Level 3
The average number of pages Joan read in a certain number of days was 15. In the next four days, Joan read another 88 pages. As a result, the average number of pages she read increased to 17. How many days did Joan read in total?
Level 3 Luis drew lines to form triangles and stars. He drew 7 more triangles and stars. The number of lines drawn for the triangles was the same as the number of lines drawn for the stars. What fraction of the shapes that Luis had drawn were stars?
Level 3 Luis drew lines to form triangles and stars. He drew 7 more triangles and stars. The number of lines drawn for the triangles was the same as the number of lines drawn for the stars. What fraction of the shapes that Luis had drawn were stars?
Level 3
The average test score of a class was 60 marks. After two students who scored an average marks of 96 marks transferred out of the class, the average score of the remaining students became 58 marks. How many students were there in the class at first?
Level 3
The average amount of money collected by a group of students at a flag day event was $125. When another 15 students turned up to help, the total amount donated increased by $1275 and the average amount of money collected became $113. How many students were there in the group at first?
Level 3
In an art class of 84 students, 0.125 of the girls passed the drawing test and 45 of the boys passed the drawing test. A total of 24 students passed the drawing test. How many girls failed the drawing test?
Level 3
The number of banana puffs Caden baked was 47 of the total number of puffs. After baking another 98 banana puffs, the number of banana puffs became 67 of the total number of puffs. How many puffs did she bake at first?
Level 3
The average test score of a group of pupils was 57 marks. After 4 pupils who scored an average of 69 marks joined the group, the average score of all the pupils became 61 marks. How many pupils were there in the group at first?
Level 3
A drink stall had 66 small and big packets of green tea. The number of small packets is 29 of the number of big packets. After selling a few big packets of green tea, there are 14 as many small packets as big packets left. How many big packets of green tea were sold?
Level 3
The average test score of a group of students was 71 marks. After five students who scored an average of 79 marks left the group, the average score of the group became 69 marks. How many students were there at first?
Level 3
There was an equal number of tables and chairs in the morning. At noon, some tables were added and some chairs were removed, resulting in the number of tables being increased by 20% while the number of chairs decreased by 30%. At 7 p.m. the number of tables increased by 50%. If a total of 32 tables were added during the day, how many more tables than chairs were there in the end?
Level 3
In a class, 9 girls jumped an average of 1.37 m for their standing broad jump in their fitness test. The boys in the same class jumped an average of 1.65 m in the same test. The total average of the whole class was 1.56 m. How many boys were there?
Level 3
The average height of a group of boys was 143 cm. After 6 girls with a total of 948 cm joined the group, the average height of all the children increased to 146 cm.
Level 3
Lizzy bought some souvenirs for her friends at an average price of $12.50. If Lizzy decided to buy a pen which cost $16 for her father and a bag which cost $35 for her mother, the average price of the souvenirs would become $15.75. How many souvenirs did Lizzy buy for her friends?
Level 3
Mrs. Ben made 248 more white chocolate cookies than dark chocolate cookies. After she gave away 57 of the white chocolate cookies and 13 of the dark chocolate cookies, there were an equal number of white chocolate cookies and dark chocolate cookies left. How many white chocolate cookies did she give away?
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?
Level 3
Minzy bought some pouches and bags for her friends. The price of each pouch was $2.40 while the price of each bag was $10.80. For every 4 bags bought, she was given one such pouch for free. After receiving the free pouches, the number of pouches was 13 of the number of bags bought. If Minzy paid a total of $1584, how much more did she pay for the bags than the pouches?
Level 3
Evelyn bought 50% more hair clips than Linda. Tammy bought 10% fewer hair clips than Evelyn. Evelyn and Linda gave Tammy some hair clips in the ratio 7 : 2. As a result, Tammy had twice as much hair clips as before. Given that Linda had 15 more hair clips than Evelyn in the end, how much hair clips did Evelyn give to Tammy?
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?
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.
