Mixed Problems
1) Amy did a survey of what time people get up on a Sunday morning.
This table shows her results for 150 people.
Time
number of people
before 7am
13
7:00 am to 7:59 am
28
8:00 am to 8:59 am
59
9:00 am to 9:59 am
36
10 am and after
14
Look at the table.
How many people get up at 8am or later?
Amy says,
‘Two-thirds of the 150 people in the survey get up before 9am.’
Amy is correct. Explain how you know.
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2) Four children are in a race.
Chen is 2 metres ahead of Alfie.
Nina is 5 metres behind Megan.
Alfie is 3 metres behind Megan.
Write the names of the runners in order, starting with the child who is furthest
ahead.
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furthest
ahead
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3) Alfie has two sticks.
He puts them end to end.
One stick is 10cm longer than the other stick.
How long are the two sticks?
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4) This diagram shows two identical rectangles on coordinate axes.
Write the coordinates of point A and point B.
A is (...................... , ......................)
B is (...................... , ......................)
5) Emma thinks of two prime numbers.
She adds the two numbers together.
Her answer is 36
Write all the possible pairs of prime numbers Emma could be thinking of.
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6) How many days old will a baby be when she has lived for one million seconds?
7) 36 and 64 are both square numbers.
They have a sum of 100.
Find two square numbers that have a sum of 130.
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8) 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?
Homework due in by Wednesday 22nd April