This document presents 10 math word problems related to practical scenarios involving heartbeats, time spent shaving, handshakes at a conference, distributing roses to dancing partners, calculating real age from a description excluding weekends and months, comparing group completion of a project, and comparing production of mentors and apprentices. Each problem is accompanied by a link to an answer and the full document encourages downloading a free e-book with more practical math problems.

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Practical Math Problems
for Human Beings

2. Math Practical Problems
we meet in real life
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1. Heartbeats
The typical healthy resting heart rate
in adults is 60–80 beats per minute.
If you live 100 years,
how many times will your heart beat?

4. How many times heavier
than a baby is an adult?
2. A baby
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5. Can you find two New Yorkers with
the same number of hairs?
3. Two New Yorkers
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6. Bob shaves himself
4 minutes per day.
If he lives 70 years, what is
total amount of time spent shaving?
4. Clean Shave
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7. On an island, all parents continue to have
children until they have a boy.
What is the proportion of boys to girls
on the island?
5. Boys and Girls
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8. 6. Handshakes
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Ten men met at a conference. Each man
shook hands with each of the other men
exactly once. How many handshakes took
place?

9. 7. A Dancer
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Henry has 100 roses. He gives them to his
dancing partners in such a way that each girl
gets at least one flower and no two girls get
the same number of flowers. What is the
largest number of girls with whom he could
dance?

10. 8. Age
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A lady, attempting to avoid revealing her real
age to her husband, says: I'm twenty-two
years old if you do not count weekends and
one summer month of every year.
Guess her real age.

11. Anna (A), Bill (B), Cindy (C), and Daniel (D) work on a project.
Together, A, B, and C can complete it in 100 days.
Together, B, C, and D can complete it in 101 days.
Together, C, D, and A can complete it in 102 days.
Together, D, A, and B can complete it in 103 days.
Who is the best performer?
9. The Best Performer
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12. Three mentors and four apprentices produce as
many devices in five days as two mentors and four
apprentices do in six days. Who is the best
performer?
10. Mentors and Students
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Answers
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