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What is the number

A number is tripled, then 7 is subtracted from the result. The final answer is double the original number plus 5. What is the number?

What is the angle

In triangle ABC, angle A measures 40°, and angle B measures 65°. What is the size of angle C?

Mystery number puzzle

I think of a number. I double it, then subtract 7. The result is 25. What was my original number?

How many apples?

Emma had some apples. She gave 1/3 of them to her friend Lucy and then ate 5 apples herself. After that, she had 16 apples left. How many apples did Emma have at the beginning?

Missing Number Mysteries

A sequence of numbers goes like this: 3, 7, 11, 15, ___, 23, 27 What number should go in the blank?

What number of marbles?

Sophie has 3 boxes of marbles. The first box has twice as many marbles as the second box. The third box has 12 fewer marbles than the second box. Altogether, the three boxes have 96 marbles. How many marbles are in each box?

How many chairs?

There are some chairs in a hall. If 4 more people come, there won’t be enough chairs and 3 people will have to stand. But if 3 people leave, there will be 5 chairs left empty. How many chairs are there in the hall?