Arithmetic - practice problems - page 2 of 181

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Negative mixed 2
What is −4 2/3 + 2 1/2? Write the answer as a mixed number in simplest form.
Chemical experiment
For an experiment, a chemical solution starts at a temperature of 25°C, falls to −3°C, rises to 15°C and then falls again to −8°C. What is the total change in temperature? Add all the changes together for each rise and fall.
Three-eighths 81827
There were buns for lunch at school. The freshmen ate one-eighth of the buns. The sophomores ate two-eighths of the buns. Third and fourth graders ate three-eighths. How many eighths buns are left for the second stage?
Dexter
Dexter spent 1 2/3 hours working on his history homework and another 2 1/5 hours working on his math homework. How many hours did Dexter spend working on the two homeworks?
Haley
Haley collected 1/2 of a bin of glass bottles to recycle. Tiana collected 2 3/4 times as many bins as Haley. How many bins of bottles did Tiana collect?
How much 6
How much does 1 kilo of beef cost if 6 kilos cost R189.90?
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?
Ricardo
Ricardo is 1 9/10 metres tall. If Ricardo is 3/10 metres taller than Joan what is Joan's height in meters?
Angel 4
Angel bought 11 spools of wire. Each spool has 2.8 meters of wire. How many meters of wire did Angel buy in all?
Pieces of wood
How many pieces of wood can each student have if there are 12 pieces and each student needs 1/4 of a piece?
Division by unknown
What 3 divided by what = 21
Water balloon
Tracy and her friends decided to have a water balloon fight! They got 20 water balloons and used 6 liters of water to fill them all equally. How much water was in each balloon? Write your answer as a proper fraction or mixed number.
Mary made
Mary made 6 large curtains, each 3.5 m long, and 2 small ones, each 1.5 m long. The total cost of the cloth is $312. Find the cost of 1 m of cloth.
Cake recipe
Joey has 3/5 of a cup of butter. For his cake recipe, he needs 3/4 of a cup of butter. What fraction of the recipe can he make? Please enter your answer in the simplest form.
Purchased 81774
The zoo purchased two aquariums for marine animals. The first can hold 3,577 liters of water. The second aquarium can hold 455 liters less water than the first. How many liters of water can the aquariums hold together?
What number 2
What number is between 3 1/4 and 3 1/8? Write at least three numbers.
Fractions 81761
Mom baked cakes. She set aside a third of them for her father. She left the rest on the table. Rišo came and ate a third of the cakes that were on the table. What fraction of all the pies was left on the table? Write the result in fractions.
Multiply 13
Multiply -5/6 with the reciprocal of 7/8.
The temperature 44
The temperature when Jana woke up this morning was −5 degrees. By lunch time it has warmed up, and the thermometer read 20 degrees. How many degrees warmer was it at lunch time than when she had woken up?
Manny
Manny had 3 birthday cookie pies to share with his 24 classmates and his teacher, Mr. Keith. If each of the cookie pies were cut into 10 slices and Manny, his classmates, and Mr. Keith all had 1 piece, how many slices are left?

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