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1) Round: -
2) Find: -
(a) (b)
(c) (d)
5) By rounding appropriately estimate the following (do not find the actual
answer and do not use a calculator): -
(a) 2.179
(b) 0.8321
(c) 16.0856
(d) 0.0397
(e) 10.006
S3 GENERAL HOMEWORK 2
(a) 3.83 (b) 9.76 (c) 0.67 (d) 1.032 (e) 0.093
(a) 3.248 (b) 19.173 (c) 0.828 (d) 0.0641 (e) 10.0384
3) Do the following, rounding your final answer to 1 decimal place (do not use a
calculator): -
(a) 6.27 + 1.42 (b) 38.26 – 17.98 (c) 14.31 x 9 (d) 6.5 ÷ 4
8m
6) Find: -
7)
8.4m
9.2m
S3 GENERAL HOMEWORK 3
Calculate: -
4) John has two pieces of electric cable. One is 4⅝ metres long and the other is
7½ metres.
(a) What length ob cable does John have altogether?
(b) John cut 6⅞ metres from the longer piece, how much is left of that
piece?
5) The pass mark in an exam is 55%. Does a boy who gained 27 marks out of
36 pass or fail?
7) The smallest coin issued was the Jawa, used in Nepal. The weight of the
Jawa was 0.014g. Write this number in standard form.
8) Aberdeen to London
Aberdeen d 18 55
Dundee d 20 45 Miss Smith wants to travel by train
Edinburgh d 22 50 from Edinburgh to London.
Berwick d 23 51
Newcastle d 01 05 How long should her journey take?
York d 02 45
Doncaster d 03 30
London a 06 42
d: depart a: arrive
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S3 GENERAL HOMEWORK 5
1) The temperature in a large freezer was -22ºC. The freezer broke down and
the temperature rose by 3ºC every hour.
2) Morven is a painter and decorator. She works a basic 37-hour week and is
paid £4.16 per hour. Overtime is paid at time and a half. In one week she
works 45 hours. Find her: -
5) Mrs Kelly is a pensioner. She used to receive fuel bills with no VAT, but this
changed and her bills now have VAT added (at 17.5%).
Calculate: -
Mrs Kelly May 2001
(a) Her total fuel bill (for gas and electricity)
(b) The extra she must now pay (as VAT)
Gas £48.36
Electricity £61.24
6) Claire has £188 in the Capital Building Society. Mhairi has £192 in the
Premier Bank.
1) Nadia is playing and adventure game. Her scores for each round are as
follows: -
(a) Gross pay (use his net pay and total deductions)
(b) Pension contribution
(c) Bonus
3) Grace borrows £2400 at 7½% per annum to buy a car. Calculate the simple
interest she will pay if she borrows the money over: -
5) If 2½ hours = 2.5 hours when written in decimal form, write the following times
in the same way: -
6)
A train leaves Hollywell Central at
1420 and arrives at Bakerfield
Station at 1620.
If the train travelled at an average
speed of 95km/hr, how far away is
Bakerfield Street from Hollywell?
S3 GENERAL HOMEWORK 7
1)
(a) Solve algebraically the equation 4 x -5 = x + 22
2)
A motor launch leaves the jetty at 9.15am. It
has to tour the islands, a journey of 27
kilometres and be back at the jetty by 10.45am.
What average speed will it need to maintain in
order to do this?
Othertown
3)
The scale on a map is 1: 100000.
If two towns are 2.5cm apart on 2.5cm
the map, how far apart is the real
distance. Give your answer in
kilometres. Scale 1: 100000
Anytown
4)
Calculate the area of this
4m garage wall.
3m
5m
4.8 m
2.8 m
6.5 m
S3 GENERAL HOMEWORK 8
2) The price of buying juice was increased by 1p per litre. This meant that the
new cost of 3 litres was 99p.
Solve 3(j + 1) = 99 to find the cost (j pence) of one litre of juice.
3) David, Malcolm and Kate all collect badges. David has twice as many
badges as Kate. Malcolm has 12 badges less than Kate. Kate has x badges.
(a) Write down in terms of x (i) How many badges David has
(ii) How many badges Malcolm has
(b) If David, Malcolm and Kate have 80 badges altogether, write down an
equation and solve it to find x.
4) A cyclist travels 85.5km at an average speed of 30km/hr. Find the time taken
for the journey in hours and minutes.
5) Calculate (i) the area and (ii) the perimeter of each shape.
10cm
30m
100m
S3 GENERAL HOMEWORK 9
1m
1)
This bathroom carpet consists of a
square with half a circle removed.
Calculate the area of: -
3m
(a) The square before the circle is cut out
(b) The half circle with a diameter of 1m
(c) Carpet left when the semi-circle is
removed.
3m
2)
This box is a cube that is open at the top.
Calculate its total outside surface area.
4 cm
5) The operation means “square the first number and multiply by the second”.
1) Simplify: -
(a) 3¾ - 1½ (b) 4¾ + 2⅞
3) Factorise 81 – 9 n
4) A special birthday cake, in the shape of a garage, is shown. Its height from
ground to its highest point is 12cm. The front part, rectangular in shape,
measures 8cm by 15cm. When oven ready, the cake stretches back for
20cm. Calculate: -
20cm
(d) The volume of the garage cake.
15cm
5) John changed £630 into bath to take with him to Thailand. While in Thailand
he spent 34000 baht. Before he returned home he went to a bank to change
his money back into pounds and found that the exchange rate was then 61
baht to the £, instead of 55.9.
If he went ahead and changed his money at this new rate, how much money
would he (to the nearest £1) would he bring home?
40cm
80cm
S3 GENERAL HOMEWORK 11
1) Calculate: -
2) Brenda and her brother went to EuroDisney for Easter. They kept a note as
to how long they had to queue to get on the rides. Here are their results (in
minutes).
10 17 25 22 16 110 10 20 40 30
3) It takes 16 men 12 days to complete a job. How many men would be needed
to complete the job in 10 days?
Warehouse
20m
PARK 15m
160m
5) Wonka’s Chocolate Company claim that there are 20 mini-wonka bars in their
economy packs. Some economy packs were purchased and the results of
the contents were as follows:
No. Bars Frequency Number x Frequency (a) Copy and complete the
table
18 2
(b) What was the range in
19 9 the number of bars?
20 8 (c) Calculate: -
(i) The mean
21 5 (ii) The median
(iii) The mode
22 5
(d) Which average did the
23 5 company use to back
their claim?
Total = Total =
S3 GENERAL HOMEWORK 12
1) Simplify: -
2) Solve for y: 5y – 8 = 3y + 12
Pupil
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Name
Chemistry
5 10 10 20 15 30 30 40 40 45
Mark
Physics Mark 5 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 35 45
Chemistry Marks