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

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  1. Two resistors
    resistor_1 Two resistors 20 Ω and 60 Ω are connected in series and an external voltage of 400 V is connected to them. What are the electrical voltages on the respective resistors? Please comment!
  2. Double ratio
    phones The mobile phone was twice gradually discounted in the ratio of 3: 2 1 half: 5 quarters. How much did it originally cost if the price was CZK 4,200 after a double discount?
  3. The circumference
    rectangle The circumference and width of the rectangle are in a ratio of 5: 1. its area is 216cm2. What is its length?
  4. The piglet
    piglet The weight of the piglet grew regularly by five kilograms for four months. Determine the proportion by weight of the piglet in each month, if the first weighed 35 kg.
  5. Age of family
    age The age of father and son is in the ratio 10: 3. The age of the father and daughter is in ratio 5: 2. How old are a father and a son if the daughter is 20?
  6. Brass
    brass Brass is an alloy of copper and zinc in a ratio of 3: 2. How many grams does a component that required 270 g of copper weigh?
  7. Half of halves
    sequence_geo Half of the square we cut off, then half of the rest, etc. Five cuts we made in this way. What part of the content of the original square is the content of the cut part?
  8. Interior angles
    triangles_1 Calculate the interior angles of a triangle that are in the ratio 2: 3: 4.
  9. The angles
    trojuholnik The angles in the triangle are in the ratio 12: 15: 9. Find the angles.
  10. In a
    triangles_1 In a triangle, the aspect ratio a: c is 3: 2 and a: b 5: 4. The perimeter of the triangle is 74cm. Calculate the lengths of the individual sides.
  11. Lookout tower
    marhat Calculate the height of a lookout tower forming a shadow of 36 m if at the same time a column 2.5 m high has a shadow of 1.5 m.
  12. Garden exchange
    land The garden has the shape of a rectangular trapezoid, the bases of which have dimensions of 60 m and 30 m and a vertical arm of 40 m. The owner exchanged this garden for a parallelogram, the area of which is 7/9 of the area of a trapezoidal garden. What is
  13. Ducats
    dukat The king divided the ducats to his three sons in a ratio of 2: 5: 4. How many ducats the king divided them if the youngest received 260 ducats, which was the least of all sons.
  14. Squares ratio
    squares2 The first square has a side length of a = 6 cm. The second square has a circumference of 6 dm. Calculate the proportions of the perimeters and the proportions of the contents of these squares? (Write the ratio in the basic form). (Perimeter = 4 * a, conte
  15. Profitable company
    penize Three businessman decide to open up their own company. They agree to distribute the yearly profits made in the same ratio as their initial investments. They invest R 50 000, R 75 000 and R25 000, respectively. The profit made by the company in the first y
  16. The bakery
    cake The bakery baked 325 cakes from 25kg flour. How many kg of flour do they need to bake 195 pieces of such cakes?
  17. Altitude difference
    promile What a climb in per mille of the hill long 4 km and the altitude difference is 6 meters?
  18. Father and daughter
    family Father is 36 years old, daughter is 20 years less. What will be the ratio between them when they are 10 years more?
  19. Two bodies
    cylinders The rectangle with dimensions 8 cm and 4 cm is rotated 360º first around the longer side to form the first body. Then, we similarly rotate the rectangle around the shorter side b to form a second body. Determine the ratio of surfaces of the first and seco
  20. Two trains
    trains Two trains departed from City A and City B against each other. They met after some time. The first train then took 9 hours to reach city B, and the second train took 4 hours to reach city A. In what proportion were the train speeds?

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