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CONTENT DOMAIN REFERENCES: KS2 SATS

C4, C8 PRACTICE QUESTIONS BY TOPIC

41 There are 5 balloons in a packet.

[2003]
There are 18 packets in a box.

How many balloons are there altogether in a box?

„ 1 mark
4a

There are 5 balloons in a packet.

Kofi needs 65 balloons.

How many packets does he need?

„ 1 mark
4b

[2 marks]

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 22 A pack of paper has 150 sheets.
[2016S] 4 children each take 7 sheets.

How many sheets of paper are left in the packet?

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your
method

[1 mark]
2 marks

53 Plants are sold in trays of 20

[2001]

Ivana buys 7 trays of plants.

How many plants is this?

5a

1 mark

David wants 240 plants.

How many trays does he need to buy?

5b

1 mark

[2 marks]

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[2000]
54 A shop sells postcards in packs of 6 and packs of 8.

[2000] 4 A shop sells postcards in packs of 6 and

packs of 8.
[2000]
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Alan bought 4 packs of 8 cards.

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85 At the start of June, there were 1,793
3 toy cars in the shop.

[2017] During June, 3

• 8,728 more toy cars were delivered

• 9,473 toy cars were sold.

How many toy cars were left in the shop at the end of June?

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your
method

2 marks
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6 Jamie, Kate and Hassan run a 50 m race.
[2007]

Kate’s time is 13 seconds.

Jamie finishes 5 seconds before Kate.

Hassan finishes 3 seconds after Jamie.

What is Hassan’s time in seconds?

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4 Plastic cups are sold in packs of 8
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4 Plastic cups are sold in packs of 8
[2009]
Amir needs 27 cups. seconds 13
[2009]
Amir needs 27 cups.
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7 Lin needs to solve this problem.
[2006]
‘How many children
are in the class?’

Tick ( ) all the information that Lin needs to solve her problem.

There are 9 girls in the class.

5 girls in the class wear glasses.

There are twice as many boys as girls in the class. 7a

1 mark

David needs to solve this problem.

‘How much do two oranges and

one apple cost?’

Tick ( ) all the information that David needs to solve his problem.

An orange costs 5p more than an apple.

An apple costs 20p

David has £1 7b

1 mark

[2 marks]

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[2006]

The diagram shows distances on a train journey from

Exeter to York.

York
Derby

106 km
Bristol
215 km
Exeter

130 km

How many kilometres is it altogether from Exeter to York?

km 8a

1 mark

What is the distance from Derby to York rounded to

the nearest 10 km?

km 8b

1 mark

[2 marks]

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8 On a sheet of stickers there are 5 circles, 2 stars and one rectangle.
[2008]

How many stickers are there altogether on 4 sheets?

8a

1 mark

Nisha needs 55 circles.

How many sheets of stickers does she need?

8b

1 mark

Ben has 10 sheets of stickers.

How many more circles than rectangles does he have?

8c

1 mark

[3 marks]

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[2006]

A rectangular swimming pool is 25 metres long and 10 metres wide.

length
25m

width
10m

David swims 5 lengths.

Rosie swims 12 widths.

How much further does David swim than Rosie?

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your working.
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14 Seb saved up for a new skateboard that cost £40
[2014]

The table shows how much money he saved each week.

Week
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
number
Amount
£5 £4 £2 £4 £3 £4 £6 £4 £3 £5
saved

In which week did Seb reach half the amount he needed for
the skateboard?

Week 11a

1 mark

If Seb had saved an extra £1 each week, in which week would he

have reached his target of £40?

Week 11b

1 mark

[2 marks]

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11 Martin has some bricks.
[2003]
They are 12cm long, 6cm high
and 6cm deep.

He builds this tower with five bricks.

How tall is the tower?

cm
„
1 mark
11a

Each brick is 12cm long.

Martin makes a line of bricks 132cm long.

How many bricks does he use?

„
1 mark
11b

[2 marks]

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5 Seb has a box of 120 cubes.
[2014]
He uses some of the cubes to build a tower.

77 cubes are left over.

How many cubes has he used?

5a

1 mark

Seb has 77 cubes left over.

He builds two more towers.

One tower uses 18 cubes and the other uses 35 cubes.

How many of his 77 cubes has he got left now?

Show
your
working 5bi

5bii

[3 marks]
2 marks

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