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The document contains 25 math word problems with their corresponding answers. It covers a variety of math concepts including ratios, percentages, expressions, geometry, time, speed, and distance problems. The problems involve calculating lengths, areas, volumes, rates, times, and identifying unknown values. The answers provided solve each problem and range from single values to expressions.

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Grade 6 Maths Word Problems With Answer1

The document contains 25 math word problems with their corresponding answers. It covers a variety of math concepts including ratios, percentages, expressions, geometry, time, speed, and distance problems. The problems involve calculating lengths, areas, volumes, rates, times, and identifying unknown values. The answers provided solve each problem and range from single values to expressions.

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Grade 6 Maths word Problems With

Answers
1. Two numbers N and 16 have LCM = 48 and GCF = 8. Find N.

2. If the area of a circle is 81pi square feet, find its circumference.

3. Find the greatest common factor of 24, 40 and 60.

4. In a given school, there are 240 boys and 260 girls.

a) What is the ratio of the number of girls to the number of boys?

b) What is the ratio of the number of boys to the total number of

pupils in the school?

5. If Tim had lunch at $50.50 and he gave 20% tip, how much did he

spend?

6. Find k if 64 ÷ k = 4.

7. Little John had $8.50. He spent $1.25 on sweets and gave to his

two friends $1.20 each. How much money was left?

8. What is x if x + 2y = 10 and y = 3?

9. A telephone company charges initially $0.50 and then $0.11 for

every minute. Write an expression that gives the cost of a call that

lasts N minutes.
10. A car gets 40 kilometers per gallon of gasoline. How many gallons

of gasoline would the car need to travel 180 kilometers?

11. A machine fills 150 bottles of water every 8 minutes. How many

minutes it takes this machine to fill 675 bottles?

12. A car travels at a speed of 65 miles per hour. How far will it travel

in 5 hours?

13. A small square of side 2x is cut from the corner of a rectangle with

a width of 10 centimeters and length of 20 centimeters. Write an

expression in terms of x for the area of the remaining shape.

14. A rectangle A with length 10 centimeters and width 5 centimeters

is similar to another rectangle B whose length is 30 centimeters.

Find the area of rectangle B.

15. A school has 10 classes with the same number of students in

each class. One day, the weather was bad and many students

were absent. 5 classes were half full, 3 classes were 3/4 full and 2

classes were 1/8 empty. A total of 70 students were absent. How

many students are in this school when no students are absent?

16. A large square is made of 16 congruent squares. What is the total

number of squares of different sizes are there?


The perimeter of square A is 3 times the perimeter of square B.

What is the ratio of the area of square A to the area of square B.

17. John gave half of his stamps to Jim. Jim gave gave half of his

stamps to Carla. Carla gave 1/4 of the stamps given to her to

Thomas and kept the remaining 12. How many stamps did John

start with?

18. Two balls A and B rotate along a circular track. Ball A makes 4 full

rotations in 120 seconds. Ball B makes 3 full rotation in 60

seconds. If they start rotating now from the same point, when will

they be at the same starting point again?

19. A segment is 3 units long. It is divided into 9 parts. What fraction

of a unit are 2 parts of the segment?

20. Mary wants to make a box. She starts with a piece of cardboard

whose length is 15 centimeters and width is 10 centimeters. Then

she cuts 4 congruent squares with sides of 3 centimeters at the

four corners and folded at the broken lines to make the box. What

is the volume of the box?


21. A car is traveling 75 kilometers per hour. How many meters does

the car travel in one minute?

22. Carla is 5 years old and Jim is 13 years younger than Peter. One

year ago, Peter's age was twice the sum of Carla's & Jim's age.

Find the present age of each one of them.

23. Linda spent 3/4 of her savings on furniture. She then spent 1/2 of

her remaining savings on a fridge. If the fridge cost her $150, what

were her original savings?

24. The distance bewteen Harry and Kate is 2500 meters. Kate and

Harry start walking toward one another and Kate' dog start running

back and forth between Harry and Kate at a speed of 120 meters

per minute. Harry walks at the speed of 40 meters per minute while

Kate walks at the speed of 60 meters per minute. What distsnce

will the dog have travelled when Harry and Kate meet each other?

Answers to the Above Questions

1. 24

2. 18 Pi feet

3. 4
4. a) 13:12 b)12:25

5. $60.60

6. 16

7. 4.85

8. 4

9. 0.50 + N * 0.11

10. 4.5 gallons

11. 36 minutes

12. 325 miles

13. 200 - 4x2

14. 450 centimeters squared

15. 200 pupils

16. 30

17. 9:1

18. 64 stamps

19. 60 seconds

20. 2/3

21. 108 cubic centimeters

22. 1250 meters/minute


23. Carla:5 years, Jim: 6 years, Peter: 19 years.

24. $1200

25. 3000 meters

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