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75 Sample questions for Primary 6

**Each question has 99 tweaks. Total 7425 questions per level.

Algebra A Skill 1 Calvin has $42 more than Mike. If Calvin has $v ,how much do they
have altogether?

Algebra A Skill 2 Simon had $v. He took out $16 to give to his sister. Some time later,
Simon saved another $99. How much did Simon have in the end?

Algebra A Skill 3 Leon put some tickets equally into 76 boxes and has 1 tickets left. If
each box contains f tickets, how many tickets does Leon have
altogether?

Algebra A Skill 4 Luke sold some watches for $93. He sold the remaining f watches at
$4 each and made some profit. If Luke bought all the watches for
$192, how much did he earn from selling the watches?

Algebra A Skill 5 Parry saved $827 from his salary. He gave half of the remaining to
his wife and gave the rest to his 3 children equally. If each child gets
$c, how much was his salary?

Algebra B Skill 1 Bernard bought 55e pencils. He gave 2 pencils to each of his friends
at a party and had 39e pencils left. How many friends were at
Bernard's party?

Algebra B Skill 2 Larry is p year old now. John is 5 times as old as Larry. Aaron is 22
older than John. How old is Aaron 9 years ago?

Algebra B Skill 3 Parry is 14h years old now. He is 7 times as old as his son. How old
is Parry when his son is 29 years old?

Algebra B Skill 4 88 chairs and e tables cost $5216. Each chair cost $53. What is the
cost of one table?

Algebra B Skill 5 Gerald, Simon and Timothy have an average amount of $e. Gerald
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has of Simon's money. If Gerald has $31, how much does
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Timothy have?

Ratio A Skill 1 The ratio of Keith's money to Melvin's money is 1:6. If Melvin has
$144, how much must he give Keith so that both will have the same
amount?

Ratio A Skill 2 The ratio of pineapples to rambutans is 3:11. If 748 rambutans is

added, the ratio of pineapples to rambutans will be 5:33. How many
pineapples are there?

Ratio A Skill 3 The ratio of Mike to Timothy's money is 5 : 7. The ratio of Timothy to
Terry's money is 1 : 8 . If Mike has $35, how much has Terry?

Ratio A Skill 4 On an internet sales, the ratio of a dryer to a dvd player's is 3 : 11.
After a discount of $90 on each item, the ratio of the dryer to dvd
player becomes 33 : 145 . What is the discounted price of the dryer?

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Ratio A Skill 5 The number of $2, $5 and $10 notes in a bag is in ratio of 7 : 2 : 11.
The notes are worth $5092 altogether. How many $2-notes are
there?

Ratio B Skill 1 7
Tom is of Simon's age. In 7 years' time, their total age will be 122.
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What is the ratio of Simon to Tom's age 13 years from now?

Ratio B Skill 2 3
The ratio of Lionel to Ricky's money is 1 : 11. If Lionel spends of
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his money, he will have $292 less than Ricky. How much does Ricky
have ?

Ratio B Skill 3 The ratio of rambutans to mangoes is 1 : 11. If 360 mangoes is

added, the ratio of rambutans to mangoes will be 1 : 19. How many
more mangoes are there than rambutans in the end?

Ratio B Skill 4 A stall sells only pears and watermelons. The ratio of pears to
watermelons is 1 : 3. A total of 21 fruits are added. The pears
becomes 2 times as many as the original quantity, and the
watermelons becomes 3 times as many as the original quantity. How
many pears are there in the end?

Ratio B Skill 5 Gerald and Nick have $628. Gerald and Paul have $1054. The ratio
of Nick to Paul's money is 1:7. How much does Gerald have?

Ratio C Skill 1 2
The age of John is of Ethan's age. 10 years later, the ratio of
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John's age to Ethan's age is 3 : 4. How old is John now?

Ratio C Skill 2 3 1
In a school, of the boys is equal to of the girls. What is the
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ratio of girls to boys?

Ratio C Skill 3 In a bag of notes, the number of $2,$5 and $10-notes are in ratio of
20 : 11 : 5.
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of the $2-notes and 46 $5-notes are taken out. The remaining
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notes are worth $787. How many $10-notes are there?

Ratio C Skill 4 The ratio of Nick to Stanley's money was 11 : 6 at first. After Nick
saved another $100 and Stanley saved another $47, Nick had twice
of Stanley. How much did Nick have in the end?

Ratio C Skill 5 If Terry gives $100 to Aaron the ratio of their money will be 4 : 9. If
Terry gives $300 to Aaron their ratio will be 2 : 11. How much does
Terry have?

Percentage A Skill 1 Timothy will get $462 more if his salary is increased by 11%. Tom's
salary is 29% more than Timothy. Find Tom's salary.

Percentage A Skill 2 David will get $9900 more if his salary is increased by 50%. David's
salary is 40% less than Peter. Find Peter's salary.

Percentage A Skill 3 David will make a profit of 21% if he sells the radio at $1573. What is
his profit if he sells the radio at $2010 ?

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Percentage A Skill 4 Chris bought a bag at $3724 after a 24% discount. Tom bought the
same bag at $2548. What was the percentage discount given to
Tom?

Percentage A Skill 5 Ken's salary is 50% more than Simon's salary. If their salary is
increased by 20%, their total salary will be $13500. Find the salary of
Ken without the increase.

Percentage B Skill 1 Lionel bought some food with 40% of his money. He bought some
drinks with 90% of the remaining money and had $2.40 left. How
much did Lionel have at first?

Percentage B Skill 2 70% of the students are boys. 80% of the boys and 80% of the girls
wear spectacles. What percentage of the students wear spectacles?

Percentage B Skill 3 In a test, Harry answer 80% of the questions correctly while Wayne
answered 65% of them correctly. How many percentage more
correct answers did Harry get than Wayne? (Round your answer to
the nearest percentage)

Percentage B Skill 4 A watch being sold at shop A at $2250 is 25% cheaper than the
price of the same watch at shop B. During a sales, the the watch
was sold at a 15% discount at shop B. What was the discounted
price of the watch?

Percentage B Skill 5 45% of Jack's money is 60% of Gary's money. What is the ratio of
Jack's money to Gary's money?

Percentage C Skill 1 In a hall, 80% of the 300 students are boys. Some boys went to the
field to pitch the tents. The boys in the hall became 70% of the
students in the hall. How many boys went to pitch the tents?

Percentage C Skill 2 At a stall, 60% of the fruits were rambutans and the rest pineapples.
30% of the pineapples were sold. What was the ratio of the number
of pineapples to rambutans in the end?

Percentage C Skill 3 Barry always saves 50% of his salary. If his salary decreases by
60% , his savings will decrease by $600. How much is Barry's
original salary?

Percentage C Skill 4 A box contained some red and blue marbles. There were 30% more
red marbles than blue marbles. When 309 marbles are added, the
red increased by 10% and the blue increased by 90% . How many
marbles were in the box at first?

Percentage C Skill 5 A theatre has 340 seats. There are 30% fewer $50-seats than $30-
seats. In a concert sales, 60% of the $30-seats and some $50-seats
were sold. A total of $7800 was collected. How many seats were
unsold?

Speed A Skill 1 Parry drove from home at 0840 h and reached his office at 1210 h.
His average speed was 60 km/h. How far away is the office from his
home?

Speed A Skill 2 Mike drove from 1026 h to 1241 h to reach his office. If his office is
112.5 km away, what was the average speed of Mike?

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Speed A Skill 3 Simon left home for town 367.5 km away. He drove at an average
speed of 105 km/h and reach town at 1613 h. What time did Simon
leave home?

Speed A Skill 4 Calvin left home for his office driving from 0858 h to 1046 h at a
speed of 36 km/h. He left his office at 1228 h driving back home at 9
km/h slower than the speed he drove to the office. What time did
Calvin reach home?

Speed A Skill 5 Chris drove for 12 hours at an average speed of 96 km/h to reach
town. For the first 246 km of the journey, he drove at 123 km/h. Find
the average speed of the remaining of the journey. (Round off your
answer to 1 decimal place)

Speed B Skill 1 Parry cycled from 1254 h to 1439 h to cover 46200 m. At this speed,
how many minutes will he take to cycle another 8.8 km?

Speed B Skill 2 Timothy travelled for 3 hours and 4 minutes to reach half of the race.
If his average speed was 60 km/h, find the distance of the race.

Speed B Skill 3 1
Chris took 5 hours to cover of the journey. He covered the
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remaining 1920 km in 7 hours. Find the average speed of Chris for
the whole journey.

Speed B Skill 4 Lionel took 4 hours to travel to town at an average speed of 24 km/h.
He left the town at 0700h and reached home at 1300h. What is the
difference in average speed for his trip to town and back home?

Speed B Skill 5 A train 110 m long is going to pass through a 4.89 km tunnel at a
speed of 125 km/h. How many seconds will the train take from
entering the tunnel until the entire train pass through the tunnel?

Speed C Skill 1 Paul and Barry started a race together. When Paul finished the race
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in 70 minutes, Barry had just finished of the race. Find the
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distance of the race if Paul is 50 m/min faster than Barry.

Speed C Skill 2 A van left town X at 0700h travelling at 66 km/h. A car left the same
town at 0900h heading the same direction travelling at 110 km/h.
What time did the car pass by the van?

Speed C Skill 3 Gerald completed 50% of his journey in 5 minutes, driving at 54

km/h. He travelled the remaining journey at 96 km/h. How long did
Gerald take to complete the whole journey ? (Answer in minutes,
rounded off to 1 decimal place)

Speed C Skill 4 Fred and Barry left the church together, heading in opposite
directions. After 2.5 hours, they are 280 km apart. Fred travelled 32
km/h slower than Barry. Find the average speed of Barry.

Speed C Skill 5 A van left Town X for Town Y at 0700h and passed by a school
67.2km away at 0824h. A car left Town X in the same direction at
0800h and passed the same school at 0848h. How long did it take
for the car to pass by the van? (Round off your answer to 1 decimal
place)

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Volume Skill 1 Every cube has 6 faces. 14 similar cubes have a total surface area
of 3024 cm². Find the total volume of these 14 cubes.

Volume Skill 2 The volume of 20 similar cubes have a total volume of 2500 cm³.
Find the total surface area of these 20 cubes.

Volume Skill 3 Tank A measuring 60cm X 50cm X 70cm had 2 cubes of side 10cm
in it. When it was fully filled, the water is poured into tank B. Tank B
with a square base of side 1 metre was empty. What was the height
of water in tank B in the end?

Volume Skill 4 An empty tank with a base of 50cm X 70cm had 2 cubes of side
20cm in it. A tap that runs at 500 ml per minute took 388 minutes to
fill the tank fully. How many litres of water must be be removed so
that the water level in the tank becomes 21 cm?

Volume Skill 5 An empty tank measuring 80cm X 70cm X 60cm had 2 cubes of side
10cm in it. A tap that runs at 1 litre per minute was turning on to fill
the tank. It was left running for 348 minutes and caused some water
to be spilt out of the tank after it was full. What was the volume of
water that spilt out of the tank?

High Challenge A Skill 1 On the first day of the fun fair, there were 200 more boys than girls.
On the second day, the number of boys increase by 15% and the
number of girls increase by 80%. There were 1410 children on the
second day. How many boys were there on the first day?

High Challenge A Skill 2 A shop sold bags at $15 each in January. In February, the bags
were sold at $11 each. The number of bags sold in January to those
sold in February is 1:2. Total sales was $1369. How many bags are
sold in January?

High Challenge A Skill 3 In a test of 100 questions, 5 marks are given to each correct answer
and 2 marks are deducted from a wrong answer. Gerald scored 318
marks. How many questions did he answer correctly?

High Challenge A Skill 4 What is the sum of numbers from 1 to 104?

High Challenge A Skill 5 What is the sum of numbers from 1 to 67?

High Challenge B Skill 1 Melvin paints 108 chairs in 12 hours. Nick paints 153 chairs in 9
hours. How long will both take to paint 832 chairs working together?

High Challenge B Skill 2 A car travelled from Town A to Town B at a constant speed. After 1.5
hours, the car passed a cyclist travelling from the opposite direction
at 10 km/h. Another 2.5 hours later, the car reached Town B while
the cyclist was still 119km away from Town A. Find the distance
between the two towns.

High Challenge B Skill 3 A bus travelled at 28 km/h from the village to the town. A car started
together with the bus from the village reached the town 7 hours
earlier than the bus. If the car travelled 98 km/h faster, find the
distance between the towns.

High Challenge B Skill 4 If Timothy gives $200 to Bernard, they will have the same amount of
money. If Timothy gives 10 % of his money to Bernard, Bernard will

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have $270 more than Timothy. How much does Bernard have?

High Challenge B Skill 5 Melvin's salary of $12000 is 50% more than Ethan's salary. Their
salary is increased by the same percentage, and the difference in
their salaries now is $5800. Find the percentage increase in their
salary.

High Challenge C Skill 1 A briefcase with 9 books in it has a mass of 7.16 kg. When 6 more
books and 64 files are added, the mass became 23.88 kg. Each
book has a mass 4 times as much as each file. Find the mass of the
briefcase when it is empty.

High Challenge C Skill 2 Oscar was suppose to subtract a small number from a big number.
He added them instead. The product of Oscar's answer and the
correct answer is 7,168. If the big number is 64 more than the small
number, what is the bigger number?

High Challenge C Skill 3 A bag containing $2 and $5 notes had a total value of $553. 4 pieces
of $5 notes were exchanged for $2 notes of similar value. In the end,
the number of $5 notes was the same as the $2 notes. How many $2
notes were there at first?

High Challenge C Skill 4 For every tree planted, Jack gets $52. After every 15 trees, he gets a
bonus of $111. If Jack is paid $2250, how many trees did he plant?

High Challenge C Skill 5 A boatman rows against the current in a river at a rate of 750 metres
per minute. After every 3750 metres, he will rest for 1 minute. While
resting, the boat will glide downstream for 70 metres. How long will
the boatman take to row a distance of 91.32 km?

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