Level 3
Xuan, Penny, Kate and Violet went to buy a gift for their grandmother. They shared the cost equally among themselves. However, Violet forgot to bring her money. So, the other 3 girls paid for the gift first. Kate paid 35 of the amount Xuan and Penny paid. Penny paid $11 more than Xuan. The next day, Violet returned $76 to Kate and some money to Xuan and Penny. How much did Violet return to
  1. Xuan?
  2. Penny?
5 m
Level 3
Three girls gave an equal amount of money to buy a souvenir for Oscar. Diana used 13 of her money. Fiona used 34 of her money and Ruth used 12 of hers. They had a total of $190 at first. How much was the souvenir?
4 m
Level 3
Mr Yap bought some pizzas for a group of pupils. There is an equal number of girls and boys. The girls received 5 times as many pizzas as the boys. Each boy ate 13 of a pizza and the boys finished all the pizzas given to them. Each girl ate 16 of a pizza and the girls had 18 12 pizzas left. How many pizzas did Mr Yap buy?
5 m
Level 3
At a conference made up of speakers and participants, there were 10% more men than women. The ratio of the male speakers to female speakers was 8 : 5. There was an equal number of male and female participants.
  1. Find the ratio of male speakers to male participants at the conference at first.
  2. Halfway, 89 male participants left the conference and another 73 female participants joined the conference. In the end, there were 34 as many male participants as female participants remaining behind. How many speakers were there at the conference?
5 m
Level 3
Nick and Ken have some yellow staplers and some pink staplers. The number of pink staplers Nick has is equal to the number of yellow staplers Ken has. 14 of Nick's staplers are yellow and 15 of Ken's staplers are pink. There are a total of 112 yellow staplers. Find the total number of staplers they have.
4 m