Level 3
Figure 1 shows a closed rectangular tank of dimensions 40 cm by 40 cm by 80 cm with a cube of edge 20 cm glued to its bottom left corner. The tank contains 70 litres of water. Figure 2 shows the same rectangular tank lying on its side. Find the height of the water level, in centimetres, corrected to 2 decimal places.
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Level 3
One avocado cost 4 times as much as one honeydew. Mrs Zhang bought 2 avocados and 4 honeydews for $15. How much would 20 avocados and 16 honeydews cost? Express the answers to 2 decimal places.
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Level 2
A pen costs $z while a book costs 90¢ less than the pen.
  1. What is the cost of 2 pens and 1 book? Express your answer in terms of p in its simplest form.
  2. Abel wants to buy 2 pens and 1 book but is short of 30 cents. If the book costs $1.10, how much money does Alex have?
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Level 2 PSLE
Mrs Lee had a bottle of oil. She used an equal amount of oil each day. At the end of the 5th day, she had 990 mℓ of oil left. At the end of the 7th day, she had half the bottle of oil left. How many litres of oil were there in the bottle at first?
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Level 3
The figure shows an empty transparent tank made from three containers. The two containers A and B on top are in the form of cuboids which have square bases of side 6 cm and 4 cm as shown in the figure. The bottom container is in the form of a cube of side 14 cm. 3.42ℓ of water are poured into the empty vase. Find the height of the water level from the base of the vase. (1 litre = 1000 cm3)
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Level 3
The figure shows a rectangular tank measuring 30 cm by 15 cm by 20 cm. Vera poured 558 mℓ of water into the tank. Then she turned on two taps at the same time to fill up Tank with water. Water was flowing from both taps at the same rate. After 5 minutes, both taps were turned off but 1.2ℓ of water had overflowed and was collected in a tray. Find the rate of the flow of water of each tap in millimetres per minute.
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Level 3 PSLE
The figure shows an empty flower vase of height 40 cm. It is made from 2 containers. The top container is in the form of a cuboid which has a square base side 4 cm and height 28 cm. The bottom container is in the form of a cube of 12 cm. 2.16 litres of water is poured into the empty vase. What is the height of the water level from the base of the vase? (1 litre = 1000 cm3 )
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Level 3
A rectangular tank measuring 60 cm by 50 cm by 25 cm was to be filled with water by two taps, A and B. Tap A which fills the tank at a rate of 8ℓ per minute was first turned on for 5 minutes before Tap B was turned on as well. If the tank was filled to the brim in a total of 7 minutes from the time when Tap A was first turned on, what is the rate at which Tap B fills the tank? Give the answer in ℓ per minute correct to 1 decimal place.
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Level 3
An empty rectangular tank has a capacity of 90ℓ and a height of 50 cm. At 10 am, Tap A is turned on to fill the tank at a rate of 4ℓ per minute for 15 minutes. After 5 minutes, Tap B is turned on to drain water from the tank at a rate of 2ℓ per minute for 18 minutes. What is the height of the water level in the tank in the end? Express the answer in 1 decimal place.
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Level 3
Tank A measuring 54 cm by 14 cm by 25 cm contains 4.7 ℓ of water. It is being filled with water flowing from Tap X at 0.9ℓ/min and Tap Y at 995 mℓ/min. Both taps are turned on at the same time. How long does it take to fill up Tank A till it is 75% full? Correct the answer to 1 decimal place.
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Level 3
The figure is not drawn to scale. Tank A measuring 40 cm by 30 cm by 20 cm is filled to the brim. When 35 of water was transferred from Tank A to Tank B, 1.8 litres of water overflowed. Tank B has a base area of 300 cm2. Find the height of Tank B.
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Level 3
The diagrams are not drawn to scale. Diagram 1 shows a rectangular tank containing 6 identical cubes and filled to the brim. It had a length of 40 cm and a breadth of 10 cm. In Diagram 2, four cubes were removed from the same tank and the water level dropped by 2.16 cm. After that, a certain amount of water was drained off the tank until the water level reaches the same height as the remaining cubes. Find the volume of the water in the tank in Diagram 2 in the end. Give the answer in litres.
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Level 2
Tony drove a distance of 15 km in 10 minutes.
  1. What was his speed in km/h?
  2. How long will it take him to cover 360 km at this speed? Express the answer in hours.
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Level 2
A van covers a distance of 45 km in 25 minutes.
  1. At what speed is it travelling?
  2. How long will it take to cover a distance of 36 km?
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Level 2 PSLE
At first, Containers X, Y and Z contained water as shown. Some water from Containers Y and Z was poured into Container X without any spilling over. The amount of water left in Containers Y and Z is shown. What would be the amount of water in Container X?
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Level 3
Jake walks to school at an average speed of 4 km/h every day. One day, after walking a distance of 1 km, he realised that his watch was slow. So, he ran at a constant speed and managed to reach his school just on time. Later, he calculated that if he had run at this speed right from the start of the journey, he would have reached his school 5 minutes earlier. What was his running speed?
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Level 3
Some oil is leaking from a crack of a container. After z minutes, the volume of the oil left in the container is given as Volume = 40(100 - 5z) cm3. How much oil will be left in the tank after 10 minutes? Give your answer in litres.
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Level 3
A tank, 110 cm by 100 cm by 70 cm, was completely filled with water. It was used to fill 16 bottles, each 3 litres in capacity. What was the height of the water left in the tank after all the bottles were filled. Round off to whole number.
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Level 3
34 of a rectangular tank, 90 cm by 8 cm by 5 cm, is filled with water. A cubical container of edge 18 cm is filled with water to a depth of 15 cm. If the water in the rectangular tank is transferred to the cubical container until it is filled to its brim, how many litres of water will be left in the rectangular tank?
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Level 3 PSLE
The figure shows two stacks of identical paper cups. There are 5 cups in the shorter stack and 11 cups in the longer one. The length of the shorter stack is 15 cm and the length of the longer stack is 27 cm. Alle wants to pack the paper cups as a single stack into a box 35 m long. What is the most number of cones he can pack into the box?
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