Grade 7 Decimals Word Problems
Grade 7 decimals word problems sheet: 10 problems on .
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Three different problem sets — same skill, same layout, fresh numbers.
Preview — Set A
Read each problem carefully. Show your work, then write your answer on the line.
- 1.Ava's account shows $33.67. A payment of $60.09 goes through. What is the new balance?
- 2.Victor owes a friend $29.25. Victor earns $5.50 babysitting and uses all of it to pay back part of the debt. How much does Victor still owe?
- 3.Maya's account shows $17.17. A payment of $64.31 goes through. What is the new balance?
- 4.Willa had $47.00 in an account, then made 2 equal withdrawals of $19.75 each. What is the account balance after the withdrawals?
- 5.Felix's account shows $49.63. A payment of $79.03 goes through. What is the new balance?
- 6.The temperature changed by -3.9°F each hour for 7.9 hours. What was the total change in temperature?
- 7.The temperature was -15.3°C at dawn and rose by 11.9°C by noon. What was the noon temperature?
- 8.A scuba diver descended at a rate of -2.3 meters per minute. After 7.8 minutes, how deep is the diver?
- 9.Carla's account shows $39.36. A payment of $35.54 goes through. What is the new balance?
- 10.Xavier lost 1 1/4 points on a penalty in a trivia game, then earned 5 3/4 points on the next question, and lost 2 1/2 points on another penalty. What is Xavier's total score for those three rounds?
What this worksheet covers
There are ten story problems here — one page to work, one page of answers to check against — and Sets B and C repeat the layout with different numbers. What makes this set particular: seven of the ten problems involve a negative quantity and each problem arrives as a few sentences of context rather than a bare expression. Problems 4 and 7, for instance, are "Willa had $47.00 in an account, then made 2 equal…" and "The temperature was -15.3°C at dawn and rose by 11.9°C by…".
Skills practised
Grade 7 decimals means adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing signed decimals, and repeating decimals. To finish it, a student has to read a situation and choose an operation before computing, work in fractional units and give the answer in lowest terms, and keep the decimal points aligned.
About the word problems format
The 10 story problems each get a full line and an answer rule; problem 4, "Willa had $47.00 in an account, then made 2 equal…" is one, and the answer key writes the unit with every answer. Money and measurement are where decimals live outside the classroom, and where a misplaced point is obviously wrong.
Set A, Set B and Set C
All three sets are produced by the site's deterministic generator from a fixed seed, so they are the same every time the site is built and the answer keys are exact. Where Set A's problem 6 is "The temperature changed by -3.9°F each hour for 7.9 hours.…", Set B's is "Yara borrowed $120 from a relative, paid back 1/2 of the…".
How to use this worksheet
Have the student estimate before computing, then compare. At grade 7 an decimals answer that is wildly off should announce itself, and building that reflex matters as much as the ten answers. If more than a third of the ten problems come back wrong, stop and step back a grade in decimals rather than assigning Set B.
One mistake to watch for
Decimals are aligned to the right: 3.5 + 0.42 = 3.92. On this grade 7 word problems, problem 7 ("The temperature was -15.3°C at dawn and rose by 11.9°C by…") is the kind of item where it shows.
The right-alignment habit from whole numbers is being applied to a notation where the point, not the right edge, fixes the value.
Write in the placeholder zero (3.50) before adding; aligning the points then aligns everything else.
Other grade 7 decimals formats
The same skill in the other formats available at this grade.
- Drill — Grade 7 Multiplying Rational Numbers, 20 problems
- Timed Drill — Grade 7 Decimals Timed Drill, 60 problems
- Missing Number — Grade 7 Decimals Missing Number, 24 problems
- Mixed Review — Grade 7 Dividing Rational Numbers, 20 problems
A step either side
The same format one grade down and one grade up — the easier sheet is often the faster fix when this one is not landing.
- Grade 6 Decimals Word Problems — grade 6, 10 problems
Word Problems sheets in other grade 7 topics
No paywall and no account — download any set of this grade 7 decimals word problems, and the answers for all ten problems are in the matching key.