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A glue stick cost $1.80. A pair of scissors cost $3.20. Thomas bought an equal number of glue sticks and scissors. He spent $25 in all. How many glue sticks and scissors did he buy in total?
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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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Mary gave 55 beads to Betty. Then she received 36 beads from Lydia. Mary had 342 beads in the end. How many beads did Mary have at first?
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A man changed $210 into $5 and $2 notes. The number of $5 notes and $2 notes was the same. How many $5 notes did he get?
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Lisa and Max each had a roll of ribbon with the same length. They cut their roll of ribbon into shorter pieces. Each piece of Lisa’s ribbon was 6 cm. Each piece of Max’s ribbon was 10 cm. After cutting, Lisa had 16 more pieces of ribbon than Max. What was the length of each roll of ribbon?
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Study the pattern. What is the missing number in the box? star × star = 49; moon + moon + moon + moon = 100; star × moon = ?
star × star = 49 moon + moon + moon + moon = 100 star × moon = ?
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The product of 7 and a number is 84. What is the product of 252 and that number?
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The table shows the cost of pizza: a Regular is $12 and a Large is $22. Mrs Tan ordered 6 large pizzas and 5 regular pizzas. She gave the delivery man $200. How much change did Mrs Tan receive?
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The line graph shows the earnings at Mr Lim’s chicken rice stall over a 6-month period: January $3000, February $4500, March $5000, April $3500, May $3000, June $2500. Mr Lim charged $5 for every plate of chicken rice. What is the difference in the number of plates of chicken rice sold between the highest earnings month and the lowest earnings month?
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun 3000 4500 5000 3500 3000 2500 highest = March, lowest = June · $5 a plate
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A van can transport 8 passengers. How many passengers can 240 vans transport?
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Max bought the same number of books and files. Each book cost $7 and each file cost $2. He paid $243 altogether. How many books and files did he buy altogether?
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Mr Tan has less than 40 sweets for a group of pupils. If he gives his pupils 4 sweets each, he will be short of 1 sweet. If he gives each pupil 5 sweets each, he will be short of 11 sweets. How many pupils does he have in the group?
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In a General Knowledge quiz, 5 marks were awarded for a correct answer but 2 marks were deducted for an incorrect answer. Mei Ling answered all 50 questions and was awarded a total of 166 marks. How many questions did she answer correctly?
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The figure below is made up of 2 squares of different sizes. AG is 8 cm and DE is 6 cm. What is the length of AD? Give your answer in cm.
|<------------- ? ------------->| A B +---------------+---C-------+ D | | | | | | | 8 cm | | 6 cm | | | | | | +---------------+-----------+ G F E
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The graph shows the number of watches sold by a shop from January to April: January 38, February 22, March 52, April 16. The total number of watches sold from January to April was 4 times the number of watches sold in May. How many watches were sold in May?
Jan Feb Mar Apr 38 22 52 16
(A) 31 (B) 32 (C) 54 (D) 64
answer (A) (B) (C) (D)
Jason has $20. He bought 2 packets of chips and 6 oranges. Chips are $2.50 a packet and oranges are 3 for $1.20. How much money did he have left?
1 packet of chips $2.50 3 oranges for $1.20
(A) $7.40 (B) $7.80 (C) $10.30 (D) $12.60
answer (A) (B) (C) (D)
At a fruit stall, mangoes are sold at 2 for $7 and pears are sold at 3 for $5.50. Mdm Fauziah bought the same number of mangoes and pears. She paid $160 in total. How many mangoes did she buy?
Mangoes 2 for $7 Pears 3 for $5.50
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At a bakery, muffins are sold at the prices shown. Nick wants to order 57 muffins for a birthday party. What is the least amount of money he will need to pay for the muffins?
+-------------------------------------------------+ | Muffins on Sale! | | | | 1 for $1.40 6 for $5.70 10 for $8.90 | +-------------------------------------------------+
(1) $34.20 (2) $51.60 (3) $79.80 (4) $94.70
answer (1) (2) (3) (4)
Uncle Jack bought 60 boxes of pens. There were 9 pens in each box. He repacked the pens into smaller packets of 5 each. How many packets are there?
(1) 540 packets (2) 300 packets (3) 270 packets (4) 108 packets
answer (1) (2) (3) (4)
In a restaurant, a rectangular table can seat 10 people and a round table can seat 5 people. During lunch time, all the tables in the restaurant were occupied. The number of each type of table in the restaurant is more than 10 and less than 15. If there were 205 customers, how many rectangular and round tables altogether were there for the 205 customers?
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The table shows how many cakes a shop sold on four days. How many more cakes were sold on the last two days than on the first two days?
Day Cakes Monday 24 Tuesday 18 Wednesday 31 Thursday 27
(A) 6 (B) 13 (C) 16 (D) 22 (E) 58
answer (A) (B) (C) (D) (E)