Fractions - 8th grade (13y) - examples

  1. Boats
    ship_7 Three-quarters of boats are white, 1/7 are blue and 9 are red. How many boats do we have?
  2. What is 3
    fractions_13 What is the least common denominator of 11/15 and 12/19?
  3. Soup from canteen
    soup_3 For how many people is 90 liters of soup enough if we assume 3/8 liter of soup per person in the canteen?
  4. Forestry workers
    forestry_workers In the forest is employed 43 laborers planting trees in nurseries. For 6 hour work day would end job in 35 days. After 11 days, 8 laborers go forth? How many days is needed to complete planting trees in nurseries by others, if they will work 10 hours a da
  5. Bonus
    moeny Gross wage was 527 EUR including 16% bonus. How many EUR were bonuses?
  6. Troops
    regiment Route is long 147 km and the first day first regiment went at an average speed 12 km/h and journey back 21 km/h. The second day went second regiment same route at an average speed 22 km/h there and back. Which regiment will take route longer?
  7. 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?
  8. Logic
    blue-barrel A man drinks a barrel of water for 26 days, woman for 48 days, for how many days they drink barrel together?
  9. Beer
    piva After three 10° beers consumed in a short time there are 5.6 g of alcohol in 6 kg adult human blood. How much is it per mille?
  10. Cube in a sphere
    cube_in_sphere The cube is inscribed in a sphere with volume 1587 cm3. Determine the length of the edges of a cube.
  11. 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.
  12. River
    kongo_river Calculate how many promiles river Dunaj average falls, if on section long 957 km flowing water from 1454 m AMSL to 101 m AMSL.
  13. Cone A2V
    popcorn Surface of cone in the plane is a circular arc with central angle of 126° and area 415 cm2. Calculate the volume of a cone.
  14. Motion2
    car_cycle Cyclist started out of town at 19 km/h. After 0.7 hours car started behind him in the same direction and caught up with him for 23 minutes. How fast and how long went car from the city to caught cyclist?
  15. ŽSR
    luzianky Calculate fixed annual personnel costs of operating monorail line 118 km long if every 5 km is station, which serve three people - one dispatcher and two switchman in 4-shift operation. Consider the average salary of the employee 885 €.
  16. Numbers
    ten Determine the number of all positive integers less than 4183444 if each is divisible by 29, 7, 17. What is its sum?
  17. Tractors
    tractors Fields go plow two tractors with various performance. The first tractor plow whole field in 11 hours, the second tractor plow whole field 19 hours longer. How long take plow whole field with two tractors?
  18. Meadow
    ovce-miestami-baran On the meadow grazing horses, cows and sheep, together less than 200. If cows were 45 times more, horses 60 times more and sheep 35 times more than there are now, their numbers would equall. How many horses, cows and sheep are on the meadow together?
  19. Cyclist
    1cyclist Cyclist goes uphill 10 km for 50 minutes and downhill minutes for 29 minutes, both applied to the pedals same force. How long he pass 10 km by plane?
  20. Sea water
    sea_1 Seawater contains about 4.7% salt. How many dm3 of distilled water we must pour into 39 dm3 of sea water to get water with 1.5% salt?

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