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The box below contains a mixture of circles and stars: 4 stars and 6 circles. ?/5 of the shapes in the box are stars. What is the missing number?
+--------------------------+ | * O O * O | | O O * O * | +--------------------------+ 4 stars, 6 circles, 10 shapes in all
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Siti is 17 years old and Julia is 5 years old. How old will Julia be when she is 3/5 as old as Siti?
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The number of girls is 3/7 the number of boys at a National Kids’ Run competition. There are 960 more boys than girls. How many children took part in the competition?
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Mrs Thompson baked 175 tarts. She sold 3/5 of them. Each tart was sold for $4. How much money did she collect in total?
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Melody baked some muffins. 2/7 of the muffins were blueberry muffins and the rest were chocolate muffins. There were 72 more chocolate muffins than blueberry muffins. How many muffins did she bake altogether?
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There are 256 balls in a box. 1/4 of the balls are red and 5/8 of them are white. The rest are black. How many more white balls than black balls are there?
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Charles bought 9 bags of sweets. Each bag had 48 sweets. He gave away 5/6 of all the sweets. How many sweets did he have left?
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Kate and Sam had the same number of books at first. Kate gave away 2/3 of her books while Sam gave away 1/6 of his books. The number of books that Kate gave away was 63 more than Sam. Find the number of books that each of them had at first.
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Colin, Dylan and Eden shared some sweets. Colin took 1/6 of the sweets. Dylan took the remaining sweets and shared it equally with Eden. Eden ate 12 of his sweets and has 18 sweets left. How many sweets were there altogether?
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Ken had some money. He used 1/2 of it to buy a shirt and 1/5 of it to buy a pair of pants. He had $180 left. How much money did he have at first?
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Sandy and Tracy had $600 altogether. Sandy gave 1/5 of her money to Tracy and then Tracy gave 1/4 of the money she then had to Sandy. In the end, both of them had the same amount of money. How much money did Sandy have at first?
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How many one-thirds are there in 4 wholes?
(A) 3/4 (B) 1 3/4 (C) 3 (D) 12
answer (A) (B) (C) (D)
Julia had some beads in a jar. 1/4 of the beads were red and the rest were green. After Julia put another 318 red beads into the jar, the fraction of green beads in the jar became 3/7. What was the total number of beads in the jar at first?
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A spider was climbing to the top of a garden wall, starting from the bottom. After climbing up 1/3 of the wall, it began to rain. During the rain the spider slipped down 30 cm and stayed there until the rain stopped. Then it climbed up the remaining 5/6 of the height of the wall to reach the top. What was the total height the spider had climbed before and after the rain, in cm?
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How many sixths are there in 2 wholes?
(1) 6 (2) 12 (3) 18 (4) 24
answer (1) (2) (3) (4)
Mary had 48 stalks of flowers in a basket. 1/3 of them were roses and the rest were lilies and daisies. There were 4 more lilies than daisies. How many daisies should Mary buy such that the number of daisies would be 1/2 of the total number of flowers in the basket?
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ELSA had 40 stickers. She gave 3/8 of them to her sister. How many stickers does she have left?
(A) 5 (B) 15 (C) 24 (D) 25 (E) 35
answer (A) (B) (C) (D) (E)