55 PROBLEMS
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ALGEBRA 1 PROBLEM SOLVING
a, b, and c are three different
positive integers where
a + b + c = 10
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What is the maximum
value of abc?
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ALGEBRA 2 PROBLEM SOLVING
a, b, and c are three integers where
abc = -12
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What is the maximum value
of a + b + c?
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Arcs and Sectors 1 PROBLEM SOLVING
The unshaded and shaded areas in the
sector below are equal.
Calculate x
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Arcs and Sectors2 PROBLEM SOLVING
Calculate the ratio of the blue to white
area of the sector.
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Averages 1 PROBLEM SOLVING
Five integers have
• a median of 17
• a mode of 12
• a range of 8
• a mean of 16
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If the smallest number is 12, what are
the other numbers?
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Averages 2 PROBLEM SOLVING
The scores of the first 6 competitors in a
contest have a mean of 28 points
When the 7th competitor is included the
mean decreases to 27 points.
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How many points did the 7th competitor
score?
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Averages 3 PROBLEM SOLVING
Jake worked for 5 days and his earnings
including tips had a mean of £28.00 per
day.
Each day he earned £2 more than the
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day before. How much did he earn on
the 5th day?
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BIDMAS 1 PROBLEM SOLVING
Use the digits
1, 2, 3, 3, 5, 6
to fill in the missing numbers to
make the answer closest to zero
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× - =
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BIDMAS 2 PROBLEM SOLVING
Use the digits
2, 3, 4, 5
to fill in the missing numbers to
make the largest possible answer
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+ × =
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BIDMAS 3 PROBLEM SOLVING
Use the digits
2, 4, 6, 8
to fill in the missing numbers to
make the answer closest to zero
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- ×
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FRACTIONS, PERCENTAGES AND RATIOS 1 PROBLEM SOLVING
Find 2 fractions between
1 1
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with denominators
less than 30
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FRACTIONS, PERCENTAGES AND RATIOS 2 PROBLEM SOLVING
Arthur makes a 12% profit when he sells
an antique cabinet. He gives one-quarter
of the profit to his partner and pays the
rest, £40.50 into his bank account. How
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much did he sell the cabinet for?
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FRACTIONS, PERCENTAGES AND RATIOS 3 PROBLEM SOLVING
An alloy is made by mixing metals A and B
in the ratio 3 : 5
Metal A costs £42 per kg
Metal B costs £20 per kg
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How much would it cost to make 400g of
the alloy?
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FRACTIONS, PERCENTAGES AND RATIOS 4 PROBLEM SOLVING
40% of the members of a film club are over
the age 60. One quarter of the members
aged less than 60 are females. There are 63
members who are male and less than 60.
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How many members are there in the club?
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FRACTIONS, PERCENTAGES AND RATIOS 5 PROBLEM SOLVING
Alex gives Bob half of his football cards. Bob
gives Charlie one third of the cards he
receives from Alex. Charlie then keeps the
12 cards he is given.
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How many cards did Alex have at the start?
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Linear equations 1 PROBLEM SOLVING
Adam, Bella and Carl collect tokens in a game.
Bella has 10 more tokens than Adam.
Carl has 8 more tokens than Bella.
Altogether they have 91 tokens.
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How many tokens does Adam have?
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Linear equations 2 PROBLEM SOLVING
Work out the size of the smallest angle.
3x - 10°
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2x + 25°
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Linear equations 3 PROBLEM SOLVING
Is this an isosceles triangle?
Show how you decide
x + 65°
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2x - 5° x + 20°
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Linear equations 4 PROBLEM SOLVING
Work out the perimeter of the triangle
2x + 1
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x+8
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Linear equations 5 PROBLEM SOLVING
The pentagon and the square have the
same perimeter. Calculate the area of the
square
x+6
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5x - 2
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Linear equations 6 PROBLEM SOLVING
Calculate the difference between the largest
and smallest angle in the quadrilateral
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4x + 10°
3x - 30°
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MONEY 1 PROBLEM SOLVING
Emily has 4 different coins in her pocket.
Half of coins are worth less than 50p
What are the minimum and maximum totals that
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MONEY 2 PROBLEM SOLVING
Jacob has 10p, 20p and 50p coins in his pocket.
One quarter of the coins are 50p coins with a
total of £3.00
The ratio of the number of 10p coins to the
number of 20p coins is 2 : 7
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How much money does Jacob have?
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MONEY 3 PROBLEM SOLVING
Daniel has a pocket full of coins.
One half of the coins are £1 coins
One third of the coins are 20p coins.
The rest of the coins are 50p coins with a total of
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£1.50
What is the total value of Daniel’s coins?
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MONEY 4 PROBLEM SOLVING
Simons spent £28 over 7 days. Each day he spent
50p more than the amount spent on the
previous day.
How much did Simon spend on the 1st day?
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MONEY 5 PROBLEM SOLVING
Jack buys 50 pens for 65p each.
He sells 80% of the pens making a 20% profit on each.
To sell the remainder of the pens he is forced to reduce
his price making a loss of 9p on each.
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Assuming he sells all of his pens calculate his total profit.
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MONEY 6 PROBLEM SOLVING
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James sells of his games for £4.50
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each.
If he has 8 games left, how much money
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did he make from selling his games?
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MONEY 7 PROBLEM SOLVING
Tom’s Taxis charge a fixed fee of £3.20 and then
40p for each mile travelled.
Carl’s Cars charge a fixed fee of £2.75 and then
55p for each mile travelled
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Which company would be cheapest and by how
much for a 12 mile journey?
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MONEY 8 PROBLEM SOLVING
Tara’s Taxis charge a fixed fee of £1.50 and then
60p per mile for the first 5 miles. Any additional
miles travelled are charged at a rate of 45p per
mile.
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Dani uses Tara’s Taxis and pays £7.65 for her
journey. How many miles did Dani travel?
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MONEY 9 PROBLEM SOLVING
Sam withdraws some money from his bank
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account. He spends of this money on a
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present for his sister. He gives 25% of the
money to his mum.
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If Sam has £44 left, how much did he
spend on a present for his sister?
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MONEY 10 PROBLEM SOLVING
Daniel is given his wages.
He spends 40% of his wages.
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He gives of his wages to his mum.
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He saves the rest of his wages.
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If Daniel gave £30 to his mum, how much
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money did he save?
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MONEY 1 PROBLEM SOLVING
Alfie has a £10 note
He buys 3 pens costing £1.45 each and
some pencils costing 90p each.
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If Alfie gets £2.05 change, how many
pencils does he buy?
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MONEY 2 PROBLEM SOLVING
Cakes Plates
£2.80 each 95p each
3 for 2 offer Buy 1 get one free
Dani is buying cakes and plates for an event.
She buys 18 cakes and 18 plates.
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She pays with the following notes
£20, £20, £10
How much change will she get?
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PLACE VALUE 1 PROBLEM SOLVING
Complete the following using all of the numbers
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
to find the number closest to 300
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PLACE VALUE 2 PROBLEM SOLVING
Complete the following using all of the numbers
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
to find the smallest odd number
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PLACE VALUE 3 PROBLEM SOLVING
Complete the following using all of the numbers
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
to find the biggest odd number
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PLACE VALUE 4 PROBLEM SOLVING
Complete the following using all of the numbers
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
to find the smallest multiple of 5
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PLACE VALUE 5 PROBLEM SOLVING
Complete the following using all of the numbers
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
to find the smallest even number
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PLACE VALUE 6 PROBLEM SOLVING
Complete the following using all of the numbers
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
to find the number closest to 500
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PLACE VALUE 7 PROBLEM SOLVING
Complete the following using all of the numbers
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
to find the biggest odd number
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PLACE VALUE 8 PROBLEM SOLVING
Complete the following using all of the numbers
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
to find the smallest even number
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Probability 1 PROBLEM SOLVING
The sections of the spinner are
shaded using red, blue and yellow.
The probability of getting red is greater than probability of
getting blue. The probability of getting yellow is greater
than the probability of getting red.
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The cost of playing is £1 per spin but a prize of £2 is paid
out if the spinner lands on blue.
If 48 people have a go, how much profit would you expect
to make?
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Probability 2 PROBLEM SOLVING
A bag contains red, blue, yellow and green counters.
One quarter of the counters are red.
One third of the tiles that are not red are blue
The ratio of the number of yellow to green tiles is 1 : 3
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There are 4 red counters in the bag.
What is the probability that a counter picked at random
is green?
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Probability 3 PROBLEM SOLVING
A bag contains gold and silver coins.
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The probability of picking a gold coin at random is
7
There are 20 silver coins in the bag.
If a silver coin is removed, what is the probability of
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picking a gold coin?
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Pythagoras and Trigonometry 1 PROBLEM SOLVING
Maximum angle of elevation Maximum length of the ladder
LADDER A 70° 4m
LADDER B 67° 4.2 m
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Which ladder can reach the highest up a vertical wall?
What is the difference in the maximum heights reached (in cm)?
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Pythagoras and Trigonometry 2 PROBLEM SOLVING
The patio shown above is to be made with 13 square paving
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slabs each with side length 0.8 m. It will be edged using
edging costing £9.40 per metre.
If the paving slabs cost £5.50 each work out the total cost of
the slabs and paving.
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Pythagoras and Trigonometry 3 PROBLEM SOLVING
Zip-it are looking to install a new zip wire at one of their
parks as shown in the plan below (not to scale)
12 m
1.5 m
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85 m
The fixings and safety harness cost £530. The wire costs £42
per metre and Zip-it needs to buy the length required plus
an additional 10% for fastenings.
What will be the total cost of the equipment needed to
install the new zip wire?
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Volume and Surface Area 1 PROBLEM SOLVING
Two different cuboids, with integer lengths
greater than 1, each have a volume of 24 cm3
What is the difference in
their surface areas?
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Volume and Surface Area 2 PROBLEM SOLVING
The volume of the hemisphere is the same as
the volume of the sphere.
Calculate the difference in the surface areas.
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6 cm
Give your answer correct to 3 significant figures
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Volume and Surface Area 3 PROBLEM SOLVING
5 cm
The volume of the cuboid
shown is increased by
100% by doubling one of
the lengths
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What is the smallest possible increase in
surface area?
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Volume and Surface Area 4 PROBLEM SOLVING
The pendant shown below has a depth of 4 mm
and is made from an alloy with density 2.5 g/cm3
2 cm 2 cm
1.5 cm
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Both holes have
radius 2 mm
Calculate the mass of the pendant
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Volume and Surface Area 5 PROBLEM SOLVING
The tube shown is made from an alloy with a
density of 0.6g/cm3. The measurements are
centimetres and the tube is 8 cm long.
Calculate the mass of the tube.
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Volume and Surface Area 6 PROBLEM SOLVING
The volume of the cone to the volume of the
hemisphere are in the ratio 4:3. Calculate the
height of the cone.
6 cm
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Volume and Surface Area 7 PROBLEM SOLVING
Water flows into the cylindrical tank at a
constant rate. After 1 minute there are 40 litres
of water in the tank.
0.5 m
1.6 m
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Assuming the flow continues at the same rate
find the total time needed to fill the tank
(give your answer correct to the nearest second)
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Volume and Surface Area 8 PROBLEM SOLVING
A full can of soup is poured into a circular pan of
radius 6 cm.
3 cm
12 cm
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Calculate the depth of the soup in the pan.
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