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
142factorial
133minimum
86per mil
27modulo
10integral
3169fractions
1877natural numbers
348integers
165real numbers
42matrix
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- Cassie
Cassie has 3/4 kilogram of apples and 1/2 kilogram of oranges in her basket. How many fruits are in the basket in all? - Children scooter price
Three children's scooters cost a total of 179 euros. The first was 18% more expensive than the second. The third was 20 euros more expensive than the second. Determine the price of the first scooter. - Current measurement
With a measuring range of 30 mA, the hand points to 20 divisions out of 100 divisions of the scale. What current is measured? - Birthdays
In a classroom, students give candy to their classmates on their birthdays. The birthday student gives one candy to each classmate but does not receive one themselves. A total of 650 candies were given out over the course of the year. How many students ar - Motorcyclist gully fall
An undisciplined motorcyclist drove at an unreasonable speed on a mountain road, lost control in a bend, and left the roadway at 90 km/h. He was falling into a gully 36 m deep. Draw a cross-sectional picture of the whole situation. How far did the motorcy - Santa gift distribution
Nicholas came to hand out gifts on December 6th and found out that he could hand out gifts to five children in 15 minutes with only one helper. How many minutes did they give out gifts to 40 children if Nicholas called 5 helpers? - Min-max
What is the maximum and minimum of the data set: 6, 2, 3, 3, 2, 2? - Cardboard box
We want to make an open-top cardboard box in the shape of a quadrilateral prism with a rhombus-shaped base. The rhombus has a side of 5 cm and one diagonal of 8 cm. The height of the box is 12 cm. How many square centimetres of cardboard are needed if ove - Cable car lift
The cable car can take a given group of skiers out in 20 minutes and the lift in 30 minutes. How long will the lift and cable car take this group out simultaneously? - Bea, Gerald and Julia
Bea is two years younger than Gerald, but Julia is 8 years older than Gerald. If Julia is 29, how old is Bea? - Circular pool
The 3.6-meter pool has a depth of 90 cm. How many liters of water are in the pool? - Quotient and subtraction
Sixteen minus the quotient of 12, and what number is thirteen? - Sidewalk plan marking
The sidewalk is 500 m long. How will it be marked on the plan on a scale of 1:200? - New ratio
The ratio of ducks and chickens in our yard is 2:3, for a total of 30 ducks and chickens. The mother gave 3 of the chickens to our neighbor. What is the new ratio now? - Iron key temperature
By how much °C will the temperature of an iron key weighing 0.004 t change if it receives 360,000 J of heat? ( c of iron is 450 J/kg.°C ) - Sphere growth
How many times does a volume of the sphere rise if priemer rises 10×? - Ball probability
There are 6 white and several red balls in the box. How many red balls must there be so that the probability of drawing a red ball is less than the probability of drawing a white ball or greater than the probability of drawing a white ball?
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