Unitary Method

Here are some easy mathematical questions for you.
This exercise is all about writing out your working?
This is worksheet number 240

1. If six bricks weigh 60kg. What would eleven bricks weigh?
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2. If eight girls can plant 40 trees in a day. How many trees could seventeen girls plant in a day?
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3. If five workers can dig 90 holes in an hour. How many holes could eight workers dig in an hour?
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4. If twenty-two coins weigh 462g. What would forty coins weigh?
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5. If five buses can seat 210 people. How many people could twenty-two buses seat?
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6. Fourteen identical pipes laid end to end make a length of 224m. What length would twenty-five pipes make if they are laid end to end?
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7. 13 child's building blocks placed one on top of another reach a height of 39cm. How heigh would 36 blocks be if placed one on top of the other?
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8. 300g of flour is needed to make a special cake for 5 people. How much flour would be needed to make a cake for 11 people?
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9. A vehicle travels one hundred and fifty km on 25 litres of fuel. How far would it travel on thirty-six litres?
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10. Another vehicle travels ninety km on 10 litres of fuel. How far would it travel on forty-three litres?
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Answers for worksheet number 240

1. 110
2. 85
3. 144
4. 840
5. 924
6. 400
7. 108
8. 660
9. 216
10. 387

 

Instructions

Try your best to answer the questions above. Type your answers into the boxes provided leaving no spaces. As you work through the exercise regularly click the "check" button. If you have any wrong answers, do your best to do corrections but if there is anything you don't understand, please ask your teacher for help.

When you have got all of the questions correct you may want to print out this page and paste it into your exercise book. If you keep your work in an ePortfolio you could take a screen shot of your answers and paste that into your Maths file.
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