Word Problems
Word Problems: Overview
This Topic covers sub-topics such as Word Problems on Multiplication of Quantities, Word Problems on Division of Quantities, Word Problems on Subtraction of Quantities and, Word Problems on Addition of Quantities
Important Questions on Word Problems

A shopkeeper keeps different sized coconut oil bottles in her shop. In a day she sells , bottles of oil. The details are given below-
Sale per day | Capacity per bottle |
bottles | |
bottles | |
bottles |
How much oil does the shopkeeper sell in the day?

Anand drinks , and Anitha drinks , of milk every day. If they drink the same amount of milk every day, how much of milk will they drink in , days? How much milk will they drink in , days?

Ammu came with a can to buy milk. She needs , of milk. The milk man had only , and , cans. He had another can with no measure on it, but he measured , of milk correctly. How did he do it?

Appu Vaidyar had three and a half litres of honey in his shop. If the number of bottles are to be equal, how much honey should be filled in each type of bottle?

Appu Vaidyar had three and a half litres of honey in his shop. He first filled , bottles of . The rest he used to fill , and , bottles. How many bottles of each type did he use? What is the total amount of honey in each type of bottle?

There was , of coconut oil in the shop. Today , oil was sold. How much oil is left?

of paint was bought to paint the house. was used on the first day and on the second day. If of paint is left, then what is the value of ?

A can contained of kerosene. was used to fill the stove. How much oil is left in the can?

At Achu's home, cows are milked in the morning and evening. of milk is got in the morning, of which is sold; is got in the evening of which is sold. How much milk is sold each day? The wages for milking is . How much is spent each day on wages? How much milk is sold in one day?

For a marriage party, litres and millilitres of milk was bought for tea, and litres and millilitres for making payasam. How much milk was bought in all? If the price of milk is Rs. a litre, how much money was spent for milk?

Vinu's water bottle contains millilitres of water. Shan's bottle contains millilitres more. How much millilitres of water is there in both the bottles together?

Joby's water bottle contains millilitres and Rafeek's water bottle contains millilitres. If the water in both is poured into a big bottle to become millilitres, then what is the value of ?

A tonic bottle contains of medicine. How much medicine will be there in such bottles?

Karuna's two year old daughter was ill. The doctor asked Karuna to give her daughter 3 ml of a tonic medicine, 3 times a day. He asked Karuna to continue the medicine for 7days.
How much medicine will Karuna's daughter take in 7 days?

In of cold drink bottle only of cold drink is left. How much cold drink (in ) is consumed

The capacity of a water tank is . The tank contains of water. How much water (in ) should be poured to fill the tank to its capacity.

Bengaluru city received rainfall of in the month June, in July and in August. Find the total rainfall (in ) in these three months.

A ration shopkeeper has three drums of capacities filled with kerosene. What is the total quantity of kerosene ( in )he has stored

Hari has buckets of capacities, . How much water (in ) can be stored in three containers
