Examples for 8th grade

Three friends
Divide 570 euros to three friends so that first will get 50 euros less than the second and third twice more than the first. How many euros will get everyone?
Motion 2
At 10 o'clock started from place A car speed at 90 km/h. 20 minutes after started from the place B at speed 60 km/h another car. Distance places A and B is 120 kilometers. What time and where they meet?
Cars motion
From point A car start at the speed of 90 km/h. Against it departs from the point B at the same time another car at 60 km/h. For how long and where they met if the distance between A and B is 180 km?
Dollars
Mama split 760 dollars Jane, Dane and Eva as follows: Jane got three times more than Dane and Dane and got 40 more than Eva. How much does get each of them?
The book
If one day you read p pages, you will read the book 24 days. If you read each day 10 pages more, you would read a book in 16 days. How many pages have the book?
Shop stores
Workers untied fruit to stores. In the first quarter shipments, in the second fifth shipment, in the third two-fifths of the rest and in the fourth 231 kilograms. How many fruits were together?
Scouts
Three scouts went on a three day trip. The second day went 4 km more than the first day. The third day went two times less than the first day. They went along 54 km. How many kilometers went every day together?
Unknown number
Samuel wrote unknown number. Then he had add 200000 to the number and the result multiply by three. When it calculated he was surprised, because the result would have received anyway, if write digit to the end of original number. Find unknown number.
Triangle
Determine whether a triangle can be formed with the given side lengths. If so, use Heron's formula to find the area of the triangle. a = 158 b = 185 c = 201
Vacation
Parents piggybacking children on vacation to its grandmother and grandfather at a city distant 150 kilometers. They agreed to meet halfway. Parents will be travel at 90 km/h, grandmother and grandfather at 60 km/h. Parents depart at 12:00 hours. When gran
Football league
In the football league is 16 teams. How many different sequence of results may occur at the end of the competition?
Chord 4
I need to calculate the circumference of a circle, I know the chord length c=22 cm and the distance from the center d=29 cm chord to the circle.
Pytagoriade
Two fifth-graders teams competing in math competitions - in Mathematical Olympiad and Pytagoriade. Of the 33 students competed in at least one of the contest 22 students. Students who competed only in Pytagoriade was twice more than those who just compete
Bath salts
Bath salt A weighs 900 grams and costs 36,40 CZK. Bath Salts B weighs 1000 grams, but costs 85 CZK. How much is a bath salt A cheaper than B one?
Water lake
The length of the lake water is 8 meters width 7 meters and depth 120 centimeters. How many liters of water can fit into the water lake?
Masons
1 mason casts 30.8 meters square in 8 hours. How long casts 4 masons 178 meters square?
Travel by bus
Five girls traveling by bus. Each holds in each hand two baskets. Each basket contains 5 cats. Each cat has 5 kittens. 3 girls getting off the bus and another girl without baskets go on board. The bus control driver. How many legs are in the bus?
Five girls
Five girls traveling by bus. Each holds in each hand two baskets. In each basket are four cats. Each cat has three kittens. Two girls exits bus. How many legs are in the bus?
Star
Calculate the content of the shaded part of square with side 28 cm.
Two boxes-cubes
Two boxes cube with edges a=38 cm and b = 81 cm is to be replaced by one cube-shaped box (same overall volume). How long will be its edge?

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