Percentages - math word problems

  1. Barrel 2
    barell Empty barrel weighs 7 kg. When it filled with water up to 45% height, weighs 60 kg. How heavy is barrel full of water?
  2. 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
  3. Goods
    money To the market is introducing a new product, the first week is sold at a reduced price. 8 products is sell at an entry price same as 5 products at the normal price. How much % is reduced price less than the current price for this product?
  4. New refrigerator
    lednice New refrigerator sells for 1024 USD, Monday will be 25% discount. How much USD will save, and what will be the price?
  5. Price reduction
    camera Price of camera is 654 USD on sale its price reduced to 411 USD. Calculate the percentage reduction in the price of the camera.
  6. Double percent
    percents What is 80% of 60% of 2800?
  7. Speedometer
    lotus The speedometer of a car reads 66 km/h. It's accurate to within 4.1% What is the maximum possible error?
  8. Sales off
    sweater If a sweater sells for $ 19 after a 5% markdown, what was its original price?
  9. Green - Red
    balls_2 We have 5 bags. Each consist one green and 2 red balls. From each we pull just one ball. What is the probability that we doesn't pull any green ball?
  10. Carpenter
    tesari From wooden block carpenter cut off a small cuboid block with half the edge length. How many percent of wood he cut off?
  11. Ethnicity
    indian Share of ethnicity XY is 26%, which is 1/9 more than in the prewar period. What was the share of that ethnicity in the pre-war period?
  12. Sales vs profit
    Acer+vs+Apple Apple sells 22 percent less computes than the Acer but the profit from their sales is 2.2 times higher than Acer. How many times are Apple computer more expensive than Acer?
  13. Brunette
    brown_eye Of the girls who attend primary school are 30% blondes and 70% brunette. 81% blondes and 19% brunette has blue eyes. How many girls attending school altogether if 470 girls has blue eyes?
  14. Prism
    prism_rhombus_2 The base of the prism is a rhombus with a side 30 cm and height 27 cm. The height of the prism is 180% longer than the side length of the rhombus. Calculate the volume of the prism.
  15. Flowerbed
    flowers On the flowerbed was planted 280 flowers - pansies and crayons. During the first week wilts quarter of pansies and an eighth crayons, which is 20% of all flowers. How many pansies were planted on the flowerbed?
  16. Tower
    HexagonalPyramid_4 The top of the tower is a regular hexagonal pyramid with base edge 8 meters long and a height 5 meters. How many m2 of the sheet is required to cover the top of the tower if we count 8% of the sheet waste?
  17. Simple interest 3
    coins-uk_1 Find the simple interest if 11928 USD at 2% for 10 weeks.
  18. Bureaucracy
    bureaucrat The office was attended by 23 people. 9 of them completed the questionnaire. What is the percentage of all people?
  19. Simple interest 2
    coins-uk Find the simple interest if 13905 USD at 4.5% for 6 months.
  20. Simple interest 4
    coins-uk_2 Find the simple interest if 5243 USD at 4.3% for 261 days. Assume a 361-day year.

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