Level 3
A basket contained violet and purple buttons. There were 60% more violet buttons than purple buttons. When 248 more buttons were poured into the basket, the amount of violet buttons increased by 40% and the amount of purple buttons grew by 60%. How many buttons were in the basket at first?

Level 3
Peter has 70% as many marbles as George. If Peter gives away 50% of the marbles and George gives away 75% of his marbles, they will have 444 marbles altogether. How many marbles do the two of them have?

Level 3
On a shelf, there were 28 T-shirts and hoodies. Mr Lin spilt hot chocolate on the shelf and stained 50% of the hoodies and 20% of the T-shirts. If 20 T-shirts and hoodies were still clean, how many stained hoodies were there?

Level 3
Half an hour ago, 50% of the people at a circus were females. 42 females and 2 males left afterwards. The remaining people were then told to form groups of 5. In each group, there were 3 males. How many people were there at the circus in the end?

Level 3
Ethan had 40% as many beads as Ben. After Ethan and Ben bought another 50 beads and 15 beads respectively, Ethan had 50% more beads than Ben. How many beads did Ethan have at first?

Level 3 PSLE
Andy had $180 and Benny had some money at first. After Andy spent $79 and Benny spent 35% of his money, they had a total of $140 left. How much money did Benny have at first?

Level 3
The total volume of water in Watering Can A, Watering Can B and Watering Can C was 205 mℓ. I poured out half the volume of water from Watering Can A, doubled the amount of water in Watering Can B and added 55 mℓ of water into Watering Can C. The ratio of the volume of water in Watering Can A to Watering Can B to Watering Can C is now 5 : 4 : 8. Find the total volume of water in the three watering cans now.

Level 3
Henry's salary to Ken's salary is 5 : 7. The former saves $320 while the latter saves $232. If Ken's spending to Henry's spending is in the ratio of 8 : 5, what are Henry's and Ken's salaries respectively?
(a) Henry
(b) Ken

Level 3
Mrs Lu had a total of 520 purple and yellow lilies in the ratio of 8 : 5. After she had given away 6 times as many purple lilies as yellow lilies, the number of purple and yellow lilies left was in the ratio of 10 : 9. How many more purple lilies than yellow lilies did she give away?

Level 3
Three cartons, A, B and C, contained 382 marbles. Hazel added some marbles into Carton A and the number of marbles in Carton A tripled. He took out half of the number of marbles from Carton B and added another 98 marbles into Carton C. As a result, the ratio of the number of marbles in Carton A, Carton B and Carton C became 6 : 2 : 9. What was the ratio of the number of marbles in Carton B to the total number of marbles in Carton A and Carton C at first? Give the answer in its lowest term.

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?

Level 3
In a thrift shop, the number of beads was ²₃ of the total number of beads and erasers together. The shopkeeper sold the beads and erasers in sets of 1 bead and 4 erasers. After selling all the erasers, he still had 133 beads left. How many erasers were in the thrift shop at first?

Level 3
There were 229 lemons and soursops in a stall at first. After ¹₅ of the lemons and ¹₂ of the soursops were sold, there were a total of 182 lemons and soursops now. How many lemons are there now?

Level 3
Asher has a total of 94 of blue and yellow lollipops. ¹₆ of the blue lollipops and half of the yellow lollipops are new. How many of his yellow lollipops are new if he has a total of 27 new lollipops?

Level 3
Gillian bought ³₅ as many stamps as stickers at first. After she bought another 10 stamps and 29 stickers, there were ⁴₇ as many stamps as stickers. How many stamps and stickers did Gillian buy at first?

Level 3
Lisa bought ⁵₈ as many shortbreads as cookies at first. After she bought another 5 shortbreads and 76 cookies, there were ¹₅ as many shortbreads as cookies. How many shortbreads and cookies did Lisa buy at first?

Level 3 PSLE
Risa baked 185 more chicken puffs than tuna puffs. After selling ³₅ of the chicken puffs and half of the tuna puffs, she had 146 puffs left. How many puffs did she sell?

Level 3
Asher had $460 more money than Oscar at first. After Asher spent ³₄ of his money to buy a pair of pants and Oscar spent ¹₅ of his money to buy a blouse, they had a total of $254 left. How much more did the pair of pants cost than the blouse?

Level 3
The total number of beads in Basket W, Basket X and Basket Y was 273. ²₉ of the beads from Basket W and 21 beads from Basket X were removed. More beads were then added into Basket Y until the number of beads in it was doubled. The ratio of the number of beads in Basket W to Basket X to Basket Y became 7 : 2 : 2.

1. How many more beads were there in Basket W than Basket X at first?
2. Find the total number of beads in Basket W and Basket Y in the end.

Level 3
Kate had 96 more buttons than Violet. After Kate gave away ¹₃ of her buttons and Violet gave away ³₄ of her buttons, Violet had 199 less buttons than Kate. How many buttons did Kate have at first?