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Mystery Maths Week 1
Posted On 07 Nov 2014
Mystery Maths
Miss Sawyer needs to buy 190 pencils to give out in Good Work Assemblies. The pencils are sold in packs of 10. When Miss Sawyer goes to the store to buy them, there are only 14 packs of pencils on the shelf. How many more pencils does she still need to buy to reach her total?
Good luck and blog the position of your answer only!
50 pencils
Good luck children, this is indeed a tricky calculation. When the PTA buys bulk items for school events and we can only buy so many items if in stock at one place and then we have to go to another place to buy any remaining items. This really is a real life type question!
The answer is : On the side of Mr Baines desk.
5 packet next to mr baines desk