Word problems about arrival times

Difficulty Standard · Set w97x7e

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

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1
A bus leaves at 11:35 and the journey takes 2 hours 40 minutes. What time does it arrive?
2
A bus leaves at 20:10 and the journey takes 1 hour 10 minutes. What time does it arrive?
3
A bus leaves at 17:10 and the journey takes 3 hours 50 minutes. What time does it arrive?
4
A bus leaves at 08:00 and the journey takes 4 hours 45 minutes. What time does it arrive?
5
A bus leaves at 15:50 and the journey takes 1 hour 35 minutes. What time does it arrive?
6
A bus leaves at 09:10 and the journey takes 1 hour 45 minutes. What time does it arrive?
7
A bus leaves at 15:40 and the journey takes 3 hours 55 minutes. What time does it arrive?
8
A bus leaves at 11:00 and the journey takes 3 hours 20 minutes. What time does it arrive?
9
A bus leaves at 07:35 and the journey takes 3 hours 45 minutes. What time does it arrive?
10
A bus leaves at 16:15 and the journey takes 2 hours 55 minutes. What time does it arrive?
11
A bus leaves at 10:45 and the journey takes 3 hours 40 minutes. What time does it arrive?
12
A bus leaves at 07:35 and the journey takes 4 hours 30 minutes. What time does it arrive?
13
A bus leaves at 20:55 and the journey takes 2 hours 55 minutes. What time does it arrive?
14
A bus leaves at 06:05 and the journey takes 4 hours 15 minutes. What time does it arrive?
15
A bus leaves at 10:10 and the journey takes 3 hours 10 minutes. What time does it arrive?
16
A bus leaves at 18:30 and the journey takes 4 hours 30 minutes. What time does it arrive?
17
A bus leaves at 19:00 and the journey takes 1 hour 35 minutes. What time does it arrive?
18
A bus leaves at 10:35 and the journey takes 2 hours 35 minutes. What time does it arrive?
19
A bus leaves at 15:25 and the journey takes 2 hours 45 minutes. What time does it arrive?
20
A bus leaves at 07:05 and the journey takes 1 hour 30 minutes. What time does it arrive?

What is in this set

The numbers in this set run from 1 to 55.
52% of them cross an hour boundary.
48% of them stay inside the same hour.
A careful solution takes 3 written steps on average.
The mistake this set invites most often, in 54% 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 234 different ones, 98% — so a sheet of 20 is a new sheet almost every time.

The same skill, harder or easier

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