Level 3
Rica was saving money to buy pens. She saved $6 every 4 days. After saving for 28 days, she went to buy pens that were on sale.
  1. What was the most number of pens she could buy?
  2. Rica wanted to buy 38 pens. How much more did she need to save?
4 m
Level 3
Joe had 170 marbles. He gave away 32 marbles and packed the remaining marbles in bags of 4. Each bag was sold for $5. The remaining marbles that were not packed were sold at 2 for $3. How much did Joe collect in total?
4 m
Level 3
A box of pies cost $15 while a box of muffins cost $17. Each box contained either 4 pies or 3 muffins. Mrs Sanchez bought the same number of pies and muffins. She paid $207 more for the muffins. How many boxes of pies did she buy?
4 m
Level 3
A bakery was having its grand opening promotion for eclairs and bagels at the prices as shown. Mrs Lim spent an equal amount of money on the eclairs and bagels for her company party. She bought 40 more eclairs than bagels. What was the total number of eclairs and bagels bought by Mrs Lim?
4 m
Level 3
Alex earned $750 less than Jay each month. Both of them spent $1800 each month and saved the rest of their salaries. After a few months, Alex saved $2400 and Jay saved $6900.
  1. How much did Alex earn each month?
  2. Alex wanted to go on a trip that would cost him $4000. How many months did he have to save?
4 m
Level 3
An administration manager wanted to purchase some calculators. If she bought 180 calculators, she would have $600 left. If she bought 156 calculators, she would have $1080 left. What was the cost of each calculator?
4 m
Level 3
Joyce wanted to buy pens for her students. If she bought 10 pens, she would need another $30. If she bought 15 pens, she would be short of $70. How much did Joyce have?
4 m
Level 3
Joe went to buy some bicycles. If he bought 3 bicycles, he would have $89 left. If he bought 5 bicycles, he would be short of $17. How much money did Joe have at first?
4 m
Level 3
Abi received $30 more pocket money than Gwen each month. Both of them spent $160 per month and saved the rest. After a few months, Abi saved $1800 but Gwen only saved $1260.
  1. What was Abi's monthly pocket money?
  2. Gwen wanted to save a total of $2380. How many more months did she need in order to save this amount?
4 m
Level 3
During a donation drive, $9210 was collected by 80 students. Each girl donated $120 and each boy donated $105. How many girls were there?
4 m
Level 3
Mr Liu delivered 340 parcels to Mr Tan. Mr Tan would have to pay Mr Liu $15 for every parcel safely delivered. Mr Liu would have to pay Mr Tan $48 for every damaged parcel. If Mr Tan paid a total of $3966, how many parcels were damaged?
4 m
Level 3
Elyse, Yoko and Shannon had a sum of money. Elyse and Yoko had $112 altogether. Yoko and Shannon had $272 altogether. The amount that the three girls had in total was 7 times the amount that Yoko had. How much did Yoko have?
4 m
Level 3
The table shows the prices of tickets for a concert performance for an adult ticket and a child ticket. 14 of the tickets sold were for adults. The total amount of money collected from sale of the child tickets was $230 more than the total amount collected from the sale of adult tickets.
  1. How many child tickets were sold?
  2. How much money was collected from the sale of all the tickets?
5 m
Level 3
Melanie, Oprah and Andy shared $4590 among themselves. Oprah and Andy shared 49 of the money equally. After Oprah gave away some of her money to Melanie, Andy had 3 times as much money as Oprah. How much money did Oprah give to Melanie?
5 m
Level 3
Mindy, Jake and Donald shared a sum of money. The amount received by Jake was 23 the amount of money received by Donald. After Mindy had given $48 to Jake and $27 to Donald, Jake gave $3 to Donald. In the end, 3 of them had the same amount of money. Find the difference between the amount of money that Mindy and Jake had at first.
5 m
Level 3
Katrina spent some of her money on a dress, a pair of shoes and some neckties. She spent 15 of her money and an additional $119 on a dress. Next, she spent 27 of the remaining money and an additional $29 on a pair of shoes. Finally, she spent 23 of what she had left on some neckties and had $12 left. How much did Katrina have at first?
5 m
Level 3
Eva spent $314 to buy some boxes of cranberry and apple biscuits. Each box of cranberry biscuits cost $5 and each box of apple biscuits cost $11. The cranberry biscuits were packed in boxes of 12 biscuits each and the apple biscuits were packed in boxes of 5 biscuits each. She bought an equal number of cranberry biscuits and apple biscuits.
  1. How many boxes of cranberry biscuits did she buy?
  2. How many boxes of apple biscuits did she buy?
5 m
Level 3
The Great Store held a promotion during the Christmas season.
  1. Laura spent $180 on each type of item. How many more mugs than plates did she buy?
  2. Elise bought an equal number of plates and mugs. She paid $312 in all. How many mugs and plates did she buy altogether? She paid $312 in all. How many mugs and plates did she buy altogether?
5 m
Level 3
Alan, Bob and Ken had the same number of notes. Jan and Bob had a mix of $10-notes and $2-notes. Alan had 15 $10-notes while Bob had 20 $10-notes. Ken only had $10-notes.
  1. Who had the least amount of money?
  2. How much more did Alan have than Bob?
  3. Bob used all his $2 notes to buy a wallet. He then had $280 less than Ken. How many $10 notes did Ken have?
5 m
Level 3
Mr Gopi packed a total of 1078 card games and board games into 49 boxes. The card games and board games were packed in separate boxes. Each box could hold either 28 card games or 7 board games only.
  1. How many board games were there in all?
  2. Mrs Tan paid a total of $15400 for all the card games and board games. The cost of one board game is $50. Find the total cost of the card games.
5 m