Reason - math word problems

  1. Car
    journey Car travels 1/3 of the trip on the first day, second day 2/5 of the trip and left even 340 km for next days. How long is the trip?
  2. Rope
    rope One half of rope use Mam for packaging, half of the rest got son, half of the rest he took father and two fifths of what remained, got daughter. Remained 143 cm of rope. How long was rope at the beginning?
  3. Two cars
    cars_racing Two cars started against each other at the same time to journey long 346 km. The first car went 53 km/h and the second 53 km/h. What distance will be between these cars 20 minutes before meet?
  4. Chocolates
    Chocolate In the market have 3 kinds of chocolates. How many ways can we buy 14 chocolates?
  5. Garden
    garden_1 Area of a square garden is 6/4 of triangle garden with sides 56 m, 35 m, and 35 m. How many meters of fencing need to fence a square garden?
  6. Bus vs. train
    bus_vs_train Bus started from point A 10 minutes before the train started from the same place. The bus went an average speed of 49 km/h, train 77 km/h. To point B train and bus arrived simultaneously. Calculate time of train journey, if train and bus travelled the
  7. Store
    pave One meter of the textile was discounted by 2 USD. Now 9 m of textile cost as before 8 m. Calculate the old and new price of 1 m of the textile.
  8. Gutter
    okap How much metal is needed for production 60 pieces of gutter pipes with the diameter 17 cm and length of 6 m? The plate bends add 6% of the material.
  9. Wage
    socik Increasing the minimum wage while maintaining the other parameters of the system, unemployment will be:
  10. Bonus
    moeny Gross wage was 527 EUR including 16% bonus. How many EUR were bonuses?
  11. Clock
    clock2 What time is now, if the time elapsed after noon is 2/10 of time that elapses before midnight?
  12. Three cats
    three_cats If three cats eat three mice in three minutes, after which time 260 cats eat 260 mice?
  13. Brick weight
    brick The brick weighs 2 kg and a half bricks. How much does one brick weigh?
  14. Subtraction
    cards1 How many times you can subtract the number 4 from the number 64?
  15. Excavation
    vykop_ryha Mr. Billy calculated that excavation for a water connection dig for 12 days. His friend would take 10 days. Billy worked 3 days alone. Then his friend came to help and started on the other end. On what day since the beginning of excavation they met?
  16. n-gon
    ngon_1 Gabo draw n-gon, which angles are consecutive members of an arithmetic sequence. The smallest angle is 70° biggest 170°. How many sides have Gabo's n-gon?
  17. Sequence
    arithmetic_seq In the arithmetic sequence is a1=-1, d=4. Which member is equal to the number 203?
  18. Carpenter
    stolar You want to cut long board into smaller pieces. Carpenter said that one cut of the board into two pieces will cost you 70 cents. But you need to cut the board into 9 parts. How much you pay?
  19. Trains
    trains On double track line between stations K and M went against each other two trains. The first train passed the distance between stations for 3.5 hours, the second, which had an average speed of 12 km/h more passed for 3.05 hours. Calculate the distance bet
  20. Toys
    toys 3 children pulled 12 different toys from a box. Many ways can be divided toys so that each children had at least one toy?

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