Nadia has £5 to buy pencils and rulers. Pencils are 8p each. Rulers are 30p each. She says “I will buy 15 pencils. Then I will buy as many rulers as possible. With my change I will buy more pencils.” How many pencils and how many rulers does she buy?
- Read the question carefully to understand what it is asking2) Consider how to approach the question - is there more than one way of getting the answer, are there any things that could trick me out (e.g different units) ?3) Break your chosen approach down into small steps / chunks and work through each individually e.g. writing an equation, re-arranging, solving 4) When you have an answer, double check working for silly mistakes / can you sanity check your answer?
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