Units - examples - page 88

  1. Iron collecting
    paper_1 Class 7A collected 3.2 tonnes of iron more than class 7B. Together they collected 6.4 tonnes of iron to the secondary raw material collection. How much did each class collect?
  2. 3 cats
    mouse_1 3 cats eat 3 mice in 3 days. How many mice will eat 10 cats in 10 days?
  3. Surface of cubes
    cubes3_6 Peter molded a cuboid 2 cm, 4cm, 9cm of plasticine. Then the plasticine split into two parts in a ratio 1:8. From each part made a cube. In what ratio are the surfaces of these cubes?
  4. Area of iso-trap
    diagons-of-an-isosceles-trapezoid Find the area of an isosceles trapezoid, if the lengths of its bases are 16 cm, and 30 cm, and the diagonals are perpendicular to each other.
  5. Solid cuboid
    cuboid_18 A solid cuboid has a volume of 40 cm3. The cuboid has a total surface area of 100 cm squared. One edge of the cuboid has length 2 cm. Find the length of a diagonal of the cuboid. Give your answer correct to 3 sig. Fig.
  6. Points on line segment
    segment Points P & Q belong to segment AB. If AB=a, AP = 2PQ = 2QB, find the distance: between point A and the midpoint of the segment QB.
  7. Trapezium internal angles
    lichob_2_2 A trapezium where AB is parallel to CD, has angle A : angle D = 4 :5, angle B = 3x-15 and angle C = 4x+20. Find angle A, B, C and D.
  8. Thunder and lightning
    lightning There was a glimpse of the sky and we hear a thunder in 4.5 seconds. The light spreads at 300,000 kilometers per second, so we can assume the flash instantly without delay. However, the speed of the sound is much smaller in the air one third of a kilomete
  9. Family 8
    family_19 Father is 38 years old, daughter 12, son 14. How many years will father have as many years as his children together?
  10. Photo enlarge
    photo Mark wants to enlarge a 4-inch by 6-inch photo so that it has a height of 15inches. Use a ratio table to determine the new width of the photo.
  11. How far
    lighthouse_1 From the top of a lighthouse 145 ft above sea level, the angle of depression of a boat 29°. How far is the boat from the lighthouse?
  12. Fridays
    calendar_3 Friday 13th is in 4 days. What day is today and what day it is?
  13. Two cuboids
    cuboid_13 Find the volume of cuboidal box whose one edge is: a) 1.4m and b) 2.1dm
  14. Five pumps
    nadrz_14 The water tank is filled with two pumps in 48 minutes. How long would it take to fill it with 5 same pumps?
  15. Milk bill
    milk_3 Mrs Tara buys 2 liters of milk daily. If 1 liter of milk cost $0.27. What will be her milk bill for 30 days.
  16. Soda
    soda_water A pack of 12 sodas cost 5.04. What is the unit rate in dollars per soda?
  17. Bathroom 2
    tiles_5 A bathroom is 2.4 meters long and 1.8 meters wide. How many square tiles 1 dm on each side are to be used to cover it?
  18. Rainfall
    cumulus How many liters of water did fell in a 32m long and 8m wide garden, if 8mm of rain fell?
  19. Fence and scale
    ctverec_mo_4 The garden with 80 m of fencing is draw on plan as a square with a side length of 4 cm. At what scale is this plan made?
  20. Photocopier
    picture A photocopier enlarges a picture in the ratio 7:4. How many times will a picture of size 6cm by 4cm be enlarged to fit on a 30cm by 20 cm page?

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