Level
Neave's shop sells shirts and blouses. A shirt is sold at $88 and a blouse is sold at 14 of the price of the shirt. On Sunday, Neave sold 89 of the items in his shop and collected $2244. 38 of the items sold were shirts. How many items were unsold after Sunday?
4 m
Level 3
A sum of $728 is divided among a group of people. 78 of the people receive $4 each, 13 of the remainder receive $3 each and the rest receive $2 each. How many people are there altogether?
4 m
Level 3
Tickets for a drama performance were sold to senior citizens, adults and children at different prices as shown.
14 of the tickets sold were bought by senior citizens and 13 of them were bought by adults. The rest were bought by children.
  1. What fraction of the tickets sold that were bought by children?
  2. A total amount of $2240 was collected from the sale of the tickets. How many children bought the tickets?
4 m
Level 3
There are three times as many chickens as sheep in a farm. There are 390 legs altogether. Given that a chicken has 2 legs and a sheep has 4 legs, how many chickens are there?
4 m
Level 3
Xavier had 66 marbles. He packed them into packets of 4 or 6. There were 4 more packets of 4 than packets of 6. How many packets of marbles were there in the end?
4 m
Level
There are some trucks and motorbikes. There are 9 more motorbikes than trucks. The total number of truck wheels is 20 more than the total number of motorbike wheels.
  1. How many motorbikes are there?
  2. How many more trucks are needed in order to get a total of 172 wheels?
4 m
Level 3
There are 2 groups of workers in a factory. There are 5 more workers in the first group than the second group. Each worker in the first group makes 4 toys in a minute but each worker in the second group makes only 3 toys in a minute. Both groups make a total of 4140 toys in an hour.
  1. How many workers are there in the first group?
  2. How many workers are there in the second group?
4 m
Level 3
Andrew had a number of oranges. He could pack all his oranges equally into 25 boxes. If he packed 3 fewer oranges in each box, he would be able to pack all his oranges equally into 30 boxes. How many oranges did Andrew have altogether?
4 m
Level 3
In a seminar room, chairs were arranged in rows of 12. During a workshop, 32 chairs were added to accommodate the number of people. The chairs were rearranged to form rows of 11. As a result, there were 7 more rows.
  1. How many chairs were there in the extra 7 rows?
  2. How many chairs were there in the seminar rom in the end?
4 m
Level 3
There were some rows of tables in a hall. Each row had 5 tables. When Kathy brought in 2 extra tables and rearranged all the tables, there were 4 tables in each row and 3 more rows than before. How many tables were there at first?
4 m
Level 3
In a school hall, a certain number of students can be arranged such that there are exactly 21 students per row. If the same number of students arranged in rows of 16 students each, there will be 7 more rows and 8 students left over. How many students are there altogether?
4 m
Level 3
A philanthropist bought a total of $19380 worth of toys, textbooks and clothes to donate to the needy children. The number of clothes bought was 20% more than the number of toys bought but 20% fewer than the number of textbooks bought. The toy cost $12 each and was $2 more expensive than each textbook but 40% cheaper than each piece of clothes. How many toys and textbooks did the philanthropist donate to the needy children?
5 m
Level 3
Jake and Kenneth had the same number of sweets. Each of them packed his own sweets into packets. Jake packed 5 sweets in each packet and had 2 sweets left. Kenneth packed 8 sweets in each packet and was short of 4 sweets.
  1. How many sweets did each of them have if they have used the same number of packets?
  2. What was the smallest possible number of sweets each of them had if they used different number of packets?
4 m
Level 3
The table shows the prices of tickets for a concert performance for an adult ticket and a child ticket. 14 of the tickets sold were for adults. The total amount of money collected from sale of the child tickets was $230 more than the total amount collected from the sale of adult tickets.
  1. How many child tickets were sold?
  2. How much money was collected from the sale of all the tickets?
5 m
Level 3
At a race, 37 of the number of boys is equal to 25 of the number of girls. The number of adults at the race is thrice the number of children. The number of coupons given to each adult, boy and girl at the race is 4, 3 and 2 respectively. The total number of coupons given at the race is 7980.
  1. What is the total number of coupons given to the adults?
  2. What is the number of girls at the race?
5 m
Level 3
Contestants in a quiz were awarded certificates based on their scores. A total of 312 points were awarded. 18 of the contestants received the Certificate of Distinction. 45 of the remaining contestants received the Merit Certificate and the rest received the Participation Certificate. How many contestants received the Certificate of Distinction?
5 m
Level 3
Alan, Bob and Ken had the same number of notes. Jan and Bob had a mix of $10-notes and $2-notes. Alan had 15 $10-notes while Bob had 20 $10-notes. Ken only had $10-notes.
  1. Who had the least amount of money?
  2. How much more did Alan have than Bob?
  3. Bob used all his $2 notes to buy a wallet. He then had $280 less than Ken. How many $10 notes did Ken have?
5 m