Level 3
Mrs Tang bought the following fruits from a stall. She bought 4 apples, 5 kg of grapes and 4 kg of rambutans. She paid a total of $21.50 for them. Find the cost of 100 g of rambutans in cents.
4 m
Level 3
A flyer distributor earned $1.25 for every 100 flyers distributed. She was paid an additional bonus for $2 for every 1000 flyers given out. How much would she earn for distributing 2500 flyers?
4 m
Level 3
Xinyi had some 20-cent and 50-cent coins which added up to $20.30. She had 14 more 20-cent coins than 50-cent coins. How many 20-cent coins did she have?
4 m
Level 3
During a candy sale, Sally paid $2 less for every 15 candies she bought. Each candy cost 60 cents. Sally paid a total of $38 for some candies. How many candies did she buy?
4 m
Level 3
Mary visited a bakery where cheese tarts are sold in packages of 5 or 10. Packages of 5 are sold at $6.50 each and packages of 10 are sold at $12. What was the most number of cheese tarts could Mary buy with $285?
4 m
Level 3 PSLE
In a shop, candles are sold only in boxes. A box of 8 short candles costs $2.30 and a box of 5 long candles costs $3.70.
  1. Dan wants 17 short candles and 3 long candles for his lanterns. What is the least amount of money that Dan will need to spend on the candles?
  2. Zara bought 14 more long candles than short candles from the shop. The total number of candles she bought was fewer than 50. How much did Zara spend on the candles altogether?
5 m
Level 3
Box A is 4 times as heavy as Box B. Box C is 6.74 kg heavier than Box B. The total mass of Box A and B is 68 kg.
  1. What is the mass of Box B?
  2. What is the mass of Box C?
4 m
Level 3
The table shows the prices of muffins at two shops. The muffins are only sold in sets of 6 muffins in Candy's Bakery or sets of 7 muffins in Dina's Bakery.
  1. Ann has $8.15. She wants to buy 14 muffins from Dina's Bakery. How much more money does she need to buy the 14 muffins?
  2. Zack has $97. He wants to buy the greatest possible number of muffins with his money from one of the two shops. What is the greatest possible number of muffins he can buy with his money?
4 m
Level 3
The cost per piece is based on the total number of copies to be printed. The table shows the charges for printing at a printing company.
  1. Susan wanted to place an order to print 380 A4-size copies of her poster. How much did she need to pay?
  2. Ron placed an order to print some A4-size copies of his poster. Allie placed an order to print some A3-size copies of his poster. Both of them ordered an equal number of copies of their posters. The total cost of their orders was $324. How many A4-size copies of the poster did Ron print?
4 m
Level 3
Meiling paid $15 for some cakes. 16 of the cakes cost 50¢ each. The remaining cakes cost $1 each.
  1. How much did Meiling pay for the cakes which cost 50¢ each?
  2. What was the total cost of the remaining cakes?
  3. How many cakes did she buy in all?
4 m
Level 3
A confectionery sells chocolate chip cakes and blueberry cakes.
Raeann bought an equal number of chocolate chip cakes and blueberry cakes. She paid $80.80 more for the blueberry cakes and the chocolate chip cakes.
  1. How many cakes did she buy?
  2. How much did she spend altogether?
4 m
Level 3
Yoshi prepared some fruit punch for his party. For the fruit punch, he put in 1.23 ℓ of syrup and 4 times as much water as syrup. He then poured the fruit punch equally into 8 glasses. How much fruit punch were there in each glass? Round off your answer to 2 decimal places.
4 m
Level 3
Charlie bought $642 worth of staplers and pens. He bought thrice as many pens as staplers. He spent $334 more on pens than on staplers. Each stapler cost $1.60 more than each pen. Find the price of a stapler.
4 m
Level 3
Jane mixes 2.4 ℓ of rose syrup with twice as much milk. She then pours the mixture equally into 9 cups. How much mixture will each cup contain?
4 m
Level 2
A plate cost $4.50 and a cup cost $2.30. How much would Mrs Singh pay for 8 cups and 5 plates?
4 m
Level 2
Wendy has a piece of ribbon. She cuts 9 short pieces, each measuring 0.78 m, from it and has 2 45 m of it left. What was the original length of the ribbon?
4 m
Level 3
Justin and Wesley each had the same volume of water. The water was used to pour into identical bottles. Justin filled up 16 bottles and had 4.8 ℓ of water left. Wesley filled up 8 bottles and had 6.4 ℓ of water left.
  1. What was the capacity of each bottle? Give your answer in millilitres.
  2. What was the total volume of water Justin and Wesley had at first? Give your answer in litres.
4 m
Level 2
Gopal went to a shop with 3 fifty-dollar notes. He bought a watch and a calculator. A watch cost 3 times as much as a calculator. He received $32.40 change. How much did the calculator cost?
4 m
Level 3
At a book shop, Alice paid $12 for 1 book and 2 pens. The book cost $6 more than the total cost of all the pens.
  1. How much did 1 pen cost?
  2. How much did 1 book cost?
4 m
Level 3
At a book shop, Alice paid $12 for 1 book and 2 pens. The book costs $6 less than the total cost of all the pens.
  1. How much did 1 book cost?
  2. How much did 1 pen cost?
4 m