Word Problems – Using Whole Numbers

1. Ethan initially bid $4 for a lamp, but he had to raise his bid to $7 to win the lamp. He
also won bids for the following items: a table for $18, a chair for $17, and a desk for $34.
How much money did Ethan spend at the auction?

2. Our friends gave us notice that they are going to leave for vacation early tomorrow.
They plan to drive five hundred eighty-six miles tomorrow, four hundred forty miles on
Tuesday, and ninety-seven miles on Wednesday. How many miles will they drive in all?

3. Steven and Luis want to join the swimming team. Right now there are eighteen people
on the team. Half of the swimmers will be boys and half will be girls after they join. How
many boys will be on the team after they join the team?

4. Tonya baked some cookies for her grandmother. She baked a dozen chocolate chip
cookies, two-dozen oatmeal cookies, and nine sugar cookies. How many cookies did she
bake?

5. Tyler Jefferson is running for governor. Some of his friends are going to have a benefit
dinner for him. A ticket to the dinner costs $52. Four hundred twelve people have
purchased tickets. How much money will the dinner raise for Mr. Jefferson's campaign
fund?

6. Mrs. Smith has to calculate the number of students in her class so she can make sure
that she has enough math books in her crate. There are four rows of chairs with eight
chairs in each row in the classroom. There are five empty chairs. How many students
does Mrs. Smith have in her class?

7. A mouse is moving his family to another nest. The mouse had a wife and eight sons.
Each son had a wife and five children. If the mouse brought his whole family, how many
mice would be in the new nest?

8. Mr. O’Leary commutes 34 miles one way to work each day in his car. If he works 5
days per week, how many total miles did he commute in the last four weeks?

9. Marie’s room was covered with new wallpaper at a cost of $2 per square foot. Two
walls measured 10 feet by 8 feet and the other two walls were 12 feet by 8 feet. What was
the total cost of the wallpaper?

10. Ed’s new pickup cost $3000 down and $265 per month for 6 years. What is its total
price?

11. Upright posts are to be placed at 9 inch intervals on 3 sides of a deck which measures
a total of 36 feet. How many upright posts will be needed?
12. One bag of fertilizer will cover an area of 2250 square feet. How many bags will be
needed to cover a field which is 180 by 300 feet?

13. Gerald made deposits of $871, $925, $52, and $186 into his checking account. He
also wrote checks for $312 and $16. What was the total amount in his account after all
activity?

14. Ellie drove from Atlanta to St. Louis and then back to Atlanta. If her odometer read
26,473 miles before she left Atlanta and 27,949 after she got back to Atlanta, how many
miles was the one-way trip? (Assume she traveled the same path both directions.)

15. Christina owns 120 acres of farmland. She rents it to a farmer for $160 per acre per
year. Her property taxes are $43 per acre per year. How much profit does she make on
the land each year?

16. Garcia wants to determine the miles-per-gallon rating of his car. He filled the tank
when the odometer read 36,339 miles. He drove the car for a week. The odometer then
read 36,781 miles and the tank required 17 gallons to be filled. How many miles per
gallon did Garcia’s car achieve?

17. Josie bought two blouses at $36 each, four skirts for $42, and a pair of shoes for $55.
What was the total cost of her shopping trip?

18. A kitchen measures 5 yd by 6 yd. How much would it cost to install new linoleum in
the kitchen if the linoleum costs $2 per square foot?

19. Jana has a job that pays $7 an hour for a 40-hour work week and $10 an hour for
every hour of overtime that she works. If she works 43 hours, how much money will she
make before any deductions are made?

20. Jacque’s take home pay for last year was $21,540. If he got a raise this year for $1354
before deductions, but his deductions increased by $146 for the year, how much will his
take home pay be this year?

Answers: 1. $76 2. 1123 miles 3. 10 boys 4. 45 cookies

5. $21,424 6. 27 students 7. 58 mice 8. 1360 miles
9. $704 10. $22,080 11. 49 poles 12. 24 bags
13. $1706 14. 738 miles 15. $14,040 16. 26 mpg
17. $295 18. $540 19. $310 20. $22,748
 WHOLE NUMBER WORD PROBLEMS - 2
1) On a trip out west, Jack's family traveled 2) What is the total seating capacity of a
415 miles on Monday, 276 miles on Tuesday, baseball stadium if it contains 3,800
and 378 miles on Wednesday. How far box seats, 11,048 reserved seats, and
did they travel altogether? 17,928 general admission seats?

3) A local GM dealer sold 2,677 new cars 4) Tyneeka’s sales for the four weeks in
during the month of January, while a local June were $12,880, $9,052, $15,927,
Toyota dealer sold 1,599 new cars. How and $8,959. What is the difference
many fewer Toyotas than GM cars were between her highest week’s sales and
sold in January? her lowest week’s sales?

5) Sound travels at the rate of 1,080 feet per 6) A cafeteria has 27 tables with 14 chairs
second. How far would it travel in 5 seconds? at each table. How many students can
the cafeteria accommodate at one time?

7) Linda reads 95 words per minute. How 8) The Marion Heights School District has
many words does she read in 25 minutes? 1,813 students enrolled and they employ
37 teachers. What is the ratio of
students to teachers?

1) 1,069 mi 3) 1,078 cars 5) 5400 ft 7) 2,375 words

2) 32,776 seats 4) $6,968 6) 378 students 8) 49 students/teacher
9) The Psychology department has $350 to 10) Scott’s annual salary is $28,800. If he is
purchase tape recorders for their lab. If the paid semi-monthly (twice a month), how
recorders cost $47 each, how many can much does Scott receive in each pay
they purchase? Will they have any money check?
left over?

11) Barb started her diet on Monday. She can 12) On October 1, Mrs. Fletcher had $632 in
eat 1,800 calories each day. For breakfast her checking account. She deposited
she had lite wheat toast with jam (105 checks of $114 and $352, and wrote
calories), half a grapefruit (45 calories), checks for $37, $216, $106, and $147
cereal with skim milk (110 calories), and during October. How much did she
a banana (55 calories). How many more have left in her account at the end of
calories can she consume without going the month?
over her allotted calories for the day?

13) Attendance at the Montgomery County Fair 14) A large freight truck can hold 423 crates.
was 2,183 the first day, 1,837 the second If each crate weighs 36 lbs, and the
day, and 1,947 the last day. What was the truck weighs 8,500 lbs. empty, how
average daily attendance? much does the truck weigh loaded?

15) Betty Jean has been looking at a section of 16) Melanie has been offered two jobs that
land that was originally offered at $1875 an both sound appealing. One pays $1,300
acre. Since she has been looking, the price semi-monthly (twice a month) and the
has gone up to $2000 an acre. How much other pays $450 weekly. Which job
more per acre is the section of land now? pays better and by how much?

9a) 7 b) yes 11) 1,485 calories 13) 1,989 people 15) $125
10) $1200 12) $592 14) 23,728 lbs 16a) semi-monthly b) $7,800