The parking attendant at the supermarket sat down for lunch – he was feeling peckish so bought a piece of parkin to munch. The parking attendant liked parkin a lot – and ate it whenever he could find a parkin slot in between the parking spots. Mmm, today’s parkin made in the bakery tasted lovely (so he took another piece home for his tea). But some of the goods he brought and put in his trolley, fell out (including a can of beans and a new toy dolly). As he crunched a little bit more, parkin crumbs fell onto the floor. A sparrow was flying from Jack’s beanstalk overhead and decided to stop for a while, almost landing on the parking attendant’s head ! As he landed with a crash, another piece of the parking attendant’s parkin fell onto the floor with a BASH ! When he went to pick it up, he knocked over all the hot tea in his cup. Now he had only a bit left to sup !
1. If a piece of parkin weighing 50 grams is divided into 4 chunks, what does each piece weigh ?
2. Work out the volume of a piece of parkin that measured 5 cm wide x 5 cm high x 5 cm deep.
3. Parkin usually cost £2 but was being sold in the sale at 10% off, how much did it cost ?
4. There were 500 parking spots, but cars were only parked 4 / 5 ths – how many empty spaces were there ?
5. There was 250 mls in a cup of tea, but 150 mls was spilt – how much was left ?
6. The seagull ate 1 : 4 of the parkin – how many is that of the 150 parkin in the bakery ?
7. 0.4 of the 150 parkin from the bakery was sold – how much and what fraction and percentage is that ?
8. 25 pieces of parkin fit inside one supermarket basket – a trolley could hold five times this amount – how much is that ?
9. There were 125 supermarket trolleys – 0.2 of them didn’t work because their wheels were broke. How many supermarket trolleys didn’t and did work ?
10. If the sparrow flew from Jack’s beanstalk at a speed of 7.5 km / hour, how long did it take to get to the supermarket, 50 km away ?
Car Park
The letters P – A – R have all driven away from inside these words – drive them back. Then see if you can make a par – agraph containing all these words.
__ __ __ snip
__ __ __ king
__ __ __ ty
__ __ __ chment
s__ __ __ se
s__ __ __ e
__ __ __ otid
__ __ __ oxysm
__ __ __ quet
__ __ __ chment
__ __ __ sley
__ __ __ ry
a__ __ __ t
__ __ __ ticipate
__ __ __ ticle
__ __ __ ochial
__ __ __ tial
__ __ __ son
__ __ __ lour
__ __ __ liament
__ __ __ ity
__ __ __ ish
__ __ __ ent
__ __ __ enthesis
__ __ __ esis
__ __ __ isyllabic
__ __ __ occipital
__ __ __ don
__ __ __ asynthesis
__ __ __ ataxis
__ __ __ aphrase
__ __ __ cel
__ __ __ anoia
__ __ __ ameter
__ __ __ amilitary
__ __ __ allel
__ __ __ agraph
__ __ __ afin
__ __ __ agon
__ __ __ adigm
__ __ __ adise
__ __ __ able
__ __ __ achute
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How many more words can you think of that have park – ed ?
© Jacqueline Richards 2007
Answers :
1. 50 / 4 = 22.5 g
2. 5 x 5 x 5 = 125 cubic cm
3. 200 – (200 / 100 x 10 = 40)= £1.60
4. 500 – (500 / 5 x 4 = 400) = 100
5. 250 – 150 = 100 mls
6. 150 / 5 = 30
7. a) 150 / 10 x 4 = 60 ; b) 4 / 10 = 2 / 5 ths ; c) 40 %
. 5 x 125 = 625
9. a) 125 / 10 x 2 = 25 b) 125 – 25 = 100
10. 50 / 7.5 = 6.66 hours
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