Word Problems

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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

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How many 100 ml measures of oil fill a 500 ml measure?

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A shopkeeper keeps different sized coconut oil bottles in her shop. In a day she sells 60, bottles of oil. The details are given below-

Sale per day Capacity per bottle
20 bottles 200 ml
30 bottles 500 ml
10 bottles 100 ml

How much oil does the shopkeeper sell in the day?

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Anand drinks 250 ml, and Anitha drinks 500 ml, of milk every day. If they drink the same amount of milk every day, how much of milk will they drink in 4, days? How much milk will they drink in 7, days?

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Ammu came with a can to buy milk. She needs 4 l, of milk. The milk man had only 5 l, and 3 l, cans. He had another can with no measure on it, but he measured 4 l, of milk correctly. How did he do it?

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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?

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Appu Vaidyar had three and a half litres of honey in his shop. He first filled 10, bottles of 50 ml. The rest he used to fill 100 ml, and 200 ml, bottles. How many bottles of each type did he use? What is the total amount of honey in each type of bottle?

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There was 6 l 750 ml, of coconut oil in the shop. Today 3 l 350 ml, oil was sold. How much oil is left?

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13 litres and 500 millilitres of paint was bought to paint the house.6 litres was used on the first day and 5 litres 500 millilitres on the second day. If k litres of paint is left, then what is the value of k?

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A can contained 4 litres and 500 millitres of kerosene. 2 litres and 150 millilitres was used to fill the stove. How much oil is left in the can?

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At Achu's home, cows are milked in the morning and evening. 8 litres of milk is got in the morning, of which 6 litres and 700 millilitres is sold; 5 litres is got in the evening of which 3 litres and 800 millilitres is sold. How much milk is sold each day? The wages for milking is 6 rupees a litre. How much is spent each day on wages? How much milk is sold in one day?

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For a marriage party, 4 litres and 500 millilitres of milk was bought for tea, and 15 litres and 500 millilitres for making payasam. How much milk was bought in all? If the price of milk is Rs. 36 a litre, how much money was spent for milk?

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Vinu's water bottle contains 550 millilitres  of water. Shan's bottle contains 250 millilitres  more. How much millilitres of water is there in both the bottles together?

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Joby's water bottle contains 400 millilitres  and Rafeek's water bottle contains 500 millilitres. If the water in both is poured into a big bottle to become k millilitres, then what is the value of k?

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A tonic bottle contains 60 ml of medicine. How much medicine will be there in 15 such bottles? 

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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?

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In 500 ml of cold drink bottle only 320 ml of cold drink is left. How much cold drink (in ml) is consumed?

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The capacity of a water tank is 500 l. The tank contains 375 l of water. How much water (in litres) should be poured to fill the tank to its capacity. 

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Bengaluru city received rainfall of 150 ml in the month June, 320 ml in July and 240 ml in August. Find the total rainfall (in ml ) in these three months.

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A ration shopkeeper has three drums of capacities 100 l, 150 l, 50 l filled with kerosene. What is the total quantity of kerosene ( in litres)he has stored?

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Hari has 3 buckets of capacities, 9 l, 15 l and 20 l. How much water (in litres) can be stored in three containers?