Level 3
Lily wants to buy 20 identical pens as shown:
1 for $4.50
6 for $23
What is the least amount of money she needs to buy 20 such pens?
3 m
Level 3
The advertisement shows a sale in chocolates. Pamela needs 10 boxes of such chocolates as gifts for her classmates. What is the least amount she has to pay if she buys them during the sale?
3 m
Level 3
The stationery shop has a special offer for punchers:
1 puncher for $1.10
3 punchers for $3


Neave wants to buy 10 punchers. What is the least amount he has to pay?
3 m
Level 3
A shop had a promotion on chips. Each packet of chips was sold for $2.80. 5 packets of chips were sold for $13.30. Neave wanted to buy 14 packets of chips for his class party. What was the least amount of money he had to pay?
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Level 3
Esther spent $49.60 on muffins which costs $3.10 each. For every 3 muffins bought, she received one free muffin. How many muffins did she buy altogether?
3 m
Level 3
Brian wanted to cut small identical 3 cm by 2 cm rectangles from a rectangular cardboard measuring 26 cm by 18 cm. What is the maximum number of complete small rectangles Brian could cut? (Note: Brian could rotate the small rectangle.)
3 m
Level 3
What is the maximum number of rectangles each measuring 3 cm by 2 cm that can be cut from a cardboard measuring 48 cm by 22 cm?
3 m
Level 3
The diagrams show a rectangular cardboard X and a square Y.
Abel cut as many squares Y as he could from rectangular cardboard X.
The remaining part of the rectangular cardboard X is shown in Figure 1.
  1. What is the length of AB as shown in Figure 1?
  2. What is the greatest number of squares Y that Abe could cut from a rectangular cardboard X?
3 m
Level 3
What is the maximum number of squares of side 4 cm that can be cut from a rectangle measuring 81 cm by 74 cm?
3 m
Level 3
Adrian wants to cut some 3-cm squares from a piece of rectangular paper shown. What is the greatest number of squares he can cut out?
3 m
Level 3
There is a 4-digit number. The digit in the hundreds place is thrice the digit in the ones place. The digit in the thousands place is the smallest even number. The sum of all the digits is 21. What is the number?
3 m
Level 2
Place the digits 9, 3, 2, 7 into the boxes on the right to give the largest product.
3 m
Level 1
What is the largest 5 digit number that has 5 as one of its factors and is less than 100000?
3 m
Level 3
At a supermarket, there are shortbreads for sale.
First 4 shortbreads: $1.60 each
Extra shortbreads: $1.30 each

  1. What is the total cost of 4 shortbreads?
  2. What is the maximum number of shortbreads that Mrs Ee can buy if she has $9?
4 m
Level 3
I am a 2-digit even number. I am a factor of 72 and also a multiple of 4. What number am I? Write the smallest number.
4 m
Level 32
Mrs lmran has 36 packets of sweets, 60 bars of chocolates and 90 packets of biscuits to be placed into the goodie bags.
  1. What is the maximum number of goodie bags Mrs lmran needs to pack these items equally into without any left over?
  2. How many items will there be in each bag?
4 m
Level 3
Mr Lim has three pieces of rope of length 80 cm, 140 cm and 180 cm. He wishes to cut the three pieces of rope into smaller pieces of equal length with no remainder.
  1. What is the greatest possible length of each of the smaller pieces of rope?
  2. How many of the smaller pieces of rope of equal length can he get?
4 m
Level 3
John wants to cover a floor measuring 80 cm by 100 cm with square tiles of the same size. Given that he uses only whole tiles, find
  1. the largest possible length of the side of each tile.
  2. the number of tiles that are needed to cover the floor.
4 m
Natasha had some T-shirts that she wanted to donate. 3 of them were torn and she had to throw them away. She then packed them equally into boxes. Each box could either contain 6 or 7 T-shirts. What is the smallest possible number of T-shirts Natasha had at first?
4 m
Level 3
What is the minimum number of books that can be shared among 2, 3 or 5 students?
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