Units - math word problems

  1. Church tower
    usti-kostel Archdeacon church in Usti nad Labem has diverted tower by 186 cm. The tower is 65 m high. Calculate the angle by which the tower is tilted. Result write in degree's minutes.
  2. Disease
    kravy Farmers'cooperative had a supply of feed for 50 cows to 6 days. Cows got insidious disease after 4 days, 10 of them died. How many total days that farmers had feed for cows?
  3. Crates 2
    bedny In 6 crates is 45 kg of apples In  5 crates is equally In 1 in crate is 3 kg more How many kilograms in each crate?
  4. Trams 2
    trams_1 Square passes two lines of tram. One running every nine minutes, a second interval of 15 minutes. Exactly at 12 o'clock arrived two tram lines in the square. How soon should a similar situation arise again?
  5. Cube 7
    krychle_4 Calculate the volume of a cube, whose sum of the lengths of all edges is 276 cm.
  6. Dressmaker
    singer Dressmaker left a piece of canvas shorter than 5 meters. She is deciding whether it sew a skirt or dress. The canvas was exactly as much as they consumed had cut up her skirt to 120 cm, or 180 centimeters dress. What a piece of canvas left her?
  7. Car model
    cars_2 Car model is 52 mm long and the real car is 4524 mm long. What was the scale of model car?
  8. Office
    hranol-6u Office building was built in the shape of a regular hexagon inscribed in a circle with a radius of 12 m. The height of the walls is 7m. How much CZK cost plastering the walls of the building, if per 1 m square cost CZK 400?
  9. Bathroom
    koupelna How many CZK we pay for lining the perimeter walls of the bathroom with rectangular shape with dimensions 3.5 m and 4 m, high 1.5 m if 1 square m tile cost 300 CZK?
  10. Painter 3
    painter_2 Dad want to paint wall high 250 cm wide and 230 cm with wallpaper. How many meters must buy wallpaper if wallpaper width is 60 cm?
  11. Cube and water
    krychle_3 How many liters of water can fit into a cube with an edge length of 0.11 m?
  12. Map scale
    garden_5 Garden has on plan on a scale of 1: 150 width 22 cm and length 35 cm. What is the real area of the garden?
  13. Octagon from rectangle
    8gon From tablecloth rectangular shape with dimensions of 4 dm and 8 dm we cuts down the corners in the shape of isosceles triangles. It thus formed an octagon with area 26 dm2. How many dm2 we cuts down?
  14. Sales off 2
    lcd_1 Computer monitor sold for 8400 CZK in March. In April, dealer price decreased by 798 CZK. Calculate the percentage by which the price was reduced.
  15. Car consumption
    odometer The car has passed 988 kilometers and consumed 66 liters of petrol. What is the consumption per 100 kilometers?
  16. Hectoliters
    hl How many hectoliters of water fits into cuboid tank with dimensions of a = 3.5 m b = 2.5 m c = 1.4 m?
  17. Badminton
    clock_4 Peter's badminton class starts a quarter past two PM. He came at 13:16 . Does Peter arrive on time?
  18. Wall painting
    painter_1 The wall is 4 meters wide and 2 meters high. Window in the wall has dimensions 2x1,8 meters. How many litera of color is needed to paint two-layer this walls, if the 1 m2 needs 1 liters of paint?
  19. Circular pool
    arc_open The base of the pool is a circle with a radius r = 10 m, excluding a circular segment that determines the chord length 10 meters. The pool depth is h = 2m. How many hectoliters of water can fit into the pool?
  20. Performance
    theathre Same number of tickets sold for 15 CZK, 20 CZK, 30 CZK and 40 CZK a total of CZK 13,230 on theatre performance. How many tickets were sold for this performance?

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