Word Problem
1. A food truck sells salads for $6.50 each and drinks for $2.00 each. The food truck’s
revenue from selling a total of 209 salads and drinks in one day was $836.50. How
many salads were sold that day?
2. Ali, Ben and Carla made a total of 20 sandwiches. Ben made 3 times as many as Ali,
and Carla made twice as many as Ben. How many sandwiches did Ali make?
3. Josh is 22 years old and Ruth is 10 years old. In how many years will Josh be twice as
old as Ruth will be then?
4. Suzie is 3 years older than twice Crystal’s age. If the sum of their ages is 6, how old are
Suzie and Crystal?
5. Johan is two years older than Eriq. The sum of their ages is 40. How old is Johan and
Eriq?
6. 5 hockey pucks and 3 hockey sticks cost $23. 5 hockey pucks and 1 hockey stick cost
$20. How much does 1 hockey puck cost?
7. The greater of two numbers is twice the less, and the sum of the numbers is 129. What
are the numbers?
8. Jane went to a book shop and bought a book. While at the store, Jane found a second
interesting book and bought it for $80. The price of the second book was $10 less than
three times the price of the first book. What was the price of the first book?
9. An amusement park sells 2 kinds of tickets. Tickets for children cost $1.50. Adult ticket
cost $4. On a certain day, 278 people entered the park. On that same day the admission
fees collected totaled $792. How many children were admitted on that day? How many
adults were admitted?
10. The length of a rectangle is 12m more than thrice its width. The perimeter of the
rectangle is 200m. Find the length and width of the rectangle?
11. The cost of two tables and three chairs is $705. If the table costs $40 more than the
chair, find the cost of the table and the chair.
12. Aaron is 6 years younger than Ron, Four years later, Ron will be twice as old as Aaron.
Find their present ages.
13. A printing company charges 45 cents for printing of each card, on top of a fixed fee of
$50. Jason printing m cards. Jason paid $230 for the cards. How many cards did he
print?
14. Tom’s monthly allowance as $k. Jerry’s monthly allowance is 3 times that of Tom’s.
Denni’s monthly allowance as $20 more than Jerry’s. Their total allowance is $104.
What is Denni’s Monthly allowance?
15. Three children have an average of 38 stamps. Irene has 4 times as many stamps as
Samuel and Peter has 21 stamps less than Irene. How many stamps does Peter have?
16. Mariah bought 30 muffins and cakes. Each muffin cost $3 and each cake cost $2. The
total bill was $72. How many muffins did Mariah buy?
17. Pauline is 2 years older than Jasmine and Bryan is 3 years older than Pauline. Their
combined age is 31. How old is Bryan?
18. Mrs. Tan was 27 years old when her daughter was born. She is 4 times as old as her
daughter now. How old is Mrs. Tan now?
19. The sum of two numbers is 84. Twice the first number is 6 more than the second
number. Find the two numbers.
20. Alan is 3 times as heavy as Chandra. Chandra is 10 kg lighter than Ben. Their total
mass is 70 kg. Find the mass of Ben
21. Kevin, Martin and Jessie saved $200 altogether. Kelly saved $15 more than Jessie.
Martin saved thrice the amount Jessie saved. How much Kelly save?
22. Cindy and David made 32 paper cranes altogether. Cindy made 6 fewer paper cranes
than David. How many paper cranes did David make?
23. Gina and Hebe have 75 bracelets altogether. Joyce and Gina have 129 bracelets
altogether. Joyce had 3 times as many bracelets as Hebe. How many bracelets did
Hebe have?
24. Frankie had four times as many T-shirts as Aziz. After Frankie sold 64 T-shirts and Aziz
sold 4 T-shirts, Frankie had twice as many T-shirts left as Aziz. How many T-shirts did
Aziz have at first?
25. A minor league ballpark attracts 88 fans and draws in $553 in revenue from ticket sales.
A child’s ticket costs $4 and an adult’s ticket is $7. How many of each type of ticket were
sold?
F = 2A
Workout
1. (a+1) (a + 3) =
2. (2y - 1) (y - 2) =
3. (x+3) (x-2) =
4. (2d - 3) (d + 4) =
5. (3x - 3) (3x + 3) =
6. (y + 2) (y - 2) =
7. (a - b) (a + b) =
8. (2c + 2d) (c - d) =
9. (h - 10) (2h - 2g) =
10. (5t + 12) (10 - 2t) =
11. (y + 2)2 =
12. (2f + 1)2 =
13. (c - 5)2 =
14. (5a - 2)2 =
15. (3y - 2z)2 =
