Arithmetic - math word problems

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  • Widescreen monitor
    lcd Computer business hit by a wave of widescreen monitors and televisions. Calculate the area of ​​the LCD monitor with a diagonal size 20 inches at ratio 4:3 and then 16:9 aspect ratio. Is buying widescreen monitors with same diagonal more advantageous than
  • Slovakia banks
    ecb It is unwritten rule that the larger bank in Slovakia (number of clients, balance sheet) the worst / more expensive services offered to clients. Perhaps it is customs and herd customers that prefer only trio SLSP, VUB and Tatrabanka. Calculate how many ti
  • Trio
    3Soldiers 56 children lined up in groups of three. How many children did not create a trio?
  • Similarity n-gon
    podobnost 9-gones ABCDEFGHI and A'B'C'D'E'F'G'H'I' are similar. The area of 9-gon ABCDEFGHI is S1=190 dm2 and the diagonal length GD is 32 dm. Calculate area of the 9-gon A'B'C'D'E'F'G'H'I' if G'D' = 13 dm.
  • Electronics: Resistors in parallel
    resistors_1 From relation for calculating the resistance of parallel combination of resistors: ? Calculate the R, if R1 = 2Ω a R2 = 15Ω
  • Trapezium zoom
    trapezium How many times increase area of trapezoid if all sides and altitude increase 5 times?
  • Railways - golden parachutes
    pavel-kravec_kdh As often happens in Slovakia habit, the state's financial institution which takes from poverty and gorilas give. A hardworking punishing taxes. Let's look at a short work of director Railway Company ZSSK - Mgr . P. K. : 18 months 'work' as director reduct
  • Bits, bytes
    bits Calculate how many different numbers can be encoded in 16-bit binary word?
  • Morse alphabet
    morse_code Calculate how many words of Morse code to create compiling dashes and dots in the words of one to four characters.
  • Guests
    hostia How many ways can 7 guests sit down on 8 seats standing in a row?
  • Rectangles
    strihanie Calculate how many squares/rectangles of size 4×3 cm can be cut from a sheet of paper of 36 cm × 32 cm?
  • Rectangle A2dim
    Rectangle Calculate the side of the rectangle, if you know that its area is of 2590 m2 and one side is 74 m.
  • Collective irresponsibility
    most_u_komoran At the Internet, time is very uncomfortable for the state that no more gaffe or waste is no longer possible to hush up as if people were at home with only two television channels censored. An example of the effectiveness of state can be Bridge at Komořany
  • Tangents
    tangents To circle with a radius of 41 cm from the point R guided two tangents. The distance of both points of contact is 16 cm. Calculate the distance from point R and circle centre.
  • Sphere A2V
    sphere3 Surface of the sphere is 241 mm2. What is its volume?
  • Sphere growth
    sphere How many times grow volume of sphere if diameter rises 10×?
  • Solidarity
    salt Imagine a word solidarity means that salt donation to the needy, who have neither the salt. If we take word solidarity has word base salt + gift (only in Slovakian language). Calculate how many kilos of salt sympathetic citizen "gives" government a year i
  • Football league
    football In the 5th football league is 10 teams. How many ways can be filled first, second and third place?
  • Sphere fall
    sphere How many percent fall volume of sphere if diameter fall 10×?
  • Geometric progression
    fractal Fill 4 numbers between 4 and -12500 to form geometric progression.

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