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!
1034surface area
761cuboid
560cube
555prism
487cylinder
262pyramid
246cone
231sphere
56frustum
4827equation
437divisibility
308sets
511probability
314variations
263permutations
38variance
5mean
2273multiplication
1932division
1631subtraction
1557addition
1386square root
604third power
600comparing
562rounding
206cube root
3282time
3271length
3160area
2638unit conversion
2524volume
2097money
1542mass
1269angle
1130velocity
604power
402density
309temperature
256acceleration
197energy
327sine
312tangent
294cosine
62arcsine
3005square
2618area of a shape
2508triangle
2508right triangle
1011perimeter
995circle
978rectangle
547diagonal
292trapezoid
227polygon
201rhombus
79chord
50annulus
48rhomboid
22parabola
themes, topics
848work
173map scale
107Ohm's law
582line
178line segment
127vector
2224percentages
2168reason
1647ratio
248functions
180maximum
139factorial
110minimum
102logarithm
89per mil
25modulo
10integral
3135fractions
1834natural numbers
345integers
162real numbers
41matrix
From our database of math word problems and examples, we offer the following:
- Percentage comparison
What is more, 14% of 27 or 15% of 28? - Sphere radius calculation
Calculate the radius of a sphere with a volume of 6.2 dm3, round to the nearest centimeter. - Surface - cube
What is the length of the edge of the cube, the surface of which is 384 dm² - Mailbox
Mailbox is opening at regular intervals 5 times a day. The first time is opened at 9:00 and the last at 17:00. Calculate the hours when the mailbox is opened during the day. - Is right?
Determine whether the triangle with legs (catheti) 19.5 cm and 26 cm and the length of the hypotenuse 32.5 cm is rectangular. - Profit sharing
Three people, A, B, and C, started a business by investing Rs. 250000, Rs. 300000, and Rs.350000, respectively. Find the share of B out of an annual profit of Rs.187200. - Block volume calculation
Calculate the block's volume in liters with edge lengths of 3dm, 15cm, and 120mm. - Alloy
The first alloy is a mixture of two metals in the ratio 1:2; the second is a mixture of the same metals in the ratio 2:3. At what ratio do we have these two alloys put into the furnace to obtain a new metal alloy with a ratio of 17:27? (All three ratios c - Row of students
In a row of 40 girls A is 5th from the right and B is 10th from the left end. How many girls are there between A and B? Many got it wrong! - Parabolic sequence
Find the sum of the first nine terms of an arithmetic sequence whose general term is a(n) = 3n²+5 - Sugar 8
Heather has 2 cups of powdered sugar. She sprinkles 3/5 of the sugar onto a plate of brownies and sprinkles the rest into a plate of lemon cookies. How much sugar does Heather sprinkle on the brownies? How much sugar does Heather sprinkle on the lemon coo - Candies
If Alena gives Lenka, 3 candies will still have one more candy. If Lenka gives Alena 1 candy, Alena will have twice as much candy as Lenka. How many candies have each of them? - Airplanes Meeting Distance
An airplane flew from city A to city B at a speed of 500 km/h. Fifteen minutes later, an airplane took off from city B to city A at a speed of 450 km/h. After 45 minutes, the planes met. Determine the distance between A and B. - Angle in RT
Determine the size of the smallest internal angle of a right triangle whose sides constitute the sizes of consecutive members of arithmetic progressions. - Fur coat discount
The shop with fur coats has a red fur coat that costs 150 euros, with an 85 percent discount. How much does it cost after the discount? If there was an 85% discount, how much would it cost? - A bamboo
Bamboo is 26 2/5 meters long. If it is cut into 12 pieces, how long will each piece be? - Pears and oranges
There are three times as many pears as oranges. If a group of children receives five oranges each, no oranges will be left over. If the same group of children receives eight pears each, there will be 21 pears left over. How many children and oranges are t
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