Level 3
In a supermarket, 65% of the number of vegetables sold were carrots and the rest were potatoes. Each carrot cost 50¢ and each potato cost 10¢ less than the cost of each carrot. Given that $195.30 was collected from the sale of the fruits,
  1. how many carrot were sold?
  2. how much was collected from the sale of the potatoes only?
4 m
Level
At a concert, 14 of the tickets were sold at full price, 35 of the tickets sold at 40% discount, and the remaining 270 tickets were given away for free. Each ticket was sold at $90. What was the total amount collected from the sale of tickets?
4 m
Level 3
Pierre had $77.70 more than Henry. After Henry had spent 23 of his money, Pierre had $114.50 more than Henry. How much money did Pierre have at first?
4 m
Level 3
Jamie had 126 pens. 23 of them were blue pens and the rest were red pens. After she had given away some blue pens, the ratio of the number of blue pens to the number of red pens became 4 : 3. How many blue pens did she give away?
4 m
Level 3
At the ferry transit terminal, 62.5% of the passengers were male and the rest were female. After 81 female passengers entered the terminal, the percentage of the number of female passengers became 60%. Find the number of female passengers at the terminal at first.
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