Third power - math word problems

Number of problems found: 83

  • Cube surfce2volume
    cube_shield Calculate the volume of the cube if its surface is 150 cm2.
  • Cuboid to cube
    cube_shield_1 A cuboid with dimensions of 9 cm, 6 cm, and 4 cm has the same volume as a cube. Calculate the surface of this cube.
  • Simplest form
    expr Find the simplest form of the following expression: 3 to the 2nd power - 1/4 to the 2nd power
  • The half life
    exp_growth2 The half-life of a radioactive isotope is the time it takes for a quantity of the isotope to be reduced to half its initial mass. Starting with 145 grams of a radioactive isotope, how much will be left after 3 half-lives?
  • Right circular cone
    cut-cone The volume of a right circular cone is 5 liters. Calculate the volume of the two parts into which the cone is divided by a plane parallel to the base, one-third of the way down from the vertex to the base.
  • Body diagonal
    cube_diagonals_2 Calculate the cube volume, whose body diagonal size is 75 dm. Draw a picture and highlight the body diagonal.
  • Cube edges
    cubes3_3 If the edge length of the cube increases by 50%, how does the volume of this cube increase?
  • Divide 8
    powers Divide 6840 by x y and z, in such a way that x has twice as much as y, who has half as much as z
  • Length of the edge
    cube_shield Find the length of the edge of a cube that has a cm2 surface and a volume in cm3 expressed by the same number.
  • Volume and area
    cubes_8 What is the volume of a cube which has area of 361 cm2?
  • The ball
    sphere4 The ball has a radius of 2m. What percentage of the surface and volume is another sphere whose radius is 20% larger?
  • Magnified cube
    cube_in_sphere If the lengths of the edges of the cube are extended by 5 cm, its volume will increase by 485 cm3. Determine the surface of both the original and the magnified cube.
  • Eight
    sphere_in_cube Eight small Christmas balls with a radius of 1 cm have the same volume as one large Christmas ball. What has a bigger surface: eight small balls, or one big ball?
  • Cube into cylinder
    cube_sphere_in If we dip a wooden cube into a barrel with a 40cm radius, the water will rise 10 cm. What is the size of the cube edge?
  • Spherical segment
    SphericalSegment_1000 Calculate the volume of a spherical segment 18 cm high. The diameter of the lower base is 80 cm, the upper base 60 cm.
  • Tower model
    tower Tower height is 300 meters, weight 8000 tons. How high is the model of the tower weight 1 kg? (State the result in the centimeters). The model is made from exactly the same material as the original no numbers need to be rounded. The result is a three-digi
  • Pyramid cut
    ihlan_rez We cut the regular square pyramid with a parallel plane to the two parts (see figure). The volume of the smaller pyramid is 20% of the volume of the original one. The bottom of the base of the smaller pyramid has a content of 10 cm2. Find the area of the
  • Cube containers
    cubes_1 Two containers shaped of cube with edges of 0.7 m and 0.9 m replace a single cube so that it has the same volume as the original two together. What is the length of the edges of the new cube?
  • Three members GP
    exp_growth The sum of three numbers in GP (geometric progression) is 21 and the sum of their squares is 189. Find the numbers.
  • For thinkings
    glass_cubes The glass cube dive into the aquarium, which has a length of 25 cm, width 20 cm and height of 30 cm. Aquarium water rises by 2 cm. a) What is the volume of a cube? b) How many centimeters measure its edge?

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