Week 393 (9th May 2025)
A Fractional Finance Director works for a SME that supplies copper pipes. The factory is currently working on a large order for an overseas client. Each machine makes the same length of copper pipe in a day. 3 machines can make the copper pipe needed for the large order in 25 days. The client would like […]
Week 392 (2nd May 2025)
Kofi wants to buy a new car but does not have enough money saved. The price of the car he wants to buy is £16,000. Kofi sees the following offer on the car he wants to buy. Pay 15% of the price of the car now and then ? equal monthly payments of £300. The […]
Week 391 (25th April 2025)
Fred is completing some exams. He is trying to work out how many marks he needs to score on the final paper to pass the module. The examination is made up of three papers. Paper 1 is marked out of 60. Paper 2 is marked out of 40. Paper 3 is marked out of 100. […]
Week 390 (11th April 2025)
Sam’s Dad has bought a bag of small Easter eggs to use for an Easter egg hunt over the holidays. The bag contains only red, green and blue coloured Easter eggs. 8 of the Easter eggs are red. 15 of the Easter eggs are green. The rest of the Easter eggs are blue. Sam […]
Week 389 (4th April 2025)
Natalie and her partner have just returned home from a holiday in Scotland. For the holiday they hired a motorhome. The cost to hire the motorhome was as follows. Motorhome hire for the first day £130 Each extra day costs £90 Each mile travelled costs 60p Natalie travelled 560 miles. The total cost of hiring […]
Week 388 (28th March 2025)
Emily has treated her Mum to a big box of chocolates for Mother’s Day. The box of chocolates contains dark, milk and white chocolates. When Emily’s Mum opens the box, the ratio of dark to milk to white chocolates is 3:2:4. Emily’s Mum shares the chocolates with her family and they eat 6 of the […]
Week 387 (21st March 2025)
The Zoo has an adult price and a child price for their tickets. A group of 4 adults and 5 children paid a total of £136.00. A group of 3 adults and 2 children paid a total of £81.00. Work out the price for one adult ticket and the price for one child ticket. Answer: […]
Week 386 (14th March 2025)
Like many of us Kathy is conscious that she is spending too much time on her mobile phone and has been trying to stay off social media. Kathy gets a weekly report showing the amount of time she has been active on her phone. This week the report says that the phone was used for […]
Week 385 (7th March 2025)
Amir, Bonnie and Chris are enjoying a coffee and a catch up in the sunshine. Amir is 32. Bonnie is 48. The mean age of Amir, Bonnie and Chris is 50. Work out the age of Chris. Answer: Since the mean = sum of the ages / number of ages The mean = 32 + […]
Week 384 (28th February 2025)
Oliver is a Year 11 student and is currently studying for his GCSE exams in the summer. During his lessons this week Oliver and his classmates have completed some mock exams. Oliver has completed two Geography tests which were both scored out of 60. In test 1, Oliver scored 45 marks out of a possible […]