Level 3
Adam has 300 stickers in 3 colours.
40% of the stickers are blue.
The rest are red and yellow stickers in the ratio 2 : 3.
  1. What percentage of the stickers are yellow?
  2. How many red stickers are there?
3 m
Level 3
In a school, there is a total of 400 people.
30% are adults.
The rest are children.
The number of boys and girls is in the ratio of 2 : 5.
  1. What percentage of the people are boys?
  2. How many girls are there?
3 m
Level 3
In a school, there is a total of 400 people.
30% are adults.
The rest are children.
The number of boys and girls is in the ratio of 5 : 9.
  1. What percentage of the people are boys?
  2. How many girls are there?
3 m
Level 3 PSLE
A company offered 120 radios at 20% discount during a 7-day sale. The line graph shows the number of radios left unsold at the end of each day.
  1. On which day was the most number of radios sold? Give your answer in number. (Eg 1)
  2. What percentage of the 120 radios were sold in the first five days of the sale?
  3. During the sale, the discounted price of the radios was $60. After the sale, the remaining radios were sold without discount. What was the total amount of money collected from selling all 120 radios?
4 m
Level 3
Study the patterns.
  1. Find the total number of triangles in Figure 30.
  2. Express the biggest triangle as a percentage of the total possible number of triangles in Figure 30. Correct your answer to 2 decimal places.
5 m
Level 3
60% of the sweets in Packet A were blueberry sweets and the rest were strawberry sweets. Packet B had 25% more blueberry sweets than packet A and twice as many sweets than the total number of sweets in Packet A. Find the percentage of the strawberry sweets in Packet B that would need to be transferred into Packet A, so that there were an equal number of blueberry and strawberry sweets in Packet A.
4 m
Level 3
The average number of mangosteens in Carton C, Carton D and Carton E is 24 and it is 8 more than the average number of papayas in the 3 cartons. 16 of the papayas are in Carton C and the papayas in Carton C is 80% of the number of papayas in Carton D. If each carton has the same number of fruits, what percentage of the fruits in Carton E are mangosteens?
5 m
Level 3
Sarah bought a total of 300 big and small candies. Then she decided to exchange 60% of her big candies for the small ones in the ratio of 3 : 5. After the exchange, she had 366 candies. What percentage of the candies she bought were small ones?
5 m
Level 3 PSLE
Mr Devon bought an humidifier for $216 after a discount of 25%.
  1. What was the price of the humidifier before discount?
  2. He paid $128 for a fan. The total discount for the humidifier and fan was $104. What was the percentage discount given for the fan?
5 m
Level 3
At first, the ratio of the number of boys to the number of girls at a school playground was 2 : 5. When 48 girls and some boys entered the playground, the number of girls increased by 12% and the total number of children at the playground increased by 20%.
  1. How many boys were there at first?
  2. What percentage of the children at the playground were boys in the end? Express your answer as a mixed number.
5 m