Grade - math word problems

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  • Area of rectangle
    rectangle_24 How many times will increase the area of the rectangle, if we increase twice the length and at the same time we decrease the width by the half?
  • Ten boys
    venn_intersect Ten boys chose to go to the supermarket. Six boys bought gum and nine boys bought a lollipop. How many boys bought gum and a lollipop?
  • Tickets
    cinema2_16 1260 tickets sold. On the first day, 80% was sold on the second day was sold. How many tickets were sold first and how much the next day?
  • Mushrooms
    hriby Fresh mushrooms contain 88% water, dried 14% water. How many kilograms of fresh mushrooms should be collected to get 3 kg of dried?
  • Bus vs train
    Clock0400_1 Milada took the bus and the journey took 55 minutes. Jarmila was 1h 20 min by train. They arrived in Prague at the same time 10h45 min. At what time did each have to go out?
  • Find the 3
    segment_2 Find the distance and mid-point between A(1,2) and B(5,5).
  • Oranges
    pomaranc_2 Mother divided her three children's oranges in a ratio of 6:5:4. Two children gave 45 oranges. How many oranges were there?
  • Mixture
    roztoky_6 How many percentages mixtures do we get by adding 23ml of matter to 89ml of water?
  • Cutting circles
    circles2_2 From the square 1 m side we have to cut the circles with a radius of 10 cm. How many discs we cut and how many percent will be waste?
  • Scale factor
    cuboid_7 A prism with a volume of 1458 mm3 is scaled down to a volume of 16mm3. What is the scale factor in fraction form?
  • Gingerbread house
    pernikova_ch Janka and Marienka calculated that there are 210 gingerbreads on the gingerbread house. Janko ate one-seventh of all gingerbreads, and Marienka ate a third less than Janko. How many gingerbreads remained in the gingerbread house?
  • Speed of sound
    sotka_t100 The average speed of sound is 330 meters per second. Estimate how long it will hear the church bell 1 km away. Calculate the distance from what would hear sound after 10 seconds.
  • Ladder
    rebrik_2 The ladder has a length 3.5 meters. He is leaning against the wall so that his bottom end is 2 meters away from the wall. Determine the height of the ladder.
  • Forces
    resultant_force Determine the resultant of two perpendicular forces F1 = 560 N and second force of 25% smaller.
  • Equilateral triangle v2
    eq_triangle Equilateral triangle has a perimeter 36 dm. What is its area?
  • Painter
    painting_1 How many euros we will pay for repainting the room shaped cuboid with a length of 4.5 meters, width of 2.5 meters and a height of 3 meters, if for 1 m2 with paint we pay € 1.5?
  • Odometer
    s-l1000 The odometer is driven by rotation of the wheel whose diameter is 65 cm. After how many rotations the wheel turns counter to next kilometer?
  • Pencils
    pencils Emil has 23 pencils in a pencil case, 18 of which were broken. Emily 9 trims, 2 breaks, 4 trims and goes to school. When he return from school, he has broken 5 pencils. How many pencils have trimed at school?
  • Hockey teams goals
    hockey Hockey teams fired 200 goals. The second team 13 less than first team, third 16 less than the first and fourth tean 19 goals less than first. How many goals fired each team?
  • Building
    Taipei_101 How high is the building that throws horizontal shadow 95.4 m long at angle 50°?

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