Basic functions - math word problems

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Real estate
The residential house has three entrances numbered by odd numbers arithmetic progression. The sum of the two numbers on the corner entrances is 50. Calculate the highest of these three numbers.
Rectangle
Find the dimensions of the rectangle, whose perimeter is 108 cm and the length is 25% larger than the width.
Salami
How many ways can we choose 5 pcs of salami if we have 6 types of salami for 10 pieces and one type for 4 pieces?
Potatoes 6
The farmer brought potatoes to the market. In the first hour he sold two-fifths of the potatoes brought, in the second hour he sold five-sixth of the remaining potatoes, and in the third hour he had sold the last 40kg of potatoes. How many kg of potatoes
MO Z6-6-1
Write integers greater than 1 to the blanks in the following figure, so that each darker box was product of the numbers in the neighboring lighter boxes. What number is in the middle box?
Toy cars
Pavel has a collection of toy cars. He wanted to regroup them. But in the division in groups of three, four, six, and eight, he was always one left. Only when he formed groups of seven, he divided everyone. How many toy cars have in the collection?
Workers
Group of workers washing half of the windows of the building in two hours. How long will take half the workers wash all the windows of the building?
Garden
Rectangular garden 31 meters 40 centimeters long and 20m³⁰cm wide adjacent with the shorter side with another (fenced) garden and on one longest side is 1 meter wide gate. How many meters of fence is needed to buy? (Estimate, calculate, verify a test calc
Job task
After two hours and 40 minutes, the job is finished. Compared to last year, we were 40 minutes faster. What is the percentage increase to our performance?
Three workers
Three workers got paid for work. First earn € 50, the second € 100 and third € 60. For further work should receive together € 735. How do you divide that amount in order to be distributed in the same proportion as the first job?
Candies
There are red, blue and green candies in bad. Red to green is in 6:11 ratio and blue to red in a 7: 5 ratio. In what proportion are blue to green candies?
Cost reduction
Two MP3 players whose price was equal to originally have been discounted the first by 20%, the second by 35%. After the price reduction was the difference in their prices 750, - CZK. What was the original price of each of the two players?
Time clock
What are the angle of the hour hand and the minute hand if it is 0:40?
Comparing salaries
Spouses compared salaries. Mrs. Janka found that a 20% higher salary than Mr Jaroslav. Together earned € 1,430. How much they earn each of them?
Elements
If the number of elements is decreased by two the number of permutations is decreased 30 times. How many elements are?
Tadeus
Tadeus and Jolana have a total of CZK 15. Jolana has half that of Tadeus. Nevertheless, Jolana has 3 coins and Tadeus 2. Which coin does Tadeus have and which Jolan?
Z7-I-4 stars 4949
Write instead of stars digits so the next write of product of the two numbers to be valid: ∗ ∗ ∗ · ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ 4 9 4 9 ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ 4 ∗ ∗
Ratio iso triangle
The ratio of the sides of an isosceles triangle is 7:6:7 Find the base angle to the nearest answer correct to 3 significant figure.
Scale factor
A prism with a volume of 1458 mm³ is scaled down to a volume of 16mm³. What is the scale factor in fraction form?
Coolant
The driver of the car cooler filled with a mixture of 3.9 liters and 2.6 liters of water antifreeze coolant. At what rate are this two components of the mixture?

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