Level 3
Andy, Benjamin and Caleb had a total of 698 cards at first. After a week, the number of Andy's cards became 3 times the number of cards he had at first. The number of Benjamin's cards decreased by 138. Caleb had half as many cards as he had at first. In the end, the three boys had the same number of cards.
  1. How many cards did Caleb have at first?
  2. What was the total number of cards that the three boys had in the end?
5 m
Level 3
A convenience store sold crabstick, salmon and egg mayo sandwiches. The ratio of the number of crabstick sandwiches made to the total number of sandwiches made was 3 : 7. The ratio of the number of salmon sandwiches made to the total number of sandwiches made was 1 : 5. After the store sold some crabstick sandwiches and made another 42 salmon sandwiches, there was an equal number of crabstick, salmon and egg mayo sandwiches left. Find the number of crabstick sandwiches sold.
5 m
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
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.
4 m
Level 3
Andrew, Bryan and Charlie had the same number of marbles. Charlie gave 0.5 of his marbles to Bryan. Then Bryan gave 0.25 of his marbles to Andrew. Finally, after Bryan gave 30 marbles to Charlie, he had the same number of marbles as Charlie. How many marbles did Charlie have at first?
5 m