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?
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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?
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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?
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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?
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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.
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