Examples for 8th grade - page 101

Average age
The company of five people has an average age of 46 years. The average age of the first four is 43 years. How many years has the fifth member of this company?
Sale discount
The product was discounted so that eight products at a new price cost just as five products at an old price. How many percents is the new price lower than the old price?
Sugar production
From 1 ton of beet, 150 kg of sugar is produced. To clean 1 ton of sugar 450 kg of lime is consumed. Calculate how many kgs of lime is consumed when processing 1 ton of sugar beet?
Cuboid
The sum of the lengths of the three edges of the cuboid that originate from one vertex is 210 cm. Edge length ratio is 7: 5: 3. Calculate the length of the edges.
Sale
A camera has a listed price of $751.98 before tax. If the sales tax rate is 9.25%, find the total cost of the camera with sales tax included.
Pendulum
Calculate the length of the pendulum that is 2 cm lower in the lowest position than in the highest position. The length of the circular arc to be described when moving is 20cm.
Our house
Our house would paint four painters in 14 days. How long could it paint five painters? How long will it take if two other painters will come to help after 5 days?
Birthday
Mother bought 21 desserts on the occasion of Mirka's birthday one tips was 9 CZK and the kremlin cost 12 CZK. For all desserts, she paid 213 CZK. How many kremlins and how many tips mums did buy?
Butter
At the Orville redenbocher popcorn factory there is a tank of artificial butter substitute which is 55 feet tall and 18 feet in diameter. How many gallons of artificial butter substitute can the tank contain?
Electric input power
Solve problems related to electric power: a) U = 120 V, I = 0.5 A, P =? b) P = 200 W, U = 230 V, I =? c) I = 5 A, P = 2200W, U =?
Exponential equation
Determine the value of having y in the expression (3^y): (4^-1)=36.Y is a natural number greater than zero.
Bicycle gear
The pedal bicycle wheel has 56 teeth and a rear 20 gear tooth. How many times does the bicycle wheel turn when you make 20 turns of the pedal wheel?
Harvesters
The first harvester will harvest the grain from the field in 20 hours, the second, the more powerful in 10 hours. How long will take harvest this field by both harvesters, if the second harvester has to be set up first and this takes 2 hours? The first har
Quadrangular pyramid
The regular quadrangular pyramid has a base length of 6 cm and a side edge length of 9 centimeters. Calculate its volume and surface area.
Prism 4 sides
The prism has a square base with a side length of 3 cm. The diagonal of the sidewall of the prism/BG/is 5 cm. Calculate the surface of this prism in cm square and the volume in liters
Body diagonal - cube
Calculate the surface and cube volume with body diagonal 15 cm long.
Fractions
Three-quarters of an unknown number are 4/5. What is 5/6 of this unknown number?
Four numbers
The first number is 50% second, the second number is 40% third, the third number is 20% of the fourth. The sum is 396. What are the numbers?
Regular prism
The regular four-sided prism has a base of 25 cm² and a surface of 210 cm². Find its volume.
Cross road
From the junction of two streets that are perpendicular to each other, two cyclists (each on another street) walked out. One ran 18 km/h and the second 24 km/h. How are they away from a) 6 minutes, b) 15 minutes?

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