Level 3
Betty had an equal number of $2 and $10 notes. After spending 43 pieces of $10 and 19 pieces of $2 notes, the ratio of the $2 notes to $10 notes left was 5 : 1. Find the value of the notes left.
Level 3
At first, Xandy, Yoko and Zach had some sweets in the ratio 5 : 3 : 4 respectively. Xandy had 190 sweets. Then he gave all his sweets to Yoko and Zach. After receiving the sweets from Xandy, Yoko and Zach had the same number of sweets. How many sweets did Yoko receive from Xandy?
Level 3
Fiona had an equal number of $5 and $10 notes. After spending 40 pieces of $10 and 16 pieces of $5 notes, the ratio of the $5 notes to $10 notes left was 4 : 1. Find the value of the notes at first.
Level 3
Container A and Container B had some liquid in the ratio 7 : 5. After 48 litres of liquid was transferred from A to B, the amount of liquid in Container B became 3 times as much as in Container A. How much liquid were there in the two tanks in all?
Level 3
Amanda and Joe have some books in the ratio 3 : 7. Amanda has 72 less books than Joe. How many books must Joe give to Amanda so that they will have the same number of books?
Level 3
In January, Anna and Ryan had stamps in the ratio 5 : 2. In February, each of them gave away the same number of stamps. Anna then had thrice as many stamps as Ryan.
Find the ratio of the number of stamps Ryan had in January to the number of stamps he had in February.
Find the ratio of the total number of stamps both had in January to the total number of stamps both had in February.
Level 3
The area of the triangle to the area of the rectangle in the figure is in the ratio 3 : 2. After the shaded rectangle of length 8 cm is removed from the figure, the ratio of the remaining area of the triangle to the remaining area of the rectangle is 5 : 3. Given that the area of the triangle is 32 cm2 more than the area of the rectangle, find the width of the shaded rectangle that is being removed.
Level 3
The area of the triangle to the area of the rectangle in the figure is in the ratio 3 : 2. After the shaded rectangle of length 8 cm is removed from the figure, the ratio of the remaining area of the triangle to the remaining area of the rectangle is 5 : 3. Given that the area of the triangle is 32 cm2 more than the area of the rectangle, find the width of the shaded rectangle that is being removed.
Level 3
In October, the ratio of boys and girls in a school's rifle club was 4 : 7. In November, 68 new members joined the club. As a result, the ratio of boys to girls in the club became 4 : 3. There were 64 boys in the club in October. How many of the new members were girls?
Level 3
The ratio of the number of $2-notes to $10-notes in Dana's bag was 1 : 3. Dana exchanged 14 pieces of $10-notes for $2-notes. She then had an equal number of $2-notes and $10-notes. What was the total value of $2-notes and $10-notes in Dana's bag at first?
Level 3
Shiyun, Kimberly and Yoko had jelly beans in the ratio of 8 : 4 : 3. After Shiyun gave 6 jelly beans to Kimberly and Yoko, the three of them had the same number of jelly beans. Find the total number of jelly beans the children had.
Level 3 The ratio of the number of ducks in Farm A to the number of ducks in Farm B was 5 : 9. There were 48 fewer ducks in Farm A than in Farm B. When 5 ducks escaped from Farm B, the farmer in Farm B bought another 9 ducks. What was the new ratio of the number of ducks in Farm A to the number of ducks in Farm B in the end? Give your answer in the simplest form.
Level 3
Last Saturday, Jack withdrew an equal number of $10-notes and $50-notes from the bank. After spending 58 pieces of $10-notes and 10 pieces of $50-notes, the ratio of the remaining $10-notes to $50-notes became 2 : 5.
How many $10-notes had he left?
What was the total value of the notes which Jack withdrew from the bank?
Level 3
There were 360 males and 400 females queueing up for a fan meeting. The ratio of the number of males to the number of females who left the queue was in the ratio 1 : 2. As a result, the ratio of the number of females became four times as many as the number of males who remained in the queue. How many people left the queue?
Level 3
Hannah went shopping with 4 times the amount that Kelly brought. The ratio of the amount of money Kelly spent to the amount of money Hannah spent was 2 : 3. In the end, Kelly and Hannah had $12 and $108 respectively. How much did Kelly spend?
Level 3
Lynn paid $410 for some wafers and scones. The ratio of the boxes of wafers to the boxes of scones was 3 : 2. Each box of wafers cost $5 more than each box of scones. She paid $130 more for the wafers than the scones. What was the price of each box of wafers?
Level 3
A fruit seller sells only soursops and avocados. The ratio of soursops to avocados is 5 : 4. A total of 68 fruits are added. The number of soursops becomes 2 times as many as before and the number of avocados becomes 4 times as many as before. How many fruits are there in the end?
Level 3 PSLE
Lina baked a total of 40 large and small cakes in the ratio of 5 : 3. She decorated each cake with some strawberries in the ratio of 3 : 2. She used a total of 204 strawberries to decorate all the small cakes and 7 large cakes.
How many small cakes did Lina bake?
What was the number of strawberries used to decorate all the small cakes?
How many more strawberries did Lina need to decorate the remaining large cakes?
Level 3
There were pink, yellow and blue stamps in a container. Sean put another 6 pink stamps and 10 blue stamps in the container, then the ratio of the number of yellow stamps to the number of blue stamps became 5 : 3. Then, he doubled the number of pink stamps and removed 28 blue stamps. The ratio of the number of pink stamps to yellow stamps became 2 : 1. He counted and found that there were a total of 62 stamps left in the container. Find the number of pink stamps that he had at the beginning.
Level 3
There were some grapefruits and durians in Container A and Container B. In Container A, the ratio of the grapefruits to the number of durians was 3 : 1. In Container B, the ratio of the number of grapefruits to the number of durians was 3 : 2. There were 2 times as many fruits in Container A as in Container B. After 56 durians were put into Container B, the ratio of the number of grapefruits to the number of durians in Container B became 1 : 2. How many fruits were there in Container A?
Level 3
Henry's salary to Ken's salary is 5 : 7. The former saves $320 while the latter saves $232. If Ken's spending to Henry's spending is in the ratio of 8 : 5, what are Henry's and Ken's salaries respectively?
(a) Henry
(b) Ken
