Arithmetic - math word problems

Father and daughter
Father is 36 years old, daughter is 20 years less. What will be the ratio between them when they are 10 years more?
Akpan
Akpan spent 3/8 of his time in school during the week. What fraction of his time does he spend at home during the week?
Suppose
Suppose you know that the length of a line segment is 15, x2=6, y2=14 and x1= -3. Find the possible value of y1. Is there more than one possible answer? Why or why not?
Berry Smoothie
Rory has 5/8 cup of milk. How much milk does she have left after she doubles the recipe of the smoothie? Berry Smoothie: 2 cups strawberries 1 cup blueberries 1/4 cup milk 1 tbsp (tablespoon) sugar 1/2 tsp (teaspoon) lemon juice 1/8 tsp (teaspoon) vanil
Empty and full
An empty can has a mass of 1/6 lb. When it is filled with sand, it has a mass of 7/12 lb. Find the mass of the sand in the can?
Triangular pyramid
A regular tetrahedron is a triangular pyramid whose base and walls are identical equilateral triangles. Calculate the height of this body if the edge length is a = 8 cm
Nitrogen
One bag of urea containing 46 percent nitrogen weighs 25 kg. How many bags have to be purchased for fertilizing a field of 41003 square meters if the nitrogen dose is 50.0 kg per hectare?
Two chords
In a circle with radius r = 26 cm two parallel chords are drawn. One chord has a length t1 = 48 cm and the second has a length t2 = 20 cm, with the center lying between them. Calculate the distance of two chords.
Divide
How many different ways can three people divide 7 pears and 5 apples?
The ball
The ball has a radius of 2m. What percentage of the surface and volume is another sphere whose radius is 20% larger?
Two divided
$fractions14$ Two divided by nine tenths.
Two dogs
Izzy's dog is 10 1/2 years old. Paige's dog is 18 months old. How many years older is Izzy's dog?
Weigh in total
I put 3/5 kg of grapes into a box which is 1/4kg in weight. How many kilograms do the grapes and the box weigh in total?
Two bodies
The rectangle with dimensions 8 cm and 4 cm is rotated 360º first around the longer side to form the first body. Then, we similarly rotate the rectangle around the shorter side b to form a second body. Determine the ratio of surfaces of the first and seco
Pizza
Three siblings ordered one pizza. Miška ate a quarter of the whole pizza. Lenka ate a third of the rest and Patrik ate half of what Lenka had left. They had the rest packed up. How much of the pizza did they pack? Write the result as a fraction.
Children's home
The children's home received a gift to Nicholas of 54 oranges, 81 chocolate figurines, and 135 apples. Every child received the same gift and nothing was left. a) How many packages could be prepared? b) what did the children find in the package?
One third power
Which equation justifies why ten to the one-third power equals the cube root of ten?
A cloth
There are flower cloth 495 meters, white cloth 330 meters. What is the percentage of white cloth? How much is white cloth less than flower cloth?
Two trains
Two trains departed from City A and City B against each other. They met after some time. The first train then took 9 hours to reach city B, and the second train took 4 hours to reach city A. In what proportion were the train speeds?
Two 2D shapes
Decide which shapes have more area: (a) a square of 8cm side; or (b) two rectangles with sides 5cm and 15cm? Write result as 1 or 2 (rectangles)

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