S3 GENERAL HOMEWORK 1

1) Round: -

(a) 2137 to the nearest 10 (b) 15379 to the nearest 100

(c) 237641 to the nearest 1000 (d) 3099265 to the nearest million

2) Find: -

(a) 23.7÷ 10 (b) 1875 ÷ 100 (c) 0.135 x 100

(d) 2.1 ÷ 1000 (e) 1.7 x 1000 (f) 0.93 ÷ 10

3) Read the number on these scales: -

(a) (b)

60 80 100 120 1200 1300

(c) (d)

300 400 500 3000 3100 3200

4) How many: - (a) 100s are there in 2000?

(b) 50s are there in 750?

(c) 25s are there in 225?

5) By rounding appropriately estimate the following (do not find the actual
answer and do not use a calculator): -

(a) 312 x 198 (b) 3897 ÷ 5796 (c) (39)²

(d) 598 ÷ 19 (e) 19 x 29 x 39 (f) 185 x 41

19

6) Round to 2 decimal places: -

(a) 2.179

(b) 0.8321

(c) 16.0856

(d) 0.0397

(e) 10.006
S3 GENERAL HOMEWORK 2

1) Round to 1 decimal place: -

(a) 3.83 (b) 9.76 (c) 0.67 (d) 1.032 (e) 0.093

2) Round to 2 decimal places: -

(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

4) A car is sitting on a garage ramp.

Find the length of the ramp.

6m

8m

5) How long do these overnight journeys take?

(a) 2215hrs to 0355hrs (b) 8.55pm to 6.10am

6) Find: -

(a) 1 (b) 1 (c) 1

of 75cm of 48kg of £7
3 4 10

(d) 2 (e) 3 (f) 4

of £60 of 40m of 35 litres
3 8 5

7)

The 9.2 metre drawbridge of a castle is

supported by a chain that is attached to a
bolt 8.4 metres up the castle wall.
? Calculate the length of the chain, round
your answer to 1 decimal place.

8.4m
9.2m
S3 GENERAL HOMEWORK 3

1) In each of the following one of the answers is a reasonable estimate. Say

which: -

Question Possible Answers

(a) 194 x 314 = (600, 6000, 60000, 600000)

(b) 815 x 29 = (240, 2400, 24000, 240000)
(c) 59 x 31 = (180, 1800, 18000, 180000)
(d) 7864 ÷ 389 = (20, 200, 2000, 20000)

2) How long does each of these bus journeys take?

(a) (b) (c)

Depart 0730 1350 1825
Arrive 0915 1720 2305

3) In a sports competition the following distances were recorded in the triple

jump.
(a) Write the triple jump distances in
Triple Jump metres and centimetres.
Competitor Best Distance
(b) Write the names of the competitors in
Asif 7.98m
order, staring with the competitor who
Dougal 7.77m
jumped the furthest.
Darren 8.02m
Imran 8.20m
(c) Find the difference between the longest
Arthur 8.00m
and shortest jumps.
Patrick 8.33m
(d) Find the average distance jumped in
metres and centimetres.

4) Try the following, without using a calculator: -

(a) 10 – 2 x 3 (b) (4 + 7) – (3 x 5) (c) 4 x (7 - 3) x 5

(d) 8+4÷2 (e) 6+8 (f) 3 x 2²

2+5

5) Karen is flying two kites.

She lets 1 kite out for 20 metres, the 22m

other for 22 metres. Both kites are now
hovering directly above a hot air spring
8 metres from where Karen is standing. 20m

Calculate: -

(a) The height of each kite above

the spring.

(b) The distance between two kites.

S3 GENERAL HOMEWORK 4

1) Some percentages and their fraction equivalents should be memorised. Write

the following percentages as fractions: -
(a) 50% (b) 25% (c) 10% (d) 20% (e) 75% (f) 33⅓%

2) Without a calculator, do the following (mentally): -

(a) 50% of 240 (b) 10% of 3500 (c) 25% of 28

(d) 20% of 150 (e) 33⅓% of 1200 (f) 75% of 16

3) Use a calculator to find: -

(a) 15% of £360 (b) 28% of £4210 (c) 7% of £140

(d) 12.5% of £380 (e) 6.2% of £1500 (f) 1.1% of £4000

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?

6) There are 5.4 million people living in Scotland.

(a) Write this number out in full.
(b) Write this number in standard form (scientific notation).

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

9) The local football field is

60 metres wide and the
distance from the centre 60m
spot to the corner flag is
55 metres. How long is
the football field (L m)? 55m

L
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.

What was the temperature after: -

(a) 1 hour (b) 6 hours (c) 10 hours

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: -

(a) basic pay (b) overtime pay (c) gross pay

3) Write these numbers out in full: -

(a) 104 (b) 3.7 x 105 (c) 1.48 x 10-2

4) Express in standard form (scientific notation): -

(a) 23 (b) 0.000 006 1 (c) 3572

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.

Who will have more

money in their account
CAPITAL BUILDING
after 1 year? SOCIETY
(Don’t forget to show
your working) Interest: 5.5% p.a
PREMIER BANK

Interest: 3.2% p.a

S3 GENERAL HOMEWORK 6

1) Nadia is playing and adventure game. Her scores for each round are as
follows: -

-12, -6, 1, -4, 3, -2, 0, 4

(a) Calculate her total score

(b) Calculate her average score
(c) Paul plays eight rounds of the game. In each round he scores – 4.
What is his total score?

2) John Packhard is a computer salesman. Here is his monthly salary slip: -

Employee No. Name Tax Code Month

086 J Packhard 621L 03
Basic Pay Overtime Commission Bonus Gross Pay
£1000 - - ? ?
Income Tax Pension Nat Ins Other Deductions Total Deductions
£250 ? £120 - £400
Net Pay
£1500
Use the information provided in the payslip to calculate John’s:-

(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: -

(a) 1 year (b) 2½ years (c) 4 months

Cash Price £1600
4) For this dining table and chairs find:
(a) The deposit HP terms
(b) The total hire purchase (HP) price Deposit 15%
(c) The difference between the HP price Twenty-four instalments
and the cash price of £75

5) If 2½ hours = 2.5 hours when written in decimal form, write the following times
in the same way: -

(a) 8½ hours (b) 1¼ hours (c) 4¾ hours (d) 20 minutes

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

(b) Factorise 8a – 12b

(c) Multiply out the brackets and simplify 3 (x - 2) - x

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

5) The shape below is made up of a rectangle and an isosceles triangle.

Calculate its PERIMETER.

4.8 m

2.8 m

6.5 m
S3 GENERAL HOMEWORK 8

1) Multiply out the brackets and simplify: 5(m + 2) + 2(m – 4)

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.

(a) Parallelogram 12cm (b) Rhombus

10cm

4cm 5cm 16cm 12cm

6) Calculate the perimeter and area of the field.

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

3) The diesel tank in a tractor is in the shape of a cuboid with dimensions 80 cm

by 40 cm by 30cm.

(a) Calculate its capacity in litres.

(b) How far can the tractor travel if it uses up 1 litre of diesel every 3
kilometres?

4) Calculate the volume of wood used to make this draught excluder.

A kitchen roll is shown. The outside

diameter is 10cm. The diameter of
2 cm the hole is 2cm. The length of the roll
10 cm is 20cm. Calculate: -

(a) The area of the hole

20 cm
(b) The area of the large circle had
there been no hole
(c) The area left when the hole is
made
(d) The volume of paper making up
the kitchen roll

5) The operation  means “square the first number and multiply by the second”.

(a) Evaluate 64

(b) If a  5 = 245, find a

S3 GENERAL HOMEWORK 10

1) Simplify: -

(a) 3¾ - 1½ (b) 4¾ + 2⅞

2) Solve the equation 3 (x – 4) = x + 14

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: -

(a) The area of the end of the triangular

roof.

(b) The area of the front of the rectangle.

12cm
(c) The total area of the front of the cake. 8cm

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?

6) A tank with dimensions 80cm by

40cm by 50cm is filled with water
up to 5cm from the top of the tank.

5cm 50cm Calculate the volume of water in

the tank.

40cm

80cm
S3 GENERAL HOMEWORK 11

1) Calculate: -

(a) 75% of 200 litres (b) 60% of £850

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

(a) Calculate the mean time waited

(b) Find the median and modal times waited
(c) Say which “average” should be chosen to give a fair representation of
the data. Give two reasons for your choice.

3) It takes 16 men 12 days to complete a job. How many men would be needed
to complete the job in 10 days?

4) It is planned to build a warehouse 160m away from a park. The warehouse is

to be 20m high. It is to be hidden from the park by planting trees that will
grow to a height of 15m. How far away from the warehouse should the trees
be planted? (Draw a diagram and use similarity).

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: -

(i) 2½+1⅛ (ii) 7½-2¾

2) Solve for y: 5y – 8 = 3y + 12

3) The two triangles here

are similar. Calculate 4.1cm
x, showing working. x

Calculate the area of

the smaller triangle. 3cm
7.5 cm
4) Ali walked 4 ½ miles in 2 hours 15 minutes (2 ¼ hours). If she walked at a
steady pace throughout, how far did she walk in the first 30 minutes?

St. Mirren had a mean score of 3 goals per game in

5) their first eight games!

(a) How many goals had they scored

altogether?

(b) In their next game they scored two, but

failed to score in their next four matches.
What was their mean score over the 13
matches?

6) Here is a table of exam marks (out of 50) from a science department.

Pupil
Tom Jen Fred Don Tim Jess Pete Dave Sid Trev
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

(a) Draw a diagram similar to the one

shown, using the same scale for each COPY
axis.
(b) Plot the information from the table to
make a SCATTER DIAGRAM.
Physics Marks

(c) Describe some of the connections

between the Chemistry marks and the
Physics marks.
(d) Draw a line of best fit through points. 20
(e) Use the graph to estimate what the 15
Physics mark would be if Chemistry
10
was 35.
(f) One person seems to go against the 5
trend, who is it and what makes you
think that? 5 10 15 20

Chemistry Marks