2021 5marks Catholic High P6 Paper2 SA2

P6 / Catholic High / 2021 / SA2 / Paper 2 – Q16 [5 marks]

Question:

Cathy and David each had a piece of dough of the same mass at first. Cathy divided her dough into equal parts of mass 90 g and for each part, she used it to bake 2 star-shaped cookies. David also divided his dough into equal parts of mass 150 g and for each part, he used it to bake 6 heart-shaped cookies. There were 72 more heart-shaped cookies than star-shaped cookies in the end.
(a) How many cookies did Cathy and David bake altogether?
(b) David packed his cookies into 22 boxes. Some boxes contained 5 cookies while the rest contained 9 cookies. How many boxes contained 9 cookies?

Solution:

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