1. Work out how far each team ran in total in the All-Ireland Relay Championships. Distance run by each runner Number of runners Total length run 1074m
2km 47m 35.72m 1.836km 283
2.039km
7 9
12 17
– 4m29
36
2. Now work out how far each runner had to run in these relay races. Distance run by the team Number of runners Distance run by each runner 1km 835m 0.756km 5670m
5 9 6
1.566km 17
– 8km
2km 90m
27 25 38
3. A toddler built a tower of bricks. If he used 7 bricks that were each 4cm 3mm tall and 9 bricks that were each 3.8cm tall, how tall was the tower?
4. The feared pirate Short Bob Copper buried his booty on a desert island so that nobody except him could ever find it. He used a rock as a marker. From the rock he took 9 paces north, 8 paces west and then a further 7 paces north. If each of his paces was 0.84m, what distance did he walk from the rock?
5. Bob’s twin brother, Equally Short Bill Copper, was also in the piracy business. As luck would have it, he also chose to bury his booty on an island. He used a tree as a marker and walked 12 paces south and 6 paces east. However, Bill had a wooden leg and as a result his paces were shorter than his brother’s. If the treasure was a distance of 13.68m from the tree, how long was each of Bill’s paces?