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Lunch for free
Meal vouchers are a tax-free employee benefit widely used in Slovakia. The company issuing meal vouchers charges a 4.3% fee on their total value. Calculate how much an employee effectively receives if they get 201 meal vouchers worth 3.2 € each per year.
Pension or fraud
Imagine working your entire career honestly, paying taxes and social insurance contributions (in Slovakia). You have a gross wage of 970 euros. You and your employer together pay 310 euros per month in social insurance contributions over 41 years, and you
Chickens and rabbits
In a farmyard there were chickens and rabbits. Together they had 30 heads and 100 legs. How many chickens and how many rabbits were in the yard?
Election mathematics
In elections, 8 political parties received the following shares of votes: strana A ; 56 % strana B ; 11.9 % strana C ; 11.7 % strana D ; 8.8 % strana E ; 6.3 % strana F ; 5.1 % strana G ; 0.2 % Calculate what share each party would obtain in parliament if
Cu thief
A thief stole 25 metres of copper wire with a cross-sectional area of $s mm². Calculate how much money the thief receives by selling it as scrap if copper fetches 5.1 EUR/kg. The density of copper is 8.96 t/m³.
Bicycle wheel
A bicycle wheel has a diameter of 60 cm. Approximately how many times does the wheel rotate on a 2.5 km trip?
N-gon angles
What is the sum of the interior angles of an 8-gon? What is each interior angle of a regular convex 8-gon?
Reconstruction of the corridor
Calculate how many minutes the travel time will be reduced on a 213 km long railway corridor if the maximum speed increases from 120 km/h to 160 km/h. Calculate how many minutes the travel time will be shortened if the train must stop at 6 stations, decel
Party
At a party, everyone clinked glasses with everyone else. They clinked 45 times in total. How many people were at the party?
Trolleybus
Trolleybus line No. 215 is 30 km long. If the trolleybus travels 4 km/h faster, the round trip would be 39 minutes shorter. Calculate the trolleybus's speed and the time for a round trip.
When will I be a millionaire?
Peter sends 220 euros to the bank each month, which bears interest at 2.9% p.a. Calculate how many months Peter must save to accumulate 33000 euros. Ignore inflation, changes in interest rates, and bank failures.
Phone numbers
How many 9-digit telephone numbers can be formed from the digits 0, 1, 2, ..., 9 if no digit is repeated?
Eiffel Tower
The Eiffel Tower in Paris is 300 metres high and made of steel. It weighs 8,000 tonnes. If a model of the tower made of the same material weighs 2.8 kg, how tall is it?

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