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1. A few bags are sold at an average price of $90. If one buys another bag which
costs $69, the average price would become $87. Find the number of bags at rst.

2. A group of students scored an average of 70 marks for their Maths quiz. When
the score of 3 additional students, totalling 270 are included, the average score of
the group becomes 76 marks. How many students are there in the group at rst?

3. In a class, the average score for a mathematics test was 69.5. The average
mathematics test score of all the boys in the class was 75 while the average score
of all the girls was 65. There were 4 more girls than boys in the class. How many
girls were there in the class?

4.Some children took a Mathematics test. The average score was 78.1 marks. One
of the children’s core was wrongly recorded as 79 marks instead of 97 marks. As a
result, the average score was calculate as 76.3 marks. How many children sat for
the test?

5. The average marks for a group of pupils was 14. After Joanna joined the group,
their average marks became 15. If Joanna scored 35 marks, how many pupils were
there at rst?

6. 250 boys and girls shared a sum of money. The average amount each child
received was $69.88. The average amount each boy received was $55 and the
average amount each girl received was $85. How much more money did the girls
receive than the boys?

7. A group of boys sold an average of 60 cookies at a carnival. Then 2 more boys

joined the group. The two boys sold a total of 165 cookies. After the two boys
joined the group, the average number of cookies sold by all the boys became 65.
How many boys were there in the group at rst?

8. Cheryl bought some bags. The average cost of the bags was $30. When she
bought one more bag that cost $90, the average cost of all the bags became $35.
How many bags did she buy at rst?

9. The average of 50 numbers is 38. What is the average of the numbers, if two
numbers, 45 and 55 are removed?

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 10. The total value of the numbers printed on some cards is 504. Each card is
printed with a di erent 3-digit odd number. The average value of all the numbers is
126. The di erence between the greatest and the smallest number is 6. Find the
smallest number printed on the cards.

11. The average amount of hair clips that Amy, Brenda and Catherine have is 194.
Brenda has 58 hair clips less than Amy and Catherine has 101 hair clips more than
Brenda. How many hair clips does Amy have?

12. Containers A,B, C and D have an average of 350 cookies. There are 750
cookies in Container A and B. If there are 86 more cookies in Container C than in
Container D, how many cookies are there in Container D?

13. In a garden, ower pots are arranged in rows such that there are exactly 11
ower pots in each row. Mary adds 12 more ower pots into the garden and
rearranges all the ower pots. There are now exactly 8 ower pots in each row and
18 more rows than before. How many ower pots are there in the garden row?

14. Debbie and her friends calculated the average number of books they had. If
Debbie had 10 more books than what she had, the average number of books they
had would be 75. If she had 6 fewer books, the average number of books they had
would be 73. How many friends did Debbie have?

15. Sharon bought a number of blouses at an average price of $12. She decided to
buy 3 more dresses which cost $18 each. The average price of all her blouses and
dresses became $14. Find the total number of dresses and blouses she bought.

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 Fractions

1. Mrs Wong had some ribbon. She used ⅓ of it to tie a present and ⅙ of the
remaining ribbon to decorate a box. She had 3m of ribbon left. What was the
length of ribbon Mrs Wong had at rst? Give you answers in metres and
centimetres.

2. Yuna bought some red, green and blue markers.¼ of them were red and 4/9 of
the remaining markers were free. There were 60 blue markers. How many markers
did he buy in all?

3. Mdm Rani baked some cookies and pu s. 2/7 of what she had baked were
cookies. ¾ of the cookies and ⅙ of the pu s were sold. If the total number of
cookies and pu s left was 64, how many cookies and pu s did she bake
altogether?

4. Mary and Eve had the same number of roses. Then Eve gave ⅘ of her roses to
her mother and Mary gave away ¾ of her roses to her friends. The number of roses
Mary had left was 3 more than the number of roses Eve had left. How many roses
did Eve have at rst?

5. Rina had 3kg of sugar. She used ⅗ of it to make some desserts and ¾ of the
remainder to bake some cakes.

(a) How much sugar did she use to make the desserts? Give your answers in
kilograms.

(b) She used 25g of sugar to make each cake. How many more cakes could she
make with the sugar that she had left?

6. 3/7 of the fruits in a fruit farm are mangoes. Half of the rest of the fruits were
sold to customers. Amongst the mangoes, 6/11 of them are bad and 1050 are
good, How many fruits were sold to the customers?

7. In the morning, John sold some mu ns at 4 for $11. In the afternoon, he

received $600 from the sale of ⅚ of the remaining mu ns at $2 each. In the end,
he had ⅛ of the total number of mu ns left. How much money did Ja ar receive
from the sale of the mu ns in the morning?

8. Mrs Ang baked 164 more mu ns than cupcakes. After selling ¾ of the mu ns
and half of the cupcakes, she had a total of 344 mu ns and cupcakes left. How
many mu ns and cupcakes did Mrs Ang bake altogether?

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 9. Jimmy spent ⅖ of his money on 7 sandwiches and 27 curry pu s for a party.
The cost of each sandwich is 3 times the cost of each curry pu . He bought some
more sandwiches with ⅚ of his remaining money.

(a) How many curry pu s could be bough with the same amount of money paid for
7 sandwiches?

(b) How many sandwiches did Jimmy buy altogether?

10. A glass jar contains red, blue and yellow M&M chocolates. ¼ of the chocolates
are blue. 4/9 of the remaining chocolates are yellow. What fraction of the
chocolates in the jar are red?

11. Rita had some money. She spent ¼ of her money on 9 notebooks and 9 pens.
The cost of each notebook is 3 times the cost of each pen. Then, she decided to
buy some more notebooks with ⅝ of her original sum of money. How many
notebooks did Rita buy altogether?

12. Mark had an equal number of blue and red marbles. He gave away 5/9 go his
blue marbles and sold 49 red marbles. In the end, he was left with ⅓ of the
marbles. How many marbles did he have at rst?

13. Jerry had some marbles. He gave 3/7 of the marbles to Amy and ⅜ of the
remaining marbles to Betty. He bought another 92 marbles and he ended up with
twice the amount of marbles he had at rst. How many marbles did Jerry have at
rst?

14. Joey spent 2/9 of her money on 3 photo frames. She bought another 6
identical photo frames and 10 coloured markers with the rest of her money.

(a) What fraction of her money did she spend on the 10 coloured markers?

(b) How many coloured markers could she buy if she had spent all her money on
coloured markers only?

15. Susan used ⅝ of a string to tie presents and ⅖ of the remaining string for
decoration. 114cm of the string was used for decoration. What was the length of
the string used to tie presents? Leave your answers in metres and centimetres.

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