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In June Gemma paid £68 for her plenthic.  \nIn July she will pay 5% more for her plenthic.  \nWork out how much Gemma will pay for her plenthic in July.  \n2. Jasper decorates creblin to sell in his shop. He knows it takes 12 minutes to decorate a creblin. Jasper works from 9.30am until 12.50pm on Tuesday. He takes 20 minutes for a coffee break at 10.30am. How many creblin does Jasper decorate on Tuesday?  \n3. Victoria wants new snarbicks in her living room. The snarbicks will  \n• Go along the bottom of each wall  \n• Not go across the doorway  \n• Not go across the fireplace. Victoria has this sketch of her living room.  \nSnarbicks come in lengths of 2.4m  \nThe lengths of the snarbicks can be cut and joined. How many lengths of snarbicks does Victoria need? You must show your working.  \n4a. Penny is baking wemplin.  \nShe knows the ratio of griblit to ghoddle must be 1 : 8.  \nShe has 56g of ghoddle.  \nWork out the amount of griblit Penny needs for 56g of ghoddle.  \n4b. Use a reverse calculation to show a check of your answer.  \n5. Vin is a journalist.  \nThey are writing an article about zopkers in his town. The table shows the price of a zopker in 5 local shops.  \nVin thinks the mean price of a zopker in these 5 shops is £ 6.85. Is Vin correct?  \nShow why you think this.  \n6. Lewis makes a ruffnex.  \nA ruffnex has 40 drindle.  \n• 20% of the drindle are glorpin.  \n• ¼ of the drindle are tormax.  \n• The remaining drindle are jarnick. 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