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Jane baked 20 cupcakes and Kate baked 12 more than Jane. Kate baked 12 more cupcakes than Jane, so Kate baked 32 cupcakes. This is 12/20 or 3/5 of the number Jane baked. The questions ask students to express fractions in different ways to show their understanding of fractions.

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Jane baked 20 cupcakes and Kate baked 12 more than Jane. Kate baked 12 more cupcakes than Jane, so Kate baked 32 cupcakes. This is 12/20 or 3/5 of the number Jane baked. The questions ask students to express fractions in different ways to show their understanding of fractions.

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Topic: Fractions
Concept: Understanding statements and express answers correctly

Jane baked 20 cupcakes, and Kate baked 12 more cupcakes than Jane.

(a) Express the number of cupcakes Kate baked as a fraction of the number of cupcakes
Jane baked.
(also means: Kate’s cupcakes is what fraction of Jane’s cupcakes?)

(b) What fraction of the number of cupcakes baked by Jane was the number of cupcakes
baked by Kate?
(also means: Kate’s cupcakes is what fraction of Jane’s cupcakes?)

(c) How many times the number of cupcakes baked by Jane was the number of
cupcakes baked by Kate?
(also means: Kate’s cupcakes is how many times of Jane’s cupcakes?)

of John’s stamps collection is equal of Tom’s stamps collection.


(a) What fraction of the number of Tom’s stamps is the number of John’s stamps?

(b) How many times the number of Tom’s stamps is the number of John’s stamps?
Topic: Supposition

1. Mark paid $39 for a total of 30 eggs tarts and cupcakes. If each egg tart cost $1.20
and each cupcake cost $1.50, how many egg tarts did he buy?

5. There were 52 buses at the bus interchange. The jumbo buses had 6 wheels each
while the smaller buses had 4 wheels each. There were 264 wheels altogether. How
many jumbo buses were there?

2. Jack sold 56 tickets for a funfair. Some tickets were priced at $2 and the rest were
priced at $3.50. If the total amount he collected was $145, how many $2-tickets did
he sell

3. Kelly visted a farm where she saw some ducks and cows. There were a total of 65
ducks and cows. She then counted the legs of the aimals and found that there were
196 legs. How many ducks were in the farm?

4. There were a total of 36 boys and girls in a class. Each boy donated $16 while each
girl donated $28 to charity. The total collection from all the pupils were $720. How
many boys were in the class?
TOPIC: EXCESS and SHORTAGE

1. A group of girls wants to buy a present for their teacher. If each person pays $4,
they would be $2 short. If each person pays $5, they would have $4 extra. How
much does the present cost?

2. A box of greeting cards was shared equally among a group of 35 pupils. 7 of them 5. A bag of marbles was shared equally among a group of boys. If each boy received 9
gave all their cards to the rest of the pupils. As a result, the rest of the pupils marbles, there would be a shortage of 25. If each boy received 12 marbles, they
received 2 more cards each. How many cards were there in the box at first? would need another 100 marbles. (a) How many boys were there? (b) How many
marbles were in the bag? (c) What was the total number of marbles needed if each
boy must received 12 marbles?

3. Sally has some sweets to be distributed among her friends. If she gives each friend
15 sweets, she will be short of 18 sweets. If she gives each friend 10 sweets, she will
have 22 sweets left. (a) how many friends does she have? (b) how many sweets does
Sally have?

4. Lucas went to the bookshop to buy some notebooks. If he buys 6 notebooks, he


would be short of $3. If he buys 9 notebooks, he would need another $21. How
much money did Lucas have?

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