Level 3
The measurements of a plot of land are given below. (All sides of the plot of land meet at right angles.)
  1. What is the area of the plot of land?
  2. Each square metre of land costs $85. How much does the plot of land cost?
3 m
Level 3
The poster shows a rose sale at a flower stall. Luis needs to get at least 11 roses for a party. What is the smallest amount of money he will have to pay?
3 m
Level 3
Yen had some money. She spent 40% on books and 20% of her remaining money on a blouse. She had $168 left.
  1. How much did she have at first?
  2. If the blouse was bought at a 30% discount, what was the original price of the blouse?
4 m
Level 3
Lily wants to buy 20 identical pens as shown:
1 for $4.50
6 for $23
What is the least amount of money she needs to buy 20 such pens?
3 m
Level 1
Sean bought 4 kg of rice. 1 kg of rice cost $28. How much did he pay?
2 m
Level 3
The advertisement shows a sale in chocolates. Pamela needs 10 boxes of such chocolates as gifts for her classmates. What is the least amount she has to pay if she buys them during the sale?
3 m
Level 3
Henry's salary to Ken's salary is 5 : 7. The former saves $320 while the latter saves $232. If Ken's spending to Henry's spending is in the ratio of 8 : 5, what are Henry's and Ken's salaries respectively?
(a) Henry
(b) Ken
5 m
Level 3
Ali has $5.60. He wants to exchange his money for an equal number of 20-cent coins and 50-cent coins. How many 50-cent coins does he have after the exchange?
3 m
Level 3
A pen cost $1.50. A notebook cost $15.50 more than the pen. Clare spent $340 on such pens and notebooks. She bought twice as many pens as notebooks.
  1. How many notebooks did Clare buy?
  2. How much money did Clare spend on the pens?
4 m
Level 3
The stationery shop has a special offer for punchers:
1 puncher for $1.10
3 punchers for $3


Neave wants to buy 10 punchers. What is the least amount he has to pay?
3 m
Level 3
A shop had a promotion on chips. Each packet of chips was sold for $2.80. 5 packets of chips were sold for $13.30. Neave wanted to buy 14 packets of chips for his class party. What was the least amount of money he had to pay?
3 m
Level 3
Hazel had $18.60 in coins. She had four times as many 10-cent as 50-cent coins and 11 more $1 coins than 50-cent coins. How many coins does she have in total?
4 m
Level 3
  1. Sophie bought a doll and a toy plane during the Toy Bonanza. The usual price of the doll and the toy plane was $12 and $18 respectively. How much did she pay for the 2 items?
  2. Nicholas bought 2 identical soft toys. The total discount for the 2 soft toys was $10.50. What was the price of each soft toy before discount?
4 m
Level 3
Esther spent $49.60 on muffins which costs $3.10 each. For every 3 muffins bought, she received one free muffin. How many muffins did she buy altogether?
3 m
Level 3
3 pupils shared the cost of a present equally. When calculating the amount each pupil had to pay, a mistake was made. The cost of the present was divided by 4 instead of 3. Each pupil ended up paying $3.90 less than the correct amount. What should be the correct amount for each share?
4 m
Level 3
A coin bank contains some twenty-cent and fifty-cent coins in the ratio of 4 : 5. When 16 fifty-cent coins were taken out and replaced by some twenty-cent coins, the ratio became 8 : 7. The total value of the twenty-cent coins added was the same as the total value of the fifty-cent coins taken out. Find the sum of money in the coin box.
5 m
Level 3
Oscar bought some mangosteens and coconuts in the ratio of 2 : 5 respectively. The cost of a mangosteen was $1.50 more than the cost of a coconut. He spent a total of $81 buying the mangosteens and coconuts. The total cost of the coconuts was $9 more than the total cost of the mangosteens. How much did 1 mangosteen cost?
5 m
Level 3
Mary is paid $48 for each day of work. How much will she earn in 20 weeks if she works for 5 days each week?
3 m
Level 3
After spending on a badminton racket and 10 shuttlecocks. Linda had $8.70 left. How much did she have at first?
4 m
Level 3
Ken had 147 boxes of pens. There were 24 pens in each box. He sold all pens at $2 each. How much money did he collect from the sale of the pens?
3 m