Level 3
Mrs Lin bought 5 kg of shrimp and 2 kg of beef for $96. If she brought 2 kg of shrimp and 5 kg of beef, she would have to pay $3 less. How much did 1 kg of shrimp cost?
Level 3
There are 151 marbles in a big basket and a small basket altogether. The total number of marbles in 3 big baskets and 8 small baskets is 568. How many more marbles are there in a big basket than a small basket?
Level 3
Betty spent $37.80 on an equal number of spoons and plates. If 5 spoons cost $7.20 more than 2 plates while 1 spoon cost as much as 2 plates, how many spoons and plates did she buy?
Level 3
For every good jacket that Mr Zhang sold, he earned $19. He sold defective jackets at a discount, which would cause him to lose $6 per defective jacket. In July, for every 27 jackets sold, 7 were defective. Mr Zhang earned $3042 from the jackets sold.
How many less jackets sold were defective than good?
How much less money did he earn because of the defective jackets?
Level 3
Henry's freight forwarding company charges $17 for every mirror delivered on time and $10 for every mirror delivered late. In the month of August, Henry freight forwarding company collected $2200. For every 17 mirrors delivered, 15 were delivered on time and 2 were delivered late.
What was the total number of mirrors delivered on time?
How much less money did Henry freight forwarding company collect in August due to the late delivery of the mirrors?
Level 3
Container E contains only 50-cent coins and Container F contains only 5-cent coins. There are 19 more coins in Container F than in Container E. The amount of money in Container E is $1.75 more than the amount of money in Container F. Find the total amount of money in both containers.
Level 3
Cathy had twice the number of toy bricks as Jenson. Cathy used all her bricks to build 7 identical houses. Jenson used all his bricks to build 5 identical houses. Cathy used 9 more bricks than Jenson for each house. How many bricks did Jenson have?
Level 3
Oscar is 3 times as old as his brother. In 14 years' time, Oscar will be 10 years less than twice of his brother's age. How old was Oscar 2 years ago?
Level 3 PSLE
A fruit seller had an equal number of peaches, starfruits and pomegranates at first. After 46 pomegranates, some peaches and starfruits were sold, there were 76 fruits left. There were 3 times as many peaches as starfruits left. The number of pomegranates left was 15 less than the number of peaches left. How many starfruits were sold?
Level 3
Jenny gave 3 books to every boy
and 5 books to every girl in her class.
There were 4 more boys than girls in the class. She gave away a total of 156 books.
How many children were there in the class?
How many less books were given to the boys than the girls?
Level 3
Jenny gave 3 books to every boy
and 5 books to every girl in her class.
There were 4 more boys than girls in the class.
She gave away 24 more books to the girls than the boys.
Level 3
Bryan bought 4 times as many candy bars as chocolate bars.
The total mass of candy bars and chocolate bars was 1040 g.
The mass of chocolate bars was 240g less than that of the candy bars.
The mass of 1 chocolate bar was 48 g heavier than 1 candy bar.
Level 3 Rael bought some notebooks at $3 each. He later sold them to his customers at $8 each. For customers who bought two notebooks were given another notebook for free. The customers bought either one or two notebooks. Rael gave away 110 free notebooks and collected a total of $1320 more than what he had paid for. How many customers bought just one notebook?
Level 3
A grocer had the same number of lemons, water apples and starfruits at first. After 78 starfruits, some lemons and water apples were set aside, there were 148 fruits left. There were thrice as many lemons as water apples left. The number of starfruits left was 20 less than the number of lemons. How many water apples were set aside?
Level 3 PSLE
Four teams of students sold lemonade for charity.
They collected $5 for a small cup of lemonade and $10 for a big cup of lemonade.
The table shows the number of cups sold by three of the teams.
Team A: 15 Small, 5 Big
Team B: 11 Small, 9 Big
Team C: 8 Small, 10 Big
Which of the three teams collected the most money? Give your answer in letter.
What was the amount of money collected by Team A?
Team D sold as many cups of lemonade as Team A but collected $20 more. How many big cups of lemonade did Team D sell?
Level 3
A group of 22 adults and children went to a bird park. Each adult ticket cost $8 and each child ticket cost $5. The group paid a total of $143 for the tickets. How many adults went to the bird park?
Level 3
There were 35 children in a team. Each boy was given 5 cupcakes and each girl was given 3 cupcakes. In all, 79 more cupcakes were given to the boys than the girls. How many boys were there?
Level 3
There were a total of 61 questions in a Science quiz. 4 marks were awarded for each correct answer and 1 marks were deducted for each wrong answer. Cathy answered all the questions and scored 104 marks. How many more correct answers than wrong answers did she answer?
Level 3
There were a total of 88 questions in a Maths test. 10 marks were awarded for each correct answer and 2 marks were deducted for each incorrect answer or each incomplete answer. Betty could not complete all the questions in time and left the last 11 questions blank. She scored 472 marks. How many more correct answers than wrong answers did she answer?
Level 3
38 Primary 5 pupils and 35 of Primary 6 pupils went on a school learning journey. The number of Primary 6 girls was 2 times the number of Primary 5 girls, and there were 17 more Primary 5 boys than Primary 6 boys. How many more Primary 6 girls than Primary 6 boys went on the learning journey?
