Math Word Problems

A customer pays 3000 pesos for a rice cooker after a discount of 500 pesos. What is the original price of the rice cooker?

• Php 3,000.00

• Php 3,500.00

• Php 500.00

• Php 3,050.00

There are 6000 pupils and 240 teachers in a school. What is the teacher-pupil ratio?

• 600:24

• 100:4

• 50:2

• 600:40

Nine less than thrice a number is 33. What is the number?

• 14

• 16

• 18

• 12

What is the remainder when 5,463 is divided by 5?

• 2

• 3

• 5

• 6

If there are 4 apples and you take away 3, how many do you have?

• 4 apples

• 1 apple

• 3 apples

• 7 apples

A meter of cloth costs Php 78.50. How much will 2.5 meters cost?

• Php 196.50

• Php 196.25

• Php 195.25

• Php 195.50

Twice a number increased by 24, the result is 60. What is the number?

• 12

• 18

• 20

• 14

Lisa is 16 years younger than Kathy. If the sum of their ages is 30, how old is Lisa?

• Lisa is 6 years old

• Lisa is 7 years old

• Lisa is 8 years old

• Lisa is 9 years old

I chose a number and divide it by 5. Then I subtracted 154 from the result and got 6. What was the number I chose?

• 700

• 750

• 800

• 850

There are 18 animals in the pet store. Some are birds and some are dogs. There are 50 legs in all. How many birds and how many dogs are there?

• There are 7 birds and 11 dogs

• There are 10 birds and 8 dogs

• There are 8 birds and 10 dogs

• There are 11 birds and 7 dogs