Level 3
Ruth, Queenie and Cathy were playing with beads. Ruth started with 72 beads and then she gained 13 more beads from Queenie. In the second game, Ruth lost 38 of her original number of beads to Cathy. Queenie lost as many beads as Ruth to Cathy. In the final game, Ruth gained 12 of her original number of beads from Queenie. All of them ended up with the same number of beads.
  1. How many beads did Ruth have in the end?
  2. How many beads did Queenie have at first?
5 m
Level 2
Anna had 76 more marbles than Wendy at first. Wendy gave 19 of her marbles to Anna. Anna now has 3 times as many marbles as Wendy. How many marbles did Wendy have at first?
2 m
Level 2 PSLE
Reggie and Xuan have some erasers. After Reggie gives 28 erasers to Xuan, he has 30 erasers more than her. How many more erasers than Xuan does Reggie have at first?
2 m
Level 3 PSLE
Ben had $15 more than Lina at first. After Ben gave some of his money to Lina, he had $21 less than Lina. How much money did Ben give to Lina?
2 m
Level 2
Violet had 6 times as many erasers as Jane at first. After Violet gave 40 erasers to Jane, they each had the same number of erasers in the end. How many erasers did Violet have at first?
3 m
Level 2 PSLE
Fiona had 52 more beads than Lynn at first. Lynn gave 7 of her beads to Fiona. Fiona now has 4 times as many beads as Lynn. How many beads did Lynn have at first?
3 m
Level 3
Basket G and Basket H have a total of 284 lollipops. After 43 lollipops were transferred from Basket G to Basket H, there were 3 times as many lollipops in Basket H as Basket G. How many lollipops were there in each basket at first?
  1. Basket G
  2. Basket H
3 m
Level 3
Natalie has $127 more than Eva. If Eva gives Natalie $56, the amount of money Natalie has will be 6 times that of Eva's. How much money does Natalie have?
3 m
Level 3 PSLE
Tina has 130 marbles more than Olivia. If Tina transfers 384 marbles to Olivia, Olivia will have 3 times as many as Tina. How many marbles does Tina have?
3 m
Level 3
Sean and Cathy had some money each. If Cathy gives Sean $49, he will have 3 times as much as Cathy. If Sean gives Cathy $20, he will have the same amount as her. How much money does each person have respectively?
  1. Sean?
  2. Cathy?
3 m