Level 3
The average height of some boys is 145 cm. When 3 girls, with a total height of 393 cm, are included, the average height if the children becomes 142 cm. How many children are there altogether?
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Level 3
Adam has 300 stickers in 3 colours.
40% of the stickers are blue.
The number of red stickers is 13 that of yellow stickers.
  1. What percentage of the stickers are yellow?
  2. How many red stickers are there?
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Level 3
Simon has some black and red balls. The total mass of all his balls is 242 g. He has 5 more red balls than black balls. The average mass of the black balls is 6 g. The average mass of the red balls is 10 g. How many balls does Simon have altogether?
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Level 3
Adam has 300 stickers in 3 colours.
40% of the stickers are blue.
The rest are red and yellow stickers in the ratio 2 : 3.
  1. What percentage of the stickers are yellow?
  2. How many red stickers are there?
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Level 3
Shiyun, Kimberly and Yoko had jelly beans in the ratio of 8 : 4 : 3. After Shiyun gave 6 jelly beans to Kimberly and Yoko, the three of them had the same number of jelly beans. Find the total number of jelly beans the children had.
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Level 3
Kylie bought some Geography books at $17 each. She also bought an equal number of History books at a different price. The average price of one Geography and one History book was $10. Kylie paid $70 more for the Geography books than the History books.
  1. What was the cost of one History book?
  2. How many Geography books did Kylie buy?
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Level 3
The ratio of the number of ducks in Farm A to the number of ducks in Farm B was 5 : 9. There were 48 fewer ducks in Farm A than in Farm B. When 5 ducks escaped from Farm B, the farmer in Farm B bought another 9 ducks. What was the new ratio of the number of ducks in Farm A to the number of ducks in Farm B in the end? Give your answer in the simplest form.
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Level 3
Adam has stickers in 4 colours.
57 of the stickers are blue.
The rest of the stickers are red, yellow and green in the ratio of 1 : 5 : 3.
If there are 40 more yellow stickers than green stickers,
how many blue stickers are there?
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Level 3
The ratio of the number of papayas to the number of peaches that a fruit seller had was 5 : 11. After he sold half of the peaches, there were a total of 252 papayas and peaches left at the fruit stall.
  1. How many papayas were there at the stall?
  2. If he sold the remaining peaches in bags of 6 at $3.50 per bag, how much would he receive for them?
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Level 3
In a school, there is a total of 400 people.
30% are adults.
The rest are children.
The number of boys and girls is in the ratio of 2 : 5.
  1. What percentage of the people are boys?
  2. How many girls are there?
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