Word Problems with Whole Numbers
WORD PROBLEMS WITH WHOLE NUMBERS
DIRECTIONS:
- Write money in proper form.
- Reduce fractions/ratios to lowest terms.
- Round decimals to the nearest cent/hundredths.
1) Harani was so afraid that his daughter Tamika would fall into the swimming pool that he decided to build a fence around it. The pool was 20 feet long and 10 feet wide. How many feet of fence did he need?
2) Monica paid $780 per month for rent. When her windows began leaking, she took her landlord to court and won a $175 per month rent decrease. What was her new rent?
3) Norman flew his plane at a speed of 550 miles for 3 hours to impress his new girlfriend Otilia. How far did Norman and Otilia travel?
4) Priscilla earned $43,900 last year as an attorney for BronxCounty. This year she went into private practice and her income increased by $26,7000. What was her new income?
5) Quincy bought 15 pounds of prime chop meat to distribute among his 3 dogs. How much chop meat did each dog receive?
6) Ramona, a lawyer, earns 4 times as much as her husband Sven who is a minister. Sven earns $15,000 per year. How much does Ramona earn?
7) Tanisha spent $460 for her maid-of-honor dress when her sister Urdine got married. Urdine spent $980 on her bridal gown. How much less did Tanisha spend than Urdine?
8) Wesley spent $29,700 on his Jeep Cherokee 4x4. Xavia spent $28,700 for the same car by bargaining with the salesman. How much more did Wesley spend than Xavia?
9) Yaffia spent $240 for 6 outfits for her daughter, Zenobia. What was the average cost of each outfit?
10) Aileen earns 5 times as much as her sister Babette. Aileen earns $180,000 per year as the president of Tiny Toons, Inc. How much does Babette earn?
11) Carlos bought a Chevy Blazer for $35,000 and then ordered $9,800 worth of accessories. How much was his total bill?
12) Edwine noticed that on Saturday there were 140 animals at North Shore Animal Shelter. 85 of the animals were dogs and the rest were cats. How many were cats?
13) Gemella bought 3 pounds of sirloin steak at $8 per pound. How much did the steak cost?
14) Irene inherited $100,000 from her dear old Auntie Bunnie. She decided to invest some of the money in Xerox stock. Irene bought 450 shares at $123 per share. What was the total cost of the stock? How much money does she have left from her inheritance?
15) Lenny drove 450 miles in 9 hours to see his sweetheart Desdemona graduate from college. What was Lenny’s average speed in miles per hour?
16) When Jamal entered the lecture hall to give his first biology lecture, he noticed that 144 of the 200 students present were women. How many students in the lecture hall were men?
17) In the Fountainbleu Hotel in Miami Beach, the average salary for Hector Gonsalves the general manager is one hundred one thousand, five hundred dollars per year. The spa and tennis manager, Lydia Desai, earns $44,000 per year. How much more does the general manager earn than the spa and general manager?
18) At the Lexington Antique Book Shop, Mauricio Polaris, manager of history books, listed 9792 books in his department and Jenna Blakcwell, manager of women’s studies books, listed 3,529 books in her department. How many books are listed in total in the two departments?
19) Marcia and Ted Lancing own a small apartment building. They collected $485, $500, $515, and $425 in rent in October. They had expenses of $785. How much money remained after paying the
expenses?
20) When Florine moved into her new house, she bought a stove for $729, a refrigerator for $842 and an answering machine for $29. How much did she spend in total for the appliances?
21) Gerardo won $6007 in the lottery. He immediately spent $548 on a golden retriever puppy and spent the rest on tuition for his daughter’s nursery school. How much did he spend on nursery school tuition?
22) Hermes noticed on a computer printout that the volume of a storage cubicle was listed as:
length x height x width = 28 x 0 x 5 = 140 cubic inches. Is this the correct calculation? Why or why not?
23) Iniko sold 14 sets of radial tires at a price of $300 per set. How much did he receive in sales?
24) A mother whale weighs 82 times as much as her baby. The baby whale weighs 38 pounds. How much does the mother weigh?
25) When Julia purchased the El Dorado Hotel in Reno, Nevada, she agreed to pay 206 payments of $6,381 each. How much did she agree to pay in total?
26) Kim earned $30,078 in 18 months working as a teacher’s assistant while she studied for her degree. How much did she earn, on average, each month?
27) Lorenzo noticed the following example on his son’s math assignment: 879 0 = 0
Is this example correct? Why or why not?
28) Malik received a federal grant of $49,350 to distribute for computer support to the 21 sixth grade classes in his school district. How much money could each class get?
29) Nicole’s unit of the Red Cross collected 32,500 units of blood to be distributed to local chapters at a rate of 250 units each. How many local chapters could receive blood?
30) Omar had $6218 in federal income taxes deducted from his paychecks last year. When Mark computed his federal income tax, his tax was $5929. How much will he receive in a refund from the government?
31) Admission to JupiterCollege’s annual Mark Ross Memorial Swim Meet is $4 per ID’d student and $5 per outsider. What were the total receipts for the meet if 138 students and 40 outsiders attended?
32) Julien drove 2256 miles in his Chevy Blazer to visit his girlfriend Amie in Texas. Julien’s truck averages 24 miles per gallon of gasoline. Gas is $2 per gallon. What was the total amount he spent for
gasoline?
33) Mai is an efficiency expert hired by NYC to study the Finance Department. She determined that using the tax computers, the City can print 11 bills per minute. How long will it take the City to print the 3,883 bills for the borough of The Bronx?
34) As a carpet installer, you made $927 last month. Working part-time as a DJ, you made an additional $350 during the month. Your business expenses included:
Travel$127Meals$121
Equipment$144Supplies$56Phone$22
a)What was your total income for the month?
b)What were your total business expenses for the month?
c)What was last month’s profit?
35) Eighty-three employees of a small profit sharing plan receive an equal share of $36,105. How much does each employee receive?
36) Luke Runels is driving from Norfolk, Virginia to Minneapolis, Minnesota. The distance is 1337 miles. The first day he drove 465 miles and on the second day he drove 545 miles. How many more miles does he still need to travel?
37) It took Wilehma 16 gallons to drive 464 miles. How many miles per gallon did she get?
38) When Sasha filled her gas tank, the odometer reading was 38,162 miles. When she filled it again, it took 14 gallons of gas and the odometer reading was 38,554 miles.
a)How far did she drive?
b)How many miles per gallon did she get?
39) Each month you set aside $455 to cover loans and charge accounts. Last month you received the following bills:
Auto loan$230Visa Card$35
College loan$150Macy’s Card$20
a)How much did you spend last month on loans?
b)How much of the budget will remain after paying the bills?
c)Will the remaining money be enough to pay for two theater tickets costing $9 each?
40) You opened a new checking account by depositing $500. At the end of the week, you wrote checks for $38, $120, $25 and $194.
a)What was the total amount of the checks you wrote?
b)You deposit $150, were charged a $7 service fee and wrote a check for $140. Do you have enough money to write another check for $150?
41) For its sales meeting the Wallace Insurance Company prepared 2126 brochures each consisting of 129 pages. How many pages must be prepared altogether?
42) On each day of your 7-day vacation you consumed an extra 2400 Calories, but you also exercised for an additional 7 hours. You walked along the beach for 4 hours each day, went swimming for 2 hours each day and bike riding for one hour each day. Walking burns off 195 Calories per hour. Swimming burns off 850 Calories per hour. Biking burns off 350 Calories per hour.
a)How many extra Calories did you consume while on vacation?
b)How many Calories did you burn off by exercising during the seven days?
c)Did the exercise compensate for the intake of extra Calories?
43) In one week, Fabio Record Distributors shipped 236 cartons, each consisting of 432 CD’s. How many CD’s did the company ship in that week?
44) To repair Anita Madrid’s TV set will cost $85 for parts and $65 for labor. A new set will cost $299 and they will give Anita $50 for her old TV. How much will she save if she decides to repair her TV instead of buying a new set?
45) Mrs. Shah’s algebra class had the following number of students present during the week: 31, 28, 27 30 and 29. What was the average attendance for that week?
46) To earn a free airline ticket to Europe, Charles must accumulate 25,000 miles. Because of his job, he has earned 864 miles, 3030 miles, 627 miles, 1040 miles and 2500 miles. How many more miles must Charles travel to earn a free trip to Europe?
47) Each of the 57 delegates who will be staying at the conference for 5 days will be charged $49 per day for the hotel room, $36 per day for the meals and $5 per day for transportation
a)What is the combined cost of room, meals and transportation per day for each delegate?
b)The Simmons Foundation is going to pay the total bill for rooms, meals and transportation for all the delegates. How much will the foundation pay for the delegates’ expenses?
c)The Foundation has budgeted $26,500 for the delegates’ expenses. Will there be enough money left after the expenses are paid to also give each delegate $20 spending money?
47) Parking your car at work in NYC costs $518 per month. What is the cost per day? (assume a 20-day work month)
48) If you can fit 54 books on a shelf, how many shelves will you need if you have 3510 books?
49) Joel Pitt earns $33,488 per year. How much does he earn per week?
50) Cletus smokes 2 packs of cigarettes each day. One pack of cigarettes cost $6. How much money does Cletus spend on cigarettes per year?
51) Lucia, who has 5 children, spends 3 times as much for groceries as her cousin Malika. Malika spends $81 per week for groceries. How much does Lucia spend?
52) Hanif won $790 in the lottery. He spent $630 on car repairs and gave the rest to charity. How much did he give to charity?
53) Katria used 1237 yards of fabric to make 12,890 designer scarves. How much fabric, on average, did she use for each scarf?
54) Nohea’s pineapple farm is 10 times larger than Oliana’s horse ranch. Nohea’s pineapple farm is 860 acres. How large is Oliana’s horse ranch?
55) Kwame sold his house in Columbus, Ohio, for $97,045 and bought a similar one in Montclair, NJ, for $234,597. How much more did the house in Montclair cost than the house in Ohio?
56) Isabelle bought 4 pounds of lobster at $8 per pound, 5 pounds of asparagus at $3 per pound, 3 pounds of mushrooms at $2 per pound, and 2 pounds of onions at $1 per pound when she went grocery shopping for her famous shore dinner. How much did she spend in total?
57) Cara, working on her new exercise program, walked 9 miles in 3 hours. What was her speed in miles per hour?
58) Jalil’s son threw a baseball through the front window of his house. The window was 60 inches wide and 42 inches high. How many square inches of glass did he need to replace the window?
59) Elisa earned $56,890 last year as an accountant. Frieda, her daughter, spent $60,000 on tuition to medical school. How much less did Elisa earn than Frieda spent?
60) In his will, Dakarai distributed his 3 million dollars equally among his 15 children. How much did each child receive?
61) Zahra spent $8,900 for her Toyota Tercel in 1992. This year she bought a new one that cost $8,500 more. What was the cost of the new Tercel?
62) Victoria saved $5,500 to go on a vacation to Costa Rica. She spent half of her savings on the plane ticket. How much did she spend on the ticket?
63) Gautier bought a CD player for $489 and 6 CD’s at $14 each. How much did he owe the Wiz in all?
64) Afiya ordered a plane ticket to Tanzania for $1,780. Because she had frequent flyer miles, her ticket price was decreased by $679. What was the final price of her ticket?
65) Baki ran in the Boston marathon at a speed of 8 miles per hour for 2 hours. How far did he travel?
66) K-MART of Denville employs 403 women and 296 men on its sales staff. How many people, in total does K-MART employ?
67) A total of 12,452 people visited ArcadiaNational Park during the month of August. Maris Tomas, the park superintendent found that 11,694 visitors were US citizens and the rest were foreign tourists. How many visitors were foreign tourists?
68) On Monday, Karen’s checking account balance was $245. On Tuesday, her paycheck of $1322 was deposited into her account by direct deposit. On Wednesday, Karen wrote 4 checks in the amounts of $122, $134, $550, $14, and $108. What is Karen’s balance after Wednesday’s transactions?
69) Tom’s yearly salary is $34060. What is his weekly salary?
70) Tredia Automobile Inc. offers the following safety and security options:
Air Bags...... $595Antilock Brakes...... $890
Rear Window Defroster...... $170Rear Window Wiper/Washer...... $144
Integrated Child Seat...... $185
a) The BOB MORRISON TREDIA Dealership offered an options package consisting of the child seat, the antilock brakes and the air bags for $1260. Does the customer save any money by purchasing the package? If so, how much money does the customer save?
b) What is the total cost of the options which help the view through the rear window?
71) From the local café, Maggie buys a large cappuccino on her way to work and a medium cappuccino at lunch. A large cappuccino costs $3 each and a medium cappuccino costs $2 each. If Maggie worked a total of 241 days in 2004, how much did she spend on cappuccinos?
72) Gus’s dream was to make his first million by the age of 30. At 30 years old, his yearly income was three million, four hundred two thousand dollars. By how much did Gus outlive his dream?
ANSWERS
1) 60 ft. 2) $630 3) 1650 miles 4) $70,600 5) 5 lbs/dog 6) $60,000/yr 7) $520
8) $1000 9) $40 10) $36,000 11) $44,800 12) 55 cats 13) $24
14) $55,350 total; $44,650 left 15) 50 mi/hr 16) 56 men 17) $57,500 18) 13,321 books
19) $1140 20) $1600 21) $5459 22) any # times zero is zero 23) $4200 24) 3116 lbs
25) $1,314,486 26) $1671/mo 27) no 28) $2350/class 29) 130 chapters 30) $289
31) $752 32) 94 gal; $188 33) 353 minutes 34) a) $1277 b) $470 c) $807
35) $435/employee 36) 327 miles 37) 29 mi/gal 38) a) $380 b) $20 c) yes; $18 < $20
39) a) 392 miles b) 28 mi/gal 40) a) $377 b) no; $126 < $150 41) 274,254 pages
42) a) 16,800 Cal b) 19,810 Cal c) yes 43) 101,952 CD’s 44) save $99 45) 29 students
46) $16,939 47) a) $90 b) $25,650 c) no 48) 65 shelves 49) $644/wk 50) $4380
51) $243 52) $160 53) 0.09 yds 54) 86 acres 55) $137,552 56) $55 57) 3 mi/hr
58) 2520 sq. in 59) $3110 60) $200,000/child 61) $17,400 62) $2750 63) $573
64) $1101 65) 16 miles 66) 699 employees 67) 758 foreigners 68) $639 69) $655/wk
70) a) saves $410 b) $314 71) $1205 72) $2,402,000
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