Sunday, October 11, 2009

Consecutive Integers Word Problem

Write a word problem involving consecutive integers that requires the reader to set up an equation and solve.

Before you post this as a comment, make sure the answers to your problem are actually integers!

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  2. Brian is x years old, and his two older sisters are all increased by even integers. Their total age is 30, how old is brian?

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  3. There were 4 children at the day care. The differences between the ages were consecutive integers, and the total of all of the ages is 30. How old is the youngest one?

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  4. Lily has 15 pets. She has x amount of dogs. She has two more cats than dogs and two more rabbits than cats. Find the number of dogs, cats and rabbits Lily has.

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  5. Peter is 2 years old. Sameul is 4 years old. James is 6 years old. J is 8 years old. Albert is 10 years old. Jason is x years old. How old should Jason be so that the average of the ages (including Jason's) is 10 years old.

    Hint:) Jason is much older than the other kids.

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  6. James, John, and Mickey had a total of $150. But James has ten more than John while Mickey had 20 less then James. How many does each have if John is represented as X?

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  7. Hannah is a year older than Cain, who is a year older than Lia, who is a year older to Brooks. If their average age is 14.5 what are their ages?

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  8. Jake, Joon, and Simon have 21 candies overall. Jake has one more candy than Joon and Joon has one more candy than Simon. How many candies does each person have?

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  9. Mike and David has total of 31 basketballs. If Mike has six more than twice the David's basketballs, How many basketballs do they have each.

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  10. Kelsey has 2 sisters Joey and Nikki.
    Kelsy is 1 year younger than Joey. Joey is 2 years younger than Nikki. If the sum of the ages is 43, how old are Kelsey's sisters

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  11. A boy named Pencil got new twin younger sisters named Pen and Eraser. Pencil, Pen, and Eraser's sum of ages is 21. What's the difference between Pencil's age and Eraser's age?

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  12. Silly has blue, red, and white pencils. In total, she has 20 pencils. She has 8 blue pencils, which is the least from all her pencils. If the differences of all three pencils are even, find the amount of numbers of other pencils.

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  13. There are three brothers. Sam is one year older than ryan and Mathew is one year older than sam. The sum of their age is 21. Find ryan's age.

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  14. Ashley has 10 cousins. Jason has 5cousins. Sammy has 2cousins. Bob has 16cousins. Lucy has x cousins. The average is 7. What is x?

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