Math word problems
Mathematical word problems allow you to practice your mathematics knowledge in everyday tasks. Word problems train to understand, translate into the mathematical language (e.g., equations), solve, and check the accuracy and solution discussion.
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991surface area
731cuboid
546cube
527prism
462cylinder
256pyramid
235cone
223sphere
54frustum
4492equation
419divisibility
287sets
479probability
294variations
242permutations
690mean
34variance
2171multiplication
1858division
1579subtraction
1499addition
1087square root
567comparing
492rounding
191cube root
166third power
3125length
3085time
2966area
2414volume
2391unit conversion
1972money
1442mass
1196angle
1065velocity
594power
376density
295temperature
231acceleration
181energy
302sine
285tangent
276cosine
53arcsine
2697square
2398triangle
2297area of a shape
1661right triangle
970perimeter
969circle
942rectangle
527diagonal
270trapezoid
217polygon
186rhombus
77chord
47annulus
41rhomboid
22parabola
themes, topics
809work
168map scale
102Ohm's law
558line
173line segment
119vector
6201functions
2178percentages
2022reason
1560ratio
169maximum
127factorial
105minimum
85per mil
24modulo
3681fractions
1730natural numbers
333integers
162real numbers
41matrix
From our database of math word problems and examples, we offer the following:
- Tickets 4
Stacey is selling tickets to the school play. The tickets are $7 for adults and $5 for children. She sells twice as many adult tickets as children's and brings in a total of $342. How many of each kind of ticket did she sell? - Bathroom 2
A bathroom is 2.4 meters long and 1.8 meters wide. How many square tiles, 1 dm on each side, will be used to cover it? - A marathon 2
Dean ran marathons on 50 consecutive days. How far did Dean run altogether if a marathon is 26 1/5 miles? - Observation 17433
The aircraft flying just above point A can be seen from observation B, 2,400 meters away from point A, at an altitude of 52°30'. How high does the plane fly?
- The missing digit
Complete the missing digit in the number 3 ∗ 43 to form a number divisible by three. If there are multiple options, list them all. (The omitted digit is marked with the symbol ∗. ) Answers must be justified! - Teachers 4379
The hostel has 90 people; There are three times more boys than girls, and there are 70 fewer teachers than boys and girls together. How many teachers are there? - The alley
The alley was planted with 490 trees 6 meters away. How many trees would be planted if the distance was 7.5 m? - A water
A water jug has 1 5/8 liters of liquid. How do you write this mixed number as a decimal? - Equation: 7845
Solve the equation: 3968-x = 3179
- Cross-section 71254
The steel conductors of the long-distance power line have a cross-section of 5 cm². Calculate the resistance of a steel wire with a length of 2 km if the resistivity of the steel is 13 * 10-8 Ω · m. - The rope 2
The rope in the school gym is 10 ½ feet long. Coach Hill tied a knot in the rope every ¾ foot to make climbing easier. How many knots are in the rope? - Compartments 7275
Tomáš has two compartments with CD-ROMs. The arithmetic average of the number of CDs in both bins is 30. If he added 10 more CDs to the first bin, there would be 1.5 times more CDs than in the second bin. How many CDs are in each compartment? - Parallelogram 4701
Calculate the area and perimeter of the ABCD parallelogram with side a = 2.7 m, va = 0.8 m, and b = 1.9 m. - Numbers 7755
How many digits 7 are in numbers from 1 to 777?
- Balance
The rod is 4.3 m long, hanging weights 9 kg and 15 kg on ends. Where is the center of the rod (distance from weight 9 kg) to be in balance? - Schoolchildren 6175
Of all schoolchildren, one-sixth prefers a pear for a snack, 3/4 of the rest has an apple, and the other five students like an orange for a snack. How many pupils are there? - Cottages
The summer camp has 41 cottages. Each has rooms for three and four. How many of the 140 campers live on three?
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