Arithmetic - math word problems

  1. JUDr. Usury
    paragraph Judge JUDr. Usury approved the agreement on guilt and punishment where confessed to pay daily interest 0.18%. How big is a yearly interest? Year has 360 days.
  2. Apples
    apples_1 Mr. Vesely give to the market his own 48 kg of apples, 40 kg from Mr. Kovar and 72 kg of Mr. Novak. Grossed a total of 1,920 CZK. How must divide income money for apples?
  3. Forest ranger
    srny Forest ranger watching from the hide deers. At one time point he can see 6 deers. How many maximum deers can be see by 3 rangers at same time?
  4. Trapezoid
    hexphitri Area of trapezoid is 135 cm2. Sides a, c and height h are in a ratio 6:4:3. How long are a,c and h? Make calculation...
  5. Bomber
    b52 Bomber flies 10 km at 600 km/h. At what horizontal distance from the target, must pilot drop the bomb to hit the target? Don't care about air resistance and consider the gravitational acceleration g=9.81 m/s2.
  6. Lorry
    lorry The lorry was loaded with 18 boxes of 15 kg. How many boxes with weight 18 kg can be loaded, if total load must be same?
  7. Grandson and granddad
    vnuk_dedo Grandson with grandpa they counted how many years have together. Their product is 365. How many years is the sum of their years.
  8. Cast brass
    piston Brass cast weight was 3.84 kg, it had turned into piston weight 3.491 kg. How many grams of brass was turned off?
  9. Quadratic equation
    parabola_1 Solve quadratic equation: 2x2-58x+396=0
  10. Iron fence
    fe One field of iron fence consists of 20 iron rods with square cross-section of 1.5 cm side and a long 1 meter. How much weight a field if the density of iron is 7800 kg/m3.
  11. Future of libraries
    library You know that thanks to the Internet, electronic communications and developing online resources on the Internet annually declining number of traditional readership by 17%. These deal is irreversible evolutionary shift from old books from libraries to immed
  12. Granite cube
    cube_3 What is the weight in kg granite cube with an edge of 0.5 m if 1dm3 of granite weight 2600 g?
  13. Square
    percent If the length of the sides of the square we decrease by 25% decrease the content area of 28 cm2. Determine the side length of the original square.
  14. Surface of the cylinder
    cylinder_3 Calculate the surface area of the cylinder when its volume is 45 l and the perimeter of base is three times of the height.
  15. Unions
    odbory_prdel Calculate how much money per year would go to the treasury of unions if 218 thousand employee join unions with an average net salary of 407 euros and if memberhip in union cost 1% of the net monthly salary.
  16. Cuboids in cube
    shapes How many cuboids with dimensions of 6 cm, 8 cm and 12 cm can fit into a cube with side 96 centimeters?
  17. Painter 3
    painter_2 Dad want to paint wall high 250 cm wide and 230 cm with wallpaper. How many meters must buy wallpaper if wallpaper width is 60 cm?
  18. Interest
    dollars Calculate how much you earn for 10 years 43000 deposit if the interest rate is 1.3% and the interest period is a quarter.
  19. Cube and water
    krychle_3 How many liters of water can fit into a cube with an edge length of 0.11 m?
  20. Flowerbed 2
    flowerbed Around the square flower bed in a park is sidewalk 2 m wide. The area of ​​this sidewalk is 243 m2. What is the area of the flowerbed?

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