P6 / Raffles Girls / 2019 / SA2 / Paper 2 – Q01 [2 marks]

Question:

John had a collection of local and foreign stamps. The ratio of the number of local stamps to the number of foreign stamps he had at first was 7 : 3. After giving away 46 foreign stamps, the ratio of the number of local stamps to the number of foreign stamps became 5 : 2. How many foreign stamps did John have in the end?

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