Level 3
The figure shows a rectangular piece of paper. It is cut into 3 parts, X, Y and Z. Find the ratio of the area of the rectangular piece of paper to the area of Y. Leave your answer in the simplest form.
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Level 3
Three women, Mrs Zhang, Mrs Lin and Mrs Yap went on a shopping spree. 30% of Mrs Zhang's spending is equal to 15 of Mrs Lin's spending. Mrs Yap's spending is 40% more than Mrs Lin's. If Mrs Lin spends another $804, she will spend the same amount of money as Mrs Yap.
  1. Find the ratio of Mrs Zhang's spending to Mrs Lin's to Mrs Yap's.
  2. How much did Mrs Zhang spend?
4 m
Level
Fred had 12 as many erasers as Will. Will had 23 as many erasers as Rachel. After Fred and Rachel gave 12 erasers to Will, Will had four times as many erasers as Fred. Rachel then had the same number of erasers as Will.
  1. What was the ratio of the number of erasers Fred had to the number of erasers Rachel had in the beginning? Answer in simplest form.
  2. How many erasers did Will have in the end?
4 m
Level 3
In January, Anna and Ryan had stamps in the ratio 5 : 2. In February, each of them gave away the same number of stamps. Anna then had thrice as many stamps as Ryan.
  1. Find the ratio of the number of stamps Ryan had in January to the number of stamps he had in February.
  2. Find the ratio of the total number of stamps both had in January to the total number of stamps both had in February.
4 m
Level 3
Eva and Fiona went shopping with a total of $200. After Eva spent 34 of her money and Fiona spent $46, the ratio of Fiona's money became 3 times as much as Eva's money. Find the ratio of Eva's money to Fiona's money at first.
4 m
Level 3
Three cartons, A, B and C, contained 382 marbles. Hazel added some marbles into Carton A and the number of marbles in Carton A tripled. He took out half of the number of marbles from Carton B and added another 98 marbles into Carton C. As a result, the ratio of the number of marbles in Carton A, Carton B and Carton C became 6 : 2 : 9. What was the ratio of the number of marbles in Carton B to the total number of marbles in Carton A and Carton C at first? Give the answer in its lowest term.
4 m
Level 3 PSLE
In the figure, ABCD is a rectangle and AED is a right-angled triangle with sides measuring 30 cm, 40 cm and 50 cm. The perimeter of the shaded part is 176 cm. What is the ratio of the area of the triangle to the area of the shaded part? Give your answer in the simplest form.
4 m
Level 3
The figure is make up of 3 circles. The small circle has centre O and a radius of 6 cm. The big circle, has centre O and a radius of 10 cm. The diameter of the big circle cuts through the centre of the medium-sized circle and the small circle. The three regions formed are indicated as X, Y and Z.
  1. Find the radius of the medium-sized circle.
  2. Find the area of region Z. Use a calculator to obtain the value of π. (Round off to nearest 2 decimal places).
  3. Express the area of the region Y as a ratio to the area of region X.
5 m
Level 3
In the figure, not drawn to scale, WXYZ is a rectangle with a length of 45 cm and a width of 22 cm. The area of the quadrilateral ABCD is 75 cm2. Find the ratio of the shaded area to the unshaded area.
5 m
Level 2
Mrs Goh had a sum of money. She could either buy 32 chocolates or 24 sweets. Given that she had already bought 12 chocolates and 9 sweets, how many more chocolates could she buy?
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