Level 3 PSLE
A caterer prepares fish balls for some people attending a party. The ratio of the number of adults to the number of children attending is 2 : 5. Among the children, the ratio of the number of girls to the boys is 4 : 1. A total of 180 fish balls are prepared so that each adult gets 4 fish balls and each child gets 2.
  1. What fraction of the people attending the party are boys?
  2. How many children are attending the party?
4 m
Level 3
At a gathering, 13 of the people are adults. The remaining group of people is divided into boys and girls in the ratio of 5 : 7. Each boy is given 2 keychains and each girl is given 5 keychains. Each accompanying adult receives 6 keychains. Given that only 368 keychains are given away to boys and adults, how many more children are there than adults?
4 m
Level 3 PSLE
At a swimathon, each swimmer completed either a 2-km route, a 4-km route or an 5-km route. 15 of the swimmers completed the 2-km route, 720 of the participants completed the 4-km route and the rest completed the 5-km route. For every 1 km a participant swam, $8 was donated to charity. A total of $12960 was donated to charity.
  1. What is the ratio of the number of swimmers who completed the 2-km route to the number who completed the 4-km route to the number who completed the 5-km route?
  2. What is the total number of swimmers at the swimathon?
4 m
Level 3
Three types of pepper, W, X and Y come in containers of 150 g, 300 g and 400 g respectively. Containers of W, X and Y are mixed together in the ratio 1 : 6 : 7 to obtain 38 kg of an assortment of pepper.
  1. How many containers of W and X are used altogether?
  2. Find the difference between the combined weight of all the pepper in containers X and containers Y as compared to the pepper in containers W. Express the weight in kilograms.
4 m
Level 3
Tickets for a theme park were sold at $83 and $117. All the tickets were completely sold out. The amount collected for the $117 tickets was $80145. Given that the number of $117 tickets was 17 of the number of $83 tickets, how much more money was collected from the sales of the $83 ticket than the $117 ticket?
3 m
Level 3 PSLE
Tickets for a zoo trip were sold to teachers and pupils at different prices as shown.
Price per ticket:
Teacher $20
Pupil $8
14 of the tickets sold were bought by teachers. The total amount of money collected from the sale of tickets to pupils was $416 more than the total amount collected from the sale of tickets to teachers. How much money was collected from the sale of tickets altogether?
3 m
Level 3
$258 is to be divided among a certain number of people. Half of the people received $3 each, 512 of the people received $4 each and the rest received $5 each. How many people are there altogether?
3 m
Level 3 PSLE
A fruit stall sold peaches at 70¢ and apples at 40¢ each. Sally bought some peaches and Tom bought some apples from the stall. Sally spent $1.10 more than Tom, but had 7 fruits fewer than Tom.
  1. How many peaches did Sally buy?
  2. How much did Tom spend on the apples?
4 m
Level 3
In a pouch of notes, the number of $2, $5 and $10 are in ratio of 5 : 4 : 6. 15 of the $2-notes and 15 $5-notes are taken out. The remaining notes are worth $541. Find the difference between the value of $10-notes and $2-notes in the end.
4 m
Level 3
Entrance tickets to the concert are $8 each for adults. The ticket for a child costs 25% less. Last Sunday, 10% of the tickets sold were for children and the total sales of the tickets was $3900. How many of the tickets sold were for adults?
4 m
Level 3
At a theme park, each adult ticket cost $25 and each child ticket cost $12. On Monday, the number of adult tickets sold was 120 less than the number of child tickets. On Tuesday, the number of adult tickets sold decreased by 10% while the number of child tickets sold increased by 30%. If a total of 816 tickets were sold on Tuesday, how much money was collected on Monday?
4 m
Level 3
During a telematch, each group of students was supposed to collect as many coloured candies as possible. Each colour represented a certain point as tabulated:

Yellow 3 points
Pink 6 points
Blue 7 points

In each container, the number of yellow candies was 20% more than the number of blue candies and 10% less than the number of pink candies. Given that the total possible points if the group managed to collect all the candies were 558 points, how many candies were not yellow in colour?
4 m
Level 3
The auditorium had 1050 seats. There were 25% fewer $40-seats than $5-seats. 50% of the $5-seats and some $40-seats were sold. A total of $16180 was collected. How many seats were unsold?
4 m
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Level 3 PSLE
Lina baked a total of 40 large and small cakes in the ratio of 5 : 3. She decorated each cake with some strawberries in the ratio of 3 : 2. She used a total of 204 strawberries to decorate all the small cakes and 7 large cakes.
  1. How many small cakes did Lina bake?
  2. What was the number of strawberries used to decorate all the small cakes?
  3. How many more strawberries did Lina need to decorate the remaining large cakes?
5 m
Level 3 PSLE
The photocopying rates of two machines A and B are as shown. Both machines were use to make a copy of a set of notes which had been divided into teacher set and student set. Machine A took 7 minutes is to photocopy teacher set and Machine B took 9 minutes to photocopy student set.
  1. How many pages were there altogether in the set of notes?
  2. Another copy of the same set of notes was made using Machine B only. How many minutes did Machine B take?
4 m
Level 3 PSLE
Three boys, Az, Ben and Ix had the same number of notes. Az and Ben each had of mix of $10-notes and $2-notes. Az had 7 $2-notes while Ben had 13 $2-notes. Ix had only $10-notes.
  1. Of the three boys, who had the most money?
  2. What was the difference in the total value of Az and Ben's notes?
  3. Ben used all his $10-notes to buy a present. He then had $164 less in notes than Ix. How many $10-notes did Ix have?
5 m
Level 3
Cathy's shop sold bracelets and rings. The bracelets were sold at $100 each and each ring was sold at 45 of the price of each bracelet. Cathy sold 14 of the items on the first day and collected $15580. 34 of the items sold on the first day were bracelets.
  1. How many rings were sold on the first day?
  2. What was the total number of items left after the first day?
4 m
Level 3
A bag of candies was distributed equally among 16 pupils. When 7 of these pupils gave up 35 of their share, the rest of the pupils received 14 more candies each. How many candies were there in the bag?
4 m
Level 3
Carl had a total of 90 notes. The notes are $10 notes and $5 notes. After he spent 20% of the $10 notes and 60% of the $5 notes on a stereo system, he was left with 4 times as many $5 notes as $10 notes. How much did the stereo system cost?
5 m
Level 3
Alfred had some peaches in 3 sizes. The number of medium peaches was twice the number of large peaches. The number of large peaches were three times the number of small peaches.
The price of each peach are as follows:
Small $4
Medium $7
Large $9

He sold all the small and medium peaches. He received $360 from selling 13 of the large peaches.
  1. How many large peaches did he have at first?
  2. How much less did he collect from selling the small peaches than the medium peaches?
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