Level 3 PSLE
Peiyi and Jamal bought storybooks at the prices shown.
  1. Peiyi bought an equal number of large and small storybooks. She spent $175 more on the large ones. How many storybooks did she buy altogether?
  2. Jamal spent an equal amount of money on the large and small storybooks. What fraction of the storybooks he bought were large?
5 m
Level 3
At a funfair, there were 13 as many boys as girls and 25 as many adults as children. If there were 24 more adults than boys at the funfair, find the total number of people at the funfair.
4 m
Level 3
There were some adults and children at a party. 38 of the people were adults. 34 of the children were boys and the rest were girls. There were 20 girls.
  1. How many children were there?
  2. How many more children than adults were at the party?
4 m
Level 3
A train left the city with some passengers. At the first station, 15 of the passengers alighted and 16 boarded the train. At the second train station, 13 of the passengers alighted and 17 boarded the train. All 33 passengers alighted from the train at the final train station. How many passengers were there in the train when it left the city?
5 m
Level 3
Ruth, Queenie and Cathy were playing with beads. Ruth started with 72 beads and then she gained 13 more beads from Queenie. In the second game, Ruth lost 38 of her original number of beads to Cathy. Queenie lost as many beads as Ruth to Cathy. In the final game, Ruth gained 12 of her original number of beads from Queenie. All of them ended up with the same number of beads.
  1. How many beads did Ruth have in the end?
  2. How many beads did Queenie have at first?
5 m
Level 3
Xavier gave 111 of his stamps to Joe, 211 of his stamps to Jason and 311 of his stamps to Kim. He then had 20 stamps left. How many stamps had he at first?
4 m
Level 3
Three girls, Isabelle, Zoe and Diana had a total of 1680 marbles. Some exchanges were made. First, Isabelle gave Zoe as many marbles as Zoe had. After that, Zoe gave 34 of whatever she had then to Diana. Finally, Diana gave 27 of whatever she had to Isabelle. As a result, they each had the same number of marbles. How many marbles did Isabelle have at first?
5 m
Level 3
Xavier gave 112 of his stamps to Joe, 311 of his remaining stamps to Jason and 58 of the rest of his stamps to Kim. He then had 15 stamps left. How many stamps had he at first?
4 m
Level 3
27 of a bag of balls were green in colour. 25 of the remaining balls were blue in colour and the rest were red in colour. If there were 12 more red balls than green balls, how many balls were there in the bag altogether?
4 m
Level 3
37 of the people at a gathering are men. 34 of the remainder are women and the rest are children. There are 600 more women than children. How many people are there at the gathering altogether?
4 m