Math Trial Test

Dexter spent four days doing a total of 268 experiments.

He did 70 experiments on the first day, 8 fewer experiments on the second day than on the first day, and 6 more experiments on the third day than on the fourth day.

How many experiments did Dexter do during the first two days?

Alvin has three times as many baseball cards as Simon, Theodore has half of what Alvin has, and Alvin and Simon have 96 baseball cards together.

If the three of them combine all their baseball cards and then split them equally among themselves, how many more baseball cards will Theodore have than before? 

A farmer harvested a total of 180 pineapples.

He gave of the pineapples to his neighbour and had to throw of the remaining pineapples because they were still not ripe.

If the farmer sold the remaining pineapples for 80 cents each, how much money did the farmer make from the sale of the pineapples?

Harry spent of his gold on a magic wand and of his remaining gold on a cauldron which cost $12. 

How many golds did Harry have at the start?

Hermione is reading a 90-page book. 

If she read 30 percent of the book during the first hour, how many pages of the book did she read during the first hour?

Jessica Rabbit earns $40 each week at the local diner. 

If she saves  of it every week, how much will she be able to save in 5 weeks?

Mr. and Mrs. Smith went to the theme park last weekend with their two children. 

If tickets to the theme park cost $9 for each adult and $6 for each child, how much did they pay for the tickets?

The combined height of Jack and Jill is 2.42 metres. 

If Jack is 1.36 metres tall, what is the difference between Jack’s height and Jill’s height?

Old MacDonald collected a total of 40 eggs from his farm yesterday. 

If he sold 10 percent of the eggs and gave 10 eggs to his neighbour, what percentage of the eggs were left?

Veronica owns 40 hairpins. 

If 20 percent of her hair pins were red and half of the remaining hairpins are yellow, how many yellow hair pins does Veronica have?

Snow White has a basket containing red and green apples only. 

If  of the apples in the basket were green, what percentage of the apples were red?

The Batmobile consumes 8 litres of petrol travelling 112 kilometres. 

At this rate, what was the cost of petrol for travelling 126 kilometres if one litre of petrol costs $12?

Winnie the Pooh collected a total of 5 litres of honey. 

If he stored the honey in jars containing 500 millilitres each, how many jars did Winnie the Pooh use to store all the honey he collected?

Cinderella bought 180 rolls of thread. 

She used some of the rolls of thread to make curtains and kept the remaining rolls in 3 bags in a ratio of 1:2:3.

If she kept 26 rolls of thread in the bag with the least number of rolls of thread, how many rolls of thread did she use to make the curtains?

Hank is currently 11 years old and Gerry is 3 years older than Hank. 

What is the ratio of Hank’s age to Gerry’s age seven years from today?

A bottle of strawberry jam cost $3.45. 

Hudson purchased 5 such bottles of strawberry jam.

If he paid the shopkeeper and received $2.75 in change, how much did he pay the shopkeeper?

The ratio of the length of a rectangular birthday card to its width is 5 to 2. 

If its width is 8 centimetres, what is its area?

In a certain poultry house, the ratio of the number of chickens to the number of emus is 7 to 4. 

If there are 18 more chickens than emus in the poultry house, what is the total number of chickens and emus in the poultry house?

If Linda can make 24 bracelets in 2 minutes, how many bracelets can she make in 9 minutes? 

The water wheel at the farm can make 5 full cycles in one minute. 

At this rate, how long will it take the wheel to make 225 full cycles?

Princess Jasmine splits a bag of peanuts into two packs in a ratio of 2 to 7. 

If the smaller pack contains 300 grams of peanuts, how many grams of peanuts were in the bigger pack?

If 12 identical coffee mugs cost $30, how much do 30 such coffee mugs cost?

The Robinson household consumed 2.8 kilograms of rice in two consecutive 7-day weeks. 

If they consume the same amount of rice each day, how many kilograms of rice did they consume during the first 10 days?

Nine identical toy blocks are stacked on top of each other. 

If the stack was 54 centimetres tall and 6 more similar toy blocks were stacked on top, what would be the new height of the stack of toy blocks?

Huey, Dewey, and Louie shared 35 stickers. 

Huey got twice as many stickers as Dewey, and Louie got twice as many stickers as Huey.

How many stickers did Louie get?

If the sales tax on an item that cost $12 is 66 cents, how much is the sales tax on an item that cost $20?

Last year, the town of Greendale collected only $1.8 million in real estate tax. 

If the amount collected was only 10 percent of the total real estate tax that should have been collected, how many million dollars of real estate tax were not collected last year?

The sum of the ages of Beyonce, Kelly, and Michelle is 27 years. 

If Beyonce is 2 years older than Kelly, who is twice as old as Michelle, how old is Kelly?

Mr. Ramirez owns two properties in the city. 

Last year, the value of one of his properties increased by $13 million and the value of the other property decreased by $8 million.

How much did the net value of the two properties increase last year?

If the Flash is running at a constant speed of 90 kilometres per hour, how many seconds will it take him to run a distance of 600 metres? 

If 52 is P percent of 80, what is 40 percent of P?

If 36 percent of the marbles in the jar are red and the rest are yellow, how many of the 4800 marbles in the jar are yellow?

The water level in the dam decreased by 6 metres, then increased by 8.5 metres, and then decreased by 4 metres. 

If the water level in the dam before the changes was M metres, which of the following gives the water level, in metres, after the changes in terms of M?

Sixty percent of the students in Steve Xu’s selective class are female and half of the male students have blue eyes. 

If 40 percent of the female students have blue eyes, what percent of the students in the class do not have blue eyes?

Billie can make W widgets per hour and Jean can make twice as many widgets as Billie per hour. 

Working together at these rates, how many widgets can the two of them make in four hours in terms of W?