Level 3
Lee spent 18 of his money on balloons, 13 of the remaining money on a cake and $16 on drinks. He had 12 of his money. How much money did he have at first?
4 m
Level 3
At a school swimming event, 14 of the students were boys. Given that 25 of the girls and 35 of the boys did not know how to swim, how many students were there altogether if there were 154 swimmers at the event?
4 m
Level 3
There were 210 books in a bookstore. 57 of the books were fiction books and the rest were non-fiction books. 23 of the fiction books and 56 of the non-fiction books were in English. How many non-English books were there in the bookstore?
4 m
Level 3
Figure A shows a rectangular container filled with some water and 8 identical blocks. The base area of the rectangular container is 448 cm2. Figure B shows the same container being turned upright. Find the volume of water in the container.
5 m
Level 3
In the figure not drawn to scale, 4 identical rectangles were placed around square ABCD to form a larger square, EFGH. The area of one rectangle is 12 cm2, and the area of ABCD is 14 of EFGH. Find the length of one rectangle.
4 m
Level 3
The number of silver crayons is twice the number of blue crayons. The number of blue crayons is 14 more than the number of gold crayons. The total number of crayons is 138. The cost of each silver crayon is $3.80 and the cost of each gold crayon is $1.50. The total cost of all the crayons is $374.20.
  1. Find the number of gold crayons.
  2. Find the cost of a blue crayon.
5 m
Level 3
Nicole baked 187 puffs and tarts. She burnt 7 pieces and counted the remaining pieces. 16 of the tarts and 56 of the puffs were strawberry flavoured. There were equal number of tarts and puffs that were banana flavoured.
  1. How many unburnt banana puffs were there?
  2. What fraction of the unburnt pastries were strawberry puffs?
4 m
Level 3
Luis, Sam and Andy went shopping. Luis and Sam spent a total of $341. Luis and Andy spent a total of $483. Andy spent 3 times as much money as Sam. How much money did Luis spend?
4 m
Level 3 PSLE
Mr Devon bought an humidifier for $216 after a discount of 25%.
  1. What was the price of the humidifier before discount?
  2. He paid $128 for a fan. The total discount for the humidifier and fan was $104. What was the percentage discount given for the fan?
5 m
Level 3
Figure ABCD is made up of 3 identical rectangles and a square. The perimeter of the whole figure ABCD is 80 cm. What is the area of the figure ABCD?
4 m