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
Level 3
Amanda and Joe have some books in the ratio 3 : 7. Amanda has 72 less books than Joe. How many books must Joe give to Amanda so that they will have the same number of books?
4 m
Level 3
The graph shows the amount of savings 3 children had.
  1. How much money must Betty give Charles so that they will have the same amount of money?
  2. How much money must Adeline give Charles so that Charles will have $2 more than her?
4 m
Level 3
If Adam gives Bryan 30 stickers,
the number of stickers that Adam will have is 25% of Bryan's.
If Bryan gives Adam 3 stickers,
the number of stickers that Adam will have is 40% of Bryan's.
  1. How many stickers does Adam have?
  2. How many stickers does Bryan have?
4 m
Level 3
Tank E contained 4 times as many guppies as Tank F. When 10% of the guppies in Tank E and 10% of the guppies in Tank F were transferred to Tank G, Tank G had 120 guppies, which was 20% more guppies than before. How many less guppies were there in Tank F than Tank E in the end?
4 m
Level 3
Adam and Bryan have some money in the ratio of 5 : 4
After Adam gives 12 of his money to Bryan,
Bryan has $400 more than Adam in the end.
  1. How much does Bryan have at first?
  2. How much does Adam have in the end?
  3. How much does Adam give to Bryan?
4 m
Level 3
The graph shows the number of stamps 3 girls collected. Study the graph and answer the following.
  1. Who collected 10 stamps? Give the answer in number. (Eg 1)
  2. Which 2 girls collected a total of 26 stamps? Give the answer in numbers. (Eg 1, 2)
  3. How many stamps must Ann give to Jen so that both of them would have the same number of stamps?
5 m
Level 3
Yvonne and Anna have some pens. If Yvonne gives 45 pens to Anna, Anna will have 4 times the number of pens as Yvonne. If Anna gives 104 pens to Yvonne, Yvonne will have 13 as many pens as Anna. How many pens does Yvonne have at first?
4 m
Level 3
A tank contained 3.7 ℓ more water than a pail. After some water was poured from the tank to the pail, both the tank and the pail had 6 ℓ of water each. How much water was there in the pail at first?
3 m
Level 3
Ian had 140 more stickers than Ethan. Ian gave 25% of his stickers to Ethan. Ethan in return gave 80% of his stickers to Ian. In the end, Ian had 282 more stickers than Ethan. How many stickers did Ian have at first?
4 m
Level 3
If Yvonne gives Oscar $27, the amount of money she has will be 25% of his. If Oscar gives Yvonne $12, he will have the same amount of money as her. How much money did each of them have?
(a) Oscar
(b) Yvonne
4 m
Level 3
Tim had 40% more muffins than Rael. Tim gave 20% of his muffins to Rael. Rael in return gave 50% of his muffins to Tim. In the end, Rael had 448 less muffins than Tim. How many muffins did Tim have at first?
4 m
Level 3
Lisa and Gillian had a total of 64 beads. Lisa gave 13 of her beads to Gillian. In return, Gillian gave 15 of the total number of beads that she had to Lisa. In the end, each girl had the same number of beads. How many beads did Gillian have at first?
4 m
Level 3
Evelyn bought 50% more hair clips than Linda. Tammy bought 10% fewer hair clips than Evelyn. Evelyn and Linda gave Tammy some hair clips in the ratio 7 : 2. As a result, Tammy had twice as much hair clips as before. Given that Linda had 15 more hair clips than Evelyn in the end, how much hair clips did Evelyn give to Tammy?
5 m
Level 3
Mr Lim had three bags of soil, A, B and C and the mass of each bag of soil was in the ratio 2 : 4 : 3. Mr Lim decided to transfer 30% of soil from Bag A into Bag B and 60% of soil from Bag C into Bag B. Given that the mass of Bag B was 38.4 kg in the end, how many kilograms of soil were transferred into Bag B?
5 m
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Level 3 PSLE
Nick had doughnuts and Ethan had scones. Both gave half of what they had to each other. Nick sold 8 doughnuts and Ethan sold 42 scones. In the end, the ratios of doughnuts to scones for Nick and Ethan were 1 : 5 and 1 : 3 respectively. How many doughnuts did Nick have at first?
4 m
Level 3
Albert had $2.20 less than Caden. After Albert gave $2.50 to Caden, Caden would have thrice as much money as Albert. How much money had Caden at first?
4 m
Level 3
Lisa had four baskets, C, D, E and F which contain a total of 351 kiwis. She transferred 7 kiwis from basket C to basket D, 24 kiwis from basket D to basket E and 38 kiwis from basket E to basket F. The ratio of the number of kiwis in basket C to basket D to basket E changed from 4 : 8 : 11 to 1 : 3 : 9. How many kiwis were in basket F at first?
5 m
Level 3
At the beginning of the year, the number of members in Club A and Club B were in the ratio 5 : 7. At the end of Term One, some members left Club A to join Club B. The ratio of the number of members in Club A and Club B became 1 : 3. At the middle of Term Two, each club received 54 new members. The ratio of the number of members in Club A and Club B became 2: 3. How many members left Club A to join Club B at the end of Term One?
5 m
Level 3
The ratio of the number of biscuits in Container H to the number of biscuits in Container J was 5 : 3. 20% of the biscuits in Container H and 0.6 of those in Container J were round. After transferring the biscuits between the 2 containers, the number of square biscuits in both containers are the same. Likewise, the number of round biscuits in both containers are the same. If a total of 162 of biscuits were moved, how many more biscuits were there in Container H than Container J at first?
5 m