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PROBLEM: Mortadelo has 3 hairs left. Oh, what a disgrace! He goes to Mr.Bean, the hairdresser, who cuts 2 off. How many hairs does he have left?

WORKING-OUT: 3-2=1

SOLUTION: Mortadelo has 1 hair left.

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1. In a football match, 10 goals were scored in total.

Alicia scored 5, Samuel scored 1, Jorge scored 2 and Henar scored the rest. How many did Henar score?

Sofia goes to joke shop. She buys a stink bomb for €1.00, a box of itching powder for 85cents and a bag of pepper sweets for €1.10. How much money did she spend altogether?
Ana had 43 stickers. She liked most of them. She decided to give some away to her friends. She gave Lucia 11, Mateo 5 and David 6. How many did she give away?
A can of coke is 250ml- How many cans of coke do you need to get 1litre of coke?
At Burger King a hamburger and chips costs €3.45. I have €5. A coca cola costs €1.20. Do I have enough money to buy the hamburger, chips and coca cola?

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Mrs. Murphy has triple boyfriends than Mrs. Rivas.

Mrs Rivas has double boyfriends than Mrs. Baños.

Mrs. Baños has half the boyfriends that Ms. Schmidt has.

Ms. Schmidt has 100 boyfriends!

How many boyfriends do each teacher have?

7. (with calculator)

240 octopuses have lost 1200 tentacles in total.

How many tentacles have they each lost?

How many tentacles do they still have alltogether?

My kitchen tap can release 6 litres of water in a minute.

How many minutes do I need to wait to get the 27 litres I need for my tea?

10.

In the first match, Messi scored 5 times more goals than Ronaldo!!!! Ronaldo scored 10 goals.

In the second match, Ronaldo only scored double goals than Messi. Messi scored 25 goals.

Who is (mathematically) the best?

11. A tin of sweets has 100 packets of coca cola chews.

Each packet has 24 chews in it.

How many coca cola chews are there altogether?

12. Ten children went karting. Each child raced each other around the circuit. The average time of each circuit lap was 1minute and 52 seconds.

Each child went around the circuit 3 times.

What was the total average time of each child?

13. Mr Vazquez likes pizza and prawns.

He ate 3 prawn pizzas everyday for 4 days. Each pizza had 14 prawns.

a. how many pizzas did he eat?

b. how many prawns did he eat?

14. John makes a new path to the playground area at school. He used 100 tiles for the length of the path.

The path is 95 metres long.

How long is each tile?

15. Daniela P thinks of a number. She divides it by 100 and then by 10. Her final number is 42.8. What was the number she was thinking of in the beginning?

16. A blue box has 100 elephants in it. A red box has 54 blue boxes in it. A yellow box has 2 red boxes in it.

-In my car I have2 yellow boxes. How many elephants? (Draw it)

17. Each giraffe measures 2.57metres. I put 100 giraffe one on top of the other. How much will my tower of giraffes measure?

I hope it´s 350m. That is all I need. What is the difference?

18. Odd + Odd + Odd x Even -Odd can be 40, 41, or none?

19. 88 octopuses in 88 buses are how many legs, if 88 have lost 8 legs each?

20. What is the smallest multiple that 13 and 17 have in common?

And 130 and 170?

And 1300 and 1700

And 1300000 and 1700000

21. My age is double of yours. Your age is double of Mrs Murphy´s. Mrs. Murphy´s age is double of 30.

How old am I?

22. 22 twins marry the same day. They each invite 22 guests. How many forks and spoons do we need?

23. ¿ Media mosca y mosca y media cuantas medias moscas son?

24. Every day I do 15 minutes of joga. I have been doing this for a fortnight. How many minutes have I done in total? (Oh, I forgot to mention that I missed my last sunday session.)

25. N + M + 11 = 144.

What is N?

What is M?

26. There were thirty year 6 children who had 30 hockey sticks. Each had a hockey ball and a football.

Twenty year 6 children could shoot a hockey ball 200m. The other 10 children could shoot the hockey ball 350m. Only six year 6 children could shoot the football 100m, the rest of the children shot the football 5m.

How many metres altogether did the hockey balls move?

How many metres altogether did the footballs move?

27. To make a pumpkin pie, I need 4kgs of pumpkin.

Each pumpkin weighs 500g. How many pumpkins do I need to use to make one pumpkin pie?

If I make 3 pumpkin pies, and each pie needs 1/2 litre of cream to go on top, how many ml of cream is that?

28. Every hallooween in Alpedrete, children scream a lot from fun and from fright!!!

There are 55,000g of sweeties given to the children. If there are 5000 children in Alpedrete, how many g of sweeties does each child get?

How much in kg?

29. There are 34 witches, 70 ghosts, 22 zombies. How many pairs of trousers do they need if only half of the 34 witches wear trousers and all the ghosts use sheets and no trousers?

(A pair of trousers is what one person wears).

30. On 5th November people in England light bonfires, set off fireworks, eat hamburgers and have a lot of sweets too. They celebrate Guy Fawkes night.

The children make a "Guy" out of old clothes. They fill the old clothes with straw.

If one "Guy"needs 3.5kg of straw to fill him, how many will 21 "Guys"need?

Answer in Kgs and in grams.

31. Who is the best student?

Ronaldo got 7/10

Messi got 14/20

Einstein got 21/ 30

Mrs. Murphy got 29/40

Mr. Vazquez got 34/50

32. If I doubled the amount of marbles I have in my pocket and I subtracted 1, I would have 6. How many marbles do I have in my pocket?

33. Every year I pay my taxes. I pay the 20% of 1/2 of my money, and I pay 10% of my other 1/2.

Last year I made 20,000$. How much did I pay in taxes?

34. Mr. Calculator, how many seconds in a minute?

How many seconds in an hour?

How many seconds in a day?

How many seconds in week?

35. 20 gatos con 20 patas con cuantas patas andan a gatas?

1 36. There are 13,000 micro-organisms on a dirty table.

Mr V decides to clean the table.

After he has used some ordinary soap to clean the table there are 7,350 micro-organisms left. How many micro-organisms did he manage to get rid of by cleaning?

Then Claudia and Olivia decide that the table is not clean enough. They borrow Mario´s anti-bacteria cleaning spray. After they have cleaned the table, there are 450 micro-organisms left. How many micro-organisms did they manage to get rid of by cleaning the table with Mario´s special anti-bacterial spray?

37. Sofia was thinking of a 4 digit multiple of 10. He doubled it, then doubled it again. The answer is a 5 digit number. What could the number be?

Samuel was thinking of a 3 digit multiple of 10. He halved it and then halved it again. The answer is a 2 digit number. What could the number be?

38. There are 25 dogs. Each dog eats 275g of food a day. How much food is eaten by all the dogs after one week?

39. fter the children have spent an hour in the library, Mrs Murphy wants to know how many pages each of the children has read in their reading books.

11 children have read 20 pages, 4 children have read 9 pages, 6 children have read 12 pages and one child has read 22 pages.

There are 120 words per pages, how many words were read in total by the whole class?

40. During the winter months there is less light during the day. In the middle of November in Madrid the sun rises at 08.05h and sets at 17.55h. How many hours of sunlight each day are there in Madrid during November?

During the summer months (June and July) in Madrid the sun can rise at 06.00h and set at 22.15h. How many hours of sunlight can Madrid have in the summer?

What is the difference in sunlight hours between the two seasons? (summer and autumn in Madrid).

41. I need 200 wheels ! In my garage I have 10 monocycle, 20 bicycles, and 30 tricycles. Do I have to buy more? How many ?

42. I had some money in my pocket this morning. I went out and a zombie gave me 10€. I spent half on sweeties. Then my granny saw me and gave me another 10€ ( but I had to give half to my sister). My sister gave me the 10€ she owed me. I bought another 5€ in sweeties. Now I have 15€

How much money did I have this morning?

43. Edu has 12 diamonds, they all look the same but one is fake. The fake diamond will weigh a little bit less than the real ones. He says that he can find out which is the fake one using a scale (click me) and only 3 measurements.

Use 3 diagrams to represent the three measurements Edu will do.

44. Mr Vazquez cannot solve this problem. He has been trying for more than 3 seconds! Please help the poor guy: Read ME

45. Three days before Saturday 7th I said I would invite you all to Mrs Murphy´s house for pizza party in 2 weeks and 2 days. Then Mrs Murphy posponed it 3 more days. When is the Party?

46. You want to buy a mobile phone that costs 97€. You ask your mum for 50€ and your dad for another 50€. You buy it. You get 3€ change.

You go back home. You give mum 1€ and dad 1€. So now you owe mum and dad 49€ each. The other 1€ you keep.

So you don´t forget you write it down in your diary.

BUT WAIT: 49€ + 49€ + 1€ = 99€ !!!!!!!!!

Where is the missing euro?

47. The double of the coins I have in my pocket plus the triple of the coins I have in my shoe add 14 coins.

How many coins do I have in my pocket and in my shoe?

48. I am cooking for 2 people. I need 3 eggs, 5 bananas, 1 olive, and 6 cactus. I receive a phone call. Each of my 2 guests are bringing 2 friends. Oh!

How many eggs, bananas, olives and cactus do I need?

49. 2...3...5...9...17...

a- Which are the next two numbers?

b- What is the formula?

50. Could you create a maths word problem that has more than one answer?

51 It costs 12.72euros return to Toledo on the train. A family of five go. There are two adults and 3 children. Children pay half price. How much do the tickets cost altogether?

52 It was 8.11am when Mr V left home, it takes him 26 minutes to drive to school. But he was delayed by 3 minutes. At what time did he get to school?

53 If Mr V leaves home at 8.05am at what time would he normally get to school?

54 Mr V wants to get a treat for the children. He buys coke, each child will have 0.4l of coke, how much coke will he buy for 20 children? How much coke will he buy for 21 children?

55 If the coke is sold in bottles of 1.5l, how many bottles of coke should be buy in order for each child to have 0.4l each, if there are 20 children? Will there be any coke left over, if so how much?

56. Edu says that half of 2 plus 2 is 3. Ü mad?

Edu insists he is 100% sure this is 100% correct? What do you think?

57. I need to move my robot from (3,4) to (-4, 2). What is the exact instruction I must give it?

58. BBBB is double BB

BB is double B

B is 1/4 of BBBB

What could B, BB ,BBBB be? The answer is a number, well, three.

(Only one thing: 1 cannot be B)

59. When you multiply a Prime Number x a Prime Number the answer is always a Prime Number. Prove this correct.

60. Our FantasticoPaco is back. After driving us crazy with amazing problem 46, he sends us this!!! Let´s show him how smart we are?

61. Cuánto suman las cifras del número 1000000000 – 123 456 789? A) 64 B) 45 C) 46 D) 37 E) 39 62. Alfredo, Francisco, Luis y Víctor quedan todas las tardes para su partida de dominó. Hoy Alfredo ha llegado siete minutos después que Francisco. Luis ha llegado tres minutos después que Francisco y seis minutos antes que Víctor. ¿Cuántos minutos tuvo que esperar el que llegó primero hasta que llegara el último? A) 6 B) 9 C) 12 D) 14 E) 16 63 El panadero Don Miga es muy hábil cortando barras de pan. Es capaz de cortar una barra en tres trozos en tan solo 12 milésimas de segundo. Siguiendo este ritmo veloz, ¿cuántas milésimas de segundo tardará Don Miga en cortar otra barra de pan en seis trozos? A) 30 B) 28 C) 26 D) 24 E) 20 64. Julián ha ahorrado dos euros y su hermanita Lucía, uno. Deciden comprarse chuches y entre los dos gastan 1,40 €. Si a Julián le queda el triple de dinero que a Lucía, ¿cuántos céntimos gastó Julián? A) 80 B) 60 C) 35 D) 105 E) 30 65.

Con cuatro cuartos de círculos y un rectángulo cuya base mide el doble que su altura he formado estas dos figuras. Si la altura del rectángulo mide 5 cm, ¿cuál es, en cm, la diferencia de sus perímetros? A) 2,5 B) 5 C) 10 D) 20 E) 30 66. Mariquilla ha recortado una X, una I y una V para hacer el cartel del XIV Concurso de Primavera. Se pone a jugar con ellas y piensa: “Con estas letras puedo escribir el 10, el 11,…” ¿Cuántos números romanos distintos se pueden formar con esas tres letras? A) Siete B) Nueve C) Diez D) Doce E) Quince

67.

There are five entry gates at an open air concert.
This bar chart shows how many people went through each gate.
How many more people went through gate C than gate D?

How many gates had fewer than 150 people go through?

68.

It is a three-digit number.

All the digits are odd.

The digits add up to 7
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69.

This table shows the opening times of a pet clinic.