Numbers - math word problems

  1. The tickets
    oriesky The tickets to the show cost some integer number greater than 1. Also, the sum of the price of the children's and adult tickets, as well as their product, was the power of the prime number. Find all possible ticket prices.
  2. Twos
    2019 Vojta started writing the number of this year 2019202020192020 into the workbook. .. And so he kept going. When he wrote 2020 digits, no longer enjoyed it. How many twos did he write?
  3. Positive integers
    number_line Several positive integers are written on the paper. Michaella only remembered that each number was half the sum of all the other numbers. How many numbers could be written on paper?
  4. Balls
    gulky From the bag with numbered balls (numbers 1,2,3,. ..20) we pick one ball. What is the probability of choosing a number containing 1?
  5. Athletic club
    skola_1 All athletic club boys lined up by size. In front of Peter was one-eighth of the total. Right behind Peter stood his brother Radek and behind Radek another five-sixths of the total number of boys. Mark the unknown total number of athletic club boys x.
  6. Graduation party
    dancers There are 15 boys and 12 girls at the graduation party. Determine how many four couples can be selected.
  7. Students at cinema
    cinema All pupils from the school went to the cinema for a film performance. The cinema has 400 seats, 2 rows of 20 seats remain unoccupied. 10 places were occupied by teachers. How many students were there?
  8. Proportion 3
    apples For every 8 mango trees in the orchard, there are 4 star apple trees. If there are 1320 trees, how many trees of each kind are there?
  9. Fruits 2
    melon An apple costs 7p and a melon costs seven times more. How much will 6 apples and 2 melons cost
  10. Find the 11
    fractions14 Find the quotient of 229.12 and 12.32
  11. Pine's forest
    borovica There were so many pines in the forest that if they were sequentially numbered 1, 2, 3,. .. , would use three times more digits than the pine trees alone. How many pine trees were there in the forest?
  12. Two math problems
    coins 1) The sum of twice a number and -6 is nine more than the opposite of that number. Find the number. 2) A collection of 27 coins, all nickels, and dimes, is worth $2.10. How many of each coin are there? The dime, in United States usage, is a ten-cent coi
  13. Examination 2
    test In an examination, a teacher awards 2 marks for every correct answer and subtract a mark for every wrong answer. If there are 20 questions and a child scored 25 marks how many correct answer did the child get?
  14. Expression
    numbers If A=2 B=3 evaluate expression A(B+A) and multiply it by A
  15. Banknotes
    penize How many different ways can the cashier payout € 310 if he uses only 50 and 20 euro banknotes? Find all solutions.
  16. Number of songs
    notes Write an expression for the number of songs they need for this show. Evan and Peter have a radio show that has 2 parts. They need 4 fewer than 11 songs in the first part. In the second part, they need 5 fewer than 3 times the number of songs in the first
  17. Digits
    pin_keyboard How many odd four-digit numbers can we create from digits: 0, 3,5,6,7?
  18. In about
    teplomer In about 12 hours in North Dakota the temperature rose from -33 degrees farenheit to 50 degrees farenheit. By how much did the temperature change?
  19. Bookshelf and books
    bookshelf How many ways can we place 7 books in a bookshelf?
  20. The difference
    eq2 The difference of two numbers is 1375. If their exact quotient is 12. Find the two numbers

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