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The correct answers are below in RED.
1. You’re off to the pub and you have £40 to spend. The bus into town is £2.75 each way, you’ll need £2.20 for a bag of chips, and you owe your mate a fiver from the other night. How much do you have to spend in the pub?
a. £27.30
b. £22.70
c. £30.05
2. The tills are down at work and the boss says you all need to use a calculator instead. A customers wants to buy a shirt that’s priced at £22. It has 15% off- how much does the customer need to pay?
a. £20.50
b. £7.00
c. £18.70
3. You’re getting your bathroom retiled and you need to calculate how many tiles you need for the walls. Do you:
a. Google it
b. Have a good guess and hope for the best
c. Take the size of the walls into the shop to work it out for you
4. Your 10-year-old has come home with some maths homework- ratio! They need to answer the following question:
A flapjack requires 240g of oats. This makes 18 flapjacks. What quantity of oats is needed to make 24 flapjacks?
a. 224g
b. 320g
c. 426g
