Word problems about arrival times

Difficulty Stretch · Set svm17c

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

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1
A bus leaves at 11:45 and the journey takes 1 hour 9 minutes. What time does it arrive?
2
A bus leaves at 17:39 and the journey takes 3 hours 25 minutes. What time does it arrive?
3
A bus leaves at 16:30 and the journey takes 2 hours 56 minutes. What time does it arrive?
4
A bus leaves at 13:49 and the journey takes 1 hour 38 minutes. What time does it arrive?
5
A bus leaves at 11:29 and the journey takes 4 hours 51 minutes. What time does it arrive?
6
A bus leaves at 18:46 and the journey takes 2 hours 42 minutes. What time does it arrive?
7
A bus leaves at 07:16 and the journey takes 1 hour 13 minutes. What time does it arrive?
8
A bus leaves at 19:57 and the journey takes 1 hour 13 minutes. What time does it arrive?
9
A bus leaves at 16:05 and the journey takes 3 hours 41 minutes. What time does it arrive?
10
A bus leaves at 20:27 and the journey takes 4 hours 26 minutes. What time does it arrive?
11
A bus leaves at 11:15 and the journey takes 1 hour 35 minutes. What time does it arrive?
12
A bus leaves at 07:41 and the journey takes 2 hours 15 minutes. What time does it arrive?
13
A bus leaves at 06:18 and the journey takes 2 hours 48 minutes. What time does it arrive?
14
A bus leaves at 09:20 and the journey takes 2 hours 38 minutes. What time does it arrive?
15
A bus leaves at 10:21 and the journey takes 3 hours 46 minutes. What time does it arrive?
16
A bus leaves at 18:40 and the journey takes 4 hours 30 minutes. What time does it arrive?
17
A bus leaves at 18:00 and the journey takes 2 hours 44 minutes. What time does it arrive?
18
A bus leaves at 10:00 and the journey takes 4 hours 45 minutes. What time does it arrive?
19
A bus leaves at 06:13 and the journey takes 1 hour 30 minutes. What time does it arrive?
20
A bus leaves at 10:25 and the journey takes 2 hours 39 minutes. What time does it arrive?

What is in this set

The numbers in this set run from 1 to 59.
52% of them stay inside the same hour.
48% of them cross an hour boundary.
A careful solution takes 3 written steps on average.
The mistake this set invites most often, in 49% 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 240 different ones, 100% — 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.