Q1.          427 children visit a castle.
          They go in groups of 15. One group has less than 15.
          Every group of children has one adult with them.
          How many adults will need to go?

1 mark

          Mr Todd buys 7 drinks at 48p each and 8 drinks at 52p each.
          What is the total cost of the 15 drinks?
          You must show your working.

2 marks

 

Q2.          Mrs Jones prints books.

          Jon pays £4.35 for his book, including the cover.
          How many pages are in his book?
          
2 marks

          Here are the print prices again.
3p per page and 75p for the cover.
          Write a formula for the total cost of printing a book with cover.
          t stands for the total cost in pence.
          Use n for the number of pages.
 
	t = 	

2 marks

 

Q3.          Strips of paper are each 30 centimetres long.

          Steve joins strips of paper together to make a streamer.

          The strips overlap each other by 5cm.

          How long is a streamer made from only 2 strips?
 
	cm	

1 mark

          Sunita makes a streamer that is 280cm long.
          How many strips does she use?

2 marks

 

Q4.          There are 60g of rice in one portion.
          How many portions are there in a 3kg bag of rice?
 
1 mark

 

Q5.          

          2753 people go to a sports event.
          Each person pays £2.30 for a ticket.
          What is the total amount of ticket money collected?
 
	£	

1 mark

          Programmes cost 65p each.
          The total money from programme sales is £612.95
          How many programmes are sold?

2 marks

 

Q6.          Here is a map of part of France.

          The map shows that the distance from Calais to Paris is 320 kilometres.
          5 miles is approximately 8 kilometres.
          Use these facts to calculate the approximate distance in miles from Calais to Paris.

2 marks

          Samira bought this present in France.

          She paid 44.85 French Francs for it.
          9.75 French Francs equal £1
          What was the cost of the present in pounds and pence?

2 marks

 

Q7.          Here is a recipe for raspberry ice cream.
                     
          This recipe is for 8 people.

          Josie makes enough raspberry ice cream for 12 people.
          How much cream does she use?
 
	litre	

1 mark

          Fred makes raspberry ice cream in the same way.
          He uses 2½ kg of raspberries.
          How much sugar does he use?

2 marks

 

Q8.          There are 24 coloured cubes in a box.
          Three-quarters of the cubes are red,
          four of the cubes are blue
          and the rest are green.

          How many green cubes are in the box?

2 marks

          One more blue cube is put into the box.
          What fraction of the cubes in the box are blue now?

1 mark

 

Q9.          

             6 green apples for 75p                        10 red apples for 90p
          Jason bought some bags of green apples and some bags of red apples.
          He spent £4.20

          How many bags of each type of apples did he buy?

2 marks

          Nika and Hassan bought some bags of apples.
          Nika says,
          ‘I bought more apples than Hassan, but I spent less money.’
          Explain how this is possible.
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1 mark

 

Q10.          

          100 adults and 80 children pay to go in.
          How much money do they pay altogether?

2 marks

 

Q11.          

          250 000 people visited a theme park in one year.
          15% of the people visited in April and
          40% of the people visited in August.
          How many people visited the park in the rest of the year?

2 marks

 

Q12.          

          Cheddar cheese costs £7.50 for 1kg.
          Marie buys 200 grams of cheddar cheese.
          How much does she pay?
 
	£	

1 mark

          Cream cheese costs £3.60 for 1kg.
          Robbie buys a pot of cream cheese for 90p.
                                      
          How many grams of cream cheese does he buy?

2 marks

 

Q13.          

          30 children are going on a trip.
          It costs £5 including lunch.
          Some children take their own packed lunch.
          They pay only £3
          The 30 children pay a total of £110

          How many children are taking their own packed lunch?

2 marks

 

Q14.          A packet contains 1.5 kilograms of guinea pig food.
          Remi feeds her guinea pig 30 grams of food each day.

          How many days does the packet of food last?

2 marks

 

Q15.          

          Every 100g of brown bread contains 6g of fibre.
          A loaf of bread weighs 800g and has 20 equal slices.
          How much fibre is there in one slice?

2 marks

 

Q16.          

          Here is part of a train timetable.
 
Edinburgh	−	09:35	−	−	13:35	−	−	
Glasgow	09:15	−	11:15	13:15	−	13:45	15:15	
Stirling	09:57	−	11:57	13:57	−	14:29	15:57	
Perth	10:34	10:51	12:34	14:34	14:50	15:15	16:35	
Inverness	−	13:10	−	−	17:05	−	−	

          How long does the first train from Edinburgh take to travel to Inverness?

1 mark

          Ellen is at Glasgow station at 1.30pm.
          She wants to travel to Perth.
          She catches the next train.
          At what time will she arrive in Perth?

1 mark

 

Q17.          Liam thinks of a number.                                                                        
          He multiplies the number by 5 and then subtracts 60 from the result.
          His answer equals the number he started with.
          What was the number Liam started with?

2 marks

 

Q18.          

          A box contains 220 matches and weighs 45 grams.
          The empty box weighs 12 grams.
          Calculate the weight of one match.

2 marks

 

Q19.          Kate has some rectangles.
          They each measure 16 centimetres by 50 centimetres.

Not actual size

          She makes this design with four of the rectangles.

          Work out the lengths x and y.

 x =	cm	

1 mark
 
 y =	cm	

1 mark

 

Q20.          

          The cost for using a minibus is £1.36 for each kilometre.
          8 friends go on a 114 kilometre journey.
          They share the cost equally.

          How much does each person pay?

2 marks

 

Q21.          A shop sells notebooks and pens.

          Hassan bought a notebook and a pen.
          He paid £1.10
          Kate bought a notebook and 2 pens.
          She paid £1.45

          Calculate the cost of a notebook.

2 marks

 

Q22.          
          Emily has £5 to spend on peaches.
          She decides to buy only small peaches or only large peaches.

          How many more small peaches than large peaches can she buy for £5?

2 marks

 

Q23.          This design has one large square and two identical small squares.
          The design measures 36 centimetres by 28 centimetres.

          Calculate the length of a side of the large square.

2 marks

 

Q24.          Sarah, Amy and Liam stand on some weighing scales two at a time.
                                                         
Here are the measurements:
Sarah and Amy              70kg
Sarah and Liam             80kg
Liam and Amy                80kg

How much does Liam weigh?

2 marks

 

Q25.          A shop sells books, CDs and DVDs.
This pie chart shows the sales of each in one week.

Estimate the fraction of the total sales that were DVDs.

1 mark

In this week, 200 CDs were sold.
Estimate how many books were sold.

1 mark

 

Q26.          A farmer has £1200 to buy apple trees and pear trees. 
 
Apple trees cost £24.75 each.
Pear trees cost £12.50 each.		

He buys 35 apple trees. 

How many pear trees can he buy with the money he has left?

2 marks

Q27.          
There are 25 children in the lunch queue, including Nik.
Nik says,
‘There are twice as many children in front of me as there are behind me’.

How many children are in front of Nik? 

2 marks

Q28.          A 5p coin has a diameter of 1.8 centimetres.
                                                                                                                  
Holly makes a straight line of 5p coins worth £10
 
£10		

How long is Holly’s line?
Give your answer in metres.

2 marks

 

Q29.          Here are some number cards.

Joe picks two even numbers.
Dev picks two odd numbers.
Joe gives one of his cards to Dev.
Dev gives one of his cards to Joe.
Joe says,
‘Now my cards are both square numbers’.
Dev says,
‘Now my cards are both multiples of 5’.
What numbers did they each start with?

Joe started with  and 
Dev started with  and 
2 marks

 

Q30.          
                             
All the children in Class 6 vote to pick a class captain.
The choice is Holly or Dev or Joe.
 
 	Vote
once
	
Holly		
Dev		
Joe		

Dev gets 10% of the votes.
Joe gets twice as many votes as Holly.
What percentage of the votes does the winner get?
 
	%	

1 mark

 

Q31.Here are two plastic bags of £1 coins. 

The first bag contains 20 £1 coins. 

How many £1 coins does the second bag contain? 

2 marks 

 

Q32. 
 A school buys some yo-yos as prizes.
The yo-yos cost £4.25 each.
The school has £40 to spend on prizes.		

They buy as many yo-yos as they can.
How much money is left?

2 marks

Q33.         In a class, 18 of the children are girls.
A quarter of the children in the class are boys.
Altogether, how many children are there in the class?

2 marks

Q34.         
Mina has 5 more marbles than Kirsty.
Kirsty has 2 more marbles than Seb.
Altogether they have 30 marbles.

How many marbles does each child have?

2 marks

Q35.         
Mina has 5 more marbles than Kirsty.
Kirsty has 2 more marbles than Seb.
Altogether they have 30 marbles.

How many marbles does each child have?

2 marks