Arithmetic - math word problems

  1. Spending money
    penize Boris spent 324 €. Robo spent 130 € more. How much did they spend together?
  2. Video game
    time Nicole is playing a video game where each round lasts 7/12 of an hour. She has scheduled 3 3/4 hours to play the game. How many rounds can Nicole play?
  3. Brick weight
    brick The brick weighs 2 kg and a half bricks. How much does one brick weigh?
  4. Garden
    garden_1 Area of a square garden is 6/4 of triangle garden with sides 56 m, 35 m, and 35 m. How many meters of fencing need to fence a square garden?
  5. Pool
    pool If water flows into the pool by two inlets, fill the whole for 8 hours. The first inlet filled pool 6 hour longer than second. How long pool take to fill with two inlets separately?
  6. Chocolate
    cokolada Leslie bought 8 same chocolates for 16 Eur. How many euros will he pay for 25 chocolates?
  7. Forestry workers
    forestry_workers In the forest is employed 56 laborers planting trees in nurseries. For 8 hour work day would end job in 37 days. After 16 days, 9 laborers go forth? How many days are needed to complete planting trees in nurseries by others, if they will work 10 hours a d
  8. Bonus
    moeny Gross wage was 527 EUR including 16% bonus. How many EUR were bonuses?
  9. Divisibility
    divisibility Is the number 761082 exactly divisible by 9? (the result is the integer and/or remainder is zero)
  10. Troops
    regiment The route is long 147 km and the first-day first regiment went at an average speed of 12 km/h and journey back 21 km/h. The second day went second regiment the same route at an average speed of 22 km/h there and back. Which regiment will take route longe
  11. Motion problem
    dragway From Levíc to Košíc go car at speed 81 km/h. From Košíc to Levíc go another car at speed 69 km/h. How many minutes before the meeting will be cars 27 km away?
  12. Excavation
    vykop_ryha Mr. Billy calculated that excavation for a water connection dig for 12 days. His friend would take 10 days. Billy worked 3 days alone. Then his friend came to help and started on the other end. On what day since the beginning of excavation they met?
  13. Cyclist
    cyclist_2 A cyclist passes 88 km in 4 hours. How many kilometers he pass in 8 hours?
  14. Logic
    blue-barrel A man can drink a barrel of water for 26 days, woman for 48 days. How many days will a barrel last between them?
  15. TV transmitter
    praded The volume of water in the rectangular swimming pool is 6998.4 hectoliters. The promotional leaflet states that if we wanted all the pool water to flow into a regular quadrangle with a base edge equal to the average depth of the pool, the prism would have.
  16. Beer
    piva After three 10° beers consumed in a short time, there is 5.6 g of alcohol in 6 kg adult human blood. How much is it per mille?
  17. Cube in a sphere
    cube_in_sphere_1 The cube is inscribed in a sphere with volume 9067 cm3. Determine the length of the edges of a cube.
  18. Root
    root_quadrat The root of the equation ? is: ?
  19. Monkey
    monkey Monkey fell in 38 meters deep well. Every day it climbs 3 meters, at night it dropped back by 2 m. On what day it gets out from the well?
  20. Axial section
    cone2 Axial section of the cone is an equilateral triangle with area 208 dm2. Calculate the volume of the cone.

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