Level 3
Zane had $120 less than Xavier. If Xavier spends $460 and Zane's mother gave Zane $200, Xavier will have 14 as much money as Zane. How much money did Zane and Xavier have?
4 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
20% of Nick's savings was $120 more than 30% of Will's savings. After Nick spent 23 of his savings and Will spent 40% of his savings, Nick had $13 more than Will. How much was Nick's saving at first?
5 m
Level 3
Jane and Tina had $652. Tina had $76 more than Jane. Jane spent 2 times as much as Tina and was left with 23 as much as Tina. How much did Jane spend?
4 m
Level 3
Mr Zane had to collect some fruits from two stalls and deliver some fruits to another stall. He collected from Stall W and the ratio of avocados to papayas was 2 : 3. When he reached Stall X, he unloaded 56 of the papayas and some avocados from his vehicle. The ratio of avocados to papayas became 4 : 5. At Stall Y, 124 avocados and 26 papayas were collected and the number of avocados to papayas became the same.
  1. How many fruits were there on his vehicle after visiting Stall Y?
  2. How many avocados were delivered to Stall X?
5 m
Level 3
23 of Eva's money was equal to 15 of Gillian's money at first. After Eva spent $41 and Gillian spent 25 of her money, Eva had 13 as much money as Gillian.
  1. How much money did Gillian have at first?
  2. How much money did Gillian have in the end?
4 m
Level 3
Wendy had $779 more than Hazel. Wendy spent 0.6 of her money and Hazel spent 50% of her money. In the end, Wendy and Hazel had the same amount of money left. Find the amount of money that Wendy had in the end.
5 m
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
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
The museum tickets are priced at $10 and $5. The number of $10-dollar tickets available is 289 that of the number of $5-dollar tickets. 2 out of 3 of the $10-dollar tickets and all the $5-dollar tickets were sold. The ticket sales amounted to $8515. How much more would have been collected if all the tickets were sold?
4 m