Math Drills
Multiple and Difference/Sum Word Problems
A-3Word Problems (Multiples and Difference)
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- Multiple and Difference/Sum Word Problems
The clues are a relation saying one amount is so many times the other, together with either the difference or the total of the two, in these word problems. There is a shape writing only the answer, a shape with an expression box that answers both amounts, and a shape finding one from the total, and the amount asked for is sometimes the larger and sometimes the smaller.
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What comes out first is always the smaller amount. The hand stops there, and even where the larger is wanted the smaller figure stays in the answer box. Multiply the figure found by the number of times given in the writing to get the other amount, then check whether their difference or total returns to the figure in the writing.
The figure set as a box has grown here into two amounts tied by a multiple. In Excess and Shortage Problems the clue turns from a relation between two amounts into the leftover and the shortfall when the same things are handed out in two ways.
- Multiples and Difference (One Question)3 questions
- Multiples and Difference (Two Questions)2 questions
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Problems and answers on this worksheet
These are the problems in “Various Word Problems”, shown with their answers.
(1)There are some strawberries and bunches of grapes. The number of bunches of grapes is 2 times the number of strawberries, and the difference is 4. How many bunches of grapes are there? Answer □
Answer: 8bunches
(2)There are some yellow flowers and red flowers. The number of red flowers is 5 times the number of yellow flowers, and the difference is 32. How many yellow flowers are there? Answer □
Answer: 8flowers
(3)There are some peaches and bunches of grapes. The number of bunches of grapes is 5 times the number of peaches, and the difference is 16. How many bunches of grapes are there? Answer □
Answer: 20bunches
(4)There are some yellow flowers and red flowers. The number of red flowers is 5 times the number of yellow flowers, and the difference is 24. How many are there of each? White flowers □ Red flowers □
Answer: 6flowers, 30flowers
(5)There are some pears and grapes. The number of grapes is 4 times the number of pears, and the difference is 15. How many are there of each? Pears □ Grapes □
Answer: 5pieces, 20pieces
