Equation + direct relationship - math problems

Number of problems found: 59

  • Book reading
    kniha_tridni Suzan reads a book. If she read half an hour a day, she would read it in nine days. How many minutes does he have to read a day if he wants to read it three days earlier?
  • A bucket
    watertank A bucket has 4 liters of water in it when it is 2/5 full. How much can it hold?
  • Right triangle - ratio
    rt_triangle The lengths of the legs of the right triangle ABC are in ratio b = 2: 3. The hypotenuse is 10 cm long. Calculate the lengths of the legs of that triangle.
  • Reading
    bookshelf If I read 15 pages a day, I will read the whole book in 18 days. How long will it take to read a book if I only read 9 pages every day?
  • 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?
  • Five tractors
    tractors Five tractors plow the fields in 4.8 hours. How long will it take to plow the field when, after an hour and a half of work, two tractor drivers have been called up for another task?
  • Map scale
    mapa_14 The rectangular plot has in a scale of 1: 10000 area 3 cm2 on the map. What content does this plot have on a 1:5000 scale map?
  • The orchard
    jablone 4 temporary workers harvested the orchard in 9 days. How many temporary workers we need for six days?
  • Baker
    pekar The baker makes from 10 kg of flour 12 kg dough. How much flour he need to make a 100 kg dough?
  • The farmer
    cow The farmer calculated that the supply of fodder for his 20 cows was enough for 60 days. He decided to sell 2 cows and a third of the feed. How long will the feed for the rest of the peasant's herd last?
  • Tree shadow
    tree2_1 Tree perpendicular to the horizontal surface has a shadow 8.32 meters long. At the same time meter rod perpendicular to the horizontal surface has shadow 64 cm long. How tall is tree?
  • Machines 2
    machine_1 2 machines for 50 hours produces 2,000 products. How many machines need to buy to make in 30 hours 15,000 products?
  • Ratio of edges
    diagonal_2 The dimensions of the cuboid are in a ratio 3: 1: 2. The body diagonal has a length of 28 cm. Find the volume of a cuboid.
  • Unknown number 5
    hyperbola_2 Daniel think an integer. When he change this number at a ratio of 2:5 he got number 2.8. Determine what number think Daniel.
  • Isosceles trapezoid
    lichobeznik_5 Calculate the content of an isosceles trapezoid whose bases are at ratio 5:3, the arm is 6cm long and it is 4cm high.
  • Line segment
    lines_5 Cut a line segment of 15 cm into two line segments so that their lengths are in ratio 2:1. What length will each have?
  • Sprinter
    Sprinter Sprinter runs the relay 4 x 400 m to the handover at speed 42 km/h. A second runner is at the start of the handover area 20 m long and runs when it is the first sprinter at distance 10 m. Calculate the speed at which the second runner must run in order to
  • Jan
    Honza Jan is 13 years and Peter 21 years old. For how many years will their ages in the ratio of 7:9?
  • Copy typist
    pisaci_stroj Typist for 12 hours rewritten 15% of the manuscript. After how many hours he will done 35% of the manuscript?
  • Angles ratio
    triangles_16 The internal angles of a triangle are in ratio 1:4:5 What kind of triangle is it? (solve internal angles and write down and discuss)

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