A box of apples contains 7 apples. A tin of paint weighs 12.4kg when it is half full.

A box of pears contains 5 pears. It weighs 8.6kg when it is one-third full.

James bought 18 boxes of apples and pears. What was the mass of the tin when it is empty?
There are 114 apples and pears altogether.
How many boxes of pears did Jame buy. Paul had some money.
He spent 1/4 of it on a book, and received another $33 from his mom.
Nick paid $18.40 for 3 tarts and 2 cupckaes. With what he had left, he spent 60% of it on a bag and had $24 left.
The price of a tart was 2/5 of the price of a cupcake. How much money did Paul have at first?
How much did Nick pay for a tart?
Jane wanted to buy 13 apples but found that she needed another $1.50.
Peter has some $2 and $5 notes. She bought 6 apples instead, and had $4.80 left.
He has thrice as many $2 notes as $5 notes. What was the cost of one apple?
He has $ altogether.
How many $2 notes does he have? A construction worker filled two types of buckets with cement.
He filled 5 identical big buckets and 8 identical small buckets to the brim with 13.6L of cement.
Pens in a stationery shop are sold only in bundles. He could not fill another big bucket to the brim with the remaining amount of cement as he was short of
A bundle of 4 blue pens cost $3. 0.4L of cement.
A bundle of 6 red pens cost $7. Hence, he filled another small bucket to the brim and had 0.5L of cement left.
(a) Xavier bought an equal number of blue and red pens. He spent $115 more on the red pens. (a) How many more litres of cement can each big bucket hold than each small bucket?
How many red pens did he buy? (b) How many litres of cement did the construction worker have at first?
(b) Yan spent an equal amount of money on the blue and red pens. What fraction of the pens she
bought were blue? The cost of a present was shared among Alex, Ben and Charles.
The ratio of the amount of money paid by Alex and Ben was 2:3.
Alan and Betty had some money. The ratio of the amount of money paid by Ben and Charles was 5:4.
Alan had 4/7 of what Betty had. What was the ratio of the least amount of money paid to the most amount of money paid?
They bought a gift together and shared the cost of the gift.
Betty paid 4/5 of the cost of the gift and had $45 left. Mike packed 2625 apples into bags of 7 for sale.
Alan used 1/3 of his money. He priced each bag at $6.30.
What is the cost of the gift? How much did he collect from the sale?

James gave away 236 apples to a group olf people. Doris baked 24 brownies and 14 cupcakes using 572g of flour.
There were 10 more children than adults who received the apples. The amount of flour she used for 4 brownies was the same as that for 5 cupakes.
Each child received 2 apples while each adult received 4. (a) How many brownies could she bake with the same amount of flour used for 24 brownies?
How many adults received the apples? (b) What was the total mass of flour used for one brownie and one cupcake?
George had some money at first.
He spent 60% of his money on a bag, and 20% of the remaining money on a shirt.
He had $24 left.
(a) What fraction of his money did he spend on the shirt?
(b) How much money did he have at first?
Fred had 50 more marbles than Jacob at first.
Fred gave away 80% of his marbles to his brother, and
Jacob gave away 1/4 of his marbles to best friend.
In the end, Jacob had thrice as many marbles as Fred.
How many marbles did Fred have at first?
Hilary spent $420 of her monthly allowance on food.
She spent 3/5 of her remaining allowance on transport.
After that, she had 1/4 of her salary left.
How much of her salary did she spend on transport?
James had $315 more than Ken at first.
After James spent 1/4 of his money and Ken spent 60% of his money,
The amount of money James had left was $462 more than Ken had left.
How much money did Ken have at first?
Sam and Rex baked some muffins on Monday.
1/4 of Sam’s muffins was 8 more than 1/5 of Rex’s muffins.
On Tuesday, Sam baked more muffins and his total number of muffins increased by 3/4.
And Rex sold half of his muffins.
In the end, Sam had 164 more muffins than Rex.
How many muffins did both boys have altogether in the end?
On Monday, the average no. of books donated by each pupil during a donation drive was 23.
On Tuesday, 30 pupils donated an average of 14 books each.
In the end, the average number of books donated by each pupil on both days was 20.
How many books were donated on Monday?
Tracy collects stamps as her hobby.
1/7 of her stamps are from Australia.
1/4 of her stamps are from China.
The rest are from Singapore and Malaysia.
She has an equal no. of stamps from Singapore and Malaysia.
(a) If Tracy has 799 Malaysian stamps, how many stamps are from Australia?
(b) Aunt May gave Tracy some Australian stamps. As a result, 7/19 of Tracy’s stamps are from
Australia. How many stamps did Aunt May give Tracy?
At a travel fair, there were 125 more women than men.
When 40% of the women and 3/4 of the men left the fair, there were 243 more women than men left.
How many men were there at the travel fair at first?
At a community centre, there were 3 cooking classes, A, B and C.
There were 6 more men in B than C.
There were 6 fewer men in B than A.
The ratio of the no. of men to the no. of women in A, B and C were 1:2, 1:3 and 1:5 respectively.
All the 3 classes had the same no. of participants.
How many men were there?
James bought some erasers for his friends.
He paid $7.20 for the erasers.
If he gave everyone 5 erasers each, he would have 3 erasers left.
If he gave everyone 6 erasers each, he would need 6 more eraser.
(a) How many friends did Jason have?
(b) How much did each eraser cost?