Level 3
Mrs Lu had a total of 520 purple and yellow lilies in the ratio of 8 : 5. After she had given away 6 times as many purple lilies as yellow lilies, the number of purple and yellow lilies left was in the ratio of 10 : 9. How many more purple lilies than yellow lilies did she give away?
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Level 3
Mr Lim had three bags of soil, A, B and C and the mass of each bag of soil was in the ratio 2 : 4 : 3. Mr Lim decided to transfer 30% of soil from Bag A into Bag B and 60% of soil from Bag C into Bag B. Given that the mass of Bag B was 38.4 kg in the end, how many kilograms of soil were transferred into Bag B?
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Level 3
A pen cost $1.50. A notebook cost $15.50 more than the pen. Clare spent $340 on such pens and notebooks. She bought twice as many pens as notebooks.
  1. How many notebooks did Clare buy?
  2. How much money did Clare spend on the pens?
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Level 3
Hazel had $18.60 in coins. She had four times as many 10-cent as 50-cent coins and 11 more $1 coins than 50-cent coins. How many coins does she have in total?
4 m
Level 3
Three cartons, A, B and C, contained 382 marbles. Hazel added some marbles into Carton A and the number of marbles in Carton A tripled. He took out half of the number of marbles from Carton B and added another 98 marbles into Carton C. As a result, the ratio of the number of marbles in Carton A, Carton B and Carton C became 6 : 2 : 9. What was the ratio of the number of marbles in Carton B to the total number of marbles in Carton A and Carton C at first? Give the answer in its lowest term.
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