Level 3
An empty rectangular tank has a capacity of 90ℓ and a height of 50 cm. At 10 am, Tap A is turned on to fill the tank at a rate of 4ℓ per minute for 15 minutes. After 5 minutes, Tap B is turned on to drain water from the tank at a rate of 2ℓ per minute for 18 minutes. What is the height of the water level in the tank in the end? Express the answer in 1 decimal place.
3 m
Level 3
Tank A measuring 54 cm by 14 cm by 25 cm contains 4.7 ℓ of water. It is being filled with water flowing from Tap X at 0.9ℓ/min and Tap Y at 995 mℓ/min. Both taps are turned on at the same time. How long does it take to fill up Tank A till it is 75% full? Correct the answer to 1 decimal place.
3 m
Level 3
A tank with a square base area of 121 cm2 is 60% filled with water. If 4 pails of water are poured into the tank, 756 cm3 of water would overflow. If 3 pails of water are poured into the tank, 128 cm3 of water would overflow. What is the height of the tank ? Give the answer to one decimal place.
3 m
Level 2
X, Y and Z are centres of three identical circles. The length of XY is 7.2 m. XY, YZ and XZ are equal in length. Find the shaded area of the figure. (Take π = 3.14) Correct to 2 decimal places.
2 m
Level 3 PSLE
A and B are two rectangular tanks. The base area of A is 80 cm2 while that of B is 50 cm2 . At first, A contained water to a height of 40 cm and B was empty, as shown.
  1. What was the volume of the water in A at first? 
  2. Rashid then poured some water from A to B. After that, the height of the water level in A was twice that in B. What was the new height of the water level in A? Round off the answer to 1 decimal place.
3 m
Level 3
The figure is not drawn to scale. An empty Tank A measures 50 cm by 20 cm by 40.5 cm. Tank B with a base area of 1000 cm2was completely filled with water. Ronald poured 12 of the water from Tank B into Tank A. The water filled 70% of Tank A. What was the height of Tank B? (Correct the answer to 2 decimal places.)
3 m
Level 3
A rectangular tank measuring 35 cm by 26 cm by 12 cm is completely filled with oil. Oil from the tank is poured into an empty cubical container of edge 18 cm until the cubical container is half-filled. What is the height of the oil in the tank after some oil is poured out? Correct the answer to 1 decimal place.
3 m
Level 3
The figure shows an empty container. It is made from two cubical tanks. Tanks, Cube A and Cube B, are of sides 10 cm and 20 cm respectively. Cube A is attached to the centre of one of the sides of the Cube B. 5 litres of water is poured into the container such that water flows in to fill part of Cube A. What is the height of the water level in the container? Round off the answer to one decimal place.
3 m
Level 3
Betty and Eva shared some stickers. Betty had 60% of what Eva had at first. Betty then gave Eva 37 of what she had. How many more percent did Eva have than Betty in the end? Correct the answer to 1 decimal place.
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 3
The figure is not drawn to scale. It shows the net of a solid. It is made up of 4 identical rectangles and 2 identical squares. Line A is 30 cm long and Line B is 15 cm long.
  1. Find the volume of the solid.
  2. This solid is a cardboard carton containing small boxes of sweets. Each box of sweets is 3 cm by 2 cm by 1 cm. If all these small boxes of sweets in the carton occupy more than 75% of the carton's volume, what is the minimum number of small boxes of sweets in the carton?
4 m
Level 3
The figure, not drawn to scale, is made up of semicircles in a rectangle ABCD. XY is the common baseline for all the semi-circles.
  1. Find the length of AB.
  2. Using the calculator π, find the perimeter of the shaded parts. Give the answer correct to 2 decimal places.
3 m
Level 3
The figure shows two identical semi-circles. XY is a straight line. X and Y are the centres of the semi-circles. Given that the radius of the semi-circle is 10 cm, find the area of the shaded regions. Express the answer correct to 1 decimal place. (Take π = 3.14)
3 m
Level 3
This figure is not drawn to scale. A rectangular glass tank 72 cm by 50 cm by 35 cm has 2 compartments, X and Y, with a water height of 30 cm in X and 15 cm in Y. A hole in the slider caused water to leak from X to Y. It was found that the water level in both compartments became the same after some time.
  1. What is the height of water in the tank now?
  2. It took 112 h for the water in both compartments to reach the same level. Assuming that water leaked at a constant rate, how much water flowed from X to Y in 1 minute? Express the answer to 1 decimal place in cm³.
4 m
Level 3
The figure is made of 2 quadrants and a rectangle. The rectangle measures 12 cm by 4 cm. Using the calculator value of π, find the area of the shaded part. Correct the answer to 2 decimal places.
3 m
Level 3
A tank is to be filled to the brim. Tap A takes 20 minutes to fill the tank while Tap B takes 15 minutes to fill it. How long will it take to completely fill the tank with water if both the taps are turned on at the same time? Leave the answer in minutes and round off to 1 decimal place.
4 m
Level 3
It takes Faucet X 15 minutes to fill a tank measuring 14 cm by 8 cm by 12 cm completely while it takes Faucet Y only 10 minutes. How long will it take to completely fill the tank with water if both faucets are turned on at the same time and 3 cubic cubes of edges 3 cm, filled with water, are poured into the tank? Leave the answer in minutes and round off to 2 decimal places.
4 m
Level 3
Study the patterns.
  1. Find the total number of triangles in Figure 30.
  2. Express the biggest triangle as a percentage of the total possible number of triangles in Figure 30. Correct your answer to 2 decimal places.
5 m
Level 3
Vincent has some 20-cent coins and 50-cent coins which amount to more than $20 but less than $54. The number of 20-cent coins is 14 of all the coins he has. When he exchanges some 50-cent coins for 20-cent coins, the ratio of the number of 50-cent coins to 20-cent coins he now has become 1 : 6.
  1. What is the largest possible amount of money Vincent has?
  2. What is the total value of 50-cent coins that has been exchanged for 20-cent coins? Express the answer to 2 decimal place.
5 m
Level 3
The figure is made up of a big semicircle of diameter 8 cm and 2 small semicircles with diameter 5.7 cm. Find the shaded area. Round off the answer to nearest 1 decimal place. (Take π = 3.14)
4 m