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,
  1. what was the number of red crayons?
  2. what was the total number of crayons in the bag at first?
5 m
Level 3
Benita's salary is 20% less than Amanda's salary and 40% less than Cecilia's salary. If Amanda's salary is $500 less than that of Cecilia's salary,
  1. Find Benita's salary.
  2. Given that Benita received a 20% pay cut, find Benita's new salary.
4 m
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.
4 m
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?
4 m
Level 3
Edward spent $340 on shopping, $650 on transport and gave 60% of the remainder to his wife. He then saved the rest of the money, which amounted to 10% of his original sum of money. How much did he give his wife?
4 m