Column 1
Jane is older than Kim. Kim is older than Shawn. Shawn is younger than Jane. Rachel is older than Jane
List the people from oldest to youngest.
Rachel, Jane, Kim, Shawn
Replace each blank with the correct digit.
4 3 _ 2
4 2 _
+ _ 1 2 7
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8 8 9 3
Each blank needs a ‘4’.
Linda didn’t like to tell her age, so when she was asked, her mother answered for her. Her mother said, “I’m just seven times as old as she is now. In twenty years, she will be just half the age that I will be then.” How old is clever little Linda?
4
If you saved £2.00 on January 1, £4.00 on February 1, £6.00 on March 1, £8.00 on April 1, and so on, how much money would you save in one year?
£156
The average monthly rainfall for 6 months was 28.5mm. If it had rained 1mm more each month what would the average have been?
29.5mm
A ball is dropped from a height of 125m. Each time it hits the ground it bounces 3/5 of the height it fell.
How high will the ball bounce on the 3rd bounce?
27cm
You bought 2 antique lamps for £50 each. Later, you were offered £60 for one and sold it. Then you changed your mind when you saw another such lamp being sold for more, and bought it back for £70. You then sold it for £80. The 2nd one didn’t sell at all, so you reduced it to 10% of what you paid for it and finally managed to get rid of it. Overall, how much money did you make or lose?
Lost £25
I stroll daily at 2 miles an hour. My jogger friend, however, has worked to change this, saying, “Why don’t you jog? You’d cover the same 12-mile distance, and you’d save a lot of time.” I notice that he jogs exactly 3 times as fast as I stroll. How much time will I save if I jogged with him?
4hours
I saw a 4 digit number the other day but I can’t remember it…but
1) I remember seeing a number 1. 2) The 2nd digit, I remember is 3 times the 1st digit. 3) The 4th digit is 4 times the 3rd digit 4) Finally, I recall the number 2 is sitting in the thousands’ place.
What was the number?
2614
Elmer Fudd decided to grow a garden so he could make salad. He wants to make it 10.1m long and 4.2m wide. However, in order to avoid Bugs Bunny from entering his garden he must make a fence surrounding the garden.He decides to make the fence 11.2m long and 5.0m wide. What is the area between the fence and the garden?
13.58 m2
What is the four-digit number in which the first digit is one-third the second, the third is the sum of the first and second, and the last is three times the second?
1349
Place the digits 9, 4, 7, 6, 5, 1, in the boxes in order to get the largest result.
( _ _ x _ _) + (_ x_) =?
[9][5] * [7][6] + [4] * [1] = 7224
Using the number 987654321 and seven addition signs we can make 99:
9+8+7+65+4+3+2+1 = 99
Can you use 987654321 and six addition signs to make 99?
9+8+7+6+5+43+21 = 99
Ethel made a list of all the whole numbers between 1 to 100. How many times did she write the number 2?
19
A ferryboat is full when it has ten cars on board. It is also full when it has six trucks on board. The ferryboat never carries cars and trucks at the same time. The ferryboat made five trips across the river and was full on each trip. It carried a total of 42 cars and trucks across the river. How many cars did the ferryboat carry altogether in the five trips?
3 trips with 10 cars, 2 trips with 6 trucks
In the first year of production a play sells 1572 tickets, in its second year it sells 1753 tickets, in its third year it sells 152 less than in its second year. How many tickets are sold in 3 years?
4926
John was having a hard time lining up his tin soldiers. He didn’t have that many (fewer than a hundred) but he couldn’t seem to arrange them in parade properly. He kept having numbers left over. He tried rows of 5 and there were 4 left over – rows of 6, 4 left over – rows of 7, 1 left over. He finally decided to have a very narrow parade and arranged them in rows of 4. This time it worked. What’s the smallest number of tin soldiers he could have?
64 soldiers
The local sweety shop sold large packets of sweets for 25p and small packets for 10p. The new cashier wasn’t up to the job, though; she marked down the number of sacks she sold, but forgot to record their prices. At the end of the day, she found she had sold 385 packs of sweets and had £62.65 in her cash register. Fortunately, she figured out how many of each size of packs of sweets she had sold before her boss came by. Can you?
161 large packs and 224 small ones.
The peel of a banana weighs about 1/8 of the total weight of the banana. If you buy 3 kg of bananas at 1kg for £0.96, how much are you paying for the banana peel?
36p
I’m thinking of two numbers. Their greatest common factor is 6. Their least common multiple is 36. One of the numbers is 12. What is the other number?
18
Add up all the numbers on the telephone dial, and then multiply that sum by every number on the telephone dial. What do you get?
Zero.
The antique TV set you bought has proved very difficult to sell. At first it was priced at $100, but you had to mark it down to $80. Then it was marked down to $64. How much will it cost after the next markdown?
£51.20
Jenny bought 7 t-shirts, one for each of her seven brothers, for £9.95 each. The cashier charged her an additional £13.07 in sales tax.
She left the store with a measly £7.28. How much money did Jenny start with?
£90.00
The number of hours that were left in the day was 1/3 of the number of hours already passed. How many hours were left in the day?
6
Dave gave Charlotte half of his toy cars. Charlotte gave Johnnie half of the cars she received from Dave. Johnnie kept 8 of those cars and gave the remaining 10 to Dana. How many cars did Dave give Charlotte?
36