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Breakfast foods eaten this week CEREAL
FRUIT
Brayden Holly Justin Karrie Poppy
Hugh Zakia Luca Francis
PORRIDGE
TOAST
EGGS
CROISSANTS
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Which children ate two different foods for breakfast?
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Breakfast foods eaten this week CEREAL
FRUIT
Brayden Holly Justin Karrie Poppy
Hugh Zakia Luca Francis
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Two more children joined the survey. Toby had Wheatie Flakes for breakfast all week, except for Sunday when he had eggs. Taylor had croissants one day and a banana and apple on the other days. Which category is the most popular and by how many? R.I.C. Publications® Prim-Ed Publishing
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Kris and Kate are playing a game by rolling a six-sided dice, numbered 1–6, and recording the results. Kris wins if the number rolled is © R. I . C.Publ i cat i ons higher than 4. Kate wins if the number rolled •f orr evi ew pur posesonl y• is lower than 4. Who is more likely to win?
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Kris and Kate are playing a game by rolling a six-sided dice, numbered 1–6, and recording the results. Kris wins if the number rolled is higher than 4. Kate wins if she rolls a number that is lower than 4. These are the results so far:
Kris Kate
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Favourite technology used at home by Orange Class and Purple Class at Graves Primary School
Technology
Smartphone
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Favourite technology used at home by Orange Class and Purple Class at Graves Primary School
Technology
Smartphone
From: Messages
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Type of biscuits sold
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Type of biscuits sold
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How many more chocolate-chip biscuits were sold at the weekend compared to shortbread biscuits? R.I.C. Publications® Prim-Ed Publishing
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Abdul’s mother has given him a shopping list for the local supermarket. Which of the categories listed above will he NOT need to visit in the store?
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A six-sided dice was rolled 10 times with the following results: Roll 1
Roll 2
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Roll 6
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A six-sided dice was rolled 10 times with the following results: Roll 1
Roll 2
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Roll 4
Roll 5
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Roll 7
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Ten children were playing a game of ‘Spin the bottle’. The children sat in a circle and the teacher spun the bottle and recorded which person the bottle pointed to when it stopped spinning. How many times did the teacher Mia spin the bottle? Who is it certain © R. I . C.Pu bl i cat i ons Pedro to land on for the next • spin? f orr evi ew pur posesonl y•
Chase Fleur Katrina
Isabelle Jude Benjamin Bertie Jemima
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Ten children were playing a game of ‘Spin the bottle’. The children sat in a circle and the teacher spun the bottle and recorded which person the bottle pointed to when it stopped spinning. Five children joined in the game. Mia Are the chances of the bottle © R. I . C.Pu bl i cat i ons Pedro landing on Benjamin greater, •f orr evi ew pur posesonl y• Chase less or the same now?
Fleur Katrina
Isabelle Jude Benjamin Bertie Jemima
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Number of people
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Hector surveyed 15 people in his class about their favourite sport.
Penny - baseball Ying - netball Lars - rugby Matilda - football Angelo - football
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Christian - rugby Aiden - baseball Ciara - cricket Alfie - basketball Maeve - tennis
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Hector surveyed 15 people in his class about their favourite sport.
Penny - baseball Ying - netball Lars - rugby Matilda - football Angelo - football
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Christian - rugby Aiden - baseball Ciara - cricket Alfie - basketball Maeve - tennis
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Nora and Dora tell very exciting tales. Nora says that after school she is going to board a spacecraft and visit her alien friend Klax. Dora says that after school she is going to visit a clown and learn how to juggle.
© be R. I . C.Publ i cat i ons Whose story is more likely to true?
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Nora, Dora and Lora tell very exciting tales. Nora says that after school she is going to board a spacecraft and visit her alien friend Klax. Dora says that after school she is going to basketball training and then home for dinner. Lora says that she is going to visit a clown and learn how to juggle. Write the girls' names in order impossible tos most possible event. © Rfrom . I . C.P ubl i cat i on
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Weekly rainfall in Paris Day of the week Rainfall (mm)
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Which two days had a total of 45 mm of rain?
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Weekly rainfall in Paris Day of the week Rainfall (mm)
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Statistics and chance Weather report for Bainsbridge
Monday Tuesday Mike thinks the chance of snow on Saturday is highly likely. Kali thinks Wednesday that it is nearly impossible for it to be © R . I . C . P u b l i cat i ons hot on Saturday. Tayla thinks that it is •f orr evi ew pur po sesonl y• Thursday certain to rain on Monday. Who is most likely to be wrong?
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Weather report for Bainsbridge
Monday Mike thinks the chance of snow on Tuesday Tuesday is unlikely and the chance of a storm on Friday is highly likely. Wednesday Hugh says that it is highly likely that it R. I . C. i cat i ons is going to rain on Thursday©and it isPubl orr ev i ewon pur po sesonl y• Thursday nearly impossible that • it f will be hot Saturday. Sara thinks that it is more likely to be sunny on Tuesday than on Friday Monday.
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Statistics and chance Birthday list January
February
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June
Elsie
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Marc
Jack
Thomas
Brodie
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What is the difference between the number of people who have a birthday in the most popular month compared to the number of people who have a birthday in either May or June? R.I.C. Publications® Prim-Ed Publishing
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Elsie
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Five other children need to add their names to the list. Twins Jai and James were born in June, Kade was born in February, Wendy was born in April and Lucy was born in May. Which month has the most birthdays and by how many? R.I.C. Publications® Prim-Ed Publishing
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The local community centre was raising money by selling tickets in a raffle. There were 250 tickets available. Basil purchased one ticket, Samara purchased 18 tickets, Taj ©R . I . C.Publ i cat i ons bought 10 and Suki bought 27. •f orr evi ew pur posesonl y• Write the order, from most likely to least likely, of who in this group could win the raffle.
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The local community centre was raising money by selling tickets in a raffle. There were 250 tickets available. Basil purchased 10 tickets, Samara purchased 11 tickets, Taj bought 17 and Suki © R. I . C .Publ i cat i ons bought 32. The remaining tickets were •f or r evi ew posesonl y• purchased and split evenly among sixpur local firefighters. Which person is most likely to win the raffle?
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Julian places the following letter tiles into a bag. He randomly picks one letter out at a time, writes it down and then returns the tile to the bag.
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Julian places the following letter tiles into a bag. He picks one letter out at a time, without looking, and then writes down the letter before returning the tile to the bag.
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Jamie recorded the amount of time he spent watching television.
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Jamie recorded the amount of time he spent watching TV after school.
Number of minutes of TV watched 120
Time (minutes)
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Every morning, Alicia and her sister Alexa randomly select a pair of socks to wear from their own sock drawers. Alicia has three pairs of spotted socks, ten pairs of blue socks, eight pairs of striped socks and no pink socks. Alexa R. I . Cpairs .Pub l i cat i ons has five pairs of blue socks,© seven of •f o r evi ew socks pur po sesonl y• striped socks, three pairs ofrspotted and six pairs of pink socks. Which type of sock do they have an equal chance of selecting at random?
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Every morning, Alicia and her sister Alexa randomly select a pair of socks to wear from their own sock drawers. Alicia has three pairs of spotted socks, ten pairs of blue socks, eight pairs of striped socks and no pink socks. Alexa has five pairs of © R. I . C.Publ i cat i ons blue socks, seven pairs of striped socks, three f opairs rr evi ew pur po sesonl y• pairs of pink socks and• six of spotted socks. Which type of sock is both impossible for Alicia to select and least likely for Alexa to select?
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Sports played by the members of a sports club Basketball Cricket Rugby
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Marvin the Magician is showing Blair, Kylie and Boris some card tricks. He draws four cards randomly from the deck of 52 cards, and pulls out four aces! He puts the cards back into the deck and draws four more cards randomly and gets four kings. Marvin announces that next he is going to © R. I . C.Publ i cat i ons randomly select four cards and they will be queens. A
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Kaitlyn is sorting through her wardrobe and trying to get it 5 T-shirts organised before the school 7 dresses holidays are over. She wrote 9 miniskirts 5 pairs of trousers down the following items, but 1 tutu © R . I . C . P u b l i c a t i o n s they need to be categorised. 5 pairs of sandals
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11 shirts 3 long skirts 15 long sleeve tops 2 pairs of boots 2 coats 2 pairs of slippers
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How many more or less skirts does Kaitlyn have in total, compared to pairs of shoes in total?
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Kaitlyn is sorting through her wardrobe and trying to get it organised before the school holidays are over. She wrote down the following items.
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Zack loves to eat fruit salad. He cuts one banana into 5 pieces, one apple into 18 pieces, one peach into 8 pieces and one pear into 16 pieces. He © mixes up his R. I . C .P ubl i cat i ons fruit salad and scoops out arspoonful to •f o r evi ew p ur posesonl y• eat. Which fruit is most likely to end up on his spoon?
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Zack is making a fruit salad. He cuts one banana into 5 pieces, one apple into 18 pieces, one peach into 8 pieces and one pear into 16 pieces. Caleb also decides to make a fruit salad. His contains one apple cut into 16 pieces, one pear cut into© 14Rpieces, one peach cut into 10 pieces and one . I . C.Pu bl i c at i ons banana cut into 7 pieces. They each up their fruit salad in •f o rr ev i ew mix pur p os eso nl y• their own bowls and scoop out a spoonful to eat. Who has a better chance of having a piece of peach on their spoon? Is a piece of peach the most likely fruit to end up on either of their spoons? R.I.C. Publications® Prim-Ed Publishing
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Brayden, Zakia and Justin Cereal, by one Kate Kate, because she has more numbers to win with (1, 2 or 3), compared to Kris (5 or 6).
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Smartphone 0, No difference
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17 biscuits 4 more chocolatechip biscuits
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Frozen; Meat, seafood and deli Fruits and vegetables
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4 times; equally likely Odd; No
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14; it is not certain that the bottle will land Less chance
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50 50
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Basketball 1 child
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Monday and Wednesday 190 mm; Saturday
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Tayla Sara
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3 more people January; by 1 person
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Suki, Samara, Taj, Basil Suki
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Supergirl, Captain America and Batman
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card, city, code cat; no
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146 accidents 45 cars
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Dora Nora, Lora, Dora
No, you would expect red as altogether there are three red sections on the spinners. Spinner 1 by two; Spinner 2
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Favourite TV shows are most likely on Friday; Football training most likely on Monday
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Spotted socks Pink socks
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Harry No, there are the same amount of children
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52 members 250 members
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Tokyo is the wettest city; Sydney is the warmest city Sydney
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Blair Kylie
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Nils and Siobhan 60 hot dogs
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1 more skirt 31 tops, 13 skirts, 6 shorts, 5 trousers, 12 shoes, 7 dresses, 3 coats
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Less chance (d), (a), (b), (c)
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black green
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apple Caleb; No
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