Level 3
Ivory had 4 times as many cards as erasers. After she used 105 cards and 7 erasers, there were twice as many erasers as cards.
  1. How many cards did Ivory have in the end?
  2. How many erasers did Ivory have at first?
4 m
Level 3
Eric had an equal number of cream scones, strawberry scones and vanilla scones. After he ate 28 cream scones, some strawberry scones and vanilla scones, there were 55 scones left. The number of strawberry scones he ate was thrice the number of vanilla scones he ate. The number of strawberry scones left was 22 more than the number of cream scones left. How many cream scones were there at first?
4 m
Level 3
Fanny and Gillian collected some stamps. If Fanny gave Gillian 52 stamps, both would have an equal number of stamps. If Gillian gave Fanny 40 stamps, Fanny would have 5 times as many stamps as Gillian. Find the number of stamps each of them had.
  1. Fanny?
  2. Gillian?
4 m
Level 3
12 similar strips of paper were glued to form a new long strip of paper of length 135 cm. The first and second strip were glued together to form an overlapped length of 3 cm as shown. This was consistent for the rest of the remaining strips of paper. Find the length of each original strip of paper.
4 m
Level 3
A 1-month pass to all art galleries for one person costs $280. The management gives a concession to a group of 56 tourists. For every 8 tourists who purchase the 1 month pass, the 9th tourist gets free access to the art galleries. How much does each tourist pay in this arrangement if they share the total cost equally?
4 m
Level 3
Marvin earns $80 per day. He receives and extra $50 for every 5 days of work.
  1. How much will he earn altogether after working for 5 days?
  2. How much will he earn altogether after working for 48 days?
3 m
Level 3
Ms Ong and 3 parent volunteers took a class of 30 children to the Trick-Your-Eyes Museum. What was the minimum cost of all the tickets to be bought?
4 m
Level 3
Rica was saving money to buy pens. She saved $6 every 4 days. After saving for 28 days, she went to buy pens that were on sale.
  1. What was the most number of pens she could buy?
  2. Rica wanted to buy 38 pens. How much more did she need to save?
4 m
Level 3
Joe had 170 marbles. He gave away 32 marbles and packed the remaining marbles in bags of 4. Each bag was sold for $5. The remaining marbles that were not packed were sold at 2 for $3. How much did Joe collect in total?
4 m
Level 3
A box of pies cost $15 while a box of muffins cost $17. Each box contained either 4 pies or 3 muffins. Mrs Sanchez bought the same number of pies and muffins. She paid $207 more for the muffins. How many boxes of pies did she buy?
4 m
Level 3
A bakery was having its grand opening promotion for eclairs and bagels at the prices as shown. Mrs Lim spent an equal amount of money on the eclairs and bagels for her company party. She bought 40 more eclairs than bagels. What was the total number of eclairs and bagels bought by Mrs Lim?
4 m
Level 3
Winnie had two rolls of ribbons of the same length but different designs. She cut the first roll of ribbon into equal pieces of length 36 cm and there were 7 hearts on each piece of ribbon and cut the second roll of ribbon into equal pieces of length 54 cm and there were 9 stars on each piece of ribbon as shown. After she finished cutting both rolls of ribbons, she counted that the total number of hearts was 84 more than the total number of stars. Find the length of one roll of ribbon in cm.
4 m
Level 3
Alex earned $750 less than Jay each month. Both of them spent $1800 each month and saved the rest of their salaries. After a few months, Alex saved $2400 and Jay saved $6900.
  1. How much did Alex earn each month?
  2. Alex wanted to go on a trip that would cost him $4000. How many months did he have to save?
4 m
Level 3
Jareth wants to make butter cookies using the recipe. To make 20 cookies, you need 125 g of butter, 200 g of flour and 50 g of sugar. He has 500 g of butter, 250 g of sugar and 1 kg of flour. What is the greatest number of cookies he can make?
4 m
Level 3
Stephanie uses the recipe to make Macaroni and Cheese. She has 1200 g of macaroni, 460 g of cheese and 275 g of butter. What is the maximum number of people that she can prepare the Macaroni and Cheese for?
4 m
Level 3
Tessa baked 136 cupcakes every day. Five days after Tessa started baking, Jessa started baking 180 cupcakes each day. How many cupcakes had Tessa baked when Jessa had baked 580 more cupcakes than Tessa?
4 m
Level 3
An administration manager wanted to purchase some calculators. If she bought 180 calculators, she would have $600 left. If she bought 156 calculators, she would have $1080 left. What was the cost of each calculator?
4 m
Level 3
Joyce wanted to buy pens for her students. If she bought 10 pens, she would need another $30. If she bought 15 pens, she would be short of $70. How much did Joyce have?
4 m
Level 3
A group of boys share a packet of marbles among them. If each boy gets 6 marbles, there will be 4 marbles short. If each boy gets 4 marbles, there will be 10 marbles left over. How many marbles are there in the packet?
4 m
Level 3
Joe went to buy some bicycles. If he bought 3 bicycles, he would have $89 left. If he bought 5 bicycles, he would be short of $17. How much money did Joe have at first?
4 m