5th Grade Word Problems
1. Timmy drank 8 cups of water yesterday. He drank twice as much water today as he drank yesterday. How many cups of water did Timmy drink in the two days?
2. Lisa recorded a 2-hour television show. When she watched it, she skipped the commercials. It took her 84 minutes to watch the show. How many minutes did she save by skipping the commercials?
3. Liza’s cat had six kittens! When Liza and her brother weigh all the kittens together, they weigh 4 pounds 2 ounces. Since all the kittens are about the same size, how many ounces does each kitten weigh?
4. Farmer Jim keeps 12 hens in every coop. If Farmer Jim has 20 coops, how many hens does he have in all? If every hen lays 9 eggs on Monday, how many eggs will Farmer Jim collect on Monday?
5. Ava is saving for a new computer that costs $1,218. She has already saved half of the money. Ava earns $10.00 per hour. How many hours must Ava work in order to save the rest of the money?
6. Robin is 11 years old. Her mother, Gwen, is 2 years more than 3 times Robin’s age. How old is Gwen?
7. A box weighs 8 ounces. A shipment of boxes weighs 7 pounds. How many boxes are in the shipment?
8. A manufacturer made 7,234 boxes of coffee stirrers. Each box contains 1000 stirrers. How many stirrers did they make?
9. The Apollo 17 mission was completed in 12 days, 14 hours. How many hours did the mission last?
10. Granny Smith made punch. She used 2 pints of ginger ale, 3 pints of fruit punch, and 1 pint of orange juice. She served the punch in glasses that had a capacity of 1 cup. How many cups can she fill?
11. An adult sweater is made from 2 pounds of wool. This is 3 times as much wool as it takes to make a baby sweater. How much wool does it take to make a baby sweater?
12. Caitlin ran 1,680 feet on Monday and 2,340 feet on Tuesday. How many yards did she run in those two days?
13. A box contains 24 oranges. Mr. Lee ordered 8 boxes for his store and 12 boxes for his restaurant. How many oranges did he order?
14. Clay weighs 9 times as much as his baby sister. Clay weighs 63 pounds. How much does his baby sister weigh?
15. An ice-cream shop uses 4 pints of ice cream to make 6 sundaes. How many pints of ice cream are used for each sundae?
16. The astronauts from Apollo 17 completed 3 spacewalks while on the moon for a total duration of 22 hours, 4 minutes. How many minutes did the astronauts walk in space?
17. A microscope has a setting that magnifies an object so that it appears 100 times as large when viewed through the eyepiece. If a tiny insect is 0.095 cm long, how long will the insect appear in centimeters through the microscope?
18. Beth is allowed 75 minutes of TV time each week. Her sister is allowed 2 times as much. How many minutes of TV can Beth’s sister watch?
19. Jaxon earned $39 raking leaves. His brother, Dayawn, earned 7 times as much waiting on tables. How much money did Dayawn earn?
20. Tickets to a baseball game are $20 for an adult and $15 for a student. A school buys tickets for 45 adults and 600 students. How much money will the school spend for the tickets?
21. Mrs. Onusko made 60 cookies for a bake sale. She sold 2/3 of them and gave 3/4 of the remaining cookies to the students working at the sale. How many cookies did she have left?
22. Tracy’s rain barrel has a capacity of 27 quarts of water. Beth’s rain barrel has a capacity of twice the amount of water as Tracy’s rain barrel. Trevor’s rain barrel can hold 9 quarts of water less than Beth’s barrel.
a. What is the capacity of Trevor’s rain barrel?
b. If Tracy, Beth, and Trevor’s rain barrels were filled to capacity and they poured all of the water into a 30-gallon bucket, would there be enough room?
23. Helen has 4 yards of rope. Daniel has 4 times as much rope as Helen. How many more feet of rope does Daniel have than Helen?
24. Michael saves $423 dollars a month for college.
a. About how much money will he have saved after 4 years?
25. James drinks 800 ml of water each day during his workout. Henry drinks 600 ml daily during his workout. If James works out 3 days each week, and Henry works out 5 days each week, how many liters do the boys drink in all each week while working out?
26. The Booster Club sells 240 cheeseburgers. 1/4 of the cheeseburgers had pickles, 1/2 of the remaining burgers had onions, and the rest had tomato. How many cheeseburgers had tomato?
27. Craig, Randy, Charlie, and Sam ran in a 5K race on Saturday. They were the top 4 finishers. Here are their race times:
` Craig: 25.9 minutes Randy: 32.2 minutes Charlie: 32.28 minutes Sam: 25.85 minutes
Who won first place? Who won second place? Third? Fourth?
28. Angle DEF is a straight angle. Angle CEF is 37 degrees. What is the measure of angle CED?
29. Van Cortlandt Park’s walking trail is 1.02 km longer than Marine Park. Central Park’s walking trail is 0.242 km longer than Van Cortlandt’s. If a tourist walked all 3 trails in a day, how many km would they have walked?
30. Julian bought 3.9 liters of cranberry juice and Jay bought 8.74 liters of apple juice. They mixed the two juices together then poured them equally into 2 bottles. How many liters of juice are in each bottle?
31. The hot dog vendors at the state fair sell an average of 78 hot dogs every 30 minutes. At this rate, how many hot dogs can they expect to sell in 9 1/4 hours?
32. Meyer has 0.64 GB of space remaining on his iPod. He wants to download a pedometer app (0.24 GB) a photo app (0.403 GB) and a math app (0.3 GB). Which combinations of apps can he download?
33. Joyce bought 2 pounds of apples. She bought 3 times as many pounds of potatoes as pounds of apples. The melons she bought were 10 ounces lighter than the total weight of the potatoes. How many ounces did the melons weigh?
34. David’s birthday party was held at the bowling alley from 3:30 to 5:30. His family rented 2 lanes for that time. Lane rental for 1 lane is $10 an hour for 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM and $14 an hour from 5:00 PM to midnight. What was the total lane rental for 2 lanes for those 2 hours?
35. Ribbon is sold at 3 yards for $6.33. Jackie bought 24 yards of ribbon for a project. How much did she pay?
36. At the farmer’s market there were 75 apples in each of a farmer’s 5 baskets. There were 200 apples still on his truck. How many apples in all did the farmer bring to the market?
37. Mrs. Zamir wants to buy 8 protractors and some erasers for her classroom. She has $30. If protractors cost $2.65 each, how much will Mrs. Zamir have left to buy erasers?
38. After school, Marcus ran 3.2km and Cindy ran 1.95km. Who ran farther? How much farther?
39. Astronaut Alex has been in space 375 days. Astronaut Debi has been in space 190 fewer days than Alex. Astronaut Sue and Astronaut Lu have been in space an equal number of days; their total is 422 days. How many days has Debi been in space? How many days has Lu been in space? How many total days have these 4 astronauts been in space?
40. Walkway Over the Hudson, a bridge that crosses the Hudson River in Poughkeepsie, is 2.063 kilometers. Anping Bridge, which was built in China 850 years ago, is 2.07 kilometers long.
a. Which bridge is longer? How much longer? Show your thinking.
b. Leah likes to walk her dog on the Walkway Over the Hudson. If she walks across and back, how far do she and her dog walk?
41. Coleton’s puppy weighed 3 pounds 8 ounces at birth. The vet weighed the puppy again at six months and the puppy weighed 7 pounds. How much weight did the puppy gain?
42. The folks at the concession stand sold 480 cans of soda during the tournament. They sold 150 more bottles of water than cans of soda. How many drinks did they sell in all?
43. Brian has a melon that weighs 3 pounds. He cut it into six equal pieces. How many ounces did each piece weigh?
44. Juan delivers 74 newspapers every day. How many newspapers will he deliver in 30 days?
45. Rocco’s Rock Shop has 725 igneous rocks on display. Rocco has divided the rocks up evenly among 5 shelves. The rocks on the bottom 2 shelves are $3 each. If he were to sell all the rocks on those 2 shelves, what would Rocco’s income be? The rocks on the other 3 shelves are $2 each. What would the total sales be if Rocco sold all of his rocks?
46. Researchers counted 8,912 monarch butterflies on one branch of a tree at a site in Mexico. They estimated that the total number of butterflies at the site was 1000 times as large. About how many butterflies were at the site in all?
47. For his parents’ anniversary, Danny spends $5.87 on a photo. He also buys 3 balloons for $2.49 each and a box of strawberries for $4.50. How much money does he spend all together?
48. Sandy took the train to New York City. The trip took 3 hours and 45 minutes. Jackie took the bus which took twice as long. How long did Jackie’s trip take?
49. Katrina needs to tie ribbons around 10 flower arrangements for a party. Each arrangement requires 1.2 m of ribbon. She also needs 325 cm of ribbon to tie to the balloons for the party. If Katrina buys 15 m of ribbon, will she have enough? If so, how much ribbon (in meters) will she have left? If not, how many more meters of ribbon will she need to buy?
50. Tim is painting his storage shed. He buys 4 gallons of white paint and 3 gallons of blue paint. If each gallon of white paint costs $15.72 and each gallon of blue paints is $21.87, how much will Tim spend in all on paint?
51. On a map, the perimeter of a park is 0.251 meters. The actual perimeter of the park is 1000 times as large. What is the actual perimeter of the park?
52. A pen costs $2.09. It costs $0.45 less than a marker. Ken paid for one pen and one marker with a five dollar bill. How much change should he receive?
53. There were 9 children at a birthday party. Each child drank one 200 ml juice box. How many liters of juice did they drink altogether?
54. Anna buys groceries for her family. Hamburger meat is $3.38 per pound, sweet potatoes are $0.79 each, and hamburger rolls are $2.30 a bag. If Anna buys 3 pounds of meat, 5 sweet potatoes, and one bag of hamburger rolls, what will she pay in all for the groceries?
55. At the 2012 London Olympics, Michael Phelps won the gold medal in the men’s 100 meter butterfly. He swam the first 50 meters in 26.96 seconds. The second 50 meters took him 25.39 seconds. What was his total time?
56. Patty buys 7 juice boxes a month for lunch. If one juice costs $2.79, how much money does Patty spend on juice each month?
57. A school district ordered 247 boxes of pencils. Each box contains 100 pencils. If the pencils are to be shared evenly amongst 10 classrooms, how many pencils will each class receive?
58. A clipboard costs $2.23. It costs $0.58 more than a notebook. Lisa buys two clipboards and one notebook, and paid with a ten dollar bill. How much change should she receive?
59. A bag of potato chips contains 0.96 grams of sodium. If the bag is split into 8 equal servings, how many grams of sodium will each serving contain?
60. The top surface of a desk has a length of 5.6 feet. The length is 4 times its width. What is the width of the desk?