Level 3
Nick spent $716 on jackets and cardigans. The number of cardigans he bought was 12 the number of jackets he bought. The cost of a cardigan was $11 more than the cost of a jacket. He paid $180 more on jackets than on cardigans. Find the cost of 8 jackets and 5 cardigans.
5 m
Level 3
Joyce wanted to buy pens for her students. If she bought 10 pens, she would need another $30. If she bought 15 pens, she would be short of $70. How much did Joyce have?
4 m
Level 3
A shop owner paid a total of $520 for some shirts and some blouses. He paid $200 less for the shirts than the blouses. Each blouse cost $4 more than each shirt. The number of shirts he bought was 23 of the number of blouses bought.
  1. How much did he pay for all the shirts?
  2. How many shirts did he buy?
5 m
Level 3
Joe went to buy some bicycles. If he bought 3 bicycles, he would have $89 left. If he bought 5 bicycles, he would be short of $17. How much money did Joe have at first?
4 m
Level 3 PSLE
Peiyi and Jamal bought storybooks at the prices shown.
  1. Peiyi bought an equal number of large and small storybooks. She spent $175 more on the large ones. How many storybooks did she buy altogether?
  2. Jamal spent an equal amount of money on the large and small storybooks. What fraction of the storybooks he bought were large?
5 m
Level 3
Abi received $30 more pocket money than Gwen each month. Both of them spent $160 per month and saved the rest. After a few months, Abi saved $1800 but Gwen only saved $1260.
  1. What was Abi's monthly pocket money?
  2. Gwen wanted to save a total of $2380. How many more months did she need in order to save this amount?
4 m
Level 3
During a donation drive, $9210 was collected by 80 students. Each girl donated $120 and each boy donated $105. How many girls were there?
4 m
Shaye had 1469 guavas. After giving away 373 guavas, she packed the remaining guavas in bags of 8.
  1. How many bags of guavas did she pack?
  2. She sold each bag of guavas for $7. How much did she receive from the sales of the guavas?
4 m
Level 3
Mr Liu delivered 340 parcels to Mr Tan. Mr Tan would have to pay Mr Liu $15 for every parcel safely delivered. Mr Liu would have to pay Mr Tan $48 for every damaged parcel. If Mr Tan paid a total of $3966, how many parcels were damaged?
4 m
Level 2
Write the amounts in figures.
  1. Five cents
  2. Two dollars
  3. Two dollars and ten cents
3 m