Level 3
The table shows the prices of muffins at two shops. The muffins are only sold in sets of 6 muffins in Candy's Bakery or sets of 7 muffins in Dina's Bakery.
  1. Ann has $8.15. She wants to buy 14 muffins from Dina's Bakery. How much more money does she need to buy the 14 muffins?
  2. Zack has $97. He wants to buy the greatest possible number of muffins with his money from one of the two shops. What is the greatest possible number of muffins he can buy with his money?
4 m
Level 3
The cost per piece is based on the total number of copies to be printed. The table shows the charges for printing at a printing company.
  1. Susan wanted to place an order to print 380 A4-size copies of her poster. How much did she need to pay?
  2. Ron placed an order to print some A4-size copies of his poster. Allie placed an order to print some A3-size copies of his poster. Both of them ordered an equal number of copies of their posters. The total cost of their orders was $324. How many A4-size copies of the poster did Ron print?
4 m
Level 3
A confectionery sells chocolate chip cakes and blueberry cakes.
Raeann bought an equal number of chocolate chip cakes and blueberry cakes. She paid $80.80 more for the blueberry cakes and the chocolate chip cakes.
  1. How many cakes did she buy?
  2. How much did she spend altogether?
4 m
Level 3
Every day, Delivery Company X will deliver 74 parcels while Delivery Company Y will deliver 53 parcels. If they have to deliver a total of 29972 parcels, how many parcels will be delivered by Delivery Company Y?
3 m
Level 3
A bookstore sells either one pen for $2 or in packs of 5 for $7. Pamela wants to buy exactly 33 pens with the smallest amount of money. How much does she have to pay for the 33 pens?
3 m
Level 3
Charlie bought $642 worth of staplers and pens. He bought thrice as many pens as staplers. He spent $334 more on pens than on staplers. Each stapler cost $1.60 more than each pen. Find the price of a stapler.
4 m
Level 3
A shop gave a discount of $5 for every $20 spent. Mrs Tan bought a dress and paid $100 after the discount.
  1. What was the price of the dress before the discount?
  2. What was the amount that Mrs Tan saved?
3 m
Level 3
Jim started saving part of his pocket money by putting 2 coins in a money box every day. Each coin was either a 20¢ or 50¢ coin. His mother also put on a $1 coin in the box every 7 days. The total value of the coins after 98 days was $82.30.
  1. How many coins were there altogether?
  2. How many of the coins were 50¢ coins?
4 m
Level 3
One book costs $48 at a shop. During a sale, for every 3 books bought, the 4th book can be bought at a discount of 15% off the original price. How many books does Ron buy if he pays $1944 altogether?
4 m
Level 3
The advertisement shows the cost of buying pencils from a stationery kiosk.
  1. Hilda bought 29 pencils. How much did she pay?
  2. Howard bought 100 pencils. How much did he pay?
4 m
Level 3
In the figure, triangle DEF was drawn within 3 identical squares of side 9 cm. BC was 8 cm.
  1. Find the area of the shaded figure.
  2. The shaded figure was used as a design and printed on a piece of cloth. After printing, the total shaded area of the piece of cloth was 13005 cm2. What was the length of piece of cloth? (Give your answer in metres.)
4 m
Level 3
For every magazine Tommy sells, he gets $1.75 as commission. He gets an additional $1.50 for every 8 magazine sold. How many magazines did Tommy sell if he earned $50 in commission?
5 m
Level 3
Mr Lee organised a lucky draw event. He spent $382.20 on some toys and pouches. He bought 6 more pouches than toys. A toy costs $14.70 and a pouch costs $4.90. How many pouch did Mr Lee buy?
5 m
Level 3
Two different brands of detergent powder are on promotion in a supermarket. Ms Ong wants to buy 30 kg of detergent. How much will she save if she buys Brand B detergent powder instead of Brand A?
5 m
Level 3
There were some pears, guavas and mangoes. The number of pears was three times the number of guavas. The total number of pears and guavas was half of the number of mangoes. There were 180 fruits altogether. All the mangoes were sold at 6 for $20. How much money was collected from the sale of the mangoes?
4 m
Level 3
A 1-month pass to all art galleries for one person costs $280. The management gives a concession to a group of 56 tourists. For every 8 tourists who purchase the 1 month pass, the 9th tourist gets free access to the art galleries. How much does each tourist pay in this arrangement if they share the total cost equally?
4 m
Level
Linda sold $1078 worth of dresses and jumpsuits. She earned $110 less on the jumpsuits than the dresses. Each jumpsuit is sold for $4 more than each dress. The number of jumpsuits sold was 23 of the number of dresses sold.
  1. How much did Linda earn from the sales of the dresses?
  2. How many dresses were sold?
4 m
Level 3
Marvin earns $80 per day. He receives and extra $50 for every 5 days of work.
  1. How much will he earn altogether after working for 5 days?
  2. How much will he earn altogether after working for 48 days?
3 m
Level 3
The usual price of a notebook sold at Shop A and B is $20. During a sale, a discount of 20% is given to every notebook sold at Shop A. At Shop B, a discount of 50% is given to the 3rd notebook for every 3 notebooks sold. How much cheaper would it be if Lily buys 8 notebooks from Shop A instead of Shop B?
5 m
Level 3
Ms Ong and 3 parent volunteers took a class of 30 children to the Trick-Your-Eyes Museum. What was the minimum cost of all the tickets to be bought?
4 m