Mixed numbers - math word problems - page 30 of 42
Number of problems found: 822
- Mixing colours
Last summer, Mang Tinoy repainted his car. He mixed 2 3/8 cans of white paint, 1 1/3 cans of red paint, and 1 2/4 cans of blue paint. How much paint did he use overall? - Oil crisis
A car runs 16 km using 1 liter of petrol. How much distance will it cover using 2 3/4 liters of petrol? - A turtle
A turtle is 20 5/6 inches below the surface of a pond. It dives to a depth of 32 1/4 inches. What is the change in the turtle's position? Write your answer as a mixed number. - Gavin
Gavin had 3 gallons of orange juice ready to serve at the breakfast party. His family drank 2 ⅛ gallons. How much is left? Show your work with a number line, area model, or grid.
- Cups of flour
Jade was baking cupcakes for her class. She has 4 5/4 cups of flour. For one batch, she used 1 2/3 cups of flour. On another batch, she used 7/9 of a cup of flour. How much flour does Jade have left after making the two batches of cupcakes? - Martin
Martin is making a model of a Native American canoe. He has 5 1/2 feet of wood. He uses 2 3/4 feet for the hull and 1 1/4 feet for a paddle. How much wood does he have left? Martin has x feet of wood left. - Athletic race
Before a race, you start 4 5/8 feet behind your friend. You are 3 2/3 feet ahead of your friend at the halfway point. What is the change in distance between you and your friend from the beginning of the race? - Material 3207
How many screws can we make from a rod whose weight is 3 3/4 kg if the weight of the screw is 3/16 kg and we count 3/20 of the material? - Apples
Three types of apples are mixed in a box. What is the smallest number of apples we have to take from the box so that there are certainly at least three apples of the same kind among them? (Explain your solution!)
- Evan
Evan, Samuel, and Alex are doing a biking relay on the Key Biscayne Bridge. Altogether, they bike a total of 7 miles. If Evan bikes 2 1/3 of a mile and Samuel bikes 2 1/4 of a mile, what distance does Alex bike? - Walk for exercise
Anya, Jose, Cali, and Stephan walk for exercise. Anya's route is 2 1/4 kilometers long. Jose's route is 1 1/2 fewer km. Cali's route is 1 1/2 times as long as Jose's route and two fewer km than Stephan's route. What distance (S) is Stephan's route? - A textile
A textile store sold a bolt of denim (what jeans are made of). One day, the store purchased the following lengths from the factory: 5 2/3, 7, 4 2/3, 8 5/8, 9 3/5, 10 ½, and 8 yards. How many yards were sold? - Construction 80124
The father offered to work on the construction site for 50 hours as part of a voluntary event. How many hours does he have left after he worked on the construction site for 9 days at 3 and 1 half hours? - Antonio 2
Antonio harvested 100 1/2 kg of fruits from his farm, selling 30 2/3 kg of durian and 34 5/6 kg of mangosteen. How many kilograms of fruit were not sold?
- Musa worked
Musa worked for 44 hours during one five days a week. His hours are from Monday through Thursday: 3 3/4, 6 7/12, 11 5/16, and 6 5/6. Calculate the number of hours he worked on Friday. - A welder
A welder has two pieces of half-inch pipe, one of length 2 3/8 ft and another of length 3 7/8 ft. What is the total length of the two welded together? How much must be cut off if she needs a total length of 4 3/4 ft? - Stephan - cookies
Stephan is making cookies for the class. His recipe calls for 3 and 1/2 cups of flour. He has 7/8 a cup of wheat flour and 2 and 1/2 cups of white flour. Does Mr. Stephan have enough flour to make the cookies? - Painting classrooms
Martha solicited 3 2/3 liters of paint for the brigade. Their city mayor gave their school another 2 2/5 liters of paint. How many classrooms can be painted if each classroom needs 1 3/7 liters? - Mixed numbers
Rewrite mixed numbers so the fractions have the same denominator: 5 1/5 - 2 2/3
Nathan is playing a trivia game. Each correct answer is worth 2 ½ points, and each incorrect answer is worth -¼ points. If he gets 35 questions correct and 32 questions incorrect, how many points does he have? A. 87.5 B. 79.5 C. 75 D. 8Do you have homework that you need help solving? Ask a question, and we will try to solve it. Solving math problems.
