Examples for 8th grade

  1. The farmer
    kombajn The farmer harvested 840 tons of grain in 2006, which was 44% less than in 2005, and one-fifth more than in 2004. How many tons of grain harvested in years 2005 and 2004?
  2. Painters
    maliri 15 painters painted fence for 280 minutes. For how many minutes paint half of this fence 12 painters?
  3. Summerjobs
    agentura The agency give summerjobs for 2352 students in 2018. The eighth was high-school students, the rest was undergraduates. How many undergraduates works via agency in 2018?
  4. Seven tractors
    koleso Seven tractor plowed 308 ha field in four days. How many hectares of fields will plowe 9 tractors in 3 days at the same power?
  5. Painting
    natieranie Jožko with Fero painted the bench for four hours. How many hours would take work if four friends help him?
  6. Tailor master
    saty There are less than 50m of textile in the tailoring workshop. When cutting on a blouse (consumption 1.5m), no textile is left. When using a cloth (consumption of 3.2m), no textile is left. How many meters of textile are in a tailor's workshop?
  7. Container
    canister First day got off 1/4 water from full container, second day 1/5 of the remaining water. How many percent remain container filled?
  8. Mukls
    Chinese women workers The working group, in which 6 workers would ordered job completed within 21 working days. How many workers must be accept yet that the contract will be completed in 14 working days?
  9. Wood
    rubanie_dreva Peter chops wood. If they cut down a half hours a day he ended work in 9 days. But Peter needs to end work 3 days earlier. How many minutes a day should cut down?
  10. Five tractors
    tractor_1 Five tractors plow field in 4.8 hours. How long plow this field if after 1.5 hours of work two tractors went to a different field?
  11. Unknown number 10
    num_1 Number first increased by 30%, then by 1/5. What percentage we've increased the original number?
  12. Influenza
    flu For the first week of February by influenza 5% of children in kindergarten. The second week ill 9 next children, bringing the number of patients increased to 20%. How many children went to the kindergarten?
  13. Copy typist
    pisaci_stroj Typist for 12 hours rewritten 15% of the manuscript. After how many hours he will done 35% of the manuscript?
  14. Common cylinder
    valec_2 I've quite common example of a rotary cylinder. Known: S1 = 1 m2, r = 0.1 m Calculate : v =? V =? You can verify the results?
  15. Uranium ore
    uran Uranium ore contains 0.2% of pure uranium and pure uranium contains 0.07% of fissile uranium. How many grams of fissile uranium contains 2800 ton of uranium ore?
  16. Cargo
    kon-povoz Weight of cargo car is 761 kg. Weight of car is 23% of the total weight of car+cargo. What is the weight of the cargo load?
  17. Wood
    timber Wood contains 12% water. 1 m3 of wood weighs 650 kg. How many liters of water it contains?
  18. James
    nine James paints a fence. If every day instead of 14 planks painted 16 would be done on one day earlier. How many of planks has a fence altogether?
  19. Crowns
    money_4 1180 crowns is divided into three people that A got 20% less than B and C by 15% more than B. How many got A,B and C?
  20. Repair company
    servis The company repairs cars. The first day repair half of the contract second day, the half of the rest and third day 8 residue cars. How many total cars company repaired?

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