Mass + percentages - math problems

  1. Butter fat
    butter A quarter of kg butter contains 82% fat. How many grams of fat are in four cubes of butter?
  2. Water in vegetables
    rajciny Tomatoes in the store contain 99% water. After being transported to the shop, they were slightly dried and contained only 98% of water. How many kgs of tomatoes are in the store if there were 300 kg in stock?`
  3. Camel and water
    tava 84% of the camel's weight is water. After drinking, its weight increased to 832 kg and water accounted for 85% of its weight. How much did it weigh before drinking?
  4. Blood
    krv In human body the blood is about 7.3% body weight. How many kilograms of blood is in the human body with weight 109 kg?
  5. Vinegar 2
    ocet How many percentage of getvinegar solution, if we mix to 3.5 liters of 5.8% and 5 liters of 7.6% vinegar?
  6. Crystal
    crystal Crystal grows every month 1.2 promile of its mass. For how many months to grow a crystal from weight 177 g to 384 g?
  7. Alcohol
    no_alcohol How many 55% alcohol we need to pour into 14 liters 75% alcohol to get p3% of the alcohol? How many 65% alcohol we get?
  8. Barrel of oil
    dieselbarrel Barrel of oil weighs 283 kg. When it mold 26% oil, weighed 216 kg. What is the mass of the empty barrel?
  9. Tare
    camion Gross weight of shipment is 5188 kg and its tare is 5.6%. Calculate the net weight of the shipment.
  10. Sea water
    sea Mixing 62 kg of sea water with 84 kg rainwater is created water containing 3.1% salt. How many percent sea water contains salt?
  11. Solidarity
    salt Imagine a word solidarity means that salt donation to the needy, who have neither the salt. If we take word solidarity has word base salt + gift (only in Slovakian language). Calculate how many kilos of salt sympathetic citizen "gives" government a year i
  12. Purchase
    cart Mother bought 5 boxes of milk and 7 kg of potatoes and paid a total CZK 147. Aunt bought 7 boxes of milk and 3 kg of potatoes and paid 131 CZK. What is the price of one carton of milk and 1 kg of potatoes? How CZK together would have saved if bought at the
  13. Potatoes
    brambory Potatoes contain 78.6% starch. How many potatoes need to obtain 27 kg of starch?
  14. Mushrooms
    huby Fresh mushrooms contain 94% water, dried 14%. How many kg of fresh mushrooms is needed to collect to get 10 kg dried?
  15. Metal alloy
    ocel What is the ratio of metals in the alloy that is in the 50 tonnes of steel to 30 kg nickel?
  16. Spirit
    lieh From 55% and 80% spirit we would like to produce 0.2 kg of 60% spirit. How many of them we must use in a solution?
  17. Bronze, tin and copper
    zvon Bronze is an alloy of tin and copper. An alloy of 10% tin and 90% copper is Gunmetal. If it contains 20% tin and 80% copper, it is bell metal. How many tons of molten bell metal and how many tons of copper is needed to make 100 tons of Gunmetal?
  18. Bricks
    cihla_brick Openings in perforated bricks occupy 10% and brick has dimensions 30 cm, 15 cm and 7.5 cm. Calculate a) the weight of a perforated bricks, if you know that the density of the full brick material is p = 1800 kg/m3 (1.8 kg/dm3) b) the number of perforated.
  19. Retail
    glasses At what price bought retail 1 kg goods from wholesale, if lost in the distribution is 4% of weight of the goods and retail still have a profit of 6.3%? Goods are sold at retail for 25 euro per kg.
  20. Barrel with liquid
    barrel Barrel with grain weight 297 kg. When it shed 48% of grain, ha weight 174 kg. What is the weight of empty barrel?

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