Expression of a variable from the formula - math word problems

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  • Surface of cuboid
    kvader11_9 Find the surface of the cuboid if its volume is 52.8 cm3 and the length of its two edges is 2 cm and 6 cm.
  • Tetrahedral prism - rhomboid base
    rhombus2_2 Calculate the area and volume tetrahedral prism that has base rhomboid shape and its dimensions are: a = 12 cm, b = 70 mm, v_a = 6 cm, v_h = 1 dm.
  • Cube walls
    krychle_6 Find the volume and surface area of the cube if the area of one wall is 40cm2.
  • The sides 2
    trapezium_7 The sides of a trapezoid are in the ratio 2:5:8:5. The trapezoid’s area is 245. Find the height and the perimeter of the trapezoid.
  • Diamond diagonals
    kosodlznik_2 Find the diamond diagonal's lengths if the area is 156 cm2 and side is 13 cm long.
  • Cuboid walls
    cuboid_19 If the areas of three adjacent faces of a cuboid are 8 cm², 18 cm² and 25 cm². Find the volume of the cuboid.
  • Workers 9
    okno2_2 If two workers fix two windows in an hour how many windows can 18 workers fix in the same two windows?
  • Evaluation of expressions
    eq222_10 If a2-3a+1=0, find (i)a2+1/a2 (ii) a3+1/a3
  • Expression with powers
    eq222_9 If x-1/x=5, find the value of x4+1/x4
  • Geometric seq
    eq222_1 Find the third member of geometric progression if a1 + a2 = 36 and a1 + a3 = 90. Calculate its quotient.
  • Difference AP 4
    sequence_geo_1 Calculate the difference of the AP if a1 = 0.5, a2 + a3 = -1.1
  • Mean
    avg A student food the mean of 50 items as 38.6. When checking the work he found that he had taken one item as 50 why it should correctly read as 40 in this circumstances. What should be the correct mean?
  • Value
    primefactor2 Determine the value of the following exspressions: a) (23-25)·(4-5) b) (97-123):(18+8)
  • Working alone
    workers Tom and Chandri are doing household chores. Chandri can do the work twice as fast as Tom. If they work together, they can finish the work in 5 hours. How long does it take Tom working alone to do the same work?
  • Rectangle
    rectangle_22 There is a rectangle with a length of 12 cm and a diagonal 8 cm longer than the width. Calculate the area of rectangle.
  • Trapezoid MO-5-Z8
    lichobeznik-stredni_pricka_2 Trapezoid KLMN has bases 12 and 4 cm long. The area of triangle KMN is 9 cm2. What is the area of the trapezoid KLMN?
  • Unknown number 17
    5to2 Milada said, I am thinking of a number such that I evaluate expression x1/3, the value of the expression would be 5. Which number Milada thinking?
  • The dough
    cesto The dough contains water, flour, and sugar. Water and flour in a ratio of 2: 3, flour, and sugar in a ratio of 2: 1. Determine the ratio of all three components of the dough.
  • Diagonals of diamond
    kosostvorec_4 Find the area and circumference of the diamond ABCD with 15m and 11m diagonals.
  • Unknown number 7
    percents2_9 16% of the unknown number is by 21 less than unknown number itself. Determine the natural unknown number.

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