Examples for secondary school students - page 38

Big factorial
How many zeros end number 116! ?
Pine
How much of a mixed forest rangers want to cut down, if their head said: "We only cut down pine trees, which in our mixed forest 98%. After cut pine trees constitute 94% of all trees left."
Tower model
Tower height is 300 meters, weight 8000 tons. How high is the model of the tower weight 1 kg? (State the result in the centimeters). The model is made from exactly the same material as the original no numbers need to be rounded. The result is a three-digi
Parabola
Find the equation of a parabola that contains the points at A[6; -5], B[14; 9], C[23; 6]. (use y = ax²+bx+c)
Decimal to fraction
$fractions_2$ Write decimal number 8.638333333 as a fraction A/B in the basic form. Given decimal has infinite repeating figures.
Geometric progression 2
There is geometric sequence with a₁=5.7 and quotient q=-2.5. Calculate a₁₇.
Geometric sequence
In the geometric sequence is a₄ = 20 a₉ = -160. Calculate the first member a₁ and quotient q.
Legs
In the room are four-legged chairs, three-legged stool, and all are sitted with (one) people. I counted all the leg room and there were a total of 39. How many are there chairs, stool and people?
Center of gravity
The mass points are distributed in space as follows - specify by coordinates and weight. Find the center of gravity of the mass points system: A₁ [14; -2; 5] m₁ = 10.2 kg A₂ [-2; -16; 7] m₂ = 13.6 kg A₃
Scouts
Scouts purchased for camp cans two types total cost 1460 CZK. First cans were for CZK 32 and second for 25 CZK. How many cans purchased each type?
Profits
Two members will make profit 52 000, - EUR. The forst earned 8% more and the second 10% more and thus earned together 56 700, - EUR. How many will initially each earn?
Traffic laws
Under traffic regulations, car lights can illuminate the road up to a maximum of 30 m. To check the reach of the dipped-beam lights of their car, Peter stopped car at 1.5 m from the wall. The dipped-beam headlights are 60 cm high. At what height on the wa
Clock face
clock face is given. Numbers 10 and 5, and 3 and 8 are connected by straight lines. Calculate the size of their angles.
Inscribed circle
Write the equation of a incircle of the triangle KLM if K [2,1], L [6,4], M [6,1].
Segment in a triangle
In a triangle ABC with the side/AB/ = 24 cm is constructed middle segment/DE/ = 18 cm parallel to the side AB at a distance 1 cm from AB. Calculate the height of the triangle ABC to side AB.
Trapezoid 15
Area of trapezoid is 266. What value is x if bases b1 is 2x-3, b2 is 2x+1 and height h is x+4
Rectangle pool
Determine dimensions of open pool with a square bottom with a capacity 32 m³ to have painted/bricked walls with least amount of material.
Two months
Mars has two months, Phobos and Deimos. Phobos orbits around Mars in 7 hours 39 minutes and Deimos in 30 h 14 min. How long will repeat the relative position of the three celestial bodies?
MATES
In MATES (Small Television tipping) from 35 randomly numbers drawn 5 winning numbers. How many possible combinations there is?
Ratio of two unknown numbers
Two numbers are given. Their sum is 30. We calculate one-sixth of a larger number and add to both numbers. So we get new numbers whose ratio is 5:7. Which two numbers were given?

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