Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Q8. Section Test 1 PSLE exam challenging Ratio question


Q8..            There are 44 pupils in a class. 1/4 of the boys and 2/3 of the girls wear spectacles. There are 18 pupils in the class who do not wear spectacles. How many girls wear spectacles?

Q7. Section Test 1 PSLE exam challenging Ratio question 7


Q7.            Mr Chua bought a certain number of chocolates for his pupils. He gave 84 chocolates to Class 4A and 2/5 of the remainder to Class 5M1. If he was left with 1/4 of the original number of chocolates, how many chocolates did he have at first?

Section Test 1 PSLE exam challenging Ratio question 6


         Q6. James had a number of coloured balls in his ball pit. 1/4 of the ball were red, 2/3 of the remaining balls were blue and the rest were green, Given that there were 120 red and green balls altogether, how many balls were there in the ball pit?

Section Test 1 PSLE exam challenging Ratio question 3


.           Q5.    Jane and Helen shared some stickers in the ratio of 2:3. After Jane gave 15 Stickers away, the ratio became  1:4. How many stickers did Jane have at first?



Section Test 1 PSLE exam challenging Ratio question 2


Q2.      Amy, Belle and Cindy saved a total of $1840. 1/2 of Amys savings was the same as 1/5 of Belle's savings. Belle's savings was 3/5 of Cindy's savings.
(a)   What was the ratio of Amy's savings to Belle's savings to Cindy's savings?
(b)    How much did each of them save?



Section Test 1 PSLE exam challenging Ratio questions


Q1.      At a carnival the ratio of the number of males to the number of females was 6:5. The ratio of the numberof men to the number of boys was 2:1. The ratio of the number of women to the number of girls was 3:2. If there were 12 more men than women at the carnival, how many people were there at the carnival altogether?





Q7 PSLE Questions best solved using Sakamoto method

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