Level 3
Jareth wants to make butter cookies using the recipe. To make 20 cookies, you need 125 g of butter, 200 g of flour and 50 g of sugar. He has 500 g of butter, 250 g of sugar and 1 kg of flour. What is the greatest number of cookies he can make?
4 m
Level 3
Stephanie uses the recipe to make Macaroni and Cheese. She has 1200 g of macaroni, 460 g of cheese and 275 g of butter. What is the maximum number of people that she can prepare the Macaroni and Cheese for?
4 m
Level 3
Ryan bought fewer than 15 packets of pencils. Each packet contained 20 pencils. He gave his teachers one packet of pencils each before giving an equal number of pencils to his 11 classmates and had 8 pencils left. He had less than 10 teachers.
  1. How many pencils did each of his classmates receive?
  2. What is the maximum number of teachers he could give a packet each to?
4 m
Level 3
Alan, Bob and Ken had the same number of notes. Jan and Bob had a mix of $10-notes and $2-notes. Alan had 15 $10-notes while Bob had 20 $10-notes. Ken only had $10-notes.
  1. Who had the least amount of money?
  2. How much more did Alan have than Bob?
  3. Bob used all his $2 notes to buy a wallet. He then had $280 less than Ken. How many $10 notes did Ken have?
5 m