Fractions
My magazine has 84 pages. 1/7 of the pages of contain adverts.
How many pages of the magazine do NOT contain adverts?
72
The Raiders have lost 4 of the 20 games that they have played.
What percentage of their games have they won?
80%
An angle measure 205o. What kind of angle is it?
Reflex Angle
Route A bus leaves at 08:05, arrives 09:17. Route B leaves at 08:12, arrives 09:21 but includes a 5-minute traffic delay that day. Which route was actually quicker, and by how many minutes?
Route B by 3min
Each student in the class gets given a set of school supplies. They get a pencil costing $0.10, a pen costing $0.17, an eraser costing $0.04 and a ruler costing $0.08. How much does the set cost for each student?
$0.39
½ of the children in Beech Class have a dog, ¼ have cats and 7 children do not have a pet. How many have a dog? How many have a cat? How many are in the class altogether?
14 have a dog
7 have a cat
There are 28 in the class
Sally spent 35% of her weekly budget on rent and 15% on food. She had $842 leftover.
What was her total budget?
$1,684
A spinner is divided into four sectors. Three angles measure 100°, 95°, and 80°.
What is the size of the fourth angle?
85o
A soccer match finished at 4:25 pm. Each half is 30 minutes with a 10-minute half-time break. There was also a 6-minute injury delay in the second half. What time did the match start?
3:09pm
Chef Martin has 4.75 kg of flour he needs 7.5kg. How much flour does he need to buy?
2.75kg
Sarah has completed 30 lengths of her swimming challenge. This is 5/6 of the total. How many more lengths does she need to swim?
6 Lengths
Jane watched a film that was 156 minutes long. 1/6 of the way through the film, the doorbell rang. She paused the film to answer the door and it was the postman with a parcel.
How many minutes of the film had she watched before the postman arrived?
26 Minutes
Two angles sit on a straight line. One is 132°.
What is the other angle?
48o
The previews start at 6:40 pm and run for 18 minutes. The movie has two parts: 54 minutes, then a 12-minute intermission, then 47 minutes. What time does the movie finish?
8:51pm
Each banana weighs 0.15kg. How much does a bunch of 7 weigh?
1.05kg
A chef makes 255 pizzas on a restaurant on Monday. 2/5 of the pizzas made on Monday are Margheritas.
How many pizzas made on Monday were NOT Margheritas?
153
A dressmaker has 8.4m of fabric to make an outfit. He makes a bag with 1/8 of the fabric, a skirt with 2/3 of the fabric and a top with the rest.
How much fabric is used for the bag?
1.05m
A triangle has angles of 45° and 62°.
What is the third angle, and what type of triangle is it (acute, right, obtuse)?
73o
Acute angle
A student must be home by 7:30 pm. They leave school at 4:50 pm. Walk to library: 18 minutes. Study: 1 h 5 min. Checkout: 6 minutes. Bus ride home: 27 minutes. Do they make it before 7:30 pm? By how many minutes early/late?
Yes, they are 44min early
I want to buy 3 boxes of chocolate for $5.23 each, how much will they cost?
How much change will I get from $20?
$4.31
There are 2,772 people at a concert. 12/44 of the people at the concert are male adults and 14/63 of the people are female adults. The rest are children.
How many children are at the concert?
1,400
In a packet of 50 skittles, 12 are red, 8 are yellow, 10 are green, 14% are orange and the rest are blue.
What percentage of the skittles are blue?
26%
What is the angle between the hands of a clock at 10:10?
245°
A flight departs Canberra at 13:25 and lands in Melbourne 1 h 5 min later. There is a 45-minute layover before the connecting flight, whose gate closes 12 minutes before its scheduled departure at 15:40. From the moment the first plane lands, how many minutes of spare time remain before the gate-close cutoff of the next flight?
13min
Sam buys 1.5 kg of apples at $3.40 per kilogram and 2.5 kg of bananas at $2.80 per kilogram.
How much does Sam spend?
$12.10