Level 3
Nicole baked 187 puffs and tarts. She burnt 7 pieces and counted the remaining pieces. 16 of the tarts and 56 of the puffs were strawberry flavoured. There were equal number of tarts and puffs that were banana flavoured.
  1. How many unburnt banana puffs were there?
  2. What fraction of the unburnt pastries were strawberry puffs?
4 m
Level 3
Oscar had some apricot shortbreads and apple shortbreads. 49 of the number of apricot shortbreads was equal to 18 of the number of apple shortbreads. After Oscar made 279 more apricot shortbreads, the number of apricot shortbreads was 54 of the number of apple shortbreads. How many shortbreads did he have altogether in the end?
4 m
Level 3
Nora and Hazel used the same number of lychees to bake cakes. Nora used 25 of her lychees and Hazel used 35 of her lychees. They had a total of 125 lychees at first.
  1. How many lychees did each girl use?
  2. How many lychees did both girls have left altogether?
4 m
Level 3
Gwen had some Chinese and English novels. She sold 13 of her Chinese novels and 14 of her English novels. 78 of the books sold were Chinese books. What fraction of the novels did Gwen sell?
4 m
Level 3
At a race, 37 of the number of boys is equal to 25 of the number of girls. The number of adults at the race is thrice the number of children. The number of coupons given to each adult, boy and girl at the race is 4, 3 and 2 respectively. The total number of coupons given at the race is 7980.
  1. What is the total number of coupons given to the adults?
  2. What is the number of girls at the race?
5 m