12 marks
Potatoes cost £1.20 per kilogram.
Work out the cost of 3.5 kg of potatoes.
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£4.20
Simple money calculations
Totals, change and simple shopping problems.
18 original questions, 49 marks. Print the worksheet, mark it with the answers sheet, and use the solutions to see every step written out by hand.
The questions
22 marks
Marcus buys a sandwich for £3.45 and a drink for £1.20. He pays with a £10 note.
How much change does he get?
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£5.35
32 marks
Four friends win a prize of £59.40
They share the prize equally.
Work out how much each friend receives.
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£14.85
43 marks
Lily buys 3 notebooks and a pen.
Each notebook costs £1.35.
The pen costs 85p.
Lily pays with a £10 note.
Work out how much change Lily should get.
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£5.10
53 marks
Amina buys 3 pens at 45p each and 2 notebooks at £1.80 each.
Work out the total cost.
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£4.95
62 marks
Six friends share a restaurant bill of £84 equally.
How much does each friend pay?
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£14
72 marks
A bus ticket costs £2.30. Work out the cost of 4 tickets.
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£9.20
83 marks
A T-shirt normally costs £12. In a sale, all T-shirts are half price.
Luca buys 3 T-shirts in the sale. How much does he pay?
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£18
92 marks
Priya works for 9 hours.
She is paid a total of £102.60
Priya is paid the same amount for each hour she works.
Work out how much Priya is paid per hour.
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£11.40
103 marks
A sofa costs £624.
Dan pays a deposit of £150.
He pays the rest of the cost in 6 equal monthly payments.
Work out the amount of each monthly payment.
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£79
113 marks
Jo has £20. She wants to buy 4 packs of paint at £4.75 each.
Does she have enough money? You must show your working.
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Yes, 4 packs cost £19 so she has enough
123 marks
Amy works in a shop.
Last week she worked 28 hours at her normal rate of £9.50 per hour.
She also worked 6 hours at a higher rate of £14.25 per hour.
Work out the total amount Amy earned last week.
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£351.50
133 marks
A till contains only £10 notes and £20 notes.
There are 14 £10 notes in the till.
The total value of the notes is £480.
Work out how many £20 notes are in the till.
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17
143 marks
Theatre tickets cost £24.75 for an adult and £16.50 for a child.
The Khan family buy tickets for 2 adults and 3 children.
Show that the total cost of the tickets is more than £95.
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2 × £24.75 + 3 × £16.50 = £49.50 + £49.50 = £99.00, and £99.00 > £95
152 marks
Amir has £20
He buys a book costing £7.65 and a magazine costing £4.80
Work out how much money Amir has left.
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£7.55
163 marks
Pens cost £2.35 each.
Priya has £30 to spend on pens.
Work out the greatest number of pens Priya can buy.
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12
174 marks
Ben buys 4 identical mugs and a jug.
The jug costs £6.50.
Ben pays with a £20 note and gets £3.10 change.
Work out the cost of one mug.
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£2.60
184 marks
Jade is paid £11.20 per hour for hours worked on weekdays.
For hours worked at the weekend she is paid 1.5 times her weekday rate.
Last week Jade worked 30 hours on weekdays and 4 hours at the weekend.
Work out Jade's total pay for last week.
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£403.20
Every question here is original and written by Robinson Tuition. The grade follows the Edexcel grade descriptors and suits AQA and OCR too; this is not an exam-board paper.
All Grade 1 topics
- Place value of whole numbers
- Ordering whole numbers and negative numbers
- Adding and subtracting whole numbers
- Multiplication tables and short multiplication
- Continuing number sequences
- Naming 2D shapes and 3D solids
- Telling the time and reading timetables
- Reading scales and measuring with a ruler
- Probability words and the probability scale
- Reading tally charts and pictograms
- Reading bar charts
- Simple money calculations