Numbers - math word problems

  1. Page numbering
    books_10 The book has 88 pages. How many times is the number 4 used for the book numbering?
  2. Minimum surface
    cuboid_20 Find the length, breadth, and height of the cuboid shaped box with a minimum surface area, into which 50 cuboid shaped blocks, each with length, breadth and height equal to 4 cm, 3 cm and 2 cm respectively can be packed.
  3. Triangles
    496_triangle Ivo wants to draw all the triangles whose two sides of which have a length of 4 cm and 9 cm and the length of the third side is expressed in whole centimeters. How many triangles does he have?
  4. Balance of account
    usd_6 Theo had a balance of -$4 in his savings account. After making a deposit, he has $25 in his account. What is the overall change to his account?
  5. School
    ziaci_6 Less than 500 pupils attend school. When it is sorted into pairs, one pupil remains. Similarly, when sorted into 3, 4, 5 and 6 members team one remains. Sorted to seven members teams, no left behind. How many pupils are attending this school?
  6. Brackets 2
    brackets Add parenthesis to make true: 5-2×6-4+2=5
  7. Each with each
    tenis_3 Five pupils from 3A class played table tennis. How many matches did they play with each other?
  8. Bricks pyramid
    The_Great_Pyramid How many 50cm x 32cm x 30cm brick needed to built a 272m x 272m x 278m pyramid?
  9. MO C–I–1 2018
    numbers_49 An unknown number is divisible by just four numbers from the set {6, 15, 20, 21, 70}. Determine which ones.
  10. 7 digit number
    numbers2_49 If 3c54d10 is divisible by 330, what is the sum of c and d?
  11. Rectangles
    rectangle_15 The perimeter of a rectangle is 90 m. Divide it into three rectangles, the shorter side has all three rectangles the same, their longer sides are three consecutive natural numbers. What is the dimensions of each rectangle?
  12. The Hotel
    hotel-montfort-tatry-2_2 The Holiday Hotel has the same number of rooms on each floor. Rooms are numbered with natural numbers sequentially from the first floor, no number is omitted, and each room has a different number. Three tourists arrived at the hotel. The first one was in r
  13. I think
    numbers_49 I think a number. When I multiply it by five, and after that I subtract 477, I get the same number as if I multiplied it twice. What number do I think?
  14. Dd 2-digit numbers
    numbers_49 Find all odd 2-digit natural numbers compiled from digits 1; 3; 4; 6; 8 if the digits are not repeated.
  15. My father
    tree3_2 My father has a big farm. 6/8 of it were planted with mango trees, 1/2 of the remainder are guava trees and the rest 10 trees are santol trees. What is the number of all trees?
  16. Dinosaurs
    dino More than 30 and less than 60 dinosaurs have met at the pond. A quarter of them bathed and 1/7 saws and the rest gripped. How many were at the pond? How many were there?
  17. Counting number
    numbers2_49 What is the smallest counting number divisible by 2,5,7,8 and 15?
  18. PIN code
    pin_2 PIN on Michael credit card is a four-digit number. Michael told this to his friend: • It is a prime number - that is, a number greater than 1, which is only divisible by number one and by itself. • The first digit is larger than the second. • The second.
  19. Digits
    pin_keyboard How many odd four-digit numbers can we create from digits: 0, 3,5,6,7?
  20. The Stolen Money
    magic2_1 A man walks into a store and steals a $100 bill. 5 minutes later, he returns to the store and buys stuff worth $70. He pays with the bill that he had stolen, so the owner of the store returns him $30. How many dollars did the store owner lose?

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