Level 3
Jade buys a coat, a vest, a sweater and a windbreaker. The average cost of these items is $36. The total cost of the sweater and the windbreaker is 35 of the total cost of the coat and the vest. If the coat costs $16.60 and the windbreaker costs $11.50, find the difference in cost between the vest and the sweater.
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Level 3
23 of Sean's savings comprised of 20-cent coins and 50-cent coins. Sean used some 20-cent coins to purchase a toy. The number of 50-cent coins left was 50% more than the number of 20-cent coins left. Given that Sean had 100 more 50-cent coins than 20-cent coins left in the end, find the amount of money Sean spent on the toy.
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Level 3
The table shows the time taken by 4 participants in a race. All the times recorded are in whole numbers. Some of the time recorded were blocked by an ink drop. The average time taken by the 4 participants was 60 seconds. The difference between the time taken by Gabriel and Owen was 2 seconds. Find the shortest possible time taken by Fred.
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Level 3
A sports shop had 300 ping-pong balls for sale. Each ping-pong ball is sold at $2. At the end of each day, the number of ping-pong balls was recorded in the bar graph shown.
  1. What fraction of the total number of ping-pong balls was left at the end of Day 3? Express your answer in its simplest form.
  2. If the shop decided to sell every 5 ping-pong balls at $9.30 from Day 4 onwards, how much less would it collect from the sale of the ping-pong balls?
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Level 3
The table shows how much Evelyn saves daily. For each subsequent day, she saves $5 more than the previous day.
  1. How much will Evelyn save on Day 6?
  2. On which day will Evelyn save $80?
  3. How much savings will Evelyn have in total by the day found in part (b)?
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