Level 3
Mary had a ribbon 23 m long. She cut off 19 m of the ribbon from each end and the remaining ribbon into shorter pieces each 118 m long.
  1. Find the length of the remaining ribbon after 19 m had been cut from each end.
  2. How many 118 m long pieces of ribbon did she get?
3 m
Level 3
Justin had $59.10 less than Betty. He spent 57 of his money on a stapler which cost $10.50. Betty spent 29 of her money on a vest. How much had Betty left?
4 m
Level 3
Benedict cycled to his bakery with 16 trays of eggs. There were 24 eggs in each tray. He fell on his way and broke 13 of the eggs. He sold 58 of the good eggs and put the remaining eggs equally into 12 small baskets. How many eggs did he put into each basket?
3 m
Level 3
Paul had some apple macarons and apricot macarons. He gave away 160 macarons to his brother. 25% of them were apple macarons and the rest were apricot macarons. Paul gave some apple macarons to his sister. 25 of all the macarons he gave away to his brother and his sister were apple macarons.
  1. How many apricot macarons did he give his brother?
  2. How many apple macarons did he give his sister?
4 m
Level 3
Ming Huat had 255 watermelons and 240 oranges at first. He used 35 of the watermelons and 34 of the oranges. He then bought some more oranges. In the end, 18 of the fruits he had left were watermelons. How many oranges did he buy?
3 m