Problem Sums Practice

1. Steven sold 1 560 785 DVDs in his shop last year. 235 035 of them were cartoon DVDs
and the rest were movie and music DVDs. If he had sold 320 125 music DVDs, how
many more movie DVDs than music DVDs did he sell?

2. 5 similar shirts and 4 similar pairs of pants cost $415. 1 such shirt and 2 such pairs of
pants cost $149. What is the total cost of 2 such shirts?

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3. To make a jug of bandung drink, Joel has to mix l of rose syrup and l of milk with
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1 5 l of water. What is the total amount of rose syrup and milk that he needs if he wants
to make 6 l of bandung drink?

4. For every $15 that Sharon earns, she gives her mother $3.50. How much does Sharon
earn if her mother receives $280?

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5. Bruce had a sum of money. He used of it to buy some books. He gave of the
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remainder to his sister. He then saved the rest. If he had $1100 at first, how much money
did he save?

6. Robert has 4 times as many pencils as Joseph. Linus had half as many pencils as Robert.
If Robert and Joseph have 115 pencils altogether, how many pencils does Linus have?

7. Mr Ali bought 7 more files than books. Each file cost $2.90 and each book cost $7.20
more than a file. If the total cost of the items he purchased was $85.30, how many files
did Mr Ali buy?

8. Mrs Dewi bought 24 packets of paper clips. There were 50 paper clips in each packet.
She gave 20 paper clips to each of his 43 pupils. How many paper clips did she have left?

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9. Philip bought 10 identical rings and 4 identical bracelets for $860. If each bracelet cost
$40 more than each ring, find the cost of a dozen such bracelets.

10. Chelsea and Gloria went shopping with the same amount of money. After Chelsea spent
$64 and Gloria spent $120, Chelsea had 5 times as much money as Gloria. How much
money did each girl bring along for shopping?

11. Kristy bought 3 similar gift packs for $45. Each gift pack consisted of a file, a pen and a
marker. Each file cost $6 more than each pen. Each marker cost $1.20 less than each
pen. Find the cost of each file.

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12. At a café, each muffin cost as much as each hamburger. Rachel paid $45.50 for 15
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muffins and 7 hamburgers.
(a) Find the cost of each muffin.
(b) Find the cost of each hamburger.

13. An empty crate weighs 1.56 kg. There are 10 identical iron bars and 12 identical steel bars
in each crate. The total mass of the crate and the bars is 15.3 kg. If the mass of each iron
bar is 450 g, find the mass of each steel bar. Give your answer in grams.

14. Machine P can print 58 magazines per minute. Machine Q can print 12 more magazines
than Machine P per minute. Find the total number of magazines printed by both
machines after 3 hours.

15. The total enrolment of School C and School D is 3313. The total enrolment of School C
and School E is 6325. School E has 4 times as many pupils as School C. What is the total
enrolment of School D and School E?

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16. Shannon gets $3 more pocket money than Michael each week. Each of them spends $15
per week on food and saves the rest. When Shannon saves $72, Michael only saves $48.
How much pocket money does Michael get each week?

17. Tin A and Tin B contain some pebbles. If 21 pebbles are transferred from Tin A to Tin
B, both tins will have the same number of pebbles. If 21 pebbles are transferred from
Tin B to Tin A, Tin A will have 3 times as many pebbles as Tin B.
(a) How many pebbles are there in Tin A?
(b) How many pebbles are there altogether?

18. Clint saved some money on Monday. He saved $8 more on Tuesday than on Monday.
He then saved $8 more each day than the day before. By Saturday, he had saved $660.
How much money did he save on Wednesday?

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