Solve multi-step word problems involving flight schedules, budgets, speeds, and measurements.
Don’t include any symbols.

🙂 = Correct, ☹️ = Incorrect

📌 Rules

• Breakdown every story problem step by step: identify what you know, work out the intermediate steps first, and then calculate the final answer. For example, if 2/3 of 300 seats are booked, first find 1/3 by doing 300 ÷ 3 = 100, then 2/3 is 100 × 2 = 200 booked seats, which leaves 300 – 200 = 100 available seats!

• Always convert measurements to the target units requested in the question before or after calculating. Remember that 1 hour = 60 minutes and 1 kilogram = 1000 grams. For example, a flight time of 7 hours and 20 minutes is (7 × 60) + 20 = 440 minutes!

💡 Tips

• Use benchmark values for percentages: 10% is dividing by 10, 5% is half of 10%, 25% is 1/4, and 50% is 1/2. For example, to find 15% off £1200, calculate 10% (£120) plus 5% (£60) to get £180 off, leaving £1200 – £180 = £1020.

• When calculating distances or times, treat fractional hours carefully. For instance, 4 hours and 30 minutes is 4.5 hours. At 850 km/h, multiply 850 × 4 for the 4 hours (3400 km) and add half of 850 for the 30 minutes (425 km) to reach the total distance!

• When typing your final answers on our platform, keep typing quick and simple by using plain digits only (for example, write 4500, not 4,500 or 4 500). The answer box handles the rest automatically!

⚠️ Warnings

• Do not stop after completing just the first step of a question! If a problem asks how much money is left from a £500 budget after spending £120, £85, and £70, adding the spending to get £275 is only step one ☹️; you must subtract £275 from £500 to get the final remaining £225 🙂.

• Do not mix up rate periods! A daily rate of £65 for a week means multiplying £65 × 7 days (£455) before adding a single weekly insurance fee of £120, not adding £120 every single day ☹️.