Units - math word problems

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  • Car
    journey Car travels 1/3 of the trip on the first day, second day 2/5 of the trip and left even 340 km for next days. How long is the trip?
  • Polygon 42
    12gon Which polygon has 42 more diagonals than sides?
  • Milimeters
    meter How many millimeters is 1/4 meters?
  • Triangle ABC
    squares4 Triangle ABC has side lengths m-1, m-2, m-3. What has to be m to be triangle a) rectangular b) acute-angled?
  • Find the area
    triangles_57 Find the area of the triangle with the given measurements. Round the solution to the nearest hundredth if necessary. A = 50°, b = 30 ft, c = 14 ft
  • Sphere area
    sphere A cube with edge 1 m long is circumscribed sphere (vertices of the cube lies on the surface of a sphere). Determine the surface area of the sphere.
  • Purchase
    supermarket Three buyers pay € 468. The first paid 3-times more than second, third half over second. How many euros paid each of them?
  • Triangular prism
    hranol_3bokovy Calculate the surface area and volume of a triangular prism, base right triangle if a = 3 cm, b = 4 cm, c = 5 cm and height of prism h=12 cm.
  • Savings and retirement
    babky_1 The older sibling has saved 44% more euros than the youngest, which represents 22 euros. How many euros older brother has saved ?
  • Cone
    cones Circular cone of height 15 cm and volume 5699 cm3 is at one-third of the height (measured from the bottom) cut by a plane parallel to the base. Calculate the radius and circumference of the circular cut.
  • 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.
  • Pool
    swimming-pool The swimming pool is 10 m wide and 8 m long and 153 cm deep. How many hectoliters of water is in it, if the water is 30 cm below its upper edge?
  • Angles in ratio
    angles_1 The size of the angles of the triangle are in ratio x: y = 7: 5 and the angle z is 42° lower than the angle y. Find size of the angles x, y, z.
  • More money
    fun Lenka has €4.8 more than Natalia. Who will have more and how much, when Lenka give Natalia €2.5?
  • Maple
    tree_javor Maple peak is visible from a distance 3 m from the trunk from a height of 1.8 m at angle 62°. Determine the height of the maple.
  • Dusan
    parkets a) Dusan break two same window, which has triangular shape with a length of 0.8 m and corresponding height 9.5 dm. Find how many dm2 of glass he needs to buy for glazing of these windows. b) Since the money to fix Dusan has not, must go to the paint job
  • Truncated cone
    kuzel_komoly Calculate the height of the rotating truncated cone with volume V = 1115 cm3 and a base radii r1 = 7.9 cm and r2 = 9.7 cm.
  • Two cars
    cars_racing Two cars started against each other at the same time to journey long 346 km. The first car went 53 km/h and the second 53 km/h. What distance will be between these cars 20 minutes before meet?
  • Honza + Alice + Tonda
    minca Honza + Alice + Tonda have a total of 111 USD. The ratio between Honza and Alena is 5:6 and the ratio between Alice and Tonda is 4:5 How many money have each of them?
  • Retail
    glasses At what price bought retail 1 kg goods from wholesale, if lost in the distribution is 4% of weight of the goods and retail still have a profit of 6.3%? Goods are sold at retail for 25 euro per kg.

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