Newspaper Sheets

From only the page numbers on one sheet of newspaper, can you work out how many sheets there are altogether?
Age
14 to 16
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Problem



Here is a sheet of a newspaper.

Each sheet has four pages.

How many sheets are there altogether?

 

Newspaper Sheets


 

 

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