Arithmetic - math word problems

Number of problems found: 1700

  • Big factorial
    sierpinski How many zeros end number 116! ?
  • Insurance
    tornado The owner of the house is insured against natural disasters and pays 0.04% annually of the value of house 77 Eur. Calculate the value of the house. Calculate the probability of disaster, if you know that 48% of the insurance is to pay damages.
  • Shape
    some_airplane Plane shape has a maximum area 677 mm2. Calculate its perimeter if perimeter is the smallest possible.
  • Sphere A2V
    sphere3 Surface of the sphere is 241 mm2. What is its volume?
  • Isosceles right triangle
    3triangles Calculate the area of an isosceles right triangle whose perimeter is 377 cm.
  • Drunk man
    drunk-man Drunkman has 2.6‰ of alcohol in the blood. How many grams of alcohol has in blood, if he have 5 kg of blood?
  • 3y inflation
    bread Price of the roll rise in the first year by 9%, the second year fell by 5% and in the third year increased by 3%. Calculate the average annual increase in price of the roll.
  • 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
  • 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
  • Sphere fall
    sphere How many percent fall volume of sphere if diameter fall 10×?
  • Circle chord
    circleChord What is the length x of the chord circle of diameter 115 m, if the distance from the center circle is 11 m?
  • Monkey
    monkey Monkey fell in 40 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?
  • Rhombus problem
    privesok-kosostvorec Perimeter of the rhombus is 204 dm and it area is 2244 dm2. Calculate the height of the rhombus.
  • 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.
  • Geometric progression
    fractal Fill 4 numbers between 4 and -12500 to form geometric progression.
  • 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
  • Ladder
    rebrik_1 Ladder 8 m long is leaning against the wall. Its foot is 1 m away from the wall. In which height ladder touches the wall?
  • Number ratio
    ratio2 Calculate two positive numbers that its ratio is 6:6 and difference was 0.
  • Scientists from the Social Insurance
    socialna_poistovna_1 Aaron became sick leave and social insurance granted him sick leave of 13.8211695 EUR per day. Calculate the number of days to save Aaron to roll in the price of 0.1 Eur, if every day they postpone the amount of the last decimal place of his sickness. [No
  • Inflation
    tsar Once upon a time, tsar owned a money printer and printed and printed. The result of printing money prices went up,in the first year 3.9 %, in the second 6%, in the third 4.7% and in the fourth 5.5%. Then tsar was failed in election. Calculate the average

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