P4 MATHS


WORD PROBLEMS

A school needs to buy 810 pencils for its students. If the pencils come in packages of 8, how many packages should the school buy?

The car park for a new restaurant is going to have 83 parking spaces. If each row can have 7 parking spaces, how many rows will the car park need?

A basketball league wants to order 53 T-shirts for the teams. If there are 2 T-shirts in each package, how many packages of T-shirts should the league order?

To build a new store, Bryce's Construction needs 51 ceiling tiles. If the ceiling tiles come in packages of 5, how many packages should the construction company buy?

A boy at a funfair has 32 ride tickets. Each ride on the roller coaster costs 9 tickets. After riding the roller coaster as many times as he can, how many tickets will the boy have left?

3,587 + 3,855 =  + 5,690

Last year, the button factory made 3,689 brown buttons,5,375 yellow buttons, and 3,261 red buttons. How many buttons did the factory make in all?

A women's clothing store placed an order for winter jumpers. They ordered 1,536 small jumpers, 3,617 medium jumpers, and 3,565 large jumpers. How many winter jumpers did the store order in all?

Colin had $977 invested in the stock market until he lost $64 on those investments. How much money does he have in the stock market now?

What is the largest whole number you can make with the following digits?
9     7     4     2     1

What is the largest whole number you can make with the following digits?
6     0     8     1     5

The sum of two numbers is 12. The quotient of the two numbers is 11. What are the two numbers?

48, 39, 30, ___, 12

Mr. Randall has 36 stickers to share with his 9 students. He wants to give the same amount to each student. How much will be left?

Andrew has 9 first place medals in track. If he wins 7 more medals, he will have exactly half as many medals as his older brother, Daniel. How many medals does Daniel have?

The product of two numbers is 3, and their sum is 4. What are the two numbers?

86 children waited in line for the karate club. 37 more children joined them, 58 were hungry and left to buy popcorn. How many children were in the line then?

A construction company is repaving a damaged road. So far, they have repaved a total of 354 centimeters of the road. Today, they repaved 90 centimeters of the road. How many centimeters of the road had they repaved before today

Sam sold 9 times as many tickets as Justin. Stella sold twice as many tickets as Justin. Altogether, they sold 120 raffle tickets. How many tickets did Sam sell?

A book, a toy and a CD together cost $162. The book costs $90. The toy costs $41 less than the book. How much less does the CD cost than the Toy?

The fifth graders are having a contest, there will be 12 teams and each team will have 6 students. How many 5^th graders will be in the contest?

There are 7 students in Mr. Sam’s photography club. Each student took 7 pictures for the yearbook. How many pictures were taken in all?

Mac read 4 pages of his fantasy book every day. After reading for 4 days, Mac still had 25 pages left. How many pages are in Mac's fantasy book?

Patrick sold 5 times as many buttons as Jane. Jacob sold twice as many buttons as Jane. If Patrick sold 25 buttons, how many buttons did they sell altogether?

Holly sold 4 times as many raffle tickets as Emma. If Emma had sold 27 more raffle tickets, she would have tied Holly for first place. How many raffle tickets did Holly sell?

At Kids Academy, 9 times as many children signed up for music as math. If 32 children switch from music to math, there will be an equal number of children in each class. How many children are there altogether?

35 children attended the karate club. There were 4 times as many boys as girls. After some of the boys left, there were 13 boys remaining. How many boys left the karate club?

993÷7 what is the quotient? Remainder?

562 ÷ 6. What is the quotient? Remainder

In a library, there are Tamil, Chinese and Malay books. There are 6453 books altogether. There are 4987 more Tamil books than Chinese books. There are 1241 more Malay books than Chinese books. How many Chinese books are there?

Mrs. Lim is 33 years older than her daughter, Stacy .Stacy will be 18 years old in six years' time. How old was Mrs. Lim last year?

2200 people attended a concert. There were 234 more adults than children.
a) How many adults were here at the concert?
b) If the price of a child's ticket was $8, how much was collected from the sales of the tickets?

At assembly, 160 girls were asked to stand in rows. There were 6 girls in each row, except the last row which had fewer than 6 girls.
a) How many rows of 6 were there?
b) How many more girls were needed to fill the last row?

Using all the digits given, what is the smallest 4-digit even number that can be formed, with digit 2 in the tens place?       5     3     2     1

What is 4 tens less than 1908?




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