2007 Grade 3 MTAP Elimination Questions

1.) Write “ninety-eight thousand sixty five” in figures.

Answer: 98 065

2.) What is the value of 7 in 476,580?

Answer: 70 000

3.) Round 47 963 to the nearest hundred.

Answer: 48 000

4.) Round each addend to the nearest hundred and estimate the sum 749 +
465 + 893

Answer: 2100

5.) Arrange the digits 3, 5 and 7 to form the biggest and smallest number
you can form and find their difference.

Answer: 396

6.) Aunt Letty gave Joe P220 in P20-bills. How many bills did Joe get?

Answer: 11

7.) How many 25¢ coins are equal to P15.50?

Answer: 62

8.) Write CCCLXXIX in Hindu-Arabic.

Answer: 379

9.) Write 67 in Roman numerals.

Answer: LXVII
10.) Mother cut a cake into 36 equal parts. She gave 8 pieces to their
neighbor and served 9 pieces for snacks. What fraction of the cake
remained?

Answer: 19/36

11.) If 3 mangoes cost P37.50, how much will a dozen cost?

Answer: P 150.00

12.) If 13 / 20 = N / 100, what is N?

Answer: 65

13.) Add twice 12 to the difference of 65 and 19.

Answer: 70

14.) Write “one thousand, seventy-five pesos and sixty-six centavos” with
the peso sign.

Answer: P 1075.66

15.) Three P100-bills are equal to how many P20-bills?

Answer: 15

16.) What is the ratio of 36 dm to 6 meters?

Answer: 3:5 or 3/5

17.) What unit will you use to measure the height of a tree?

Answer: meters or m

18.) 5.25 m = cm

Answer: 525

19.) What unit will you use to measure the weight of a 5-peso coin?

Answer: gram

20.) How many days were there in the year 2006?

Answer: 365

21.) How many years are there in 6.5 decades?

Answer: 65

22.) Lorna got 9 points less than Maria. If Lorna got 85, what score did
Maria get?

Answer: 94

23.) Lance bought 3 ballpens at P4.75 each and a pencil case for P18.50.
How much did he pay?

Answer: P 32.75

24.) From Question 23, if Lance gave the cashier a P50-bill, how much
change did he get?

Answer: P 17.25

25.) A balikbayan gave a P1000-bill to be shared equally by 8 nieces and

nephews. How much did each one get?

Answer: P 125.00

26.) A garden is 29 m long and 17 m wide. What is its perimeter?

Answer: 92 m

27.) What is the area of the garden in #26?

Answer: 493 m^2

28.) There are 34 girls in a class of 54 pupils. What is the ratio of girls to
boys?

Answer: 17:27 or 17/27

29.) Our door is 120 centimeters wide. The height is 80 cm more than the
width. What is the perimeter of our door?

Answer: 640 cm or 6.4 m

30.) Mother used 270 cm of lace for some pillow cases and 330 cm for our
curtains. How many meters of lace did Mother use?

Answer: 6 m

31.) Which is heavier, ½ kilogram or 550 grams?

Answer: 550 grams

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34.) Victoria bought 785 cm of silk, 615 cm of tetoron and 900 cm of

velvet. How many meters of cloth did she buy in all?

Answer: 23 m

35.) Mother bought 4 1/3 dozen eggs. She used 39 eggs in making sweets.
How many eggs remained?

Answer: 13

36.) A schoolyard is 117 m long and 103 m wide. If you run around it 5
times, how many meters will that be?

Answer: 2200m or 2.2 km.

37.) Jack has a garden 12 m long and 9 m wide. He wants to fence it. If a
meter of fencing costs P37.50, how much will it cost to fence his garden?

Answer: 1575

38.) I have P2.15 in 25¢ and 5¢ coins. I have 11 coins in all. How many 25¢
coins do I have?

Answer: 8

39.) What is the smallest number that gives a remainder of 1 when divided
by 2, 3 and 5?

Answer: 31
40.) A car can travel 76 km on 8 liters of gasoline. At the same rate, how far
can it travel on 11 liters of gasoline?

Answer: 104.5

41.) Lito works at a fast food center for 4 hours a day. He receives P40 an
hour. How much does he earn a week of 7 days?

Answer: P1, 120.00

42.) Lita bought a pencil case and a small box for P80.50. If the box cost
P15.50 more than the pencil case, how much did the bag cost?

Answer: P 48.00

43.) Mother gave me P100 to buy some oranges. If an orange costs P8, how
many can I buy?

Answer: 12

44.) Our flower garden is 12 meters wide. The length is 3 meters longer
than the width. What is the perimeter of the garden?

Answer: 54 m

45.) Greg has P81.00; Ricky has P36 less than twice the money of Greg.
How much do they have altogether?

Answer: P 207.00

46.) How many 3-dm pieces of ribbon can be cut from a 10-m piece of
ribbon?

Answer: 33

47.) A square has a side of 18 m. A rectangle has a length of 22 m and a

width of 16 m. By how much is the area of the rectangle bigger?

Answer: 28 sq m

48.) Benilla earns P8,700 a month. She saves 1/10 of her salary. How much
does she save a year?
Answer: P 10, 440.00

49.) A vendor bought 130 watermelons at P24.50 each. He sold 122 at

P35.00 each. The rest were spoiled. How much did he gain?

Answer: P 1, 085.00

50.) Lita and Rosa collect stamps. Together, they had 162 stamps. If Rosa
has 18 more stamps than Lita, how many stamps has Rosa?

Answer: 90