Calculation Problems worksheet
10 GCSE practice questions with answers, free to print. Every sheet is generated, so you can make a fresh one whenever you need it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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4 marks
Calculate how much Yusuf was paid last week.
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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.
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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.
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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
- \(\text{£}1.40\)
- \(\text{£}13.09\)
- \(129\ \text{packets}\)
- \(\text{£}14.00\)
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(a) \(10\ \text{sections}\)
(b) \(11\ \text{posts}\)
(c) \(£250.50\) -
(a) \(\text{£}205\)
(b) \(\text{£}410\) - \(\text{£}539.00\)
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(a) \(43\ \text{litres}\)
(b) \(\text{£}73.10\) -
(a) \(\text{£}781\)
(b) \(\text{£}71\) - \(\text{£}5.20\)