Level 3
12 similar strips of paper were glued to form a new long strip of paper of length 135 cm. The first and second strip were glued together to form an overlapped length of 3 cm as shown. This was consistent for the rest of the remaining strips of paper. Find the length of each original strip of paper.
4 m
Level 3
Mr Ong wanted to place pots of sunflowers at equal distance apart from each other along the perimeter of his square garden. He placed a flower pot at each corner and an equal number of flower pots along each side of the square garden. He had 79 pots of flowers to use.
  1. What was the maximum number of flower pots Mr Ong could use to place along the perimeter of the square garden?
  2. How many flower pots would there be along each side of the square garden including the flower pots at the 2 corners?
4 m
Level 3
Karen tied some ribbons along a rope in a row at equal distance apart. The distance between the first and the fifth ribbon was 8 m. The first ribbon and the last ribbon were tied 3 m away from each end of the rope. What was the length of the rope if she had tied 30 ribbons on it?
5 m
Level 3
Jaslyn placed 25 pins in a row from one to the other end of a bulletin board at equal distance apart as shown in the diagram. The distance between the first and last pin was 96 cm.
  1. What was the distance between the first and eighth pin?
  2. Jaslyn decided to remove 8 pins and rearrange the remaining pins at a new equal spacing. What was the new distance of each spacing?
5 m