Level 3
In a supermarket, 65% of the number of vegetables sold were carrots and the rest were potatoes. Each carrot cost 50¢ and each potato cost 10¢ less than the cost of each carrot. Given that $195.30 was collected from the sale of the fruits,
  1. how many carrot were sold?
  2. how much was collected from the sale of the potatoes only?
4 m
Level 3
The ratio of blue to purple stamps Eva had was 5 : 2. The cost of each of the blue stamps was $1 and the cost of each of the purple stamps was $2. Eva sold 40% of the blue stamps and the total cost of the unsold stamps was $455. How many blue stamps did she have left?
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At a concert, 14 of the tickets were sold at full price, 35 of the tickets sold at 40% discount, and the remaining 270 tickets were given away for free. Each ticket was sold at $90. What was the total amount collected from the sale of tickets?
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Level 3 PSLE
A caterer prepares fish balls for some people attending a party. The ratio of the number of adults to the number of children attending is 2 : 5. Among the children, the ratio of the number of girls to the boys is 4 : 1. A total of 180 fish balls are prepared so that each adult gets 4 fish balls and each child gets 2.
  1. What fraction of the people attending the party are boys?
  2. How many children are attending the party?
4 m
Level 3
At a gathering, 13 of the people are adults. The remaining group of people is divided into boys and girls in the ratio of 5 : 7. Each boy is given 2 keychains and each girl is given 5 keychains. Each accompanying adult receives 6 keychains. Given that only 368 keychains are given away to boys and adults, how many more children are there than adults?
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Level 3
Some pupils took a Math exam. Their average score was 74.7 marks. One of the pupils' scores was wrongly recorded as 68 marks instead of 86 marks. As a result, the average score was calculated as 73.5 marks. How many pupils sat for the exam?
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Level 3 PSLE
At a swimathon, each swimmer completed either a 2-km route, a 4-km route or an 5-km route. 15 of the swimmers completed the 2-km route, 720 of the participants completed the 4-km route and the rest completed the 5-km route. For every 1 km a participant swam, $8 was donated to charity. A total of $12960 was donated to charity.
  1. What is the ratio of the number of swimmers who completed the 2-km route to the number who completed the 4-km route to the number who completed the 5-km route?
  2. What is the total number of swimmers at the swimathon?
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Level 3
Three types of pepper, W, X and Y come in containers of 150 g, 300 g and 400 g respectively. Containers of W, X and Y are mixed together in the ratio 1 : 6 : 7 to obtain 38 kg of an assortment of pepper.
  1. How many containers of W and X are used altogether?
  2. Find the difference between the combined weight of all the pepper in containers X and containers Y as compared to the pepper in containers W. Express the weight in kilograms.
4 m
Level 3
A sports shop had 300 ping-pong balls for sale. Each ping-pong ball is sold at $2. At the end of each day, the number of ping-pong balls was recorded in the bar graph shown.
  1. What fraction of the total number of ping-pong balls was left at the end of Day 3? Express your answer in its simplest form.
  2. If the shop decided to sell every 5 ping-pong balls at $9.30 from Day 4 onwards, how much less would it collect from the sale of the ping-pong balls?
4 m
Level 2 PSLE
Joseph has thrice as many 20-cent coins as 50-cent coins. If he has $66 in total, how many 20-cent coins does Joseph have?
3 m
Level 3
There were some packets and bottles. A packet weighed 3 kg and a bottle weighed 2 kg more. The total weight of the packets was 35 kg heavier than the total weight of the bottles. The number of packets and bottles were in the ratio 5 : 2. What was the total weight of the packets and the bottles?
4 m
Level 3
During one test, points were awarded for questions answered as shown.
The ratio of the questions correctly to questions answered wrongly to questions that were missed out was 8 : 4 : 2. If Tiffany was awarded 300 points, how many questions are there in all?
4 m
Level 3
The line graph shows the total number of cars sold by a car dealer in the first six months of the year.
  1. In which two months were there a consecutive increase in the number of cars sold?  Give the answer in short form. (Eg Jan, Feb)
  2. What fraction of the cars was sold in the month of the lowest sale? 
  3. The car dealer was paid a fixed amount of money for every car he sold. He received $3200 more in April than in February. How much money did he receive from selling a car?
4 m
Level 3
In a bakery, the prices of pastries are listed as follow:
The ratio of the number of scones sold to the number of puffs sold was 4 : 3. The ratio of the number of muffins sold to the number of puffs sold was 8 : 7. The bakery collected $80 more on the sales of muffins than the sales of scones.
  1. How many scones were sold?
  2. How much did the bakery collect from the sales of the pastries?
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Level 3
Thiru played 5 games of bowling. His scores for the first 4 games were 120, 105, 176 and 169 points respectively.
  1. Find his average score for the first 4 games.
  2. After his fifth game, his average score increased by 3.1 points. Find his score for his fifth game.
3 m
Level 3
Tickets for a theme park were sold at $83 and $117. All the tickets were completely sold out. The amount collected for the $117 tickets was $80145. Given that the number of $117 tickets was 17 of the number of $83 tickets, how much more money was collected from the sales of the $83 ticket than the $117 ticket?
3 m
Level 3 PSLE
Tickets for a zoo trip were sold to teachers and pupils at different prices as shown.
Price per ticket:
Teacher $20
Pupil $8
14 of the tickets sold were bought by teachers. The total amount of money collected from the sale of tickets to pupils was $416 more than the total amount collected from the sale of tickets to teachers. How much money was collected from the sale of tickets altogether?
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Level 3
The average height of a group of 6 girls is 137 cm. When Kathy and Nicole joined the group, the average height increased by 4 cm. What is Kathy and Nicole's total height?
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Level 3 PSLE
A fruit stall sold peaches at 70¢ and apples at 40¢ each. Sally bought some peaches and Tom bought some apples from the stall. Sally spent $1.10 more than Tom, but had 7 fruits fewer than Tom.
  1. How many peaches did Sally buy?
  2. How much did Tom spend on the apples?
4 m
Level 3
$258 is to be divided among a certain number of people. Half of the people received $3 each, 512 of the people received $4 each and the rest received $5 each. How many people are there altogether?
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