Units - math word problems

  1. Steps
    steps_2 Peter makes steps long 70 cm, John 45 cm long. After how many meters their footsteps meet?
  2. Workers
    zamkova_dlazba Ten workers must pave road street for 22 working days. After four days were for speeding up work added two more workers. a) After how many work days now workers completes the paved road? b) How many working days it took a total paved road?
  3. Tram stop
    tram_historic At the tram stop met tram No. 4 and no. 5 at 10 AM. Tram no. 4 runs every 5 minutes, tram No. 5 at an interval of 7 minutes. How many times will meet until 12 o'clock?
  4. Scalar dot product
    dot_product Calculate u.v if |u| = 5, |v| = 2 and when angle between the vectors u, v is: a) 60° b) 45° c) 120°
  5. Car value
    car_old The car loses value 15% every year. Determine a time (in years) when the price will be halved.
  6. Christmas Day
    stedryd In leap years was 53 Sundays. On what day of the week fell to Christmas Day?
  7. Acceleration
    caR The car accelerates at rate 0.5m/s2. How long travels 400 meters and what will be its speed?
  8. Bricks
    cihla_brick Openings in perforated bricks occupy 10% and brick has dimensions 30 cm, 15 cm and 7.5 cm. Calculate a) the weight of a perforated bricks, if you know that the density of the full brick material is p = 1800 kg/m3 (1.8 kg/dm3) b) the number of perforated
  9. Alcohol mixing
    lieh How much 55% alcohol we must pour into 1500 g 80% alcohol to form a 60% alcohol? How much 60% alcohol created?
  10. Buses 4
    bus4 intervals: 1st bus 40 min. 2nd bus 2h 3rd bud 20min How long take them to meet - as soon as possible?
  11. Pump
    kapka From the pump in the yard dripping water. Every drop is 1 ml. How many drops will be necessary before filling a bucket with a volume of 10 l? Calculate how long it will fulfill the bucket when drops fall each second.
  12. Gardeners
    ceny Gardeners pays to city for the lease of one square meter of land CZK 3. How much to pay each year? a) for 2 hectares b) 2 are 150 m2
  13. Lift
    lanovka_2 The largest angle at which the lift rises is 16°31'. Give climb angle in permille.
  14. Spirit
    lieh From 55% and 80% spirit we would like to produce 0.2 kg of 60% spirit. How many of them we must use in a solution?
  15. Cuboid box
    box How many m2 paper is needed for the sticking cuboid box of dimensions 50 cm, 40 cm and 30 cm? To the folds add one-tenth the area.
  16. Container with water
    water_2 The weight of a container with water is 2.48 kg. If the cast 75% water, the container with water has a weight of 0.98 kg. Determine the weight of the empty container. How much water was originally in the container?
  17. TV transmitter
    praded The volume of water in the rectangular swimming pool is 6998.4 hectoliters. The promotional leaflet states that if we wanted all the pool water to flow into a regular quadrangle with a base edge equal to the average depth of the pool, the prism would have
  18. Ballistic curve
    sikmyvrh The ballistic grenade was fired at a 45° angle. The first half ascended, the second fall. How far and how far it reached if his average speed was 1200km/h, and 12s took from the shot to impact.
  19. Gasoline
    kanyster 35 l of gasoline is to be divided into four canisters so that in the third canister was 5 l less than the first canister, the fourth canister 10 l more than in the third canister and the second canister half what in the first canister. How many liters of
  20. Third dimension
    star_1 Calculate the third dimension of the cuboid: a) V = 224 m3, a = 7 m, b = 4 m b) V = 216 dm3, a = 9 dm, c = 4 dm

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