8-Step Model Drawing: Singapore's Best Problem-Solving Math Strategies Bob Hogan (Author), Char Forsten (Author), Sharon

Smith (Editor), Soosen Dunholt er (Illustrator) [CD] Ken had 14 pens and Ben had 2 pens. When they received an equal number of p ens from their teacher, the ratio of Ken's pens to Ben's pens became 3:1. How ma ny pens did each of them receive from their teacher? Mr Gogo gave his children Hoho and Haha the same amount of allowance last week. After Hoho had spent $58 and Haha had spent $10, Haha had 4 times as much money left as Hoho. How much allowance did each of them receive last week? [RP] the sum of 4 numbers is 121. the first number is 9 more than the second num ber. the third number is 5 less than the second number. the forth number is 3 ti mes that of the first number. what is the first number? the number of the men at the party is 2/9 of the no. of women. There are 91 more women than men. How many people are there at the party? [EQ] Susie bought 5 kg of flour and 4 kg of sugar for $14.80. If 3/4 kg of flour cost as much as 3/5 kg of sugar, find the cost of 1 kg of sugar. Lisa had 96 stickers. She used 1/3 of them and gave 18 to her sister. How many s tickers did she have left? Can you help me solve the problem with a picture 3/4=6/8?Explain how you can dra w a picture to show 3/4=6/8. A man leaves $12,800 for his three children, A,B and C in the ratio 4:5:7. How m uch money does each child receive? 3/4-3/14=? [EQ] Sum of two numbers is 2500. If 4% of one number is 6% of the other, find th e numbers. Ann is 12 years old. Her mother is 3 times as old as Ann. How many years ago was her mother 4 times as old as Ann? There were some boys and girls in a room. If 24 boys leave the room, the total no. of students who remained in the room wi ll be 7 times the no. of boys who remained the the room. If 12 girls leave the room, the total no. of students who remained in the room w ill be 4 times the no. of boys. How many students are there in the classroon? 65% of the animals on a farm were cows and the rest were goats. When 240 more co ws and goats were added to the farm, the percentage of cows increased by 20% and the number of goats doubled. How many goats were there on the farm at first? There are some black and white marbles in a bag.If 20 black marbles are removed from the bag, the total number of marbles left will be 7 times the number of bla ck marbles left. If 50 white marbles are removed from the bag, the total number of marbles left will be 5 times the number of black marbles left.How many marble s are there in the bag?

During a warehouse book sale, Sally spent 62.5% of her money on 24 books and 18 pens. She also spent 25% of her remaining money on 18 files. Each pen costs 8/9 as much as the price of one book. The file costs $7.80 less than a book. Find th e total cost of one book and one pen.

Mr Lim spent $1496 on some comics and dictionaries altogether. The number of com ics bought to the number of dictionaries bought was in the ratio of 3 : 2. A dic tionary cost $4 more than a comic. The total cost of the comics was 20% more tha n the total cost of the dictionaries. Find the cost of a dictionary. A sausage roll was cut into 5 equal pieces. Shu Qin took a piece and ate 1/2 of it. What fraction of the sausage roll was not eaten? Tank A had 345 litres of water more than Tank B. Tank B had 500 litres of water less than Tank C. How much more water was there in Tank C than in Tank A? The sum of two numbers is 15 but the difference is 7. Find the bigger number. PSLE 2009 **************** Jim bought some chocolates and gave half of it to Ken. Ken bought some sweets an d gave half of it to Jim. Jim ate 12 sweets and Ken ate 18 chocolates. The ratio of Jim s sweets to chocolates became 1:7 and the ratio of Ken s sweets to chocolate s became 1:4. How many sweets did Ken buy? 6 friends decided to rent computers from 2pm to 4.30pm. While 4 of them were pla ying, the other two would watch. If the cycle continues, and each of them played for equal number of minutes, how many minutes will each person get to play? Ans : 100 minutes Mei and Lin were in a bicycle race. Mei was travelling at a constant speed of 20 km/hr and they both did not change their speed. When Lin completed half the race , Mei was 3.5km ahead. Mei completed the race at 10.45am. What time did Lin comp lete the race? Ans: 11.06am Sally baked some cookies to sell. 3/4 of them were chocolate cookies and the rem aining were almond cookies. After she sold 5/6 of chocolate cookies and 210 almo nd cookies, she had 1/5 of the cookies left. How many cookies did she sell? Ans: 960 Curry puff shop sells puffs at $0.80 each. Offer:Buy 3 get 4th half price. If cu stomer has $50, how many puffs can he buy if he buys as many as he can. Ans: 71 puff String of 2 big balloons is 90cm String of 5 small balloons is is 1.2m If both strings are of the same length, there would be 105 more small balloons t han the big balloons. How many balloons are there altogether? Ans: 345 **************** Terry walks to school at an average speed of 4km/h every day. One day, after wal king a distance of 1km, he realised that his watch was slow. So, he ran at a con

stant speed and managed to reach the school just on time. Later, he calculated t hat if he had run at this speed right from the start of the journey, he would ha ve reached school 5 minutes earlier. What was his running speed? Amy took 3 hours to travel from Town P to Town Q. Pansy took 2 hours to travel f rom Town Q to Town P. Both of them started travelling at 9am. At what time did t hey pass each other? Courier A takes 10 hours to deliver a parcel from Town X to Town Y. Courier B ta kes 12 hours to deliver the parcel along the same route. If the speed of Courier A is 9km/h faster than that of Courier B, find the speed of Courier A. Lily is meeting a friend at a certain time. If she drives at 80 km/h, she will b e 1/3 hour late. If she drives at 60 km/h, she will be 3/4 hour late. How long w ill the journey take if she drives at 90 km/h? Simon cycled at an average speed of 10km/h from his house to the park. On reachi ng the park, he cycled back home along the same route at an average speed of 8km /h. He took 1h 12 mins for the entire journey. How long did he take to cycle fro m the park back to his home? Simon has some money. He spends $10 on 3 exercise books and 7 pencils. He will be short of $0.40 if he were to buy another exercise book. He will have $0.60 left if he were to buy one more pencil. (a) How much does each exercise book cost? (b) How much money does Simon have? There were 3 times as many apples as oranges. After removing 106 apples and 14 o ranges, there were 3 times as many oranges as apples left. How many apples were there at first ? Daisy had twice as many pencils as Sulin at first. Then Rose gave 8 pencils to S ulin. After that, Rose had three times as many pencils as Sulin. If Daisy, Sulin and Rose had 134 pencils altogether, how many more pencils than Daisy did Rose have at first? There were 30 balls in pails P,Q and R.Six balls from pail P were put into pail Q.Then 4 balls from pail Q were put into pail R.There were the same number of ba lls in each pail in the end.How many balls were there in each pail at first? **** When Belinda purchased 6kg of rice,she was short of $6.When she purchased 8kg of the same type of rice,she was short of $14.How much money did she have? Greg went shopping with $360.he bought some calculators and shirts and had $8.50 left.Each shirt cost $15.50 more than a calculator.He bought 3 fewer calculator s than shirts.How many shirts and how many calculators did he buy if each calcul ator cost $17.50? An Iron bar was cut into 3 equal parts,A,B and C.1/2 of A,3/8 of b and 1/3 of C had a mass of 58kg.What was the original mass of iron bar? If Li ming gives Dave $8 both of them will have the same amount of money.If Flor ence adds $14 to Liming's original sum of money,the ratio of Liming's money to D

ave's original sum of money will be 5:2.How much money has Li ming at first? Anthony, Bala and Caleb had some money. Bala gave $190 to Caleb. He then receive d 3/13 of Anthony's money. Caleb then received 20% of Anthony's money. In the en d, 1/7 of Anthony's money was given to Bala. Each of them had $1200 finally. How much did Bala and Caleb have altogether at first? Bella had saved a certain amount of money. In January, she spent 30% of her savi ngs. In February, she managed to save 1/5 of the money she had left. Then she pu rchased 8 pens at $3.95 each. When she heard that her parents were going for a t our, she gave them 3/8 of the amount she had left. In March, she managed to save 40% of her savings and eventually she had $6219.85 in her bank account. How muc h was her original savings. The distance between A and B is 7 km. At the beginning, both George and Crystal are at A. George walked from A to B at a constant speed. After George had walked for 1 km, Crystal discovered that he had left his wallet at A. She ran after hi m at a constant speed of 4km/h. After handing over the wallet to George, she ran back to A at the same speed. Given that both George and Crystal reached A and B respectively at the same time, what was George's speed? ANs:3km/h Danny's father picks him up from school every evening at 6pm. One day, Danny was dismissed early at 5pm. He walked home taking the same route that his father us ually drives. When he met his father along the way, he boarded the car and retur ned home 60mins earlier than usual. Given that his father drove at a constant sp eed and planned to reach school at 6pm sharp, how long did Danny walk before he was picked up by his father. ANS 30 min Container A contains 250 red marbles and 200 blue marbles. Container B contains 600 red marbles and 150 blue marbles. How many red marbles and how many blue mar bles must be moved from Container A to Container B such that 25% of the marbles in Container A are red and 75% of the marbles in Container B are red. Answer: Move 225 red marbles and 125 blue marbles 1. Benny had 20% more marbles than Hong Joo. After Hong Joo had received 80 marb les from Benny, Hong Joo had 20% more marbles than Benny. How many marbles did t he 2 boys have altogether? 2. A certain number of stamps was shared between Tony and Jennifer. Tony's share was 600 stamps. If Tony's share was increased to 680 stamps, Jennifer's share w ould be decreased by 8%. Find Jennifer's share. 3. 25% of the boys and 12% of the girls made up 139 children. There were 660 chi ldren altogether. How many boys and how many girls were there? 4. dy a) b) Janet had 60% more money gave $240 to Helen, both How much money did Helen If Janet gave 20% of her than Andy. Helen had half of what Janet had. When An of them had the same amt of money. have at first? money to charity, how much money had she left?