Grade - math word problems

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  • Candelas
    sviecky We burned two unequally thick and long candles. Longer burnt for three and a half hours and shorter for five hours. After two hours of burning it was identical. How many times was longer candle longer then shorter?
  • 600 pencils
    fixy_2 600 pencils we want to be divided into three groups. The biggest groups have ten pens more than the smallest. How many ways can this be done?
  • 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?
  • Tiler
    asdasd On what surface m2 tiler must lay 30 square tiles, each of which has a side 25 cm?
  • Three granaries
    vaha_3 Three granaries hold 7,800 metric cent (q) of grain. In the first, 70 tonnes of grain was more than the second and in the third it was 120 tonnes less than in the second. How many grain were in each granary?
  • Hypotenuse
    RightTriangleMidpoint_1 Calculate the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle if the length of one leg is 4 cm and its content area is 16 square centimeters.
  • Axial cut of a rectangle
    cylinder_cut Calculate the volume and surface of the cylinder whose axial cut is a rectangle 15 cm wide with a diagonal of 25 cm long.
  • Volume of cone
    cone_church_1 Find the volume of a right circular cone-shaped building with a height of 9 cm and a radius base of 7 cm.
  • Cableway
    cable-car Cableway has a length of 1800 m. The horizontal distance between the upper and lower cable car station is 1600 m. Calculate how much meters altitude is higher upper station than the base station.
  • Digit sum
    numbers_41 Determine for how many integers greater than 900 and less than 1,001 has digit sum digit of the digit sum number 1.
  • Area to volume
    two_cubes_2 If the surface area of a cube is 486, find its volume.
  • Parallelogram
    quadrilateral_parallelogram The perimeter of the parallelogram is 417 cm. The length of one side is 1.7-times longer than the length of the shorter side. What is the length of sides of a parallelogram?
  • Is complex
    cplx Are these numbers 2i, 4i, 2i + 1, 8i, 2i + 3, 4 + 7i, 8i, 8i + 4, 5i, 6i, 3i complex?
  • 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?
  • Children's pool
    bazen2_17 Children's pool at the swimming pool is 10m long, 5m wide and 50cm deep. Calculate: (a) how many m2 of tiles are needed for lining the perimeter walls of the pool? (b) how many hectoliters of water will fit into the pool?
  • Sandbox
    sand_2 Sandbox has area of 32 sq ft and length of 4 1/2 ft. What is width of sandbox.
  • Diameter
    circles2_1 What is the inside diameter of the cylinder container and if half a liter of water reaches a height 15 cm?
  • The glass
    glass 1 m3 of glass weighs 2600 kg. Calculate the weight of the glass glazing panel with dimensions of 2.5 m and 3.8 m if the thickness of the glass is 0.8 cm
  • Hexagon area
    hexagon_1 The center of the regular hexagon is 21 cm away from its side. Calculate the hexagon side and its area.
  • Truck of milk
    daf How many hectoliters of ,,the box" milk fit in the truck, ake cargo size area is 2.8 m x 3 m x 17 m? A liter of milk in a box measuring 12 cm x 7 cm x 20 cm.

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