Week 284 (10th February 2023)
The postal service has a busy few days coming up delivering Valentine’s Day cards. Three mail carriers take 2 ½ hours to deliver Valentine’s cards to 270 houses. Assuming that the mail carriers deliver the cards at the same rate, how long will it take five mail carriers to deliver Valentine’s Day cards to 405 […]
Week 283 (3rd February 2023)
Zoe and Megan are making 3-digit codes. The digit 0 is not used. Zoe only uses odd digits. Megan only uses even digits. Zoe can make x more codes than Megan. Assume that digits cannot be repeated. Work out the value of x. Answer: Zoe: Numbers she can use are 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 […]
Week 282 (27th January 2023)
Charlie has been saving part of his salary each month. He invests £6000.00 at a simple interest rate of r% each year. After 6 years the value of Charlie’s investment is £7170.00 Find the value of r. Answer: Formula for simple interest: A = P(1+rt) Where: A = Final amount P = Principal at start […]
Week 281 (20th January 2023)
Emily has nearly finished her maths homework but is struggling with the last question on sequences. What comes next in the following sequence: 1561 4413 2120 1089 6847 2604 8362 ? Can you help Emily find the next number in the sequence? Answer: The sequence is based on the 12 times table […]
Week 280 (13th January 2023)
Natalie has been waiting for the January sales to buy a new washing machine. After looking online she found two washing machines that fit her specification. The first washing machine is now priced at £467.80 after an 18% price reduction. The second washing machine is now priced at £469.80 after a 13% price reduction. What […]
Week 279 (6th January 2023)
Matt’s New Year’s resolution is to spend more time doing the things that he loves. Two of his favourite activities are running and cycling. To put his resolution into action Matt cycled a distance of 30km at an average speed of 24 km/h and then ran a distance of 12 km at an average speed […]
Week 278 (16th December 2022)
Holly is really excited for Christmas and has been enjoying the count down to the big day by opening her advent calendar each morning. It’s now the week before Christmas and the advent calendar has 4 milk chocolates, one plain chocolate and two white chocolates left in it. Holly has taken a sneaky look and […]
Week 277 (9th December 2022)
A group of friends have been loving watching the world cup and it has inspired them to play more football! The friends have split themselves into two teams. One team is captained by Ben and the other by Josh. Ben’s team play two games against Josh’s team. In each game the teams can either win, […]
Week 276 (2nd December 2022)
Jamie is making his annual Christmas cake. The ratio of flour to sugar to treacle to almonds to butter is 4:3:2:1:1 Jamie uses 150g of treacle in the mix. The weight of Jamie’s Christmas cake is reduced by 10% after it’s baked. Find the weight of the cake after it is baked. Answer: Weight of […]
Week 275 (25th November 2022)
There are t tarantulas and r rats in a perspex box in the Australian jungle! An animal is taken at random from the box. The probability that the animal is a rat is 3/7. The animal is put back in the box. Two more tarantulas and three more rats are put in the box. Another […]