2016 Grade 5 MTAP Math Challenge Elimination Questions

________1) 27 – (11 + 9) × 4 ÷ 8 + 31 = _____ Name:

________2) 98 – 89 + 37 × (N – 4) = 268. What is N?
________3) 28 and 832 thousandths is subtracted from 56 and 61 hundredths. What is the difference to the nearest tenths?
________4) The quotient when 0.25 is divided by a number is 1000. What is the divisor?
________5) Find the product of 3033 and 94. Divide your answer by the difference of 1500 and 1288. What is the answer to the
nearest hundreds?
________6) What percent of 3kg is 480 g? ________7) Express 84 minutes as a fraction of 4 hours in lowest terms.
________8) Using only the number 43, how many times will you use it as a factor to get a product whose ones digit is 7?
________9) Mary has 54 oranges. She gives an equal number of oranges to each of her 13 friends. How many oranges does she
have left?
________10) Mother gave Kian and his younger sister Php2 115.00 to share between them. Kian spent Php778.00 from his
share and had Php271.00 left. How much did Kian’s younger sister have?
________11) A water jar can hold 36 cups of water or 24 glasses of water. If there are already 6 cups and 19 glasses of water in
a jar, how many more cups of water can be put in a jar?
________12) There are 42 notebooks that are going to be given equally among 7 children. How many notebooks will each child
receive?
________13) Ricky had 24 boxes of chocolate candies. There were 350 chocolate candies in each box. He repacked all the
chocolate candies into packs of 70 and sold them at Php24.00 per pack. How much money did he collect from his total sale?
________14) Annie, Jenny, Sam, and Gerry want to divide a certain number of candies in the corresponding ratio of 1:2:4:6.
What is the ratio of the number of Jenny’s candies to the number of Gerry’s candies?
________15) A rectangular tile is 2cm by 4cm. What is the area of a square with the least number of rectangular tiles that can
be placed side by side to form a square?
________16) At a furniture store, a chair was sold for Php475.00 less than a side table and Php278 more than a kitchen dish
cabinet. The total cost of the three items was Php4175.00. What was the selling price of the side table?
________17) In a box factory, Ian finished 5 boxes in 2 hours while Joey finished 10 boxes in 3 hours. If they work at the same
rate, how many boxes can they finish in 12 hours?
________18) Mother had 168 kg of flour. She packed it into 7/10 kg per pack. 3/5 of the packs of flour were sold to Tasing at
Php3.69 per pack. How much did Tasing pay for the flour?
________19) Dario gave 1/3 of his oranges to his brother and donated 160 oranges to the children in the neighborhood. He
found that he had 240 oranges left. What fraction of the oranges did Dario have left? Express your answer in lowest terms.
________20) What is the missing number in the sequence? 1, 4, 4, 7, 10, 16, 25, 40, ____.
________21) Uncle Tirso had some fruits. 5/9 of the fruits were oranges. 1/3 of the remaining fruits were apples. The rest were
guavas. What fraction of the fruits were guavas?
________22) Tony subtracted a number from 21. He then multiplied the difference by 3 and divided the product by 8. If the
quotient was 6, what was the number?
________23) The price of a kilogram of fish is increased 3 1/2 times during summer. How many percent was the increase?
________24) If 4/7 of a number is 112, what is 7/4 of the number?
________25) What is the difference of 4 and 2 hundredths and 3 and 27 thousandths?
 2016 Grade 5 MTAP Math Challenge Elimination Questions

Answers

1.) 48
2.) 11
3.) 27.8
4.) 0.00025
5.) 1300
6.) 16%
7.) 7/20
8.) 3 times
9.) 2
10.) Php1066
11.) 1.5 cups
12.) 6
13.) Php2880.00
14.) 1:3
15.) 16 sq cm
16.) Php1326
17.) 70
18.) Php531.36
19.) 600
20.)
21.) 1/9
22.) 5
23.) 350%
24.) 343
25.) 0.993
 2015 Grade 6 MTAP Elimination Questions
1.) 3/5% is how many tenths?

2.) The sum of two numbers is 75. The smaller number is one-fourth the bigger. What is the smaller number?

3.) What number is midway between 2/3 and ¾?

4.) What is the largest whole number that should be placed in the blank to make this statement true? 65÷ _____ < 23

5.) Annie, Jen, Sam and Gie want to divide a certain number of candies in the corresponding ratio 1:2:4:7. What is the ratio of
the number of Jen’s candies to the number of Sam’s candies?
6.) A rectangular tile is 1 cm by 4 cm. What is the least number of rectangular tiles that can be placed side by side to form a
square with an area of 16 cm^2.

7.) In a basket factory, Ian finished 5 baskets in 2 hours while Joy finished 10 baskets in 3 hours. If they work at the same rate,
how many baskets can they finish together in 12 hours?

8.) A basket weighs 3 red balls. The same basket weighs 5 white balls. If 10 white balls weigh 2.4 kg, what is the weight of a
red ball in grams?

9.) An orange juice drink for one person is made of 120 ml of water and 40 ml of orange concentrate. How many ml of water
and orange concentrate are needed for 3 persons?

10.) Eight dozen eggs Php 504.00. How much is the cost of 45 eggs?

11.) A rectangular container contains 15 times the number of apples than a box that holds 6 apples. How many apples can be
placed in the container?

12.) When Aida, Julie, and Mara stepped on a weighing scale together, it read 138 kg. Aida stepped off and the scale read 97 kg.
Mara stepped off and scale read 48 kg. What was Aida’s weight?

13.) A customer bought ballpens that cost Php 7.50 each. He paid a total of Php 472.50. How many ballpens did he buy?
Answer: 63

14.) An athlete jumped 9 m and 90 cm in a long jump competition. His height is 165 cm. How many times his height did he
jump?
Answer: 6 times

15.) When Luis rounded the number 85__39 to thousands, he got 85, 000. What is the largest digit that can be put in the blank?
Answer: 4

16.) Mary baked brownies on weekends. On Saturday, when she counted the brownies, there were 17 left. How many brownies
did she bake?
Answer: Incomplete given
17.) Luz has 100, 20 and 50 peso bills. If she has 24 Php 100.00 bills and 54 Php 50.00 bills, how many Php 20.00 bills does
she have if her total money is Php 6, 540.00?
Answer: 72
18.) Mrs. Reyes brought 6 flags of different colors to use in a class activity. She added them to the flags that were already in the
classroom. She borrowed 5 more flags, but 2 of these were not used. In the end, 12 flags were used in the activity. How many
flags were already in the classroom?
Answer: 3

19.) When Jose rode on a bus, he noticed some people sitting. At the next bus stop, 5 people got on and 2 people got off. Two
stops later, 7 people got on 15 people got off the bus at the terminal station. How many people were in the bus when Jose got on
the bus?
Answer: 4

20.) Roy, Mario, and Cris went camping. Roy spent Php 300.00 for food and Cris spent Php 570.00. However, Mario did not
have any money so they decided to divide the total amount they spent among the 3 of them. How much should Mario pay?
Answer: Php 290.00

21.) Allen and Joy spent the same amount of money which was less than Php 150.00 for the toys they bought. Allen bought toys
worth Php 15.00 each while Joy bought toys costing Php 20.00 each. What could be the largest amount that each spent for the
toys?
Answer: Php 120.00

22.) A small delivery container can contain 50 boxes of chocolate or 65 boxes of assorted candies. If the container already has
30 boxes of chocolate, how many more boxes of assorted candies can be placed in the delivery container?
Answer: 39

23.) The area of the square below is 16 cm^2. What is the area of the shaded region?
Answer: 10 cm^2

24.) A rectangular field court has a perimeter of 232 meters. The length of the field is 32 meters greater than the width. What is
the width of the basketball court?
Answer: 42 cm

25.) The price of a dress originally costing Php 300.00 increased by 150 %. How much was the new price?
Answer: Php 750.00

26.) The figure below is formed by squares with a side is 2 cm each. What is the perimeter of the figure if there are 10 such
squares?

Answer: 62 cm (the perimeter does not include the overlapping sides)

27.) The average of one set of 4 number is 35. The average of another set of numbers is 20. The average of the numbers in the
two sets is 30. How many numbers are in the other set?
Answer: 2

28.) What is the 50th number in the pattern 7, 9, 11, 13, 15 …?

Answer: 105

29.) Alvin and James spent the same amount of money that was less than Php 150.00 for the toys they bought. Alvin bought
toys worth Php 15.00 each while James bought toys costing Php 20.00 each. How many toys did Alvin buy if both spent the
largest amount with the money they had?
Answer: 8

30.) What is the highest exponent in the prime factorization of 315?

Answer: 2

31.) What is the largest prime number in the prime factorization of 1, 617?
Answer: 539

32.) if 50% of a number is 500, what is 25% of the number?

Answer: 250

33.) Which fraction is the largest? 15/75, 9/72, 11/66, 13/39

Answer: 13/39

34.) The sum of 6 consecutive odd numbers is 132. What is the sum of all the tens digits of these numbers?
Answer: 10

35.) When a two-digit number is divided by 9, the remainder is 4. When it is divided by 6, the remainder is also 4. What is
the smallest possible value of the number?
Answer: 58
36.) The areas of a parallelogram and a triangle are the same. They have the same base. What is the ratio of the height of a
triangle to the height of the parallelogram?
Answer: 2:1

37.) How many two-digit numbers having 3 as ones digit are prime numbers?
Answer: 6

38.) A container is 4/5 full of water. After taking out 8 liters, it became 2/3 full. How many liters of water have to be added to
make it full?
Answer: 20

39.) Time in the Philippines is one hour ahead of the time in Japan. Luz who is in Manila called up her friend who is in Japan at
12:55 am on 25 December 2014. What day and time was it in Japan?
Answer: 11:55 PM on 24 December 2014

40.) Using only the number 2, how many times will you use it as a factor to get the smallest three digit number as a product?
Answer: 7
41.) Luz made a decoration for the town fiesta. She made an equilateral triangular wire frame and tied ribbons on the frame 2
dm apart. If there were 18 ribbons in all, what was the perimeter of the frame?
Answer: 36 dm

42.) A kilogram of clay can make 3 small pots with 200 g of clay as left over. How many pots can be made with 4 kg of clay?
Answer: 15

43.) The quotient when 0.36 is divided by a number is 5. What is the divisor?
Answer: .072

44.) If 2 * 4 = 10, and 3 * 5 = 13, what is 4 * 7?

Answer: 18

45.) In her rose garden, Mary has half as many white roses as red roses, 4 times as many red ones as pink ones. There are 36
roses that are either yellow or pink. Twenty are yellow. How many roses are there in Mary’s garden?
Answer: 132

46.) If , what is ?
Answer: 6/5

47.) Squares with side 2 cm each are placed side by side as shown. What is the ratio of the area of the shaded parallelogram to
the area of the unshaded triangles?
Answer: 1:1

48.) If 1 * 2 = 5, 3 * 5 = 13, and 2 * 7 = 16, what is 6 * 8?

Answer: 22

49.) How many 3-digit numbers have the product of their digits equal to 12?
Answer:15

50.) Luz and Raya talked for one hour and 21 minutes on the phone. They ended talking at 1:06 a.m. What time did they start
talking with each other?
Answer: 11:45 PM

2015 Grade 6 MTAP Elimination Questions with Answers

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Below are the 2015 Grade 6 MTAP Elimination Questions with Answers. I will post the solutions of selected items later. Also,
if time permits, I will redraw some of the figures.
2015 Grade 6 MTAP Elimination Questions
1.) 3/5% is how many tenths?
Answer: .06
2.) The sum of two numbers is 75. The smaller number is one-fourth the bigger. What is the smaller number?
Answer: 15

3.) What number is midway between 2/3 and ¾?

Answer: 17/24

4.) What is the largest whole number that should be placed in the blank to make this statement true? 65÷ _____ < 23
Answer: 3

5.) Annie, Jen, Sam and Gie want to divide a certain number of candies in the corresponding ratio 1:2:4:7. What is the ratio of
the number of Jen’s candies to the number of Sam’s candies?
Answer: 1:2
6.) A rectangular tile is 1 cm by 4 cm. What is the least number of rectangular tiles that can be placed side by side to form a
square with an area of 16 cm^2.
Answer: 4

7.) In a basket factory, Ian finished 5 baskets in 2 hours while Joy finished 10 baskets in 3 hours. If they work at the same rate,
how many baskets can they finish together in 12 hours?
Answer: 10

8.) A basket weighs 3 red balls. The same basket weighs 5 white balls. If 10 white balls weigh 2.4 kg, what is the weight of a
red ball in grams?
Answer: 400

9.) An orange juice drink for one person is made of 120 ml of water and 40 ml of orange concentrate. How many ml of water
and orange concentrate are needed for 3 persons?
Answer: 360 ml of water, 120 ml of orange concentrate

10.) Eight dozen eggs Php 504.00. How much is the cost of 45 eggs?
Answer: Php 236.25

11.) A rectangular container contains 15 times the number of apples than a box that holds 6 apples. How many apples can be
placed in the container?
Answer: 90

12.) When Aida, Julie, and Mara stepped on a weighing scale together, it read 138 kg. Aida stepped off and the scale read 97 kg.
Mara stepped off and scale read 48 kg. What was Aida’s weight?
Answer: 41 kg

13.) A customer bought ballpens that cost Php 7.50 each. He paid a total of Php 472.50. How many ballpens did he buy?
Answer: 63

14.) An athlete jumped 9 m and 90 cm in a long jump competition. His height is 165 cm. How many times his height did he
jump?
Answer: 6 times

15.) When Luis rounded the number 85__39 to thousands, he got 85, 000. What is the largest digit that can be put in the blank?
Answer: 4
16.) Mary baked brownies on weekends. On Saturday, when she counted the brownies, there were 17 left. How many brownies
did she bake?
Answer: Incomplete given
17.) Luz has 100, 20 and 50 peso bills. If she has 24 Php 100.00 bills and 54 Php 50.00 bills, how many Php 20.00 bills does
she have if her total money is Php 6, 540.00?
Answer: 72

18.) Mrs. Reyes brought 6 flags of different colors to use in a class activity. She added them to the flags that were already in the
classroom. She borrowed 5 more flags, but 2 of these were not used. In the end, 12 flags were used in the activity. How many
flags were already in the classroom?
Answer: 3

19.) When Jose rode on a bus, he noticed some people sitting. At the next bus stop, 5 people got on and 2 people got off. Two
stops later, 7 people got on 15 people got off the bus at the terminal station. How many people were in the bus when Jose got on
the bus?
Answer: 4

20.) Roy, Mario, and Cris went camping. Roy spent Php 300.00 for food and Cris spent Php 570.00. However, Mario did not
have any money so they decided to divide the total amount they spent among the 3 of them. How much should Mario pay?
Answer: Php 290.00

21.) Allen and Joy spent the same amount of money which was less than Php 150.00 for the toys they bought. Allen bought toys
worth Php 15.00 each while Joy bought toys costing Php 20.00 each. What could be the largest amount that each spent for the
toys?
Answer: Php 120.00

22.) A small delivery container can contain 50 boxes of chocolate or 65 boxes of assorted candies. If the container already has
30 boxes of chocolate, how many more boxes of assorted candies can be placed in the delivery container?
Answer: 39

23.) The area of the square below is 16 cm^2. What is the area of the shaded region?
Answer: 10 cm^2

24.) A rectangular field court has a perimeter of 232 meters. The length of the field is 32 meters greater than the width. What is
the width of the basketball court?
Answer: 42 cm

25.) The price of a dress originally costing Php 300.00 increased by 150 %. How much was the new price?
Answer: Php 750.00

26.) The figure below is formed by squares with a side is 2 cm each. What is the perimeter of the figure if there are 10 such
squares?
Answer: 62 cm (the perimeter does not include the overlapping sides)
27.) The average of one set of 4 number is 35. The average of another set of numbers is 20. The average of the numbers in the
two sets is 30. How many numbers are in the other set?
Answer: 2

28.) What is the 50th number in the pattern 7, 9, 11, 13, 15 …?

Answer: 105

29.) Alvin and James spent the same amount of money that was less than Php 150.00 for the toys they bought. Alvin bought
toys worth Php 15.00 each while James bought toys costing Php 20.00 each. How many toys did Alvin buy if both spent the
largest amount with the money they had?
Answer: 8

30.) What is the highest exponent in the prime factorization of 315?

Answer: 2

31.) What is the largest prime number in the prime factorization of 1, 617?
Answer: 539

32.) if 50% of a number is 500, what is 25% of the number?

Answer: 250

33.) Which fraction is the largest? 15/75, 9/72, 11/66, 13/39

Answer: 13/39

34.) The sum of 6 consecutive odd numbers is 132. What is the sum of all the tens digits of these numbers?
Answer: 10

35.) When a two-digit number is divided by 9, the remainder is 4. When it is divided by 6, the remainder is also 4. What is
the smallest possible value of the number?
Answer: 58
36.) The areas of a parallelogram and a triangle are the same. They have the same base. What is the ratio of the height of a
triangle to the height of the parallelogram?
Answer: 2:1

37.) How many two-digit numbers having 3 as ones digit are prime numbers?
Answer: 6

38.) A container is 4/5 full of water. After taking out 8 liters, it became 2/3 full. How many liters of water have to be added to
make it full?
Answer: 20

39.) Time in the Philippines is one hour ahead of the time in Japan. Luz who is in Manila called up her friend who is in Japan at
12:55 am on 25 December 2014. What day and time was it in Japan?
Answer: 11:55 PM on 24 December 2014
40.) Using only the number 2, how many times will you use it as a factor to get the smallest three digit number as a product?
Answer: 7

41.) Luz made a decoration for the town fiesta. She made an equilateral triangular wire frame and tied ribbons on the frame 2
dm apart. If there were 18 ribbons in all, what was the perimeter of the frame?
Answer: 36 dm

42.) A kilogram of clay can make 3 small pots with 200 g of clay as left over. How many pots can be made with 4 kg of clay?
Answer: 15

43.) The quotient when 0.36 is divided by a number is 5. What is the divisor?
Answer: .072

44.) If 2 * 4 = 10, and 3 * 5 = 13, what is 4 * 7?

Answer: 18

45.) In her rose garden, Mary has half as many white roses as red roses, 4 times as many red ones as pink ones. There are 36
roses that are either yellow or pink. Twenty are yellow. How many roses are there in Mary’s garden?
Answer: 132

46.) If , what is ?
Answer: 6/5

47.) Squares with side 2 cm each are placed side by side as shown. What is the ratio of the area of the shaded parallelogram to
the area of the unshaded triangles?
Answer: 1:1

48.) If 1 * 2 = 5, 3 * 5 = 13, and 2 * 7 = 16, what is 6 * 8?

Answer: 22

49.) How many 3-digit numbers have the product of their digits equal to 12?
Answer:15

50.) Luz and Raya talked for one hour and 21 minutes on the phone. They ended talking at 1:06 a.m. What time did they start
talking with each other?
Answer: 11:45 PM