Level 2
Adam pays for a TV set at a discount of 10%.
Bryan pays for the same TV set at a discount of 30%.
Bryan pays $200 less than Adam.
What is the usual price of the TV set?
3 m
Level 2
Mr Seetoh paid a total of $20 for one adult and two child tickets. If a child ticket was 34 of the price of an adult ticket, what was the price of an adult ticket?
2 m
Level 2
Adam pays $900 for a TV set at a discount of 10%.
  1. What is the usual price of the TV set?
  2. Bryan pays $800 for the TV set. What is the percentage discount that is given to Bryan?
3 m
Level 3
Adam wants to buy a TV set.
The usual price of the TV set is $1000.
There is a storewide promotional discount of 20%.
As a privileged card member, he is entitled to another 10% discount of the discounted price.
How much does he pay for the TV set in all?
3 m
Level 1
Adam wants to buy a TV set. The usual price of the TV set is $1000.
He needs to pay a GST of 10%.
  1. How much is the GST?
  2. How much does he pay for the TV set in all?
2 m
Level 3
A cuboid has a volume of 300 cm3. Its base is a rectangle which has a perimeter of 32 cm. The ratio of the length to the breadth of the rectangle is 5 : 3. Find its height.
3 m
Level 2
The figure shows some identical beads. How many unshaded beads must be removed so that 13 of the figure is unshaded?
2 m
Level 3
The figure is not drawn to scale. The ratio of the area of the rectangle to the area of the circle to the area of the triangle is 21 : 17 : 4. If 14 of the triangle and 37 of the rectangle are shaded, what is the ratio of the total shaded area to the total of the unshaded area? Leave your answer in the simplest form.
4 m
Level 3
The price of a TV set with 5% GST is $1050.
  1. How much does Adam have to pay if the GST is increased to 10%?
  2. How much more must Adam pay because of the GST increase?
3 m
Level 3
There are 20% as many green beads as red beads in May's collection of beads. The number of purple beads is 30% fewer than the number of red beads. There are 330 more purple beads than green beads.
  1. Find the total number of beads in the collection.
  2. What percentage are the number of red beads as compared to the number of purple beads? Leave your answer as a mixed number in its simplest form.
4 m
Level 3
The price of a TV set with 10% GST is $1100.
  1. How much does Adam have to pay if the GST is decreased to 5%?
  2. How much saving does Adam enjoy as a result of the decrease in GST?
3 m
Level 2
Anna's money is 34 of Samantha's money. Samantha gives 12 of her money to Anna. Express Anna's money as a fraction of Samantha's money after Anna received the money from Samantha. (Give your answer as a mixed number.)
2 m
Level 3
Two identical pails C and D contained some water. Pail C was 14 filled and Pail D was 1/5 filled. The ratio of the total mass of Pail C and the water in it to the total mass of Pail D and the water in it was 8 : 7. The total mass of the two pails and the water they contained was 3150 g. What is the mass of an empty pail?
4 m
Level 3
Gem bought 7 novels of the same kind during a sale. Tina bought 3 of the same books. She also bought 3 postcards at $4.10 each. Altogether, she spent $3.10 more than Gem. What was the amount Tina spent?
3 m
Level 3
Abby, Becca, Clara and Demi jointly contributed to the cost of a present for their friend. Abby's contribution is 25 of the total contribution made by the four girls. The ratio of Demi's contribution to the total of Becca's and Clara's contribution is 4 : 1. What is the total contribution by the four girls if Becca's contribution is 15 of Clara's contribution and the total amount contributed by Abby and Demi is $132?
4 m
Level 3
Tabitha purchased a bottle of rose syrup to make drinks. She used 37 of the liquid in January. She then used the remaining syrup in February and March in the ratio 3 : 7. Given that the amount of the rose syrup used in January was 0.18 ℓ more than that used on the February, how many millilitres of rose syrup did the bottle contain at first?
4 m
Level 2
Adam's monthly income is $2000.
He spends 60% and
saves the rest.
How many months will he take to save $4800?
3 m
Level 3
Linda had a story book with 440 pages. She read 50% of the story book on Thursday, 35% of the story book on Friday and the rest on Saturday.
  1. How many pages did she read on Saturday?
  2. How many more pages did she read on Thursday than on Saturday?
3 m
Level 3
There were some red, blue and green pens in a box. 19 of the pens were blue. The ratio of the number of red pens to the number of green pens was 3 : 5. There were 288 fewer blue pens than green pens.
  1. Find the ratio of the number of red pens to the number of blue pens to the number of green pens in the box.
  2. How many green pens were there?
4 m
Level 2
Nelly has $78 less than Sandy. Patrick has $59 more than the total amount that Nelly and Sandy have. If Patrick has $523 more than Nelly, how much money does Patrick have?
2 m