Level 3
Mrs Tan puts her jelly beans into goodie bags. Each goodie bag contains the same number of jelly beans. If she puts 3 jelly beans, 4 jelly beans or 5 jelly beans into each goodie bag, she will not have any jelly beans left. What is the smallest number of jelly beans Mrs Tan have?
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Level 3
Mrs Lee has some balloons. She can share all the balloons equally among 4, 6 or 8 children without any remainder. What is the least possible number of balloons Mrs Lee has?
4 m
Level 3
What is the shortest length which can be divided into 2 cm, 4 cm or 8 cm portions without any remainder?
4 m
Level 3
Alyson, Clara and Joyce were each given a piece of string of equal length. Alyson cut hers into equal lengths of 2 m, Clara cut hers into equal lengths of 3 m, and Joyce cut hers into equal lengths of 5 m. If there were no remainder in each case, find the shortest length of string given to each of them.
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Level 3
Gerald bought bottles of apple juice, orange juice and lemon juice of 250 mℓ, 300 mℓ and 500 mℓ respectively. He wanted to have equal amount of each type of juice. What is the least number of bottles he must buy for
  1. apple,
  2. orange,
  3. lemon?
4 m
Level 3
Mr Lim has some pencils. If he ties them in bundles of 6, he will have 5 extra pencils. If he ties them in bundles of 5, he would be short of 3 pencils. What is the smallest possible number of pencils Mr Lim has?
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Level 2
Miss Lim needed to purchase some chocolates for her students. Given that each packet contained 9 chocolates and she had 20 students in her class, what was the least number of packets of chocolates she needed to buy so that each student gets 7 chocolates?
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Level 2
Miss Tan needed some buttons to sew some clothes. The buttons were sold in packets of 8 buttons. If she needed 434 buttons and each pack cost $2, how much would it cost for her to buy enough buttons?
4 m
Level 3
Keychains are sold only in boxes of 12. Each box costs $9. Liming has $2219. What is the greatest number of keychains that Liming can buy?
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Level 3
Gerald bought bottles of apple juice, orange juice and lemon juice of 250 mℓ, 300 mℓ and 500 mℓ respectively. He counted to pour them into smaller cups of equal amount with no leftover.
  1. What was the largest possible amount of juice in each cup?
  2. How many cups of juice of apple juice, orange juice and lemon juice would he have respectively?
4 m
Level 3
An even 5-digit whole number is made up of different digits. The digit in the ten thousands place is the smallest even number. It is 5 less than the tens digit. The thousands digit is twice of the hundreds digit. The hundreds digit is 4 less than the tens digit. What is the smallest possible 5-digit whole number?
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Level 3
A supermarket has a special offer for cans of baked beans.
1 can for $2

SPECIAL OFFER:
3 cans for $5
Zachery has $109. What is the greatest number of cans of baked beans he can buy?
4 m
Level 3
If you round me off to the nearest thousand, you will get 7000. If you round me off to the nearest hundred, you will get 7100. The sum of all my digits is 16. What is my largest possible value?
4 m
Level 2
Both number X and number Y when rounded off to the nearest hundred are 1200 and 5500 respectively. What is the smallest possible total for X and Y?
4 m
Level 2
Jill thought of a number. When this number is rounded off to the nearest ten, it becomes 60. This number is also a common multiple of 4 and 8. What is the smallest possible number?
4 m
Level 2
The mass of a bag of sugar is 200 g. The mass of a bag of flour is 600 g. Mrs Foo wants to buy an equal amount of sugar and flour. What is the least number of bags of sugar that she should buy?
4 m
Level 2
Doris bought a box of 36 chocolates and a box of 45 sweets. However, she wanted to buy equal number of chocolates and sweets. What was the minimum number of boxes of chocolates and sweets she needed to buy?
  1. Number of boxes of chocolates
  2. Number of boxes of sweets
4 m
Level 2
Mr Jones bought a carton of bean bags. There were fewer than 60 bean bags in the carton. The number of bean bags in the carton could be packed into boxes of 4 or 7. What was the greatest possible number of bean bags in the carton?
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Level 2
What is the smallest possible number which will give a remainder of 3 when divided by either 12 or 15?
4 m
Level 2
Clara has some sweets. If she packs them in groups of 5, she will have 3 extra sweets. If she packs them in groups of 8, she will have 7 extra sweets. What is the minimum number of sweets Clara has?
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