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P5 Mathematics Problem Sums

1. Class 5F sold an unknown number of tickets on Saturday that was 3 times as many as Class 5G. Both classes then sold additional tickets on Sunday, with Class 5F selling 75 more and Class 5G selling 127 more, resulting in them having the same total number of tickets sold. The problem aims to find how many tickets Class 5F sold on Saturday. 2. Jasper had $45 more than Lindsey, and Kenny had $126 less than Lindsey. Together they had $519. The problem is to determine how much money Kenny had. 3. Mr Pereira bought 25 packets of chocolates with 23 chocolates in each packet, giving 485 chocol

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P5 Mathematics Problem Sums

1. Class 5F sold an unknown number of tickets on Saturday that was 3 times as many as Class 5G. Both classes then sold additional tickets on Sunday, with Class 5F selling 75 more and Class 5G selling 127 more, resulting in them having the same total number of tickets sold. The problem aims to find how many tickets Class 5F sold on Saturday. 2. Jasper had $45 more than Lindsey, and Kenny had $126 less than Lindsey. Together they had $519. The problem is to determine how much money Kenny had. 3. Mr Pereira bought 25 packets of chocolates with 23 chocolates in each packet, giving 485 chocol

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Problem Sums Practice

1. Class 5F sold 3 times as many funfair tickets as Class 5G on Saturday. On Sunday,


Class 5F sold another 75 tickets while Class 5G sold another 127 tickets. The total
number of tickets sold by each class then became the same. Find the number of tickets
sold by Class 5F on Saturday.

2. Jasper had $45 more than Lindsey. Kenny had $126 less than Lindsey. If they had $519
altogether, how much did Kenny have?

3. Mr Pereira bought 25 packets of chocolates. There were 23 chocolates in each packet.


He gave 485 chocolates to his pupils. How many chocolates did he have left?

4. A bag costs 4 times as much as a belt. A purse costs $12 less than the bag. If each belt
costs $16, find the cost of 36 purses.

5. Mr Leong planned to collect $80 000 from the sale of the sofas in his shop. At the end
of the day, he collected $7460 less than his planned amount. If he sold 26 identical
sofas, what is the selling price of each sofa

6. Linda bought 2 types of cards at 30¢ and 45¢ each. If she bought a total of 18 cards for
$6.60, how many more 30¢ cards did she buy?

7. At a party, Miss Goh gave each pupil 5 nuggets and had 30 nuggets left. If she gave each
pupil 6 nuggets, she would have 4 nuggets left. How many nuggets did Miss Goh buy
for the party?

8. A rectangle has the same area as a square. The perimeter of the square is 48 cm. What
is the length of the rectangle if its breadth is 8 cm?

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9. Nate had 3 times as many apples as papayas. After selling 160 apples and 25 papayas, he
had twice as many papayas as apples left. How many fruits did he have at first?

10. When Edward was 12 years old, his mother was 4 times as old as he is. How old will
Edward be when his mother is 3 times as old as he is?

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11. There are 624 children in the hall. of them are boys and the rest are girls. How many
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more boys than girls are there?

12. Marcus and Howard had an equal number of rubber bands. Each day, Marcus used 12
rubber bands and Howard used 9 more than him. When Howard had 26 rubber bands
left, Marcus had 98 rubber bands left. How many rubber bands did each of them have
at first?

13. Thomas bought some pens and files for $34. There were 3 more pens than files. If each
pen cost $3 and each file cost $2,
(a) how many files did he buy, and
(b) how much did the pens cost in all?

14. Dawson had 26 more $5-notes than $10-notes. After paying $480 for a camera with
some of the $5-notes, she had 6 times as many $10-notes as $5-notes.
(a) How many $5-notes did Dawson have at first?
(b) How much money did Dawson have left?

15. 2 kg of chicken and 3 kg of beef cost $15.70. 3 kg of chicken and 5 kg of beef cost
$25.50. How much does 1 kg of chicken cost?

16. Alice and Felicia had $360 at first. When Alice received another $40 from her father,
she had thrice as much money as Felicia. How much money did Alice have at first?

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17. Flower pots are to be arranged along the side of a square courtyard so that there is an
equal number of pots along each side of the courtyard. There are 77 pots altogether.
(a) What is the maximum number of pots that can be used?
(b) How many flower pots will there be along each side of the courtyard?

18. Study the pattern below.

Pattern 1 Pattern 2 Pattern 3

(a) Complete the table below.

Pattern Number 1 2 3 4

Number of matchsticks 4 7 10

(b) How many matchsticks are there in Pattern 11?

(c) Which pattern will have 76 matchsticks?

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