Level 2
At a shop, dining chairs were sold for the price shown.
Usual price of one dining chair: $30
John bought some dining chairs at a discount of 30%. He paid $168 in total. How many dining chairs did he buy?
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Level 2
During a sale, Kimberly bought a skirt and a coat at a discount. She paid a total of $141.10 on these two items. She paid $20.50 more on the skirt than on the coat.
  1. How much did she pay for the skirt?
  2. Kimberly received a total discount of $33.20 for the skirt and the coat. What is the percentage discount given by the shop? Give your answer correct to 1 decimal place.
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Level 2
Tommy bought two lamps that cost $171 each before Goods and Service Tax (GST).
  1. Given that GST was charged at 8%, how much GST did Tommy have to pay for one lamp?
  2. What was the total cost of the lamps, inclusive of GST?
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Level
Jane had some lollipops. She sold 20% of her lollipops and gave half of the remainder to her brother. After that, she bought 26 lollipops and had a total of 32 lollipops in the end. How many lollipops did Jane have at first?
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Level 2
Lisa had $451200. She invested 20% of it and put the rest in an account that gave her 3.5% interest in a year. How much would she have in the account at the end of the first year?
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Level 3
Abi had some bracelets. She gave 13 of the bracelets to her neighbour and gave 25 of the remainder to her brother. She sold the rest at 4 for $6.70. She received a total of $134 from the sales of the bracelets. How many bracelets did she have at first?
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Level 3 PSLE
Lynn wanted to buy a dress. She saw a red dress on sale at 10% discount and a blue dress at 20% discount. Both dresses had the same original price before the discounts. To buy the red dress, Lynn would need $3.50 more that what she had. So Lynn bought the blue dress. After that, she had $1 left.
  1. What was the original price of the red dress?
  2. How much money did Lynn have at first?
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Level 3
Eli had 60 red beads and 40 green beads. Eli gave away 30% of her red beads and 55% of her green beads. What percentage of her beads left was green?
3 m
Level 2
Lynn had 10 kg of flour. She used 12 kg of the flour to bake a cake and 14 kg of the remaining flour to bake some muffins. How much flour did she have left? Give your answer in grams.
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Level 3
Benedict cycled to his bakery with 16 trays of eggs. There were 24 eggs in each tray. He fell on his way and broke 13 of the eggs. He sold 58 of the good eggs and put the remaining eggs equally into 12 small baskets. How many eggs did he put into each basket?
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Level 3
Paul had some apple macarons and apricot macarons. He gave away 160 macarons to his brother. 25% of them were apple macarons and the rest were apricot macarons. Paul gave some apple macarons to his sister. 25 of all the macarons he gave away to his brother and his sister were apple macarons.
  1. How many apricot macarons did he give his brother?
  2. How many apple macarons did he give his sister?
4 m
Level 3
Yen baked 35 cupcakes. She ate 35 of them.
  1. How many cupcakes had she eaten?
  2. How many cupcakes had she left?
4 m
Level 3 PSLE
David has 8 large cubes and some small cubes. He placed them in a rectangular tank. The tank was filled to the brim exactly. The diagram shows the first layer of cubes.
  1. How many small cubes does David have?
  2. The volume of the tank is 504 cm3. If the large cubes took up 37 of the tank, What is the length of the edge of one small cube?
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Level 3
Ming Huat had 255 watermelons and 240 oranges at first. He used 35 of the watermelons and 34 of the oranges. He then bought some more oranges. In the end, 18 of the fruits he had left were watermelons. How many oranges did he buy?
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Level 3
A shop had 30 violins and some guitars. During a sale. 13 of the violins and 15 of the guitars were sold. 64 guitars were left unsold.
  1. How many violins were sold?
  2. How many violins and guitars were sold altogether?
3 m
Level 3
A pool is surrounded by a footpath as shown. The length of the footpath is 55 metres and its breadth is 25 of its length. Find the area of the pool.
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Level 2
Ben thought of a fraction. He multiplied the fraction by 25. then he added 8 to the answer. He got 23 as the answer. What is the fraction that Ben thought of? Express the answer in the simplest form.
3 m
Level 3
A chef bought 250 eggs. He boiled 40 eggs and fried 69 of the remaining eggs. How many eggs had he left?
4 m
Level 3
A furniture shop had a 30% discount storewide. The original price of a massage chair was $2300.
  1. How much was the massage chair after discount?
  2. Danny paid $2590 for a massage chair and a sofa. What was the original price of the sofa?
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Level 3
Yen had some money. She spent 40% on books and 20% of her remaining money on a blouse. She had $168 left.
  1. How much did she have at first?
  2. If the blouse was bought at a 30% discount, what was the original price of the blouse?
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