Statistics - math word problems

  1. Inflation
    tsar Once upon a time, tsar owned a money printer and printed and printed. The result of printing money prices went up,in the first year 3.9 %, in the second 6%, in the third 4.7% and in the fourth 5.5%. Then tsar was failed in election. Calculate the aver
  2. Workers
    workers Two workers fulfill a certain task when working together for 5 days, the first if he worked himself done work in 13 days. How many days will do whole job a second worker?
  3. Garden
    garden_2 Father dig up the garden in 9 hours. Son in 13 hours. How many hours take dig up the garden together?
  4. RBA
    ksu Regional Building Authority has an annual budget of EUR 1806814. In previous calendar year has processed 804 approval procedures. How much does an average of one building approval costs (eg unsuccessful revoke)?
  5. Center
    triangle_axis Calculate the coordinates of the center of gravity T [x, y] of triangle ABC; A[11,4] B[13,-7] C[-17,-18].
  6. Team
    football The football team has 11 players. Their average age is 20 years. During the match due to injury, one player withdraws and the average age of the team is 18. How old was injured player?
  7. Speed of Slovakian trains
    zssk_train Rudolf decided to take the train from the station 'Trnava' to 'Zemianske Kostoľany'. In the train timetables found train R 725 Remata : km0Bratislava hl.st.12:574Bratislava-Vinohrady13:0113:0219Pezinok13:1213:1346Trnava13:3013:3263Leopoldov13:4514:0168H
  8. Parquet floor
    Parkett Three workers laid parquet floor for 2.301 hour. The first one would do this work alone 7 hours, the second in 6 hours. For how many hours would fulfill this work the third worker, if he worked alone?
  9. Madams
    womans During the spring cleaning ladies going to wash windows. Mother takes wash all the windows 5 hours, the grandmother 3 times longer and Paula wash all windows in 2 hours. How many hours will spend washing the windows this "women's team" if working togethe
  10. Area of RT
    sandwich_rt In the right triangle has orthogonal projections of legs to the hypotenuse lengths 7 cm and 12 cm. Determine the area of ​​this triangle.
  11. Report card
    vysvedcenie_1 Ivor hit 4× grade 5 at the beginning of the school year. How many times must now catch grade 1 to get grade 2 on the report card?
  12. Pillar
    sliced_pyramid Calculate volume of pillar shape of a regular tetrahedral truncated pyramid, if his square have sides a = 19, b = 27 and height is h = 48.
  13. Painter Pavel
    pixla_s_farbou Painter Pavel painted the fence for 16 hours and painter Petr the same fence painted for 13 h. How long should take painted the fence together?
  14. Sales
    tesco From statistics of sales goods, item A buy 51% of people and item B buys 59% of people. What is the probability that from 10 people buy 2 item A and 8 item B?
  15. Tanker
    oil-tanker An oil tanker can be emptied by the first pump in 4.9 hours. Second pump can empty an tanker in 8 hours. If the first pump started at 4:00 and second 1.4 hour later, at what time will the tanker be empty?
  16. Mailbox
    post Mailbox is opening at regular intervals 3 times a day. The first time is opened at 8:00 and the last at 19:00. Calculate hours when mailbox is opened during day.
  17. Three workers
    three_workers Three workers A, B, C have to work on a specific task. Workers A and B completed whole task in 14 days, B together with C for 23 days, A together with C for 13 days. How long it would take to complete the task every one of them alone? How long it would.
  18. Steamship
    parnik Between the two ports on the river is going steamship. The journey there and back takes 8:42. Downstream steamship traveling at 20 km/h, upstream 9 km/h. What is the distance between the ports?
  19. Blueberries
    boruvky Marie earns 3 liters of blueberries for 3.4 hours, Peter 2.4 liters for 2.9 hours. How long have earns together one liter?
  20. 3y inflation
    bread Price of the roll rise in the first year by 9%, the second year fell by 5% and in the third year increased by 3%. Calculate the average annual increase in price of the roll.

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