Basic functions - math word problems

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  • Honza + Alice + Tonda
    minca Honza + Alice + Tonda have a total of 111 USD. The ratio between Honza and Alena is 5:6 and the ratio between Alice and Tonda is 4:5 How many money have each of them?
  • Electrics - conductor
    wire The wire is 106 meters long at 0 °C and at every temperature increase of 1 °C the length increases by 0.15 mm per 1 m length of wire. Determine a function which represents the overall length of the wire as a function of temperature. What is the length of
  • Aircraft
    aircraft_soviet The aircraft has in a fuel tank 68 hl of aviation fuel and flight consumes 3.6 liters of fuel. Identify the function, which expresses the dependence of the volume of fuel in tank on the track distance plane flew by. How many hectolites of fuel is still in
  • UV radiation
    uv_rays The glass of 1 mm thickness absorb 4% of UV radiation passing through. How many percent of UV rays absorb glass with a thickness 1.1 cm, made from 1 mm thick those glasses?
  • Workman - shift
    favorit_skoda The worker produces 300 components per shift. How many components would be produced in 18 shift, if his performance gradually increased every shift by 3 components?
  • Bank
    money Paul put $a in the bank for $r years. Calculate how much you will have in the bank if he not pick earned interest or change deposit conditions. The annual interest rate is $u%, and the tax on interest is $d%.
  • Enterprise
    podniky_socik The value of annual production enterprise is 7.1 million USD. The average annual growth rate is 1.5%. What will be value of production at the end of the fifth year?
  • 7th grade pupils
    rings_olympic Pupils doing research which a winter sport do their classmates most popular. They found that 2/5 of classmates would most like to play hockey, skate prefer 2/9 pupils, 3/10 students prefer skiing and 1/15 classmates don't like any winter sport. What propo
  • Training
    tenis The table contains tennis training schedule for Saturday's younger students during the winter indoor season. Before the start of the summer season is preparing a new training schedule. Tomas Kucera will be able to practice only in the morning, sisters Kov
  • Map 3
    map 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?
  • Liquid soap
    soap_liquid Three-member family enough liter of liquid soap for 20 days. After how many days the amount consumed when at the holidays come to us two cousins.
  • Snowman
    snehuliak In a circle with a diameter 50 cm are drawn 3 circles /as a snowman/ where: its diameters are integers, each larger circle diameter is 3 cm larger than the diameter of the previous circle. Determine snowman height if we wish highest snowman.
  • Map 2
    world_map_atlas At what scale is made map if the distance 8.2 km corresponds on the map segment 5 cm long?
  • Loan
    money If you take a bank loan $ 10000 and we want to repay after the year, we have to pay the total amount $ 10320/ What is the annual interest rate on this loan?
  • Sequence
    mandlebrot Find the common ratio of the sequence -3, -1.5, -0.75, -0.375, -0.1875. Ratio write as decimal number rounded to tenth.
  • Football league
    football In the 2nd football league plays each of the 16 participants with each opponent twice. For every victory gets 3 points, 1 point for a draw, a defeat none. After the competition was team with 54 points and 12 defeats at 9th place. How many times have won?
  • Sparrow ball
    vrabce On the sparrows ball were males and females. There were 170 sparrows. Males was 20 more than females. How many sparrow female was at a ball?
  • Sugar - cuboid
    kocky_cukor Pejko received from his master cuboid composed of identical sugar cubes with count between 1000 and 2000. The Pejko eat sugar cubes in layers. The first day eat one layer from the front, second day one layer from right, the third day one layer above. Yet
  • Logik game
    logik-game Letter game Logik is a two player game, which has the following rules: 1. The first player thinks five-letter word in which no letter is not repeated. 2. The second player writes a five-letter word. 3. The first player answers two numbers - the first numb
  • Automaker
    car_manufactury The automaker now produces daily 4 new cars more than last year so the production of 360 cars will save just one full working day. How many working days to produce 360 vehicles needed last year?

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