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Mrs Orange decides to share her savings between her six grandchildren. She has £350 in her savings tin and £1450 in her savings account. How much will each of her grandchildren get?
£300 each
Grapes cost £1.50 per kg and carrots cost £1.00 per kg. How much would it cost for 3kg of grapes and half a kilogram of carrots?
£5.00
A flower shop sells roses for £1.79, carnations for £1.25 and buttercups for £1.30. Holly decides to buy 3 roses and a buttercup. How much does she spend?
£6.67
5639 people attended a football match. The previous week 7564 people attended a match. What is the difference in attendance figur5639 people attended a football match. The previous week 7564 people attended a match. What is the difference in attendance figures for the two weeks?es for the two weeks?
1925 people
Which word beginning with 'a' can mean multiply or add?
Altogether
3 friends agree to split the cost of a meal. They each pay £12.68. How much was the meal?
£38.04
Large chocolate bars come with 32 pieces. Medium chocolate bars come with 24 pieces. Barry buys 8 large bars of chocolate and 6 medium bars. How many pieces of chocolate will he have altogether?
400 pieces
In a half price sale I buy a stereo for £110.65, a mobile phone cover for £3.80 and a DVD player for £126.50. What would have been the total I would have paid for these items if there had not been a sale?
£481.90
Elijah is making three cups of tea. He fills the kettle to the 1 litre mark.
He uses 3/4 of the water from the kettle which he pours into the cups. Each cup gets an equal amount of water.
How much water does each cup contain?
250ml
3 synonyms of divide beginning with 's'
share, separate, split
For every 5km I cycle on a sponsored cycle, my uncle has sponsored me £6. If I cycle 12.5km, how much money will my uncle need to give me?
£15.00
'The Baker’s Oven' can bake 28 loaves of bread at a time. In a day, it can go through 30 full bakes. How many loaves of bread would be baked after 1 week, if it is open for 6 days a week?
5040 loaves of bread
Green lollipops come in packs of 5, yellow lollipops come in packs of 6 and blue lollipops come in packs of 4. A school buys 32 packs of blue lollipops and 18 packs of green lollipops. How many lollipops will they buy altogether?
218 lollipops
The coldest temperature recorded on the school thermometer this year was –6 degrees Centigrade. The highest temperature was 25 degrees Centigrade. What is the difference between the two temperatures?
31 degrees
4 synonyms of subtract beginning with 'd'
deduct, decrease, detract, difference debit, discount
Jenny decides to share her sweets between herself and her 3 friends. She has 212 green sweets, 310 blue sweets and 502 yellow sweets. How many sweets will Jenny and her friends get each?
256 sweets
Mum’s favourite chocolates in the selection box are truffles. For every 2 truffles in a box there are 4 toffees. If the box contains 24 toffees, how many truffles will there be?
12 truffles
Owen has one 50p coin and four 20p coins. He buys a melon for 47p and 2 grapefruits for 15p each. How much money does he have left?
53p
To make a litre of light blue paint you need 2 tins of blue paint and 3 tins of white paint. If I need 9 litres of light blue paint, how many tins of blue paint and how many tins of white paint do I need?
18 tins of blue
27 tins of white
5 synonyms of multiply
times, by, product of, power, lots of, triple, grow, double ...
Mum is having a new carpet fitted. The carpet costs £480 but Mum must add on 12.5% to the price to have the carpet fitted. How much does it cost to buy the carpet and have it fitted?
£552.00
Mr Sweetie got new stock of sweets:112 packs of gummy bears, 96 chocolate bars, 125 packs of cola bottles, 102 packs of chocolate buttons, 98 boxes of smarties.
He sells: quarter of bears, third of choc bars, two fifths of cola bottles, sixth of choc buttons, three sevenths of smarties.
How much of each left!
84 gummy bears
64 choc bars
75 cola bottles
85 choc buttons
56 smarties
In the computer store there is a 25% off everything sale. I buy a scanner, which at full price should have been £240. How much do I pay for it? When I go to pay for it, the assistant says I can have a further 5% off if open a store card. What would the price be if I opened a store card?
£171.00
For every child in the reception class, there are four children in key stage 2. If there are 26 children in the reception class, how many children are in key stage 2? One quarter of the children in key stage two are in our year six class. How many children are in our class?
104 children in KS2
26 children in each class