I have 70 litres of a mixture of 20% red paint, 35% purple paint and 45% blue paint.

1.
Without adding any blue paint, how much red and how much purple paint should I
add so that I end up with a mixture of 25% red, 40% purple and 35% blue paint?
(Westminster School 13+)

2. Victor is trying to remember a question he answered. He remembers that he was

asked to find the prime factorization of a number between 40 and 100. He also
remembers that the answer was the product of one prime and the square of another
prime. The number might have been 50 because 50 = 2 x 5². Find all the other
possible numbers he could have been asked to factorize.
(The Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School 13+)

3. Granny swears that she is getting younger. She has calculated that she is four times
as old as I am now but remembers that 5 years ago she was five times as old as I was
at that time. What is the sum of our ages now? (Westminster School 13+)
Eton College King’s - 13 Plus Maths Scholarship A 2022