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KS2.M-Y5R1 Reasoning: Number and Calculation

Calculators not allowed · about 60 minutes
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Name: _______________________________    Date: ____ / ____ / ______
Answer ALL questions. Show all your working.
1
Amelia has 3,425 ml of paint. She pours 275 ml into one pot and 450 ml into another. She then uses the rest to fill small bottles of 125 ml each. How many full small bottles can she fill? Show your working.
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2
A school orders 48 boxes of pencils. Each box holds 24 pencils. The pencils are packed into pencil cases that hold 12 pencils each. How many pencil cases are needed to hold all the pencils?
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3
Callum buys 3 games that cost 7.95, 12.50 and 4.60 pounds. He pays with a 50 pound note. How much change does he get? Show working in pounds and pence.
(3)
4
A baker makes 72 cupcakes. She packs them into boxes with 6 cupcakes in each box. After packing, she sells 7 boxes. How many cupcakes are left unpacked or unsold?
(3)
5
Priya has eight 250 g bars of chocolate and three 120 g bars. She melts all the chocolate and pours it into 100 g moulds. How many full moulds can she fill?
(2)
6
Explain your answer. Yusuf says that doubling 3.75 gives 7.5 and then adding 1.25 gives 8.75. He uses this to find 3.75 x 2.5. Is Yusuf correct? Explain your answer.
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7
A museum sells tickets at 6.80 pounds for children and 9.50 pounds for adults. On one day they sell 42 child tickets and some adult tickets. The total takings are 618.10 pounds. How many adult tickets were sold?
(3)
8
A recipe needs 2 3/4 cups of flour to make 12 scones. How much flour is needed to make 20 scones? Give your answer as a mixed number in cups.
(2)
9
Order these numbers from smallest to largest: 0.208, 208/1000, 0.28
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10
A garden centre sells bags of soil in 25 kg sacks. A landscaper needs 7.5 tonnes of soil. How many full 25 kg sacks should they buy? Show full working.
(3)
11
A bus journey takes 2 hours 45 minutes. If a driver completes 5 such journeys in a week, how many minutes does the driver spend driving on those journeys?
(2)
12
Sofia reads 64 pages in 80 minutes. At that rate, how many pages will she read in 3 hours 20 minutes? Show working.
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13
A shop reduces the price of a jacket by 15%. The original price is 84 pounds. What is the sale price? Show your working.
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14
Complete the function machine. Input 24 gives output 6. Input 40 gives output 10. What is the rule of the function? Show the operation.
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15
A charity collected 1,275 stamps. They pack them into envelopes with 15 stamps in each. They want to share the envelopes equally between 7 schools. How many envelopes will each school get and how many stamps are left over (not in envelopes)?
(2)
16
Multiply 3,206 by 4. Then subtract 1,078. Show your working and give the answer.
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17
A cyclist travels 18.4 km in 55 minutes. What is the average speed in km per hour, to one decimal place? Show your working.
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18
Explain your answer. Two different methods are given to calculate 7/10 of 350. Method A: 350 ÷ 10 = 35, then 35 x 7 = 245. Method B: 350 x 0.7 = 245. Are both methods correct and why? Give a clear explanation.
(3)
19
There are 4 shelves. Each shelf holds 18 boxes. Each box contains 9 tins. How many tins are there in total? Then find the total if one shelf is removed and replaced with two extra shelves of the same size (so number of shelves changes by +1).
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20
Oliwia buys 3 packs of notebooks. Each pack has 14 notebooks. She wants to share them equally between 5 friends. How many notebooks does each friend get and how many are left over?
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