A farmer has enough food to feed 20 animals in his cattle for 6 days. How long would the food last if there were 10 more animals in his cattle?

 

A mixture of paint is prepared by mixing 1 part of red pigments with 8 parts of base. In the following table, find the parts of base that need to be added.

In question 2 above, if 1 part of a red pigment requires 75 mL of base, how much red pigment should we mix with 1800 mL of base?

A machine in a soft drink factory fills 840 bottles in six hours. How many bottles will it fill in five hours?

A photograph of a bacteria enlarged 50,000 times attains a length of 5 cm as shown in the diagram. What is the actual length of the bacteria? If the photograph is enlarged 20,000 times only, what would be its enlarged length?

In a model of a ship, the mast is 9 cm high, while the mast of the actual ship is 12 m high. If the length of the ship is 28m, how long is the model ship?

Suppose 2 kg of sugar contains 9 x 10⁶ crystals. How many sugar crystals are there in (i) 5 kg of sugar? and (ii) 1.2 kg of sugar?

Rashmi has a road map with a scale of 1 cm representing 18 km. She drives on a road for 72 km. What would be her distance covered in the map?

A 5 m 60 cm high vertical pole casts a shadow 3 m 20 cm long. Find at the same time (i) the length of the shadow cast by another pole 10 m 50 cm high and (ii) the height of a pole which casts a shadow 5 m long.

A loaded truck travels 14 km in 25 minutes. If the speed remains the same, how far can it travel in 5 hours?

On a squared paper, draw five squares of different sides. Write the following information in a tabular form.

Find whether the length of a side is in direct proportion to:

(a) The perimeter of the square.

(b) The area of the square.