MMC 2005 Grade 5 Regional Individuals

Part I. Write your answer on the space provided before each item. Each correct answer earns 2 points.
_____________ 1 Thrice what number is the same as the sum of 456 and 624? A B

_____________ 2 What is the greatest common factor of 140 and 245?

_____________ 3 What is the least common multiple of 140 and 245?

_____________ 4 ABCD is a rectangle. Find the area of the shaded part. D C

_____________ 5 There are 78 electric posts. The first is in town A and the last is in town B. If the posts are 50 m apart,
find the distance between the towns.
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_____________ 6 Jack finished painting of the wall in 1 hour 24 minutes. How long will he take to finish the whole
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wall?
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_____________ 7 Three-eighths of the 480 pupils in a school are boys and of them are in the primary. How many
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boys are in the intermediate grades?
_____________ 8 Lucy wants to cover completely a lottery box 6 dm by 3.5 dm by 7.2 dm. How much surface has she
to cover?
_____________ 9 Lina pays ₧5.50 for a one-way ride to school. For how many two-way fares will her ₧100 be enough?
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____________ 10 The gasoline tank of a truck is full. It needed 51 liters to fill it. What is its capacity when full?
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____________ 11 A pair of shoes was sold for ₧747.50 with a gain of 15%. What was the cost price of the shoes?
____________ 12 A picture 32 cm by 24 cm is framed on a piece of colored cardboard 36 cm by 28 cm. What area of
the cardboard can be seen?
____________ 13 How many bags of cement will you buy to pave a path 32 m long and 1.8 m wide if a bag of cement
can cover 12 m2 of the path?
____________ 14 For every sampaguita garlands that Luz can make, Liza can make 18 garlands. How many garlands
did Luz make when Liza made 126 garlands?
____________ 15 Lulu can put her pictures 4, 5, or 6 to a page, in her album, with 2 pictures left over in each case.
What is the smallest number of pictures that Lulu has for the condition to hold?
Part II. Write a complete and neat solution to each problem. Each correct solution earns 3 points.
1 Rounded to tenths, I am 5.4. Rounded to ones, I am 5. Write 6 numbers that I can be.
2 There are 15 more ducks than pigs in a farm. If there are 102 legs, how many pigs are there?
3 The lengths of the sides of a triangle are consecutive odd numbers. Find the lengths of the sides if
the perimeter is 7 cm less than 4 times the shortest side.
4 John made a cubical lantern. The total length of its edges is 36 dm. What is the total surface area
that he has to cover?
5 A cube of side 5 dm is made up of individual 1 dm cubes glued together. How many of the 1 dm
cubes are face-to-face with exactly four other cubes?
Part III. Write a complete and neat solution to each problem. Each correct solution earns 5 points.
1 Rosa has ₧850; Jane has ₧225 less than twice as much as Rosa while Lily has ₧65 more than twice
Rosa’s money. How much money do the three girls have?
2 John agreed to work after school after 8 weeks for a fixed weekly rate. But instead of being given
only money for his work, John agreed to receive ₧850 and a bicycle. After 5 weeks, John got sick. He
was given ₧250 and a bicycle. How much is the bicycle worth?
3 Let T be the set of all divisors of 120, Q the set of all multiples of 3, and S, the set of all whole
numbers less than 70. Find all numbers N so that N is in each of the three given sets.