Level 3 PSLE
Allie had a total of 225 pink and blue beads. She used 45 pink beads and 60% of the blue beads. After that, the ratio of the number of pink beads to blue beads Allie had was 1 : 2.
  1. What fraction of her blue beads did Allie use? Give your answer in the simplest form.
  2. How many beads did Allie have in the end?
4 m
Level 3 PSLE
A box contained blue and white beads. At first, the number of blue beads was 13 the number of white beads. After 14 of the blue beads and 58 of the white beads were used, 75 beads were left.
  1. What fraction of the beads were used? Leave your answer in the simplest form.
  2. How many beads were there in the box at first?
3 m
Level 3 PSLE
There were 95 oranges and apples altogether. After 23 of the oranges and half of the apples were sold, there were a total of 40 oranges and apples left. What fraction of the fruits were oranges at first? Give the answer in its simplest form.
3 m
Level 3
Eva and Fiona went shopping with a total of $200. After Eva spent 34 of her money and Fiona spent $46, the ratio of Fiona's money became 3 times as much as Eva's money. Find the ratio of Eva's money to Fiona's money at first.
4 m
Level 3
The figure is made up of 16 square tiles. What fraction of the figure is shaded? Give the answer in the simplest form.
3 m
Level 2 PSLE
The bar graph shows the number of coloured pens sold by a shop. The table shows the prices of the pens.
  1. What fraction of the pens sold were black pens? Give the answer in the simplest form.
  2. From the sale of the pens, which coloured pens collected the least amount of money? What was the amount? Give the answers in the following way. (Eg Green, $1)
4 m
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.
4 m
Level 3
A pool measuring 50 m x 25 m x 2 m was completely filled with water. The water was draining out of the tank at a constant rate and became completely empty after 25 minutes.
  1. What fraction of the pool was filled with water at the end of 24 minutes? Express the answer in the simplest form.
  2. How many litres of water was drained out of the pool at the end of 10 minutes?
4 m
Level 3
The figure is not drawn to scale. It is made up of 2 semicircles, X and Y, overlapping each other. The radius of semicircle X is 7 cm while the radius of semicircle Y is 14 cm. 37 of semicircle X is shaded. What fraction of the whole figure is not shaded? Express the answer in the simplest form. (Take π = 227)
3 m
Level 3 PSLE
Matthew spent 37 of his money to buy 6 identical pens. He spent the rest of his money to buy another 4 such pens and 3 identical files.
  1. What fraction of Muthu's money was spent to buy the 3 files? Give your answer in the simplest form
  2. For every 5 files bought, 1 additional file was given free. How many files would Matthew get in total if he were to spend all his money to buy files only?
4 m
Level 3
Faucet X can fill a container completely in 5 hours while Faucet Y takes 1 hour more to fill the same container completely. There is a hole at the bottom of the container which can empty the full container in 10 hours. How long does it take for the container to be completely filled if both faucets are turned on? Express the answer in mixed number of hours.
4 m
Level 3
England and Thailand took part in Youth Games. From England, the ratio of the number of male supporters to the number of female supporters was 1 : 3. From Thailand, the ratio of the number of male supporters to the number of female supporters was 3 : 5. The total number of supporters from England was 25 the total number of supporters from Thailand.
  1. What was the ratio of the number of male supporters from England to the total number of male supporters from both countries? Express the answer in the simplest form.
  2. After 1956 male supporters from both countries left, the percentage of all the female supporters became 74%. How many more female supporters from Thailand than England were there at first?
5 m
Level 3 PSLE
The table shows the prices of tickets for a soccer match.
The number of adult tickets sold was 5 times the number of child tickets sold. 58 of the adult tickets sold were for adults aged below 60 years. A total of $7020 was collected from the sale of tickets.
  1. What fraction of the tickets sold were for adults aged 60 years and above? Give your answer in the simplest form.
  2. What was the total number of tickets sold to adults?
4 m
Level 2 PSLE
The pie chart shows how Zoe spent her money. The amount of money spent is also represented by the bar graph.
  1. What percentage of her money did Zoe spend on food?
  2. What fraction of her money did Zoe spend on books?
  3. How much of her money was spent on transport?
5 m
Level 3 PSLE
In the figure, ABCD is a rectangle and AED is a right-angled triangle with sides measuring 30 cm, 40 cm and 50 cm. The perimeter of the shaded part is 176 cm. What is the ratio of the area of the triangle to the area of the shaded part? Give your answer in the simplest form.
4 m
Level 3 PSLE
A square, not drawn to scale, is made up of four triangles A, B, C and D. The area of A is 110 the area of the square while the area of B is 16 the area of the square.
  1. The total areas of A and B is 240 cm2. What is the length of each side of the square?
  2. What fraction of the square is Area of D?
5 m
Level 3
The figure is make up of 3 circles. The small circle has centre O and a radius of 6 cm. The big circle, has centre O and a radius of 10 cm. The diameter of the big circle cuts through the centre of the medium-sized circle and the small circle. The three regions formed are indicated as X, Y and Z.
  1. Find the radius of the medium-sized circle.
  2. Find the area of region Z. Use a calculator to obtain the value of π. (Round off to nearest 2 decimal places).
  3. Express the area of the region Y as a ratio to the area of region X.
5 m
Level 3
In the figure, not drawn to scale, WXYZ is a rectangle with a length of 45 cm and a width of 22 cm. The area of the quadrilateral ABCD is 75 cm2. Find the ratio of the shaded area to the unshaded area.
5 m
Level 2
A mini-bus can take either 12 adults or 15 children. There are 6 mini-buses altogether and there are 8 adults in each of the mini-buses. What is the maximum number of children the mini-buses can still take?
2 m