1. Real Life Problems – Calculator – Treasure Trail
Individual students (or pairs) can start the trail at any question poster.
Once they have calculated the answer they should then find the poster that has that answer at the top. Students go from one question to the next until they have completed the full circular trail.
Students should record the letters of the
questions they have completed.
(Clear plastic wallets around your classroom
make it quick and easy to display posters.)

2. Printing To print full page posters - Click:
File > Print. Enter ‘4-20’ in ‘Slides:’
To print half-size posters -
File > Print. Select ‘Full Page Slides’, then ‘2 Slides’.

3. Treasure TRAIL
Real Life Problems

4. £97.07 I A baker wants to make 3 dozen cakes.
Each cake needs 126 grams of flour.
How many 1 Kg bags of flour
does the baker need?

5. £350 B Dominic has 2.5 Kg of flour to make pizzas.
Each pizza takes 328 g of flour.
How many grams of flour does Dominic have
after he has made as many pizzas as possible?

6. 6 C 164 adults pay to go to the theatre.
72 children pay to go to the theatre.
An adult’s ticket costs £5.50.
A children’s ticket costs £2.50.
How much revenue does the theatre earn?

7. £45 P A restaurant needs 6.470 Kg of vegetables to make soup.
They buy 45 carrots that weigh 112 g each.
The also buy onions that weigh 65 g each.
How many onions do they need to buy?

8. £27 J A car uses 0.24 litres of petrol for every mile it travels.
Jim travels 126 miles in the car.
1 litre of petrol costs £3.21.
How much did Jim pay in fuel to travel the 126 miles?

9. 22 L On Thursday a theme park sells 627 tickets.
Each ticket costs £54.99.
The park has costs of £18,273 on Thursday.
How much profit does the theme park
make on Thursday?

10. £185 A Suzie gets £12.50 in pocket money every week.
She saves up to buy a bicycle that costs £315.
How many weeks will she need to save for
to afford the bicycle?

11. £78 M Julie is organising a trip to a theme park for 426 people.
A bus can seat 74 people.
To hire one bus for the trip, it costs £106.
How much does Julie have to spend on
transport to the theme park?

12. £1082 E David makes hats. He gets paid £1.25 for each hat he makes.
David can make 7 hats an hour.
He works 8 hours a day.
How much money can David earn in a work week?

13. £636 G Gina pays £47.25 to buy materials to make 35 toys.
She sells each toy for £2.56.
How much profit does she make
from selling 20 toys?
(Careful! How much profit on one toy?)

14. 204 N A computer costs £464. The deposit is £152.
The rest is paid in 4 monthly instalments.
How much is each instalment?

15. £1313.32 F Jessie buys 3.371 Kg of fruit.
She buys 5 mangoes that weigh 325 g each.
She buys 4 apples that weigh 249 g each.
She also buys oranges that weigh 125 g each.
How many oranges does she buy?

16. £24.20 D Mike gets paid £142 for a 7 hour day.
Sally gets paid £15 per hour and
works 35 hours a week.
How much more money does
Mike get paid in a 5-day week?

17. 26 K A new fridge costs £999 up-front.
Or, you can buy it over 12 monthly instalments
of £87.
How much do you save if you buy the
fridge up-front?

18. How much will Anna pay in total for the TV?5 O
Anna wants to buy a TV.
It costs £523 plus
6 monthly payments of £
How much will Anna pay in total for the TV?

19. £16,205.73 H Polly buy ice creams for her class of 32 students.
Ice creams are sold in packs of 6 for £4.50,
and individually for £2.25.
How much does Polly need to spend
to buy each student an ice cream?

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