Examples for 6th grade (the sixth graders)

  1. Bitoo and Reena
    apples_10 Bitoo ate 3/5 part of an apple and the remaining part was eaten by his sister Reena. How much part of an apple did Renna eat? Who had the larger share? By how much?
  2. Zdeněk
    tanks_3 Zdeněk picked up 15 l of water from a 100-liter full-water barrel. Write a fraction of what part of Zdeněk's water he picked.
  3. Cylinder-shaped vase
    vaza_1 If the cylinder-shaped vase is filled with water up to 35 cm, it contains 1 liter of water. How much water will it contain if it is filled to a height of 45cm?
  4. Volume of cone
    cone_church_1 Find the volume of a right circular cone-shaped building with a height of 9 cm and a radius base of 7 cm.
  5. Annual rainfall
    rain_7 The average annual rainfall is 686 mm. How many liters will fall on the 1-hectare field?
  6. Bread to kilos
    chlieb_3 They brought in d two kilos and t three kilos of bread to the store. By the end of the day, 14 two-kg bread were sold. How many kilos of bread remained in the store by the next day?
  7. Table
    stol_1 Find the circumference of the table, where the long side is 1.28 meters and the short side is 86 cm.
  8. Toilets
    toilet A federal law requires that all residential toilets sold in the United States use no more than 1 3/5 gallons of water per flush. Prior to this legislation, conventional toilets used 3 2/5 gallons of water per flush. Find the amount of water saved in one y
  9. Babysitting
    babysitting The amount that Susan charges per hour for babysitting are directly proportional to the number of children she is watching. She charges $4.50 for 3 kids. How much would she charge to babysit 5 kids?
  10. Steps
    steps_5 Peter walked a distance of 60 m 102 steps. How many steps must he take to walk 150 m?
  11. Scale of the map
    city_5 The distance between two cities is actually 30 km and the map is 6 cm. What is the scale of the map?
  12. Flour
    vaha_10 Kim needs 3/4 cup of flour to make 12 cookies. How much flour would she need to make 60 cookies?
  13. Scouts 4
    1957-4a 4/7 of the students in a school are boys. If 3/8 of the boys are scouts, how many scouts are there in a school of 1878 students?
  14. Temperature 2
    teplomer_4 Sunday's high temperature was 3 degrees higher than Saturday's. On Monday, the temperature fell 5 degrees, then rose 7 degrees on Tuesday and 4 more on Wednesday. Then it fell 17 degrees to a record low of 31 on Thursday. What was the temperature on Satur
  15. Breads
    chlieb_2 Several pieces of bread were in the store. Half of them plus a half of bread bought a cookbook. Of the remaining bread, half of it plus half of the bread was bought by Mr. Novák. The last bread was bought by Ms. Small. How many breads were in the store at
  16. MW oven
    mw-oven You plug a microwave oven into a 20 amp electrical circuit. the microwave uses as much as 12.5 amps . How many amps are available on this circuit for other appliances?
  17. Railroad
    trains_7 The railroad runs parallel to the railway. The train travels at 36 km/h on track. In the opposite direction, the motorcycle rides at 90 km/h. The train passes in 3 seconds. How long is a train?
  18. Natural gas in kWh
    plynomer Gas consumption for 2017 was 11,301 kWh I paid 532 € How much 1 m3?
  19. Trees
    jablone_9 From the total number of trees in the orchard, there are two-fifths pearls and apples are three eighty. The rest of the trees are 9 ceremonial. How many trees are in the set?
  20. Mixed numbers
    zlomky_10 Rewrite mixed numbers so the fractions have the same denominator: 5 1/5 - 2 2/3

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