Level 3
Janet had some pencils, erasers and rulers. The ratio of the number of pencils to the number of erasers was 5 : 1. After giving away 16 erasers, the ratio of the number of rulers to the number of erasers was 4 : 1. Janet bought another 184 rulers. As a result, there were an equal number of pencils and rulers. How many erasers did she have at first?
4 m
Level 3
Titus bought some custard and apple pastry puffs in the ratio of 7 : 6. After Titus's classmates ate an equal number of the two types of pastry puffs, there were 35% fewer apple than custard pastry puffs. In the end, there were 165 pastry puffs left. How many pastry puffs of each type were eaten?
4 m
Level 3
Adam has some blue stickers and red stickers.
If 50 blue stickers are added, 70% of the stickers will be red stickers.
If 200 blue stickers are added, 40% of the stickers will be red stickers.
  1. How many blue stickers are there?
  2. How many red stickers are there?
4 m
Level 3
Jane's savings is 20% more than Darwin's savings. If Jane's savings is decreased by 20%, their total savings will be $980. How much is Jane's savings?
3 m
Level 3
Adam has some blue stickers and red stickers.
If 50 blue stickers are removed, 40% of the stickers will be red stickers.
If 200 blue stickers are removed, 70% of the stickers will be red stickers.
  1. How many blue stickers are there?
  2. How many red stickers are there?
4 m
Level 3
A list of 13 numbers has an average of 330. When two numbers are deleted from the list, the average of the remaining numbers is 313.
  1. What is the sum of 13 numbers?
  2. What is the bigger number between the two numbers that have been deleted given that the difference between the two numbers is 1?
3 m
Level 3
At first, Xandy, Yoko and Zach had some sweets in the ratio 5 : 3 : 4 respectively. Xandy had 190 sweets. Then he gave all his sweets to Yoko and Zach. After receiving the sweets from Xandy, Yoko and Zach had the same number of sweets. How many sweets did Yoko receive from Xandy?
4 m
Level 3
Adam has some blue stickers and red stickers.
If 100 blue stickers are added, 40% of the stickers will be red stickers.
If 50 blue stickers are removed, 70% of the stickers will be red stickers.
  1. How many blue stickers are there?
  2. How many red stickers are there?
4 m
Level 3
The figure shows a garden in the school with two ponds beside each other. The koi pond is a square pond with an area of 64 m2 . The area of the rectangular turtle pond is 34 of the area of the koi pond. The length of the grass patch is twice the breadth of the grass patch.
  1. What is the breadth of the turtle pond?
  2. What is length of the grass patch?
3 m
Level 3
Container A and Container B had some liquid in the ratio 7 : 5. After 48 litres of liquid was transferred from A to B, the amount of liquid in Container B became 3 times as much as in Container A. How much liquid were there in the two tanks in all?
4 m