P6 Math: Catching up (Savings vs Spent vs Allowances)

Advance P6 questions such as these requires students to compare between daily differences and accumulated differences.

Such questions are common in P6 Prelim Paper 2.

Calculator usage is allowed.

An easier version of the question can be found here. (use for building concepts)

Esther's daily allowance is $0.40 more than Valerie's daily allowance.

Each girl spends the same amount of $1.50 every day and saves their remaining allowance.

When Esther saved $40, Valerie only managed to save $20.

How much was Valerie's daily allowance?

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P5/P6 Math : Percentage Discount of 2 items with One Discount Known

The question type belows will provide total price of 2 items after discount.

One of the items' discount(amount saved) will be given.

From the information, students will need to find out either the original price of

- item A

- item B

- both items

and/or how much was the discount ( amount not percentage ) given.

Such questions usually appear in Paper 2.

Calculator usage is allowed.

During the summer sale,

Paul bought a TV and a fan, both at 25% discount.

He paid $930 altogether for both items after the discount.

He paid $50 lesser for the fan because of this discount.

What is the original price of the TV?

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