Examples for secondary school students

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  • Tabitha
    factory_butter_7 Tabitha manufactures a product that sells very well. The capacity of her facility is 241,000 units per year. The fixed costs are $122,000 per year, and the variable costs are $11 per unit. The product currently sells for $17. a. What total revenue is requ
  • Fly and cyclist
    fly Two cyclists are at 20 km apart on a same line. They start at same time towards each other at a speed of 10 km/hr. A fly sitting on one of the cyclists handle start flying towards the other cyclists at a speed of 20 km/hr. It touches the handle and move b
  • The Hotel
    hotel-montfort-tatry-2_2 The Holiday Hotel has the same number of rooms on each floor. Rooms are numbered with natural numerals sequentially from the first floor, no number is omitted, and each room has a different number. Three tourists arrived at the hotel. The first one was in
  • Earnings per share
    usd The table below shows the stock price, earnings per share, and dividends per share for three companies for a recent year: Deere &Co. Price $65.70 earnings per share $4.40 Dividends per share $1.16 Google price $528.33 earnings per share $27.72 Dividends p
  • Mixture of coffee
    cofee They have to prepare a mixture of coffee in packing centres so that 1 kg costs 240 CZK. There are two types of coffee in stock at the price of 220 CZK per 1 kg and 300 CZK per 1 kg. How many kilograms of each species need to be mixed to prepare 50 kg of t
  • Two math problems
    coins 1) The sum of twice a number and -6 is nine more than the opposite of that number. Find the number. 2) A collection of 27 coins, all nickels, and dimes, is worth $2.10. How many of each coin are there? The dime, in United States usage, is a ten-cent coin.
  • Gimli Glider
    gimli_glider Aircraft Boeing 767 lose both engines at 42000 feet. The plane captain maintain optimum gliding conditions. Every minute, lose 1910 feet and maintain constant speed 211 knots. Calculate how long it takes to plane from engine failure to hit the ground. Cal
  • Overtaking
    dopravni-znacka-zakaz-predjizdeni On the direct road, the passenger car overtakes the slower bus by starting to overtake 20 meters from the bus and after passing it ahead of it again 20 meters away. The car overtakes at a steady speed of 72 km/h, the bus goes at a steady speed of 54 km/h.
  • Car rent
    car_5 Rental cars are paid a fixed daily fee plus 16 cents for each kilometer traveled. Samuel want to rent a car for a day and worked out that will pay 175 euros. When paying he got a 20% discount on the daily fee, the cost per kilometer is unchanged. Samuel t
  • Candy - MO
    cukriky_4 Gretel deploys to the vertex of a regular octagon different numbers from one to eight candy. Peter can then choose which three piles of candy give Gretel others retain. The only requirement is that the three piles lie at the vertices of an isosceles trian
  • Trapezium internal angles
    lichob_2_2 A trapezium where AB is parallel to CD, has angle A : angle D = 4 :5, angle B = 3x-15 and angle C = 4x+20. Find angle A, B, C and D.
  • Profitable bank deposit 2012
    eurocoins Calculate the value of what money lose creditor with a deposit € 9500 for 4 years if the entire duration is interest 2.6% p.a. and tax on interest is 19%. Annual inflation is 3.7% (Calculate what you will lose if you leave money lying idle at negative int
  • Two cars
    cars_racing Two cars started against each other at the same time to journey long 346 km. The first car went 53 km/h and the second 53 km/h. What distance will be between these cars 20 minutes before meet?
  • Chess
    sachovnica How many ways can select 4 fields on classic chess board with 64 fields, so that fields don't has the same color?
  • PIN code
    pin_2 PIN on Michael credit card is a four-digit number. Michael told this to his friend: • It is a prime number - that is, a number greater than 1, which is only divisible by number one and by itself. • The first digit is larger than the second. • The second d
  • The fence
    latkovy_plot I'm building a fence. Late is rounded up in semicircle. The tops of late in the field between the columns are to copy an imaginary circle. The tip of the first and last lath in the field is a circle whose radius is unknown. The length of the circle chord
  • Purchase
    cart Mother bought 5 boxes of milk and 7 kg of potatoes and paid a total CZK 147. Aunt bought 7 boxes of milk and 3 kg of potatoes and paid 131 CZK. What is the price of one carton of milk and 1 kg of potatoes? How CZK together would have saved if bought at th
  • Isosceles triangle 9
    iso_triangle Given an isosceles triangle ABC where AB= AC. The perimeter is 64cm, and the altitude is 24cm. Find the area of the isosceles triangle.
  • Logistics
    sklad_1 Head of logistics department informed the meeting of management of the same item is currently not available in sufficient quantity in all three warehouses of the company. We have the total 135 pieces. It was 37 pieces more in the warehouse No. 3 than in t
  • Drilling machine
    heavy-drilling-machine-500x500 A manufacturing firm purchased a heavy duty drilling machine. They were given two payment options: Option 1: Make a payment of $46,000 immediately to settle the invoice for the machine. Option 2: Make a payment of $21,500 immediately and the balance of $2

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