Level 3
A store owner had coconuts and papayas. The ratio of coconuts to papayas was 5 : 2. After 12 of the coconuts and 18 papayas were sold, there were 2 times as many coconuts as papayas left. How many coconuts and papayas were there at first?
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Level 3
Isabelle had $574 less than Jane. Jane spent 35 of her money and Isabelle spent 34 of her money. In the end, Jane had 3 times as much as Isabelle. Find the amount of money Isabelle had at first.
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Level 3
Eva and Fiona went shopping with a total of $200. After Eva spent 34 of her money and Fiona spent $46, the ratio of Fiona's money became 3 times as much as Eva's money. Find the ratio of Eva's money to Fiona's money at first.
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Level 3
Cathy had some coin collection. 14 of them were red and the rest were yellow. She gave away 135 of the yellow coins and 50% of the red coins. She then had 15 of her coin collection left. How many coins did Cathy give away?
4 m
Level 3
Liam had 57 as many 20-cent coins as 1-dollar coins in his piggy bank. Each time, four 20-cent coins and six 1-dollar coins were taken out from the piggy bank. In the end, only seven 20-cent coins and four 1-dollar coins were left in the piggy bank. How many more 1-dollar coins than 20-cent coins were there in the piggy bank at first?
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Level 3
Aunt Tina baked 50 less cookies than muffins. After she gave 35 of the muffins and 0.7 of the cookies to Cathy, she was left with 88 fewer cookies than muffins. How many muffins did she bake?
4 m
Level 3
Lisa had 740 more candies than Anna. Lisa used 56 of her candies and Anna used 12 of her candies. In the end, Lisa had 2 times as much as Anna. Find the number of candies Anna had at first.
4 m
Level 3
Bryan's money was 335 times his sister's money. After his mother gave him $44 and his sister $122, Bryan then had twice as much money as his sister. How much money did Bryan have at first?
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Level 3 PSLE
Ruth bought some lollipops and gave half of it to Asher. Asher bought some sweets and gave half of it to Ruth. Ruth ate 17 sweets and Asher ate 31 lollipops. The ratio of Ruth's sweets to lollipops became 1 : 5 and the ratio of Asher's sweets to lollipops became 1 : 3. How many sweets did Asher buy?
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Level 3
Ken has 30% more stamps than Vincent. Tim has 80% the number of stamps Ken has.
  1. What is the ratio of the number of Vincent's stamps to the number of Tim's stamps?
  2. If the total number of stamps of Ken's and Tim's is 150 more than Vincent's, how many stamps does Ken have?
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Level 3
A bag had some violet erasers and yellow erasers in the ratio of 3 : 1. Queenie removed 35 violet erasers and put another 15 yellow erasers into the bag. There is now 50% as many violet erasers as yellow erasers in the bag. How many violet erasers were in the bag at first?
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Level 3
A fruit seller sells only soursops and avocados. The ratio of soursops to avocados is 5 : 4. A total of 68 fruits are added. The number of soursops becomes 2 times as many as before and the number of avocados becomes 4 times as many as before. How many fruits are there in the end?
5 m
Level 3
34 of Eva's money was equal to 12 of Anna's money at first. After Eva spent $1.70 and Anna spent $0.70, Eva had 35 as much money as Anna.
  1. How much did Anna have at first? Express the answer(s) in 2 decimal places.
  2. How much did Eva have in the end? Express the answer(s) in 2 decimal places.
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Level 3
14 of the number of sheep that Farmer Yang head was equal to 25 of the number of sheep that Farmer Tan had. When Farmer Yang sold 300 of his sheep and Farmer Tan bought another 40, the ratio of the number of sheep that Farmer Yang had to the number of sheep Farmer Tan had 7 : 5. What was the total number of sheep that the 2 farmers had at first?
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Level 3 PSLE
There are some stickers in albums A and B. 50% of the stickers in album A and 20% of the stickers in album B are round stickers. There is an equal number of square stickers in both albums. If there are 51 more round stickers in album A than in album B, how many stickers are there in both albums altogether?
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Level 3
Will, Xavier and George had a total of 670 pens. The ratio of the number of pens Xavier had to the number of pens George had was 4 : 5. After Will and Xavier each gave away half of their pens, the 3 children had 395 pens left. How many pens did Xavier and George have at first?
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Level 2 PSLE
The bar graph shows the number of coloured pens sold by a shop. The table shows the prices of the pens.
  1. What fraction of the pens sold were black pens? Give the answer in the simplest form.
  2. From the sale of the pens, which coloured pens collected the least amount of money? What was the amount? Give the answers in the following way. (Eg Green, $1)
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Level 3
Container A and Container B had 43 kg of sugar and 51 kg of sugar respectively. If 3 kg of sugar and 8.5 kg of sugar are added into Container A and Container B every day, how many days later will the sugar in Container A be half as much as the sugar in Container B?
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Level 3
The ratio of the amount of money that Anna and Yvonne brought along was 4 : 5. For a friend's birthday present, Anna and Yvonne shared the cost in the ratio of 2 : 3. Anna used up 25 of her money to pay for her share. After paying for her share, Yvonne had $78 left. How much was the birthday present?
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Level 3
The auditorium had 1050 seats. There were 25% fewer $40-seats than $5-seats. 50% of the $5-seats and some $40-seats were sold. A total of $16180 was collected. How many seats were unsold?
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