Level 3
Some friends are playing card games. If each of them is given 8 cards, there will be 12 cards left. If each of them is given 5 cards, there will be 24 cards left.
  1. How many friends are there?
  2. How many cards are there?
4 m
Level 3
Noelle has some money to buy some sweets. She will have $9 left if she buys 12 packets of sweets. However, she will need $15 more if she wants to buy 18 packets of sweets. How much money does Noelle have?
4 m
Level 3
Mrs Toh bought an equal number of dresses and blouses. Each dress cost $33 and each blouse cost $7. Mrs Toh paid $147 for the blouses. What was the total amount of money spent?
4 m
Level 3
In a farm, there are thrice as many horses as chickens. Given that there are 168 legs altogether, how many chickens are there in the farm?
4 m
Level 3
Mrs Krishnan bought 4 times as many plates as cups from a shop. Each plate cost $7 and each cup cost $4. If Mrs Krishnan spent a total $160, how many plates did she buy?
4 m
Level 3
360 adults and children bought tickets to visit the zoo. There were 5 times as many children as adults. One child ticket cost $8 each. How much money was collected from the sales of the child tickets?
4 m
Level 3
A school paid a total of $432 for a group of students and their teachers for a zoo trip. The price of an adult ticket was $8 and a student ticket was $5. Given that there were 20 times as many students as teacher. How many students did the school pay for the zoo trip?
4 m
Level 3
A bag of 280 sweets were distributed to a group of boys and girls. Each boy received 3 sweets and each girl received 5 sweets. Given that there were thrice as many boys as girls, how many boys were there in the group?
4 m
Level 3
There are 7 more penguins than tigers in a zoo. If there is a total of 200 legs, how many penguins are there in the zoo?
4 m
Level 3
John has 2 bags and 5 packets of beads. He has a total of 124 beads. Each packet contains 8 more beads than each bag. How many beads are there in each packet?
4 m
Level 3
At a funfair, an adult ticket costs $3 and a child ticket costs $1. Last Sunday, the funfair sold 179 more adult tickets than child tickets. A total of $1101 was collected. How many child tickets were sold?
4 m
Level 3
Mrs Ong bought some muffins and donuts at the prices shown.
Muffin $2 each
Donut $1 each
She bought 3 more donuts than muffins and spent $18 altogether. How many muffins did she buy?
4 m
Level 3
Mrs Kok had some 20-cent and $1 coins in her handbag. She had 7 more 20-cent coins than $1 coins. The total value of the coins was $11. What was the total number of coins that Mrs Kok had in her handbag?
4 m
Level 3
Mr Lim employed some welders and painters for his construction site. A painter was paid $20 a day and a welder was paid $35 a day. Given that he employed 4 times as many welders as painters and a total of $1280 was paid to these workers for the day, how many more welders than painters did Mr Lim employ for his site?
4 m