Year 3 and 4 word problems
Name:………………………
Complete these mathematical problems. Write your answers in the space
provided.
Remember to show your working!
1) If John has 58 toy cars and Tom has 70 toy cars, how many toy cars do they
have altogether?
2) One farmer has 136 lambs and another has 87. How many more lambs does
the first farmer have?
3) A grocer sold 27 bags of sweets on Monday, 35 bags on Tuesday and 18 bags
on Wednesday. How many did he sell in those three days?
4) An orchard contains 25 apple trees, 19 pear trees and 8 plum trees. How
many trees in the orchard?
Year 3 and 4 word problems
5) A man bought a pack of 150 envelopes. After using 87 and giving away 25,
how many did he have left?
6) It takes Anne an hour to walk 5km. If she went hiking and walked from 7am
until 11am, how far would she have travelled?
7) Sally felt sorry for the puppies at the pet shop during the cold winter so she
decided to knit them all socks to keep their feet warm.
a) If there were 14 puppies at the shop, how many socks would she need
to knit?
b)It takes her 20 minutes to knit one sock. How long would it take to knit
all the socks she needs?