Level 1
Linda saved $230. Sally saved $86 less than Linda. How much money did Sally save?
2 m
Level 3
Kris had $65. After buying 5 sandwiches, she had $14 left. How much did each sandwich cost?
4 m
Level 2
Peter and Gabriel went to buy mobile phones at a sale. The usual price of 1 mobile phone was $600 each.
SALE Buy 1 mobile phone at 15% discount
Buy 2 or more mobile phones at 25% discount each
  1. Peter bought 1 mobile phone. How much did he pay?
  2. What is the maximum number of mobile phones Gabriel can buy if he has $7000?
3 m
Level 2
The bar graph shows the number of packets of different food collected in a donation drive.
  1. 15 of the total number of packets of food collected was coffee. How many packets of rice were collected?
  2. The table shows the mass of each packet of food. What is the difference between the total mass of noodles collected and the total mass of biscuits collected? Give your answer in kg.
3 m
Level 3
The bar graph shows the number of ice-cream flavours sold at a shop in a day.
  1. What percentage of the ice-creams sold was durian ice-creams? Give your answer correct to 1 decimal place.
  2. The cost of each ice-cream was the same. The amount of money collected for vanilla ice-creams was $15 more than the amount of money collected for strawberry ice-creams. What was the total amount of money collected from the sale of all the ice-creams?
3 m
Level 1
A pear costs 95¢. How much must I pay for 17 pears?
2 m
Level 1
Jasmine spent 14 of her money on sweets and spent 14 of her money on chocolates. What fraction of her money did Jasmine have left?
3 m
Level
In a stationery kiosk, a box of markers costs thrice as much as a guidebook. Mrs Yong spent 14 of her money to buy 2 boxes of markers. She then spent 47 of her remaining money to buy some guidebooks and had $21.60 left. How much does each guidebook cost?
4 m
Level 1
Henry sent a parcel to his friend in Canada. Given that his parcel weighed 3 kg and the cost of postage to Canada was $1.26 per kg, how much would it cost Henry to send the parcel?
2 m
Level 2
Tommy bought two lamps that cost $171 each before Goods and Service Tax (GST).
  1. Given that GST was charged at 8%, how much GST did Tommy have to pay for one lamp?
  2. What was the total cost of the lamps, inclusive of GST?
3 m
Level 3 PSLE
At first, Jack had some money. He spent 14 of it on a T-shirt and 25 of the remainder on a pair of shoes. After that, his parents gave him $240. The ratio of the total amount of money he had at the end to the amount of money he had at first was 5 : 4. How much money did Jack have at first?
4 m
Level 3
Dennis saved some money on the first week. Each following week, he managed to save $8 more than the week before. He saved a total of $100 after 4 weeks. How much money did he save on the 3rd week?
4 m
Level 2
70 fish balls cost $14. Bob has just enough money to buy 45 fish balls. How much money does Bob have?
2 m
Level 2
Lisa had $451200. She invested 20% of it and put the rest in an account that gave her 3.5% interest in a year. How much would she have in the account at the end of the first year?
3 m
Level 3
Three women, Mrs Zhang, Mrs Lin and Mrs Yap went on a shopping spree. 30% of Mrs Zhang's spending is equal to 15 of Mrs Lin's spending. Mrs Yap's spending is 40% more than Mrs Lin's. If Mrs Lin spends another $804, she will spend the same amount of money as Mrs Yap.
  1. Find the ratio of Mrs Zhang's spending to Mrs Lin's to Mrs Yap's.
  2. How much did Mrs Zhang spend?
4 m
Level 3
The bookshop sells 4 different coloured pens. The line graph shows the number of pens sold for each colour in a week.
  1. What was the difference between the number of blue and black pens sold?
  2. Each red pen cost $0.30 more than each green pen. The bookshop collected $84 from selling the green pens. What was the price of 1 red pen?
3 m
Level 3
Mandy saved $5 in Week 1. She saved $10 in Week 2 and $15 in Week 3. She continued saving in this pattern.
  1. In which week did she save $30?
  2. How much would she save in Week 8?
4 m
Level 3
Mr Tan wants to lay carpet grass in this entire square garden. The cost of the carpet grass is $25 per square metre. The length of the square is 10 m. How much did Mr Tan pay for carpeting his garden? (The diagram is not drawn to scale)
3 m
Level 3
The total monthly incomes of 24 men is $51000. 58 of them earn the same monthly income each. Each of the remaining men earns 4 times as much per month. Find the difference between the higher monthly income and the lower monthly income.
4 m
Level 2
A jacket costs $4.70. A hoodie costs four times as much as the jacket. Find the total cost of the hoodie and the jacket.
2 m