Units - math word problems

  1. Family
    sediny Mom is 39 years old. Karl is eight years and Paul 4 years. For many years mother would old just like two children together?
  2. Cruise liner
    parnik_1 Cruise liner runs along the river between points A and B. The journey downstream takes 40 minutes 1 hour upriver. The flow rate of the river is 3 km/h. What is the speed of cruise liner?
  3. Cableway
    cable-car Cableway has a length of 1800 m. The horizontal distance between the upper and lower cable car station is 1600 m. Calculate how much meters altitude is higher upper station than the base station.
  4. Stew
    gulas To prepare stew for 10 loggers we need: 2.5 kg of potatoes, 0.8 kg of meat, 18 dag of flour, 30 dag onion and 1 bread. What is the required amount of raw materials for 50 participants camps where loggers eats 1.5 times more than a participant of the camp?
  5. Population
    population_2 What is the population of the city with 3% annual growth, if in 10 years the city will have 60,000 residents?
  6. Rounding
    map1 What width and length in centimeters may have rectangle land when round the dimensions to the meter , the width is 5 m and length 7 meters?
  7. Badminton
    clock_4 Peter's badminton class starts a quarter past two PM. He came at 13:16 . Does Peter arrive on time?
  8. Clay
    lopatka How many cubic centimeters of clay is in a pit of dimensions 4 m x 3 m x 3 m?
  9. Milk
    milk_1 Mum bought 16 cartons of milk. One carton of milk weight 0.925 kg. How many weight all purchase?
  10. Shell of cylinder
    cylinder_4 Calculate the content of shell the 1.6 m height cylinder with a base radius of 0.4 m.
  11. Cost reduction
    mp3_1 Two MP3 players whose price was equal to originally have been discounted the first by 20%, the second by 35%. After the price reduction was the difference in their prices 750, - CZK. What was the original price of each of the two players?
  12. How old
    boy_3 The student who asked how many years he answered: "After 10 years I will be twice as old than as I was four years ago. How old is student?
  13. Parallelogram
    rovnobeznik_2 In the parallelogram we know one internal angle 67°33`. Calculate the other internal angles.
  14. Rape
    repka The agricultural cooperative harvested 525 ares of rape, of which received 5.6 tons of rape seeds. Calculate the yield per hectare of rape.
  15. Cuboid edges in ratio
    cuboid_11 Cuboid edges lengths are in ratio 2:4:6. Calculate their lengths if you know that the cuboid volume is 24576 cm3.
  16. Brick wall
    plot_zed Garden 70 m long and 48 m wide should surround with wall 2.1 meters high and 30 cm thick. Wall will be built on the garden ground. How many will we need bricks if to 1 m³ is required approximately 300 bricks?
  17. Fuel mileage
    fuel2 You have 3/8 tank of fuel. Estimate fuel consumption @ 6mpg. Estimate speed @ 50mph. Your fuel tank holds 200 gals. Figure out fuel mileage.
  18. Bread
    chlieb_1 5 of the same bread has the same weight as three bread and 4 kg of fruit. What weight has one bread?
  19. Ruler
    pravitko_1 How far from Peter stands 2m hight John? Petr is looking to John over ruler that keeps at arm's distant 60 cm from the eye and on the ruler John measured the height of 15 mm.
  20. Cost reduction
    penize_3 Windbreaker cost after discounted SKK 1275, which were 3/4 of original price. How many SKK originally cost windbreaker? How many SKK was cost reduction?

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