St Paul’s Girls’ School 11+ Multiplication Question

In this video, Singapore Maths Academy walks you through a classic 11+ Maths word problem taken from St Paul’s Girls’ School past papers, specifically Section B, Question 2. The problem involves distributing 20 gifts into 4 piles, with relationships between the piles described in words. The first pile has 3 less than the second, the second pile has 2 more than the third, and the fourth pile has twice as many as the second pile.

If your child is preparing for the St Paul’s Girls’ School 11+ entrance exam, or any other selective school Maths assessment, this is the perfect worked solution to help them tackle these types of ratio, algebra and logical reasoning problems.

We break down the problem carefully, showing how to set up algebraic expressions for each pile and how to solve for the unknown values step by step.