Examples for secondary school students - page 2

  1. Logic
    blue-barrel A man can drink a barrel of water for 26 days, woman for 48 days. How many days will a barrel last between them?
  2. TV transmitter
    praded The volume of water in the rectangular swimming pool is 6998.4 hectoliters. The promotional leaflet states that if we wanted all the pool water to flow into a regular quadrangle with a base edge equal to the average depth of the pool, the prism would have.
  3. Beer
    piva After three 10° beers consumed in a short time there are 5.6 g of alcohol in 6 kg adult human blood. How much is it per mille?
  4. Cube in a sphere
    cube_in_sphere The cube is inscribed in a sphere with volume 3234 cm3. Determine the length of the edges of a cube.
  5. Axial section
    cone2 Axial section of the cone is an equilateral triangle with area 208 dm2. Calculate the volume of the cone.
  6. Circle chord
    circleChord What is the length d of the chord circle of diameter 36 m, if the distance from the center circle is 16 m?
  7. Rectangle
    rectangle_inscribed_circle The rectangle is 21 cm long and 38 cm wide. Determine the radius of the circle circumscribing rectangle.
  8. River
    kongo_river Calculate how many promiles river Dunaj average falls, if on section long 957 km flowing water from 1454 m AMSL to 101 m AMSL.
  9. Trigonometric functions
    trigonom In right triangle is: ? Determine the value of s and c: ? ?
  10. Cuboid
    cuboid Cuboid with edge a=16 cm and body diagonal u=45 cm has volume V=11840 cm3. Calculate the length of the other edges.
  11. Clock
    hodiny How many times a day hands on a clock overlap?
  12. Server
    p_pro Calculate how many average minutes a year is the web server is unavailable, the availability is 99.99%.
  13. Tetrahedral pyramid
    jehlanctyrboky What is the surface of a regular tetrahedral (four-sided) pyramid if the base edge a=16 and height v=16?
  14. Triangle SAS
    triangle_iron Calculate the area and perimeter of the triangle, if the two sides are 51 cm and 110 cm long and angle them clamped is 130 °.
  15. Square
    square_1 Points A[-5,-6] and B[7,-1] are adjacent vertices of the square ABCD. Calculate the area of the square ABCD.
  16. Cubes
    squares_2 One cube is inscribed sphere and the other one described. Calculate difference of volumes of cubes, if the difference of surfaces in 257 mm2.
  17. Discount
    pulover Ladies sweater was twice discounted. First by 11%, then by 11% of the new price. Its final price was 100 €. Determine the original price of sweater.
  18. Transforming cuboid
    cube Cuboid with dimensions 6 cm, 10, and 11 cm is converted into a cube with the same volume. What is its edge length?
  19. Cone A2V
    popcorn Surface of cone in the plane is a circular arc with central angle of 126° and area 415 cm2. Calculate the volume of a cone.
  20. 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 takes to plane from engines failure to hit ground. Calculate

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