Q.1.
The height of the Towers building is three times taller than the Spire building. If the Spire building is 18 m high, how high is the Towers building?
Q.2.
It takes 4 men 128 hours to complete a certain engineering maintenance job. How long will it take 16 men to complete the same job if they work at the same speed?
Q.3.
The temperature changed from -8°C to 3°C and then to -14°C over the last two day period. How many degrees below 3°C was the final temperature?
Q.4.
At the end of a rugby match, 125 people left the grounds every 3 minutes. If there were 2,500 spectators at the match, how long did it take for the grounds to empty?
Q.5.
Farmer Jones is spraying his crops with a pesticide. If 10 ml of pesticide is required for each square metre, how many litres of pesticide will be required to spray 1,000 m ?
Q.6.
Small toy cars are packed in toy boxes whose volume is 120 cm . There are 6,000 toy boxes. If the toy boxes are to be packed into larger packing boxes, each of whose volume is 1,200 cm , how many packing boxes will be required to pack all the toy boxes?
Q.7.
If a wheel rotates (turns) at a speed of 6,000 revolutions (complete turns) in 5 minutes, how many revolutions does it make in 1 minute?
Q.8.
The temperature of a substance in a chemistry experiment is -6°C. If the temperature is increasing at the rate of 2°C per minute, what will the temperature of the substance be in 8 minutes?
Q.9.
If you lose a half of an eighth of all your money, what fraction of your money have you lost?
Q.10.
Mike lives five times further way from London than Tom. If Mike lives 75 miles away from London, how far away does Tom live?