Year 6 Multi-step Maths Problems

Six pencils cost $1.92. Three pencils and one rubber cost $1.21. What is the cost of one rubber?

• $0.25

• $2.50

• $2

• $0.20

A stack of 40 identical toy boxes is 1000cm tall. Markus takes three boxes off the top of the pile. How tall is the stack now?

• 955cm

• 846cm

• 925cm

• 8.46cm

Mrs Tunnicliffe is making jam to sell at the county fair. Blackberries cost $5.50 per kg. Sugar costs 65 cents per kg. 15 glass jars costs $5.85. She uses 16kg of blackberries and 10kg of sugar to make 15 jars of jam. Calculate the total cost to make 15 jars of jam.

• $84.50

• $110

• $98.12

• $100.35

A school orders 12 boxes of dice. Each box contains six bags of dice. Each bag contains 35 dice. How many dice do the school order in total?

• 1564 Dice

• 1784 Dice

• 459 Dice

• 2520 Dice

Mikel thinks of a number. He multiplies the number by 100, divides it by eight then adds 6.50. The answer is 1206.5. What was his starting number?

• 424

• 96

• 54

• 36

Eight small bricks have the same mass as three large bricks.

The mass of one small brick is 1.5kg. What is the mass of one large brick?

• 99

• 86

• 96

• 84

A bag of five bananas costs $1. A bag of four grapefruits costs $2.40. How much more does one grapefruit cost than one banana?

• $0.40

• $1.00

• $0.25

• $2.50

Erica chooses a number. She divides it by four then subtracts 11. She then divides this result by two. Her answer is 12.5. What was the number she started with?

• 66

• 144

• 88

• 169