Level 3
Siti had some stickers at first. She gave 29 of her stickers to her brother and 16 of her stickers to her best friend. After that, her mother gave her another 10 stickers. She had 87 stickers in the end. How many stickers did Siti have at first?
4 m
Level 3
14 of the flowers in a flower shop were sunflowers, 13 of them were carnations and the remaining 60 stalks were roses.
  1. How many stalks of flowers were there in the shop?
  2. At the end of the day, the number of flowers sold was 10 more than the number of flowers left. How many stalks of flowers were sold?
4 m
Level 3
The number of 20-cent coins in a basket was 100% more than the number of 10-cent coins. 13 twenty-cent coins were taken out and exchanged for 10-cent coins. The number of 20-cent coins became 58 less than the number of 10-cent coins. How much money is there in the basket?
5 m
Level 3
Tommy bought 5 packs of stickers. In each pack, there were 12 stickers. He used 4 of the stickers and gave some of them to his brother. 13 of his stickers were then left. What fraction of the stickers he bought were given to his brother?
4 m
Level 3
Vincent has some 20-cent coins and 50-cent coins which amount to more than $20 but less than $54. The number of 20-cent coins is 14 of all the coins he has. When he exchanges some 50-cent coins for 20-cent coins, the ratio of the number of 50-cent coins to 20-cent coins he now has become 1 : 6.
  1. What is the largest possible amount of money Vincent has?
  2. What is the total value of 50-cent coins that has been exchanged for 20-cent coins? Express the answer to 2 decimal place.
5 m
Level 3
A store had 390 story books. There were Chinese, Malay and English story books in the ratio of 4 : 3 : 6. When the store assistant brought in another 60 new story books, the number of Chinese story books was increased by 20% and the number of Malay story books was increased by 110.
  1. What was the number of English story books that the store assistant brought in?
  2. What was the percentage increase in the number of English story books?
5 m
Level 3
There are a total of 400 vanilla, strawberry and chocolate lollipops in a box. 15 of them are vanilla. There are 70 more strawberry than chocolate lollipops. How many chocolate lollipops are there?
4 m
Level 3
At a carnival, the children were put into two groups. 45 of Group F were boys and 23 of Group G were girls. Group G had twice as many children as Group F. There were 18 fewer boys in Group F than Group G.
  1. What fraction of the total number of children at the carnival were boys? Give your answer in the simplest form.
  2. What was the total number of children at the carnival?
4 m
Level 3
There are a total of 430 large muffins, small muffins and medium muffins at a stall. 35 of these muffins are large muffins. The number of small muffins is 3 times the number of medium muffins. How many more small muffins than medium muffins are there?
4 m
Level 3
A store owner had 130 more oranges than lemons. After he sold 80% of the oranges and 30% of the lemons, he was left 19 more lemons than oranges. What fraction of the fruits left were lemons?
5 m
Level 3
Marion had some red and pink marbles. If she gives away 16 red marbles, the number of red marbles will be 10% of the total number of marbles left. If she gives away 48 pink marbles, the number of red marbles will be 25% of the total number of marbles left.
  1. How many marbles does Marion have altogether?
  2. What fraction of Marion's marbles is pink?
4 m
Level 3
Warren bought 4 boxes of chocolates bars. Each box contained 35 chocolate bars. He put 25 of the chocolate bars into a bag and shared the rest of the chocolate bars equally with 3 friends. How many chocolate bars did he give to each friend?
4 m
Level 2
The number of female guppies in a tank is 314 times the number of male guppies. What fraction of the guppies in the tank are female guppies?
4 m
Level 3
At a school swimming event, 14 of the students were boys. Given that 25 of the girls and 35 of the boys did not know how to swim, how many students were there altogether if there were 154 swimmers at the event?
4 m
Level 3
There were 210 books in a bookstore. 57 of the books were fiction books and the rest were non-fiction books. 23 of the fiction books and 56 of the non-fiction books were in English. How many non-English books were there in the bookstore?
4 m
Level 3 PSLE
At John's fruit stall, 34 of the apples were red and the rest were green. He sold half of the total number of apples. 16 of the apples sold were green. 28 green apples were left. How many red apples did John sell?
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
A sum of $728 is divided among a group of people. 78 of the people receive $4 each, 13 of the remainder receive $3 each and the rest receive $2 each. How many people are there altogether?
4 m
Level 3
Tickets for a drama performance were sold to senior citizens, adults and children at different prices as shown.
14 of the tickets sold were bought by senior citizens and 13 of them were bought by adults. The rest were bought by children.
  1. What fraction of the tickets sold that were bought by children?
  2. A total amount of $2240 was collected from the sale of the tickets. How many children bought the tickets?
4 m
Level 3
Tina baked 280 cookies. She gave 70 cookies to Celine and some cookies to Ben. She had 37 of the total cookies left.
  1. How many cookies did she have left?
  2. What fraction of the total cookies did she give to Ben?
4 m