Basic functions - math word problems

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  • Package
    latky_textil The package has no more than 66 m of cloth. If we just cut it all on the blouses or all on dresses, no cloth left remain. On the one blouse consumes 1.3 m of cloth and on one dress 5 m. Determine the amount of the cloth in the package.
  • Cost reduction
    mp3_1 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?
  • Janitor
    snow Janitor tosses 26 cm layer of snow on the school grounds for 90 minutes. How many friends would have to call for help if snow needs to have bowled for 15 minutes. We assume that at the same time bow all the same amount of snow.
  • Drinking water
    blue-barrel A man drinks a keg of water in 40 days, and a woman drinks in 62 days. How many days do they consume a keg together?
  • Cheetah vs antelope
    motion2 When the cheetah began chasing the antelope, the distance between them was 120 meters. Although the antelope was running at 72km/h, the cheetah caught up with it in 12 seconds. What speed was the cheetah running?
  • The bulbs
    resistor_6 The bulbs are connected serially two bulbs and one resistor. Each bulb has a resistivity of 100 ohms and resistor of 60 ohms The voltage source in the circuit is 24 volts. Do you know what voltage to measure on individual appliances?
  • Painting rooms
    palma_1 If Dano paint three hours daily given work he complete in 7.5 days. How many hours a day would have to work to finish the job 1.5 days earlier?
  • The city 2
    kingkong Today lives 156000 citizens in the city. How many citizens can we expect in 6 years if their annual increase is 2.4%?
  • Unknown number
    iks-icon Samuel wrote unknown number. Then he had add 200000 to the number and the result multiply by three. When it calculated he was surprised, because the result would have received anyway, if write digit to the end of original number. Find unknown number.
  • Breads
    chlieb_2 Several pieces of bread were in the store. Half of them plus a half of bread bought a cookbook. Of the remaining bread, half of it plus half of the bread was bought by Mr. Novák. The last bread was bought by Ms. Small. How many breads were in the store at
  • The water barrel
    sud_h2o_2 The water barrel weighs 122 kg. If we pour 75% of the water out of it, it will weigh 35 kg. What is the weight of the barrel?
  • 2d shape
    semicircles_rect Calculate the content of a shape in which an arbitrary point is not more than 3 cm from the segment AB. The length of the segment AB is 5 cm.
  • Sheep
    ships Shepherd tending the sheep. Tourists asked him how much they have. The shepherd said, "there are fewer than 500. If I them lined up in 4-row 3 remain. If in 5-row 4 remain. If in 6-row 5 remain. But I can form 7-row." How many sheep have herdsman?
  • Plan of the village
    mapa_1 Plan of the municipality in 1:1000 scale has plotted garden with dimensions 25 mm and 28 mm. Determine the area of gardens in ares in reality.
  • Dividing money
    mince_2 Vilem, Cenek, and Edita divided the money they earned by spreading the leaflet. Vilem got 240 CZK more than Cenek and twice more than Edita. Edita got 400kc less than Vilem.
  • Alcohol mixture
    roztoky_1 From 55% and 80% alcohol we have to produce 0.2 kg of 60% alcohol. How many of them do we use in solution?
  • The painter
    painter_12 In order for the painter to get the desired color, he must mix green and yellow in a ratio of 4: 7. If it has 28 l of green color, how many liters of yellow color should he add? How many liters of mixed color does he get?
  • The florist
    ruze_6 The florist had 200 roses in the morning. During the day, more than half sold it. From the remaining roses, it will tie the bouquet. If a bouquet of 3, 4, 5 or 6 roses are bound, one always remains. How many roses from the morning shipment sold?
  • Cakes Z8-I-5
    cukriky_5 Mom brought 10 cakes of three types: kokosek was less than laskonek and most were caramel cubes. John chose two different kinds of cakes, Stephan did the same and for Margerith leave only the cakes of the same type. How many kokosek, laskonek and caramel
  • Cone
    truncated_cone_1 Circular cone with height h = 29 dm and base radius r = 3 dm slice plane parallel to the base. Calculate the distance of the cone vertex from this plane, if solids have the same volume.

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