Level 3 PSLE
In a shop, candles are sold only in boxes. A box of 8 short candles costs $2.30 and a box of 5 long candles costs $3.70.
  1. Dan wants 17 short candles and 3 long candles for his lanterns. What is the least amount of money that Dan will need to spend on the candles?
  2. Zara bought 14 more long candles than short candles from the shop. The total number of candles she bought was fewer than 50. How much did Zara spend on the candles altogether?
5 m
Level 3
Carl had a total of 90 notes. The notes are $10 notes and $5 notes. After he spent 20% of the $10 notes and 60% of the $5 notes on a stereo system, he was left with 4 times as many $5 notes as $10 notes. How much did the stereo system cost?
5 m
Level 3
Cathy's shop sold bracelets and rings. The bracelets were sold at $100 each and each ring was sold at 45 of the price of each bracelet. Cathy sold 14 of the items on the first day and collected $15580. 34 of the items sold on the first day were bracelets.
  1. How many rings were sold on the first day?
  2. What was the total number of items left after the first day?
4 m
Level 3
Alfred had some peaches in 3 sizes. The number of medium peaches was twice the number of large peaches. The number of large peaches were three times the number of small peaches.
The price of each peach are as follows:
Small $4
Medium $7
Large $9

He sold all the small and medium peaches. He received $360 from selling 13 of the large peaches.
  1. How many large peaches did he have at first?
  2. How much less did he collect from selling the small peaches than the medium peaches?
4 m
Level 3
Xuan, Penny, Kate and Violet went to buy a gift for their grandmother. They shared the cost equally among themselves. However, Violet forgot to bring her money. So, the other 3 girls paid for the gift first. Kate paid 35 of the amount Xuan and Penny paid. Penny paid $11 more than Xuan. The next day, Violet returned $76 to Kate and some money to Xuan and Penny. How much did Violet return to
  1. Xuan?
  2. Penny?
5 m
Level 3
Olivia, Zoe, Betty and Natalie received a sum of money. Olivia received 38 of the total amount of money Zoe, Betty and Natalie received. Zoe received 17 of the total amount of money Betty and Natalie received. Betty received 13 as much money as Natalie. If Olivia received $275 more than Betty, find the total sum of money the 4 girls received.
4 m
Level 3
Jack, George, Henry and Asher shared $1495. Asher received 310 of the total amount of money received by Jack, George and Henry. Jack received 37 of the total amount for George and Henry. George received 23 as much money as Henry. If George gave all his money to Asher, how much did Asher have more than Jack in the end?
4 m
Level 3
On Monday, 700 more youths than children attended a concert. On Tuesday, the number of youths decreased by 30% and the number of children increased by 80%. 1240 audience attended the concert on Tuesday. If each ticket cost $12, how much money was collected from the sale of concert tickets for the two days?
5 m
Level 3
The number of 20-cent coins in a basket was 100% more than the number of 10-cent coins. 13 twenty-cent coins were taken out and exchanged for 10-cent coins. The number of 20-cent coins became 58 less than the number of 10-cent coins. How much money is there in the basket?
5 m
Level 2 PSLE
The pie chart shows how Zoe spent her money. The amount of money spent is also represented by the bar graph.
  1. What percentage of her money did Zoe spend on food?
  2. What fraction of her money did Zoe spend on books?
  3. How much of her money was spent on transport?
5 m