Problem Solving & Word Problems: Hard Test 5

15 questions · 15 minutes

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I subtract 7 from a number, divide the result by 3 and then add 10. The answer is 16. What was my number?
Two coffees and three cakes cost £11.40 altogether. A coffee costs £2.10. How much does one cake cost?
The mean of eight numbers is 12.5. What is the total of all eight numbers?
After a discount of 20% a coat costs £68. What was its price before the discount?
A mother and daughter's ages add up to 54 years. The mother is 5 times as old as her daughter. How old is the daughter?

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