Level 3
The table shows the prices of muffins at two shops. The muffins are only sold in sets of 6 muffins in Candy's Bakery or sets of 7 muffins in Dina's Bakery.
  1. Ann has $8.15. She wants to buy 14 muffins from Dina's Bakery. How much more money does she need to buy the 14 muffins?
  2. Zack has $97. He wants to buy the greatest possible number of muffins with his money from one of the two shops. What is the greatest possible number of muffins he can buy with his money?
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
The total cost of 1 wallet and 2 identical belts is $149. The wallet cost $23 more than each belt. How much did each belt cost?
3 m
Level 3
The cost per piece is based on the total number of copies to be printed. The table shows the charges for printing at a printing company.
  1. Susan wanted to place an order to print 380 A4-size copies of her poster. How much did she need to pay?
  2. Ron placed an order to print some A4-size copies of his poster. Allie placed an order to print some A3-size copies of his poster. Both of them ordered an equal number of copies of their posters. The total cost of their orders was $324. How many A4-size copies of the poster did Ron print?
4 m
Level 3 PSLE
In a shop, candles are sold only in boxes. A box of 8 short candles costs $2.30 and a box of 5 long candles costs $3.70.
  1. Dan wants 17 short candles and 3 long candles for his lanterns. What is the least amount of money that Dan will need to spend on the candles?
  2. Zara bought 14 more long candles than short candles from the shop. The total number of candles she bought was fewer than 50. How much did Zara spend on the candles altogether?
5 m
Level 3
A book and 3 magazines cost $28 altogether. A book costs $4 more than each magazine. How much does the book cost?
3 m
Level 3
Meiling paid $15 for some cakes. 16 of the cakes cost 50¢ each. The remaining cakes cost $1 each.
  1. How much did Meiling pay for the cakes which cost 50¢ each?
  2. What was the total cost of the remaining cakes?
  3. How many cakes did she buy in all?
4 m
Level 3
A confectionery sells chocolate chip cakes and blueberry cakes.
Raeann bought an equal number of chocolate chip cakes and blueberry cakes. She paid $80.80 more for the blueberry cakes and the chocolate chip cakes.
  1. How many cakes did she buy?
  2. How much did she spend altogether?
4 m
Level 3
Olivia bought 3 home theater systems and 6 toasters. Each home theater system costs $280 more than each toaster. She spent 20% of her money on the toasters.
  1. How much did each home theater system cost?
  2. How much did she spend altogether?
4 m
Level 3
Tabitha wanted to buy some cookies and brownies. The cost of a cookie was 34 the cost of a brownie. A set of 3 cookies and 2 brownies cost $5.10. What was the total amount Tabitha had to pay for 17 cookies and 10 brownies?
4 m
Level 1
John saved $57. He saved 3 times as much money as Alvin. How much money did Alvin save?
2 m
Level 3
A bookstore sells either one pen for $2 or in packs of 5 for $7. Pamela wants to buy exactly 33 pens with the smallest amount of money. How much does she have to pay for the 33 pens?
3 m
Level 3
Charlie bought $642 worth of staplers and pens. He bought thrice as many pens as staplers. He spent $334 more on pens than on staplers. Each stapler cost $1.60 more than each pen. Find the price of a stapler.
4 m
Level 3
A shop gave a discount of $5 for every $20 spent. Mrs Tan bought a dress and paid $100 after the discount.
  1. What was the price of the dress before the discount?
  2. What was the amount that Mrs Tan saved?
3 m
Level 3
Howard sold 57 more blueberry muffins than banana muffins on Thursday. On Friday, the number of banana muffins he sold decreased by 80% while the number of blueberry muffins he sold remained the same. He sold each tart for $1.80. He sold a total of 153 muffins on Friday. How much money did he receive from the sale of muffins on both days?
4 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 2
A plate cost $4.50 and a cup cost $2.30. How much would Mrs Singh pay for 8 cups and 5 plates?
4 m
Level 3
Ana bought pieces of paper to make 3 lanterns. She used 15 of the pieces of paper on the first lantern. She used 40 more pieces of paper on the second lantern than the first lantern. She used the remaining 65 pieces of paper on the last lantern. How many pieces of papers did she buy?
4 m
Level 2
Gopal went to a shop with 3 fifty-dollar notes. He bought a watch and a calculator. A watch cost 3 times as much as a calculator. He received $32.40 change. How much did the calculator cost?
4 m
Level 1
A portable charger cost $85 and a hard disk cost 3 times as much as the portable charger. How much more did the hard disk cost?
2 m