Rational Work Word Problems

There are 20 cars in a parking lot.

Geico provides insurance to 3/5 of the cars.

AllState provides insurance to one-tenth of the cars.

State Farm provides insurance to the remaining cars.

How many cars in this parking lot does State Farm provide insurance to?

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Twelve PTA members want to buy supplies for students. They need to raise $527.86 to buy the supplies. They have already raised $349.11. If each PTA member raises the same amount of money, how much money must each member raise?

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Katherine’s Kitchen had 36 people order breakfast on Sunday morning. 2/9 of the people ate waffles only. 1/4 of the people ate eggs and waffles. The remaining people ate eggs only. How many people ate eggs only for breakfast?

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Cassie spent 3 ¼ hours cleaning her neighbor’s house.

She spent 3/4 of an hour doing laundry.

She spent 2/3 of an hour cleaning the kitchen.

She spend the remaining time cleaning the bathroom.

How much MORE time did Cassie spend doing laundry than cleaning the kitchen?

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Jorge sold candles for three weeks to raise money for a field trip. Jorge sold 15 candles the first week. The second week, he sold 2 fewer than twice the number of candles he sold the first week. The third week, he sold 5 more than 1.5 times the number of candles he sold in the second week. How many total candles did Jorge sell for the fundraiser?

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One weekend, Latoya and Tyler mowed lawns to earn spending money. Together, they earned $13.50 an hour for 8 hours of work. Each received half the total earnings. If Latoya then spent $18 on a video game, how much money did she have left?

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Jen has a math workbook that contains 75 practice pages. She has completed ⅔ of the pages. If Jen completes 14 more pages, what is the total number of pages that she will have completed in the book?

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Audrey paid $13.95 for a box of birthday invitations and $0.52 each for 12 stamps. What was the total Audrey paid for the notes and stamps?

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Daniel is purchasing 3 ¼ pounds of cheese that costs $5.99 per pound. How much change will Daniel receive if he gives the cashier $20.00?

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Stephen had 36 tickets for games at the fair. He used ⅓ of the tickets on the dart-balloon game. He then used 0.5 of the remaining tickets to play the ring-toss game. He won 6 tickets playing the ring-toss. How many tickets did Stephen have after playing these games?

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