Solve the following word problems!

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1. To bake a cake, Mrs Dolittle bought 3 5 kg of flour and 1 10 kg more sugar than flour. Find the
total mass of both items that Mrs. Dolittle bought!

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2. Each pupil in a class plays one of three sports: football, basketball, or volleyball.
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• of the pupils play football.
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• of the pupils play basketball.
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What fraction of the pupils play volleyball?

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3. Arthur took 2 hours to make a strawberry cake and 1 hours to make a butter cake.
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Catherine took hours more than Arthur to make a similar strawberry cake and butter cake.
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a) How long did Arthur take to make the strawberry cake and butter cake?
b) How long did Catherine take to make a similar strawberry cake and butter cake?

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4. James had 4 m of ribbon. He bought another 2 m of ribbon. He used 4 m of ribbon to tie
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some Christmas presents. How many metres of ribbon did he have left?

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5. Jimmy spends of his salary on transport. He spends twice as much on food as on transport.
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After spending another of his salary on rent, what fraction of his salary has he left?
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6. A jug contained some juice. Jill gave 1 ℓ of juice to her children and then filled up the jug
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with another ℓ of juice. If there were 2 ℓ of juice left in the jug, how much juice was
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there in the jug at first?

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