Level 3
Jane was attempting to read a book within a week. On Monday, she had read 37 of the book. By Friday, she had read another 60 pages and the ratio of the number of pages read to the total number of pages was 9 : 11. Find the average number of pages Jane should have read each day to complete the book in a week.
5 m
Level 3
Fanny and Gillian collected some stamps. If Fanny gave Gillian 52 stamps, both would have an equal number of stamps. If Gillian gave Fanny 40 stamps, Fanny would have 5 times as many stamps as Gillian. Find the number of stamps each of them had.
  1. Fanny?
  2. Gillian?
4 m
Level 3
ABFG is a square. The length of CD is 35 of BF and the area of BCDE is 864 cm2. Given BC = EF, Find the area of the shaded parts.
4 m
Level 3
There was an equal number of mangoes and pineapples. On Monday, some mangoes were added, such that the number of mangoes increased by 80%. On Tuesday, the number of mangoes further increased by 50% and the number of pineapples decreased by 20%. There were 38 more mangoes than pineapples in the end. How many mangoes and pineapples were there altogether at first?
5 m
Level 3
At first, the ratio of the number of boys to the number of girls at a school playground was 2 : 5. When 48 girls and some boys entered the playground, the number of girls increased by 12% and the total number of children at the playground increased by 20%.
  1. How many boys were there at first?
  2. What percentage of the children at the playground were boys in the end? Express your answer as a mixed number.
5 m
Level 3
The diagram shows a park which comprises the picnic area and the fountain area. The cost of building the picnic area covering the whole area of Square ABCD is $20 per square metre and the cost of fencing the fountain area is $12 per metre. Given that FH is 250 m, AB is 38 of GK and FE is 150 m, find
  1. the cost of building the picnic area.
  2. the cost of fencing the fountain.
4 m
Level 3
12 similar strips of paper were glued to form a new long strip of paper of length 135 cm. The first and second strip were glued together to form an overlapped length of 3 cm as shown. This was consistent for the rest of the remaining strips of paper. Find the length of each original strip of paper.
4 m
Level 3
There were some pears, guavas and mangoes. The number of pears was three times the number of guavas. The total number of pears and guavas was half of the number of mangoes. There were 180 fruits altogether. All the mangoes were sold at 6 for $20. How much money was collected from the sale of the mangoes?
4 m
Level 3
In the figure, Rectangle PQRS is made up of 8 identical rectangles. OR = 16 cm and SU = UY. Find the area of Triangle SQU.
4 m
Level
Linda sold $1078 worth of dresses and jumpsuits. She earned $110 less on the jumpsuits than the dresses. Each jumpsuit is sold for $4 more than each dress. The number of jumpsuits sold was 23 of the number of dresses sold.
  1. How much did Linda earn from the sales of the dresses?
  2. How many dresses were sold?
4 m
Level 3
Fion used 47 of the flour to bake a cake. She used 14 of the remaining flour to bake some muffins. Given that Fion was left with 450 g of flour, how much flour did she have at first?
4 m
Level 3
The figure consists of two overlapping squares ABCD and DEFG. H is the 15 mark of the sides, AB and FG. Express the shaded area as a fraction of the total unshaded area. (Give your answer in the simplest form.)
4 m
Level 3
Serena used 25 of the flour and an additional 50 g to bake some cake. She used 14 of the remaining flour to bake some muffins. Given that Serena was left with 156 g of flour, how much flour did she have at first?
4 m
Level 3
Jessa, Tessa and Titus shared some cookies. Jessa took 6 more than 14 of the cookies. Tessa took 2 more than 23 of the rest of the cookies. Titus took the last 12 cookies. How many cookies did Tessa take?
4 m
Level 3
The ratio of the area of Rectangle A to that of Rectangle B to that of Rectangle C is 5 : 4 : 3. 310 of Rectangle A and 16 of Rectangle C are shaded. The shaded area is 36 cm2. Find the total unshaded area of the figure.
4 m
Level 3
Serena used 25 of the flour and an additional 50 g to bake some cake. She used 14 of the remaining flour and an additional 24 g to bake some muffins. Given that Serena was left with 168 g of flour, how much flour did she have at first?
4 m
Level 3
In a class, 14 of the students and an additional 3 boys like basketball. 13 of the remaining students in the class less 3 students like badminton and the rest of the 25 students in the class like rugby. How many students are there in the class?
4 m
Level 3
Jake and Kenneth had the same number of sweets. Each of them packed his own sweets into packets. Jake packed 5 sweets in each packet and had 2 sweets left. Kenneth packed 8 sweets in each packet and was short of 4 sweets.
  1. How many sweets did each of them have if they have used the same number of packets?
  2. What was the smallest possible number of sweets each of them had if they used different number of packets?
4 m
Level 3
Elyse, Yoko and Shannon had a sum of money. Elyse and Yoko had $112 altogether. Yoko and Shannon had $272 altogether. The amount that the three girls had in total was 7 times the amount that Yoko had. How much did Yoko have?
4 m
Level 3
There were some guavas at a fruit stall. In the morning, 16 of the guavas were sold. In the afternoon, another 30 guavas were sold. The total number of guavas sold was 5 less than 712 of the number of guavas the fruit stall had at first.
  1. How many guavas were there at first?
  2. What fraction of the guavas in the stall remained unsold in the afternoon?
5 m