Level 3
Adam receives his allowance of $250.
The ratio of Adam's spending to Adam's saving is 2 : 3.
The ratio of Adam's spending on food to the remaining expenses is 1 : 4.
  1. What fraction of his allowance is spent on food?
  2. What fraction of his allowance is spent on the remaining expenses?
  3. How much did he spend on food?
3 m
Level 2
Natalie gave 13 of her stamps to her mother and 12 of her stamps to her father. She used 14 of the remaining stamps. What fraction of her stamps was left?
2 m
Level 2
John gave 18 of his salary to each of his two parents. He gave 13 of the remainder to his son. What fraction of his salary had he left?
2 m
Level 2
Kenny had $63. He spent 17 of the money on a pen. He then spent 23 of his remaining money on a pencil case. How much did he spend on the pencil case?
2 m
Level 2
Mrs Tan had 10 ℓ of orange juice. She used 12 of the orange juice for a picnic and 25 of the remaining orange juice to bake orange-flavoured cookies. How much orange juice did she have left? Give your answer in litres.
2 m
Level 2
Anna's money is 34 of Samantha's money. Samantha gives 12 of her money to Anna. Express Anna's money as a fraction of Samantha's money after Anna received the money from Samantha. (Give your answer as a mixed number.)
2 m
Level 2
At a shop, dining chairs were sold for the price shown.
Usual price of one dining chair: $30
John bought some dining chairs at a discount of 30%. He paid $168 in total. How many dining chairs did he buy?
3 m
Level 2
During a sale, Kimberly bought a skirt and a coat at a discount. She paid a total of $141.10 on these two items. She paid $20.50 more on the skirt than on the coat.
  1. How much did she pay for the skirt?
  2. Kimberly received a total discount of $33.20 for the skirt and the coat. What is the percentage discount given by the shop? Give your answer correct to 1 decimal place.
3 m
Level 2
Tommy bought two lamps that cost $171 each before Goods and Service Tax (GST).
  1. Given that GST was charged at 8%, how much GST did Tommy have to pay for one lamp?
  2. What was the total cost of the lamps, inclusive of GST?
3 m
Level
Jane had some lollipops. She sold 20% of her lollipops and gave half of the remainder to her brother. After that, she bought 26 lollipops and had a total of 32 lollipops in the end. How many lollipops did Jane have at first?
4 m
Level 2
Lisa had $451200. She invested 20% of it and put the rest in an account that gave her 3.5% interest in a year. How much would she have in the account at the end of the first year?
3 m
Level 3
Abi had some bracelets. She gave 13 of the bracelets to her neighbour and gave 25 of the remainder to her brother. She sold the rest at 4 for $6.70. She received a total of $134 from the sales of the bracelets. How many bracelets did she have at first?
4 m
Level 3
Eli had 60 red beads and 40 green beads. Eli gave away 30% of her red beads and 55% of her green beads. What percentage of her beads left was green?
3 m
Level 3
Benedict cycled to his bakery with 16 trays of eggs. There were 24 eggs in each tray. He fell on his way and broke 13 of the eggs. He sold 58 of the good eggs and put the remaining eggs equally into 12 small baskets. How many eggs did he put into each basket?
3 m
Level 3
Paul had some apple macarons and apricot macarons. He gave away 160 macarons to his brother. 25% of them were apple macarons and the rest were apricot macarons. Paul gave some apple macarons to his sister. 25 of all the macarons he gave away to his brother and his sister were apple macarons.
  1. How many apricot macarons did he give his brother?
  2. How many apple macarons did he give his sister?
4 m
Level 3
Ming Huat had 255 watermelons and 240 oranges at first. He used 35 of the watermelons and 34 of the oranges. He then bought some more oranges. In the end, 18 of the fruits he had left were watermelons. How many oranges did he buy?
3 m
Level 3
A shop had 30 violins and some guitars. During a sale. 13 of the violins and 15 of the guitars were sold. 64 guitars were left unsold.
  1. How many violins were sold?
  2. How many violins and guitars were sold altogether?
3 m
Level 2
Ben thought of a fraction. He multiplied the fraction by 25. then he added 8 to the answer. He got 23 as the answer. What is the fraction that Ben thought of? Express the answer in the simplest form.
3 m
Level 3
A furniture shop had a 30% discount storewide. The original price of a massage chair was $2300.
  1. How much was the massage chair after discount?
  2. Danny paid $2590 for a massage chair and a sofa. What was the original price of the sofa?
4 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