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13) 40 adults and 24 children paid a total of $2496 to attend a musical.

An adult’s ticket cost twice as much as a child’s ticket.


a) How much did each adult’s ticket cost?
b) How much did each child’s ticket cost?

14) The total mass of coffee in Container A and Container B was 1190 g.
The total mass of coffee in Container B and Container C was 800 g.
The mass of coffee in Container A was 4 times as much as that in Container C.
What was the mass of coffee in Container B?

15) The cost of 4 similar armchairs and 10 similar dining chairs is $1028.
Each armchair costs $68 more than a dining chair.
a) How much does each armchair cost?
b) How much do the dining chairs cost?

16) A worker was paid &16 a day when he worked from Monday to Friday.
He was paid more when he worked on Saturday and Sunday.
He was paid a total of $496 for working 4 weekends and 24 weekdays.
What was the difference between the worker’s pay on Sunday and on Monday?

17) A population census of a small town showed the following information.

The total population was 27 456.


1092 were classified under other races.
There were twice as many Chinese as Malays.
There were 4 times as many Malays as Indians.

How many Malays were there?

18) Daljit and Edgar had the same number of sheets of writing paper. After Daljit gave 20
sheets to Edgar, Edgar had twice as many sheets as Daljit.
How many sheets of writing paper did Daljit have at first?

19) Mr Seow plans to drive a distance of 516 km.


His car travels 12 km on every litre of petrol and each litre of petrol costs $2.
How much money will Mr Seow spend on petrol for this trip?

20) A fruiterer had 70 boxes of apples at first. There were 48 apples in each box. After 35
rotten apples were thrown away, the rest were repacked into bags of 5.
How much money would be collected if all the bags of apples were then sold at $2 each?

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