PROBLEM SOLVING

1. Tito needs 245 popsicle sticks for his project. He has 85 and Pete gave him 90. How many more does he
need?
2. Mother bought 1 kilo of pork for P105 and 1 ½ kls of chicken for P130. How much change did she get
from a P500-bill?
3. There are 192 Grade 4 pupils in a school. If all of them and three teachers went on outing, how many
people went outing?
4. Mother bought one can of powdered milk for P109.50 and two kilos of carrots at P28.50 a kilo. How much
change did she get from a P200-bill?
5. Miss Reyes can type 80 words per minute. Miss Santos can type 72 words per minute. How many more
words in 5 minutes can Miss Reyes type than Miss Santos?
6. Delia had 2 sheets of stamps. Each sheet had 35 stamps. In four days, she used 12 stamps, 20 stamps, 8
stamps, and 10 stamps. How many stamps did she use? How many stamps were left?
7. Father picked 4 baskets of atis. Each basket contained 3 dozen atis. How many dozen atis did father pick?
How many atis did he pick?
8. Helen collects stamps. She puts 20 stamps on each page of her album. If 15 pages of her album are full and
there are 9 on the 16th page, how many stamps has she?
9. Ricky bought 2 ballpens at P4.25 each and a pencil case for P22.50. How much change did he get from a
P50-bill?
10. Apples cost P6 each. Can you buy a dozen with P100? Why?
11. Ann made 50 sampaguita garlands in the morning and 60 in the afternoon. Rosa made twice as many as
Ann made in the afternoon. Who made more garlands? How many more?
12. From a piece of plywood ½ m long, Mr Albert sawed off a piece 1/6 m long. How long was the plywood
that was left?
13. Jenny has 5/8 of a melon. Catherine has 1/3 of a melon. Sally has ½ of a melon. Who has the biggest piece
of melon?
14. It takes 1/3 of an hour to type a report. How many reports can be finished in 2 hours?
15. Martin cut the grass 5 times in June. It took him 1 ¾ hours each time. About how many hours did it take
him to cut the grass in June?
16. Elton worked ½ day at a time. Altogether he worked 7 ½ days. How many half days did he work?
17. There are 35 students in Miss Moral’s class. Four-sevenths of the class are girls. Three-fifths of the boys
wear eyeglasses. How many boys do not wear eyeglasses?
18. Mr. Britanico, a veterinarian, treated 56 animals. If ¾ of them were small animals and 3/7 of those were
dogs. How many were dogs?
19. Ben ate lunch for ¾ of an hour. Tim ate lunch for 4/5 of this time. For what part of an hour did it take Tim
to eat lunch?
20. A class has now 45 students which are ¾ of the original number of students in the class. How many
students were originally in the class?
21. The result of adding two numbers is 10 1/3. If one of the numbers is 7 1/6, what is the other number?
22. If the product of 5 ½ and 2 ¼ is added to the difference of 9/10 and ¾, what’s the sum?
23. Jane noticed that the amount of money she saved doubled each month for four consecutive months. She
saved P 360 in the fourth month. How much did she save during the four months?
24. Jim is 1 ½ years old. Jack is 1 1/3 times Jims age. Joan is 2 times Jim’s age, and Mike is 1 ½ times Joan’s
age. How old is each person?
25. Dr. Castro treats 120 patients in 2 days. How many patients does he treat in 10 days at the same rate?
26. In a class election, 20 pupils voted for Ramon and 30 voted for Jose. All pupils in the class voted. What
percent of the class voted for Ramon? For Jose?
27. Who am I? My tens digit is 2 times my hundreds digit. My hundreds digit is 4. My ones digit is the biggest
common factor of my tens and hundreds digits.
28. A man travels at 56 km/hour. How far can he go in 3 ¾ hours?
29. Two scouts brought 2 pieces of rope of lengths 6 ¾ m and 8 2/5 m to their camp. How long are the two
pieces together?
30. In a class of 50 students, 19 are girls. What percent of the class are boys?
31. Alice bought 8 2/3 m of cloth. She used 3 3/5 for a gown. How much cloth remained?
32. Nene bought 9 bags of sugar each weighing 2 ½ kilos. How many kilos of sugar did Nene buy?
33. What is the simple interest of P6500 for 3 ½ years at 18% a year?
34. The marked price of P300 of a dress includes a 20% gain. What is its buying price?
35. Triangle ABC is isosceles. One leg is 13cm and the base is 7cm less than twice a leg. What is the
perimeter?
36. If ¾ of the area of a square is 60.75 cm2, what is its area?
37. The car of Mr. Cruz consumes 8 liters of gasoline to cover 84 km. At that rate, how far can it go on 10
liters?
38. A school garden is 8 meters long and 6 meters wide. How many santan bushes 4 dm apart can be planted
along its edges?
39. A picture 15cm by 10cm is framed on a piece of cardboard 19cm by 14cm. What area of the cardboard can
be seen?
40. How many 1 dm square tiles are needed for a bathroom 2.4 by 1.8 m?
41. Three numbers are in the ratio of 2:3:4. If the sum is 207, find the largest.
42. Jack finished doing his homework at 8:15 PM. If he spent 65 minutes doing it, what time did he start
studying?
43. Laura bought 5 dozen eggs. She used 32 eggs. How many eggs remained?
44. A cup master has 50 m of string. How many pieces each 2 ½ m long can be cut from it?
45. The area of a rectangle is 414 cm2. If the width is 18cm, find the length.
46. How many numbers between 30 and 100 contain the digits 4?
47. Rosa needs 2 ½ m of cloth to make one uniform. How many meters of cloth does she need to make a dozen
uniform?
48. The five sections of Grade 4 in a school have 48, 43, 45, 47 and 42 students. What is the average number of
students in Gr. 4 class in the school?
49. A rectangular park is 78m long and 56 m wide. If you jog around it 5 times, how much farther than 1 km
would that?
50. The perimeter of an isosceles triangle is 63 cm. If the base is 6cm longer than a leg, find the length of the
base.
51. There are 455 Grade 4 pupils in a school. If 3/7 are girls and 2/5 boys are cub scouts. How many Grade 4
cub scouts are in the school?
52. Kate and Rose together have P184.00. If Rose has P18.00 more than Kate, how much money has Rose?
53. Michie can jog 5 ½ km in 1 hour. How far can she jog in 1 ½ hours?
54. Ricky collects stamps. He puts 18 stamps on each page of his album. If 17 pages are full and there are 12
on the 18th page, how many stamps has Ricky?
55. Apples cost P7.50 each. How many can you buy if you have P100?
56. Two numbers have a ratio of 3:5 and one number is 16 more than the other. Find the bigger of the two
numbers.
57. Rita has 20 m of ribbon. She cut 55 pieces each 2.6 dm long. How many meters of ribbon remained?
58. Nita used 3 1/3 m of white cloth to make blouses. How much white cloth remained?
59. Nita bought 4 2/3 m of blue cloth and 5 ¾ of white cloth. How many meters of cloth did Nita buy?
60. In a school, there are 230 Grade 4 students. If 3/5 of them are girls, how many Grade 4 boys are there?
61. Mother bought 4 mangoes for P38. At the same rate, how much will a dozen and a half mangoes cost?
62. Sally got 95, 92, 96, 94, 85 and 90 on six Math tests. What was her average score on the six tests?
63. A film is 2 ¾ hours long. If it begins at 8:00 Pm, what time will it end?
64. Mr. Manuel owns a rectangular lot that is 32 m long and 22 m wide. How many liters of water does the
tank contain when full?
65. A square garden, has a perimeter of 56 m. What is its area?
66. There are 44 students in a class. One stormy day 25% of them were absent. How many were present?
67. Rose made a circle graph of how she spends one day. If she studies 3 hours a day, how many percent will
represent study?
68. A piece of cloth is 18 m long. It is divided into 10 equal parts. How long is 1 piece?
69. There are 850 students in a school. If 3/5 of them are boys, how many girls are there?
70. Aida made 12 more sampaguita garlands than Ana. Together, they made 160 garlands. How many garlands
did Aida make?
71. Nita has P78.50. Rosa has twenty pesos less than twice as much. How much money do the two girls have
together?
72. A grass lawn is 80 m long and 68 m wide. Four rectangular flower plots, each 15m by 10m are found near
each corner of the lawn. What is the area covered by grass?
73. Joy cut pizzas into 6ths. After serving 28 pieces, she had 14 pieces left. How many pizzas did she cut?
74. Nancy has 48 stamps. She gave 1/6 of them to Liza and ¼ to her sister. How many stamps remained with
Nancy?
75. A movie is 2 ¼ hours long. If it ended at 10:30 PM, what time did it start?
76. Roy’s garden is 18 m long and 13 m wide. How much fencing material does he need for it?
77. Tito has 12 fewer stamps than Marlon. Together, they have 136 stamps. How many stamps has Marlon?
78. Nina bought a pair of shoes and a bag. The pair of shoes cost P15 more than four times as much as the bag.
Together, the shoes and bag cost P485. How much did the pair of shoes cost?
79. After reading a part of her book, Rita left the book open at a part where the sum of the page numbers on the
two facing pages was 225. What was the page number on the left hand side?
80. Jenifer wrote her name fifty times on a long piece of tape without any space between her written name.
What letter was the 100th space?
81. Rey’s family has a small farm. They harvested 68 kilos of eggplants and sold them at P18.50 a kilo. How
much did they get?
82. Luz has two P1000-bills, one P500-bill, five P100-bills and four P20-bills. How much money has she?
83. There are 1455 students in a school. Of these, 574 walk to school, 684 have a bus service and the rest have
their private cars. How many students have private cars?
84. A vendor bought 285 melons. He found that 5 were rotten. If he sold the rest except 20, how many did he
sell?
85. Mother bought 1 ½ kilos of grapes and 3 ¾ kilos of rambutan. How many kilos of fruits did mother buy?
86. Kate bought 20 kilos of rice at P20.50 a kilo and 8 kilos of sugar at P25.75 a kilo. How much change did
she get from P1000-bill?
87. In H.E. some girls bake 250 cookies. They put 12 in each plastic bag. How many bags did they fill?
88. Lita bought 4.5 kilos of rice. She cooked 3 kilos and 750 grams for their picnic. How much rice remained?
89. Father bought 4 ½ kilos of lanzones. He gave 1 ¾ kilos to his friends and the rest to his family. How many
kilos did she give to his family?
90. Two numbers are in the ratio 3:4. If their sum is 77, find the bigger number.
91. There are 540 Grade 4 pupils in a school. If 4/9 of the pupils are less than 9 years old, 1/3 are between 9
and 10 years old, and the rest are over 10 years. How many are over 10 years?
92. A scout master needs 45 pieces of string each 2.3 meters long for a project. How many meters of string
does he need?
93. Lita has 144 Philippine stamps. She has half as many Japanese stamps and 1/3 as many as foreign stamps.
How many stamps in all has she?
94. Kit bought pad paper and a pencil case for P43.20. If the pencil case cost P22.20 more than the pad paper,
how much was the pencil case?
95. Mother changed a P500-bill into P5-coins. How many coins did she get?
96. Ana is 7 years younger than his brother. The sum of their ages is 29. How old is her brother?
97. Bea is five years younger than her brother. The sum of the ages is 19. How old is Bea?
98. Some girls sold chocolate cookies at 3 pieces for P4.00. How much did they earn for selling 120 cookies if
they spent P65.50 in making the cookies?
99. In a fruit stand, there are 3 apples for every 5 oranges. If the vendor has 120 oranges, how many fruits has
she?
100. The base of an isosceles triangle is 5cm longer than a leg. If the perimeter is 53 cm, how long is
the base?
 MATHEMATICS FESTIVAL ( Division Made )

I. Round each number to the indicated place value.

1. 991 356 565 ( hundred millions )
2. 265 327 621 ( ten millions )
3. 758 521 392 ( millions )
4. 526 762 116 650 ( billions )
5. 203 758 251 372 ( ten billions )

II. Find the answer.

6. 30 ÷ ( 85 – 79 ) =
7. 6 x ( 72 ÷ 9 ) =
8. ( 14 – 4 ) ) – 4 =
9. 72 ÷( x 4 )
10. 9 + ( 77 ÷ 11 ) =

III. Perform as indicated.

11. Add the product of 15 and 18 to 150
12. Subtract the sum of 28 and 37 from the product of 26 and 8
13. Add twice 14 to the sum of 57 and 83
14. Multiply the sum of 47 and 56 by 4.
15. Divide the product of 50 and 10 by 25

IV. Analyze and solve the following problems.

16. Shirley at the midst of reading 1 book. The sum of two pages is 367. What are the two page
numbers?
17. I am a palindrome greater than the number of days in a year and less than the product of 19 and 20.
18. What is the difference between the biggest and the smallest five-digit number each from by
different digits?
19. There were 23 girls and 14 boys on the track team. 9 more girls joined the team. 6 boys quit the
team. How many children more on the track team?
20. Karen made 3 stacks of wooden blocks. The first stock was 15 blocks. The second stock was 4
blocks taller than the first and the third stock was 5 blocks shorter than the second stock. How many
blocks did Karen use in all?
21. Leny has a total of 32 colored pens and pencils in her bag. She has 6 more pencils than colored
pens. How many pencils does she have?
22. A study table costs P940. A chair costs P210 less than the table. How much change should mother
received if she pays the cashier P1000 for one chair?
23. There were 48 mangoes in each crate. Fifteen such crates of mangoes were delivered to a factory.
Ten mangoes were rotten and had to be thrown away. The remaining mangoes were packed into
boxes of 18 mangoes each. How many boxes of mangoes were there?
24. Wayne started doing his homework at 6:40 PM. It took him 85 minutes to do it. What time did he
finish his homework?
25. A family started watching a video film at 7:35 PM. It ended at 9:05 PM. How many minutes did it
last?
26. If you begin with one-digit number multiply by 5, divide by 2, subtract 15 and add 3, you will get
the number back. Find the number.
27. In a book, the sum of the page numbers of five consecutive pages is 1070, what are the page
numbers?
28. Mr. Casro bought a lot 22 meters long and 19 meters wide. If a square meter costs P 3225, how
much did Mr. Castro pay for the lot?
29. The average of three consecutive numbers is 84. Find the three numbers.
30. The sum of two numbers is 115. The difference between the numbers is 47. Find each number.