Basic functions - math word problems

Three siblings
Three siblings have birthday in one day-today. Together they have 35 years today. The youngest is three years younger than middle and the oldest is 5 years older than middle. How old is each?
Jane and Miro
Jane brother Miro is 42 years. And he is three times old as it was Jane when Miro was for so many years as there are now Jane. How old is Jane?
Sprinter
Sprinter runs the relay 4 x 400 m to the handover at speed 42 km/h. A second runner is at the start of the handover area 20 m long and runs when it is the first sprinter at distance 10 m. Calculate the speed at which the second runner must run in order to.
Disease
Farmers'cooperative had a supply of feed for 50 cows to 6 days. Cows got insidious disease after 4 days, 10 of them died. How many total days that farmers had feed for cows?
Crown coins
Jana saves two-crown and five-crown coins. She has ten coins in the cashier. How many two crowns and how many five crowns shw have if she saved 29 crowns?
Sportsman
A trained athlete is able to exhale after a deep breath still 500 ml of air. At normal inhalation and exhalation is breathing 500 ml of air. Within one minute, one breath and exhaled 14 times. What part of breathing air per day is one exhalation?
Metal box
How much metal we need for the production of box with dimensions 5 dm, 30 cm and a height of 1 m? Add 12% of the waste and folds.
Two numbers
Find two numbers whose difference and ratio is 2.
Engine pulley
The engine has a 1460 rev / min (RPM). Disc diameter is 350 mm. What will be the disc peripheral speed in RPM? Pulleys on the engine has diameter 80mm, on a disc has diameter 160mm.
Three vectors
The three forces whose amplitudes are in ratio 9:10:17 act in the plane at one point so that they are in balance. Determine the angles of the each two forces.
Big factorial
How many zeros end number 116! ?
The farmer
The farmer harvested 840 tons of grain in 2006, which was 44% less than in 2005, and one-fifth more than in 2004. How many tons of grain harvested in years 2005 and 2004?
Grandmother's clocks
Grandmother's clock is late every hour by half a minute. Grandmother it by set exactly at 8.00 am. How many hours will show after 24 hours.?
Pine
How much of a mixed forest rangers want to cut down, if their head said: "We only cut down pine trees, which in our mixed forest 98%. After cut pine trees constitute 94% of all trees left."
Tower model
Tower height is 300 meters, weight 8000 tons. How high is the model of the tower weight 1 kg? (State the result in the centimeters). The model is made from exactly the same material as the original no numbers need to be rounded. The result is a three-digi
Decimal to fraction
$fractions_2$ Write decimal number 8.638333333 as a fraction A/B in the basic form. Given decimal has infinite repeating figures.
Map 3
Map scale is M = 1: 25000 . Two cottages which are shown on the map are actually 15 km away. What is its distance on the map?
Stock
$frac$ Enterprise sold 7/12 of their products to foreign markets and 2/5 of the remainder sold at home. How many % of the products is still in stock?
Geometric sequence
In the geometric sequence is a₄ = 20 a₉ = -160. Calculate the first member a₁ and quotient q.
Book
To number pages of thick book was used 4201 digits. How many pages has this book?

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