Level 3
Sean bought 3 boxes of red marbles and 3 packets of blue marbles. There were 24 red marbles more than blue marbles. He had 60 marbles altogether. How many red marbles were there in each box?
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Level 3
The length of a rope is 25 m longer than a string. The length of a wire is 13 m shorter than the rope. The total length of the rope, the wire and the string is 58 m. What is the length of the rope?
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Level 3
The total mass of Tom, Kelsey and Linda is 120 kg. Kelsey's mass is 6 kg more than Tom's and 18 kg more than Linda's. Find the total mass of Tom and Linda.
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Level 3
The total mass of 3 muffins and 5 buns is 451 g. Each muffin has a mass twice as much as a bun. Find the mass of a bun.
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Level 3
Four times a number is 8120. What is 930 more than thrice the number?
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Level 3
The total mass of 6 bags of flour and 8 bags of sugar is 386 kg. Each bag of flour has a mass of 19 kg.
  1. What is the total mass of 6 bags of flour?
  2. What is the total mass of 8 bags of sugar?
  3. If each bag of sugar has the same mass, what is the mass of 1 bag of sugar?
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Level 3
The total capacity of a bottle and a mug is 8 ℓ. The total capacity of 3 such bottles and 5 such mugs is 31 ℓ. What is the capacity of each mug? Express your answer in ℓ
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Level 2
Mr Smith saved a total of $8540 in 6 months. In the first 4 months, he saved $1210 each month. In the 5th month, he saved $1530. How much did he save in the 6th month?
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Level 3
Mr Pang bought 26 baskets of durians. Each basket contained 48 durians. He sold 136 durians. Then he packed the remaining durians equally into 8 boxes. How many durians were there in each box?
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Shaye had 1469 guavas. After giving away 373 guavas, she packed the remaining guavas in bags of 8.
  1. How many bags of guavas did she pack?
  2. She sold each bag of guavas for $7. How much did she receive from the sales of the guavas?
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Level 3
The product of two numbers is greater than 80 but less than 85. The sum of the two numbers is a multiple of 5. The difference between the two numbers is 8.
  1. Find the two numbers.
  2. Find the product of the two numbers.
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Level 3
Jonathan wants to purchase a new car which costs $134850. Jonathan will pay a monthly instalment over a period of 5 years after paying a downpayment of $12850. How much is each monthly instalment? Round your answer off to the nearest thousand.
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Level 3
Harold bought some mangosteens and repacked them into bags of 25. He had 175 such bags of mangosteens and 7 mangosteens left.
  1. How many mangosteens did Harold buy?
  2. Harold wanted to have 180 bags of mangosteens. How many more mangosteens must he buy?
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Level 3
Two lighthouses flash their lights every 36 seconds and 30 seconds. If they flash together at 8:10 p.m., at what time would the two lighthouses flash their lights together again?
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Level 3
Daryl was trying to sleep one night but there was too much noise around him. His clock ticked every 10 seconds, a tap was dripping every 12 seconds and his dog snored every 15 seconds. He noticed on his clock that all 3 things happened together at 11 p.m.
  1. At what time would all 3 things happen together again?
  2. How many times would all 3 things happen together again from 11 p.m. to 12 midnight?
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Level 3
Three years ago, Greg's age was half of Daniel's age. Fernando is 25 years old now and he is 6 years older than Daniel. How old is Greg now?
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Level 3
Zachary invited 162 guests to his party. They were seated in tables of nine. Each guest was given 7 boxes of chocolates and each table was given 15 extra boxes of chocolates. How many boxes of chocolates did Zachary give out altogether?
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Level 2
Mr Tan was supposed to arrange some chairs for a concert in the school hall. If he formed 14 rows of 8 chairs, he would be left with 6 remaining chairs. How many more chairs would he need in order to form 10 rows of 12 chairs?
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Level 3
Jason bought a CD, a T-shirt and a watch for $76. The T-shirt cost $8 more than the CD and the watch cost $12 more than the T-shirt. How much did the T-shirt cost?
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Level 3
A storybook costs 3 times as much as a file. If 1 such file and 1 such storybook cost $36, how much does one storybook cost?
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