Level 3
In a class, 14 of the students and an additional 3 boys like basketball. 13 of the remaining students in the class less 3 students like badminton and the rest of the 25 students in the class like rugby. How many students are there in the class?
4 m
Level 3
Alex earned $750 less than Jay each month. Both of them spent $1800 each month and saved the rest of their salaries. After a few months, Alex saved $2400 and Jay saved $6900.
  1. How much did Alex earn each month?
  2. Alex wanted to go on a trip that would cost him $4000. How many months did he have to save?
4 m
Level 3
Tessa baked 136 cupcakes every day. Five days after Tessa started baking, Jessa started baking 180 cupcakes each day. How many cupcakes had Tessa baked when Jessa had baked 580 more cupcakes than Tessa?
4 m
Level 3
Abi received $30 more pocket money than Gwen each month. Both of them spent $160 per month and saved the rest. After a few months, Abi saved $1800 but Gwen only saved $1260.
  1. What was Abi's monthly pocket money?
  2. Gwen wanted to save a total of $2380. How many more months did she need in order to save this amount?
4 m
Level 3
Bernie had some bags of sweets and some packets of chocolates. Each bag contained 9 sweets and each packet contained 4 chocolates. The total number of bags of sweets and packets of chocolates that he had was 40. He had 43 more chocolates than sweets. How many packets of sweets did Bernie have?
4 m
Level 3
Ryan bought fewer than 15 packets of pencils. Each packet contained 20 pencils. He gave his teachers one packet of pencils each before giving an equal number of pencils to his 11 classmates and had 8 pencils left. He had less than 10 teachers.
  1. How many pencils did each of his classmates receive?
  2. What is the maximum number of teachers he could give a packet each to?
4 m
Level 3
There were some guavas at a fruit stall. In the morning, 16 of the guavas were sold. In the afternoon, another 30 guavas were sold. The total number of guavas sold was 5 less than 712 of the number of guavas the fruit stall had at first.
  1. How many guavas were there at first?
  2. What fraction of the guavas in the stall remained unsold in the afternoon?
5 m
Level 3
The table shows the prices of tickets for a concert performance for an adult ticket and a child ticket. 14 of the tickets sold were for adults. The total amount of money collected from sale of the child tickets was $230 more than the total amount collected from the sale of adult tickets.
  1. How many child tickets were sold?
  2. How much money was collected from the sale of all the tickets?
5 m
Level 3
An equal number of sweets were distributed to 9 girls and 11 boys. Each girl then gave 23 of her share of sweets to the boys. As a result, each boy received 72 more sweets.
  1. How many sweets did each girl have left?
  2. Find the total number of sweets each boy had after receiving more sweets from the girls.
5 m
Level 3
Katrina spent some of her money on a dress, a pair of shoes and some neckties. She spent 15 of her money and an additional $119 on a dress. Next, she spent 27 of the remaining money and an additional $29 on a pair of shoes. Finally, she spent 23 of what she had left on some neckties and had $12 left. How much did Katrina have at first?
5 m
Level 3
The Great Store held a promotion during the Christmas season.
  1. Laura spent $180 on each type of item. How many more mugs than plates did she buy?
  2. Elise bought an equal number of plates and mugs. She paid $312 in all. How many mugs and plates did she buy altogether? She paid $312 in all. How many mugs and plates did she buy altogether?
5 m
Level 3
Alan, Bob and Ken had the same number of notes. Jan and Bob had a mix of $10-notes and $2-notes. Alan had 15 $10-notes while Bob had 20 $10-notes. Ken only had $10-notes.
  1. Who had the least amount of money?
  2. How much more did Alan have than Bob?
  3. Bob used all his $2 notes to buy a wallet. He then had $280 less than Ken. How many $10 notes did Ken have?
5 m
Level 3
There are a total of 904 goats, cows, chickens and ducks at a farm. The number of chickens was 324 more than the number of goats. The total number of cows and ducks was 2 times the number of goats.
  1. How many cows and ducks were there at the farm?
  2. The total number of legs for all the cows and ducks was 910. How many cows were there in the farm?
5 m