Nadia has £5 to buy pencils and rulers. Pencils are 8p each. Rulers are 30p each. She says “I will buy 15 pencils. Then I will buy as many rulers as possible. With my change I will buy more pencils.” How many pencils and how many rulers does she buy?

  1. Read the question carefully to understand what it is asking2) Consider how to approach the question - is there more than one way of getting the answer, are there any things that could trick me out (e.g different units) ?3) Break your chosen approach down into small steps / chunks and work through each individually e.g. writing an equation, re-arranging, solving 4) When you have an answer, double check working for silly mistakes / can you sanity check your answer?
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