Direct relationship - math word problems

  1. Trio ratio
    minca Hans, Alena and Thomas have a total of 740 USD. Hans and Alena split in the ratio 5: 6 and Alena and Thomas in the ratio 4: 5. How much will everyone get?
  2. Temporary workers
    work_1 Three temporary workers work in the warehouse and unload the goods in 9 hours. In what time would five temporary workers unload the same products?
  3. A filter
    bazen It is a pool with a volume of 3500 liters. The filter filters at 4m cubic per hour. How many minutes would it filter the entire pool?
  4. Eight masons
    time Eight masons will plaster a wall with an area of 1440 m2 in 9 days. They work 8 hours a day. How much area will plaster 6 masons in 4 hours?
  5. Six students
    painter Two pupils painted the class in four hours. How long will it take for six pupils?
  6. Blueberries
    blueberry 5 children collect 4 liters of blueberries in 1.5 hours. a) How many minutes do 3 children take 2 liters of blueberries? b) How many liters of blueberries will be taken by 8 children in 3 hours?
  7. Painters
    time Ten painters paint the school in 20 days. How many days do four painters paint the school at the same pace of work?
  8. Proportion 3
    apples For every 8 mango trees in the orchard, there are 4 star apple trees. If there are 1320 trees, how many trees of each kind are there?
  9. The perimeter 3
    rectangles The perimeter of a rectangle is 35 cm. The ratio of the length to its width is 3:2. Calculate the dimensions of the rectangle
  10. A sculptor
    statue A sculptor is duplicating a statue based on an original statue. If the scale factor of the replication is 3.2, will the new statue be larger or smaller than the original statue (enter 1 = larger, 0= smaller)
  11. Assembly parts
    machine Nine machines produce 1,800 parts on nine machines. How many hours will it produce 2 100 parts on seven such machines?
  12. Cyclist
    cyclist Cyclist drives 5 km in half an hour, how long will drive in 3 hours?
  13. Cook on gas
    lpg The gas cylinder will last for 30 weekends for 2 hours of daily cooking. How many days will we be able to cook on a new cylinder when we cook 3 hours a day?
  14. In the
    land_6 In the national park, the ratio of the wooded area to grassland is 4: 1. The total area is 385km2. What area is wooded?
  15. Pump
    pumps_9 680 liters of water were pumped in 8 minutes. How many liters was spent in 56 minutes?
  16. Pumps
    pumps_8 After the floods, four equally powerful pumps exhausted water from the flooded cellar in 6 hours. How many hours would take a drained out with three equally powerful pumps?
  17. Hay bags
    krav 4 cows eat 16 hay bags in 5 days. How many bags will eat 5 cows in 7 days?
  18. Triangle perimeter
    triangle_vysky_3 Calculate the triangle perimeter whose sides are in ratio 3: 5: 7 and the longest side is 17.5 cm long.
  19. Five inlets
    pipe2_5 The tank can be filled with five equally powerful inlets. If the tank is filled by four of these inlets, it takes a total of 30 minutes to fill one-third of the tank. How many minutes does it take to fill an empty tank if it is filled with all five inlets?
  20. Collection of stamps
    stamp_11 Jano, Rado, and Fero have created a collection of stamps in a ratio of 5: 6: 9. Two of them had 429 stamps together. How many stamps did their shared collection have?

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