P6 Math: Distance Speed and Time (Travelling Further than or Nearer than Mid-Point)

Another variation of the Distance Speed and Time.

2 persons are travelling from different start points and are moving towards the same destination along a straight line. One of them needs to travel past the mid-point but the other does not need to. (hence a shorter distance travelled).

Students need to know how to calculate the difference between the distance travelled between the 2 persons before solving the rest of the question.

Such questions are common in Paper 2 of P6 Prelim papers.

Calculator usage is allowed.

Ali and Bala are cycling from each of their separate houses towards Carl's house.

Bala's house is nearer to Carl's house than Ali's.

Both boys started their journey at the same time.

There is a supermarket in the mid-point between Ali's and Bala's house.

This supermarket is 560m away from Carl's house.

Ali cycled at a speed 140m/min faster than Bala.

Ali arrived at Carl's house at the same time as Bala.

a) How much further did Ali cycle than Bala to reach Carl's house?

b) If both boys started their journey at 4.50 p.m., at what time did they reach Carl's house?

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P6 Math: Average of information given in table

For P6 exams, the average questions will be more challenging than those in P5 papers.

Questons like these will require students to make use of the information in the table to find the subtotal of each column in order to solve.

Such questions usually appear in Paper 2 P6 Prelims.

Calculator usage is allowed.

The table below show the number of customers whom bought pencils in the bookshop yesterday.

Number of pencils bought by each customer	0	1	2	3	4
Number of customers	0	10	9

Two of the numbers in the table are missing.

The customers bought an average of 2.5 pencils yesterday in the bookshop.

a) What was the total number of pencils bought at the bookshop yesterday?

b) How many customers bought 4 pencils each?

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