Level 3
Samantha had twice as many pens as notebooks at first. She removed 4 pens and 3 notebooks each time. In the end, there were 18 pens and 1 notebook left. How many pens and notebooks did Samantha have at first?
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.
How many lychees did each girl use?
How many lychees did both girls have left altogether?
Level 3
Andy had 4 times as much money as Julian. After Andy spent $164 and Julian spent $38, Julian had thrice as much money as Andy. How much did Andy and Julian have altogether at first?
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?
Level 3
One eating house bought 168 kg of beef and mutton. 13 of the beef and 45 of the mutton were sold. The amount of mutton sold was 12 kg more than the amount of beef sold.
Level 3
Eric had an equal number of cream scones, strawberry scones and vanilla scones. After he ate 28 cream scones, some strawberry scones and vanilla scones, there were 55 scones left. The number of strawberry scones he ate was thrice the number of vanilla scones he ate. The number of strawberry scones left was 22 more than the number of cream scones left. How many cream scones were there at first?
Level 3
Penelope was packing her spoons, plates and bowls to be moved to her new shop. She packed 65 more spoons than plates, and 22 more bowls than spoons. While moving 35 of her spoons and 110 of the plates were broken. The remaining 389 items were not broken. How many bowls did she have?
Level 3
There was an equal number of mangoes and pineapples. On Monday, some mangoes were added, such that the number of mangoes increased by 80%. On Tuesday, the number of mangoes further increased by 50% and the number of pineapples decreased by 20%. There were 38 more mangoes than pineapples in the end. How many mangoes and pineapples were there altogether at first?
Level 3
At first, the ratio of the number of boys to the number of girls at a school playground was 2 : 5. When 48 girls and some boys entered the playground, the number of girls increased by 12% and the total number of children at the playground increased by 20%.
How many boys were there at first?
What percentage of the children at the playground were boys in the end? Express your answer as a mixed number.
