Subtracting - math word problems

  1. Turtles 2
    turtles A box turtle hibernates in the sand at 11 5/8. A spotted turtle hibernates at 11 16/25 feet. Which turtle is deeper?
  2. Students at cinema
    cinema All pupils from the school went to the cinema for a film performance. The cinema has 400 seats, 2 rows of 20 seats remain unoccupied. 10 places were occupied by teachers. How many students were there?
  3. The temperature 3
    teplomer The temperature is -12 degrees Fahrenheit. During the following 5 hours the temperature decrease 23 degrees Fahrenheit what is the temperature at 11 pm?
  4. Stock market 2
    nyse For the week of July 22, the following day to day changes in the stock market was recorded a certain stock: -2 on Monday; +4 Tuesday; -8 Wednesday; + 2 1/2 Thursday; - 3 1/4 Friday. The stock began the week at 78 points. How many points did it finish with.
  5. Wood 11
    wood Father has 12 1/5 meters long wood. Then I cut the wood into two pieces. One part is 7 3/5 meters long. Calculate the length of the other wood?
  6. Root
    root_quadrat The root of the equation ? is: ?
  7. Bus vs. train
    bus_vs_train Bus started from point A 10 minutes before the train started from the same place. The bus went an average speed of 49 km/h, train 77 km/h. To point B train and bus arrived simultaneously. Calculate time of train journey, if train and bus travelled the.
  8. Short cut
    direct_route Imagine that you are going to the friend. That path has a length 330 meters. Then turn left and go another 2000 meters and you are at a friend's. The question is how much the journey will be shorter if you go direct across the field?
  9. Subtraction
    cards1 How many times you can subtract the number 4 from the number 64?
  10. Textbooks
    textbooks After check of textbooks found that every 10-th textbook should be withdrawn. Together 58 textbooks were withdrawn. How many textbooks were in stock before withdrawn and how many after withdrawn?
  11. It is rectangular?
    nice_3d Size of two of the angles in a triangle are: α=110°, β=40°. Is it a right triangle?
  12. Theater
    SND The theater has in each row with 19 seats. Ticket to the first 10 rows is for 30 USD. In next rows is for 15 USD. The theater was completely sold out. Revenue was 12255 USD. How many rows are in the theater?
  13. Piggy
    pig A man bought a pig for € 60 then sold it for € 75. Then again bought for € 90 and sold it for € 100. How many € earned?
  14. Pediatrician
    doctor Pediatrician this month of 20 working days takes 4 days holidays. What is the probability that on Monday will be at work?
  15. Balls
    balls I have 19 balls and my friend has 27. About how many has my friend more balls?
  16. I think number
    hats I think number.When I add 841 to it and subtract 157, I get a number that is 22 greater than 996. What number I thinking?
  17. Chocholate
    chocolate-xy-axis Table of chocolate is divided into squares on its surface. Lengthwise has 15 squares and widthwise 19 squares. We must chocolate broke into individual squares. How many times we have broke it to get only individual squares? It is not permitted to break
  18. Unknown x
    UnknownX If we add to unknown number 21, then divide by 6 and then subtract 51, we get back an unknown number. What is this unknown number?
  19. Hens
    chicken 11 hens will eat spilled grain from 6AM to 16 PM. At 11 hour grandmother brought 4 hens from the neighbors. At what time was grain out?
  20. Efficiency of rail
    vlak With subsidies are business easy. Calculate how much must cost rail ticket (x) in today's ticket price € 11 and if the trains was not subsidized, if it is known that without subsidies would cost three times today's ticket prices. Calculate the value of.

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