Week 5 Y6 Math Trial Test

Barbie earns $8.50 for each hour she works as a babysitter.

How much does she earn if she works for 4 hours 30 minutes as a babysitter?

During a 150-minute experiment, Dexter spent 20 percent of the time measuring the solutions.

How many minutes did Dexter spend measuring the solutions?

A certain rocket can travel at the speed of 40 metres per second.

How fast can the rocket travel in kilometres per hour?

Yesterday, 238 of 350 workers at the factory wore red shirts.

What percentage of the workers at the factory wore a red shirt yesterday?

Cookie Monster will bake seven batches of cookies.

If he can make at least six cookies in each batch, what is the least possible number of cookies Cookie Monster can bake?

Frank can type 872 words in 15 minutes, while Jake can type 795 words in 15 minutes.

At these rates, how many more words can Frank type in 30 minutes than Jake?

A train travelled 90 kilometres per hour for 4 hours and then at 85 kilometres per hour for another 6 hours.

What was the average speed of the bus?

The ratio of the number of brown goats to the number of black goats on Old MacDonald’s farm is 5 to 12.

If there are 63 more black goats than brown goats on the farm, how many brown goats are there?

Derek travelled 15 kilometres per hour for the first 30 kilometres of the trip and at 30 kilometres per hour for the remaining 10 kilometres of the trip.

How many minutes shorter would it take him if he travelled the entire trip at 20 kilometres per hour?

Leo and Martin are both insurance sales agents.

Leo’s weekly earning includes a $500 base pay plus 15 percent of the portion of his total weekly sales above $600, while Martin’s weekly earning is 25 percent of his total weekly sales.

For what total weekly sales would Leo and Martin earn the same amount?

If one “nok” equals 10 centimetres and one “shok” equals 18 centimetres, then 90 noks equals how many shoks?

A rectangular garden is 50 metres long.

If the number of metres in the perimeter of the garden is equal to 44 percent of the number of square metres in the area of the garden, what is the width of the garden?

During the mall sale, Barbie bought a handbag at 70 percent off the regular price and a pair of shoes at 40 percent off the regular price.

If she spent $12 more on the shoes than on the handbag and a total of $84 on the two items, what was the regular price of the handbag?

Jack and Jill joined a race.

The sum of their race times equals 170 seconds.

If Jack’s race time is 10 seconds less than twice Jill’s race time, what was Jill’s race time?

A rectangular window has a perimeter of 100 centimetres.

If the length and width of the window are in a ratio of 16 to 9, respectively, what is the window’s width?

At the fabric store, an 8-metre long lace costs $40.

At this rate, how much does a 40-centimetre long lace cost?

Eighty percent of the animals on the farm are chickens, and 20 percent of the chickens are roosters.

What percent of the animals on the farm are chickens but not roosters?

A jar contains 280 marbles.

If 30 percent of the marbles are red, 25 percent are blue, and the rest are green, how many green marbles are there?

An iron ball has a mass of 210 grams.

The mass of the copper ball is 25 percent less than the mass of the iron ball, and the mass of the brass ball is 60 percent less than the mass of the copper ball.

The mass of the iron ball is how much more than the mass of the brass ball?

The regular price of pencils is 40 cents each.

If a customer can buy 3 pencils for a dollar during a sale, how much money would Tom Sawyer save buying 30 pencils during a sale?

Of all the workers at the factory, 60 percent are male workers, and of the male workers, 1/10 were assigned to quality control.

If the number of female workers assigned to quality control was five times the number of male workers assigned to quality control, what percent of the female workers were assigned to quality control?

During a book sale, hard-cover books sell for $65 each, while paperbacks sell for $45 each.

If Belle has $560 to spend on books, what is the greatest possible number of books she could buy during the book sale?

Bert and Ernie each have a collection of baseball cards.

If Bert gives Ernie 72 baseball cards, then Bert will have four times as many baseball cards as Ernie.

If Bert gives Ernie 129 baseball cards, then Bert will have three times as many baseball cards as Ernie.

How many more baseball cards does Bert have than Ernie?

Two jars contained a total of 115 tokens.

If the first jar contained 35 fewer tokens than the second jar, how many tokens were there in the second jar?

Last month, the price of an entertainment set was $800.

This month, the store decided to reduce last month’s price by 15 percent.

If the store decides to increase this month’s price by 25 percent, what will be the price of the entertainment set?

Ten percent of the members of the Golf Club own a yacht.

If 12 percent of the male members and 8 percent of the female members of the Golf Club own a yacht, what percent of the members of the Golf Club are males?

The machine at the factory produced 39 widgets in 6 minutes.

If it continues to work at the same constant rate, how many more minutes will it take the machine to make a total of 91 widgets?

Debbie was born on Friday, January 29, 1999.

If Agnes was born on January 29, 2000, on what day of the week was Agnes born? (Note: The year 2000 is a leap year.)

Piglet gave Pooh three-fifths of his money.

If Piglet had $200 left, how much money did he give to Pooh?

Last month, a store owner decided to decrease the price of a toaster by 30 percent.

This month, the store owner decided further to decrease last month’s price by another 40 percent.

A single decrease of what percentage is equivalent to these two successive price decreases?

A bee flew from the beehive to the flower garden at 60 metres per minute and then returned to the beehive, along the same route, at 40 metres per minute.

If the distance between the beehive and the flower garden is 120 metres, what was the average speed of the bee for the entire round trip?