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Calculation Problems worksheet

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  1. 3 marks

    Nadia goes to a home shop.

    She buys three cushions costing £3.00 each and six coat hooks costing £1.60 each.

    She pays with a £20 note.

    Calculate how much change Nadia should get.

  2. 3 marks

    A group of five friends go to an Indian restaurant.

    They each buy one curry, costing £8.75.

    They also buy seven mango lassis costing £3.10 each.

    They share the total cost equally between them.

    Work out how much each friend pays.

  3. 3 marks

    A machine makes 86 biscuits every minute.

    The machine runs for 30 minutes.

    The biscuits are then packed into packets. Each packet holds 20 biscuits.

    Calculate how many packets are filled.

  4. 3 marks

    Aisha buys five tickets and two programmes for a football match.

    She pays £73.50 altogether.

    One programme costs £1.75.

    Calculate the cost of one ticket.

  5. 4 marks

    Callum is building a straight trellis \(40\) m long.

    Each section is \(4\) m wide, and there is a post at each end of the trellis and one between every pair of sections.

    A section costs \(£19.00\) and a post costs \(£5.50\).

    (a)

    Calculate how many sections he needs.

    (b)

    Calculate how many posts he needs.

    (c)

    Find the total cost of the sections and the posts.

  6. 3 marks

    Rosa and Kwame share the cost of a second-hand car.

    The total cost is £615.

    Kwame pays 2 times as much as Rosa.

    (a)

    Work out how much Rosa pays.

    (b)

    Work out how much Kwame pays.

  7. 4 marks

    Calculate how much Yusuf was paid last week.

  8. 3 marks

    Owen's minibus travels 13 km on one litre of fuel.

    Fuel costs £1.70 a litre.

    He drives 559 km.

    (a)

    Calculate how many litres of fuel Owen uses.

    (b)

    Calculate how much the fuel costs.

  9. 3 marks

    A holiday costs £1101.

    Reuben pays a deposit of £320 to a travel agent, and pays the rest in 11 equal monthly instalments.

    (a)

    Calculate how much Reuben still has to pay after the deposit.

    (b)

    Calculate how much each monthly instalment is.

  10. 3 marks

    Aisha goes to a stationery shop.

    She buys four notebooks costing £3.10 each and two pens costing £1.20 each.

    She pays with a £20 note.

    Work out how much change Aisha should get.

Answers

  1. \(\text{£}1.40\)
  2. \(\text{£}13.09\)
  3. \(129\ \text{packets}\)
  4. \(\text{£}14.00\)
  5. (a) \(10\ \text{sections}\)
    (b) \(11\ \text{posts}\)
    (c) \(£250.50\)
  6. (a) \(\text{£}205\)
    (b) \(\text{£}410\)
  7. \(\text{£}539.00\)
  8. (a) \(43\ \text{litres}\)
    (b) \(\text{£}73.10\)
  9. (a) \(\text{£}781\)
    (b) \(\text{£}71\)
  10. \(\text{£}5.20\)

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