Units - math word problems

  1. Cube in a sphere
    cube_in_sphere_1 The cube is inscribed in a sphere with volume 9067 cm3. Determine the length of the edges of a cube.
  2. Monkey
    monkey Monkey fell in 38 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?
  3. Axial section
    cone2 Axial section of the cone is an equilateral triangle with area 208 dm2. Calculate the volume of the cone.
  4. Coffee
    coffe In stock are three kinds of branded coffee prices: I. kind......248 Kč/kg II. kind......134 Kč/kg III. kind.....270 Kč/kg Mixing these three species in the ratio 10:7:7 create a mixture. What will be the price of 1100 grams of this mixture?
  5. Motion
    cyclist_1 If you go at speed 3.7 km/h, you come to the station 42 minutes after leaving the train. If you go by bike to the station at speed 27 km/h, you come to the station 56 minutes before its departure. How far is the train station?
  6. Store
    pave One meter of the textile was discounted by 2 USD. Now 9 m of textile cost as before 8 m. Calculate the old and new price of 1 m of the textile.
  7. Medicament
    tablets Same type of medicament produces a number of manufacturers in a variety of packages with different content of active substance. Pack 1: includes 60 pills of 600 mg of active substance per pack cost 9 Eur. Pack 2: includes 150 pills of 500 mg of active sub
  8. Hands
    soviet_watch The clock shows 12 hours. After how many minutes will angle between the hour and minute hand 90°? Consider the continuous movement of both hands hours.
  9. Rectangle
    rectangle_inscribed_circle The rectangle is 21 cm long and 38 cm wide. Determine the radius of the circle circumscribing rectangle.
  10. River
    kongo_river Calculate how many promiles river Dunaj average falls, if on section long 957 km flowing water from 1454 m AMSL to 101 m AMSL.
  11. Trigonometric functions
    trigonom In right triangle is: ? Determine the value of s and c: ? ?
  12. Rectangular cuboid
    cuboid_1 The rectangular cuboid has a surface area 5334 cm2, its dimensions are in the ratio 2:4:5. Find the volume of this rectangular cuboid.
  13. Cuboid
    cuboid Cuboid with edge a=16 cm and body diagonal u=45 cm has volume V=11840 cm3. Calculate the length of the other edges.
  14. Clock
    hodiny How many times a day hands on a clock overlap?
  15. Server
    p_pro Calculate how many average minutes a year is a webserver is unavailable, the availability is 99.99%.
  16. Blood
    krv In human body the blood is about 7.3% body weight. How many kilograms of blood is in the human body with weight 109 kg?
  17. 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?
  18. Bus vs. train
    bus_vs_train Bus started from point A 10 minutes before the train started from the same place. The bus went an average speed of 49 km/h, train 77 km/h. To point B train and bus arrived simultaneously. Calculate time of train journey, if train and bus travelled the.
  19. Movement
    peleton From the crossing of two perpendicular roads started two cyclists (each at different road). One runs at average speed 28 km/h, the second at average speed 24 km/h. Determine the distance between them after 45 minutes cycling.
  20. Inflation
    dollar What is better for people (employees)? ?

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