The document provides instructions on how to solve word problems and then presents 15 word problems for practice. Each problem provides numerical information about quantities, costs, weights, etc. and asks the reader to calculate an unknown value based on the relationships between the known quantities.

1. Word Problem
Wednesday
Hall/Dula
10/8/13

2. How to Understand a Word
Problem
 Read the problem for detail
 Write the question being asked on your
paper
 Write down any information to help you
answer that question
 Use the information to solve the problem
 Look back, see if your answer answers
the question and all work is done correctly

3. 1

Lazy Leon could never get up in the mornings.
His mother went to the shop and bought 3 alarm
clocks which cost $9.40 each and spent her
remaining money on 5 extra loud roosters. If
she spent a total of $71.20 for the clocks and
roosters, how much did she spend for each
rooster?

4. 2

Gary Ghoul was hungry. He went to a morgue
and bought 4 fresh corpses and 7 maggotridden corpses from Coroner Carl. He paid a
total of $206.90 to the coroner. If each fresh
corpses cost $16.20, how much was each
maggot-ridden corpse?

5. 3

Simon loved reptiles. On his wedding
anniversary his wife went to a pet shop with
$250.80. She bought 6 cut chameleons and 7
savage alligators for him with all her money. If
each chameleon cost $25.70, how much did
each alligator cost?

6. 4

The shark family wanted to go on a submarine
ride. They paid a total of $252.70 for 9 adults
and 8 kids. If the cost for each kid was $11.90,
what was the cost for each adult?

7. 5

Mutant flies and cockroaches invaded the city of
Chuthu. Super Shimona rushed to the nearest
supermarket and paid $79.10 for 5 bug sprays
and 1 gigantic fly swatter. She then walked out
and decimated the insect invaders. The fly
swatter cost $26.90 more than each bug spray.
How much did the fly swatter cost?

8. 6

Spaceman Sam flew to Planet Xintron and
bought 1 ugly rock monster for his father and 6
cute furry woozies for his mother. He paid a
total of $76.80. The rock monster cost $22.20
more than each woozie. How much did the rock
monster cost?

9. 7

Last Sunday, a hideous mutant monkey ran
amok in my school and killed all the dear
Singapore math teachers. I rushed to a nearby
supermarket and bought 1 power packed
bazooka and 8 deadly grenades for a total of
$230.06. I then put on my superhero costume
and slew the monstrous monkey. If the bazooka
cost $55.46 more than each grenade, how much
did I pay for the bazooka?

10. 8
 Gail Gorilla wanted to make fruit stew.
She went to market and paid a total of
$262.80 for 1 huge banana and 6 tiny
watermelons. The bananas cost $9.40
more than each watermelon. How much
did the banana cost?

11. 9

Tiny time was brought to the doctor yesterday by
his hysterical mother. While laying in the
garden, he had swallowed an earthworm, a
leech and a centipede. When the doctor pulled
out the creatures from his tummy, he noticed
that the total length of the earthworm, leech and
centipede was 44.9 cm. The leech was 8.9 cm
shorter than the earthworm. The centipede was
3 times as long as the leech. What is the
difference in the length between the earthworm
and the centipede?

12. 10

Gorgeous Giant Graja had 3 enormous warts on
her face. One was hairy, one was putrid green
and one was yellow. The total weight of the
three warts was 54.9 kg. The hairy wart was
17.8 kg heavier than the green wart. The yellow
wart was 5 times as heavy as the green wart.
What was the difference in weight between the
hairy wart and the yellow wart?

13. 11

Three scary men, Adam, Toby, and Marvin took
part in a power-lifting competition. The winner
who could carry the heaviest chicken would win
the first prize. The three of them lifted a total of
201.9 kg. Toby lifted 123.5 kg more than Adam.
The weight Marvin lifted was 6 times as much as
Adam. How much more did Toby lift than
Marvin?

14. 12

I was picking my nose last night. To my delight
an emerald, a ruby and a diamond dropped out
of my left nostril. I rushed to a pawnshop and
sold them for a total of $66.50. The ruby cost
$22.70 less than the emerald. The diamond
cost 4 times as much as the ruby. What was the
difference in the price between the emerald and
the diamond?

15. 13

Ernie, an inmate of Alcatraz Prison, was so
bored that he decided to take up weightlifting. In
three days he lifted a total of 47.8 kg. He lofted
1.2 kg more on Tuesday than on Monday. He
lofted three times as much on Wednesday as on
Tuesday. How muck did he lift on Wednesday?

16. 14

Caveman Crondu needed three mounts for his
family to ride to a distant land. He went to a
ranch and bought a vicious velociraptor, a dumb
diplodocus and a shy iguanodon for $29.90.
The iguanodon cost $0.90 more than the
velociraptor. The diplodocus cost 5 times as
much as the iguanodon. How much did the
diplodocus cost?

17. 15

Mad Professor Palaniappa created 3 flying frogs
in his lab. The combined mass of the three frogs
was 42.3 kg. The green frog weighed 5.7 kg
less than the purple frog. The brown frog
weighed 4 times as much as the purple frog.
What was the weight of the brown frog?

18. No More Problems
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