How to Solve Basic Math Word Problems

1. Rahul has 50 apples. He buys 20 more apples from the market. Then he gives 15 apples to his friend. How many apples does he have now? Answer: 55 apples
2. A box contains 12 pens. If a teacher buys 5 boxes and then distributes 25 pens to her students, how many pens are left? Answer: 35 pens
3. Anita has Rs 500. She spends Rs 150 on a book and Rs 200 on food. How much money is left with her? Answer: Rs 150
4. A bus carries 40 passengers. At the first stop, 10 passengers get off and 15 new passengers get on. How many passengers are on the bus now? Answer: 45 passengers
5. There are 4 rows of trees in a garden. Each row has 15 trees. If 10 new trees are planted today, what is the total number of trees now? Answer: 70 trees
6. Rohit bought 3 shirts for Rs 300 each. He gave a Rs 1,000 note to the shopkeeper. How much change will he get back? Answer: Rs 100
7. A bakery bakes 100 cakes in a day. It sells 60 cakes in the morning and 25 cakes in the evening. How many cakes are left unsold? Answer: 15 cakes
8. 4 friends went to a restaurant. Their total bill was Rs 800. If they divide the bill equally, how much does each person pay? Answer: Rs 200
9. A farmer has 6 cows. Each cow gives 10 liters of milk daily. How many total liters of milk does the farmer get in 3 days? Answer: 180 liters
10. Priya has 80 marbles. She gives 20 marbles to her brother. She puts the remaining marbles equally into 3 bags. How many marbles are in each bag? Answer: 20 marbles
11. A school has 300 students in total. If 180 of them are boys, how many girls are in the school? Answer: 120 girls
12. A packet contains 50 chocolates. A mother buys 4 packets and divides all the chocolates equally among her 5 children. How many chocolates does each child get? Answer: 40 chocolates
13. David earns Rs 600 per day. He works for 6 days a week and spends Rs 1,000 during the week. How much money does he save in one week? Answer: Rs 2,600
14. A parking lot has 80 cars. 25 cars leave and 30 new cars park. How many cars are in the parking lot now? Answer: 85 cars
15. The cost of 6 notebooks is Rs 120. What is the total cost of 10 such notebooks? Answer: Rs 200
16. A toy car costs Rs 50 and a doll costs Rs 80. If Maya buys 2 toy cars and 1 doll, how much money does she pay in total? Answer: Rs 180
17. A train has 5 coaches with 60 seats in each coach. If 250 seats are occupied, how many seats are vacant? Answer: 50 seats
18. A shopkeeper had 150 kg of rice. He sold 80 kg on Monday and 40 kg on Tuesday. How much rice is left with him? Answer: 30 kg
19. Rohan saved Rs 400 in January and double that amount in February. How much total money did he save in both months together? Answer: Rs 1,200
20. A teacher distributes 120 pencils equally among 6 groups of students. If each group has 4 students, how many pencils does each student get? Answer: 5 pencils
21. A movie ticket costs Rs 150. A group of 6 friends buys tickets. If they apply a discount coupon of Rs 100 on the total bill, how much do they pay in total? Answer: Rs 800
22. A factory produced 450 items on Monday. On Tuesday, it produced 120 more items than Monday. On Wednesday, production was double Tuesday’s amount. If 250 items were rejected during quality check, how many approved items are ready to be shipped?

Answer: 1,910 items

23. A store owner bought 15 boxes of chocolates, with each box containing 24 chocolates. He sold 180 chocolates and gave 20 chocolates to his staff. He then packed the remaining chocolates into small gift packs of 8 chocolates each. How many gift packs did he make?

Answer: 20 gift packs

24. An event organizer hired 12 buses. Each bus can carry 45 passengers. On the day of the trip, 4 buses were cancelled, so the remaining buses were filled completely, and 30 extra people had to travel by cars. How many total passengers went on the trip?

Answer: 390 passengers

25. An office bought 8 laptops at ₹45,000 each and 5 printers at ₹12,000 each. The seller gave a total discount of ₹25,000 on the overall bill. What was the final amount paid by the office?

Answer: ₹3,95,000

26. A farmer harvested 1,500 kg of wheat. He kept 300 kg for his family. He packed the remaining wheat into sacks of 40 kg each and sold them at ₹1,200 per sack. How much money did he earn from selling the wheat?

Answer: ₹36,000