Word problems about arrival times

Difficulty Starter · Set bl9t8y

Give each arrival time as hh:mm on the 24-hour clock.

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1
A bus leaves at 08:00 and the journey takes 3 hours 45 minutes. What time does it arrive?
2
A bus leaves at 07:45 and the journey takes 1 hour 30 minutes. What time does it arrive?
3
A bus leaves at 17:45 and the journey takes 1 hour 45 minutes. What time does it arrive?
4
A bus leaves at 11:00 and the journey takes 1 hour 30 minutes. What time does it arrive?
5
A bus leaves at 06:45 and the journey takes 1 hour 30 minutes. What time does it arrive?
6
A bus leaves at 19:45 and the journey takes 1 hour 45 minutes. What time does it arrive?
7
A bus leaves at 17:30 and the journey takes 3 hours 45 minutes. What time does it arrive?
8
A bus leaves at 14:00 and the journey takes 1 hour 45 minutes. What time does it arrive?
9
A bus leaves at 06:45 and the journey takes 3 hours 15 minutes. What time does it arrive?
10
A bus leaves at 09:30 and the journey takes 3 hours 45 minutes. What time does it arrive?
11
A bus leaves at 09:15 and the journey takes 1 hour 15 minutes. What time does it arrive?
12
A bus leaves at 12:15 and the journey takes 3 hours 45 minutes. What time does it arrive?
13
A bus leaves at 20:00 and the journey takes 4 hours 15 minutes. What time does it arrive?
14
A bus leaves at 07:00 and the journey takes 1 hour 45 minutes. What time does it arrive?
15
A bus leaves at 17:30 and the journey takes 2 hours 15 minutes. What time does it arrive?
16
A bus leaves at 20:30 and the journey takes 2 hours 30 minutes. What time does it arrive?
17
A bus leaves at 13:15 and the journey takes 1 hour 15 minutes. What time does it arrive?
18
A bus leaves at 10:45 and the journey takes 2 hours 15 minutes. What time does it arrive?
19
A bus leaves at 08:30 and the journey takes 3 hours 15 minutes. What time does it arrive?
20
A bus leaves at 12:30 and the journey takes 2 hours 45 minutes. What time does it arrive?

What is in this set

The numbers in this set run from 1 to 45.
51% of them cross an hour boundary.
49% of them stay inside the same hour.
A careful solution takes 3 written steps on average.
The mistake this set invites most often, in 52% of the problems: the minutes ran past 60 and were written as they stood.
Answers are a short answer exactly as the problem asks for it.

Drawing 240 problems from this page produced 205 different ones, 85% — so a sheet of 20 is a new sheet almost every time.

The same skill, harder or easier

We would put this in front of a grade 5 class. That is our judgement, not a standard, and it is printed here so you can disagree with it. Everything else we put in that year.