Grade - math word problems

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  • Fridays
    calendar_3 Friday 13th is in 4 days. What day is today and what day it is?
  • UN 1
    bulb2 If we add to an unknown number his quarter, we get 210. Identify unknown number.
  • Pets in ZOO
    chicken_3 The zoo have run for pets. They are chickens, pigs and cow. Altogether there has 20 heads and 60 feet. How many chickens and piglets are there?
  • Paper box
    box Hard rectangular paper has dimensions of 60 cm and 28 cm. The corners are cut off equal squares and the residue was bent to form an open box. How long must be side of the squares to be the largest volume of the box?
  • Ellipse
    elipsa Ellipse is expressed by equation 9x2 + 25y2 - 54x - 100y - 44 = 0. Find the length of primary and secondary axes, eccentricity, and coordinates of the center of the ellipse.
  • Profitability
    zisk The purchase price of goods is 13000, the sales price is the 20000. What is the profitability as a percentage?
  • Gas consumption
    vessel The vessel consume 100 tons of gas in 250 miles. How many fuel will the vessel consume if it travels 400 miles?
  • Truncated cone 3
    rotacnikomolykuzel The surface of the truncated rotating cone S = 7697 meters square, the substructure diameter is 56m and 42m, determine the height of the tang.
  • Diamond and diagonals
    kosostvorec A diamond has diagonals f = 8 cm and g = 6 cm long. How long is this diamond perimeter? (Calculate it!)
  • Diamond
    koso_4 The diamond has a circumference of 48cm. Calculate the length of its side in dm.
  • Sequence 11
    sequence_geo_2 What is the nth term of this sequence 1,1/2,1/3,1/4,1/5 ?
  • Shadow and light
    stin Nine meters height poplar tree has a shadow 16.2 meters long. How long shadow have at the same time Joe if he is 1,4m tall?
  • Train and walker
    trains_6 Walker passes an hour 5 km. Express train per hour 100 km. Walker went 4 hours. How many minutes took the distance express train?
  • Mountain
    manga_parbat Mountain has the elevation 7450 meters and in the morning is the middle portion thereof in the clouds. How many meters of height is in the sky if bellow the clouds is 2,000 meters and above clouds are two fifths of elevation of the mountain?
  • Scale of map
    map_9 James travels one kilometer in 12 minutes. The route walked for half an hour measured on the map 5 cm. Calculate how many kilometers James walked for half an hour. Find the scale of the map.
  • Triangle ABC
    triangles_6 In a triangle ABC side b measure 10 cm less than the side a and side b is half of the side c. Calculate the length of sides if the circumference of the triangle is 42 cm.
  • ABCD
    trig_1 AC= 40cm , angle DAB=38 , angle DCB=58 , angle DBC=90 , DB is perpendicular on AC , find BD and AD
  • Age problems
    time_1 A) Alex is 3 times as old as he was 2 years ago. How old is he now? b) Casey was twice as old as his sister 3 years ago. Now he is 5 years older than his sister. How old is Casey? c) Jessica is 4 years younger than Jennifer now. In 10 years, Jessica will
  • Lemonade
    lemonade How many 1/4 cup servings are in 2 and 1/3 cups of lemonade?
  • Grid/network of cube
    siet_kocky Grid of cube has a circumference 42 mm. Calculate the surface area of the cube ...

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