Word Problem Grade 6

1. Jill was given 3 red candies, 2 blue candies and 2 yellow candies.
Use several fractions to

describe the candies Jill has.
2. Dave gave Charlotte half of his pogs. Charlotte gave Johnnie half of the pogs she received
from Dave. Johnnie kept 8 of those pogs and gave the remaining 10 to Dana. How many pogs did
Dave give Charlotte?
3. Jenny bought 7 t-shirts, one for each of her seven brothers, for $9.95 each. The cashier
charged her an additional $13.07 in sales tax. She left the store with a measely $7.28. How much
money did Jenny start with?
4. Elmer Fudd decided to grow a garden so he could make salad. He wants to make it 10.1 m
long and 4.2 m wide. However, in order to avoid Bugs Bunny from entering his garden he must
make a fence surrounding the garden. He decides to make the fence 11.2 m long and 5.0 m
wide. What is the area between the fence and the garden?
5. Uncle Henry was driving to Halifax when he spotted a big green gorilla on the side of the road.
He screeched to a stop, jumped out of his car. He saw the outline of a number on the gorilla. He
couldn't quite see the number, but he knew it was a 4 digit number. And:
1) He remembered seeing a number 1.
2) In the hundred's place he remembers the number is 3 times the number in the thousand's
place.
3) He said the number in the one's place is 4 times the number in the ten's place.
4) Finally he said the number 2 is sitting in the thousand's place.
What is the number?
6. Mr. Mason asked the children to open their math books to the facing pages whose page
numbers add up to 85. To which pages should the children turn?
Mark accidentally tore out a page of his math book. Mr. Mason asked him what page it was. Mark
said that the sum of the page numbers on the facing pages was 127. What are the page numbers
on the pages Mark tore out of the book?
7. SALE Celtic Bakery Sale
White Bread - 2 for $1.25

Rye Bread - 2 for $1.35
Onion Rolls - 6 for $1.00
Hamburger Buns- 6 for $0.85
Hot Dog Buns - 6 for $0.69
Melanie and Kevin are going shopping for their mom at the Celtic Bakery. They were told to buy
15 onion rolls, 10 hamburger buns and 2 loaves of rye bread. How much will it cost them?
8. a) If you saved $2.00 on January 1, $4.00 on February 1, $6.00 on March 1, $8.00 on April 1,
and so on, how much money would you save in one year?
b) If you saved $2.00 on January 1, $4.00 on February 1, $8.00 on March 1, $16.00 on April 1,
and so on. How much money would you save in one year?
9. A number line from 0 to 2 is divided into seven equal segments. What fraction names point A?
What fraction names point B?
10. A Drug Store parking lot has space for 1000 cars. 2/5 of the spaces are for compact cars. On
Tuesday, there were 200 compact cars and some standard size cars in the parking lot. The
parking lot was 3/4 full.
How many standard size cars were in the parking lot?
11. How many triangles are in this figure?
12. a) Mr. and Mrs. Callahan and their 3 children paid $7.00 for tickets. Which game do they plan
to see?
SOFTBALL: Adults $2.00 Children $1.00
BASKETBALL: Adults $3.00 Children $1.50
SOCCER: Adults $5.00 Children $2.50
b) How much change would Mr. and Mrs. Callahan get if they took their children to see the
basketball game and paid for it with a $20.00 bill?
13. Farmer Tom put a square fence around his vegetable garden to keep the deer from eating his
corn. One side was 10m in length. If the posts were placed 2m apart, how many posts did he
use?
14. Ammie passed around a basket of strawberries to the girls at her party. Before the party she
ate 5 strawberries and gave a friend 3. Eight girls arrived at the party. The first girl took a
strawberry, the second girl took 3 strawberries, the third girl took 5 strawberries and so on. After
the last girl took her strawberries, the basket was empty. How many strawberries were in the
basket at the beginning?
15. A side of square B is four times the length of a side of square A. How many times greater is
the area of square B than the area of square A?
16. Shane the Snail started at the dot. What side will he be on when he has crawled 13/20 of the
distance around the regular pentagon of equal sides?
17. Carpeting is on sale and Mrs. Doyle is looking for some carpet for her living room. Her living
room is 4m by 5m. How much will it cost her to do this at sale price?

CARPET SALE
Regular $9.99 square metre
Now on Sale for
20 percent off
18. Derek started his car (automatic shift) drove 9 km and spent 3 minutes waiting at traffic lights.
About how much gasoline did Derek's car use?
CHART GIVEN:
AUTOMOBILE FUEL USAGE
Starting .015 Liters
Idling for 1 minute .047 Litres

Moving
Manual Shift 30km 3.0 Litres
Automatic Shift 27km 3.0 Litres
19. The Pictou Ferryboat is full when it has ten cars on board. It is also full when it has six trucks
on board. The ferryboat never carries cars and trucks at the same time.
The ferryboat made five trips across the river and was full on each trip. It carried a total of 42 cars
and trucks across the river.
How many cars did the ferryboat carry altogether in the five trips?
20. Porky's house had 100m2 of living space. Then he added a room that was 4m by 5m. What
was the fractional increase of living space? What was the percent of increase in living space?
21. The peel of a banana weighs about 1/8 of the total weight of the banana. If you buy 3 kg of
bananas at 1kg for Rs0.60, about how much are you paying for the banana peel? For the banana
itself? Round to the nearest Paisa.

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1. Jill was given 3 red candies, 2 blue candies and 2 yellow candies.

Use several fractions to

4) Finally he said the number 2 is sitting in the thousand's place.

What is the number?

7. SALE Celtic Bakery Sale

White Bread - 2 for $1.25

How many standard size cars were in the parking lot?

11. How many triangles are in this figure?

Now on Sale for

20 percent off

AUTOMOBILE FUEL USAGE

Starting .015 Liters

Idling for 1 minute .047 Litres

Manual Shift 30km 3.0 Litres

Automatic Shift 27km 3.0 Litres

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