The Mystery of the Missing Christmas Presents
Santa Claus is making his list and checking it twice. Oh no! Hold on! He notices that he is
missing some presents on his list! Thank goodness he realised before he left the North Pole!
He has had so much to organise that he can’t remember what presents he left where! Solve
the problems below to find where the missing presents are and what gifts he almost forgot.
Location Present
Christmas Bauble Design Centre
Altitude Planning Department
Wrapping Subdivision
Elf Resources
Christmas Letter Data Analysis Division
Sleigh Repairs
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Christmas Bauble Design Centre
Santa Claus goes to the Christmas Bauble Design Centre to see if he left anything there. Find
the area or circumference of the bauble designs (circles). Add the totals together to discover
which Christmas gifts he finds there. Give your answer to 2 decimal places.
Bauble Design One
Calculate the circumference of a circle with a radius of 8cm.
8cm
Bauble Design Two
Given a circle with a diameter of 12cm, find its area.
12cm
Bauble Design Three
Determine the circumference of a circle with a radius
of 10cm.
10cm
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Bauble Design Four
Find the area of the circle with a circumference of 30cm.
Add all the final answers together.
If the total value is 207.15 Santa Claus has found the game consoles.
If the total value is 297.82 Santa Claus has found the skateboards.
If the total value is 314.52 Santa Claus has found the sack of coal.
If the total value is 278.5 Santa Claus has found the footballs.
At the Christmas Bauble Design Centre Santa Claus found:
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Altitude Planning Department
Santa Claus continues on to his Altitude Planning Department. He thinks he left some crucial
presents there. He finds the elves making some final calculations for his trip and they ask
him for some help. Calculate the missing lengths of the triangles (m) to discover which
presents Santa left there. Give your answer to 2 decimal places where necessary.
Mountain One
A
4.7km
m
B 4.1km C
Mountain Two
E
m
2.3km
F 3.9km G
Mountain Three
H 7.9km J
m
8.9km
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Mountain Four
17km
m
16km
Add all the final answers together.
If the total value is 25.93km Santa Claus has found the game consoles.
If the total value is 21.56km Santa Claus has found the head phones.
If the total value is 22.76km Santa Claus has found the mobile phones.
If the total value is 32.44km Santa Claus has found the sack of coal.
At the Altitude Planning Department Santa Claus found:
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Wrapping Subdivision
Santa Claus has found two lots of presents but time is running out! The elves in the Wrapping
Subdivision say they’ll help Santa look for the presents if he can help finish wrapping the last
gifts. Find the volume of the presents below.
Christmas Present One
4cm
7cm
3cm
Christmas Present Two
3cm
6cm
4cm
Christmas Present Three
5cm
1.5cm
3cm
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Christmas Present Four
8cm
11cm
3cm
10cm
Add up all the volumes of the prisms together.
If the total value of the volumes is 504.14cm3 Santa Claus has found the socks.
If the total value of the volumes is 305.67cm3 Santa Claus has found the beauty products.
If the total value of the volumes is 420.15cm3 Santa Claus has found the chocolate coins.
If the total value of the volumes is 419.25cm3 Santa Claus has found the footballs.
At the Wrapping Subdivision Santa Claus found:
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Elf Resources
Santa Claus is so close to finding everything he needs. He heads to Elf Resources to speak
to Mrs Claus to see if she has seen any of the missing items in her department. She rolls
her eyes at his request and reprimands him for interrupting her busy schedule. Finally, Mrs
Claus agrees to help if Mr Claus can help her sort out the elf wages (pay). Look at the graphs
below, calculate how much an elf would make per hour working for that department.
Wrapping Subdivision Rate of Pay
1200
1000
800
Pay ($)
600
400
200
0
0 10 20 30 40 50 60
Time (hours)
Christmas Bauble Design Centre Rate of Pay
700
600
500
400
Pay ($)
300
200
100
0
0 5 10 15 20 25 30
Time (hours)
Sleigh Repairs Rate of Pay
400
350
300
250
Pay ($)
200
150
100
50
0
0 5 10 15 20 25 30
Time (hours)
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Altitude Planning Department Rate of Pay
400
350
300
250
Pay ($)
200
150
100
50
0
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14
Time (hours)
Add all the departments’ hourly rate of pay together.
If the total value of the departments’ hourly rate is $95 Santa Claus has found the headphones.
If the total value of the departments’ hourly rate is $100 Santa Claus has found the socks.
If the total value of the departments’ hourly rate is $90 Santa Claus has found the sack of coal.
If the total value of the departments’ hourly rate is $75 Santa Claus has found the mobile
phones.
At Elf Resources Santa Claus found:
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Christmas Letter Data Analysis Division
Mrs Claus sends Santa Claus on his way and tells him to hurry (and not to stop for any
fruit mince pies!) He enters the Christmas Letter Data Analysis Division where the elves are
starting to look at some children’s Christmas letters. They display the data from the two
towns in the pie charts below.
There are 800 children in the town of There are 200 children in the small town
Greenvue. The pie chart below shows the of Ickledow. The pie chart below shows
toys that the children have asked for in the toys that the children have asked for
their Christmas letter. in their Christmas letter.
clothes books
socks
books
clothes
game socks
consoles game
consoles
Use the pie charts to answer each question below. Write your answer in the box underneath
to reveal which presents were left here.
How many game
How many children How many children How many socks
consoles were asked
wanted books in the asked for clothes in were asked for in
for by the children
two towns? the two towns? total?
of the two towns?
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If the answer grid order is 475, 125, 250, 150 Santa Claus has found the mobile phones.
If the answer grid order is 475, 150, 150, 200 Santa Claus has found the beauty products.
If the answer grid order is 475, 125, 250, 250 Santa Claus has found the chocolate coins.
If the answer grid order is 475, 125, 325, 175 Santa Claus has found the headphones.
At the Christmas Letter Data Analysis Division Santa Claus found:
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Sleigh Repairs
One last missing set of presents to go! Santa Claus knows it’s an important one but he just can’t
remember what it is! He heads to Sleigh Repairs where the mechanics worked on his sleigh the
night before. The elves there ask for some help interpreting some speed-time graphs.
Match the description below with the corresponding graph. The order of the answers will
reveal which presents Santa Claus has left here.
The sleigh The sleigh brakes The sleigh drives at
The sleigh drives at
accelerates (gets (gets slower and a steady speed, then
a steady speed.
faster and faster). slower). slows down.
A. B. C. D.
Speed
Speed
Speed
Speed
Time Time Time Time
If the order of the answers is D, B, C, A Santa Claus has found the socks.
If the order of the answers is D, A, B, C Santa Claus has found the chocolate coins.
If the order of the answers is D, A, C, B Santa Claus has found the headphones.
If the order of the answers is A, B, C, D Santa Claus has found the sack of coal.
At the Christmas Letter Data Analysis Division Santa Claus found:
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