MATHS QUIZ NO.36
Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 1:40 pmQ1. Within the SAFOOTY school, the science department has three disciplines. In total, 280 students study chemistry, 254 students study physics and 280 students study biology. 97 students study both chemistry and physics, 138 students study both physics and biology, 152 students study both chemistry and biology. 73 students study all three disciplines. Can you determine how many students there are in the science department?
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Q2. Yesterday I went for a long bicycle ride around the local lakes. As the ride was quite long, I rode in various stages. In the first stage I rode half of the overall distance. Stage two saw half of the remaining distance plus 35 metres covered. Stage three covered three-quarters of the remaining distance. Stage four completed half of the remaining distance plus 75 metres. Stage five completed the journey with a final burst of 150 metres. How far did I cycle in total?
7340M
Q3.Can you complete the following grid. Each row and each column adds up to 290.
61 78 63 25 63
80 ?? ?? ?? 26
60 ?? ?? ?? 56
36 ?? ?? ?? 90
53 31 53 98 55
61 78 63 25 63
80 10 75 99 26
60 78 47 49 56
36 93 52 19 90
53 31 53 98 55
Q4. Santa is getting ready for Christmas - sorting presents, filling sacks and working out his route to make sure he can deliver all his wonderful presents to the children of the world in time for when they wake up Christmas morning. The trouble is, every year just before Christmas, all the reindeers have nothing to do and mostly stand around getting rather bored. They are always asking if they can help but there's nothing they can do until Santa's ready to go.
This year, Santa is prepared for them and he's set them a little challenge to help keep them busy. He's given them the following problem:
Five children from five different families living in five different counties of England have asked for a different gift each. From the clues, the reindeers have to work out who's who, where each child lives and what present each has asked for. The first reindeer to solve the problem gets an extra portion of Christmas pudding on Christmas Day!
1. Neither Cliffy, nor Jennifer Feather (who does not live in Yorkshire), lives in Kent.
2. Young Crawford, who is neither Sarah nor Cliffy, asked for the pony (a gift that Santa would have particular difficulty getting down the Crawford family's chimney!).
3. Young Rowlands is neither the child who lives in Yorkshire nor the child who has asked for a bicycle.
4. The gift due for delivery to Cornwall, which is not for the child surnamed Rowlands, is a computer.
5. Liz, who has asked for the painting set, is not from Kent. Her surname is not Jamison.
6. The child who lives in Essex has asked for a guitar. Alan lives in Cumbria.
Children’s first names: Alan, Cliffy, Jennifer, Liz, Sarah
Children’s last names: Crawford, Feather, Jamison, Northey, Rowlands
Counties: Cornwall, Cumbria, Essex, Kent, Yorkshire
Presents: Bicycle, Computer, Guitar, Painting Set, Pony
ALAN CRANFORD -CUMBRIA - PONY
CLIFFY ROWLANDS - ESSEX - GUITAR
JENNIFER FEATHER - CORNWALL - COMPUTER
LIZ NORTHEY - YORKSHIRE - PAINTING SET
SARAH JAMISON - KENT - BICYCLE
Q5. For Christmas, six brothers and sisters received some CD albums as presents. The albums were by Madonna, Steps, Robbie Williams, Boyzone, Mozart and Shania Twain. Using these clues, can you determine who received which CD?
Kevin chose a CD by a solo girl singer. Laura hates pop music but got an album she wanted. James chose a solo singer. Rebecca chose a girl singer, but not Madonna. Joanne and Steve both chose CDs by groups. Steve chose Steps.
Madonna - Kevin
Steps - Steve
Robbie Williams - James
Boyzone - Joanne
Mozart - Laura
Shania Twain - Rebecca
500
Q2. Yesterday I went for a long bicycle ride around the local lakes. As the ride was quite long, I rode in various stages. In the first stage I rode half of the overall distance. Stage two saw half of the remaining distance plus 35 metres covered. Stage three covered three-quarters of the remaining distance. Stage four completed half of the remaining distance plus 75 metres. Stage five completed the journey with a final burst of 150 metres. How far did I cycle in total?
7340M
Q3.Can you complete the following grid. Each row and each column adds up to 290.
61 78 63 25 63
80 ?? ?? ?? 26
60 ?? ?? ?? 56
36 ?? ?? ?? 90
53 31 53 98 55
61 78 63 25 63
80 10 75 99 26
60 78 47 49 56
36 93 52 19 90
53 31 53 98 55
Q4. Santa is getting ready for Christmas - sorting presents, filling sacks and working out his route to make sure he can deliver all his wonderful presents to the children of the world in time for when they wake up Christmas morning. The trouble is, every year just before Christmas, all the reindeers have nothing to do and mostly stand around getting rather bored. They are always asking if they can help but there's nothing they can do until Santa's ready to go.
This year, Santa is prepared for them and he's set them a little challenge to help keep them busy. He's given them the following problem:
Five children from five different families living in five different counties of England have asked for a different gift each. From the clues, the reindeers have to work out who's who, where each child lives and what present each has asked for. The first reindeer to solve the problem gets an extra portion of Christmas pudding on Christmas Day!
1. Neither Cliffy, nor Jennifer Feather (who does not live in Yorkshire), lives in Kent.
2. Young Crawford, who is neither Sarah nor Cliffy, asked for the pony (a gift that Santa would have particular difficulty getting down the Crawford family's chimney!).
3. Young Rowlands is neither the child who lives in Yorkshire nor the child who has asked for a bicycle.
4. The gift due for delivery to Cornwall, which is not for the child surnamed Rowlands, is a computer.
5. Liz, who has asked for the painting set, is not from Kent. Her surname is not Jamison.
6. The child who lives in Essex has asked for a guitar. Alan lives in Cumbria.
Children’s first names: Alan, Cliffy, Jennifer, Liz, Sarah
Children’s last names: Crawford, Feather, Jamison, Northey, Rowlands
Counties: Cornwall, Cumbria, Essex, Kent, Yorkshire
Presents: Bicycle, Computer, Guitar, Painting Set, Pony
ALAN CRANFORD -CUMBRIA - PONY
CLIFFY ROWLANDS - ESSEX - GUITAR
JENNIFER FEATHER - CORNWALL - COMPUTER
LIZ NORTHEY - YORKSHIRE - PAINTING SET
SARAH JAMISON - KENT - BICYCLE
Q5. For Christmas, six brothers and sisters received some CD albums as presents. The albums were by Madonna, Steps, Robbie Williams, Boyzone, Mozart and Shania Twain. Using these clues, can you determine who received which CD?
Kevin chose a CD by a solo girl singer. Laura hates pop music but got an album she wanted. James chose a solo singer. Rebecca chose a girl singer, but not Madonna. Joanne and Steve both chose CDs by groups. Steve chose Steps.
Madonna - Kevin
Steps - Steve
Robbie Williams - James
Boyzone - Joanne
Mozart - Laura
Shania Twain - Rebecca
