Units - math word problems

  1. Stadium
    sphere_segment A domed stadium is in the shape of spherical segment with a base radius of 150 m. The dome must contain a volume of 3500000 m³. Determine the height of the dome at its centre to the nearest tenth of a meter.
  2. Axial cut
    Kuzel The cone surface is 388.84 cm2, the axial cut is an equilateral triangle. Find the cone volume.
  3. Scale 3
    cuboid_4 Miriam room is 3.2 meters wide. It is draw by line segment length 6.4 cm on floor plan. In what scale it is plan of the room?
  4. 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.
  5. Four friends
    money_10 Four friends shared the money. Vasek got 1/4 of the total amount. Tonda received 1/3 of the rest of the money, Joe got a half from the second residue and Jirka left 80. How much money get together?
  6. Breeder
    slepice1 Seven hens breeder has supplied 350 eggs. How long can deliver, if each of its chickens can withstand at least 5 eggs for week?
  7. Regular quadrilateral pyramid
    pyramid_3 Find the volume and surface of a regular quadrilateral pyramid if the bottom edge is 45 cm long and the pyramid height is 7 cm.
  8. Conva
    konva_1 How many liters of water fit into the shape of a cylinder with a bottom diameter 20 cm and a height 45 cm?
  9. Potatoes 6
    zemiaky_5 The farmer brought potatoes to the market. In the first hour he sold two-fifths of the potatoes brought, in the second hour he sold five-sixth of the remaining potatoes, and in the third hour he had sold the last 40kg of potatoes. How many kg of potatoes d
  10. Garden
    garden_7 The garden has a rectangular shape with lengths of 25 and 40 meters. It has been expanded so that each of its size increased by one fifth. How many square meters increased its acreage?
  11. Masons
    Pat_a_Mat 1 mason casts 30.8 meters square in 8 hours. How long casts 4 masons 178 meters square?
  12. Remuneration
    cnb Total remuneration for workers is 47 000 CZK. The second worker received 20% more than the first and third 4000 CZK less than a second employee. How many CZK each received?
  13. Cows
    cow_1 4 cows spent 16 bags of hay in 5 days. How many bags of hay sacks is needed for 5 cows for seven days?
  14. Tailor
    sijaci_stroj Tailor bought 2 3/4 meters of textile and paid 638 CZK. Determine the price per 1 m of the textile.
  15. Failure
    car_12 Drivers of passenger cars have calculated that at a speed of 60 km/h arrives at destination within 40 minutes. After 20 km refrain five minutes due a technical failure. How fast must go the rest of the way to the finish came at the scheduled time?
  16. Forces
    vectors_4 Forces with magnitudes F1 = 42N and F2 = 35N act at a common point and make an angle of 77°12'. How big is their resultant?
  17. Iron cast
    litina What is the weight of cast iron with volume 3575 cubic centimeters. The density of the cast iron is 7600 kg/m3
  18. Colza
    repka-olejna In the agricultural cooperative harvested 525 ares of colza, of which received 5.6 tons of seeds. Calculate the yield per hectare.
  19. Krkonose CZ
    krkonose Tourist's rod on the tourist route in the Krkonose was 1/5 of its length into the ground. Snow fell in winter and 1/3 of the length of the rod remained above the snow. Find the height of the snow if the length of the part above the snow is 32 cm greater t
  20. Loading car
    voz The car was loaded with 78 boxes weighing 19 kg. How many 25kg boxes can load if the total weight is the same?

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