Math - word problems- Practice

You work for a major delivery company. You are to deliver 4 shipments of boxes of music CDs. The shipments consist of 48 boxes, 59 boxes, 182 boxes, and 17 boxes, respectively. How many total boxes are you going to deliver?

• 65

• 124

• 289

• 306

You are the head counselor at a summer camp. There are 264 children attending the camp, and you need to split them into teams of 11. How many teams can you form?

• 24

• 48

• 253

• 275

• 2,904

During the winter months, one snow plow can clear 8 neighborhoods in one day. If 72 snow plows are all plowing different parts of the city, how many neighborhoods will be cleared in one day?

• 9

• 64

• 80

• 576

• 872

A charter tours bus driver can fit an average of 54 passengers on his bus for each tour. He is scheduled to run 9 tours over the next month. At this rate, how many passengers will he give tours to on his bus?

• 6

• 45

• 63

• 486

A group of 350 activists needs to distribute a total of 94,500 flyers door-to-door on Saturday. Assuming that the work is divided evenly among the group, how many flyers must each activist distribute?

• 27

• 270

• 2,700

• 94,150

• 94,500

Scott and his wife send tins of a dozen cookies to their friends as holiday gifts. They mailed out 33 dozen on Monday and 11 dozen on Tuesday. How many dozens of tins have they mailed out in total?

• 3

• 11

• 22

• 33

• 44

The company that you work for produces metal alloys. The alloy you are working on requires a makeup of 20% iron and 80% nickel, by weight. How many grams of iron should be added to 40 grams of nickel?

• 8

• 10

• 20

• 32

• 160

You want to apply mulch to a specific area of your yard, and have determined you need 10 gallons of it for the area. After discussion with an expert, you've determined you want to include some herbicide in your mulch to reduce weed growth. The herbicide you found has directions to apply a 55 ounce bottle to every 3 gallons of mulch. How many ounces of herbicide do you need to prepare all of your mulch?

• 512

• 1813

• 165

• 18313

• 550

You work as a teller at a bank, and a young customer arrives with three jars of change to be deposited in her account. The first jar contains $12.90, the second contains $8.75, and the third has $3.50. The customer asks for $6 in bills from the change as a withdrawal. How much total is deposited after the withdrawal?

• $10.40

• $15.65

• $19.15

• $25.15

• $31.15

You have started a contract job for a large company in another state. The total payment you negotiated for this contract is $26,500. The company has agreed to pay you 25% upfront per the contracted agreement. How much will the company owe you after this first payment comes through?

• $6,625

• $19,875

• $21,200

• $24,000

• $33,125