Fractions + volume - math problems

Number of problems found: 49

  • Mixing 5
    milk Carlos mixed 4/15 of chocolate syrup with 1/2 of milk. Determine the reasonable estimate of the total amount of liquid
  • A bucket
    watertank A bucket has 4 liters of water in it when it is 2/5 full. How much can it hold?
  • Milk2cheese
    cheese From 40 liters of milk is produced 8 kg of cheese how many liters of milk are needed to produce 2 kg of cheese?
  • Nádoba
    cube_sphere_in Nádoba tvaru kostky je naplněna vodou do poloviny své výšky. Pokud dolijeme 20 l vody, bude nádoba naplněna do tří čtvrtin své výšky. Jaký je objem celé nádoby?
  • Water container
    cubes2 The cube-shaped container is filled to two-thirds of its height. If we pour 18 liters, it will be filled to three-fifths of the height. What is the volume of the whole container?
  • Equilateral cone
    kuzel_rs We pour so much water into a container that has the shape of an equilateral cone, the base of which has a radius r = 6 cm, that one-third of the volume of the cone is filled. How high will the water reach if we turn the cone upside down?
  • Barrel
    vino Barrel of wine is filled by 9/14. What part of the barrel will remain filled when 1/4 of the wine we pour from the barrel?
  • Tank of fuel
    fuel A 14.5-gallon tank of fuel is 3/4 full. How many more gallons will it take to fill up the tank?
  • Alcohol
    chemia 6l 48% alcohol, how much 52% alcohol must be added to give 50% alcohol?
  • Tributaries
    inlets The pool can be filled with two different tributaries. The first inflow would fill the pool in 18 hours, both in 6 hours. How many hours would the pool filled with a second inflow?
  • Triangular prism
    hranol3b The base of the perpendicular triangular prism is a rectangular triangle with a hypotenuse of 10 cm and one leg of 8 cm. The prism height is 75% of the perimeter of the base. Calculate the volume and surface of the prism.
  • Aircraft angines
    aircraft-02 The two engines of the aircraft are enough to supply the fuel for five hours of operation. However, one of the engines has a malfunction and thus consumes one-third more fuel. How long can the plane be in the air before it runs out of fuel? After an hour
  • Three glasses
    skleniceRGB Three glasses of different colors have different volumes. Red 1.5 liter is filled from 2/5, blue 3/4 liter is filled from 1/3, and the third green 1.2 liter is empty. Pour green glass 1/4 of the contents from the red glass and 2/5 of the content from the
  • Bucket
    watertank_4 The bucket half filled with water weighs 5.55 kg, the full bucket weighs 9.85 kg. How much does the bucket weigh?
  • Inlet minus outlet
    inlets_6 Water flows into the tank through two pipes and flows out of the third pipe spontaneously. The pipe A itself would fill the tank in 3 hours, the pipe B itself would fille in 4 hours, and the pipe C itself would flow out in 12 hours. How long will the tank
  • Gasoline-oil ratio
    fuel-pump The manufacturer of a scooter engine recommends a gasoline-oil fuel mixture ratio of 15 to 1. In a particular garage, we can buy pure gasoline and a gasoline-oil mixture, which is 75% gasoline. How much gasoline and how much of the gasoline-oil mix do we
  • Cylinder-shaped vase
    vaza_1 If the cylinder-shaped vase is filled with water up to 35 cm, it contains 1 liter of water. How much water will it contain if it is filled to a height of 45cm?
  • Tank 11
    tanks_6 When 150 litres has been drawn from a tank it is 3/8 full, how many litres will the tank hold?
  • Winery
    wines_2 The wine processing plant sold 8/15 of its total wine production to the domestic market, 2/7 to the foreign the rest of the wine. How many percents are still in stock?
  • Gasoline tank 2
    fuel_pump2 A gasoline tank is 1/6 full. When 25 liters of gasoline were added, it became 3/4 full. How many liters more is needed to fill it? Show your solution.

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