Examples for 8th grade

Two pen
Two pen and one notebook costs $56. One pen costs 1/5 of one notebook. How much is the one notebook?
Let x
Let x represent one quantity. State what that quantity represents. Express the second quantity in terms of x. The length of the rectangle is 4 inches less than 8 times the width.
AMSL and skiing
Tomas skis from point A (3200m above sea level to place B. Hill has 20% descent. The horizontal distance between the start and finish is 2,5km. At what altitude is point B?
Class 9.C
Professor collects money in the 9. C for a school trip. 2/3 of the collected amount was from girls and 1/4 from boys. The rest of 410 CZK went from the class fund. How much will the school trip cost in total?
The devils
The devils weighed in hell with Dorota. They found that Dorota and the two devils weigh 250 kg together and Dorota and the four devils weigh 426 kg. All the devils weigh the same. How Much Does Dorota Weigh?
Divide
Divide the number 72 in the ratio 7: 2 and calculate the ratio of the numbers found in this order and write down as decimal.
Tree trunk
What is the smallest diameter of a tree trunk that we can cut a square-section square with a side length of 20 cm?
RPM
An electric motor makes 3,000 revolutions per minutes. How many degrees does it rotate in one second?
Balls
From the bag with numbered balls (numbers 1,2,3,. ..20) we pick one ball. What is the probability of choosing a number containing 1?
Time passing
6 years ago, Marcela's mother was two times older than her and two times younger than her father. When Marcela is 36, she will be twice as young as her father. How old are Marcela, her father, and mother now?
Average speed
The truck drove 1/2 of the way on the highway at 80km/h. The other half of the way 20km/h. Calculate the average speed
Three pumps together
One pump fills the tank in 1.5 hours, the second in 2 hours, and the third in 3 hours 20 minutes. How many minutes will the tank fill with three pumps if they work simultaneously?
Pebble
The aquarium with internal dimensions of the bottom 40 cm × 35 cm and a height of 30 cm is filled with two-thirds of water. Calculate how many millimeters the water level in the aquarium rises by dipping a pebble-shaped sphere with a diameter of 18 cm.
Steel tube
The steel tube has an inner diameter of 4 cm and an outer diameter of 4.8 cm. The density of the steel is 7800 kg/m3. Calculate its length if it weighs 15 kg.
Copper sulphate
How much g of water do we have to add to 240 g of an 84% CuSO4 solution to produce a 60% solution? (Express the mass of crystalline CuSO4 in the original solution and in the resulting solution and compare them. )
Sales off
After discounting 40% the goods cost 15 €. How much did the cost of the goods before the discount?
The second
The second angle of a triangle is the same size as the first angle. The third angle is 12 degrees larger than the first angle. How large are the angles?
Drilling machine
A manufacturing firm purchased a heavy duty drilling machine. They were given two payment options: Option 1: Make a payment of $46,000 immediately to settle the invoice for the machine. Option 2: Make a payment of $21,500 immediately and the balance of $
Proportion 3
For every 8 mango trees in the orchard, there are 4 star apple trees. If there are 1320 trees, how many trees of each kind are there?
Drive to NJ
Ed drove to New Jersey at 30mph. He drove back home in 3 hours at 50 mph. How many hours did it take Ed to drive to New Jersey?

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