Examples for secondary school students

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  • Box
    Rhombic_prism Cardboard box shaped quadrangular prism with a rhombic base. Rhombus has a side 5 cm and one diagonal 8 cm long and height of the box is 12 cm. The box will open at the top. How many cm2 of cardboard we need to cover overlap and joints that are 5% of a
  • Combined interest
    bank2 Combined interest: Carol has deposited CZK 100,000 in the bank with an annual interest rate of 1.5%. The money was put into the account 5.5.2016 and withdraw them all before Christmas 20.12.2016. How much money did she withdraw?
  • Seagull
    cajka Artificially created island in the shape of a circle with a radius of 50 m is overgrown with grass. The only exception is a landing area for helicopters in the shape of a rectangle measuring 15 m and 8 m. What is the probability that the flying seagull (w
  • Sheep
    ships Shepherd tending the sheep. Tourists asked him how much they have. The shepherd said, "there are fewer than 500. If I them lined up in 4-row 3 remain. If in 5-row 4 remain. If in 6-row 5 remain. But I can form 7-row." How many sheep have herdsman?
  • Circle and square
    square_axes An ABCD square with a side length of 100 mm is given. Calculate the radius of the circle that passes through the vertices B, C and the center of the side AD.
  • Angled cyclist turn
    cyclistTurn The cyclist passes through a curve with a radius of 20 m at 25 km/h. How much angle does it have to bend from the vertical inward to the turn?
  • Square vs rectangle
    ctverec Square and rectangle have the same area contents. The length of the rectangle is 9 greater and width 6 less than side of the square. Calculate the side of a square.
  • Paper box
    cuboid_5 Calculate the consumption of paper on the box-shaped quadrangular prism with rhombic footstall, base edge a=6 cm and the adjacent base edges forms an angle alpha = 60 °. Box height is 10 cm. How many m2 of the paper consumed 100 such boxes?
  • Tower
    cone_roof How many m2 of copper plate should be to replace roof of the tower conical shape with diameter 24 m and the angle at the vertex of the axial section is 144°?
  • An equilateral
    rs_triangle2 An equilateral triangle is inscribed in a square of side 1 unit long so that it has one common vertex with the square. What is the area of the inscribed triangle?
  • Truck PRG-BA
    kamionka Truck driving on highway from Prague to Bratislava at average speed of 72 km/h. At the moment when the truck passes 54 kilometer from Prague passenger car departs from Prague which travel to Bratislava at speed 90 km/h. When and where (at waht highway k
  • Car factory
    VW_logo Carmaker now produce 2 cars a day more than last year, so the production of 70312 cars will save just one full working day. How many working days needed to manufacture 70312 cars last year?
  • Deviation of the lines
    kvadr_1 Find the deviation of the lines AG, BH in the ABCDEFGH box-cuboid, if given | AB | = 3cm, | AD | = 2cm, | AE | = 4cm
  • Ratio of edges
    diagonal_2 The dimensions of the cuboid are in a ratio 3: 1: 2. The body diagonal has a length of 28 cm. Find the volume of a cuboid.
  • Average age
    age_4 The average age of all people at the celebration was equal to the number of people present. After the departure of one person who was 29 years old, average age was again equal to the number present. How many people were originally to celebrate?
  • Heptagonal pyramid
    truncated_hexagonal_pyramid A hardwood for a column is in the form of a frustum of a regular heptagonal pyramid. The lower base edge is 18 cm and the upper base of 14 cm. The altitude is 30 cm. Determine the weight in kg if the density of the wood is 10 grams/cm3.
  • Circle described
    described_circle_right_triangle The radius of the circle described to the right triangle with 6 cm long leg is 5 cm. Calculate the circumference of this triangle.
  • Young mathematician
    age_1 One young mathematician was bored again. He found that the average age of people in the room where the seminar is equal to its count. Then his 29-year-old brother entered this room. Even then, the average age of all present was the same as the count of pe
  • Investment
    penize_49 1000$ is invested at 10% compound interest. What factor is the capital multiplied by each year? How much will be there after n=12 years?
  • Internal angles
    mo-klm The ABCD is an isosceles trapezoid, which holds: |AB| = 2 |BC| = 2 |CD| = 2 |DA|: On its side BC is a K point such that |BK| = 2 |KC|, on its side CD is the point L such that |CL| = 2 |LD|, and on its side DA the point M is such that | DM | = 2 |MA|. Det

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