2007
4763 CE
Terry bought some packets of cashew nuts at 3 packets for $5, and an equal number of packets of peanuts for 60 cents each. He spent $13.60 altogether. How many packets of nuts in total did he buy?
12 packets
Kylie the Kangaroo only does two kinds of hops. Long hops are 5 metres, and short hops are 3 metres. If she travels exactly 41 metres in 11 hops, how many long hops did she do?
4 long hops
Tom is eight years older than Claire. The sum of their ages is 54. How old is Tom?
31 years old
Jenny bought some DVDs at $6 each. If each had cost a dollar less, she could have bought three more for the same cost. How many did she buy?
15 DVDs
Cylest runs steadily at 15 kilometres per hour. How far will she run in 45 minutes? (give your answer in metres)
11250 m
Find the password for my phone, given this information:
3472 -- 2 correct 2572 -- 2 correct
2482 -- 2 correct 3571 -- 2 correct
the password is 2471
A bag contains 20 marbles, either red, white, blue or green. There is one more red than white, four more white than blue, and one more blue than green. How many red marbles are there?
8 red marbles
Fred the farmer built a square pen using 24 fence posts, evenly spaced. (this pen like all mathematical pens has no gate!). If each post was 1m apart, how many sheep (dimensions 0.5m by 1m) could fit in the pen?
72 sheep
It costs Mrs Panoho $42 for tickets for herself and her four children on the train. If a child’s ticket is a third of the price of an adult’s ticket, what is the cost of an adult ticket?
$18
What is the hundredth digit in the decimal form of one seventh?
8
In a recent survey, 40% of houses contained two or more people. Of those homes containing only one person, 25% contained a male. What is the percentage of all houses which contain exactly one female and no males?
45%
In a questionnaire 43.75% of those asked answered ‘no’ to a certain question. What is the least number of people who were asked?
16 people
If Ryan can save $7.50 each five day period, how much can he save in two years, assuming neither is a leap year?
$1095
Ben thinks of a number, doubles it, adds 10, halves the result and takes away the number he first thought of. What is his answer if it is the same number he started with?
5
A boy goes to the corner store and buys an equal number of 40 cent and 30 cent candies for $18.90. How many candies did he buy?
54 candies
Andy had ½ kg of butter and used half of it. If each day he uses half of the butter remaining from the previous day, how many days will it take till he has less than a gram of butter?
After 9 days
Norman is 16 and Matthew is 9. Their mother won’t tell them her age, but she says that the mean of all three ages is 20. How old is their mother?
35 years old
(12+a) + (12–a) + (12*a) + (12/a) = 75. Find the value of a.
4 or 1/4
Katie and Hemi have $600 between them. Hemi has the number that Katie has squared. How many dollars does Katie have?
$24