Units - math word problems

  1. Density - simple example
    mercury Material of density of 532 kg/m3 occupies a container volume of 79 cm3. What is its mass?
  2. Discounts on rail (ZSSK)
    preukazy_zssk The railway company ZSSK offers a discount of 15% (REGIONAL) for 5 Eur/year. Calculate the real discount rate as a percentage, where passengers will travel 19 Eur per week.
  3. Rectangular trapezoid
    trapezoids How many inner right angles has a rectangular trapezoid?
  4. Area of trapezoid
    trapezoid The trapezoid bases are and 7 dm and 11 cm. His height is 4 cm. Calculate the area of trapezoid.
  5. Isosceles trapezium
    isoscele_trapezoid Trapezoid YUEB (YU||EB) is isosceles. The size of the angle at vertex U is 49 degrees. Calculate the size of the angle at vertex B.
  6. Circle arc
    pizza Circle segment has a circumference of 135.26 dm and 2096.58 dm2 area. Calculate the radius of the circle and size of central angle.
  7. Garden
    garden Trapezoid garden has parallel sides 19 m and 24 m. Its area is 193.5 square meters. What is the width of the garden?
  8. Clocks
    clocks How long path will walk the end of the clock's minute-hand long 7 cm for 330 minutes? How long will walk in the same time hour-hand?
  9. Floating barrel
    floating_barrel Barrel (cylinder shape) floats on water, top of barrel is 8 dm above water and the width of surfaced barrel part is 23 dm. Barrel length is 24 dm. Calculate the volume of the barrel.
  10. Monkey
    monkey Monkey fell in 40 meters deep well. Every day it climbs 3 meters, at night it dropped back by 2 m. On what day it gets out from the well?
  11. Aquarium
    akvarium Aquarium is rectangular box with square base containing 76 liters of water. Length of base edge is 42 cm. To what height the water level goes?
  12. Rhombus angles
    rhombus2 If one angle in the rhombus is 159°, what is it neighboring angle in rhombus?
  13. Present
    prezent Gift box has rectangular shape with dimensions of 8×8×3 cm. Miloslav wants to cover with square paper with sides of 18 cm. How much paper left him?
  14. Kites
    drake Boys run kite on a cable of 68 meters long. What is the kite altitude, if the angle from the horizontal plane is 72°?
  15. Solidarity
    salt Imagine a word solidarity means that salt donation to the needy, who have neither the salt. If we take word solidarity has word base salt + gift (only in Slovakian language). Calculate how many kilos of salt sympathetic citizen "gives" government a year
  16. Angles in triangle
    trigonometry The triangle is ratio of the angles β:γ = 6:8. Angle α is 40° greater than β. What are the size of angles of the triangle?
  17. Collective irresponsibility
    most_u_komoran At the Internet, time is very uncomfortable for the state that no more gaffe or waste is no longer possible to hush up as if people were at home with only two television channels censored. An example of the effectiveness of state can be Bridge at Komořa
  18. Jewel
    rhombus3 Rhombus-shaped jewel have area of 93 mm2 and the edge in long 13.2 mm. Calculate the size of rhombus acute angle.
  19. 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 ave
  20. Slovak broad track
    sirokorozchodna Once upon a time, we learned in school that the Russians have "wider" tracks than our, because they have less tolerable ground. In truth, decide olny area of sleepers, no track gauge. Calculate how many millimeters, our track 1435 mm different from the

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