Unit 4 Section 4 : Problems in Context

In this section you can practise your arithmetic skills with a variety of 'real-life' problems.
Try to avoid using a calculator unless you absolutely need to!

Practice Questions
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A taxi driver charges his passengers £1.25 plus 64p per mile.
What is the cost of:
(a) a 10 mile journey?

(b) a 3 mile journey?

 

Exercises

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Question 1
Tickets for a school party cost £1.25 each.

Calculate the cost of:
(a) 3 tickets
£
(b) 14 tickets
£

Question 2
CDs cost £9 each in a music shop sale.

(a) How many CDs can you buy if you have £48 to spend?
CDs
(b) How much money will you have left over?
£ change

Question 3
A school buys 30 calculators costing £6.99 each.

What is the total cost of these calculators?
£

Question 4
A school mathematics department has £300 to spend on new textbooks.
The textbooks cost £7 each.

How many books can be bought?
books

Question 5
Prakesh is paid travelling expenses every time he drives his car for work. He is paid £12 for each journey, plus 14p per mile travelled.

How much is he paid for: (a) a 50 mile journey?
£
(b) an 82 mile journey?
£

Question 6
School minibuses each seat 17 pupils.

How many minibuses are needed to transport 110 pupils?
minibuses

Question 7
Joanne buys 3 magazines that cost £1.50, £2.45 and 80p.
She pays for them with a £10 note.

How much change should she get?
£

Question 8
Ben orders 25 floppy discs for his computer.
The discs cost 40p each and he has to pay £3.25 postage.

How much does he have to pay in total?
£

Question 9
A farmer packs his free-range eggs into boxes that each contain half a dozen eggs.

One day he collects 119 eggs.
(a) How many boxes can he fill?
boxes
(b) How many eggs does he have left over?
eggs

Question 10
Alison buys 6 tapes that cost £8.99 each.
She pays for them with three £20 notes.

How much change should she get?
£

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