Quadratic Equations Problems

Number of problems found: 320

  • The pool
    bazen The cube-shaped pool has 140 cubic meters of water. Determine the dimensions of the bottom if the depth of the water is 200 cm and one dimension of the bottom is 3 m greater than the other. What are the dimensions of the pool bottom?
  • Pagans
    rohliky Jano and Michael ate pagans. Jano ate three more than Michael. The product of their counts (numbers) is 180. How many pagans did each of them eat?
  • Staircase
    schody On a staircase 3.6 meters high, the number of steps would increase by 3 if the height of one step decreased by 4 cm. How high are the stairs?
  • Kohlrabies
    kalerab The price of one kohlrabi increased by € 0.40. The number of kohlrabies that a customer can buy for € 4 has thus decreased by 5. Find out the new price of one kohlrabi in euros.
  • Area and perimeter of rectangle
    rectnagles The content area of the rectangle is 3000 cm2, one dimension is 10 cm larger than the other. Determine the perimeter of the rectangle.
  • Isosceles triangle
    rr_triangle3 In an isosceles triangle ABC with base AB; A [3,4]; B [1,6] and the vertex C lies on the line 5x - 6y - 16 = 0. Calculate the coordinates of vertex C.
  • Dimensions of the trapezoid
    lichobeznik One of the bases of the trapezoid is one-fifth larger than its height, the second base is 1 cm larger than its height. Find the dimensions of the trapezoid if its area is 115 cm2
  • Integer sides
    rt_triangle A right triangle with an integer length of two sides has one leg √11 long. How much is its longest side?
  • The cylinder
    valec2 The cylinder has a surface area of 300 square meters, while the cylinder's height is 12 m. Calculate the volume of this cylinder.
  • Lookout tower
    tower How high is the lookout tower? If each step was 3 cm lower, 60 more of them were on the lookout tower. If it were 3 cm higher again, it would be 40 less than it is now.
  • Circle and square
    square_axes An ABCD square with a side length of 100 mm is given. Calculate the radius of the circle that passes through the vertices B, C and the center of the side AD.
  • Magnified cube
    cube_in_sphere If the lengths of the cube's edges are extended by 5 cm, its volume will increase by 485 cm3. Determine the surface of both the original and the magnified cube.
  • Viewing angle
    zorny The observer sees a straight fence 60 m long at a viewing angle of 30°. It is 102 m away from one end of the enclosure. How far is the observer from the other end of the enclosure?
  • Birthdays
    bonbons In the classroom, students always give candy to their classmates on their birthdays. The birthday person always gives each one candy, and he does not give himself. A total of 650 candies were distributed in the class per year. How many students are in the
  • Difference of legs
    rt_triangle In a right triangle, the length of the hypotenuse is 65 m, and the difference of legs is 23 m. Calculate the perimeter of this triangle.
  • An equilateral
    rs_triangle2 An equilateral triangle is inscribed in a square of side 1 unit long so that it has one common vertex with the square. What is the area of the inscribed triangle?
  • Two groves
    hajovna Two groves A, B are separated by a forest, both are visible from the hunting grove C, which is connected to both by direct roads. What will be the length of the projected road from A to B, if AC = 5004 m, BC = 2600 m and angle ABC = 53° 45 ’?
  • Block or cuboid
    cuboid The wall diagonals of the block have sizes of √29cm, √34cm, √13cm. Calculate the surface and volume of the block.
  • The tourist
    eq2 The tourist wanted to walk the route 16 km at a specific time. He, therefore, came out at the necessary constant speed. However, after a 4 km walk, he fell unplanned into the lake, where he almost drowned. It took him 20 minutes to get to the shore and re
  • Suppose
    linear_eq Suppose you know that the length of a line segment is 15, x2=6, y2=14 and x1= -3. Find the possible value of y1. Is there more than one possible answer? Why or why not?

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