Level 1
In a party, Mabel folded 153 paper planes. She folded 3 times as many paper planes as her sister. How many more paper planes did Mabel folded than her sister?
Level 3
60% of the sweets in Packet A were blueberry sweets and the rest were strawberry sweets. Packet B had 25% more blueberry sweets than packet A and twice as many sweets than the total number of sweets in Packet A. Find the percentage of the strawberry sweets in Packet B that would need to be transferred into Packet A, so that there were an equal number of blueberry and strawberry sweets in Packet A.
Level 3
The figure shows an irregular 5-sided figure and a square. The area of the five-sided figure was three times the area of the square. After the shaded part was removed, the area of the remaining square became 15% of the total remaining area of both figures. If the area of the shaded part is 16 cm2, find the remaining area of the 5-sided figure.
Level 3
The figure shows an irregular 5-sided figure and a square. The area of the five-sided figure was three times the area of the square. After the shaded part was removed, the area of the remaining square became 15% of the total remaining area of both figures. If the area of the shaded part is 16 cm2, find the remaining area of the 5-sided figure.
Level 3
Faith baked a total of 350 muffins and puffs. After giving away 80% of the puffs and 75% of the muffins, she was left with twice as many puffs as muffins. Find the number of puffs Faith gave away.
Level 3
There were 286 students in a school. On the school anniversary, 56 of the girls and 45 of the boys came in green caps. The rest came in yellow caps. The number of boys who wore yellow caps was four times of the girls who wore yellow caps. How many students were in green caps that day?
Level 3
There are 200 more teachers in School X than in School Y. After 25% of the teachers left School X and 50% of teachers left School Y, the number of teachers who remained in School X is thrice that of the number of teachers in School Y. Find the number of teachers in School X at first.
Level 3
Zoe, Fanny, Eric and Olivia shared some pens. Zoe and Fanny took 15 of the total number of pens while Eric and Olivia took the rest. Fanny had four times as many pens as Zoe and Olivia had 176 pens. Given that Eric had four times as many pens as Fanny, how many pens were there altogether?
Level 3
Lucy paid a total of $550 for a brooch, a necklace and a watch.
She spent 35 of her money on the brooch. The necklace cost 3 times as much as the watch. How much did she pay for the necklace?
Level 3
At a carnival, the children were put into two groups. 45 of Group F were boys and 23 of Group G were girls. Group G had twice as many children as Group F. There were 18 fewer boys in Group F than Group G.
What fraction of the total number of children at the carnival were boys? Give your answer in the simplest form.
What was the total number of children at the carnival?
Level 3
There are a total of 430 large muffins, small muffins and medium muffins at
a stall. 35 of these muffins are large muffins. The number of small muffins is 3 times the number of medium muffins. How many more small muffins than medium muffins are there?
