Maths Week Quiz

If a business was to make sales of £10,000, but it cost them £3,500 to purchase the stock to sell, what is their overall profit?

• £13,500

• £7,500

• £6,500

• £10,000

Gleniffer's athletics track is 200m, how many times would you have to run round it to complete the 1500m race?

• 8 times

• 7 times

• 7.5 times

• 0.75 times

Mrs McNeil buys a pack of 144 coloured pencils - there are 12 of each colour.

She wants to make sets of pencils for each teacher - how many packs of 12 can she put together?

Mrs McNeil buys A2 paper to draw on. She wants to cut each piece into 4 to make it go further.

How many A2 pieces does she need to have 40 smaller sheets of paper?

• 160

• 10

• 100

• 6

What is the sum of the year WW1 started and the year WW1 ended?

• 3832

• 4

• 1918

There are 650 constituencies in the UK.  59 of them are in Scotland, 40 are in Wales and 18 are in Northern Ireland.  How many are in England?

huit + neuf =

• dix-sept

• seize

• vingt-et-un

drei x sechs

• 
  sechs

• ein­und­zwanzig

• achtzehn

For S3 Design and Manufacture pupil are given a piece of wood 1200mm long x 75mm wide to make a shelf. There are 4 classes of 20, 17, 16 and 18 pupils. 

How pieces of wood does the technician need to cut?

A recipe for cake calls for 260g of flour. The bag I bought contains 1kg of flour.

How many cakes can be made from this bag?

• 3.5

• 4

• 3