Word Problems

A rectangle has a length of 2 ¾ and a width of 3 ½ inches. What is the area of the rectangle, in square inches?

How many ⅓ cup servings are there in 5 cups of raisins?

Three-fourths of the students in a class are wearing red shoes. Three- fifths of the students who are wearing red shoes are also wearing glasses. What fraction of the students in the class are wearing red shoes and glasses?

Mrs. Schuler ate 35 of her pizza. Mrs. Kelly ate 710 of her pizza. How much pizza did they eat altogether?

Lucas has 13 packages of markers. Each package contains 12 markers. How many markers does Lucas have altogether?

There were 8 cookies for two friends. Jason ate 1 2/5 cookies Michelle ate 2 7/10 cookies How many cookies were left?

Mrs. Curtis has 12 flowers. ¾ of her flowers are red. How many flowers are red?

A carpenter needs 4 ½ strips of lumber for a project. Each strip is to measure ⅓ meter. How many meters of lumber does the carpenter need in all?

Taylor's rectangular garden is 5 ¾ feet long and 4 ½ feet wide. What is the area, in square feet, of the garden?

After soccer practice, 10 players equally shared 3 large bottles of Gatorade. How much Gatorade will each player drink?

Mr. Merle is throwing a pizza party. If 12 people share 8 pizzas equally, how much of a pizza does each person get?

Each of 6 cats consumed ¼ of a cup of dry food. What is the total amount of dry food the cats ate?

A pet store had 3 cats. If they wanted to split 19 ounces of cat food amongst them, how much should each cat get?

Ryan has 3 legos. The total length of the all 3 legos is ⅞ of a foot. The lengths of two of the legos are ¼ of a foot and ½ of a foot. What is the length of the third lego?

Mark has half of a birthday cake leftover from his party. Today his six sisters will share the cake equally. What fraction of the cake will each sister get?