1. Jason weighs m kg. Phillip is 10 kg heavier than Jason.
Find Phillip’s mass.
2. Mrs Tan baked p cookies. She gave away 12 cookies.
How many cookies did she gave left?
3. There are 12 eggs in each carton. How many eggs are
there in b cartons?
4. A shopkeeper bought 20 pencils. He packed them
equally into x packets. How many pencils are there in
each packet?
5. A rocket travels p km in 5 hours. How far does it travel
in 1 hour?
6. Beatrice had w hairpins. She bought w more hairpins
and her mother gave her 3 more hairpins. How many
hairpins did she have altogether?
7. Aaron is d years old. He is 2 years older than Philip.
Find the total age of both boys.
8. Tom bought 2x red apples and (x+8) green apples.
How many apples did he buy altogether?
9. Kelvin bought k similar files for $10. Find the cost of 3
such files.
10. The total height of Ryan and Ethan is 14h cm. Ryan is
6h cm. If h=20 cm, find the Ethan’s height.
11. Belinda was k years old 3 years ago. How old will she
be in 4 years’ time?
12. String A is x cm long. String B is twice as long as
String A. String C is 10 cm shorter than String B.
(a) Find the length of string C. Give your answer in terms
of x.
(b) If x = 36, find the length of string C.
13. Timothy had $p. He bought a T-shirt for $28 and
spent the rest of his money on 4 identical toy figurines.
(a) Find the price of 1 toy figurine, giving your answer in
terms of p.
(b) If Timothy had $100, find the price of 1figurine.
14. Amanda has $q. Tina has thrice as much as Amanda.
Rita has $5 less than Tina.
(a) How much do the 3 girls have altogether in term of q?
(b) If Amanda has $30, how much more does Rita have
than Amanda?
15. Madeline is x years old. Sharon is twice as old as
Madeline. Pauline is 3 years older than Sharon.
(a) Find the total age of the 3 girls in terms of x.
(b) If Madeline is 8 years old now, find Pauline’s age 5
years ago.
16. Mrs.Smith bought a cake and 8 lemon tarts for $40. A
lemon tart cost $p less than cake.
(a) Find the cost of 3 lemon tarts in terms of p.
(b) If P = $13, find the total cost of a cake and a lemon
tart.
17. Jason had y green marbles at first. After he bought
the same number of green marbles, 16 red marbles and
10 blue marbles, he had 100 marbles. Find the value of y.
18. There are 18 marbles in a bottle. George added m
more marbles in the bottle. If there are 45 marbles in the
bottle now, find the value of m.
19. Wendy bought 5p beads. She used p beads to make a
bracelet and had 20 beads left. How many beads did
Wendy buy?
20. There are 375 people at a game carnival. If there are
65 more adults than children, how many adults are there?
21. Marc is w years old now. His brother, Sean is 5 years
older than him. In 3 years’ time, the sum of their age will
be 83. How old is Marc now?
