Level 3
14 of the flowers in a flower shop were sunflowers, 13 of them were carnations and the remaining 60 stalks were roses.
  1. How many stalks of flowers were there in the shop?
  2. At the end of the day, the number of flowers sold was 10 more than the number of flowers left. How many stalks of flowers were sold?
4 m
Level 3
Jen had a sum of money. She spent an equal amount of money daily. At the end of the eighth day, she was left with 25 of her money. At the end of the tenth day, she was left with $12. How much money did she have at first?
4 m
Level 3
There were 286 students in a school. On the school anniversary, 56 of the girls and 45 of the boys came in green caps. The rest came in yellow caps. The number of boys who wore yellow caps was four times of the girls who wore yellow caps. How many students were in green caps that day?
4 m
Level
Box A and Box B are identical. 78 of Box A and 35 of Box B are filled with sand. The mass of Box B with its contents is 79 the mass of Box A with its contents. The total mass of the two boxes with their contents is 528 kg. Find the mass of an empty box.
4 m
Level 3
Zoe, Fanny, Eric and Olivia shared some pens. Zoe and Fanny took 15 of the total number of pens while Eric and Olivia took the rest. Fanny had four times as many pens as Zoe and Olivia had 176 pens. Given that Eric had four times as many pens as Fanny, how many pens were there altogether?
4 m
Level 3
At a carnival, the children were put into two groups. 45 of Group F were boys and 23 of Group G were girls. Group G had twice as many children as Group F. There were 18 fewer boys in Group F than Group G.
  1. What fraction of the total number of children at the carnival were boys? Give your answer in the simplest form.
  2. What was the total number of children at the carnival?
4 m
Level 3
Glen, Ken, Jenson and Justin shared 105 stickers. Jenson received 15 of the stickers. Glen received 16 of the total amount of stickers received by Ken and Justin. Justin received four times as much stickers as Ken.
  1. How many stickers did Glen receive?
  2. How many more stickers did Jenson receive than Ken?
4 m
Level 3
Jake took part in a 25-km cycling race. There was a water refill station at half the distance of the race.
  1. Jake stopped at the water refill station to refill his water bottle. How many kilometres was he away from the starting point to the water refill station?
  2. After passing the water refill station, Jake cycled 710 of the remaining distance and stopped. How many metres was he away from the finishing point?
4 m
Level 3
Serene spent 37 of her money on some pens. She spent 14 of the remaining money on a box of poster colors and 23 of what was left on some books.
  1. What fraction of her money was left?
  2. Given that the books cost $12 more than the box of poster colors, find the sum of money Serene had at first.
4 m
Level 3
Perry spent $162 on a jumpsuit. He spent 19 of his remaining money on a sweater. If he still had 49 of his money left, how much did he have at first?
4 m
Level 3
Risa had a sum of money. She spent $308 on a blouse and 58 of the remainder on a windbreaker. She was left with 110 of the original sum of money.
  1. What was the total amount Risa spent?
  2. How much money did Risa have at first?
4 m
Level 3
Mrs Lu had a sum of money. She gave her daughter $246 and gave 14 of the money to her niece. She used 34 of the remaining money on a computer and was left with 16 of the amount she had at first. What was the sum of money she had at first?
4 m
Level 3
Elyse bought some pens. She gave 16 of the pens to her cousin and sold 34 of the remaining pens. After that, she bought another 171 pens and had the same number of pens that she bought at first. How many pens did Elyse buy at first?
4 m
Level 3
Bryan bought some coupons for a funfair. He used 25 of the coupons on games and 37 of the remainder on food. He bought another 77 coupons and had 31 more coupons than he had at first. How many coupons did he have at first?
4 m
Level 3
A book shop sold 110 of the books in the morning. 15 of the remaining books are sold in the afternoon. The shop owner brought in another 172 books and there were 4 more books than there was at first. How many books were there in the shop at first?
4 m
Level 3
A survey was conducted with some pupils. 29 of them chose basketball as their favourite sport. 35 of the remaining pupils chose badminton. 12 of those left chose swimming and the last 56 chose gymnastic. How many more pupils chose badminton than basketball?
4 m
Level 3
On Tuesday, Will read 37 of a novel. On Wednesday, he read 12 pages of the novel. On Thursday, he read 47 of the remaining book leaving 36 pages unread.
  1. Find the number of pages read on Thursday.
  2. Find the total number of pages in the novel.
4 m
Level 3
Kylie had some shortbreads. She sold 34 of the shortbreads. She ate 13 of the remainder and an additional 4 more. She had 44 shortbreads left in the end. How many shortbreads did Kylie have at first?
4 m
Level 3
Reggie had some money. He spent 14 of his money and an additional $33 on books. He spent 56 of the remainder and an additional $11 on food. He had $14 left. How much money did he have at first?
4 m
Level 3
Penelope spent 18 of her money and an additional $21 on a sweater. She spent $9 less than 38 of the remainder on a shirt. She then spent $1 less than 12 of what was left on 4 pairs of jeans. She had $23 left in the end. How much did she spend altogether?
4 m