Level 3
60% of the pupils are boys. 40% of the boys and 40% of the girls wear cardigans. What percentage of the pupils do not wear cardigans?
3 m
Level 3 PSLE
Books in a class library are grouped according to the following four types: Riddles, Poetry, Folktale, and Crafts. The bar graph shows the number of books of each type in the class library.
  1. What percentage of books in the class library was of the Folktale type?
  2. There were 38 students in the class. Every student in the class took three or four books home to read over the weekend. No book was left in the classroom. How many students took three books home?
3 m
Level 3
There are some pupils in the zoo. 25 of them are girls, of whom 20% of them do not wear caps. 23 of the boys do not wear caps. What is the percentage of the pupils in the zoo who wear caps?
4 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 PSLE
Mrs Curry bought a bag and a pair of shoes at a discount. She spent a total of $57.60 on these two items. She spent $9.60 more on the shoes than on the bag.
  1. How much did she spend on the shoes?
  2. The total discount given for the two items was $22.40. She was given a 25% discount for the bag. What was the percentage discount given for the shoes?
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
The average number of mangosteens in Carton C, Carton D and Carton E is 24 and it is 8 more than the average number of papayas in the 3 cartons. 16 of the papayas are in Carton C and the papayas in Carton C is 80% of the number of papayas in Carton D. If each carton has the same number of fruits, what percentage of the fruits in Carton E are mangosteens?
5 m
Level 3
Sarah bought a total of 300 big and small candies. Then she decided to exchange 60% of her big candies for the small ones in the ratio of 3 : 5. After the exchange, she had 366 candies. What percentage of the candies she bought were small ones?
5 m