Units - math word problems

  1. Runner
    runner_1 Peter ran a speed of 12.4 km / h. After 45 minutes running he had a hiatus. The track is 31 km long. How many kilometers he still to run if he still running at the same speed?
  2. Painting rooms
    palma_1 If Dano paint three hours daily given work he complete in 7.5 days. How many hours a day would have to work to finish the job 1.5 days earlier?
  3. 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.
  4. Threesome
    3friends_1 Dana, Dalibor and Michael have a combined 57 years. Dana is five years older than Dalibor, but Dana is five years younger than Michael. Determine how old is Dana, Dalibor and Michael.
  5. Blackberries
    ribezle Damián gathered for 19 days 9.5 kg of blackberries. Milada gathered for two days 1.6 kg of currants. How much would collect Damián blackberries per day and how much currants Miladka per day?
  6. Milk
    milk_1 Mum bought 16 cartons of milk. One carton of milk weight 0.925 kg. How many weight all purchase?
  7. 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.
  8. Cleaners
    clean Milan would clean up the room for 2.5 hours, Eric would take 10 hours. How long they swept the room together?
  9. Hexagon rotation
    hexagnos A regular hexagon of side 6 cm is rotated through 60° along a line passing through its longest diagonal. What is the volume of the figure thus generated?
  10. Spheres in sphere
    Spheres_in_sphere How many spheres with a radius of 15 cm can fits into the larger sphere with a radius of 150 cm?
  11. Pool in litres
    bazen2_1 Pool has a width of 3.5 m length of 6 m and a height 1.60 meters. Calculate pool volume in liters.
  12. Daily temperature
    thermometer The average of daily temperature measurements in one week every day at the same hour was -2.8 °C. All temperatures were measured in different days are different. The highest daily maximum temperature was 2.4 °C, the lowest -6 °C. Determine the options th
  13. Percentages
    money_14 What is 1/3 of $821.43?
  14. Right triangle
    rt_triangle It is given a right triangle angle alpha of 90 degrees beta angle of 55 degrees c = 10 cm use Pythagorean theorem to calculate sides a and b
  15. Painting a hut
    malovka_4 It is necessary to paint the exterior walls of hut whose layout is a rectangle of 6.16 m x 8.78 m wall height is 2.85 meters. Cottage has five rectangular windows; three have dimensions of 1.15 m x 1.32 m and two 0,45 m x 0.96 m. How many m2 is necessar
  16. Water in aquarium
    akvarko_4 The aquarium cuboid shape with a length of 25 cm and a width of 30 cm is 9 liters of water. Calculate the areas which are wetted with water.
  17. The creek
    potok Workers cleaned the creek within 3 days. The first day cleanse one-fifth the length of the creek, the next day 40% of the length of the stream and the third day 8 km length of the creek. How long is a creek?
  18. Bonbons
    bonbons_6 Create a mixture of 50 kg of candy on price 700Kč. Candies has prices: 820Kč, 660Kč and 580Kč. Use cross rule.
  19. Glass door
    glass_1 What is the weight of glass door panel 5 mm thick height 2.1 meters and a width of 65 cm and 1 cubic dm of glass weighs 2.5 kg?
  20. Jam
    dzem Jar with jam weighs 800 grams. Jam weighs three times as much as the empty glass. What is the weight of jam that is in the glass?

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