Length - math word problems

  1. A drone
    drone A flying drone aimed the area for an architect. He took off perpendicularly from point C to point D. He was at a height of 300 m above the plane of ABC. The drone from point D pointed at a BDC angle of 43°. Calculate the distance between points C and B in
  2. Two trains
    trains Two trains departed from City A and City B against each other. They met after some time. The first train then took 9 hours to reach city B, and the second train took 4 hours to reach city A. In what proportion were the train speeds?
  3. Cylinder
    valec The 1.8m cylinder contains 2000 liters of water. What area (in dm2) of this container is the water?
  4. Parametric form
    vzdalenost Calculate the distance of point A [2,1] from the line p: X = -1 + 3 t Y = 5-4 t Line p has a parametric form of the line equation. ..
  5. Possible lengths
    triangles Find the most possible lengths for the third side of a triangle with sides 20 and 18.
  6. The tourist
    tourist The tourist has walked 3/4 of the route. The destination is 12.5 km away. How many kilometers did the route measure?
  7. Doug biked
    cyclist Doug biked 5 1/4 miles in 3/4 of an hour. What is his average speed?
  8. Basketball team
    meter The heights of five starters on redwood high’s basketball team are 5’11”, 6’3”, 6’6”, 6’2” and 6’. The average of height of these players is?
  9. Tablecloths
    obrus The restaurant has sixty-two square tablecloths with a side length of 150 cm and 36 rectangular tablecloths with dimensions of 140 cm and 160 cm. A) How many meters of hemming ribbon will be needed if we add 50 cm to each tablecloth? B) The ribbon sale
  10. Cheetah vs antelope
    motion2 When the cheetah began chasing the antelope, the distance between them was 120 meters. Although the antelope was running at 72km/h, the cheetah caught up with it in 12 seconds. What speed was the cheetah running?
  11. Apartment area
    meter Anton wanted to measure the area of the apartment. But he bought a meter only 1.5m long. Later he recalled that he had two meters long at 4.5m and 18m at home. How many times are home gauges longer than the meter he bought?
  12. Picture frames
    picture_frame Destiny has to make 24 picture frames. Each frame uses 16 3/8 wood trim. 2/3 were completed on the first day. How many inches of wood trim is needed to complete the remaining frames on the second day?
  13. Rectangle field
    land The field has a shape of a rectangle having a length of 119 m and a width of 19 m. , How many meters have to shorten its length and increase its width to maintain its area and circumference increased by 24 m?
  14. Three parallels
    rs_triangle The vertices of an equilateral triangle lie on 3 different parallel lines. The middle line is 5 m and 3 m distant from the end lines. Calculate the height of this triangle.
  15. Land boundary
    rt_triangle The land has the shape of a right triangle. The hypotenuse has a length of 30m. The circumference of the land is 72 meters. What is the length of the remaining sides of the land boundary?
  16. Parallels and one secant
    lines_parallel_crossing There are two different parallel lines a, b and a line c that intersect the two parallel lines. Draw a circle that touches all lines at the same time.
  17. Two villages
    mapa On the map with a scale of 1:40000 are drawn two villages actually 16 km away. What is their distance on the map?
  18. A rhombus
    rhombus-diagonals2 A rhombus has sides of length 10 cm, and the angle between two adjacent sides is 76 degrees. Find the length of the longer diagonal of the rhombus.
  19. Uphill garden
    12perctent I have a garden uphill, increasing from 0 to 4.5 m for a length of 25 m, how much is the climb in percent?
  20. The escalator
    eskalator I run up the escalator at a constant speed in the direction of the stairs and write down the number of steps A we climbed. Then we turn around and run it at the same constant speed in the opposite direction and write down the number of steps B that I climb

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