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
During a donation drive, $9210 was collected by 80 students. Each girl donated $120 and each boy donated $105. How many girls were there?
4 m
Level 3
Andrew sells tables and chairs. For each table he sells, he earns $18. For each chair he sells, he earns $8. In June, he sold 25 tables and chairs altogether and earned $280. How many tables did he sell?
4 m
Level 3

Ray drew lines to form triangles and stars. Ray formed a total of 10 triangles and stars. She drew 48 more lines for the stars than for the triangles. How many stars did she form?
4 m
Level 3
There were 30 questions in a quiz. Andy answered all the questions and scored 101 marks. For each correct answer, 5 marks were given. For each wrong answer, 2 marks were deducted. How many questions did Andy answer correctly?
4 m
Level 3
Mr Liu delivered 340 parcels to Mr Tan. Mr Tan would have to pay Mr Liu $15 for every parcel safely delivered. Mr Liu would have to pay Mr Tan $48 for every damaged parcel. If Mr Tan paid a total of $3966, how many parcels were damaged?
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
Jake and Kenneth had the same number of sweets. Each of them packed his own sweets into packets. Jake packed 5 sweets in each packet and had 2 sweets left. Kenneth packed 8 sweets in each packet and was short of 4 sweets.
  1. How many sweets did each of them have if they have used the same number of packets?
  2. What was the smallest possible number of sweets each of them had if they used different number of packets?
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
Elyse, Yoko and Shannon had a sum of money. Elyse and Yoko had $112 altogether. Yoko and Shannon had $272 altogether. The amount that the three girls had in total was 7 times the amount that Yoko had. How much did Yoko have?
4 m
Level 3
Karen tied some ribbons along a rope in a row at equal distance apart. The distance between the first and the fifth ribbon was 8 m. The first ribbon and the last ribbon were tied 3 m away from each end of the rope. What was the length of the rope if she had tied 30 ribbons on it?
5 m
Level 3
Jaslyn placed 25 pins in a row from one to the other end of a bulletin board at equal distance apart as shown in the diagram. The distance between the first and last pin was 96 cm.
  1. What was the distance between the first and eighth pin?
  2. Jaslyn decided to remove 8 pins and rearrange the remaining pins at a new equal spacing. What was the new distance of each spacing?
5 m
Level 3
Eva spent $314 to buy some boxes of cranberry and apple biscuits. Each box of cranberry biscuits cost $5 and each box of apple biscuits cost $11. The cranberry biscuits were packed in boxes of 12 biscuits each and the apple biscuits were packed in boxes of 5 biscuits each. She bought an equal number of cranberry biscuits and apple biscuits.
  1. How many boxes of cranberry biscuits did she buy?
  2. How many boxes of apple biscuits did she buy?
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
Mr Gopi packed a total of 1078 card games and board games into 49 boxes. The card games and board games were packed in separate boxes. Each box could hold either 28 card games or 7 board games only.
  1. How many board games were there in all?
  2. Mrs Tan paid a total of $15400 for all the card games and board games. The cost of one board game is $50. Find the total cost of the card games.
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