Algebra - math word problems - page 22 of 303
Number of problems found: 6047
- Three sets
Of 240 students, 173 are on the honor roll, 48 are members of the varsity team, and 36 are on the honor roll and are also members of the varsity team. What is the probability that a randomly selected student is on the honor roll or is a member of the vars
- Richard
Richard is conducting an experiment. Every time he flips a fair two-sided coin, he also rolls a six-sided die. What is the probability that the coin will land on tails and the die will land on an even number?
- Three in a ratio
If A is 40% more than B, B is 20% less than C then, find the ratio A : C.
- By selling 2
By selling 100 pens, a shopkeeper gains the selling price of 20 pens. Find his gain percent.
- 4th digit
Write a digit in place of X so that 85X634 is divisible by 11.
- A thief
A thief is spotted by a policeman from a distance of 100 metres. When the policeman starts the chase, the thief also starts running. If the speed of the thief be 8 km/hr and that of the policeman 10 km/hr . How far the thief will have run before he is ove
- Ruben
Ruben owns a restaurant. He likes to keep track of everything customers are buying. His top 3 sellers are sandwiches, salads, and pizza. He knows that 1/3 of his customers buy a sandwich, 1/2 buy a salad, and 1/4 buy a pizza. What fraction of customers bu
- A train 2
A train 90 meters long is moving at speed 80 km/h overtakes a second train moving at 56 km/h in the same direction and passes completely in 25 1/2 seconds. Compute how long is the second train.
- A plane 3
A plane left 30 minutes later than the scheduled time and in order to reach the destination 1500 km away in time, it has to increase the speed by 250 km/hr from the usual speed. Find its usual speed.
- A train 7
A train overtakes two persons. They are walking in the same direction as the train at the rate of 2 km/hr and 4 km/hr. The train passes them completely in 9 and 10 seconds respectively. Find the length of the train.
- A train 3
A train takes 3 hours to go from one station to another station. If its speed is decreased by 12 km/h then the journey time will increase by 45 min. What is the distance between the two stations?
- A passenger
A passenger train, 150 m long, passes a railway platform, 200 m long, in 35 seconds. Find: 1) speed of the train in km/h 2) the time taken by the train to pass a man cycling in the direction of the train at the rate of 9 km/h.
- Two persons
Two persons are walking beside a railway track at respective speeds of 2 and 4 km per hour in the same direction. A train came from behind them and crossed them in 90 and 100 seconds, respectively. Find the length of the train.
- A boat 4
A boat travels 25 km upstream in 5 hours and 25 km downstream in 2.5 hours. If the boat increased its speed by 3 km/h, it would take 1 hour less to travel the downstream distance. Find the speed of the stream.
- A tank 2
A tank can be filled by a pipe A in 3 hours and by pipe B in 5 hours. When the tank is full, it can be drained by pipe C in 4 hours. If the tank is initially empty and all three pipes are open, how many hours will it take to fill up the tank?
- Two parts of a run
Adam can cover a certain distance in 1 hour 24 min by covering two-thirds at 4 km/hr and the rest at 5 km/hr. Find the total distance.
- Two trains 10
Two trains of lengths 75 m and 95 m are moving in the same direction at 9 m/s and 8 m/s, respectively. Find the time taken by the faster train to cross the slower train.
- Train same direction
Find the time taken by a train 170 m long, running at the speed of 83 km/h, to cross another train 180 m running at the speed of 65 km/h in the same direction.
- Long train
A 110 m long train crosses a tree in 3 s. How long will it take to cross a 165 m long platform and 135 m long bridge, If the platform and bridge are at a distance of 30 m?
- Altering sign sequence
Find the nth term of the sequence -1/2, 1/4, - 1/6, 1/8, - 1/10, ....
Do you have unsolved problem that you need help? Ask a question, and we will try to solve it. Solving math problems.