Antony Joseph

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A train has x carriages and each carriage has y people in it. How many people are on the train?

The product of two numbers is 42. Their difference is 1. What is the largest of the two numbers?

The difference between two numbers is 5. The sum of the two numbers is 11. Write these numbers, largest first.

The length of the diagonal of a rectangle is 10cm. One side is 8cm. What is the area of the rectangle?

A boy buys a pen and 2 pencils. The pen costs 50 pence. The pencils cost X pence each. How much did he spend?

The area of a cross section of a cylindrical steel rod is 2.7cm^2. Find the volume of steel in a 23cm length of this rod.

The angles of a triangle are in the ratio of 7:5:3. What is the size of the middle-sized angle?

What is the cost of 1 1/2 kg of cherries if 100g costs £1?

Our house gets 2 loaves of bread on Monday to Thursday and 3 loaves on Friday. How many loaves do we get a week?

A car travelled 897 km at an average speed of 69 km per hour. How long did the trip take?

A man earns £565.85 a week. He has deductions of £213.50 for tax and another deduction of £83.75. How much does he receive?

A man earns £13.75 an hour. How much would he earn in 5 eight hour days?

5 pictures were hung using 4 metres 30 centimetres of wire. Each picture had the same amount of wire. How much wire was used on each picture?

What is 2 metres of lace at 15 pence a centimetre.

A square is 4x cm long. What is the area in cm^2?

Using any or all of the figures 1,2,3,7 write down: a) the smallest prime number b) a prime number greater than 20 c) a prime number between 10 and 20 d) two prime numbers whose sum is 20 e) a number that is not prime

A school ran three evening classes : judo, karate and kendo. The judo class had 29 pupils, the karate class had 27 and the kendo class 23. In which classes would the teacher have difficulty dividing the pupils into equal groups?

A lady bought 3 cans of fruit for £1.45 a can and some curtain material. This left her with 45 pence change from £20.00. What was the cost of the curtain material?

Sue earns £8.30 per hour for a 35 hour week and time and a half after that. How much would she earn in a 42 1/2 hour week? (To nearest 5 pence)

A 45cm ribbon is cut so that the lengths are in the ratio of 4:5. Find the length of the longer section.

Ten articles cost £25. How many similar articles could I buy for £225?

Three articles cost £5.40. What would seven articles cost?

650 people come to our school dance. 20% were adults. How many children were there?

One wet day 30% of the students at our school were absent. If 294 were present, how many were absent?

During a sale a dress was reduced by 1/3. What would be charged for a dress which was originally £48.00?

I bought 4 potatoes that weighed 1 1/4 kg altogether. Three of them weighed 320g, 450g and 150g. What did the fourth one weigh?

I bought 3 articles with a £10 note. I got £2.50 change. How much was each article?

What number am I? If I multiply myself by myself subtract 6 then halve the result I am left with 15. What was the original number?

If this Wednesday is the 7th, what is the date of Sunday week? (Not this coming Sunday, the next Sunday)

In our school there are 680 children. If 60% are girls, how many boys are there in the school?

If 1/2 plus 1/4 of my money is £3.75, how much have I?

How much would 45 metres of elastic cost if 10 metres cost £1.10?

A boy bought a pump for £7. He spent £5 repairing it and sold it for £17. Calculate the gain % on his total costs. (to the nearest %)

The cylinder below has a radius of 6cm and a volume of 550cm 3 . Work out the length of the cylinder. If your answer is a decimal, give it to 2 d.p. (Image: Image showing mathematical content for the question.)

The cylinder below has a radius of 4cm and a volume of 350cm^3. Work out the length of the cylinder. If your answer is a decimal, give it to 2 d.p.

What is 3 / 5/8?

A circle is drawn inside a square so that the edge of the circle touches the midpoint of each side of the square, as shown below. The radius of the circle is 84cm. Calculate the total area of the four shaded sections. Give your answer in cm^2 to 1 d.p.

A circle has an area of 81TT mm^2. Work out the diameter of the circle.

Every one of a regular polygon's interior angles is 175. How many sides does the polygon have?

C is due south of B. The distance between A and B is the same as the distance between C and B. The bearing of B from A is 56 degrees. What is the bearing of A from C?

Mum had £150. She bought 14 books for £1.75 each. How much was left?

Three angles of a quadrilateral are 115, 85 and 120. What is the size of the fourth?

Simplify 2 1/2 : 3 1/4

There is a lighthouse on the coast. It is at a bearing of 300 from the oil rig and a bearing of 270 from the boat. Mark its position with a triangle.

Which is the metaphor? The raging sea is like a hungry dog. The sea is rough and dangerous. The sea is a hungry dog. The sea is as dangerous as a hungry dog.

Thomas is facing towards town A, which is at a bearing of 300 degrees from him. If he turns 125 degrees clockwise, he will be facing towards town B. What is the bearing of town B from Thomas?

A 10m ladder leans against a wall and makes an angle of 65 degrees with the ground. How far up the wall does it reach? (to nearest m)

Julie buys a £3500 piano by paying a 10% deposit and £142.41 per month for 2 years. How much does Julie pay for the piano?

An agent sold 50 head of cattle at £159.60 each. Find his commission at 5% on total sales.

Simplify 1/4 : 2/5

How many fence posts are needed for a fence to enclose a triangular garden 6m * 10m * 12m if the posts are 1 metre apart?

Simplify 3a^2 * 5a

The hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is 30cm. One side is 24cm. Find the length of the other side.

An equilateral triangle has sides 12cm in length. Calculate the perpendicular height of the triangle. (to the nearest mm)

Two numbers multiply together to give -30 and add together to give -1. What are the two numbers?

The fractions below are in ascending order. Each fraction is in its simplest form. a is an integer. Work out the value of a. 1/12, 3/4, a/6, 7/8

What improper fraction is Kayla thinking of? My improper fraction is equivalent to 4 2/7. The numerator is between 110 and 160. The denominator is between 30 and 45.

Find the volume of a container 15cm in diameter and 14cm deep. (answer to nearest whole number)

Simplify 0.36:1.2

A ship sails 15 nautical miles south then 18 nautical miles west. What is its bearing from its starting point? (to the nearest degree).

Three straight lines cross at a point. Work out the sizes of angles a, b and c. 91 degrees 50 degrees

Using a calculator work out 7.4 x 10^5 + 1.3 x 10^4/5.5 x 10^-4 Give your answer in standard form to 2 significant figures

Answers

The following answers were posted by visitors named Antony Joseph.

What is the cost of fencing a cool area 25m x 8m if the fencing costs £39 a metre?

Sound travels at about 340 metres per second. What is this in kilometres per second?

Find all the prime numbers between 40 and 50.

A train has x carriages and each carriage has y people in it. How many people are on the train?

For the scores : 9,5,3,7,8,8,8,2,3 find the median.

Divide 1km in the ratio of 3:2. What is the smaller distance?

Two ships leave port at 12:00 noon. One sails east at 10km/h and the other south at 12km/h. How many kilometres are they apart at 12:30pm (Correct to 1 decimal place)