Level 1
In a party, Mabel folded 153 paper planes. She folded 3 times as many paper planes as her sister. How many more paper planes did Mabel folded than her sister?
2 m
Level 3
60% of the sweets in Packet A were blueberry sweets and the rest were strawberry sweets. Packet B had 25% more blueberry sweets than packet A and twice as many sweets than the total number of sweets in Packet A. Find the percentage of the strawberry sweets in Packet B that would need to be transferred into Packet A, so that there were an equal number of blueberry and strawberry sweets in Packet A.
4 m
Level 3
The figure shows an irregular 5-sided figure and a square. The area of the five-sided figure was three times the area of the square. After the shaded part was removed, the area of the remaining square became 15% of the total remaining area of both figures. If the area of the shaded part is 16 cm2, find the remaining area of the 5-sided figure.
4 m
Level 3
Faith baked a total of 350 muffins and puffs. After giving away 80% of the puffs and 75% of the muffins, she was left with twice as many puffs as muffins. Find the number of puffs Faith gave away.
4 m
Level 3
There were 286 students in a school. On the school anniversary, 56 of the girls and 45 of the boys came in green caps. The rest came in yellow caps. The number of boys who wore yellow caps was four times of the girls who wore yellow caps. How many students were in green caps that day?
4 m
Level 3
There are 200 more teachers in School X than in School Y. After 25% of the teachers left School X and 50% of teachers left School Y, the number of teachers who remained in School X is thrice that of the number of teachers in School Y. Find the number of teachers in School X at first.
4 m
Level 3
Zoe, Fanny, Eric and Olivia shared some pens. Zoe and Fanny took 15 of the total number of pens while Eric and Olivia took the rest. Fanny had four times as many pens as Zoe and Olivia had 176 pens. Given that Eric had four times as many pens as Fanny, how many pens were there altogether?
4 m
Level 3
Jane and Tina had $652. Tina had $76 more than Jane. Jane spent 2 times as much as Tina and was left with 23 as much as Tina. How much did Jane spend?
4 m
Level 3
Lucy paid a total of $550 for a brooch, a necklace and a watch. She spent 35 of her money on the brooch. The necklace cost 3 times as much as the watch. How much did she pay for the necklace?
4 m
Level 3
At a carnival, the children were put into two groups. 45 of Group F were boys and 23 of Group G were girls. Group G had twice as many children as Group F. There were 18 fewer boys in Group F than Group G.
  1. What fraction of the total number of children at the carnival were boys? Give your answer in the simplest form.
  2. What was the total number of children at the carnival?
4 m
Level 3
There are a total of 430 large muffins, small muffins and medium muffins at a stall. 35 of these muffins are large muffins. The number of small muffins is 3 times the number of medium muffins. How many more small muffins than medium muffins are there?
4 m
Level 3
Glen, Ken, Jenson and Justin shared 105 stickers. Jenson received 15 of the stickers. Glen received 16 of the total amount of stickers received by Ken and Justin. Justin received four times as much stickers as Ken.
  1. How many stickers did Glen receive?
  2. How many more stickers did Jenson receive than Ken?
4 m
Level 3
Tina paid a total of $210 for a shirt, a pair of socks and a pair of shoes. She spent 27 of her money on the pair of socks. The pair of shoes cost 4 times as much as the shirt. How much more did she pay for the pair of shoes than the shirt?
4 m
Level 3
The length of ribbon A and ribbon B is 30.55 m. The total length of ribbon B, C and D is 58.93 m. The length of ribbons C, D and E is 64.53 m. Ribbon E is twice the length of ribbon A. Find the length of ribbon A. Give the answer in metres.
4 m
Level 3
Yvonne and George collect pens and stickers. George has 70 more stickers than pens. George has 3 times the number of pens Yvonne has, and Yvonne has 40% more stickers than George. After Yvonne gives George all of her pens and George gives Yvonne 60% of his stickers, George has 64 more pens than stickers. Find the number of stickers Yvonne has at first.
5 m
Level 3
A box containing 60 folders had a mass of 5.01 kg. A box containing 25 post-it-pads has a mass of 6.21 kg. The mass of each post-it-pad was thrice that of each folder. Find the mass of the empty box in grams.
4 m
Level 3
At the bird park were some adults. 12 of the number of tourists was equal to 2 times the number of locals. When another 19 tourists entered and 51 tourists left, the ratio of the number of tourists to the number of locals become 7 : 2. Find the number of tourists at the bird park at first.
5 m
Level 3
A laptop costs $360 more than a tablet. 4 such tablets cost as much as 2 handphones. If each handphone costs $720. Find the cost of 3 laptops.
4 m
Level 3
Mr Yap bought some pizzas for a group of pupils. There is an equal number of girls and boys. The girls received 5 times as many pizzas as the boys. Each boy ate 13 of a pizza and the boys finished all the pizzas given to them. Each girl ate 16 of a pizza and the girls had 18 12 pizzas left. How many pizzas did Mr Yap buy?
5 m
Level 3
Anisha's monthly salary is $3451. She gives 27 of it to her mother and spends twice as much on daily expenses. If she saves the rest of the money, how much does she save in a year?
4 m