Level
Box A and Box B are identical. 78 of Box A and 35 of Box B are filled with sand. The mass of Box B with its contents is 79 the mass of Box A with its contents. The total mass of the two boxes with their contents is 528 kg. Find the mass of an empty box.
4 m
Level 3
There are 25% more red crayons than blue crayons in a bag. After John removed 40% of the red crayons and increased the number of blue crayons by 10%, there are now 70 fewer red crayons than blue crayons. Find the number of blue crayons at first.
4 m
Level 3
Zoe, Fanny, Eric and Olivia shared some pens. Zoe and Fanny took 15 of the total number of pens while Eric and Olivia took the rest. Fanny had four times as many pens as Zoe and Olivia had 176 pens. Given that Eric had four times as many pens as Fanny, how many pens were there altogether?
4 m
Level 3
Natalie sold lavenders and tulips in her shop on Mother's Day. 70% of the flowers she sold on that day were lavenders and she sold 81 tulips.
  1. What was the total number of flowers sold?
  2. 10% of the flowers in the shop were sold on that day. 10% of the flowers left were tulips. How many tulips were left?
4 m
Level 3
At a carnival, the children were put into two groups. 45 of Group F were boys and 23 of Group G were girls. Group G had twice as many children as Group F. There were 18 fewer boys in Group F than Group G.
  1. What fraction of the total number of children at the carnival were boys? Give your answer in the simplest form.
  2. What was the total number of children at the carnival?
4 m
Level 3
If Kelly sells a hand phone at a discount of 20% of the usual price, she will make a profit of $40. If she sells it at a discount of 40%, she will incur a loss of $45. Find the price of the hand phone.
4 m
Level 3
Glen, Ken, Jenson and Justin shared 105 stickers. Jenson received 15 of the stickers. Glen received 16 of the total amount of stickers received by Ken and Justin. Justin received four times as much stickers as Ken.
  1. How many stickers did Glen receive?
  2. How many more stickers did Jenson receive than Ken?
4 m
Level 3
If Jerome sells a camera at a discount of 5% of the usual price, he will make a profit of $75. If he sells it at a discount of 20%, he will still make a profit of $30. Find the cost price of the camera.
4 m
Level 3
If Melvin sells a television at a markup price of 10% above its usual selling price, he will make a profit of $500. If he sells it at a discount of 20% of its usual selling price, he will incur a loss of $100. Find the selling price of the television.
4 m
Level 3
The length of ribbon A and ribbon B is 30.55 m. The total length of ribbon B, C and D is 58.93 m. The length of ribbons C, D and E is 64.53 m. Ribbon E is twice the length of ribbon A. Find the length of ribbon A. Give the answer in metres.
4 m