Level 3
Stella went shopping with $60. She spent $20 on a pair of socks and $35 on a pair of shoes. What fraction of her money was left?
4 m
Level 3
Ivory receives $10 more allowance than Neave each day. Ivory spends $9 more than Neave each day. Their remaining money was saved. How much more money will Ivory save than Neave after 3 days?
2 m
Level 2
Mr Tan paid $2568 for a television and $769 for a stereo set.
  1. How much cheaper was the stereo set than the television?
  2. How much did he spend in all?
2 m
Level 2
Mark went shopping with some money. The amount of money he brought along was just enough to buy 6 similar files. However, he spent $4.20 on a scarf and $6.85 on a shirt. He then had $22.55 left. What was the price of each file?
4 m
Level 3
Zoe went shopping with $200. She bought a skirt for $30, a denim pants for $70 and a handkerchief for $20.
  1. What fraction of her money did she spend?
  2. What fraction of her money was left?
4 m
Level 3
Mr. Choy bought 5 kg of flour for $12. He sold the flour for $28.
  1. How much did he sell each kilogram of flour for?
  2. How much money did he make from each kilogram of flour?
4 m
Level 3
Bryan's money was 335 times his sister's money. After his mother gave him $44 and his sister $122, Bryan then had twice as much money as his sister. How much money did Bryan have at first?
4 m
Level 2
Arjun earned $2350 every month. He saved 15 of his salary in January and spent the rest. How much money did he spend in January?
3 m
Level 3
A rectangular floor, 18 m by 9.5 m, is laid with rubber tiles at a cost of $29 per square metre.
  1. Find the cost of tiling the floor.
  2. Round off the answer in (a) to the nearest thousand dollars.
3 m
Level 3
Jenny's mother gave her $2 to buy 2 pears. Instead, Jenny bought 3 pears and received twenty cents as change. How much change would Jenny receive if she had bought 2 pears?
4 m
Level 3
34 of Eva's money was equal to 12 of Anna's money at first. After Eva spent $1.70 and Anna spent $0.70, Eva had 35 as much money as Anna.
  1. How much did Anna have at first? Express the answer(s) in 2 decimal places.
  2. How much did Eva have in the end? Express the answer(s) in 2 decimal places.
4 m
Level 2
An orange cost 20 cents. A mango cost 50 cents. Jack bought 6 oranges and 5 mangoes. How much did he pay for the fruits altogether?
4 m
Level 2
Jim saved some twenty-cent coins and fifty-cent coins in his piggy bank. The number of twenty-cent coins he saved is twice the number of fifty-cent coins. If he had 5 fifty-cent coins. how much was his savings in the piggy bank? (Give the answer in dollars.)
4 m
Level 3
Jill spent 910 of her money on 20 muffins and 5 croissants. If each muffin costs twice as much as a croissant, how many croissants could Jill buy with the rest of her money?
3 m
Level 3
The ratio of the amount of money that Anna and Yvonne brought along was 4 : 5. For a friend's birthday present, Anna and Yvonne shared the cost in the ratio of 2 : 3. Anna used up 25 of her money to pay for her share. After paying for her share, Yvonne had $78 left. How much was the birthday present?
4 m
Level 3
The auditorium had 1050 seats. There were 25% fewer $40-seats than $5-seats. 50% of the $5-seats and some $40-seats were sold. A total of $16180 was collected. How many seats were unsold?
4 m
Level 3
Mr Lin bought 30 boxes of pens at the price of $15 per box. He gave 65 pens to his students and sold the rest of the pens at 80 cents each. If he made a profit of $50, find the number of pens in each box.
3 m
Level 2
Liping had just enough money to buy 90 notebooks of the same price. She bought only 30 notebooks for her students and had $120 left. What was the cost of one notebook?
3 m
Level 3
Entrance tickets to the concert are $8 each for adults. The ticket for a child costs 25% less. Last Sunday, 10% of the tickets sold were for children and the total sales of the tickets was $3900. How many of the tickets sold were for adults?
4 m
Level 2 PSLE
The bar graph shows the number of coloured pens sold by a shop. The table shows the prices of the pens.
  1. What fraction of the pens sold were black pens? Give the answer in the simplest form.
  2. From the sale of the pens, which coloured pens collected the least amount of money? What was the amount? Give the answers in the following way. (Eg Green, $1)
4 m