Problem Sums Practice

1. The sum of Jordan’s age and Victor’s age is 42 years. 6 years ago, Jordan was twice as old
as Victor. Find their ages in 5 years’ time.

2. The length of a rectangle is twice its breadth. Find the area of the rectangle if its
perimeter is 60 cm.

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3. Mickey had $80. He spent of the money on a magazine and of it on a present.
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How much did he spend altogether?

4. The bar graph below shows the number of family members per family in a housing
estate.

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Number of Family Members

What is the total number of people living in this estate?

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5. 2 m of ribbon was cut into shorter pieces. Each of the shorter pieces is m long.
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What is the length of the remaining piece?

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6. The number of sweets in a packet is between 50 and 80. If Janice separates them into
groups of 5 sweets each, there will be a remainder of 3 sweets. If she separates them into
groups of 9 sweets each, there will be a remainder of 6 sweets. How many sweets are there
in the packet?

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7. 3 friends shared a collection of bookmarks. Alice’s share was of all the bookmarks.
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Brenda received 26 more bookmarks than Alice. The remaining 96 bookmarks were given
to Ciara. How many bookmarks were there in the collection?

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8. Marianne saved 3 times as much money as Melissa. Melissa saved as much money as
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Gladys. The 3 girls saved a total of $1650. How much money dud Marianne and Gladys
save altogether?

9. A group of boys and girls shared 1280 beads. Each boy received 7 beads and each girl
received 4 beads. Given that there were 4 times as many boys as girls, how many boys were
there?

10. A garden measuring 12 m by 6 m has a 2 m wide path around it.

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Pathway

11. There are 42 pupils in a library. Each girl borrows 5 books and each boy borrows 2 books.
The total number of books borrowed is 159. How many girls and boys are there?

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12. Mr Wijaya bought 2 television sets and 2 laptops at a total cost of $5600. The cost of a
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television set was the cost of a laptop.
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(a) What was the cost of one television set?

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13. Nicholas had as many paper clips as Michael. For every 10 paper clips Michael had,
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Conrad had 4 paper clips. If Nicholas had 246 paper clips, find the number of paper clips
that Conrad had.

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14. Randy is of his mother’s mass and of his father’s mass. If Randy weighs 48 kg, what
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is the total mass of the 3 of them?

15. Kenneth bought a bag of coloured marbles. Each of the colours is expressed as a fraction
of the total number of marbles in the bag below.

Red Green Yellow Blue

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(a) What fraction of the marbles were blue? Leave your answer in its simplest form.
(b) If there were 400 red and green marbles, how many marbles were there in the bag
altogether?

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16. Joey spent of her salary on food and of the remainder on transport. She then gave
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$450 more than the amount she spent on transport to her brother. She had of her
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money left. How much did she spend on food and transport?

17. There were 600 people watching a concert in the hall. The number of adults in the hall was
3 times the number of children in the hall. The total amount collected from the sale of the
tickets to the concert was $16 800. The price of one adult ticket was twice the price of a
child’s ticket. Find the total amount collected from the sale of children’s tickets.
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18. A metal container had a mass of 48 kg when it was full of water. When some of the water
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was poured out, it became full and its mass was 24 kg. Find the total mass of the metal
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container and the oil when it was completely filled with water.