Mastering Word Problems: Numbers, Fractions & Calculator Skills – Class 7

🔢 Large Numbers – Word Problems (Class 7)

  1. A stadium has 45,000 seats. If 1,235 people attend a match every day for 30 days, how many total people visited the stadium in that month? Was it more or less than the stadium capacity?
  2. A factory produces 8,250 pens every day. How many pens are produced in 25 days? Express your answer in lakhs if applicable.
  3. A city library has 5 floors. Each floor has 12 rows of shelves, and each row has 3,000 books. How many books are there in total in the library?
  4. The school annual report showed these expenses:
    • Electricity: ₹52,000
    • Furniture: ₹1,24,500
    • Events: ₹87,300
      What is the total expenditure? Round it to the nearest thousand.
  5. A cargo ship can carry 9,78,600 kg. It is loaded with 3 containers weighing 2,34,520 kg, 3,12,180 kg, and 1,98,950 kg. How much more weight can be added before it reaches capacity?

🧮 Fractions – Word Problems (Class 7)

  1. Ravi ran 3443​ of a 12 km marathon. How much distance does he have left to run?
  2. A water tank is filled to 5885​ of its capacity. If the tank holds 80 litres when full, how much water is still needed to fill it?
  3. Nina spent 2552​ of her pocket money on books and 1441​ on a toy. What fraction of her money is left?
  4. A chocolate bar is divided into 16 equal pieces. Riya ate 5885​ of it. How many pieces did she eat?
  5. A recipe needs 3443​ cup of sugar. If you want to make only half the recipe, how much sugar will you use?

🧠 Calculator Button Problem (Class 7 Level)

1. A calculator has buttons +1, +10, +100, +1000.
How can you get 3,472 using the least number of clicks?
✍️ Write the expression and total clicks.


2. Using only +1, +10, +100, +1000 buttons, reach the number 7,205.
Can you do it in less than 20 clicks?
✍️ Write the best possible expression and number of clicks.


3. You want to reach 9,039 using the fewest button presses.
Use +1, +10, +100, +1000.
✍️ Write the expression.


4. A scoreboard needs to show 4,607 using calculator buttons (+1, +10, +100, +1000).
What’s the most efficient way to reach this number?
✍️ Show the expression and number of clicks.


5. Get the number 5,518 using the least number of button presses.
Can you do it in under 15 clicks?
✍️ Write the expression.

🔻 SUBTRACTION WORD PROBLEMS

A. Numbers (Large Numbers)

  1. A library had 12,500 books. After a fire, 3,725 books were damaged. How many books are left?
  2. A factory produced 85,000 items in January and 67,540 in February. How many more items were made in January?
  3. A truck was carrying 97,652 kg of goods. 46,210 kg were offloaded at the first stop. How much weight remains?
  4. A concert hall can hold 18,000 people. If 14,850 attended, how many seats were empty?
  5. A bank had ₹7,86,900. After a withdrawal of ₹2,43,750, how much is left?

B. Fractions

  1. From a 5-litre bottle of juice, 3443​ litre was poured out. How much juice is left?
  2. Riya had 7887​ meter of ribbon. She used 3883​ meter. How much is left?
  3. A tank was 910109​ full. After using 2552​, how full is it now?
  4. A recipe needs 5665​ cup of flour, but you have already used 1221​. How much more do you need?
  5. Out of a day, Rohan spent 5885​ of his time studying. He later reduced it to 3883​. How much time did he reduce?

C. Calculator (Subtraction)

  1. Starting from 7,200, subtract to reach 4,156 using the least clicks of −1000, −100, −10, and −1.
  2. You’re at 9,876. How can you reach exactly 5,000 using subtraction buttons efficiently?
  3. Starting from 6,432, subtract until you reach 2,000. Find the button sequence.
  4. A scoreboard shows 8,250. You want to reduce it to 6,000. How many and which buttons would you press?
  5. Begin at 5,843. Reach 1,103 with fewest subtraction steps using −1000, −100, −10, −1.

✖️ MULTIPLICATION WORD PROBLEMS

A. Numbers (Large Numbers)

  1. A school has 45 classrooms. Each has 38 desks. How many desks in total?
  2. A shop sells 125 packets of biscuits each day. How many in 24 days?
  3. Each crate holds 250 mangoes. If there are 125 crates, how many mangoes are there?
  4. A company prints 3,200 pages daily. How many pages in 15 days?
  5. One notebook costs ₹45. How much do 340 notebooks cost?

B. Fractions

  1. What is 3443​ of 64?
  2. A cake recipe uses 2552​ cup of sugar for 1 cake. How much for 6 cakes?
  3. An athlete runs 5665​ km in a lap. How far in 12 laps?
  4. A cloth is 2332​ meters long. If you cut 9 such pieces, what’s the total length?
  5. A box weighs 710107​ kg. What is the total weight of 20 boxes?

C. Calculator (Multiplication-style using repeated addition)

  1. Pressing +100 eight times gives what number?
  2. What number do you get if you press +1000 five times and +100 three times?
  3. Use only +10 button. How many times must you press it to get 320?
  4. Using +1, how many presses to make 250? Is it better to use other buttons?
  5. Press +1000 six times, +100 four times, +10 eight times, and +1 three times. What number do you get?

➗ DIVISION WORD PROBLEMS

A. Numbers (Large Numbers)

  1. 9,600 books are packed into boxes of 120. How many boxes are needed?
  2. A company earned ₹7,56,000 in 12 months. What was the monthly income?
  3. 48,000 litres of oil were delivered equally to 400 tanks. How much per tank?
  4. A team of 60 workers built 15,000 bricks. How many bricks did each worker make on average?
  5. A rope 1,200 meters long is cut into 30 equal pieces. What is the length of each?

B. Fractions

  1. Divide 3443​ by 3.
  2. A recipe uses 2332​ of a cup of milk. How much is needed per person if 4 people share it equally?
  3. 5665​ of a meter is cut into 5 equal parts. How long is each part?
  4. A container holds 7887​ litre of water. It’s poured equally into 2 glasses. How much per glass?
  5. Divide 910109​ by 3. What’s the result?

C. Calculator (Division-style challenge using repeated subtraction)

  1. Start with 900. How many times can you subtract 100 before you reach 0?
  2. Start at 6,000. Subtract 1,000 until you reach 0. How many clicks?
  3. If you press −100 eight times, what number do you subtract in total?
  4. How many −10 presses needed to reduce 150 to 0?
  5. Use −1 repeatedly. How many presses to go from 250 to 0? Is it efficient?

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