Level 3 25 of the crayons in a bag were red and the rest were blue and yellow. 20% of the blue crayons and 12% of the yellow crayons were thrown away. There was an equal number of blue and yellow crayons left. If there were 352 blue and yellow crayons left,
what was the number of red crayons?
what was the total number of crayons in the bag at first?
Level 3
A shopkeeper is selling 700 sketch books. He sold 60% of them at $8 each, 50% of the remainder at a discount of 40% and the rest at cost price. He made a profit of $2912. Find the cost price of a sketch book.
Level 3
In a shop that sells t-shirts, 250 blue t-shirts were sold weekly and 25% of the remaining t-shirts that were sold were red. Of the leftover, 40% of the t-shirts sold were yellow t-shirts and the rest were black t-shirts. Given that the number of black t-shirts sold was 20% of the total number of t-shirts sold, how many red and blue t-shirts were sold altogether?
Level 3
Ron and Shawn had 60 sweets each. Ron gave 20% of his sweets to Shawn. After receiving the sweets from Ron, Shawn gave 50% of his total sweets to Tammy. How many sweets had Shawn left?
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.
Level 3
Faith baked a total of 350 muffins and puffs. After giving away 80% of the puffs and 75% of the muffins, she was left with twice as many puffs as muffins. Find the number of puffs Faith gave away.
Level 3
There are 200 more teachers in School X than in School Y. After 25% of the teachers left School X and 50% of teachers left School Y, the number of teachers who remained in School X is thrice that of the number of teachers in School Y. Find the number of teachers in School X at first.
Level 3
There are 25% more red crayons than blue crayons in a bag. After John removed 40% of the red crayons and increased the number of blue crayons by 10%, there are now 70 fewer red crayons than blue crayons. Find the number of blue crayons at first.
Level 3
A philanthropist bought a total of $19380 worth of toys, textbooks and clothes to donate to the needy children. The number of clothes bought was 20% more than the number of toys bought but 20% fewer than the number of textbooks bought. The toy cost $12 each and was $2 more expensive than each textbook but 40% cheaper than each piece of clothes. How many toys and textbooks did the philanthropist donate to the needy children?
