Activity 1

Task A

1. Carmel and Eustachy work on a market stall. The stall sells fruit.

Pomegranates cost 80p each or £1.50 for 2.

How much is saved by buying 2 together?

2. Kaki fruit cost 35p each. There is a special offer of 7 for £2.

Compare the costs of buying 6 kaki fruit with 7 kaki fruit.

3. Navel oranges cost £1 for 6. The price label does not show the price for 1 orange.

Carmel wants the price per orange to be 3p more than when buying 6.

What is the lowest price she should charge for 1 navel orange? Give your answer in pence.

Task B

1. Carmel buys cases of pears and sells them in bags.

This week she bought 20 cases at £9 each.

If she sells a full case she makes a profit of one third of the cost.

If Carmel sells all the pears how much profit would she expect to make?

Give your answer in pounds.

2. Carmel estimates that pears weigh 150 grams (g) each. A bag of pears weighs 1.2 kilograms (kg).

How many pears would be in a bag?

Task C

1. Eustachy wants to know about bags of apples.

He enters the number of apples in 10 bags into a table.

What is the average (mean) number of apples in a bag?

2. What is the range of numbers of apples in a bag?