Q1.          

          12 500 people visited the museum in 1995.
          This is an increase of a quarter on 1994.

          How many visitors were there in 1994?
          
2 marks

 

Q2.          David thinks of a number.
          He uses his calculator to multiply the number by itself and then adds 10.
          His answer is 34.01
          What is David’s number?

2 marks

 

Q3.          Amit has some small cubes.

          The edge of each cube is 1.5 centimetres.

          He makes a larger cube out of the small cubes.
          The volume of this larger cube is 216 cm3.
          How many small cubes does he use?

2 marks

 

Q4.          

          Two families go to the cinema.
          The Smith family buy tickets for one adult and four children and pay £19

          The Jones family buy tickets for two adults and two children and pay £17
          What is the cost of one child's ticket?

2 marks

 

Q5.          Chloe and Denise each bought identical T-shirts from the same shop.
          Chloe bought hers on Monday when there was 15% off the original price.

          Denise bought hers on Friday when there was 20% off the original price.

          Chloe paid 35p more then Denise.
          What was the original price of the T-shirt?

2 marks

 

Q6.          

          In a survey, the ratio of the number of people who preferred milk chocolate
          to those who preferred plain chocolate was 5 : 3
          46 more people preferred milk chocolate, to plain chocolate.
          How many people were in the survey?

2 marks

 

Q7.          

          Carol counts the matches in 10 boxes.
          She works out that the mean number of matches in a box is 51

          Here are her results for 9 boxes.

          Calculate how many matches are in the 10th box.

2 marks

 

Q8.          

          The population of the world is approximately 6200 million people.
          It is increasing by approximately 93 million people each year.
          Use this information to calculate the percentage increase in the population over a year.

2 marks

          Mike says,
          ‘An increase of 93 million people each year is more than 170 people each minute’.
          Show that he is correct.

2 marks

 

Q9.          Lili and Julian each start with the same number.
          Lili works out half of the number.
          Julian works out three-quarters of the number.
          The sum of their answers is 275
          What was the number they started with?

2 marks

 

Q10.          

In Class 6, 80% of the children like crisps.
75% of the children who like crisps also like chocolate.

          In Class 6, what percentage of the children like both crisps and chocolate?

2 marks

 

Q11.          Here are three questions and answers about bananas. 

How much of the money each person pays for bananas in one year goes to the growers? 

2 marks

Q12.          A dragon lived in a cave.
The dragon doubled in size every day.
After 20 days the dragon filled the cave.
 
After how many days did the dragon half-fill the cave? 
 
	After                   days	

1 mark

Q13. 
 	A box of sticky labels costs £33.50
There are 150 sheets of labels in the box.
There are 14 labels on each sheet.	 	

What is the cost of one label to the nearest penny?

2 marks