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N. E. Lincolnshire Mathematics Team 1
N. E. Lincolnshire Mathematics Team 2
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Look at the continuous sequence of squares below
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What colour will the fifty-third square be?
Answer - red
53rd square
N. E. Lincolnshire Mathematics Team 3
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The sum of two numbers is 15
Their difference is three.
What is their product?
54
9 + 6 = 15 is their sum or total
9 - 6 = 3 is their difference
9 x 6 = 54 is their product (multiplied together)
N. E. Lincolnshire Mathematics Team 4
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Jack draws the shape below
How many rectangles can be found in the drawing?
16
3
7
6
N. E. Lincolnshire Mathematics Team 5
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In a box of dominoes there are seven ‘double’ tiles
What is the total number of spots on the seven doubles tiles
altogether?42
N. E. Lincolnshire Mathematics Team 6
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The perimeter of this rectangle (oblong) is 48 cm. The rectangle is three times as long as it is wide
How long and how wide is the rectangle?
18 cm long
6 cm wide
The width and length shown in blue are 24 cm long altogether
The width is a quarter of 24 cm and the length three-quarters of 24 cm
N. E. Lincolnshire Mathematics Team 7
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Shirt £12.99 Sports shoes £16.49 Cap £9.50
Tom buys a cap, Amy buys shoes and Jack buys a shirt.
Each child pays with a £20 note.
How much change does each child receive?
Jack £7.01 Amy £3.51 Tom £10.50
Subtract each price from £20.
N. E. Lincolnshire Mathematics Team 8
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Joe thinks of two 2-digit numbers both less than seventy-five.
Both numbers have 6, 3 and 5 as factors.
One number is half the size of the other.
What are the two numbers?
60 30
N. E. Lincolnshire Mathematics Team 9
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To score a total of 10 on two standard dice you would need to throw a 6 and a 4 or two fives.
If you had three dice what are the combinations of scores you could throw to make a total of 10?
2 2 6
1 5 4
3 3 4
2 4 4
3 1 6 5 3 2
These may be thrown in any order
N. E. Lincolnshire Mathematics Team 10
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The graph shows the percentage scored by 7 children in a test
JadePaulLee
AmyJackTom
Chelsey
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 80 90 10070
A. Who scored exactly 30% less than Amy?
B. What did Paul score in his last test if this score was double his last score?
C. Which two children scored exactly 55%between them?
A. Chelsey
B. 35% (½ of 70%)
C. Tom and Jade
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The radius of the yellow circle is 12 cm and x is the centre of the circle
What is the area of the red rectangle (oblong)?
288 cm2
The width of the rectangle equals the radius of the circle 12 cm
The length of the rectangle is twice the radius of the circle 24 cm
The area of the rectangle is 12 cm x 24 cm = 288 cm2
x
N. E. Lincolnshire Mathematics Team 12
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The circumference of a bicycle wheel is 140 cm
How far in metres does the wheel travel in thirty revolutions?
The wheel travels 140 cm x 30 = 4200 cm
42 m
4200 cm is the same distance as 42 metres
N. E. Lincolnshire Mathematics Team 13
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Chloe makes a square with four sticks
She then uses some more sticks to make another square on the side
She continues the pattern in the same way adding more squares.
She uses 19 sticks altogether
How many squares are there in her completed sequence?
6
4 7 10 13 16 19
N. E. Lincolnshire Mathematics Team 14
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Three-fifths of a number is 45
What is one-third of the same number?25
If three-fifths of the number is 45 then one-fifth is 45 ÷ 3 = 15
One-third of the number is 75 ÷ 3 = 25 .
NumberThree-fifths45
The whole number is 15 multiplied by 5 = 75.
15 15 15
75
752525 25
Two-fifths15 15
N. E. Lincolnshire Mathematics Team 15
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Triangle ABC is equilateral
X
A
B C
What is the value of angle X?
1200
There are many different ways to find this answer.
How many can you find?
N. E. Lincolnshire Mathematics Team 16
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Which numbers are missing from these number sentences?
A. - 7 = 35
B. X 7 = 35
C. + 7 = 35
D. ÷ 7 = 9
5
28
63
42
N. E. Lincolnshire Mathematics Team 17
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These shapes each have properties in common.
Identify 2 common properties
All quadrilaterals
All have parallel lines
All have at least one line of symmetry
Some possibilities
N. E. Lincolnshire Mathematics Team 18
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Jack makes five statements. Some are true, some are false.
A. All squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are squares
B. An isosceles triangle has two right angles
C. To multiply any number by 10 just put a zero on the end
D. For every decimal fraction there is an equivalent ‘ordinary’ fraction
E. A regular pentagon has five lines of symmetry
Write T or F next to each statement
T
F
F
T
T
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Jade starts with an even number.
She doubles it.
She continues to double until she reaches 144.
What are the other numbers in her sequence before she reaches her total?
144723618
Start with 144 and continue halving until she reaches her starting number.
N. E. Lincolnshire Mathematics Team 20
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How many different triangles can you find in this drawing?
1
2
3
4
8
N. E. Lincolnshire Mathematics Team 21
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Two of these nets will not make a closed cube.
A B C D E
Write the letters of the nets that will make a closed cube
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In a football match the score at half time is 1 – 0 to the home side.
In the second half three more goals are scored.
What are the possible full-time results?
Include both home and away possibilities.
4 - 03 - 1
2 - 21 - 3
N. E. Lincolnshire Mathematics Team 23
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A ream of A4 paper is 500 sheets.
The height of a ream is 5.5 cm
What is the thickness of one sheet of paper in millimetres?
0.11 mm
Change 5.5 cm to 55 mm.
Divide 55m by 500 = 0.11mm
N. E. Lincolnshire Mathematics Team 24
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Here are some lists.
Which is the odd one out in each list?
1a 0.4 b. Two-fifths c. 40% d. 16 e. 4%
40
2a 25 x 15 b. 750 ÷ 0.5 c. 250 + 125 d. 750 e. 1000 - 625
2
3a rhombus 3b pollygon 3c paralellogram 3d isocseles 3e trapesium
N. E. Lincolnshire Mathematics Team 25
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Each apex of the red equilateral triangle is in the centre of a circle.
The circles are the same size.
The perimeter of the triangle is 45 cm
What is the radius of each of the circles?
7.5 cmEach side of the triangle
is 15 cm.
The radius of these circles is half the
length of one side of the triangle
15 cm ÷ 2 = 7.5 cm
N. E. Lincolnshire Mathematics Team 26
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A shop reduces the price of sports shoes by 20%
The new price is £60
What was the original price of the shoes?
£75
The new price is four-fifths of the old price.
The new price is four parts of the old price, this is £60 ÷ 4 = £15
So the original price was £60 + £15 = £75
N. E. Lincolnshire Mathematics Team 27
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There are three prime numbers between 80 and 100
What is their total?
81 83 85 87 89 91 93 95 97 99
None of the even numbers can be prime in this case. This leaves -
Can be divided by 3, 5 or 7 so are not prime numbers.
Are prime numbers.
83 + 89 + 97 = 269.
269
N. E. Lincolnshire Mathematics Team 28
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The two triangles are isosceles and the same size.
They each have a perimeter of 20.5 cm.
A
B
6 cm
How long is line AB?
17 cm
The two equal sides of each triangle are 6 am long because they are the same length as the
short side of the rectangle.
The third side is the perimeter of the triangles 20.5cm - 12 cm (the total length of the equal sides) = 8.5 cm
Line AB is 2 x 8.5 cm = 17 cm
N. E. Lincolnshire Mathematics Team 29
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1050
A
B
750
1050
Two straight lines cross as shown in the drawing
What is the size of angle A and angle B?
Angle A is 1800 - 1050 = 750
Angle B is 1800 - 750 = 1050
N. E. Lincolnshire Mathematics Team 30
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450
150
125
100
50
555
A
B
C
The sum of the edges of each of these squares is 1000
Which three numbers are missing?
400
775
395
N. E. Lincolnshire Mathematics Team 31
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Six people play each other once at golf.
How many games are played altogether?15
Player A
Player B
Player C
Player D
Player E
Player F
5 Games
Player C
Player D
Player E
Player F
4 Games
Player D
Player E
Player F
3 Games
Player E
Player F
2 Games
Player F
1 Game
N. E. Lincolnshire Mathematics Team 32
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Gavin weighs one-third more than Sally.
Mum weighs twice as much as Gavin.
Mum and dad weigh 140kg altogether.
Sally weighs 24kg.
How much do mum and dad each weigh?
Gavin weighs 24kg + 8kg = 32kg.
Mum weighs 32kg x 2 = 64kg.
Dad weighs 140kg - 64kg = 76kg.
Mum weighs 64kg.
Dad weighs 76kg.
N. E. Lincolnshire Mathematics Team 33
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Jade uses five 5s to write a number sentence.
She uses two + signs and one x sign.
The answer to her sentence is 555.
What could her number sentence have been?
The 5s in her answer are not part of the five 5s she uses to work out her problem.
= 555 (5 + 5) x 55 + 5
N. E. Lincolnshire Mathematics Team 34
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The drawing shows part of number grid six columns wide.
5 10 15
45
70
B
0 5 10 15 20 25
30 35 40 45
65 70 85
110
130
Which numbers are missing from squares A and B?
130
110
N. E. Lincolnshire Mathematics Team 35
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The area of this square is 64cm2
Joe uses similar squares to make a new shape.
What is the perimeter of the new shape?
80cmThe area is 64cm2 so each side is 8cm.
There are ten sides to the new shape.
10 x 8cm = 80 cm
N. E. Lincolnshire Mathematics Team 36
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Amy and Jade live in different villages.
Their villages are both 90km away from the town.
They agree to meet in the town at noon.
Amy travels at a speed of 40km per hour and
Jade travels at a speed of 60km per hour.
At what time should they each set off from their villages to arrive in the
town at noon?
Amy sets off at 9:45 a.m. Jade sets off at 10:30
Amy’s journey time is 2¼ hours.
Jade’s journey time is 1½ hours.
N. E. Lincolnshire Mathematics Team 37
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There are three mathematical terms jumbled in this sequence of letters.
S M S U U Y B L M T T M R I E A P T C L R T Y Y
What are the three terms?
SUBTRACT
MULTIPLY
SYMMETRY
S M S U U Y B L M T T M R I E A P T C L R T Y Y
M U L T I P L Y S U B T R A C T
S Y M M E T R Y
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Fred cuts discs this size from a sheet of metal as shown below.
Each disc has a diameter of 3cm.
What is the area of the sheet of metal?
108cm2
The sheet is 4 discs (12cm) long
The sheet is 3 discs
(9cm) wide
The area of the sheet is 9cm x
12cm = 108cm2
N. E. Lincolnshire Mathematics Team 39
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Five children run 50m in a race.
Their finishing times are:
7.5 sec., 8.00., 7.75., 8.5 sec. and 6.5 sec.
What is their average (mean) time for running 50m?
7.65 sec
7.5 + 8.00 + 7.75 + 8.5 + 6.5 = 38.25sec
38.25 ÷ 5 = 7.65 sec.
N. E. Lincolnshire Mathematics Team 40
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Chloe takes the number 2. She then applies a rule (does something to it) and gets the answer 8.
She uses the same rule with some other numbers.
Start number 4 finish number 18
Start number 3 finish number 13
Start number 6 finish number 28
Start number 1 finish number 3
Can you work out what her rule is?
Multiply the start number by 5 then subtract 2
N. E. Lincolnshire Mathematics Team 41
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Calculate the outcome if Tom puts the following sequence into his calculator
+7 9 4 x -0 3 12+ =÷ √
3
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The number shown by A in the centre of the drawing is the product of the numbers linked by the arrows opposite each other.
A
15
3B
8
What are the values of A and B?
12040
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The numbers in this sequence start at 27 and reduce by the same number each time.
27 ? ? ? ? 12
Which numbers are missing from the sequence?
24 21 18 15
The sequence decreases by 3 from left to right.
The sequence increases by 3 from right to left.
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One person sits on each side of a square table
Jack has five similar tables that he joins together to make one long table.
How many people can be seated around the new table? 12
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In a family each boy has one sister and each girl has one brother.
How may people are in the family including mum and dad?
4
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What is 25% of one-third of 240?
20
One-third of 240 is 80
25 % (or ¼) of 80 is 20
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In championship tennis the balls are new at the start of the match.
They are changed after the first seven games and then every nine games after that.
Roger Federer beats Tim Henman
6 – 3, 7 – 6, 2 – 6, 6 - 4
How many sets of new balls are used in the match?
5
40 games are played. Subtract 7 (1st set of balls) leaves 33
33 games ÷ 9 uses 3 sets of balls (27 games) with 6 extra games left.
An extra set is needed for the six games.
3 + 1 + 1 = 5
N. E. Lincolnshire Mathematics Team 48
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Inside the drawing of a square there are 3 shapes.
Points A and B are the middle of the sides of the square. The length of each side of the square is 8cm.
A
B
1
2
3
What is the area of each shape?
1. 16cm2 2. 32cm2 3. 16cm2
The area of the square 8cm x 8cm = 64 cm2
Shape 1 is ¼, shape 2 is ½ and shape 3 is ¼ of the square
N. E. Lincolnshire Mathematics Team 49
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The sum of three single-digit numbers is 10.
Their product is 30.
What are the three numbers?
2 3 5
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A large rectangle is divided into smaller rectangles
The perimeter of this rectangle is 18 cm.
3cm
7cm
What is the area of the pink rectangle?
42cm2
The pink rectangle is 7cm by 6cm = 42 cm2
7cm
6cm
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Which design comes next in this sequence?
The pattern is the numbers 1 to 9 made up of straight lines and placed back to back
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A large rectangle is made up of smaller squares.
What percentage of the large rectangle is not shaded blue?
75%
There are 40 small squares. Ten are blue. This is a quarter, so three-quarters, or 75% are not blue.
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Tom forgets the three-digit combination to his case.
He knows that the first number is an odd prime number more than 3.
The last number is not odd but is less than six and more than one.
No two digits in the combination are the same.
The middle number makes the total of the three digits add up to 13.
What are the possible combinations for Tom’s lock?
562 742 724
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A regular octagon has an area of 86 cm2
The square surrounding the octagon has a perimeter of 40 cm.
What is the area of one of the small triangles if they are all the same size?
3.5cm2
The area of the square is 10cm x 10cm = 100 cm2
The area of the four triangles altogether is 100 cm2 - 86cm2 = 14cm2
14cm2 ÷ 4 = 3.5cm2