Level 3
Mrs Goh paid a total of $4500 for a table and a television after a discount of 40%. The ratio of the original price of the table to the original price of the television was 1 : 2. Find the original price of the television before the discount.
4 m
Level 3
A tank was completely filled with water. The ratio of the length of the tank to its breadth to its height is 8 : 4 : 15.
  1. Given that the height of the tank is 45 cm, find the volume of water in the tank.
  2. All the water in the tank was poured into 2 empty bottles A and B without spilling any water. As a result, Bottle A had 1500 cm3 more water than Bottle B. Find the volume of water in Bottle A. Give your answer in litres.
4 m
Level 3
Evelyn bought 50% more hair clips than Linda. Tammy bought 10% fewer hair clips than Evelyn. Evelyn and Linda gave Tammy some hair clips in the ratio 7 : 2. As a result, Tammy had twice as much hair clips as before. Given that Linda had 15 more hair clips than Evelyn in the end, how much hair clips did Evelyn give to Tammy?
5 m
Level 3
Mr Lim had three bags of soil, A, B and C and the mass of each bag of soil was in the ratio 2 : 4 : 3. Mr Lim decided to transfer 30% of soil from Bag A into Bag B and 60% of soil from Bag C into Bag B. Given that the mass of Bag B was 38.4 kg in the end, how many kilograms of soil were transferred into Bag B?
5 m
Level 3
A coin bank contains some twenty-cent and fifty-cent coins in the ratio of 4 : 5. When 16 fifty-cent coins were taken out and replaced by some twenty-cent coins, the ratio became 8 : 7. The total value of the twenty-cent coins added was the same as the total value of the fifty-cent coins taken out. Find the sum of money in the coin box.
5 m
Level 3
The figure is not drawn to scale. ABCD is a rectangle. Triangles AOD and BOC are identical. The area of Triangle COD is 63.14 cm2. The ratio of the area of Triangle AOB to The area of Triangle COD is 3 : 7. Find the area of Triangle AOD.
3 m
Level 3
A convenience store sold crabstick, salmon and egg mayo sandwiches. The ratio of the number of crabstick sandwiches made to the total number of sandwiches made was 3 : 7. The ratio of the number of salmon sandwiches made to the total number of sandwiches made was 1 : 5. After the store sold some crabstick sandwiches and made another 42 salmon sandwiches, there was an equal number of crabstick, salmon and egg mayo sandwiches left. Find the number of crabstick sandwiches sold.
5 m
Level 3
Madam Naz made pies for sale. 45% of the pies were chicken pies and the rest were potato and sardine pies in the ratio 3 : 1. If a customer bought 75% of the chicken pies and all of the sardine pies, what percentage of the potato pies must Madam Naz sell for her to maintain the original percentage of chicken pies at first? Leave your answer in mixed numbers.
5 m
Level 3
Daniel saved some 50-cent coins and $1 notes in his coin box. The total value of the 50-cent coins to the total value of the $1 notes he had was in the ratio 2 : 5. After $14 worth of 50-cent coins and an equal value of $1 notes were added to the coin box, the ratio of the total value of 50-cent coins to the total value of $1 notes became 5 : 9. How many of each type did Daniel have in the end?

  1. 50-cent coins?
  2. $1 notes?
5 m
Level 3
At the beginning of the year, the number of members in Club A and Club B were in the ratio 5 : 7. At the end of Term One, some members left Club A to join Club B. The ratio of the number of members in Club A and Club B became 1 : 3. At the middle of Term Two, each club received 54 new members. The ratio of the number of members in Club A and Club B became 2: 3. How many members left Club A to join Club B at the end of Term One?
5 m
Level 3
A shop owner had three boxes, containing a total of 1500 plastic cups. The number of plastic cups in Box A to the total number of plastic cups was 3 : 10. He sold 330 plastic cups from Box B and sold 13 of the plastic cups in Box C. The number of plastic cups left in Box B to the number of plastic cups left in Box C was 3 : 1. How many plastic cups were there in Box B at first?
5 m
Level 3
The ratio of Yvette's money to Linda's money was 1 : 3. After Yvette spent thrice as much as Linda, Yvette and Linda had $6 and $42 left respectively. Find the amount of money each of the girls have at first.
  1. Yvette
  2. Linda
5 m
Level 3
The figure, not drawn to scale, is made up of two identical squares, X and Z and a rectangle Y. The ratio of the area X to the area of Y to the area of Z is 1 : 2 : 1. The ratio of the unshaded part of X to the unshaded part of Z is 2 : 3 respectively. Given that half of the area of X is shaded and the total area of all the shaded parts is 48 m2, what is the area of the whole figure?
3 m
Level 3
The average number of cards Jeryl and Ronnie had was 105. The average number of cards Jeryl and Daryl was 67.5. Given that the ratio of the number of cards Ronnie had to the number of cards Daryl had was 5 : 2, find the number of cards Jeryl had.
4 m
Level 3
The average number of playing cards Brendon and Ricky had was 450. The average number of playing cards Brendon and Jonas had was 240. If the ratio of Ricky's playing cards to Jonas's playing cards was 5 : 2, find the number of playing cards Brendon had.
4 m
Level 3
A piece of paper is folded as shown. The ratio of ∠a to ∠b is 3 : 2.
  1. Find ∠a.
  2. Find ∠c.
4 m
Level 3
In the figure, CEGH is a quadrilateral with an area of 110 cm2. The ratio of AH to HG to GF is 4 : 3 : 2. Given that the height of Triangle HOF is 20 cm, AF = 36 cm, and BH = 10 cm. Find the area of the figure.
4 m
Level 3
Jane was attempting to read a book within a week. On Monday, she had read 37 of the book. By Friday, she had read another 60 pages and the ratio of the number of pages read to the total number of pages was 9 : 11. Find the average number of pages Jane should have read each day to complete the book in a week.
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
Level 3
The ratio of the area of Rectangle A to that of Rectangle B to that of Rectangle C is 5 : 4 : 3. 310 of Rectangle A and 16 of Rectangle C are shaded. The shaded area is 36 cm2. Find the total unshaded area of the figure.
4 m