Word Problems All Operations Rational Numbers

Cynthia started a yoga club and has 18 members. Each member pays $9.99 per month. On the first day of the month, 7 members paid their fee. The remaining members paid on the fourth day of the month. How much money was collected on the fourth day of the month?

(a)  

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?

(a)  

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?

(a)  

Carlos uses a cleaner after working in his garage. The bottle contains 64.2 mL of cleaner. He used 5.8 mL of the cleaner on Monday. On Tuesday, he used half of the remaining cleaner on a chemical spill. On Wednesday, he used 3.9 mL of the cleaner in the bottle. How many mL of cleaner did Carlos have left on Thursday?

(a)  

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?

(a)  

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?

(a)  

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?

(a)  

Marvin had 2 spools of thread. Each spool contained 10 ⅝ yards of thread. Marvin used 4 yards from each spool. How many yards of thread did Marvin have left?

(a)  

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?

(a)  

Javier plays on a soccer team. In two games, he scored ⅗ of the total number of points for his team. His team scored 50 points in the first game and 45 points in the second game. What was the number of points Javier scored in these two games?

(a)  

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?

(a)  

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?

(a)  

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?

(a)  

Coryn rain 18.4 miles in 1.6 hours. How many miles did Coryn run in 1 hour?

(a)  

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?

(a)