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Question 1: Write down the number that each arrow is pointing to

(a) (b)

(c) (d)

(e) (f)

(g) (h)

Question 2: Write down the values shown on each of these scales.


Include units.

(a) (b)

(c) (d)

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Question 3: Write down the values shown on each of these scales.


Include units.

(a) (b)

(c) (d)

Question 4: Write down the volume of water in each container

(a) (b) (c)

Question 5: Write down the temperature shown on each thermometer.

(a)

(b)

(c)

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Question 6: Show the following values on each of the scales below.

(a) 30g (b) 3kg (c) 5°C

(d) 575kg (e) 400ml (f) 225g

(g) 0.8kg (h) 120km/h (i) 280ml

(j) 64mph (k) −7°C (l) 760g

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Question 1: A school is trying to raise £500 for charity.

(a) How much money have they raised?

(b) How much more money do they need to raise?

Question 2: Emir is buying onions.


The scales shows the amount he buys.

(a) What amount of onions does he buy?

Aydin wants to buy 9kg of onions.

(b) Explain how he can do this.

Question 3: Jasmine says that the arrow points to 590g

Explain why she is wrong.

Question 4: The scales show the mass of two identical baseballs.

Work out the mass of Zive baseballs.

Question 5: The temperature at midnight is shown on the thermometer.

By midday, the temperature has risen by 15°C


What is the temperature at midday?
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Question 6: The measuring beaker shown has some water in it.

Paige pours 80ml of water out of the beaker.

She then pours 450ml of water into the beaker.

How much water will now be in the beaker?

Question 7: What temperature is show by the arrow below?

Question 8: Lily has two beakers, A and B, that contain water.

She wants the same amount of water


in each beaker.

How much water must she pour from


beaker B to beaker A?

Question 9: The diagram shows the speed of a car.

(a) What speed is the car travelling?

The speed limit on the road is 50 miles per hour.

(b) Given 5 miles ≈ 8 kilometres, work out how many kilometres per hour
slower than the speed limit is the car travelling?
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Question 10: Five objects, A, B, C, D and E are weighed.


Their masses are shown on the scale below.

Match each letter to the correct masses in the list below.

Question 11: Jackson is making a drink by mixing orange juice and lemonade in the ratio 2:3

The container shows how much drink he has made.

How much lemonade has Jackson used to make the drink?

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