Level 3 PSLE
The students of a test are divided equally into two groups. In the first group, there are 30 more boys than girls. In the second group, there are 12 more girls than boys. 40% of all the students are girls. How many students are boys?
Level 3
Paul had some apple macarons and apricot macarons. He gave away 160 macarons to his brother. 25% of them were apple macarons and the rest were apricot macarons.
Paul gave some apple macarons to his sister. 25 of all the macarons he gave away to his brother and his sister were apple macarons.
How many apricot macarons did he give his brother?
Level 3
One minute ago, 80% of the students in a parade square were girls. 143 more students entered the parade square. As a result, the number of girls increased by 40% and the number of boys increased by 60%. How many students are in the parade square now?
Level 3 25% of the people are performers for a concert and the rest are spectators. 60% of the spectators are adults and there are 420 less child spectators than adult spectators. How many adult spectators must join so that 56% of the people are adult spectators?
Level 3
Peter has 70% as many marbles as George. If Peter gives away 50% of the marbles and George gives away 75% of his marbles, they will have 444 marbles altogether. How many marbles do the two of them have?
Level 3
Tim had 40% more muffins than Rael. Tim gave 20% of his muffins to Rael. Rael in return gave 50% of his muffins to Tim. In the end, Rael had 448 less muffins than Tim. How many muffins did Tim have at first?
Level 3
Half an hour ago, 50% of the people at a circus were females. 42 females and 2 males left afterwards. The remaining people were then told to form groups of 5. In each group, there were 3 males. How many people were there at the circus in the end?
Level 3
Jane gave 10% of her collection of pens to Colleen thereby increasing Colleen's collection by 25%. If Jane had 45 pens left, how many pens did Collen have at first?
Level 3
In a contest, two people will have to answer 100 questions each.
They score 1 point for each correct answer.
The contest has not ended yet.
Each person has already answered 90 questions.
Person A has answered 60% of the first 90 questions correctly.
Person B has answered 50% of the first 90 questions correctly.
What is the minimum number of points that Person A must get from the last 10 questions to win the contest?
Level 3
At the pet shelter, the rabbit population increased by 20% in the second month and then by a further 30% in the next 2 months. If there were 585 rabbits in the end, how many rabbits were there at the pet shelter at first?
