Which of the following is closest to the length of a car?

An elephant’s height is about twice the circumference of one of its feet. The circumference of one of Nellie’s foot is 150 cm. About how tall is she?

Emma decided to paint on her bedroom wall the 11 letters of the word:

MATHEMATICS

During a school holiday, she painted one letter each day. She finished on a Friday.

On which day of the week did she paint the first letter?

On the first day of this month, the sun rose at Greenwich at 06:54 and set 9 hours and 40 minutes later. At what time did the sun set?

Farmer Baar has 36 sheep, some pink and the rest white. There are twice as many pink sheep as white sheep.

How many of the sheep are pink?

Sir Pent has a tank with 4 snakes in it.

Slither is twice as long as Monty.

Viper is half as long as Slither.

Rattle is 15cm long, and half the length of Viper.

How long is Monty?

Jonathan the tortoise eats 20 g of salad leaves a day.

The leaves are sold in 80 g bags which cost 90p.

How much would it cost to feed Jonathan for 4 weeks?

Pat and Sam like to sit at either end of their sofa, with their three children sitting between them. In how many ways can they do this?

Mr Waddle walks at 2 mph and Mr Ramble walks at 4 mph.

They set off together for a non-stop 12 mile hike.

How long after Mr Ramble finishes does Mr Waddle complete the hike?

I add together three consecutive whole numbers. Their sum is always

Miss Fitt likes to line her class up in different ways.

When all the pupils are there she can line them up in twos, or in threes or in fives, with nobody left over.

What is the smallest number she could have in her class for that to be true.

Five girls are sitting around a table.

Each girl makes a “high five” with each of the other girls.

How many “high fives” are made?

Isaac is 53 years old. His mother is 81.

How many years ago was Isaac’s age one third of his mother’s age then?

The floor of Milo’s rectangular bedroom is completely covered with square carpet tiles.

When he measures the room in tiles, he finds it is 11 tiles long and 8 tiles wide.

How many of the carpet tiles do not touch the walls?

What fraction of the square is shaded?

More than 60% but less than 65% of the spiders in my cupboard have hairy legs.

What is the smallest number of spiders that could be in my cupboard?

Three cats, Flopsie, Lopsie and Topsie, were weighed in pairs.

The weights of each of the three pairs were 5 kg, 8 kg and 9 kg.

What was the weight of the heaviest cat?

Tabitha writes down a four-digit number N.

She then rubs out one of the digits and creates a new three-digit number, M, with the three digits that are left (in the same order as before).

The difference between N and M is 2021.

What is Tabitha’s original number N?