Level 2
Hillary bought 12 buns and 15 doughnuts altogether. One bun is y ¢ and one doughnut is $2. She gave the cashier $50. Express her change in terms of y in cents.
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Level 1
Lindy paid $p for a plate which cost p cents. How much change did she receive? Give your answers in
  1. cents,
  2. dollars.
2 m
Level 1
Ben had $20f. It cost $2f to play a game in the arcade and he played 7 games. If he paid 80 cents for the entrance fee, how much money did he have left in dollars?
2 m
Level 2 PSLE
Three boys collected bottles for recycling. Jay collected 2m bottles which was half as many as what Ken collected. Tom collected 9 bottles more than Ken. How many bottles did they collect altogether? Give the answer in terms of m in the simplest form.
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Level 2
Albert had $y. He spent $12 on a novel and gave 13 of the remainder to his mother.
  1. How much did he give to his mother?
  2. How much did he have left?
2 m
Level 2
The average age of Randy and Michael is 8z years. Ron is 20z years old. What is the average age of the 3 men?
2 m
Level 2
The perimeter of an isosceles triangle is (6k + 21) cm. The longest side is (2k + 7) cm. Find the length of one of the equal sides.
2 m
Level 2
John used 3 rubber bands to form the sides of triangle ABC where AB = 8 cm, BC = x cm and AC = 2x cm. Bob stretches two of the elastic bands and enlarges triangle ABC. The sides BC and AC are stretched to 2 times its original length. What is the perimeter of the stretched triangle ABC?
2 m
Level 2
The average mass of Lynn and Joan is 18p kg. If Joan is 4p kg lighter than Lynn, find Lynn's mass in kg.
2 m
Level 1
Jimmy and Kenny had $180 in all. Ken had $(12b + 6) more than Jim. How much did Jim have if b = 7?
2 m
Level 1 PSLE
Abel, Ben and Cindy share $15z. Abel gets $z more than Ben and Cindy gets $2z more than Ben. If z = 7, how much money does Ben get?
2 m
Level 2
Gary weighs x kg while Jim weighs 20 kg.
  1. Find the average mass of each boy in terms of x .
  2. If x = 30, find the average mass of each boy.
2 m
Level 2 PSLE
Cindy is y years old. Sarah is three times as old as Cindy and Sarah is 5 years older than Jim.
  1. What is Jim's age in terms of y in years?
  2. If Cindy is 13 years old, how many years older is Jim than Cindy in years?
2 m
Level 2 PSLE
Use the table given to answer questions (a) and (b).
  1. What was the total number of muffins sold last week?
  2. Express your answer in terms of w in the simplest form. If w = 20, how many more muffins were sold on Sunday than on Saturday?
2 m
Level 2
Tom has a mass of 8r kg. John is 4 kg heavier than Tom. The mass of May is twice the total mass of the Tom and John.
  1. Find the total mass of the 3 children in terms of r.
  2. If r = 2, find the average mass of the 3 children.
2 m
Level 2 PSLE
Andy had 1.4 m of wire. He used some of it to make the figure as shown.
  1. How much of the wire did Andy use to make the figure? Leave your answer in the simplest form in terms of x.
  2. If x = 15, how much of the wire was not used to make the figure? Leave your answer in metres.
2 m
Level 2
A piece of ribbon is y m long. Wendy used 59 of it to tie a present. What is the length of the ribbon left?
2 m
Level 1
Jeremy had n boxes of paper clips. There were 20 paper clips in each box. He lost 4 paper clips and shared the remaining paper clips with his 3 friends. How many paper clips did each of them receive?
2 m
Level 2 PSLE
Sandy had 4z pears. She ate 1 pear and gave z pears to her friends. Sandy's brother then ate half of the remaining pears. How many pears had she left? Give your answer in terms of z in the simplest form.
2 m
Level 2
Pete bought 6 oranges for $9. If he sold them later and earned a profit of $p, how much did he sell 1 orange for?
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