Comparison Problems
1. In a school, there are 40 times as many students as teachers. If there are 1 517 students and
teachers in all, how many teachers are there?
2.
An electrician needs to cut a 54-meter wire such that one piece is five times as long as the other
.
How long is the shorter piece?
3. In an election, Bobby got 5 less votes than JP, who in turn got 1 more than the number of votes
that April received. The total number of votes was 72. How many votes did the winner of the
election received?
4.
When asked how old he is, a boy replied: "I am twice older than I was 5 years ago." How old is he
now?
5. Manuel Anselmo is ten times older than his
son,
Andrew. In 20 years,
Manuel's
more than twice Andrew's age. How old was he when Andrew was born?
age will be 4​