Basic functions - math word problems

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  • Volume ratio
    inside_cone Calculate the volume ratio of balls circumscribed (diameter r) and inscribed (diameter ϱ) into an equilateral rotating cone.
  • Mother and daughter
    family_20 The mother is four times older than her daughter. Five years ago, her daughter was seven times younger than her mother. How many years do they have now?
  • Mow the lawn
    grass_2 Dano would mow the lawn in 12 hours and Milada in 16 hours. How long will take the lawn mow together?
  • Mr and Mrs
    clocks2_8 Mr. Calda and Mrs. Cald have a total of 139 years. How many years have when we know that Mr. Calda is 9 years older than Mrs. Cald
  • Journey 5
    tourists_12 A man has to do a journey of 84km in 3 hours. He travels the first 30km at 20km/hr. At what rate must he travel the remaining distance to complete his journey on time?
  • The hiker
    tourist The hiker will travel 40% of the route on the first day 1and/3 of the rest od second day. Last day 30 km. What was the length of the 3-day trip? How many kilometers did he walk each day?
  • A truck 2
    kamion2_0 A truck leaves home with building materials and makes a return trip every six days. To deliver all the materials, you need eight truck trips every month. How many trucks do you need?
  • Tank No 8
    tank1 Tank is filled by one inlet valve with a flow rate of 12 liters per second in 72 minutes. How long take the tank to fill, if we open half an hour after one more inlet?
  • Cinema
    stale_kvoka How many ways can be divided 11 free tickets to the premiere of "Jáchyme throw it in the machine" between 6 pensioners?
  • Numbers
    ten Determine the number of all positive integers less than 4183444 if each is divisible by 29, 7, 17. What is its sum?
  • Gear
    ozubene_kolesa Two gears, fit into each other, has transfer 2:3. Centres of gears are spaced 82 cm. What are the radii of the gears?
  • Reducing scale
    map_mo I am sizing some landscaping and I measured everything for a 20 to 1 scale. I realized when I was done that it was at 30 to 1. How can I convert what I already have to 30 to 1. (Example, grass area is 22,871.6' at 20 to 1, how do you figure it out to be 3
  • Rectangle
    rectangles_8 Perimeter of rectangle is 48 cm. Calculate its dimensions if they are in the ratio 5:3 (width:height)
  • Two monuments
    mapka The distance between two historical monuments on a map with a scale of 1: 500000 is 48 mm. Find the actual distance between these monuments in km.
  • Ski lessons
    skiing_2 On the ski course leaves 80 pupils. They live in triple and quadruple rooms. Count if rooms is the 23. How many are triple and quadruple rooms?
  • Lines
    bus Five bus lines runs at intervals 3, 6, 9, 12, 15 minutes. In the morning, suddenly start at 4:00. After how many minutes the bus lines meet again?
  • Fall
    rocket The body was thrown vertically upward at speed v0 = 79 m/s. Body height versus time describe equation ?. What is the maximum height body reach?
  • A trip to the peak Dry
    Suchy Calculate what percentage is rising trip from Strečno to peak Suchý (Dry peak) longer than the descent back. Team trio of tourists (Palo, Peter and Andrew) rise took 4:21 and descent 3:08.
  • 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?
  • A 36
    huby A 36 g sample of the substance contains 91% water. After drying, the weight of the sample was reduced to 18 g. What percentage of water is now in the sample?

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