CH 5 Word Problems

____ 15. The length of a rectangular poster is 10 inches longer than the width.
If the perimeter of the poster is 124

inches, what is the width?
____ 16. The sum of two numbers is 90. Their difference is 12. What are the numbers?
____ 17. At a local electronics store, CDs were on sale. Some were priced at $14.00 and some at $12.00. Sabrina
bought 9 CDs and spent a total of $114.00. How many $12.00 CDs did she purchase?
____ 18. Jordan is 3 years less than twice the age of his cousin. If their ages total 48, how old is Jordan?
____ 19. Angle A and angle B are complementary, that is their measurements add up to 90°. Angle B measures 32°
more than angle A. What are the measurements of the two angles?
____ 20. Joji earns 3 times as much as Masao. If Joji and Masao earn $4500.00 together, how much money does Masao
earn?
____ 21. Dakota’s math test grade was 7 points less than his science test grade. The sum of the grades was 183%. What
did Dakota get on his math test?
____ 22. Reid and Maria both play soccer. This season, Reid scored 4 less than twice the number of goals that Maria
scored. The difference in the number of goals they scored was 6. How many goals did each of them score?
____ 23. Mrs. Davis went to a produce market to buy bananas and strawberries. She spent $8.00. If the bananas were
$0.50 per pound, and the strawberries were 4 times that much, how many pounds of bananas did she buy if
she bought 7 pounds of fruit altogether?
____ 24. One line segment is 5 cm more than 4 times the length of another. The difference in their lengths is 35 cm.
How long are they?
____ 31. The cost of 3 large candles and 5 small candles is $6.40. The cost of 4 large candles and 6 small candles is
$7.50. Which pair of equations can be used to determine, t, the cost of a large candle, and s, the cost of a small
candle?
____ 32. Isaac downloaded 7 ringtones. Each polyphonic ringtone costs $3.25, and each standard ringtone costs $1.50.
If he spends a total of $21 on ringtones, find the number of polyphonic and standard ringtones he
downloaded.
____ 33. Christie has a total of 15 pieces of fruit, all bananas and apples, worth $1.59. Bananas are 13 cents each and
apples are 7 cents each. How many bananas and how many apples does she have?
____ 34. The admission fee of a theater is $2.50 for adults and $1.25 for children. On a certain day, 700 people went to
the theater for a concert and $1375 was collected. How many children and how many adults attended the
concert?
____ 35. A hotel has 150 rooms. The charges for a double room and a single room are $270 per night and $150 per
night respectively. On a night when the hotel was completely occupied, revenues were $33,300. Which pair of
equations can be used to determine the number of double room, d, and the number of single room, s, in the
hotel?
____ 46. The sum of Jack and his father’s ages is 52. Jack’s father’s age is 2 less than 5 times Jack’s age. Find the ages
of Jack and his father.
____ 47. Dylan has 15 marbles. Some are red and some are white. The number of red marbles is three more than six
times the number of the white marbles. Write a system of equations that can be used to find the number of
white marbles, x, and the number of red marbles, y.
____ 48. Amber and Austin were driving the same route from college to their home town. Amber left 2 hours before
Austin. Amber drove at an average speed of 55 mph, and Austin averaged 75 mph per hour. After how many
hours did Austin catch up with Amber?
____ 49. A gym has 2 kg and 5 kg weights. There are 10 disks in all. The total weight of 2 kg disks and 5 kg disks is
equal to 29 kg. Find the number of disks of each kind in the gym.
____ 50. Sam’s test score is 12.5 more than Nicole’s score. The sum of twice Sam’s score and three times Nicole’s
score is 195. What are Sam and Nicole’s test scores?
54. Anne planted two varieties of plants. Variety A was 14 inches tall when planted and grows 8 inches per day.
Variety B was 30 inches tall when planted and grows 2 inches per day. Graph the equations that represent the
height of the two varieties at any day. Assume that the rate of growth of each of the varieties remained the
same. Estimate the solution and interpret what it means.
55. Sally and her sister, Laura, started their savings accounts with $250 and $300 respectively. Sally deposits $35
each week. Laura deposits $20 each week. Graph the equations representing the amount in their accounts.
Estimate the solution and interpret what it means.
56. How many grams of pure silver and how many grams of an alloy that is 65% silver should be melted together
to produce 56g of an alloy that is 80% silver?
57. Two trains A and B are 240 miles apart. Both start at the same time and travel toward each other. They meet 3
hours later. The speed of train A is 20 miles faster than train B. Find the speed of each train.
58. The perimeter of the triangle is 61 inches. If two sides of the triangle are equal and the third side is 4 inches
more than the equal sides, what is the length of the third side?
59. Scott bought a pen and received change of $4.75 in 25 coins, all dimes and quarters. How many of each kind
did he receive?
60. When Katie was visiting her Grandpa’s farm, she saw the farm only raised hens and pigs. Katie counted 32
heads and 100 feet in the barnyard. How many hens and pigs were there in the barnyard?
61. The sum of two numbers is 54, and their difference is 26. What are the numbers?
62. Five times one number added to another number is 32. Three times the first number minus the other number is
8. Find the numbers.
63. To fill two new aquariums, Laura bought some saltwater fish for $2 each and some freshwater fish for $1
each. If she bought a total of 15 fish and spent a total of $23, how many fish of each kind did she buy?
64. Jack has 20 more stamps than Dylan has. Together they have 46 stamps. Find the number of stamps each has.
66. Six times a number plus five times another number equals 56. The sum of the two numbers is 10. What are
the numbers?
67. The sum of the digits of a two-digit number is 8. If the digits are reversed, the new number is 10 more than
twice the original number. Find the original number.
68. The graphs of and contain two of the sides of a triangle. A vertex of the triangle is at
the intersection of the graphs. What are the coordinates of the vertex?
69. A boat travels 33 miles downstream in 4 hours. The return trip takes the boat 7 hours. Find the speed of the
boat in still water.
70. A store placed two orders with a supplier. The first order was for 12 digital cameras and 8 camcorders for a
total of $7640. The second order was for 9 digital cameras and 11 camcorders for a total of $8330. Find the
price of a digital camera and a camcorder.
71. Emily has a total of 20 dimes and nickels. If the dimes were nickels and nickels were dimes she would have
20 cents less than she has now. How many of each coin does she have?
72. It takes 8 turkeys and 12 chickens 10 hours to eat a certain amount of grain, while it takes 6 turkeys and 8
chickens 14 hours to eat the same amount of grain. Find the time it would take 1 turkey alone and 1 chicken
alone to eat the same amount of grain.
73. Mary wants to fill a swimming pool that holds 15,000 gallons of water. If she fills from a large hose for 3
hours and a small hose for 8 hours, she can fill half the pool. The pool is completely filled if she uses both
hoses together for 10 hours. How long will it take to fill the pool using each hose by itself?
74. If the length of the given rectangle is increased by 3 inches and breadth is reduced by 4 inches, then the area
is reduced by 67 square inches. If the length is reduced by 1 inch and the breadth is increased by 4 inches,
then the area is increased by 89 square inches. Find the length and the breadth of the rectangle.
75. Daniel’s age is 7 more than three times his daughter Lucy’s age. The difference between twice Daniel’s age
and five times Lucy’s age is 24. Find the ages of Daniel and Lucy.

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____ 15. The length of a rectangular poster is 10 inches longer than the width.

If the perimeter of the poster is 124

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