Level 3
$258 is to be divided among a certain number of people. Half of the people received $3 each, 512 of the people received $4 each and the rest received $5 each. How many people are there altogether?
3 m
Level 3
Betty had an equal number of $2 and $10 notes. After spending 43 pieces of $10 and 19 pieces of $2 notes, the ratio of the $2 notes to $10 notes left was 5 : 1. Find the value of the notes left.
4 m
Level 3 PSLE
A fruit stall sold peaches at 70¢ and apples at 40¢ each. Sally bought some peaches and Tom bought some apples from the stall. Sally spent $1.10 more than Tom, but had 7 fruits fewer than Tom.
  1. How many peaches did Sally buy?
  2. How much did Tom spend on the apples?
4 m
Level 3
Fiona had an equal number of $5 and $10 notes. After spending 40 pieces of $10 and 16 pieces of $5 notes, the ratio of the $5 notes to $10 notes left was 4 : 1. Find the value of the notes at first.
4 m
Level 3
Jane and Wendy had equal amount of money. Each day, Jane spent $4 and Wendy spent $5. When Jane had $60 left, Wendy had 45 as much money left as Jane. How much money did the two girls have at first?
4 m
Level 3 PSLE
Lynn wanted to buy a dress. She saw a red dress on sale at 10% discount and a blue dress at 20% discount. Both dresses had the same original price before the discounts. To buy the red dress, Lynn would need $3.50 more that what she had. So Lynn bought the blue dress. After that, she had $1 left.
  1. What was the original price of the red dress?
  2. How much money did Lynn have at first?
4 m
Level 3
In a pouch of notes, the number of $2, $5 and $10 are in ratio of 5 : 4 : 6. 15 of the $2-notes and 15 $5-notes are taken out. The remaining notes are worth $541. Find the difference between the value of $10-notes and $2-notes in the end.
4 m
Level 3 PSLE
Jade and Kylie went shopping together with a total amount of $93.90. Jade spent 2 times as much as Kylie. The amount Kylie had left was $11 more than what she had spent. She had 2 times as much money left as Jade.
  1. How much money did Kylie spend?
  2. How much money did Jade have at first?
4 m
Level 3
Cathy, Zoe and Ruth went shopping together. They brought a total of $1633 with them. Cathy spent 50% of her money. Zoe spent $224 and Ruth spent twice as much money as Cathy. In the end, they had $785 left. How much money did Zoe and Ruth have altogether in the end?
4 m
Level 3
One pencil costs $x. One pen costs $(x + 20). One ruler costs $4x.
  1. Vince bought 2 pencils, 3 pens and 1 ruler. How much did he spend? Simplify your answer in terms of x.
  2. If x = 20, how much did Vince spend altogether?
4 m