Level 3
Three girls gave an equal amount of money to buy a souvenir for Oscar. Diana used 13 of her money. Fiona used 34 of her money and Ruth used 12 of hers. They had a total of $190 at first. How much was the souvenir?
4 m
Level 3
Perry spent $162 on a jumpsuit. He spent 19 of his remaining money on a sweater. If he still had 49 of his money left, how much did he have at first?
4 m
Level 3
Risa had a sum of money. She spent $308 on a blouse and 58 of the remainder on a windbreaker. She was left with 110 of the original sum of money.
  1. What was the total amount Risa spent?
  2. How much money did Risa have at first?
4 m
Level 3
Mrs Lu had a sum of money. She gave her daughter $246 and gave 14 of the money to her niece. She used 34 of the remaining money on a computer and was left with 16 of the amount she had at first. What was the sum of money she had at first?
4 m
Level 3
Helen spent $12 on a shirt. She spent 15 of her remaining money on a blouse and a blazer, after which half her money was left.
  1. What fraction of her money did she spend on the shirt?
  2. The cost of the blazer is 13 the cost of the blouse. How much more does the blouse cost than the blazer?
4 m
Level 3
Nicole baked 187 puffs and tarts. She burnt 7 pieces and counted the remaining pieces. 16 of the tarts and 56 of the puffs were strawberry flavoured. There were equal number of tarts and puffs that were banana flavoured.
  1. How many unburnt banana puffs were there?
  2. What fraction of the unburnt pastries were strawberry puffs?
4 m
Level 3
Oscar had some apricot shortbreads and apple shortbreads. 49 of the number of apricot shortbreads was equal to 18 of the number of apple shortbreads. After Oscar made 279 more apricot shortbreads, the number of apricot shortbreads was 54 of the number of apple shortbreads. How many shortbreads did he have altogether in the end?
4 m
Level 3
Recca took 5 hours to travel from Country A to Country B at 60 km/h. Then he travelled from Country B to another country at 1.5 times his original speed. 40% of the distance from Country A to Country B is equal to 13 of the distance from Country B to the next country. Find the average speed for the whole journey and express it in mixed number.
5 m
Level 3
Nora and Hazel used the same number of lychees to bake cakes. Nora used 25 of her lychees and Hazel used 35 of her lychees. They had a total of 125 lychees at first.
  1. How many lychees did each girl use?
  2. How many lychees did both girls have left altogether?
4 m
Level 3
Gwen had some Chinese and English novels. She sold 13 of her Chinese novels and 14 of her English novels. 78 of the books sold were Chinese books. What fraction of the novels did Gwen sell?
4 m