Examples for 6th grade (the sixth graders) - page 2

  1. Reduce to lowest terms
    fractions_16 Reduce to lowest terms : 32/124
  2. The lowest
    teplomer_20 The lowest temperature on Thursday was 20°C. The lowest temperature on Saturday was 12°C. What was the difference between the lowest temperatures?
  3. Flooring a room
    tiles_10 Find the cost of flooring a room 6.5 m by 5 m with square tiles of sides 25 cm at the rate of rupees 9.40 per tile.
  4. The average
    average The average of one set of 4 numbers is 35. The average of another set of number is 20. The average of the numbers in the two sets is 30. How many numbers are there in the other set?
  5. Discount sale
    penize_49 After the discount, the computer costs 9600, - CZK. How much did it cost when the price was reduced: a) by half b) by a third c) by one fifth and then by 160 CZK
  6. Fractions 4
    fractions_14 How many 2/3s are in 6?
  7. Temperature increase
    teplomer_19 If the temperature at 9:am is 50 degrees. What is the temperature at 5:00pm if the temperature increases 4 degrees Fahrenheit each hour?
  8. Brick
    brick One brick is 6 kg and half a brick heavy. What is the weight of one brick?
  9. Forestry workers
    forestry_workers In the forest is employed 56 laborers planting trees in nurseries. For 8 hour work day would end job in 37 days. After 16 days, 9 laborers go forth? How many days is needed to complete planting trees in nurseries by others, if they will work 10 hours a da
  10. Three cats
    three_cats If three cats eat three mice in three minutes, after which time 140 cats eat 140 mice?
  11. Divisibility
    divisibility Is the number 761082 exactly divisible by 9? (the result is the integer and/or remainder is zero)
  12. Motion problem
    dragway From Levíc to Košíc go car at speed 81 km/h. From Košíc to Levíc go another car at speed 69 km/h. How many minutes before the meeting will be cars 27 km away?
  13. Excavation
    vykop_ryha Mr. Billy calculated that excavation for a water connection dig for 12 days. His friend would take 10 days. Billy worked 3 days alone. Then his friend came to help and started on the other end. On what day since the beginning of excavation they met?
  14. Cyclist
    cyclist_2 A cyclist passes 88 km in 4 hours. How many kilometers he pass in 8 hours?
  15. Root
    root_quadrat The root of the equation ? is: ?
  16. Monkey
    monkey Monkey fell in 38 m deep well. Every day her scramble 3 meters, at night dropped back by 2 m. On that day it gets hangover from the well?
  17. Diophantus
    diofantos_1 We know little about this Greek mathematician from Alexandria, except that he lived around 3rd century A.D. Thanks to an admirer of his, who described his life by means of an algebraic riddle, we know at least something about his life. Diophantus's youth l
  18. Motion
    cyclist_1 If you go at speed 3.7 km/h, you come to the station 42 minutes after leaving train. If you go by bike to the station at speed 27 km/h, you come to the station 56 minutes before its departure. How far is the train station?
  19. Hands
    soviet_watch The clock shows 12 hours. After how many minutes will agle between hour and minute hand 90°? Consider the continuous movement of both hands hours.
  20. Medicament
    tablets Same type of medicament produces a number of manufacturers in a variety of packages with different content of active substance. Pack 1: includes 60 pills of 600 mg of active substance per pack cost 9 Eur. Pack 2: includes 150 pills of 500 mg of active sub

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