How Many Of Each?

A Maths Starter of The Day

Pens cost 10p each

Pencils cost 7p each

Natalie spent 34p altogether

How many pens and pencils did she buy?

 Dishes cost £1.72 each

Plates cost £1.41 each

Chloe spent £12.52 on dishes and plates. How many of each did she buy?

Assume that they bought at least one of each of the items above.

 

 

 

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2 pens and 2 pencils

4 dishes and 4 plates

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Sandwiches cost £1.30 each

Drinks cost £1.62 each

Brianna spent £56.10 on sandwiches and drinks. How many of each did she buy?

Assume that they bought at least one of each of the items above.

 

 

 

You may wish to use a spreadsheet or write a program on a graphing calculator

  A B C D E F G H I J K
1   Sandwiches                
2 Drinks 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
3 1 £2.92 £4.22 £5.52 £6.82 £8.12 £9.42 £10.72 £12.02 £13.32 £14.62
4 2 £4.54 £5.84 £7.14 £8.44 £9.74 £11.04 £12.34 £13.64 £14.94 £16.24
5 3 £6.16 £7.46 £8.76 £10.06 £11.36 £12.66 £13.96 £15.26 £16.56 £17.86
6 4 £7.78 £9.08 £10.38 £11.68 £12.98 £14.28 £15.58 £16.88 £18.18 £19.48
7 5 £9.40 £10.70 £12.00 £13.30 £14.60 £15.90 £17.20 £18.50 £19.80 £21.10
8 6 £11.02 £12.32 £13.62 £14.92 £16.22 £17.52 £18.82 £20.12 £21.42 £22.72
9 7 £12.64 £13.94 £15.24 £16.54 £17.84 £19.14 £20.44 £21.74 £23.04 £24.34
10 8 £14.26 £15.56 £16.86 £18.16 £19.46 £20.76 £22.06 £23.36 £24.66 £25.96
11 9 £15.88 £17.18 £18.48 £19.78 £21.08 £22.38 £23.68 £24.98 £26.28 £27.58

 

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12 sandwiches and 25 drinks
Teacher, do your students have one to one access to computers?

Whether your students each have a TabletPC or share a desktop PC, this activity lends itself to eLearning (Engaged Learning).

Here's the URL which will take
them to a student version of this activity.

http://www.transum.org/go/?to=Many