Word Problems Question.

(Decimals and Fraction)

1. Henry jogged 3.4 km on Monday. He jogged 1.5 less on Tuesday than on Monday. If
he jogged 1.8 km more on Wednesday than on Monday. What was the total distance
he jogged in the three days?

2. Darren poured some orange juice into 6 jugs. Each jug contained 2.45 L of orange
juice. What was the total volume of orange juice he had?

3. Mike bought 3 bottles of syrup. Each bottle contained 5.6 L. If he poured all the syrup
that he had bought equally into 5 jugs. How much syrup did each jug contain?

4. Mr Hagen, Mr Lim, and Mr. Chen have poles of length 15.6 m, 20,7 m, and 9,5 m
respectively. If they want to combine the poles and make a flag pole tha measures
50.55 m long, how much more length is needed?

5. Sammy weighs 60,5 kg. Nick weighs 11,4 kg heavier than Alice but 5,2 kg lighter
than Sammy. What is the total mass of Nick and Alice?

6. Marcus saves $3.50 of his pocket money every day except on saturday and sunday.
How much money can he save in 2 weeks?

7. Christy bought 2 shelves at $35,50 each and 2 storybooks at $20.20 each. If she had
$15,50 left, how much did she have at first?

8. Ken bought 20 boxes of oranges. There were 12 oranges in a box. He gave away ⅜
of the oranges to Ben and kept the rest. How many oranges did Ken have left?

9. Jon and Mary had 508 marbles. Jon had 300 marbles, Mary gave her sister ¼ of her
marbles. How many marbles did Mary have left?

10. Peter and Marie had 360 marbles. Peter had 40 fewer marbles than Marie. Peter
gave his brother ⅜ of his marbles. How many marbles did Peter have left?

11. There were 280 children at fair. 4/9 of people were children and the rest were adults.
3/7 of the adults were men. How many women were there?

12. Andy’s monthly income was $5.600. He spent 2/7 of his monthly income on his car.
He gave ⅕ of the remaining money to his parents and saved the rest. How much
was Andy’s saving every month?

13. Aaron spent 2/7 of his monthly income on transportation. He gave ⅕ of the
remaining money to his parents and had a total of $2.000 left. How much was
Aaron’s monthly income?

14. Stanley had a box of apples. He sold of the apples and gave away ½ of the
remainder. He was left with 30 apples in the end. How many apples had Stanley at
first?
15. There are 540 boys in a school. ⅕ of the number of girls in the school is equal to 2/9
of the number of boys in the school. How many girls are there in the school?

16. John and George had some money at first. John spent ⅖ of his money and had $240
left. George spent 4 times as much money as John and had ⅓ of his money left. How
much money did George have at first?

17. Four children shared some sweets among themselves. Adam took ⅛ of the total
number of sweets while Barry took ¼ of them. Kaden took ¼ of the remaining sweets
and Shaun took the rest. If Barry took 20 more sweets than Adam, how many sweets
did Shaun take?

18. Mr Poh had 320 apples. He sold ½ of the apples and gave away ½ of the remainder.
How many apples did Mr. Poh have in the end?