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Grades 6, 7 and 8 - Math - Middle School - Solving Problems
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1. John wants to build a fence around his garden. The length of the perimeter of his garden is 30 m. If fencing is sold in lengths of 3 m, how many pieces of fencing will John require?
2. A paperback book has 1,000 pages. If the book weighs 785 g, what is the weight of a single page? (You may ignore the front and back covers of the book.)
3. The brown box weighs eight times more than the black box. If the black box weighs 8 kg, what does the brown box weigh?
4. If each box holds 12 items, how many boxes are required to hold 96,000 items?
5. Henry's house is four times bigger than Charlie's house. If Henry's house is 1,000 m2, what is the size of Charlie's house?
6. Mike lives five times further way from London than Tom. If Mike lives 75 miles away from London, how far away does Tom live?
7. A bag of candies weighs 250 g. If each bag contains 20 candies, what is the weight of each candy?
8. Small toy cars are packed in toy boxes whose volume is 120 cm3. There are 6,000 toy boxes. If the toy boxes are to be packed into larger packing boxes, each of whose volume is 1,200 cm3, how many packing boxes will be required to pack all the toy boxes?
9. A crane can lift a maximum load of 15,000 kg. How many boxes each weighing 250 kg can be loaded into a container for the crane to lift?
10. A bag of potatoes weighs 5kg. How much will 12 bags of potatoes weigh?
11. A bag of apples weighs 4,800 g. If there are 12 apples in the bag, what is the weight of each apple?
12. In how many ways can the letters ABC be arranged if you can only arrange two letters at a time, e.g. AB?
13. Bill can run three times faster than Keith. If it takes Bill 45 minutes to run a certain distance, how long will it take Keith to run the same distance?
14. Rick is driving his sports car at 70 mph (miles per hour), and he is traveling from London to Lincoln on the M1: a distance of about 140 miles. If he maintains this speed, how long will it take him to get to Lincoln?
15. A number of 100 m long pieces of material are hung up separately to dry in a large open area. If it takes 4 hours for a single piece of material to dry, how long will it take for 250 pieces to dry?
16. A bottle contains 1,500 ml of orange juice. If a glass can hold 100 ml of juice, how many glasses of orange juice does the bottle contain?
17. The temperature of a substance in a chemistry experiment is -6°C. If the temperature is increasing at the rate of 2°C per minute, what will the temperature of the substance be in 8 minutes?
18. If it takes 1 man 2 days to paint a fence, how long will it take 4 men, working at the same speed, to paint the same fence?
19. Some workers are filling up sacks with quality garden soil. If each sack can hold 25 kg, how many sacks can be filled from 1,250 kg of quality soil?
20. It takes Anna 1 hour to walk 4 miles. How long will it take her to walk 12 miles?
21. The letters ABC can be arranged in different ways, e.g. BAC. In how many different ways can the letters ABC be arranged?
22. If 12 people are served every two minutes in a fast food shop, how many people will have been served in 1 hour?
23. A water tank can hold 10,000 m3 of water. If 100 m3 water is supplied to a camping site every day, how long will it take for the tank to empty?
24. If the area of a square field is 144 m2, what is the length and width of the field?
25. At the end of a rugby match, 125 people left the grounds every 3 minutes. If there were 2,500 spectators at the match, how long did it take for the grounds to empty?

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