Level 3
Karen tied some ribbons along a rope in a row at equal distance apart. The distance between the first and the fifth ribbon was 8 m. The first ribbon and the last ribbon were tied 3 m away from each end of the rope. What was the length of the rope if she had tied 30 ribbons on it?
5 m
Level 3
Jaslyn placed 25 pins in a row from one to the other end of a bulletin board at equal distance apart as shown in the diagram. The distance between the first and last pin was 96 cm.
  1. What was the distance between the first and eighth pin?
  2. Jaslyn decided to remove 8 pins and rearrange the remaining pins at a new equal spacing. What was the new distance of each spacing?
5 m
Level 3
Eva spent $314 to buy some boxes of cranberry and apple biscuits. Each box of cranberry biscuits cost $5 and each box of apple biscuits cost $11. The cranberry biscuits were packed in boxes of 12 biscuits each and the apple biscuits were packed in boxes of 5 biscuits each. She bought an equal number of cranberry biscuits and apple biscuits.
  1. How many boxes of cranberry biscuits did she buy?
  2. How many boxes of apple biscuits did she buy?
5 m
Level 3
The Great Store held a promotion during the Christmas season.
  1. Laura spent $180 on each type of item. How many more mugs than plates did she buy?
  2. Elise bought an equal number of plates and mugs. She paid $312 in all. How many mugs and plates did she buy altogether? She paid $312 in all. How many mugs and plates did she buy altogether?
5 m
Level 3
Alan, Bob and Ken had the same number of notes. Jan and Bob had a mix of $10-notes and $2-notes. Alan had 15 $10-notes while Bob had 20 $10-notes. Ken only had $10-notes.
  1. Who had the least amount of money?
  2. How much more did Alan have than Bob?
  3. Bob used all his $2 notes to buy a wallet. He then had $280 less than Ken. How many $10 notes did Ken have?
5 m
Level 3
Mr Gopi packed a total of 1078 card games and board games into 49 boxes. The card games and board games were packed in separate boxes. Each box could hold either 28 card games or 7 board games only.
  1. How many board games were there in all?
  2. Mrs Tan paid a total of $15400 for all the card games and board games. The cost of one board game is $50. Find the total cost of the card games.
5 m
Level 3
There are a total of 904 goats, cows, chickens and ducks at a farm. The number of chickens was 324 more than the number of goats. The total number of cows and ducks was 2 times the number of goats.
  1. How many cows and ducks were there at the farm?
  2. The total number of legs for all the cows and ducks was 910. How many cows were there in the farm?
5 m