Problem Solving 2
Joanne’s Math Name : ___________________ Date : _________________
Solve each problem.
1. Some trees were placed at equal distances along a straight path in Waterstone. The distance
between the first tree and the third tree is 36m. What is the distance between the 6th tree
and the 10th tree?
2. The diagram below shows the volume of water in beakers A and
B.
What is the total volume of water in the two beakers?
3. Mrs. Dong bought some bottles of cooking oil as shown below.
How much cooking oil did she buy altogether?
Give your answer in L and mL.
4. The capacity of a pail is 8 L. 7 bottles of water are poured into the empty pail. Each bottle
contains 695 mL of water.
a) How much water is poured into the pail? Give your answer in mL.
b) How much more water must be added to fill the pail completely? Give your answer in L
and mL
5. The volume of Bottle A is 650mL. The volume of Bottle B is 200mL less than that of Bottle A.
The volume of Bottle B is 300mL more than Bottle C. Find the volume of Bottle C.
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6. Joe is 168 cm tall. His sister is 12 cm shorter than he. What is the height of Joe and his
sister. Give your answer in m and cm.
7. A ribbon, 7 m 8 cm long was cut into 2 pieces. If the longer piece was twice as long as the
shorter piece, what was the lenght of the longer piece?
8. The total mass of Katie and Kevin is 82 kg. If Katie is 6 kg lighter than Kevin, what is Katie's
mass?
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Answers
1. 72
2. 350
3. 4L 250mL
4. a) 4865ml of water is poured inside the pail.
b) 3 L 135 ml of water must be added to fill the pail completely.
5. The volume of Bottle C is 150ml.
6. 3 m 24 cm
7. 472
8. 38
