Math Problems Quiz

A house painter has $62 to buy paint. If each can of paint costs $3, how many cans of paint can the painter buy?

A chef needs to buy 43 potatoes. If each bag contains 2 potatoes, how many bags should the chef buy?

A truck driver has $21 to pay for bridge tolls. If the toll is $2 to cross the bridge, how many times can the driver cross the bridge?

There are 3,546 people attending a conference. If each table at the conference can seat 6 people, how many tables will the conference need?

A print shop ordered 4 shipments of newsprint. There were 1,604 sheets of newsprint in each shipment. How many sheets of newsprint did the print shop order in all?

Erik and Brenna are swimming a relay race. Erik swims butterfly for 379 seconds and then tags Brenna, who swims the backstroke for 403 seconds. How many seconds do they take to finish the race?

A farmer's irrigation system has plastic and metal pipes. He built it with a total of 649 pipes. If he used 40 plastic pipes, how many metal pipes did he use?

A university building has 7 lecture halls. There are 773 seats in each lecture hall. How many seats are there in all?

A law firm ordered 47 boxes of paper clips. There were 71 paper clips in each box. How many paper clips did the law firm order in all?

Before the recent housing boom, there were 95,196 houses in Clinton County. Now, there are 745,857 houses. How many houses did developers build during the housing boom?