MATHEMATICS -Problem Solving

Short Answer Questions

1. Sam collected stamps. He received 25 stamps from his uncle, and 33
from his grandmother. He also managed to buy 12 valuable stamps with his pocket-money.
If he started with 130 stamps, how much did Sam now have?

2. Tina was playing the 5th hole on the Tamaki Golf Course. Her first hit went
110m. Her next shot went 75m. Her next shot, a chip shot, only went 35m. Her putt shot travelled 10m before dropping into the hole. How far had the ball travelled?

3. Name this 3-digit number. My ones digit is an odd number which is three times as much as my tens digit. My tens digit is the same as my hundreds digit.
The sum of all my digits is 15.
Which number am I?

4. Steve has seven $100 notes. He also has one $10 note and nine $1 notes. How much money does he have in total?

5. A group was working with place value blocks. They created a numeral with their blocks and wrote down some clues.
CLUES:
a) There are twice as many small cubes as squares.
b) There are the same number of rods as squares.
c) The number of small cubes is a factor of 12 but not of 15 or 16.
d) The total number of blocks used is 12.
Can you figure out what their number was?

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