Examples for 8th grade

  1. Prism - box
    cuboids_1 The base of prism is a rectangle with a side of 7.5 cm and 12.5 cm diagonal. The volume of the prism is V = 0.9 dm3. Calculate the surface of the prism.
  2. Church roof 2
    skleneny-kuzel The roof has the shape of a rotating cone shell with a base diameter of 6 m and a height of 2.5 m. How many monez (CZK) will cost the roof cover sheet if 1 m2 of metal sheet costs 152 CZK and if you need 15% extra for joints, overlays and waste?
  3. Siblings
    tri-sourozenci Three siblings had saved up a total of 1,274 CZK. Peter had saved up to 15% more than Jirka and Hanka 10% less than Peter. How much money they saved each one of them?
  4. Cylinder
    cylinder_6 In a 1-meter diameter cylinder is 1413 liters of water, which is 60% of the cylinder. Calculate the cylinder height in meters, do not write the units. The resulting value round and write as an integer.
  5. Cylinder
    cyl_1 The cylinder-shaped container has 80 liters of water. The water reaches 45 cm height. How many liters of water will be in a container if water level extend to a height 72 cm? Write the result in liters, write down only as a whole or decimal number.
  6. Cenda and Pepa
    suchacky Cenda and Pepa went to the event. Cenda started alone. Canda started after him for 20 minutes. How long took Cenda to catch him? Cenda traveling at 15 km/h, and Pepa traveling at 25 km/h.
  7. Gardens
    pozemky_1 I have a garden in the shape of a square with a side length of 0.02 kilometers. Neighbor has a large garden as well and one side of the garden we share. I'd bought from a neighbor garden that my area of my garden increased to 5 ares. a/ By how many acres
  8. Painting
    malovka The room is long 50 meters and wide 60dm and 300 cm high. Calculate how much it will cost painting if area of windows and doors is 15% of the total area. One square meter cost 50cents.
  9. Acid solution
    h2so4 By adding 250 grams of a 96% solution of sulfuric acid to its 3% solution its initial concentration was changed to 25%. How many grams of 3% of the acid were used for dilution?
  10. Hydrochloric acid
    hcl Determine the concentration of which must have a solution of hydrochloric acid that mixing 10 l of the solution with 8 liters of 26% solution to get the solution with a concentration of 50%?
  11. Distilled water
    water2_1 Sea water contains 5% salt. How many distilled water should be pour to 40 kg of sea water so that the salt content is 2%. How many kilograms of 2% of sea water we get?
  12. Solution
    chemia What amount of 80% solution and what amount of water is needed to mix in order to obtain two liters of 60% solution of this mixture?
  13. Water temperatures
    water2 To 25 liters of water at 50 °C we add 15 liters of water at a different temperature. How many °C should the water be colder than 50 °C so that 40 liters of the water obtained has a temperature 42.5 °C?
  14. Concrete block
    abc Determine the volume of concrete block whose one edge of the base has a length 3 meters, body diagonal is 13 meters and its height is 12 meters.
  15. Costume
    zlatovlaska Denisa is preparing for a goldsmith's costume carnival. During the preparations, she thought she would let her hair wipe instead - she would apply a 5 μm thick layer of gold to each hair. How much gold would Denisa need? Assume that all hundred thousand D
  16. Candy
    bonbons_5 The price for 1kg of more expensive candy is 125 CZK. The price for 1kg of cheaper candy is 100 CZK. We make two different blends of candy. And now. The second blend contains 2kg of more expensive candy and several kg of cheaper candy. The price per 1 kg
  17. Fit ball
    fitball What is the size of the surface of Gymball (FIT - ball) with a diameter of 65 cm?
  18. Digging
    Dighole A pit is dug in the shape of a cuboid with dimensions 10mX8mX3m. The earth taken out is spread evenly on a rectangular plot of land with dimensions 40m X 30m. What is the increase in the level of the plot ?
  19. Mr. John
    jabka Mr. John wants to buy winter apples Spartan. There are two ways to buy: 1) buy apples at the marketplace, where 1 kg costs 15 CZK. 2) Bring the car to the agricultural farm, where the apples are sold after 9 CZK per kilogram. However, he must pay CZK 150
  20. Tiles path
    tiles_3 A rectangular park measures 24mX18m. A path 2.4m wide is constructed all around it. Find the cost of paving the path with cement tiles of size 60cm X 40cm at the rate of $5.60 per tile ?

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