Level 3
There were 350 adults enrolled in the Adult Cooking School in 2009. 27 of the adults were women. Additional adults joined the cooking school in 2010. For every 2 women who joined the cooking school, 1 man joined the cooking school. If there was an equal number of men and women in 2010, how many men joined the school in that year?
4 m
Level 3
Terry had a total of 430 red and blue balloons. After giving away 59 of the red balloons and 66 blue balloons, there was an equal number of red and blue balloons left. How many red balloons did he have at first?
4 m
Level 3
Nicola used 47 of her red stickers and 35 of her blue stickers to decorate her diary. In the end, she had an equal number of red stickers and blue stickers left. Given that Nicola had a total of 377 red and blue stickers at first, how many blue stickers did she use to decorate the diary?
4 m
Level 3
In a class of 21, a bag of lollipops were shared equally. 14 of the students gave up their share to be shared equally amongst the rest. As a result, the remaining students received extra 4 lollipops each. How many lollipops were there in the bag at first?
4 m
Level 3
Winnie and Neave went shopping with a total of $44. After Winnie spent 13 of her money and Neave spent 34 of his money, they each had an equal amount of money left. How much money did they spend altogether?
4 m
Level 3
Nick, Warren and Paul bought some biscuits. After Nick ate 25 of his biscuits, Warren ate 34 of his biscuits and Paul ate 12 biscuits, each of them had the same number of biscuits left. Nick had 63 less biscuits than Warren at first.
  1. How many biscuits did Nick have at first?
  2. How many biscuits did the 3 of them buy altogether?
4 m
Level 3
Sean and Pierre had an equal number of books. Sean donated 18 of her books and Pierre donated 15 of his books. Pierre donated 12 more books than Sean. How many books did Pierre have at first?
4 m
Level 3
At first, George, Paul and David had the same amount of money. After David spent some of his money, George spent 38 of his money and Paul spent 35 of his money, George had $198 more than Paul. In the end, the total amount of money the three boys had left was $946. How much money did David spend?
4 m
Level 3
Ivan and Ryan earned the same amount each month. Ivan saved 34 of his pay and Ryan saved 25 of his pay. Ivan saved $160 more than Ryan in a month. How much did Ryan save in a month?
4 m
Level 3
At the hospital, Floor A and Floor B had an equal number of beds at first. If 6 beds were removed from Floor B and 6 times as many beds were removed from Floor A as Floor B, the number of beds in Floor B would be 4 times as many as in Floor A. Find the number of beds on each floor.
4 m
Level 3
Nora and Hazel used the same number of lychees to bake cakes. Nora used 25 of her lychees and Hazel used 35 of her lychees. They had a total of 125 lychees at first.
  1. How many lychees did each girl use?
  2. How many lychees did both girls have left altogether?
4 m
Level 3
Eric had an equal number of cream scones, strawberry scones and vanilla scones. After he ate 28 cream scones, some strawberry scones and vanilla scones, there were 55 scones left. The number of strawberry scones he ate was thrice the number of vanilla scones he ate. The number of strawberry scones left was 22 more than the number of cream scones left. How many cream scones were there at first?
4 m
Level 3
Triangle ABC and Triangle DBC share the same base BC. The height of Triangle ABC is 4 times the height of Triangle DBC. Given that DE is 4 cm and BC is 13 cm, Find the area of the shaded part.
4 m
Level 3
Fanny and Gillian collected some stamps. If Fanny gave Gillian 52 stamps, both would have an equal number of stamps. If Gillian gave Fanny 40 stamps, Fanny would have 5 times as many stamps as Gillian. Find the number of stamps each of them had.
  1. Fanny?
  2. Gillian?
4 m
Level 3
There was an equal number of mangoes and pineapples. On Monday, some mangoes were added, such that the number of mangoes increased by 80%. On Tuesday, the number of mangoes further increased by 50% and the number of pineapples decreased by 20%. There were 38 more mangoes than pineapples in the end. How many mangoes and pineapples were there altogether at first?
5 m
Level 3
A box of pies cost $15 while a box of muffins cost $17. Each box contained either 4 pies or 3 muffins. Mrs Sanchez bought the same number of pies and muffins. She paid $207 more for the muffins. How many boxes of pies did she buy?
4 m
Level 3
A bakery was having its grand opening promotion for eclairs and bagels at the prices as shown. Mrs Lim spent an equal amount of money on the eclairs and bagels for her company party. She bought 40 more eclairs than bagels. What was the total number of eclairs and bagels bought by Mrs Lim?
4 m
Level 3
Winnie had two rolls of ribbons of the same length but different designs. She cut the first roll of ribbon into equal pieces of length 36 cm and there were 7 hearts on each piece of ribbon and cut the second roll of ribbon into equal pieces of length 54 cm and there were 9 stars on each piece of ribbon as shown. After she finished cutting both rolls of ribbons, she counted that the total number of hearts was 84 more than the total number of stars. Find the length of one roll of ribbon in cm.
4 m
Level 3
Melanie, Oprah and Andy shared $4590 among themselves. Oprah and Andy shared 49 of the money equally. After Oprah gave away some of her money to Melanie, Andy had 3 times as much money as Oprah. How much money did Oprah give to Melanie?
5 m
Level 3
Mindy, Jake and Donald shared a sum of money. The amount received by Jake was 23 the amount of money received by Donald. After Mindy had given $48 to Jake and $27 to Donald, Jake gave $3 to Donald. In the end, 3 of them had the same amount of money. Find the difference between the amount of money that Mindy and Jake had at first.
5 m