Q.1.
Each jacket potato takes 6 minutes to cook in a microwave oven. How many minutes would it take for 9 jacket potatoes to cook?
Q.2.
A joint of beef requires 30 minutes per 500g cooking time plus 30 minutes. For how long does a 3.5kg joint of beef require cooking?
Q.3.
A bag of apples weighs 720g and a bag of pears weigh 645g. How much do the two bags weigh altogether in kg?
Q.4.
A box holds 12 eggs. I have 136 eggs. How many boxes do I need to hold all the eggs?
Q.5.
A box of chocolates has 24 toffees, 49 soft centers and 18 nuts. If I eat 52 chocolates how many are left in the box?
Q.6.
I have four ribbons measuring 34mm, 55mm, 87mm and 123mm. What is their total length in cm?
Q.7.
I have 12 oranges, all of an equal weight, with a total weight of 900g. I eat 5 oranges. What is the total weight of the remaining oranges?
Q.8.
6 planks of wood are all 150cm long. We require a continuous run of planks for 8.75m. How much needs chopping off the last plank?
Q.9.
Mark has to take 15ml of medicine twice per day for 7 days. How much medicine does he need?
Q.10.
The jug of lemonade contained 2 liters. Gran drank 265ml. How much lemonade was left?
Q.11.
A paperback book has 1,000 pages. If the book weighs 785 g, what is the weight of a single page? (You may ignore the front and back covers of the book.)
Q.12.
Some workers are filling up sacks with quality garden soil. If each sack can hold 25 kg, how many sacks can be filled from 1,250 kg of quality soil?
Q.13.
If 12 people are served every two minutes in a fast food shop, how many people will have been served in 1 hour?
Q.14.
In a certain child's game, pushing a stick into a hole to a depth of 2 cm causes a wheel to turn through half a rotation (turn). How many complete rotations will the wheel turn through if the stick is pushed to a depth of 12 cm?
Q.15.
The circumference of a wheel is 24 cm. How many complete revolutions (turns) will it make in traveling 24 m?
Q.16.
If each box holds 12 items, how many boxes are required to hold 96,000 items?
Q.17.
The French writer Jules Verne wrote the adventure novel 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea'. If 1 league = 5.556 km, how many leagues is 2,778 km?
Q.18.
The brown box weighs eight times more than the black box. If the black box weighs 8 kg, what does the brown box weigh?
Q.19.
If the area of a square field is 144 m , what is the length and width of the field?
Q.20.
If a piece of material of length 4 m is folded in half on itself four times, what will the final length of the material be in centimeters?