Time - math word problems

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  • Present value
    exp_growth A bank loans a family $90,000 at 4.5% annual interest rate to purchase a house. The family agrees to pay the loan off by making monthly payments over a 15 year period. How much should the monthly payment be in order to pay off the debt in 15 years?
  • Motion
    graf_pohyb The two bodies move in the same direction evenly in a straight line, at speeds of 5 cm/s and 10 cm/s. The movement of the first body started 2 seconds earlier than the movement of the second body, from a point located at a distance of 20 cm from the start
  • Savings
    penize_5 Suppose on your 21st birthday you begin making monthly payments of $500 into an account that pays 8% compounded monthly. If you continue the payments untill your 51st birthday (30 years), How much money will be in your account? How much of it is interest?
  • The machine
    clocks2_2 The machine was in operation for 9 tenths (in a fraction) of eight hours of working time. How long has he been running?
  • Sebastian
    cool From Kovalov Sebastian walks at 6 km / h started at 8:00 in the direction of Kuty. From Kuty, the godfather is driving at 50 km/h and started at 8:30. The distance is 24 km. When and where grandfather will take Sebastian to the car.
  • RC time constant
    capacitor You introduced 1 Coulomb worth of electrons into the inner volume of a dielectric material with ϵr=6. 30 minutes later, you found that only 36.79% of the electrons were in the inner volume. Determine the conductivity σ of the dielectric material.
  • Maxwell’s inductance bridge
    maxwell_bridge_LR The four arms of Maxwell’s inductance bridge are; Arm AB contains an Inductive coil of inductance L1 having resistance R1. Arms BC and CD contain non-inductive resistances of 200Ω and 100Ω respectively. Arm AD contains standard inductor of inductance L2 a
  • Six speeds
    gears-3 A drilling machine is to have 6 speed ranging from 50 to 750 revolution per minute. If the speed forms a geometric progression, determine their values.
  • A loan
    exp_growth A loan in the amount of $944 is charged simple interest at an annual rate of 8.1%. How much money is owed 14 months after the loan was made?
  • The projectile
    ballistic The projectile was fired horizontally from a height of h = 25 meters above the ground at a speed of v0 = 250 m/s. Find the range and flight time of the projectile.
  • Retirement annuity
    bankovka How much will it cost to purchase a two-level retirement annuity that will pay $2000 at the end of every month for the first 10 years, and $3000 per month for the next 15 years? Assume that the payment represent a rate of return to the person receiving th
  • Population growth
    exp_growth How many people will be on Earth from two people for 5,000 years, if every couple has always 4 children, (2 boys and 2 girls) at the age of 25-35, and every man will live 75 years?
  • Time passing
    clock-night-schr 6 years ago, Marcela's mother was two times older than her and two times younger than her father. When Marcela is 36, she will be twice as young as her father. How old are Marcela, her father, and mother now?
  • Train speed
    trains_9 Two guns were fired from the same place at an interval of 10 minutes and 30 seconds, but a person in a train approaching the place hears second shot 10 minutes after the first. The speed of the train (in km/hr), supposing that sound travels at 340 m/s is:
  • Bob traveled
    house_3 Bob traveled 20 meters to Dave's house. He arrived in 3 minutes. What was his average speed for the trip.
  • Common ratio
    growth If 200 units of a commodity are consumed in a first year, and if the annual rate of increase in consumption is 5% (a) what amount is consumed in the 8th year; (b) in the first 15 years?
  • Two trains
    trains_1 There are two trains running the same distance. 1st train will travel it in 7 hours 21minutes. 2nd the train will travel 5 hours 57minutes and 34 seconds and it is 14 km/h faster than the first train. What are speeds of trains and how long is this railway
  • A car
    car_31 A car weighing 1.05 tonnes driving at the maximum allowed speed in the village (50 km/h) hit a solid concrete bulkhead. Calculate height it would have to fall on the concrete surface to make the impact intensity the same as in the first case!
  • Compound interest 4
    exp_growth2 3600 dollars is placed in an account with an annual interest rate of 9%. How much will be in the account after 25 years, to the nearest cent?
  • Shopping malls
    tv The chain of department stores plans to invest up to 24,000 euros in television advertising. All commercials will be placed on a television station where the broadcast of a 30-second spot costs EUR 1,000 and is watched by 14,000 potential customers, durin

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