Level 3
Mr Lim has three pieces of rope of length 80 cm, 140 cm and 180 cm. He wishes to cut the three pieces of rope into smaller pieces of equal length with no remainder.
What is the greatest possible length of each of the smaller pieces of rope?
How many of the smaller pieces of rope of equal length can he get?
Natasha had some T-shirts that she wanted to donate. 3 of them were torn and she had to throw them away. She then packed them equally into boxes. Each box could either contain 6 or 7 T-shirts. What is the smallest possible number of T-shirts Natasha had at first?
Level 3 Mrs Tan puts her jelly beans into goodie bags. Each goodie bag contains the same number of jelly beans. If she puts 3 jelly beans, 4 jelly beans or 5 jelly beans into each goodie bag, she will not have any jelly beans left. What is the smallest number of jelly beans Mrs Tan have?
Level 3
Mrs Lee has some balloons. She can share all the balloons equally among 4, 6 or 8 children without any remainder. What is the least possible number of balloons Mrs Lee has?
Level 3
Alyson, Clara and Joyce were each given a piece of string of equal length. Alyson cut hers into equal lengths of 2 m, Clara cut hers into equal lengths of 3 m, and Joyce cut hers into equal lengths of 5 m. If there were no remainder in each case, find the shortest length of string given to each of them.
Level 3
Gerald bought bottles of apple juice, orange juice and lemon juice of 250 mℓ, 300 mℓ and 500 mℓ respectively. He wanted to have equal amount of each type of juice. What is the least number of bottles he must buy for
Level 3
Mr Lim has some pencils. If he ties them in bundles of 6, he will have 5 extra pencils. If he ties them in bundles of 5, he would be short of 3 pencils. What is the smallest possible number of pencils Mr Lim has?
Level 2
Miss Lim needed to purchase some chocolates for her students. Given that each packet contained 9 chocolates and she had 20 students in her class, what was the least number of packets of chocolates she needed to buy so that each student gets 7 chocolates?
Level 2
Miss Tan needed some buttons to sew some clothes. The buttons were sold in packets of 8 buttons. If she needed 434 buttons and each pack cost $2, how much would it cost for her to buy enough buttons?
Level 3
Gerald bought bottles of apple juice, orange juice and lemon juice of 250 mℓ, 300 mℓ and 500 mℓ respectively. He counted to pour them into smaller cups of equal amount with no leftover.
What was the largest possible amount of juice in each cup?
How many cups of juice of apple juice, orange juice and lemon juice would he have respectively?
Level 3
An even 5-digit whole number is made up of different digits. The digit in the ten thousands place is the smallest even number. It is 5 less than the tens digit. The thousands digit is twice of the hundreds digit. The hundreds digit is 4 less than the tens digit. What is the smallest possible 5-digit whole number?
Level 3
If you round me off to the nearest thousand, you will get 7000. If you round me off to the nearest hundred, you will get 7100. The sum of all my digits is 16. What is my largest possible value?
