Level 3
Zane had $120 less than Xavier. If Xavier spends $460 and Zane's mother gave Zane $200, Xavier will have 14 as much money as Zane. How much money did Zane and Xavier have?
4 m
Level 3
A store had 390 story books. There were Chinese, Malay and English story books in the ratio of 4 : 3 : 6. When the store assistant brought in another 60 new story books, the number of Chinese story books was increased by 20% and the number of Malay story books was increased by 110.
  1. What was the number of English story books that the store assistant brought in?
  2. What was the percentage increase in the number of English story books?
5 m
Level 3
20% of Nick's savings was $120 more than 30% of Will's savings. After Nick spent 23 of his savings and Will spent 40% of his savings, Nick had $13 more than Will. How much was Nick's saving at first?
5 m
Level 3
Jane and Tina had $652. Tina had $76 more than Jane. Jane spent 2 times as much as Tina and was left with 23 as much as Tina. How much did Jane spend?
4 m
Level 3
Mr Zane had to collect some fruits from two stalls and deliver some fruits to another stall. He collected from Stall W and the ratio of avocados to papayas was 2 : 3. When he reached Stall X, he unloaded 56 of the papayas and some avocados from his vehicle. The ratio of avocados to papayas became 4 : 5. At Stall Y, 124 avocados and 26 papayas were collected and the number of avocados to papayas became the same.
  1. How many fruits were there on his vehicle after visiting Stall Y?
  2. How many avocados were delivered to Stall X?
5 m
Level 3
23 of Eva's money was equal to 15 of Gillian's money at first. After Eva spent $41 and Gillian spent 25 of her money, Eva had 13 as much money as Gillian.
  1. How much money did Gillian have at first?
  2. How much money did Gillian have in the end?
4 m
Level 3
Wendy had $779 more than Hazel. Wendy spent 0.6 of her money and Hazel spent 50% of her money. In the end, Wendy and Hazel had the same amount of money left. Find the amount of money that Wendy had in the end.
5 m
Level 3
Three girls gave an equal amount of money to buy a souvenir for Oscar. Diana used 13 of her money. Fiona used 34 of her money and Ruth used 12 of hers. They had a total of $190 at first. How much was the souvenir?
4 m
Level 3
A store owner had 130 more oranges than lemons. After he sold 80% of the oranges and 30% of the lemons, he was left 19 more lemons than oranges. What fraction of the fruits left were lemons?
5 m
Level 3
The museum tickets are priced at $10 and $5. The number of $10-dollar tickets available is 289 that of the number of $5-dollar tickets. 2 out of 3 of the $10-dollar tickets and all the $5-dollar tickets were sold. The ticket sales amounted to $8515. How much more would have been collected if all the tickets were sold?
4 m
Level 3
Yvonne and George collect pens and stickers. George has 70 more stickers than pens. George has 3 times the number of pens Yvonne has, and Yvonne has 40% more stickers than George. After Yvonne gives George all of her pens and George gives Yvonne 60% of his stickers, George has 64 more pens than stickers. Find the number of stickers Yvonne has at first.
5 m
Level 3
Auntie Zoe baked 45 more strawberry cookies than cheese cookies. After she gave 13 of the strawberry cookies and 0.4 of the cheese cookies to Hazel, she was left with 119 fewer cheese cookies than strawberry cookies. How many cookies did she bake?
5 m
Level 3
Sarah had 70% as many candies as Xuan. Sarah gave away 10% of her candies and Xuan bought another 99 candies. As a result, Sarah now has 30% as many candies as Xuan. Find the number of candies that Xuan had at first.
5 m
Level 3
At the bird park were some adults. 12 of the number of tourists was equal to 2 times the number of locals. When another 19 tourists entered and 51 tourists left, the ratio of the number of tourists to the number of locals become 7 : 2. Find the number of tourists at the bird park at first.
5 m
Level 3
Mr Yap bought some pizzas for a group of pupils. There is an equal number of girls and boys. The girls received 5 times as many pizzas as the boys. Each boy ate 13 of a pizza and the boys finished all the pizzas given to them. Each girl ate 16 of a pizza and the girls had 18 12 pizzas left. How many pizzas did Mr Yap buy?
5 m
Level 3
On Monday, there were 320 more adults than children at the funfair. On Tuesday, the number of adults increased by 65% and the number of children increased by 55%. There were 1552 people on Tuesday. How many adults were there on Monday?
5 m
Level 3
At a conference made up of speakers and participants, there were 10% more men than women. The ratio of the male speakers to female speakers was 8 : 5. There was an equal number of male and female participants.
  1. Find the ratio of male speakers to male participants at the conference at first.
  2. Halfway, 89 male participants left the conference and another 73 female participants joined the conference. In the end, there were 34 as many male participants as female participants remaining behind. How many speakers were there at the conference?
5 m
Level 3
A stationery booth sells markers in packs of 4 and 5. At first, there were 4 times as many packs of 4 as packs of 5. After selling half of the packs of 4 and some packs of 5, Mr Zhang packs 15 additional packs of 5. How many packs of 4 are sold if there are 6 times as many packs of 4 as packs of 5 and there is a total of 348 unsold markers?
5 m
Level 3
10 days ago, Ruth had a total of 250 green and violet stickers. 40% of her stickers were violet stickers. Today, her father gave her some more stickers. As a result, her green stickers increased by 30%. Now, 50% of her stickers are violet stickers. How many violet stickers did her father give her?
5 m
Level 3 PSLE
At John's fruit stall, 34 of the apples were red and the rest were green. He sold 12 of the total number of apples. 56 of the apples sold were red. 10 green apples were left. How many red apples did John sell?
4 m