Examples for secondary school students

  1. Win in raffle
    tombola_1 The raffle tickets were sold 200, 5 of which were winning. What is the probability that Peter, who bought one ticket will win?
  2. Height difference
    road What height difference overcome if we pass road 1 km long with a pitch21 per mille?
  3. Railway
    train_1 Railway line had on 5.8 km segment climb 9 permille. How many meters track ascent?
  4. Chimney
    komin_melnik Lower circumference of of the chimney is 12.57 m, top circumference is 5.655 m. The slope of the walls is 87°. Determine the height of the chimney.
  5. RT leg and perimeter
    rt_1 Calculate the length of the sides of a right triangle ABC with hypotenuse c when the length of a leg a= 84 and perimeter of the triangle o = 269.
  6. Coffee shop
    coffee-beans To the coffee shop brought 2 types of coffee totally 50 kg. The first type was CZK 220 per kilogram, coffee second type 300 CZK per 1 kg. For all the coffee trader earned CZK 12,000. How many kilograms of coffee of first type and how many kilograms of co
  7. Water reservoir
    nadrz_1 The water reservoir is filled through one inlet 4 hours later than both together, then another inlet 9 hours later than both together. For how long is filled by each separately?
  8. Equilateral triangle v2
    eq_triangle Equilateral triangle has a perimeter 36 dm. What is its area?
  9. Jar
    sklenice From the cylinder shaped jar after tilting spilled water so that the bottom of the jar reaches the water level accurately into half of the base. Height of jar h = 7 cm and a jar diameter D is 12 cm. How to calculate how much water remains in the jar?
  10. Cube from sphere
    sphere_cube What largest surface area (in cm2) can have a cube that was cut out of a sphere with radius 43 cm?
  11. SD - mean
    normal_sd Mean is 10 and standard deviation is 3.5. If the data set contains 40 data values, approximately how many of the data values will fall within the range 6.5 to 13.5?
  12. The cone
    cone_5 The lateral surface area of the cone is 4 cm2, the area of the base of the cone is 2 cm2. Determine the angle in degrees (deviation) of the cone sine and the cone base plane. (Cone side is the segment joining the vertex cone with any point of the base c
  13. Water
    rain In the garden with an area of 8 ares rain 40hl of water. To what heights leveled water?
  14. Hexagonal pyramid
    hexagonal-pyramid Base of the pyramid is a regular hexagon, which can be circumscribed in a circle with a radius of 1 meter. Calculate the volume of a pyramid 2.5 meters high.
  15. Height of the arc - formula
    sircular_segment Calculate the height of the arc if the length of the arc is 77 and chord length 40. Does exist a formula to solve this?
  16. Tetrahedral prism
    hranol4sreg Calculate surface and volume tetrahedral prism, which has a rhomboid-shaped base, and its dimensions are: a = 12 cm, b = 7 cm, ha = 6 cm and prism height h = 10 cm.
  17. Prism
    prism The volume of tetrahedral prism is 2.43 m3. Base of prism is a parallelogram in which a side 2,5dm and height ha = 18cm. Calculate the height of the prism.
  18. Three friends
    pizza_4 Divide 570 euros to three friends so that first will get 50 euros less than the second and third twice more than the first. How many euros will get everyone?
  19. Dollars
    children Mama split 760 dollars Jane, Dane and Eva as follows: Jane got three times more than Dane and Dane and got 40 more than Eva. How much does get each of them?
  20. Moivre 2
    moivre_complex Find the cube roots of 125(cos 288° + i sin 288°).

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