Level 2
Both number X and number Y when rounded off to the nearest hundred are 1200 and 5500 respectively. What is the smallest possible total for X and Y?
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Level 2
Jill thought of a number. When this number is rounded off to the nearest ten, it becomes 60. This number is also a common multiple of 4 and 8. What is the smallest possible number?
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Level 2
The mass of a bag of sugar is 200 g. The mass of a bag of flour is 600 g. Mrs Foo wants to buy an equal amount of sugar and flour. What is the least number of bags of sugar that she should buy?
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Level 2
Doris bought a box of 36 chocolates and a box of 45 sweets. However, she wanted to buy equal number of chocolates and sweets. What was the minimum number of boxes of chocolates and sweets she needed to buy?
  1. Number of boxes of chocolates
  2. Number of boxes of sweets
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Level 2
Mr Jones bought a carton of bean bags. There were fewer than 60 bean bags in the carton. The number of bean bags in the carton could be packed into boxes of 4 or 7. What was the greatest possible number of bean bags in the carton?
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Level 2
What is the smallest possible number which will give a remainder of 3 when divided by either 12 or 15?
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Level 2
Clara has some sweets. If she packs them in groups of 5, she will have 3 extra sweets. If she packs them in groups of 8, she will have 7 extra sweets. What is the minimum number of sweets Clara has?
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Level 2
Some multiples of a number are given. What is the largest possible number?
8, 24, 48, 12, 30
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Level 2
Miss Tan has 24 sweets and 30 chocolates.
  1. What is the maximum number of bags she can pack these items equally into without any left over?
  2. How many sweets and chocolates are there in each bag altogether?
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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?
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Level 2
Which of the following gives the smallest answer? Give the answer in letters. (Eg a)
  1. 13 + 74
  2. 78 - 58
  3. 35 + 12
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Level 2
Which of the following gives the smallest answer? Give the answer in letters. (Eg a)
  1. 3 less than 38
  2. 3 more than 55
  3. 74 - 5
  4. 84 + 8
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Level 2
One ticket to the SEA games sports match was sold at $8. To promote the event, 3 tickets were given free for 20 tickets purchased. If John wanted to buy 46 tickets in all, what was the least amount of money he had to spend?
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Level 3
78, 45, 83, 67, 55
Use the numbers to fill in the blanks.
  1. The greatest number is _____
  2. The smallest number is _____
  3. ______and _____are greater than 78
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Level 2
Mrs Goh had a sum of money. She could either buy 32 chocolates or 24 sweets. Given that she had already bought 12 chocolates and 9 sweets, how many more chocolates could she buy?
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Level 3
Julie bought 14 kg of flour. She packed them into 4 packets. Each packet had the same mass.
  1. What is the maximum mass of each packet of rice?
  2. How many kilograms of rice were left?
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Level 3
Which two numbers will give the greatest answer when they are subtracted?
453, 865, 548, 857
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Level 3
Study the picture.
  1. What container contains the most amount of water?
  2. How many more bottles does the pail contain than the pitcher?
  3. If each bottle contains 2 ℓ, how many litres does the pail has?
  4. How many ℓ does the pail and pitcher have?
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Level 3
There are 3 laces of consecutive length. Given that the total length of these 3 laces is 186 cm, find the length of the shortest lace.
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Level 3
Mrs. Goh had a sum of money. If she bought 3 bars of chocolates and 4 packets of sweets, she would have $5 left. If she bought 2 bars of chocolates and 10 packets of sweets, she would have $1 left. Given that she had $15, how many bars of chocolates could she buy at most?
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