Level 2
Tom has 20 female guppies and 10 male guppies. If he gives away 5 female guppies and 5 male guppies, what fraction of the guppies left are female?
3 m
Level 2
Harris sold 8 cats, 5 hamsters and some birds. He sold 7 more birds than hamsters. What fraction of the total number of animals sold were hamsters?
3 m
Level 2
A fruit seller had 210 apples. He threw away 21 rotten apples and sold 105.
  1. How many apples had he left?
  2. What fraction of his apples were left? (Give the answer in its lowest terms.)

3 m
Level 2
There are 840 pupils in a school. 280 are girls. If 240 of the boys are Chinese, what fraction of the boys are not Chinese?
3 m
Level 3
Shiyun bought sandwiches at the prices as shown. Shiyun spent an equal amount of money on the tuna and chicken sandwiches.
  1. What fraction of the sandwiches Shiyun bought were chicken sandwiches?
  2. How much did Shiyun spend altogether?
3 m
Level 3
There were some red, blue and green pens in a box. 19 of the pens were blue. The ratio of the number of red pens to the number of green pens was 3 : 5. There were 288 fewer blue pens than green pens.
  1. Find the ratio of the number of red pens to the number of blue pens to the number of green pens in the box.
  2. How many green pens were there?
4 m
Level 3
In a container, there are candies of 3 colours, yellow, white and purple. There are 108 more white candies than purple candies. The number of purple candies is 12 more than the yellow candies. Given that the number of purple candies is 24% of the total number of candies in the container, how many more white candies are there than yellow candies?
4 m
Level 3
Sandra bought three types of fruits. The prices are given.
The bar graph shows the mass of each type of fruits Sandra bought.
  1. What fraction of the fruits Sandra bought were cucumber? Give your answer in the simplest form.
  2. Which type of fruits did Sandra spend the most money on? How much did she spend on that fruits? Give your answers in this format. (Eg 1, $1.20)
3 m
Level 3
In the stationery shop, 14 of the books sold were Math books. 13 of the remaining books sold were English books. The ratio of the number of English books sold to the number of Chinese books was 7 : 6. The number of Science books sold was 56. How many books were sold altogether?
4 m
Level 2
The pie charts show the number of each type of stationery in boxes, A and B. The total number of stationery in Box A is twice the total number of stationery in Box B.
  1. Find the percentage of erasers in Box A.
  2. What fraction of stationery in Box B is erasers?
  3. The number of erasers in Box A is 40. Find the number of erasers in Box B.
3 m
Level 3
A box contained red, blue and purple markers. 25 of the markers were red and 29 of the remainder were blue markers. The rest were purple markers.
  1. Find the ratio of the number of purple markers to the number of red markers.
  2. There were 160 fewer blue markers than red markers. How many markers were there in the box?
4 m
Level 1
In a class, one half of the pupils are Malay, 25 of the pupils are Chinese and the rest are pupils of other nationalities. What fraction of the class is made up of pupils of other nationalities?
3 m
Level 3
There were 4 more girls than boys in the classroom. Excluding 2 boys, the number of boys was 56 of the number of girls. When another 4 girls joined, what fraction of the pupils were girls? Give the answer in its simplest form.
3 m
Level 2
A man had some party bags. 15 of the party bags has lollipops, 27 has candies and the rest has chocolates. What fraction of the party bags had chocolates?
3 m
Level 3
At a school carnival, each boy received 3 packets of sweets and each girl received 4 packets of sweets. Each accompanying adult received 2 packets of sweets. 27 of the people at the school carnival were adults. The ratio of the number of boys to the number of girls at the carnival was 5 : 8. Given that only 6601 packets of sweets were given away, how many people were there at the carnival?
4 m
Level 2
On a train, 110 of the passengers were children, 15 were senior citizens and the rest were adults. What fraction of the passengers were adults?
3 m
Level 2
Janelle collected 288 cards. She gave 13 of them to her three siblings. On the average, how many cards did each of her siblings receive?
3 m
Level 3 PSLE
A caterer prepares fish balls for some people attending a party. The ratio of the number of adults to the number of children attending is 2 : 5. Among the children, the ratio of the number of girls to the boys is 4 : 1. A total of 180 fish balls are prepared so that each adult gets 4 fish balls and each child gets 2.
  1. What fraction of the people attending the party are boys?
  2. How many children are attending the party?
4 m
Level 3
Jamie had 126 pens. 23 of them were blue pens and the rest were red pens. After she had given away some blue pens, the ratio of the number of blue pens to the number of red pens became 4 : 3. How many blue pens did she give away?
4 m
Level 3 PSLE
Rael, Sam and Fred had 180 stickers altogether. Rael gave 310 of his stickers to Sam and 15 of his stickers to Fred. After that, all three boys had the same number of stickers. What was the difference in the number of stickers between Sam and Fed at first?
3 m