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Yesterday, Granny had 12 cups and 10 matching saucers, but this morning she dropped a tray holding one third of the cups and half the saucers, breaking all of those on the tray.
How many of her cups are now without saucers?
If you liked this problem, here is an NRICH task which challenges you to use similar mathematical ideas.
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Age 11 to 14
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Yesterday, Granny had 12 cups and 10 matching saucers, but this morning she dropped a tray holding one third of the cups and half the saucers, breaking all of those on the tray.
How many of her cups are now without saucers?
If you liked this problem, here is an NRICH task which challenges you to use similar mathematical ideas.
This problem is taken from the UKMT Mathematical Challenges.
You can find more short problems, arranged by curriculum topic, in our short problems collection.
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