Level 1 PSLE
Sandy received $70 from his father each month for her allowance. The line graph shows the amount of allowance she spent each month.
  1. What is the difference between the amounts Sandy spent in October and in December?
  2. Write down all the months in which Sandy spent more than half her allowance. Give the answer in short form. (Eg Jan, Mar)
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Level 1
Jimmy and Kenny had $180 in all. Ken had $(12b + 6) more than Jim. How much did Jim have if b = 7?
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Level 1 PSLE
Abel, Ben and Cindy share $15z. Abel gets $z more than Ben and Cindy gets $2z more than Ben. If z = 7, how much money does Ben get?
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Level 2 PSLE
Sandy, Robert and Matthew shared $450. Robert received 20% more than Sandy while Matthew received 20% less than Sandy. How much more than Matthew did Robert receive?
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Level 3
Fill in the blanks in numbers, units or unit equations.
Adam and Bryan share a sum of money in the ratio 5 : 7.
After Adam gives 23 of his money to Bryan,
Bryan has $52 more than Adam.

  1. Difference in the amount between Adam and Bryan at first = _____ u
  2. Amount that Bryan has in the end = _____ u
  3. Total amount that they have in the end = _____ u
  4. 1 u = $_____
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Level 2
Sofie and Thora shared a sum of money in the ratio 2 : 5. After Sofie spent $45, the ratio became 1 : 3. How much money did Thora have?
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Level 1 PSLE
Jeremy paid $15 for 30 identical stickers. What was the cost of each sticker?
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Level 1 PSLE
Tom exchanged a $10 note for 20 coins. All the coins had the same value. What was the value of each coin? Give your answer in cents.
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Level 2
James bought 4k crates of oranges. Each crate had 20 oranges. He gave away 55 oranges to his neighbour.
  1. How many oranges had he left?
  2. If he sold the rest at 40¢ each and k = 8, how much money did he receive from the oranges sold? Give your answer in dollars.
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Level 1 PSLE
The total cost of a pencil and a book is $35. The cost of the pencil is 25 the cost of the book. What is the cost of the book?
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Level 2 PSLE
Mr Chen bought some goldfish at $10 each. He also bought an equal number of swordfish at a different price. The average price of the goldfish and the swordfish was $8. Mr Chen paid $36 more for the goldfish than the swordfish he bought. How many goldfish did he buy?
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Level 2 PSLE
May had some money. She used 14 of it on a dress and 16 of it on a gift. The dress and the gift cost $133.50 altogether. How much money had she left?
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Level 2 PSLE
Derrick paid $153 for 3 shirts and 1 sweater. The price of a shirt was 38 of the price of the sweater. How much did Derrick pay for the sweater?
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Level 2 PSLE
Five girls shared the cost of a gift equally. When calculating the amount for each share, one of the girls made a mistake by dividing the cost of the gift by 4 instead of 5. Each girl paid $2.40 more than her share. What should be the cost of the gift?
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Level 2 PSLE
A pen costs $3 more than a ruler. The total cost of 4 such pens is $y.
  1. Express the cost of 16 such pens in terms of y.
  2. Express the cost of the ruler in terms of y.
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Level 1 PSLE
The table shows how much a company charges for a cleaning job. Mrs Menon paid the company $320 for a cleaning job. How many hours of cleaning did she pay for?
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Level 1 PSLE
The table shows the charges for bicycle rental. Lenny rented a bicycle from 9.30 a.m. to 12.15 p.m. How much did he pay?
2 m
Level 1 PSLE
The airmail rates to two countries are shown. Demi sent a letter weighing 32 g to Thailand and a letter weighing 10 g to Australia by airmail. How much did she pay altogether?
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Level 2
A handbag cost $6 more than a dress but $10 less than a watch. If the total cost of the handbag, the dress and the watch is $z, find the cost of the dress in terms of z.
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Level 1 PSLE
Leon travelled 2.8 km in a taxi from home to his office. His taxi fare was based on the charges shown.
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