Reason - 6th grade (11y) - math problems

Number of problems found: 259

  • Granddaughter
    calendar In 2014, the sum of the ages of Meghan's aunt, her daughter and her granddaughter was equal to 100 years. In what year was the granddaughter born, if we know that the age of each can be expressed as the power of two?
  • Shepherd
    sheep Kuba makes a deal with a shepherd to take care of his sheep. Shepherd said Kuba that after a year of service, he would receive twenty gold coins and one sheep. But Kuba resigned just after the seventh month of service. But shepherd rewarded him and paid h
  • Group of children
    family There is a group of children. There is a boy named Adam in each of the three children subgroup and a girl named Beata in each quartet (four-member subgroup). How many children can be in such a group and what are their names in that case?
  • Venn diagram
    venn_intersect University students chose a foreign language for the 1st year. Of the 120 enrolled students, 75 chose English, 65 German, and 40 both English and German. Using the Venn diagram, determine: - how many of the enrolled students chose English only - how many
  • Language courses
    venn_intersect Of the company's 60 employees, 28 attend an English course, 17 take a German course, and 20 do not attend any of these courses. How many employees attend both courses?
  • Into box
    cubes3 How many cubes with an edge of 2.5 cm fit into a box measuring 11.6 cm; 8.9 cm and 13.75 cm?
  • Divisible by nine
    numbers How many three-digit natural numbers in total are divisible without a remainder by the number 9?
  • Everyday
    briefcases Everyday one employee leaves with 2 briefcases and returns on the 4th day. These 2 briefcases wont be available till the 05th day as the departing employee leaves before the briefcases arrives back and cleaned properly. How many briefcases are needed to e
  • How many
    numbers2 How many numbers are less than 222 with a digit sum is 8?
  • On the floor
    chicken You enter the room and there are 2 dogs, 4 horses, 1 giraffe and one duck on the bed, 3 chickens are flying over the chair. How many feet are on the floor?
  • Games
    chess Jack and Paul decided to play chess against each other. They bet ten pesos on each game they played. Jack won three bets and Paul won fifty pesos. How many games did they play?
  • Eggs
    egg One egg boiled in 10 minutes, how long will it take to boil ten eggs at a time?
  • The orchard
    jablone 4 temporary workers harvested the orchard in 9 days. How many temporary workers we need for six days?
  • School year
    zosity At the beginning of the school year, 396 notebooks and 252 textbooks are ready to be distributed in the classroom. All pupils receive the same number of notebooks and the same amount of textbooks. How many pupils are there in the class if you know that th
  • Beet campaign
    time The beet's field is being harvested. Beets are transported to 3 plants, 3 trucks. The first car returns to the field 3 times an hour, the second car after 30 minutes, and the third car 5 times an hour. All cars left at 8 in the morning. How many cars do w
  • By six
    numbers From the digits 1,2,3,4 we create the long integer number 123412341234. .. .. , which will have 962 digits. Is this number divisible by 6?
  • Brothers and sisters
    venn_intersect There are 35 children in the class, 23 of them have a brother, and 27 of them have a sister. How many children have both a brother and a sister when there are 5 children in the class who have no brother or sister?
  • Three lines
    clocks2 At 6 am, three bus lines are departing from the station. The first line has an interval of 24 minutes. The second line has an interval of 15 minutes. The third line runs at regular intervals of more than 1 minute. The third line runs at the same time as t
  • Sum of the digits
    numbers2 How many are two-digit natural numbers that have the sum of the digits 9?
  • 45th birthday
    clock-night-schr This year Mrs. Clever celebrated her 45th birthday. Her three children are now 7, 11 and 15 years old. In how many years will Mrs. Clever's age be equal to the sum of her children's years?

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