Level 3
Helen spent $12 on a shirt. She spent 15 of her remaining money on a blouse and a blazer, after which half her money was left.
  1. What fraction of her money did she spend on the shirt?
  2. The cost of the blazer is 13 the cost of the blouse. How much more does the blouse cost than the blazer?
4 m
Level 3
Figure A shows a rectangular container filled with some water and 8 identical blocks. The base area of the rectangular container is 448 cm2. Figure B shows the same container being turned upright. Find the volume of water in the container.
5 m
Level 3
Erika spent 38 of her money on 6 notebooks and 10 post-it pads. The cost of one post-it pad was thrice the cost of one notebook. She bought some more post-it pads with 14 of her remaining money. How many post-it pads did Erika buy altogether?
4 m
Level 3
A stall was selling flowers. 13 of the earnings are from the sale of 9 lavenders and 17 sunflowers. Of the rest of the earnings, 34 are from the sale of lavenders and 14 are from the sale of sunflowers. Each sunflower costs thrice as much as each lavender. How many flowers were sold?
4 m
Level 3
In the figure not drawn to scale, 4 identical rectangles were placed around square ABCD to form a larger square, EFGH. The area of one rectangle is 12 cm2, and the area of ABCD is 14 of EFGH. Find the length of one rectangle.
4 m
Level 3
The number of silver crayons is twice the number of blue crayons. The number of blue crayons is 14 more than the number of gold crayons. The total number of crayons is 138. The cost of each silver crayon is $3.80 and the cost of each gold crayon is $1.50. The total cost of all the crayons is $374.20.
  1. Find the number of gold crayons.
  2. Find the cost of a blue crayon.
5 m
Level 3
Nicole baked 187 puffs and tarts. She burnt 7 pieces and counted the remaining pieces. 16 of the tarts and 56 of the puffs were strawberry flavoured. There were equal number of tarts and puffs that were banana flavoured.
  1. How many unburnt banana puffs were there?
  2. What fraction of the unburnt pastries were strawberry puffs?
4 m
Level
Neave's shop sells shirts and blouses. A shirt is sold at $88 and a blouse is sold at 14 of the price of the shirt. On Sunday, Neave sold 89 of the items in his shop and collected $2244. 38 of the items sold were shirts. How many items were unsold after Sunday?
4 m
Level 3
A sum of $728 is divided among a group of people. 78 of the people receive $4 each, 13 of the remainder receive $3 each and the rest receive $2 each. How many people are there altogether?
4 m
Level 3
Andrew, Bryan and Charlie had the same number of marbles. Charlie gave 0.5 of his marbles to Bryan. Then Bryan gave 0.25 of his marbles to Andrew. Finally, after Bryan gave 30 marbles to Charlie, he had the same number of marbles as Charlie. How many marbles did Charlie have at first?
5 m