Free Printable 5th Grade Word Problem Practice

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5th Grade Word Problem Practice

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 31mins

Name

Class

Date

Of the 95 children in 6th grade, 3/5 went to holiday parties. How many students went to holiday parties in all?

285 students

75 students

57 students

258 students

Amy has 72 sweets in a bag. She keeps ¼ of them for herself and shares the rest with friends. How many sweets will she give to her friends?

72 sweets

54 sweets

18 sweets

4 sweets

30 people watched the soccer game last night. Tickets cost $2.75 each. Half of these fans bought a program at $1.50 each. How much money was collected altogether?

$82.50

$22.50

$125.00

$105.00

An electrician has 6 feet of copper wire. He needs to cut the wire into pieces that are each 3/4 foot long. How many pieces of wire can he cut from the 6-foot wire

4 1/2

9 1/2

Eddie has 985 songs on his iPad. If Eddie divides his songs equally into 70 albums, how many songs will be in each album?

14 songs with 5 songs left over

15 songs with 0 left over

14 songs with 4 songs left over

14 songs with 0 left over

Degan has 617 students. Each class has between 28 and 32 students. Which of the following is a reasonable estimate of the number of classes in the school?

Sybil had three boxes of pencils. Each box contains eight pencils. Sybil divides all of the pencils evenly between four of her friends. How many pencils does each of her friends get?

4 R 4

Suzy bought 2 pounds of grapes for $2.49 per pound and 3 muffins for $0.75 per muffin. How much did she pay for the grapes and the muffins?

$3.24

$7.23

$6.48

$10.72

There are 13 episodes in the first season of Heartland and Every episode is 44.5 minutes long. If you watched every episode in season 1, how many minutes did you watch?

178

178.5

578.5

5785

10.

Lou has to travel back and forth from New York City to Heartland. The flight takes her 2.5 hours. If she has to take this trip 14 times per month, how much time does she spend flying back and forth each month?

35.0

350

330

33.0

11.

Ty had to complete 250 hours of community service at the Heartland ranch. If he did 4 hours each day, how many days would it take him to complete his service hours?

62.5

625

1,000

12.

A mail sorting machine can sort 774 pieces of mail an hour. If it ran for 77 hours, how many pieces of mail would it have sorted?

(a)

13.

A magazine had 1,472 subscriptions. If they lost 360 subscribers in January and 293 more in March. How many subscribers did they have left?

(a)

14.

In NYC each mail truck has 270 pieces of junk mail. If there are 99 trucks, how much junk mail do they have total?

(a)

15.

A school ordered 2,227 packs of paper. If they used 862 packs the first semester and 857 the second semester. How many packs would they have left?

(a)

16.

Nolen was collecting cans for recycling. In 5 months he had collected 634 bags with 76 cans inside each bag. How many cans did he have total?

(a)

17.

Johnny's parents rewarded him $215 for his excellent report card. He wants to buy an XBOX that costs $323.67, including tax. The equation (a) can be used to solve for e, the amount of extra money that Johnny needs in order to buy his XBOX. The value of e is (b)

Choose from the below words

m + 215 = 323.67

$108.67

m - 215 = 323.67

$538.67

215m = 323.67

323.67

18.

a pizza has 12 slices. 1/2 of a pizza has pepperoni. 1/3 of those slices also have pineapple. How many slices have pepperoni and pineapple.

19.

4 friends share 2/3 of a pizza. How much does each friend get?

1/6

1/12

1/8

1/10

20.

Jon jogged 3/5 of a mile in the morning. Jon jogged 1/2 of a mile in the evening. How much farther did he jog in the morning?

1/10

1/5

2/3

1/12

100 %

5th Grade Word Problem Practice

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 31mins

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