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?





Monday, February 13, 2012

2011 PSLE Maths Question 5

5. Mr Tan spent ¼ of his money on a pair of shoes. He then spent 2/5 of the remaining money on a bag. After he received $120 from Mrs Tan, the ratio in the amount of money he had in the end to the amount of money he had at first became 5:4. How much money did Mr Tan have at first?

2011 PSLE Maths Question 4

4. In a school hall rehearsal, there were 9 chairs in each row. After Mr Lim brought in 6 more chairs for the actual concert, each row had 7 chairs and 12 more rows. How may chairs were used for the actual concert?

2011 PSLE Maths Question 3 Sakamoto Method

3. A fruit stall sells its pear at 70¢ and apples at 40¢. Sally bought some pears and Tom bought some apples. Sally spent $1.10 more than Tom but had 7 less fruits than him.

a) How much pears did Sally buy?
b) How much money did Tom spend?

2011 PSLE Maths Question 2 Sakamoto Method

2. There are teachers and students who bought tickets. The price of each ticket for a teacher is $20 while that of a student costs $8. The number of tickets bought by the teachers is ¼ of the total number of tickets bought. The amount of money collected from the students is $416 more than that from the teachers. What is the total amount of money collected?

Thursday, February 9, 2012

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2011 PSLE Maths Question 1 Sakamto Method

1. There are 5 tins of marbles, each tin with same number of marbles in them. 18 marbles were taken away from each of them, and in the end, these 5 tins have the same number of marbles as original number of marbles of two tins. How many marbles were there in each tin at first?

Q7 PSLE Questions best solved using Sakamoto method

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