Time + direct relationship - examples

  1. Cook on gas
    lpg The gas cylinder will last for 30 weekends for 2 hours of daily cooking. How many days will we be able to cook on a new cylinder when we cook 3 hours a day?
  2. Pool
    pool If water flows into the pool by two inlets, fill the whole for 18 hours. First inlet filled pool 6 hour longer than second. How long pool is filled with two inlets separately?
  3. 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
  4. 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?
  5. Server
    p_pro Calculate how many average minutes a year is the web server is unavailable, the availability is 99.99%.
  6. Gimli Glider
    gimli_glider Aircraft Boeing 767 lose both engines at 42000 feet. The plane captain maintain optimum gliding conditions. Every minute, lose 1910 feet and maintain constant speed 211 knots. Calculate how long takes to plane from engines failure to hit ground. Calculate
  7. 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 €.
  8. Road repair
    workers_1 Road repair took 10 days for 36 workers if they worked 9 hours a day. How many days take repair same road 37 workers if they work 8 per day?
  9. Pediatrician
    doctor Pediatrician this month of 19 working days takes 3 days holidays. What is the probability that on Monday will be at work?
  10. Greenhouses
    sklenik Two workers would make installation of greenhouses for 54 hours. For how many hours does the installation 9 workers?
  11. TV fail
    old_tv The TV has after 10,000 hours average 25 failures. Determine the probability of TV failure after 200 hours of operation.
  12. Train and car
    car_vs_train The train and the car started at a constant speed to journey. When the train travels 87 km, the car travels 97 km. How many km travels the train when the car travels 87 km?
  13. Negative percentage
    trabant In 2004, the company had a loss of 40900 Euros. Two years later he was already in profit 48900 Eur. Calculate what percentage of the company increased profits in this two years.
  14. Map
    cycle_map On the tourist map at a scale of 1 : 50000 is distance between two points along a straight road 3.7 cm. How long travels this distance on a bike at 30 km/h? Time express in minutes.
  15. Mailbox
    post Mailbox is opening at regular intervals 3 times a day. The first time is opened at 8:00 and the last at 19:00. Calculate hours when mailbox is opened during day.
  16. Working time - shortening
    worker The media often speculates about the change (especially to shorten) the working time of the five-day eight-hour working week to another working model. Calculate how many hours a day the employee would have to work a day at 3-day work week if he must work t
  17. Supermarket cashiers
    tesco_1 When at the supermarket are opened only 2 cash people waiting in the front approximately 12 minutes. How many will shorten the average waiting time in a front where supermarket open another three cashiers?
  18. Salary
    platy Calculate equivalent annual salary to hourly salary $ 19. Assume a 42-hour work week.
  19. Hurry - rush
    bus_3 At an average speed 7 km/h I will come from the school to the bus stop for 30 minutes. How fast I need to go if I need to get to the bus stop in 21 minutes?
  20. Divers
    diving 20-member group of divers carries the air for 15 hours of diving. 4 members of the expedition sick or wasn't came. How many hours is sufficient air to other divers?

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