Division - math word problems

  1. Almonds
    almonds Rudi has 4 cups of almonds. His trail mix recipe calls for 2/3 cup of almonds. How many batches of trail mix can he make?
  2. Divide
    decimals2 Divide the number 72 in the ratio 7: 2 and calculate the ratio of the numbers found in this order and write down as decimal.
  3. Chocolate
    cokolada Leslie bought 8 same chocolates for 16 Eur. How many euros will he pay for 25 chocolates?
  4. Forestry workers
    forestry_workers In the forest is employed 56 laborers planting trees in nurseries. For 8 hour work day would end job in 37 days. After 16 days, 9 laborers go forth? How many days are needed to complete planting trees in nurseries by others, if they will work 10 hours a d
  5. Bonus
    moeny Gross wage was 527 EUR including 16% bonus. How many EUR were bonuses?
  6. Divisibility
    divisibility Is the number 761082 exactly divisible by 9? (the result is the integer and/or remainder is zero)
  7. Cyclist
    cyclist_2 A cyclist passes 88 km in 4 hours. How many kilometers he pass in 8 hours?
  8. Logic
    blue-barrel A man can drink a barrel of water for 26 days, woman for 48 days. How many days will a barrel last between them?
  9. Beer
    piva After three 10° beers consumed in a short time there are 5.6 g of alcohol in 6 kg adult human blood. How much is it per mille?
  10. Cube in a sphere
    cube_in_sphere The cube is inscribed in a sphere with volume 3234 cm3. Determine the length of the edges of a cube.
  11. Root
    root_quadrat The root of the equation ? is: ?
  12. Monkey
    monkey Monkey fell in 23 meters deep well. Every day it climbs 3 meters, at night it dropped back by 2 m. On what day it gets out from the well?
  13. Diophantus
    diofantos_1 We know little about this Greek mathematician from Alexandria, except that he lived around 3rd century A.D. Thanks to an admirer of his, who described his life by means of an algebraic riddle, we know at least something about his life. Diophantus's youth l
  14. Coffee
    coffe In stock are three kinds of branded coffee prices: I. kind......248 Kč/kg II. kind......134 Kč/kg III. kind.....270 Kč/kg Mixing these three species in the ratio 10:7:7 create a mixture. What will be the price of 1100 grams of this mixture?
  15. Motion
    cyclist_1 If you go at speed 3.7 km/h, you come to the station 42 minutes after leaving train. If you go by bike to the station at speed 27 km/h, you come to the station 56 minutes before its departure. How far is the train station?
  16. Store
    pave One meter of the textile were discounted by 2 USD. Now 9 m of textile cost as before 8 m. Calculate the old and new price of 1 m of the textile.
  17. Medicament
    tablets Same type of medicament produces a number of manufacturers in a variety of packages with different content of active substance. Pack 1: includes 60 pills of 600 mg of active substance per pack cost 9 Eur. Pack 2: includes 150 pills of 500 mg of active sub
  18. Hands
    soviet_watch The clock shows 12 hours. After how many minutes will agle between hour and minute hand 90°? Consider the continuous movement of both hands hours.
  19. Chickens
    chickens 2 chickens give 2 eggs in 2 days. How many eggs can give 8 chickens for 8 days?
  20. Clock
    hodiny How many times a day hands on a clock overlap?

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