EDPT Math Word Problem Practice Exam

A cylindrical tank with a radius of 3 meters is filled with water to a depth of 5 meters. What is the volume of water in the tank?

A car travels 360 kilometers in 4 hours. If its speed decreases by 10 kilometers per hour, how much longer will it take to travel the same distance?

A bookshop gives a discount of 10% on each book and an additional discount of 5% on the discounted price. If the original price of the book was $100, what is the price of the book after all the discounts?

If 5 workers can complete a task in 10 days, how many days would it take for 8 workers to complete the same task, assuming they all work at the same rate?

A fruit seller sold apples at $3 per kilogram and oranges at $2.50 per kilogram. If he sold 10 kilograms of apples and 8 kilograms of oranges, how much did he earn in total?

A rectangular garden has a length that is twice its width. If the perimeter of the garden is 36 meters, what is its width?

A train travels from town A to town B in 5 hours. Another train travels the same distance in 4 hours but is 15 km/h faster. What is the speed of the first train?

A box contains red, blue, and green balls. If there are twice as many red balls as blue balls and three times as many green balls as red balls, and the total number of balls is 182, how many blue balls are there?

A shopkeeper sells 3 items. The second item costs twice as much as the first, and the third item costs three times as much as the second. If the third item costs $72, how much does the first item cost?

A water tank is 2/3 full. When 120 liters of water are added, it becomes 7/8 full. What is the total capacity of the tank?

Two siblings split their inheritance so that one receives 25% more than the other. If the smaller portion is $40,000, what's the total inheritance?

A rectangle's length is 3 times its width. If the perimeter is 64 meters, what's the rectangle's area?

A car consumes 8 liters of gasoline every 100 kilometers. How many liters will it consume in a 525-kilometer journey?

A pizza place offers a discount on Tuesdays. If a pizza normally costs $15, and on Tuesday it's sold at a 20% discount, how much does it cost on Tuesday?

A bicycle shop sold 20% of its bikes on Monday and 15% of its remaining bikes on Tuesday. If they sold 54 bikes in total on these two days, how many bikes did the shop have initially?

A man spends 25% of his salary on rent, 20% on groceries, and saves the rest. If he saves $2,100 each month, what's his monthly salary?

A jacket is priced at $120. During a sale, its price is reduced by 15%. After the sale, a 10% tax is added to the discounted price. How much will the jacket cost after tax?

A school plans a field trip for 120 students. If a bus can hold 40 students, but one of the buses can only hold 30 students due to repairs, how many buses will the school need?

Tom wants to distribute 9 identical books among his 4 friends. If each friend must receive at least 1 book, in how many ways can Tom distribute the books?

A library contains 12,000 books, of which 25% are fiction and the rest are non-fiction. How many non-fiction books need to be added to the library to make the percentage of fiction books 20%?

If the price of a product increased by 20% in the first year and then decreased by 20% in the next year, what is the net percentage change in the price over the two years?

A farmer harvested 450 kilograms of apples. He sold 60% of the apples and used the rest to make cider. If 10 kilograms of apples produce 5 liters of cider, how many liters of cider did he produce?

In a city, 60% of the population are adults and the rest are children. If there are 240,000 children, what's the total population of the city?

In a mixture of milk and water, the ratio of milk to water is 3:2. If 15 liters of water are added to the mixture, the ratio becomes 3:5. What was the original volume of the mixture?

A company manufactured 500 units of a product at a cost of $20 each. After realizing that 20% of the units were defective, they decided to sell the non-defective units at a price of $30 each. What is the company's profit or loss?

Sarah bought 3 shirts and 5 pants for $220. If each pant cost twice the amount of a shirt, what is the cost of each shirt?

In a college, 40% of the students are studying humanities and the rest are studying sciences. If the number of students studying sciences is 300 more than those studying humanities, how many students are in the college?

A tank is filled with water in 5 hours by three pipes A, B, and C. A and B can individually fill the tank in 10 hours and 12 hours, respectively. How long will pipe C take to fill the tank alone?

A train covers a distance of 300 miles at a certain speed. If the speed was increased by 10 miles per hour, the journey would have taken 2 hours less. What was the original speed of the train?

A rectangular garden has a length that is 10 meters more than its width. If the area of the garden is 240 square meters, what are the garden's dimensions?