Examples for 8th grade

Number of problems found: 2737

  • Scale factor
    cuboid_7 A prism with a volume of 1458 mm3 is scaled down to a volume of 16mm3. What is the scale factor in fraction form?
  • Road
    12perctent The angle of a straight road is approximately 12 degrees. Determine the percentage of this road.
  • Pages counting
    books_39 There are pages numbered from 2 to 104 in the book. How many digits have to be printed to number the pages?
  • Cross road
    cyclist_34 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?
  • Sales of products
    cukriky_9 For 80 pieces of two quality products a total sales is 175 Eur. If the first quality product was sold for n EUR per piece (n natural number) and the second quality product after 2 EUR per piece. How many pieces of the first quality were sold?
  • Apples 2
    jablko James has 13 apples. He has 30 percent more apples than Sam. How many apples has Sam?
  • Football season
    ball_f Dalibor and Adam together scored 97 goals in the season. Adam scored 9 goals more than Dalibor. How many goals scored each?
  • Pavement
    chodnik2 Calculate the length of the pavement that runs through a circular square with a diameter of 40 m if distance the pavement from the center is 15 m.
  • Cube into sphere
    cube_sphere_in The cube has brushed a sphere as large as possible. Determine how much percent was the waste.
  • Apprentice
    ucen Worker and apprentice execute the work for 6 hours. Worker performs himself in 10 hours. How long do the work of an apprentice?
  • Moon
    zem_mesic We see Moon in the perspective angle 28'. Moon's radius is 1740 km at the time of the full moon. Calculate the mean distance of the Moon from the Earth.
  • Sweets
    sladkosti 3 chocolate and 7 cakes cost 85, - CZK. 2 chocolates and 6 cakes cost 86, - CZK. How much is 5 chocolates and 9 cakes? I wonder how to get the result, but only by logic without the use of a system of equations
  • Parcel
    2186094 parcel has a rectangular shape of a trapezoid with bases 12 m and 10 m and a height 8 m. On parcel was built object with a footprint an isosceles triangle shape with side 4 m and height three-quarters of a meter. What is the area of unbuild parcel?
  • Two chords
    tetivy Calculate the length of chord AB and perpendicular chord BC to circle if AB is 4 cm from the center of the circle and BC 8 cm from the center of the circle.
  • Tulips and daffodils
    tulipany_2 Two hundred twenty tulips and daffodils are planted in the flowerbed. One-third of all tulips and one-sixth of all daffodils equals the number of all tulips. How many tulips and how many daffodils?
  • Type of triangle
    237_triangle How do I find the triangle type if the angle ratio is 2:3:7 ?
  • The publisher
    books_33 The publisher prepares the release of the dictionary. Print preparation costs no matter the number of printed copies of 150000 CZK. The printer charges 80 CZK for one print. A) What are the costs of one dictionary if 5000 copies printed? B) For what numbe
  • Five pupils
    lavicka_1 Five pupils clean 30 chairs one hour before four pupils. How many chairs clean one pupil in 1 hour?
  • Tree shadow
    tree3 The shadow of the tree is 16 meters long. Shadow of two meters high tourist sign beside standing is 3.2 meters long. What height has tree (in meters)?
  • Probability - tickets
    zreby What is the probability when you have 25 tickets in 5000 that you not wins the first (one) prize?

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