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Do Now Tasks / Starters

Differentiated question sets.

Short Multiplication Question Set

Short multiplication.

Faded Scaffolding Strips Short Multiplication –  2 Times Table

Faded Scaffolding Strips Short Multiplication –  3 Times Table

Faded Scaffolding Strips Short Multiplication –  4 Times Table

Faded Scaffolding Strips Short Multiplication –  5 Times Table

Faded Scaffolding Strips Short Multiplication –  6 Times Table

Faded Scaffolding Strips Short Multiplication –  7 Times Table

Faded Scaffolding Strips Short Multiplication –  8 Times Table

Faded Scaffolding Strips Short Multiplication –  9 Times Table

Faded Scaffolding Strips Short Multiplication

Short Multiplication 4 Digit x 1 Digit 2 Times Table

Short Multiplication 4 Digit x 1 Digit 3 Times Table

Short Multiplication 4 Digit x 1 Digit 4 Times Table

Short Multiplication 4 Digit x 1 Digit 5 Times Table

Short Multiplication 4 Digit x 1 Digit 6 Times Table

Short Multiplication 4 Digit x 1 Digit 7 Times Table

Short Multiplication 4 Digit x 1 Digit 8 Times Table

Short Multiplication 4 Digit x 1 Digit 9 Times Table

Strips Short Multiplication

Long Multiplication

Long Multiplication –  Multiplying by 11

Faded Scaffolding Strips Long Multiplication –  Multiply by 11

Long Multiplication – 3 Digit by 2 Digit

Strips- Long Multiplication 

Faded Scaffolding Strips Long Multiplication

Long Multiplication Faded Scaffolding- 2 Digit by 2 Digit 

Long Multiplication Faded Scaffolding- 3 Digit by 2 Digit 

Short division.

Faded Scaffolding Strips Short Division

Faded Scaffolding Strips Short Division – 2 Times Table

Faded Scaffolding Strips Short Division – 3 Times Table

Faded Scaffolding Strips Short Division – 4 Times Table

Faded Scaffolding Strips Short Division – 5 Times Table

Faded Scaffolding Strips Short Division – 6 Times Table

Faded Scaffolding Strips Short Division – 7 Times Table

Faded Scaffolding Strips Short Division – 8 Times Table

Faded Scaffolding Strips Short Division – 9 Times Table

Short Division – 4 Digit Divided by 1 Digit 2 Times Table 

Short Division – 4 Digit Divided by 1 Digit 3 Times Table 

Short Division – 4 Digit Divided by 1 Digit 4 Times Table 

Short Division – 4 Digit Divided by 1 Digit 5 Times Table 

Short Division – 4 Digit Divided by 1 Digit 6 Times Table 

Short Division – 4 Digit Divided by 1 Digit 7 Times Table 

Short Division – 4 Digit Divided by 1 Digit 8 Times Table 

Short Division – 4 Digit Divided by 1 Digit 9 Times Table 

Short Division –  No Remainders

Strips- Short Division- No Remainders

Short Division –  Remainders

Strips- Short Division- Remainders 

Short Division –  Decimal Remainder

Strips- Short Division Decimal Remainders 

Short Division- Decimal Remainders 

Short Division –  Remainders in Different Ways

Short Division –  Remainders as Fractions

Short Division –  Interpret Remainders in Context

Strips- Short Division Decimal Remainders

Multiply by 10, 100 and 1000.

Multiplying by 10, 100 or 1000

Multiplying by 10, 100 and 1000

Faded Scaffolding Strips Multiply by 10, 100 and 1000

Faded Scaffolding Strips- Multiply by 10, 100 and 1000- Whole Numbers

Divide by 10, 100 and 1000.

Dividing by 10, 100 and 1000

Dividing by 10, 100 or 1000

Faded Scaffolding Strips Divide by 10, 100 and 1000

Faded Scaffolding Strips- Divide by 10, 100 and 1000- Whole Numbers

Mixed multiplication & division by 10, 100 and 1000.

Multiplying and Dividing by 10, 100 and 1000

Faded Scaffolding Strips Multiply and Divide by 10, 100 and 1000

Multiply and Divide by 10, 100 and 1000 Do Now Tasks 

Multiply and Divide by 10, 100 and 1000 Do Now Tasks- Varied Representations 

Faded Scaffolding Strips- Multiply and Divide by 10, 100 and 1000- Whole Numbers

Using known facts.

Divide Using Known Facts to 1,000,000

Using Known Facts to 1,000,000

Multiply Using Known Facts to 1,000,000

Faded Scaffolding Strips- Divide Using Known Facts to 1,000,000 

Faded Scaffolding Strips- Multiply and Divide Using Known Facts to 1,000,000 

Faded scaffolding strips- multiply using known facts to 1,000,000 , factors, multiples, square, cubed and prime.

Strips Identify Common Factors of Numbers

Strips Identify Factors of Numbers

Identifying Factor Pairs

Identifying Prime Numbers

Strips Identify Multiples

Faded Scaffolding Strips- Identify Factors of Numbers 

Strips- Cube Numbers

Strips- Square Numbers

Equality and inequality statements, problem solving.

Problem Solving- Multiplication Facts 

Problem Solving- Short Multiplication

Word problems and challenges.

Prime Numbers Challenges

Long Multiplication Challenges

Factors Challenge

Multiples Challenges

Short Multiplication Challenges

Multiples Challenges 

Multiply and Divide Using Known Facts Challenges 

Multiplication and Division Mixed Word Problems 

Resources to support multiplication and division.

Long Multiplication Support

Stepes to Success

Short Multiplication – Steps to Success 

Long Multiplication – Steps to Success 

Short Division with Decimal Remainders- Steps to Success 

Short Division with Fraction Remainders- Steps to Success 

Divide by 10, 100 and 1000- Steps to Success 

Multiply by 10, 100 and 1000- Steps to Success 

Factors – Steps to Success 

Square Numbers- Steps to Success 

Common Factors – Steps to Success 

Cube Numbers- Steps to Success 

Prime Factors – Steps to Success 

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Welcome to our Year 5 Maths Worksheets area.

Here you will find a wide range of free printable Maths Worksheets for pupils in Year 5, and Math activities for your child to enjoy.

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Year 5 Maths Learning

Here are some of the key learning objectives for the end of Year 5:

• know and use Place value up to 1 million
• Compare and order numbers up to 1 million
• Counting on and back in steps of powers of 10 from any number up to 1 million
• Round numbers to the nearest 10, 100, 1000, 10000 or 100000.
• Count forwards and backwards through zero with positive and negative numbers.
• Read Roman numerals to 1000
• add and subtract with more than 4 digits in columns
• add or subtract larger numbers mentally
• solve multi-step problems using addition and subtraction
• Multiply and divide whole numbers and decimals up to 2dp by 10, 100 or 1000
• identify multiples and factors including common factors
• multiply up to 4-digit numbers by a 1-digit number
• multiply up to 3-digits numbers by 2-digits
• divide numbers up to 4-digits by a 1-digit number
• recognise and use squared and cubed numbers
• solve problems using multiplication and division
• know what a prime number is and recall prime numbers up to 20
• compare and order fractions whose denominators are multiples of the same number
• identify, name and write equivalent fractions
• convert between mixed numbers and improper fractions
• add and subtract fractions with the same denominator or whose denominators are multiples of the same number
• multiply proper fractions and mixed numbers by whole numbers
• read and write decimal numbers as fractions.
• Multiply and divide whole numbers and decimals by 10, 100 or 1000
• read, write, order and compare numbers up to 2dp
• round decimals with up to 2dp to the nearest whole
• solve problems with numbers up to 2dp
• understand and use the percent symbol
• convert percentages to fractions with a denominator of 100
• know fraction-percentage equivalence for halves, quarters, fifths and tenths
• solve problems using simple percentages
• measure, compare and calculate using different measures
• find the area and perimeter of a range of rectilinear shapes
• convert between different units of time
• convert between different units of metric measure
• convert between simple imperial and metric units
• solve more complex money and measure problems
• draw and measure angles in degrees
• know the sum of angles at a point (360°rees;) and angles at a point along a line (180°rees;)
• identify 3D shapes from 2D representations
• Identify, describe and represent the position of a shape following a reflection or translation
• find the area and perimeter of composite rectilinear shapes
• know properties of regular and irregular shapes

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Year 5 is generally equivalent to 4th Grade in the US.

On this page you will find link to our range of math worksheets for Year 5.

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Coronavirus Stay At Home Support

For those parents who have found themselves unexpectedly at home with the kids and need some emergency activities for them to do, we have started to develop some Maths Grab Packs for kids in the UK.

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Place Value & Number Sense Zone

Year 5 place value worksheets.

Using these Year 5 maths worksheets will help your child to:

• Understand decimals;
• Use place value notation with tenths and hundredths;
• Know how to read and write numbers to 10 million;
• Understand place value to 10 million.
• Decimal Place Value Worksheets
• Year 5 Place Value up to 6 digits
• Comparing and Ordering Whole Numbers up to 6 Digits
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Year 5 Number Worksheets

Using these Year 5 Maths worksheets will help your child to:

• learn to estimate and approximate;
• order numbers, including negative numbers and decimals;
• learn how to place decimal numbers on a number line;
• understand and use multiples and factors, and know what a prime number is;
• complete the missing number to balance a math equation.
• Factors and Multiples Worksheet
• Rounding Decimals to the nearest whole
• Rounding to the nearest tenth
• Balancing Math Equations

Year 5 Counting Worksheets

Using these sheets will support you child to:

• count on and back by multiples of 10;
• fill in the missing numbers in sequences;
• count on and back into negative numbers.
• Counting on and back by tens

Year 5 Mental Maths Zone

Here you will find a range of printable Year 5 mental maths sheets for your child to enjoy.

Each quiz tests the children on a range of maths topics from number facts and mental arithmetic to geometry, fraction and measures questions.

A great way to revise topics, or use as a weekly math test or math quiz!

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Year 5 Addition Worksheets

• add multiple numbers in columns up to 5 digits;
• add numbers in columns, including money amounts with up to two decimal places.
• Decimal Addition Worksheets (mental)
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• Addition Worksheets with Multi-Addends
• Money Addition Worksheets (£ )
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Year 5 Subtraction Worksheets

• learn to subtract numbers with up to 5 digits;
• learn to subtract numbers involving money with decimals with up to two decimal places.
• Free Subtraction Worksheets (randomly generated)
• 5 Digit Subtraction Worksheets
• Money Subtraction Worksheets UK (£ )
• Subtracting Decimals Worksheets (mental)

Year 5 Multiplication Worksheets

Using these 4th grade math worksheets will help your child to:

• use their multiplication table knowledge to multiply by 10s and 100s mentally
• multiply any whole number by a single digit;
• multiply a two or three digit number by a two digit number.
• Times Table Worksheets Circles 1 to 12 tables
• Times Tables Worksheets (randomly generated)
• Multiplying Decimals by 10 and 100
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Year 5 Division Worksheets

Using these Year 5 maths worksheets will help your child learn to:

• apply their division facts up to 10x10 to answer related questions involving 10s and 100s.
• divide any whole number by a single digit.
• Divding by Multiples of 10 and 100 Worksheets
• Year 5 (4th Grade) Long Division Worksheets

These sheets involve solving a range of division problems.

• Division Worksheets (Grade 4) Word Problems
• Division Facts Worksheets (randomly generated)

Year 5 Math Problems

• apply their addition, subtraction and problem solving skills;
• apply their knowledge of rounding and place value;
• solve a range of 'real life' problems;
• attempt more challenging longer problems.

Using the problems in this section will help your child develop their problem solving and reasoning skills.

These sheets involve solving one or two more challenging longer problems.

• 4th Grade Math Problems

These sheets involve solving many 'real-life' problems involving data.

• 4th Grade Math Word Problems

These sheets involve solving a range of multiplciation problems.

• Division Worksheets Grade 4 Word Problems

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Year 5 Percentage Worksheets

Year 5 fraction worksheets.

• position different fractions on a number line;
• understand equivalent fractions;
• understand what a mixed number is;
• compare two or more fractions;
• begin to convert fractions to decimals and decimals to fractions.
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Take a look at our percentage worksheets for finding the percentage of a number or money amount.

We have a range of percentage sheets from quite a basic level to much harder.

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Year 5 Geometry Worksheets

Using these sheets will help you to:

• classify angles - acute, obtuse, right, reflex, straight;
• classify triangles - acute, obtuse, right;
• measure angles using a protractor;
• know that angles in a triangle add up to 180°
• know the properties of regular and irregular shapes
• plot and write coordinates in the first quadrant.
• 4th Grade Geometry Worksheets
• Symmetry Activities
• Coordinate Worksheets (1st Quadrant)

Measurement Zone, including Time & Money

Year 5 measurement worksheets.

Using these sheets will help your child understand how to:

• read scales in both the standard and metric systems;
• read a scale going up in a range of fractions: halves, quarters and eighths;
• read a scale going up in tenths, fives, tens, fifties, and hundreds.
• 4th Grade Measurement Worksheets
• Converting Customary Units Worksheets
• Metric Conversion Worksheets

Area and Perimeter Worksheets

• understand area and perimeter;
• learn how to find the area and perimeter of rectangles and rectilinear shapes.
• Area Worksheets
• Perimeter Worksheets

Year 5 Time Worksheets (4th Grade)

Using the sheets in this section will help your child to:

• tell the time to the nearest minute;
• become familiar with both digital and analogue times;
• add and subtract time intervals.
• Telling Time Worksheets Grade 4 (1 minute intervals)
• 24 Hour Clock Conversion Worksheets

On this webpage there is a selection of printable 24 hour (military time) conversion worksheets which will help you learn to convert from 24 hour clock to standard 12 hour time, and from standard time to 24 hour time.

Time Interval Worksheets

These sheets will help you learn to add and subtract hours and minutes from times as well as working out a range of time intervals.

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• Elapsed Time Worksheets

Time Puzzles - harder

Here you will find our selection of harder time puzzles.

• Time Word Problems Worksheets - Riddles (harder)

Using these 4th grade math worksheets will help you to:

• draw and read bar graphs with increasingly complex numbers;
• read, interpret and draw line graphs;
• Year 5 Bar Graph Worksheets (4th grade)
• Year 5 Line Graph Worksheets

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Year 5 maths games.

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Year 5 Maths Puzzles

The puzzles will help your child practice and apply their addition, subtraction, multiplication and division facts as well as developing their thinking and reasoning skills in a fun and engaging way.

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Math Salamanders Year 5 Maths Games Ebook

Our Year 5 Maths Games Ebook contains all of our fun maths games, complete with instructions and resources.

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18 Word Problems For Year 5: Develop Their Problem Solving Skills Across Single and Mixed KS2 Topics

Emma Johnson

Word problems for Year 5 are a great way to assess pupils’ number fluency. By the time primary school children reach Upper Key Stage 2, they will be building on their knowledge and understanding of the number system and place value, working with larger integers. An increased understanding of the connections between the different maths concepts is crucial, as children will be expected to tackle more complex, multi-step problems.

It is important children are regularly provided with the opportunity to solve a range of word problems and Year 5 maths worksheets with reasoning and problem solving incorporated alongside fluency, into all lessons.

To help you with this, we have put together a collection of 18 word problems aimed at Year 5 maths pupils.

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Download this free pack of multiplication word problems to help your Year 5 class grow their problem solving skills

Year 5 maths word problems in the national curriculum

The National Curriculum states that by Year 5, pupils should develop their ability to solve a wider range of problems, including increasingly complex properties of numbers and arithmetic, and problems demanding efficient written and mental methods of calculation. Children also begin to use the language of algebra for solving a range of problems.

By Year 5, pupils should be starting to gain confidence in solving more complex two-step and multi-step word problems, covering topics across the Year 5 curriculum.

Solve number and practical problems involving ordering and comparing numbers to at least 1,00,000; counting forwards or backwards in steps of powers of 10; interpreting negative numbers in context and rounding to the nearest 10,100, 1000, 10,000 and 100,000.

Solve addition and subtraction word problems and a combination of these, including understanding the meaning of the equals sign.

Solve problems involving multiplication and division, including using knowledge of factors, multiples, squares and cubes and scaling by simple fractions.

Solve problems involving numbers up to 3 decimal places and problems which require knowing percentage and decimal equivalents.

Solve time word problems and those involving converting between units of time and problems involving measure (for example, length, mass, volume and money word problems ) using decimal notation and scaling.

Solve comparison, sum and difference problems, using information presented in a line graph.

Word problems are an important element of the Year 5 curriculum. By this stage, children need to be building confidence in approaching a range of one, two and multi-step word problems . They require children to be creative and apply the skills they have learnt to a range of real-life situations. 

Children need to be taught the skills for successfully approaching and tackling word problems. Reading the question carefully and identifying the key information needed to tackle the problem, is the first step, followed by identifying which calculations are required for solving it and deciding whether it will be helpful to draw a picture/ visual representation to understand and answer the question. 

Using mental maths skills to round and estimate an answer is also very helpful for children to establish whether their final answer is realistic. Children need to also be able to calculate the inverse, to be able to check their answer, once the problem has been completed.

See also: Mental maths year 5

Here is an example:

A transport museum has 1243 visitors on Monday morning and another 1387 visitors in the afternoon. On Tuesday 736 fewer visitors go to the museum than who visited on Monday.

How many visitors were there altogether on Tuesday?

How to solve:

What do you already know?

• The number of visitors on Monday morning and Monday afternoon are given separately. They need to be added together to give the total number of visitors for Monday.
• ‘Fewer’ means I will need to subtract the number of fewer visitors on Tuesday from the total number of visitors on Monday.
• Column addition and subtraction will be needed to solve this question.

How can this be drawn/represented pictorially?

We can draw a bar model to represent this problem:

• To calculate the total number of visitors on Monday, we need to add 1243 and 1387 together. 1243 + 1387 = 2630
• The number of fewer visitors on Tuesday needs to be subtracted from Monday’s total: 2630 – 736 = 1894.
• The total number of visitors on Tuesday was 1894.

In Year 5, addition word problems can involve whole numbers with over 4 digits and decimal numbers. Children should be able to round number to check the accuracy and begin to solve two step number problems 

Addition question 1

Gemma picks two cards from the cards below and adds them together.  She is able to make three different totals. What will they be?

2365     6281      9782

Answer (2 marks) : 12,147   16,063  8646

Addition question 2

Ahmed adds two of these numbers mentally.

357         280          294          232

In his calculation, he exchanges twice to create one ten and one hundred. Write Ahmed’s calculation and work out the total.

Answer (1 mark) : 357 + 294 = 651

Addition question 3

Change one digit in the calculation below, so that the answer is a multiple of 10.

Answer (1 mark) : 723 + 347 = 1070

Subtraction word problems in Year 5 require pupils to be confident subtracting numbers over 4 digits and problems involving decimal numbers. Pupils need to be able to round numbers to check accuracy and to use subtraction when solving mixed word problems. 

Subtraction question 1

A coach is travelling 4924 km across the USA It has 2476 km to go. How many kilometres has the coach already travelled?

Answer (1 mark) : 2448 km

Subtraction question 2

A primary school printed 7283 maths worksheets in the Summer term. 2156 were for Key Stage 1 pupils. How many were printed for Key Stage 2?

Answer (1 mark): 5127 worksheets

Subtraction question 3

 A clothing company made £57,605 profit in 2021 and £73,403 in 2022.  How much more profit did the company make in 2022 than in 2021?

Answer (1 mark): £15,798

In year 5, multiplication word problems include problems involving times tables and multiplying whole numbers up to 4-digits by 1 or 2-digit numbers. Pupils also need to be able to combine multiplication with other operations, in order to solve two-step word problems. 

Multiplication question 1

In this diagram, the numbers in the circles are multiplied together to make the answer in the square between them.

Complete the missing numbers.

Answer (1 mark)

Multiplication question 2

Mrs Jones was printing the end of year maths test. Each test had 18 pages and 89 pupils were sitting the test. Mrs Jones also needed to print out 12 copies for the teachers and Teaching Assistants who were helping to run the test. 

How many pieces of paper did Mrs Jones need to put in the photocopier, to make sure she had enough for all the tests?

Multiplication question 3

A school is booking a trip to Alton Towers. Tickets cost £22 per pupil. There are 120 children in each year group and all the children from 3 year groups will be going.

What will be the total price for all the tickets?

Answer (2 marks): £7920

Third Space Learning often ties word problems into our online one-to-one tutoring. Each lesson is personalised to the needs of the individual student, growing maths knowledge and problem solving skills.

In Year 5, division word problems can involve whole numbers up to 4 digits being divided by 1-digit numbers. Pupils need to understand how to answer word problems, when the answer involves a remainder.

Division question 1

Tom has 96 cubes and makes 12 equal towers. Masie has 63 cubes and makes 9 equal towers. Whose towers are tallest and by how many cubes?

Answer (2 marks): Tom

Tom’s tower has more cubes. His towers have 1 more cube than Maise’s towers.

96 ÷ 12 = 8

Division question 2

A cake factory has made cakes to deliver to a large event. 265 cakes have been baked. How many boxes of 8 cakes can be delivered to the event?

Answer (2 marks) : 33 boxes

Division question 3

Lily collected 1256 stickers. She shared them between her 8 friends. How many stickers did each friend get

Answer (1 mark): 157 stickers

In Year 5, fractions word problems and decimals can include questions involving ordering, addition and subtraction of fractions. They can also involve converting between fractions and decimals. 

Fraction and decimal question 1

Isobel collected 24 conkers. She gave \frac{1}{8} of the conkers to her brother. How many conkers did she have left?

Answer (1 mark): 21 conkers left

\frac{1}{8} of 24 = 3

24 – 4 = 21

Fraction and decimal question 2

Ahmed counted out 32 sweets. He gave \frac{1}{4} of the sweets to his brother and \frac{3}{8} of the sweets to his friend. How many sweets did he have left?

Answer (2 marks): 12 sweets

\frac{1}{4} of 32 = 8

\frac{3}{8} of 32 = 12

He gave away 20 sweets, so had 12 left for himself.

Fraction and decimal question 3

Two friends shared some pizzas, 1 ate 1 \frac{1}{2} pizzas, whilst the other ate \frac{5}{8} of a pizza. How much did they eat altogether?

Answer (1 mark): 2 \frac{1}{8} of pizza

1 \frac{1}{2} = \frac{12}{8}

\frac {12}{8} + \frac{5}{8} = \frac{17}{8} = 2 \frac{1}{8} pizzas

Problems with mixed operations, or ‘multi-step’ word problems, require two or more operations to solve them. A range of concepts can be covered within mixed problems, including the four operations, fractions, decimals and measures. These are worth more marks than some of the more straightforward, one-step problems.

Mixed operation question 1

At the cake sale, Sam buys 6 cookies and a cupcake . He pays £2.85 altogether. Naya buys 2 cookies and pays 90p altogether.

How much does the cupcake cost?

Answer (2 marks): 60p for one cupcake

Mixed operation question 2

Large biscuit tin – 48 biscuits (picture of boxes here) Small biscuit tin – 30 biscuits Ben bought 2 large tins of biscuits and 3 small tins.

How many biscuits did he buy altogether?

Answer (2 marks): 186 biscuits

2 x 48 = 96

3 x 30 = 90

96 + 90 = 186 biscuits

Mixed operation question 3

The owner of a bookshop bought a box of 15 books for £150.

He sold the books individually for £12 each. 

How much profit did he make?

Answer (2 marks)

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