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Which Operation?

Decide which mathematical operation is required then use it to find the answers.

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This is level 2: problems involving numbers generally up to 100. You may not need all of the information given in the question. You can earn a trophy if you get at least 7 questions correct and you do this activity online.

1) Alexa saw three items in an electronics shop on sale. They cost £28, £41, and £58. She decided to buy the two cheaper items. How much did those two items cost in total?
2) It takes Alexandra six minutes to paint one fence post. How many fence posts could Alexandra paint in two hours if she painted continuously without any breaks?
3) Alexis planted 90 trees into 3 plots in 5 hours. She made sure that there were the same number of trees in each plot. What was her tree planting rate in trees per hour?
4) Allison had 89 social media followers, 98 school friends and 28 extended family members. None of the school friends are also her social media followers. She decides to record contact details of followers and friends in a spreadsheet with each person taking up one row of the spreadsheet. How many rows will be needed?
5) Four fifths of the students at a large school came to school by bus. The rest (480 students) walked to school. What was the total number of students at the school?
6) Amanda was playing darts where each player starts with 501 points then subtracts the number of points earned on the dart board. The first to zero is the winner. With her first three darts Amanda scored 6, 16 and 14 points. How many more points must she score to reduce the 501 to zero?
7) Amelia's book contains 86 pages. Each night before she goes to sleep she reads 10 pages. Currently she is on page 67. How many pages are left?
8) Andrea was wondering whether the product of two odd numbers was odd or even. As she looked out of the bus window he noticed the following numbers on houses and a car registration number plate: 24, 25 and 51. She ignored the even number. What was the product of the odd numbers?
9) A Tran Tours bus holds 20 people. How many busses will be required to transport 54 11-year olds and 87 12-year olds on a day trip to the Lake District?
10) Find the average (mean) of the numbers below that are odd. 459545423575

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Level 1 - Problems involving numbers generally up to 12

Level 2 - Problems involving numbers generally up to 100

Multi-step Problems - Solve multi-step problems in contexts, deciding which operations and methods to use and why.

More Arithmetic including lesson Starters, visual aids, investigations and self-marking exercises.

Answers to this exercise are available lower down this page when you are logged in to your Transum account. If you don’t yet have a Transum subscription one can be very quickly set up if you are a teacher, tutor or parent.

Curriculum Reference

See the National Curriculum page for links to related online activities and resources.

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Vocabulary for Arithmetic

The total when numbers are added is called the sum
minuend − subtrahend = difference
multiplicand × multiplier = product
dividend ÷ divisor = quotient

You may also want to use a calculator to check your working. See Calculator Workout skill ##.

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