Level 3
During a candy sale, Sally paid $2 less for every 15 candies she bought. Each candy cost 60 cents. Sally paid a total of $38 for some candies. How many candies did she buy?
Level 3
Mary visited a bakery where cheese tarts are sold in packages of 5 or 10. Packages of 5 are sold at $6.50 each and packages of 10 are sold at $12. What was the most number of cheese tarts could Mary buy with $285?
Level 3
The table shows the prices of muffins at two shops. The muffins are only sold in sets of 6 muffins in Candy's Bakery or sets of 7 muffins in Dina's Bakery.
Ann has $8.15. She wants to buy 14 muffins from Dina's Bakery. How much more money does she need to buy the 14 muffins?
Zack has $97. He wants to buy the greatest possible number of muffins with his money from one of the two shops. What is the greatest possible number of muffins he can buy with his money?
Level 3
The table shows the prices of muffins at two shops. The muffins are only sold in sets of 6 muffins in Candy's Bakery or sets of 7 muffins in Dina's Bakery.
Ann has $8.15. She wants to buy 14 muffins from Dina's Bakery. How much more money does she need to buy the 14 muffins?
Zack has $97. He wants to buy the greatest possible number of muffins with his money from one of the two shops. What is the greatest possible number of muffins he can buy with his money?
Level 3 The cost per piece is based on the total number of copies to be printed.
The table shows the charges for printing at a printing company.
Susan wanted to place an order to print 380 A4-size copies of her poster. How much did she need to pay?
Ron placed an order to print some A4-size copies of his poster. Allie placed an order to print some A3-size copies of his poster. Both of them ordered an equal number of copies of their posters. The total cost of their orders was $324. How many A4-size copies of the poster did Ron print?
Level 3 The cost per piece is based on the total number of copies to be printed.
The table shows the charges for printing at a printing company.
Susan wanted to place an order to print 380 A4-size copies of her poster. How much did she need to pay?
Ron placed an order to print some A4-size copies of his poster. Allie placed an order to print some A3-size copies of his poster. Both of them ordered an equal number of copies of their posters. The total cost of their orders was $324. How many A4-size copies of the poster did Ron print?
Level 3
A confectionery sells chocolate chip cakes and blueberry cakes.
Raeann bought an equal number of chocolate chip cakes and blueberry cakes. She paid $80.80 more for the blueberry cakes and the chocolate chip cakes.
How many cakes did she buy?
How much did she spend altogether?
Level 3
A confectionery sells chocolate chip cakes and blueberry cakes.
Raeann bought an equal number of chocolate chip cakes and blueberry cakes. She paid $80.80 more for the blueberry cakes and the chocolate chip cakes.
Level 3
Charlie bought $642 worth of staplers and pens. He bought thrice as many pens as staplers. He spent $334 more on pens than on staplers. Each stapler cost $1.60 more than each pen. Find the price of a stapler.
Level 3
Justin and Wesley each had the same volume of water. The water was used to pour into identical bottles. Justin filled up 16 bottles and had 4.8 ℓ of water left. Wesley filled up 8 bottles and had 6.4 ℓ of water left.
What was the capacity of each bottle? Give your answer in millilitres.
What was the total volume of water Justin and Wesley had at first? Give your answer in litres.
Level 3
Min saved two coins every day from Monday to Sunday by putting them into a glass jar. Each coin was either a 5¢ or 20¢ coin. The total value of the coins at the end of 5 weeks was $11.00. How many of the coins were 20¢ coins?
Level 3
Jim started saving part of his pocket money by putting 2 coins in a money box every day. Each coin was either a 20¢ or 50¢ coin. His mother also put on a $1 coin in the box every 7 days. The total value of the coins after 98 days was $82.30.
Level 3 PSLE
Jenny has two types of bottles, large and small. She filled 3 large bottles and 7 small bottles with 10.5 ℓ of the drink she made. With the remaining drink, she could not fill another large bottle as she was short of 0.3 ℓ. Thus, she filled another small bottle and had 0.6 ℓ left over.
How many litres of drink did the large bottle hold more than the small bottle?
How many litres of drink did a small bottle hold?
Level 3 PSLE
Jenny has two types of bottles, large and small. She filled 3 large bottles and 7 small bottles with 10.5 ℓ of the drink she made. With the remaining drink, she could not fill another large bottle as she was short of 0.3 ℓ. Thus, she filled another small bottle and had 0.6 ℓ left over.
How many litres of drink did the large bottle hold more than the small bottle?
Level 3
The length of ribbon A and ribbon B is 30.55 m. The total length of ribbon B, C and D is 58.93 m. The length of ribbons C, D and E is 64.53 m. Ribbon E is twice the length of ribbon A. Find the length of ribbon A. Give the answer in metres.
Level 3
A box containing 60 folders had a mass of 5.01 kg. A box containing 25 post-it-pads has a mass of 6.21 kg. The mass of each post-it-pad was thrice that of each folder. Find the mass of the empty box in grams.
Level 3
When an ice box is packed with 25 identical bottles of soda, it has a mass of 18.4 kg. When the ice box is packed with 30 identical packets of milo, it has a mass of 7.5 kg. A bottle of soda weighs 470 g more than a packet of milo. What is the mass of the empty ice box in kg?
Level 3
The number of silver crayons is twice the number of blue crayons. The number of blue crayons is 14 more than the number of gold crayons. The total number of crayons is 138. The cost of each silver crayon is $3.80 and the cost of each gold crayon is $1.50. The total cost of all the crayons is $374.20.
Level 3
Andrew, Bryan and Charlie had the same number of marbles. Charlie gave 0.5 of his marbles to Bryan. Then Bryan gave 0.25 of his marbles to Andrew. Finally, after Bryan gave 30 marbles to Charlie, he had the same number of marbles as Charlie. How many marbles did Charlie have at first?
Level 3
For every magazine Tommy sells, he gets $1.75 as commission. He gets an additional $1.50 for every 8 magazine sold. How many magazines did Tommy sell if he earned $50 in commission?
Level 3
Mr Lee organised a lucky draw event. He spent $382.20 on some toys and pouches. He bought 6 more pouches than toys. A toy costs $14.70 and a pouch costs $4.90. How many pouch did Mr Lee buy?
Level 3
Two different brands of detergent powder are on promotion in a supermarket. Ms Ong wants to buy 30 kg of detergent. How much will she save if she buys Brand B detergent powder instead of Brand A?
Level 3
Two different brands of detergent powder are on promotion in a supermarket. Ms Ong wants to buy 30 kg of detergent. How much will she save if she buys Brand B detergent powder instead of Brand A?
