Mr Yeoh: Hi children, try out these questions and see if your brains are rusty! If you find them difficult, why not try solving them using model diagrams? You will be able to see the whole picture better!
Try solving on your own first and see if you can arrive at the same answers!
Questions:
Q1. There were 144 sacks of rice. 3/4 of the sacks of rice were sold to Mr Lim. The rest were sold to Mr Loh who paid $450 for them. How much did Mr Loh pay for each sack of rice?
Answer: $12.50
Q2. Sandy had 168 kg of flour. She packed them into 7/10kg packets of flour. 3/5 of the packets of flour were sold to Mr Gan at $3.60 per packet. How much money did Mr Gan pay for the flour?
Answer: $518.40
Q3. Rex was given 3/5 of Elisa's money. Rex spent 1/6 of it and had $124 left. How much money did Elisa have left?
Answer: $99.20
Q4. Edwin gave 3/20 of his salary to his mother. Then his mother spent 1/5 of it on a dress and had $1224 left. How much money did Edwin have left?
Answer:$8670
Q5. Vicky gave 3/10 of her money to Jean, and $297 more than she gave Jean to Terry. She had 1/4 of her money left. How much money did Terry receive from Vicky?
Answer: $891
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ReplyDeleteSorry all, there is a typo error in question 4.
ReplyDeleteInstead of Edmund, it should be Edwin. Apologies for that!