Examples for 8th grade - page 87

Cone
Calculate the volume of the rotating cone with a base radius 26.3 cm and a side 38.4 cm long.
Factory and divisions
The factory consists of three auxiliary divisions total 2,406 employees. The second division has 76 employees less than 1st division and 3rd division has 212 employees more than the 2nd. How many employees has each division?
Blackberries
Daniel, Jolana and Stano collected together 34 blackberries. Daniel collected 8 blackberries more than Jolana, Jolana 4 more than Stano. Determine the number blackberries each collected .
Sphere radius
The surface of the sphere is 60 cm square. Calculate its radius; result round to tenth of cm.
Tree shadow 3
What is the diameter of a tree around which is 3m 9dm 7cm long rope wrapped? How big is its cross-sectional area?
Sales off
shoes cost x euros. First they are discounted by 50%, and then 25% of the new amount. Determine what percentage of the total cost is cheaper.
RT perimeter
The leg of the rectangular triangle is 7 cm shorter than the second leg and 8 cm shorter than the hypotenuse. Calculate the triangle circumference.
Acres
Two hours 24 students harvested chestnuts on 36 acres. How many square meters harvested one student per hour?
Raspberries
Dano had 20 raspberries. John had 90% more raspberries than Dano. Determine how many raspberries have Dano and Juraj together.
Ravens
On two trees sitting 17 ravens. If 3 ravens flew from first to second tree and 5 ravens took off from second tree then the first tree has 2 times more ravens than second tree. How many ravens was originally on every tree?
Cross section
The cross-section ABCD of a swimming pool is a trapezium. Its width AB=14 meters, depth at the shallow end is 1.5 meters and at the deep end is 8 meter. Find the area of the cross-section.
Spain vs USA
Spain lost to the US by 4 goals. In the match total fell 10 goals. How many goals gave the Spain and how the United States?
Candies
There are red, blue and green candies in bad. Red to green is in 6:11 ratio and blue to red in a 7: 5 ratio. In what proportion are blue to green candies?
Rectangle 35
Find the area of a rectangle when the diagonal is equal to 30 cms and the width is double the length.
The rectangle
Determine the area of the rectangle where the length and width are in the ratio 5:2 and its length is 7.5 cm longer than its width. Determine also its length and its width.
Unknown number x
5% from an unknown number equals the number 2⁶. What is the unknown number?
Pond
A pond with two open floodgates will emptied in 20 days. A larger floodgate will emptied whole pond in 30 days. For how long would he be emptied with a smaller floodgate.
Apples
Apples I picked 600 kg this year. Autumn's apples was 4 times more than the summer. How many kg's I picked the summer and how much winter apples?
Walnuts
x walnuts were in the mission. Dano took 1/4 of nuts Michael took 1/8 from the rest and John took 34 nuts. It stayed here 29 nuts. Determine the original number of nuts.
One percent
One percent of all the lights in the city are LED, the remaining 99% are conventional. Other types are not there. John counted them honestly but he had counted only conventional. After a good dinner he registered numbers and he have notice that from all t

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