Level 3 PSLE
Matthew spent ³₇ of his money to buy 6 identical pens. He spent the rest of his money to buy another 4 such pens and 3 identical files.

1. What fraction of Muthu's money was spent to buy the 3 files? Give your answer in the simplest form
2. For every 5 files bought, 1 additional file was given free. How many files would Matthew get in total if he were to spend all his money to buy files only?

Level 3
Betty spent ⁴₅ of her money on 14 stamps and 5 pens. The cost of each pen is 2 times the cost of each stamp. She bought some more stamps with ²₃ of her remaining money. How many stamps did Betty buy altogether?

Level 3
John spent ³₇ of his salary and gave $880 to his wife. Of the remaining amount, he saved ¹₅ of it and gave ³₁₀ of it to his parents. He then donated ²₃ of what he had left away and gave the remaining $56 to his daughter. What was John's salary?

Level 3
Kate had some fruits at her stall. ³₄ of them were mangosteens, ¹₃ of the remainder were apples and the rest were coconuts. The amounts earned for each mangosteen, each Fuji apple and each coconut sold are $1.50, $3.00 and $4.50 respectively.

The number of mangosteens sold to the number of apples sold to the number of coconuts sold was 3 : 5 : 3. In total, she sold ¹₄ of the fruits and earned $198. How many coconuts did she have at first?

Level 3
³₅ of Jack's savings is equal to ²₃ of Asher's savings. The difference in their savings is equal to ¹₅ of Fred's savings. Jack saves $90 more than Fred. Find the total amount of saving of all 3 boys.

Level 3
Tabitha wanted to buy some cookies and brownies. The cost of a cookie was ³₄ the cost of a brownie. A set of 3 cookies and 2 brownies cost $5.10. What was the total amount Tabitha had to pay for 17 cookies and 10 brownies?

Level 3
Hazel, Olivia and Diana had a total of 767 marbles. The ratio of Olivia's marbles to Diana's marbles was at first 4 : 7. After Hazel and Olivia each gave half of their marbles away, the 3 children had 527 marbles left. How many marbles did Hazel and Diana have at first?

Level 3
Penny, Vera and Roshel bought a gift for their parents. They shared the cost equally between them. Penny used ²₅ of her savings, Vera used ⁵₈ of her savings and Roshel used ³₇ of her savings. Penny and Roshel had $170 left. How much did each girl pay for the gift?

Level 3
In a factory, Machine A was turned on first and it produced 313 wontons. Then Machine A and Machine B were turned on at the same time to continue production. For every 4 wontons Machine A produced, Machine B produced 6 wontons. Machine B produced 45 less than ¹₂ of the total number of wontons produced. How many wontons were produced altogether?

Level 3
There are 177 boys and girls altogether. ²₃ of the number of boys is 18 more than the number of girls.

1. How many boys are there?
2. How many more boys than girls are there?

Level 3
Tim had 672 coins. ²₇ were pink and the rest were yellow and blue. The ratio of the number of yellow coins to the number of blue coins was 1 : 3. Tim decided to buy some more pink coins to increase the number of pink coins to half of the total number of coins.

1. How many less yellow coins than pink coins did he have at first?
2. How many more pink coins did he have to buy?

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?

Level 3
Ana bought pieces of paper to make 3 lanterns. She used ¹₅ of the pieces of paper on the first lantern. She used 40 more pieces of paper on the second lantern than the first lantern. She used the remaining 65 pieces of paper on the last lantern. How many pieces of papers did she buy?

Level 3
A bag of candies was distributed equally among 16 pupils. When 7 of these pupils gave up ³₅ of their share, the rest of the pupils received 14 more candies each. How many candies were there in the bag?

Level 3
Class A, B and C were given some chocolate bars to sell for their fundraising event. The average number of chocolate bars the 3 classes had at first was 225. After Class B sold twice as many chocolate bars as Class A and Class C sold ³₄ as many chocolate bars as Class B, the average number of chocolate bars the 3 classes had left was 45. How many chocolate bars did Class A and Class C sell altogether?

Level 3
Siti had some stickers at first. She gave ²₉ of her stickers to her brother and ¹₆ of her stickers to her best friend. After that, her mother gave her another 10 stickers. She had 87 stickers in the end. How many stickers did Siti have at first?

Level 3
At first, a pot contained ²₅ ℓ of water. Keisha added another ¹₂ ℓ of water into the pot. Then she used ²₉ of all the water in the pot. How much water did Keisha use? Express your answer as a fraction in its simplest form.

Level 3
¹₄ of the flowers in a flower shop were sunflowers, ¹₃ of them were carnations and the remaining 60 stalks were roses.

1. How many stalks of flowers were there in the shop?
2. At the end of the day, the number of flowers sold was 10 more than the number of flowers left. How many stalks of flowers were sold?