6 footballs and 3 basketballs cost 279 dollars. 2 footballs and 3 basketballs cost 139 dollars. Find the prices of a football and a basketball, respectively.
Pine trees are planted at equal intervals of 16 m along a straight road, including both ends of the road. If the road is 960 m long, how many pine trees are there altogether?
Place the numbers 1 to 9, each used once, in the circles. The centre is 5. The numbers on each of the two straight lines have the same sum $S$. Find $S$.
A bag contains 15 red, 20 white, 25 black and 40 yellow balls. Without looking, balls are removed without replacement. What is the least number that must be removed to guarantee at least one ball of each of the four colours?
Teacher Ali has a bag of sweets. If he gives each student 4 sweets, 4 sweets remain. If he gives each student 5 sweets, he is short of 7 sweets. How many sweets does he have?
A mathematics test has 15 questions. Each correct answer earns 8 marks and each wrong answer loses 4 marks. John answers all 15 questions and scores 72 marks. How many answers are wrong?
Mark had some stamps. He gave Shaun 10 fewer than half of his stamps. Then he gave Cindy 6 more than half of the remainder. Finally, he gave his cousin 30 stamps and had 40 left. How many stamps did he have at first?
The rectangle shown has length 36 cm. It contains two shaded squares and 7 identical small rectangles. Find the area of one small rectangle, in square cm.
Train A leaves Town X for Town Y at 60 km/h. One hour later, Train B leaves Town X for Town Y at 75 km/h. Both continue at these speeds until Train B catches Train A. How long does Train B take to catch Train A?
The diagram shows square $ABCD$ of side 10 cm and a shaded rectangle of area 6 square cm. The interior horizontal and vertical segments are parallel to the sides of the square. Find the area of quadrilateral $EFGH$.