Examples for 8th grade - page 16

Train
A passenger train traveled for 2 hours 74 km. 3.1 hours after its departure started fast train and caught it on 186 km. How many km/h is different its average speeds?
Perimeter and legs
Determine the perimeter of a right triangle if the length of one leg is 75% length of the second leg and its content area is 24 cm².
Rotating cone II
Calculate area of surface of rotating cone with base radius r=19 cm and height h=9 cm.
Prism
The lenght, width and height of a right prism are 6, 17 and 10 respectively. What is the lenght of the longest segment whose endpoints are vertices of the prism?
Division
Three siblings Helena, Oliver and George split the bag with candies on merit in the ratio 6:1:4. How many candies should each get if in bag were 88?
Wire D
Wire length 1 m is bent so that it forms a semicircle circuit (including the diameter). Determine the radius of the semicircle.
Triangle in circle
Vertices of the triangle ABC lies on a circle with radius 3 so that it is divided into three parts in the ratio 4:4:4. Calculate the circumference of the triangle ABC.
Cyclists
Cyclist who rides at an average speed 16 km/h travels trip distance 10 min before the cyclist who rides at an average speed 11 km/h. What is the length of this cyclist trip(distance in km)?
Sphere A2V
Surface of the sphere is 241 mm². What is its volume?
Two balls
Two balls, one 8cm in radius and the other 6cm in radius, are placed in a cylindrical plastic container 10cm in radius. Find the volume of water necessary to cover them.
Hollow sphere
Steel hollow sphere floats on the water plunged into half its volume. Determine the outer radius of the sphere and wall thickness, if you know that the weight of the sphere is 0.5 kg and density of steel is 7850 kg/m³
Cardboard box
We want to make a cardboard box shaped quadrangular prism with rhombic base. Rhombus has a side of 5 cm and 8 cm one diagonal long. The height of the box to be 12 cm. The box will be open at the top. How many square centimeters cardboard we need, if we cal
Magnification of the square
If we increase the square side, increase the content of the 80 %. About what percentage was increased his sides?
Arm
Calculate the length of the arm r of isosceles triangle ABC, with base |AB| = 14 cm and a height v=18 cm.
Scouts
The boys from scout group traveled 5 days distance 115 km. Every day walked 1.5 km less than the previous day. How many kilometers scouts walked in the first day?
Election mathematics
In elections, 12 political parties received this shares of voters: party A 56.2 %party B 8.5 %party C 8.2 %party D 6.2 %party E 6.1 %party F 5.5 %party G 3.2 %party H 2.1 %party I 2 %party J 1 %party K 1 % Calculate what the shares acquired in the parlia
Tanker
An oil tanker can be emptied by the first pump in 4.9 hours. Second pump can empty an tanker in 8 hours. If the first pump started at 4:00 and second 1.4 hour later, at what time will the tanker be empty?
Cone and the ratio
Rotational cone has a height 23 cm and the ratio of the base surface to lateral surface is 7: 9. Calculate a surface of the base and the lateral surface.
Triangle angles
The angles α, β, γ in triangle ABC are in the ratio 6:2:6. Calculate size of angles.
Sector
The perimeter of a circular sector with an angle 1.8 rad is 64 cm. Determine the radius of the circle from which the sector comes.

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