Percentages - 8th grade (13y) - math problems

  1. AMSL and skiing
    horizons Tomas skis from point A (3200m above sea level to place B. Hill has 20% descent. The horizontal distance between the start and finish is 2,5km. At what altitude is point B?
  2. Copper sulphate
    CuSO4crystal How much g of water do we have to add to 240 g of an 84% CuSO4 solution to produce a 60% solution? (Express the mass of crystalline CuSO4 in the original solution and in the resulting solution and compare them. )
  3. Sales off
    sale After discounting 40% the goods cost 15 €. How much did the cost of the goods before the discount?
  4. Drilling machine
    heavy-drilling-machine-500x500 A manufacturing firm purchased a heavy duty drilling machine. They were given two payment options: Option 1: Make a payment of $46,000 immediately to settle the invoice for the machine. Option 2: Make a payment of $21,500 immediately and the balance of $
  5. Bonus
    moeny Gross wage was 527 EUR including 16% bonus. How many EUR were bonuses?
  6. River
    kongo_river Calculate how many promiles river Dunaj average falls, if on section long 957 km flowing water from 1454 m AMSL to 101 m AMSL.
  7. Server
    p_pro Calculate how many average minutes a year is the web server is unavailable, the availability is 99.99%.
  8. 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?
  9. Discount
    pulover Ladies sweater was twice discounted. First by 11%, then by 11% of the new price. Its final price was 100 €. Determine the original price of sweater.
  10. Rectangle
    diagonal In rectangle with sides, 6 and 3 mark the diagonal. What is the probability that a randomly selected point within the rectangle is closer to the diagonal than to any side of the rectangle?
  11. 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?
  12. Ace
    ace From complete sets of playing cards (32 cards) we pulled out one card. What is the probability of pulling the ace?
  13. Tanks
    hasici Fire tank has cuboid shape with a rectangular floor measuring 13.7 m × 9.8 m. Water depth is 2.4 m. Water was pumped from the tank into barrels with a capacity of 2.7 hl. How many barrels were used, if the water level in the tank fallen 5 cm? Wr
  14. 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?
  15. Gutter
    okap How much metal is needed for production 46 pieces of gutter pipes with the diameter 12 cm and length of 4 m? The plate bends add 2% of the material.
  16. Percentages above 100%
    cmelak What is 122% of 185? What is the meaning of percentages above 100%?
  17. Climb in percentage
    12_percent_stupanie The height difference between points A and B is 475 m. Calculate the percentage of route climbing if the horizontal distance places A, B is 7.4 km.
  18. Sea water
    sea_1 Seawater contains about 4.3% salt. How many dm3 of distilled water we must pour into 5 dm3 of sea water to get water with 1.8% salt?
  19. 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?
  20. Cube zoom
    krychle_1 How many percent we increase volume and surface of cube, if we magnify its edge by 38%.

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