Math Drills
Multiple and Difference/Sum Word Problems
B-3Word Problems (Multiples and Total)
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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 Sum5 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 12 buses and cars altogether. The number of cars is 5 times the number of buses. How many buses are there? Answer □
Answer: 2buses
(2)There are 24 peaches and bunches of grapes altogether. The number of bunches of grapes is 5 times the number of peaches. How many bunches of grapes are there? Answer □
Answer: 20bunches
(3)There are 18 bicycles and buses altogether. The number of buses is 5 times the number of bicycles. How many bicycles are there? Answer □
Answer: 3bicycles
(4)There are 20 stickers and cards altogether. The number of cards is 3 times the number of stickers. How many stickers are there? Answer □
Answer: 5stickers
(5)There are 12 strawberries and bunches of grapes altogether. The number of bunches of grapes is 2 times the number of strawberries. How many bunches of grapes are there? Answer □
Answer: 8bunches
