4543.08 km in 52.4 h? Enter your answer, as a decimal, in the box. - Dividing a Circle
Draw a circle k, r = 4 cm, and divide it into two parts in a ratio of 1:5. - Theatre performances
A total of 15,744 CZK was collected in admission fees for three theatre performances. The revenue from the second performance was 20% higher than the revenue from the first performance, and the revenue from the third performance was 10% lower than the rev - Saving from salary
A man spends 65% of his salary and saves 525 euros/month. Find his monthly salary. - Saria
Saria is wrapping a gift for her mother. The gift box is in the shape of a rectangular prism and is 5 centimeters high, 25 centimeters long, and 40 centimeters wide. How much wrapping paper will you need to wrap the gift box? - Geometric sequence calculation
Determine the remaining quantities in the finite geometric sequence, given: n = 4, an = 12.5, sn = 187.5, a1 = ?, q =? - 144 steps
To get around the garden, we have to take 144 steps—eight steps less in width than in length. One step is five decimetres long. What are the dimensions of the garden? What are its perimeter and its area? - A book 4
A book has 280 pages. I read 2/7 of the book yesterday, while I read 1/4 of it today. How many pages did I read in 2 days? - Madam 2
Madam Lowa bought four cakes and four puffs for $16. Each cake costs $0.50 more than each puff. How much did one puff cost? - Tetrahedron
Calculate the height and volume of a regular tetrahedron whose edge has a length of 13 cm. - Letter puzzle
In the following additional example, the same letters represent the same digits, and the different letters represent different digits: RATAM RAD -------------- ULOHY Replace the letters with numbers so that the example is correct. Find two different repla - Expressions 3
If k(x+6)= 4x² + 20, what is k(10)=? - Birthday ages
Linda and her uncle Slavo have birthdays on the same day. A few years ago, Linda was 13, and her uncle was 45. How many years ago was it today that Uncle Slavo was three times older than Linda? - Diagonals of a rhombus
One of the diagonals of a rhombus is twice the other. If the sum of the lengths of the diagonals is 24, find the area of the rhombus.
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