Karen stands on a box and her new height is 1.8 metres.
Karen's actual height is twice that of the box.
What is the height of the box in centimetres?
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Karen stands on a box and her new height is 1.8 metres.
Karen's actual height is twice that of the box.
What is the height of the box in centimetres?
centimetres |
A volleyball club receives 16 boxes containing 32 club jerseys each.
It then gives 8 jerseys to every team in the club and there are no jerseys left over.
How many teams are in the club?
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In an orchard there are 4 lemon trees for every 9 orange trees.
There are 81 orange trees.
How many lemon trees are in the orchard?
A supermarket sells yoghurt in packs.
One pack of yoghurt has 8 tubs.
Each pack cost $6.
What is the highest number of tubs that can be bought for $40?
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Ten people share in a lottery prize of $5650.
They keep $550 each and give the rest to charity.
How much money in total do they have to give to charity?
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Ivan and Novik receive pocket money each week.
Ivan gets $3 and Novik gets $7.
After 12 weeks, how much more pocket money has Novik received than Ivan?
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Kurt, Shane and Harry collect guitars and own 70 guitars between them.
Kurt owns half as many as Shane.
Harry owns four times as many as Kurt.
How many guitars does Kurt own?
Willy has 8 packets of lollipops.
There are 5 lollipops in each small packet.
There are 12 lollipops in each large packet.
Willy has 6 small packets.
How many lollipops does he have altogether?
Five surfers owned a total of 58 surfboards between them.
Two of the surfers owned 20 surfboards each.
The other three, Lane, Gordon and Shelly, owned the same number of surfboards.
How many surfboards does Gordon own?
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Nigella used 300 grams of sugar to make 18 cookies.
How many grams of sugar will she need to make 27 cookies?
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Grant was making a scale drawing of a pipeline on grid paper.
The full length of the pipeline is drawn below. Its construction requires 8 identical sections to be made and joined together (not shown on the diagram).
What is the length of each section of pipeline?
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Riley had 3 bird cages that each contained 12 birds.
He then bought one more bird cage and spread the birds out evenly between the 4 cages.
How many birds were then in each cage?
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A group of 8 friends are planning a trip to Reptile World.
Lunch will cost $9 per person.
Entry will cost $16 per person.
Hiring a bus for transport will cost $250 for the whole group.
What is the expected total cost of the trip for the whole group?
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In 5 years time, Megan will be 16.
Brian will then be half Megan's age.
How old is Brian now?
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A tadpole is measured to be 9 mm long.
A few weeks later, the tadpole turns into a frog that is about 8 times longer than its tadpole length.
The difference between the length of the frog and its length as a tadpole is about
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