ALGEBRA WORD PROBLEMS GRADE 7 (MAKING EQUATION)

1. There are 12 packets of chips in a big pack. I buy n big packs of crisps. How many packets of chips have I

bought?

2. There are t pens in a pack. I buy 4 packs. How many pens did I buy?

3. I have 6 sketch pens. A friend gives me n more. How many do I have now?

4. Amy is 6 years older than Jonny. Six years ago she was twice as old as he. How old is each now?

5. Michael has some coins in his pocket consisting of dimes, nickels, and pennies. He has two more nickels than

dimes, and three times as many pennies as nickels. How many of each kind of coins does he have if the total

value is 52 cents?

6. Think of a number. Double the number. Subtract 6 from the result and divide the answer by 2. The quotient will

be 20. What is the number?

7. A bag of oranges contains 6 oranges. I buy w bags of oranges. How many oranges have I bought?

8. I have d cupcakes and I eat 7 of them. How many cupcakes do I have left?

9. The temperature is 62 celsius. It gets warmer by h degrees. What is the temperature now?

10. Ben has a coin collection made up of pennies and nickels. If he has three times as many pennies as nickels and

the total face value of the coins is $416, how many coins of each kind are in the collection?

11. There are 20 gifts at a party and y gifts are opened there. How many gifts remain unopened?

12. There are 20 red and blue marbles in a bag, s marbles are red. How many are blue?

13. Three-fifths of the men in physics class have beards and two-thirds of the women have long hair. If there are

120 men in the class and 46 are not in the above groups, how many men and how many women are there in

the class?

14. A service station checks Mr. Trudeau’s radiator and finds it contains only 30% antifreeze. If the radiator holds

10 quarts and is full, how much must be drained off and replaced with pure antifreeze in order to bring it up to

a required 50% antifreeze?

15. Tickets for the football games were $2.50 for general admission and 50 cents for kids. If there were six times as

many general admissions sold as there were kids' tickets, and total receipts were $7750, how many of each

type of ticket were sold?

17. The three sides of a right triangle form three consecutive even numbers. Find the lengths of the three sides,

measured in feet.

18. In a class of c kids, 2/5th are girls. How many are boys?

19. There are s bikes in a parking lot. How many wheels will they have in total?

20. I have u soft toy dolls. I get v more. How many dolls do I have now?

21. There are three consecutive even numbers such that twice the first is 20 more than the second. Find the

numbers.

22. Jay's father is twice as old as Jay. In 20 years Jay will be two-thirds as old as his father. How old is each now?

23. Wolfgang and Heinrich worked as electricians at $14 and $12 per hour respectively. One month Wolfgang

worked 10 hours more than Heinrich. If their total income for the month was $3520, how many hours did each

work during the month?

24. The sum of the square of two consecutive integers equals 365. Find the difference between them.

25. Convert the following statements into equations. 

a. 5 added to a number is 9. 

b. 3 subtracted from a number is equal to 12. 

c. 5 times a number decreased by 2 is 4. 

d. 2 times the sum of the number x and 7 is 13. 

26. A number is 12 more than the other. Find the numbers if their sum is 48. 

27. Twice the number decreased by 22 is 48. Find the number. 

28. Seven times the number is 36 less than 10 times the number. Find the number.

29. 4/5 of a number is more than 3/4 of the number by 5 . Find the number. 

30. The sum of two consecutive even numbers is 38. Find the numbers.

31. The sum of three consecutive odd numbers is 51. Find the numbers.

32. Rene is 6 years older than her younger sister. After 1 0 years, the sum of their ages will be 50 years. Find their

present ages.
33. The length of a rectangle is 10 m more than its breadth. If the perimeter of rectangle is 80 m, find the

dimensions of the rectangle.

34. A 300 m long wire is used to fence a rectangular plot whose length is twice its width. Find the length and

breadth of the plot.

35. The denominator of a fraction is greater than the numerator by 8. If the numerator is increased by 17 and

denominator is decreased by 1, the number obtained is 3/2, find the fraction.

36. A sum of $2700 is to be given in the form of 63 prizes. If the prize is of either $100 or $25, find the number of

prizes of each type.

37. In a class of 42 students, the number of boys is 2/5 of the girls. Find the number of boys and girls in the class.

38. Among the two supplementary angles, the measure of the larger angle is 36° more than the measure of

smaller. Find their measures.

39. My mother is 12 years more than twice my age. After 8 years, my mother’s age will be 20 years less than three

times my age. Find my age and my mother’s age.

40. In an isosceles triangle, the base angles are equal and the vertex angle is 80°. Find the measure of the base

angles.

41. Adman’s father is 49 years old. He is 5 years older than four times Adman’s age. What is Adman’s age?

42. The cost of a pencil is 25 cents more than the cost of a eraser. If the cost of 8 pencils and 10 erasers is $12.80,

find the cost of each.

43. Divide 36 into two parts in such a way that 1/5 of one part is equal to 1/7 of the other.

44. The length of the rectangle exceeds its breadth by 3 cm. If the length and breadth are each increased by 2 cm,

then the area of new rectangle will be 70 sq. cm more than that of the given rectangle. Find the length and

breadth of the given rectangle.

1. 12n 26. 18, 30

2. 4t 27. 35

3. N+6 28. 12

4. Jonny 12 amy 18 29. 100

5. 52 cents 30. 18, 20

6. 23 31. 15, 17, 19

7. 6w 32. 12, 18 years

8. D-7 33. 15 cm, 25 cm

9. 62+h 34. 50 m, 100 m

10. 200 nickels, 600 pennies 35. 13/21

11. 20-y 36. 72o, 108o

12. 20-s 37. 16 years, 44 years

13. 90 men, 30 women, 29 1/7 hours 38. 50o

14. 2 6/7 quarts 39. 11 years

15. 6500, 3000 40. Eraser 60 cents, pencil 85 cents

16. 576 41. 15, 21

17. 81 42. Length 18 m, breadth 15 m

18. 3/5

19. 4s

20. U+v

21. 22,24, and 26

22. 20, 40

23. 130, 140

24. 1

25. (a) x+5=9 (b) x-3=12 (c) 5x-2=4 (d) 2(x+7)=13