Level 3
The number of 20-cent coins in a basket was 100% more than the number of 10-cent coins. 13 twenty-cent coins were taken out and exchanged for 10-cent coins. The number of 20-cent coins became 58 less than the number of 10-cent coins. How much money is there in the basket?
5 m
Level 3
20% of the people are performers for a concert and the rest are spectators. 80% of the spectators are adults and there are 3900 more adults spectators than children spectators. How many adult spectators must leave so that 25% of the people in the concert are adult spectators?
5 m
Level 3
In a thrift shop, the number of beads was 23 of the total number of beads and erasers together. The shopkeeper sold the beads and erasers in sets of 1 bead and 4 erasers. After selling all the erasers, he still had 133 beads left. How many erasers were in the thrift shop at first?
4 m
Level 3
Vincent has some 20-cent coins and 50-cent coins which amount to more than $20 but less than $54. The number of 20-cent coins is 14 of all the coins he has. When he exchanges some 50-cent coins for 20-cent coins, the ratio of the number of 50-cent coins to 20-cent coins he now has become 1 : 6.
  1. What is the largest possible amount of money Vincent has?
  2. What is the total value of 50-cent coins that has been exchanged for 20-cent coins? Express the answer to 2 decimal place.
5 m
Level 3
Last month Mr Zhang gave his wife, Anna $4000 for household expenditure. Anna spent 60% of the sum on rental, 30% on food and saved the rest. This month, Mr Zhang reduced the sum he gave to Anna. Anna spent the same amount on rental and reduced the amount she spent on food by 30%. She saved the remaining 10% of the sum given to her this month. By what percentage was the sum given to Anna reduced?
5 m
Level 3
There were 229 lemons and soursops in a stall at first. After 15 of the lemons and 12 of the soursops were sold, there were a total of 182 lemons and soursops now. How many lemons are there now?
4 m
Level 3
The total number of beads in Basket W, Basket X and Basket Y was 273. 29 of the beads from Basket W and 21 beads from Basket X were removed. More beads were then added into Basket Y until the number of beads in it was doubled. The ratio of the number of beads in Basket W to Basket X to Basket Y became 7 : 2 : 2.
  1. How many more beads were there in Basket W than Basket X at first?
  2. Find the total number of beads in Basket W and Basket Y in the end.
5 m
Level 3
There were some pink erasers and blue erasers. The erasers were packed into 2 bags. At first, Bag A contained 480 erasers and 40% of them were blue erasers. Bag B contained 300 erasers and 80% of them were blue erasers. How many pink erasers and blue erasers in total must be moved from Bag A to Bag B such that 20% of the erasers in Bag A are pink and 50% of the erasers in Bag B are blue?
5 m
Level 3
Asher has a total of 94 of blue and yellow lollipops. 16 of the blue lollipops and half of the yellow lollipops are new. How many of his yellow lollipops are new if he has a total of 27 new lollipops?
4 m
Level 3
A store had 390 story books. There were Chinese, Malay and English story books in the ratio of 4 : 3 : 6. When the store assistant brought in another 60 new story books, the number of Chinese story books was increased by 20% and the number of Malay story books was increased by 110.
  1. What was the number of English story books that the store assistant brought in?
  2. What was the percentage increase in the number of English story books?
5 m