INTERNATIONAL SINGAPORE MATHS COMPETITION

INTERNATIONAL
SINGAPORE MATHS
COMPETITION
2018
(Primary 3)
1 hour 30 minutes

Instructions to participants

1. Do not open the booklet until you are told to do so.

2. Attempt ALL 25 questions.

3. Write your answers neatly in the Answer Sheet provided.

4. Marks are awarded for correct answers only.

5. All figures are not drawn to scale.

6. Neither mathematical tables nor calculators may be used.

Questions in Section A carry 2 marks each, questions in Section B carry

4 marks each and questions in Section C carry between 6 to 10 marks
each.

Jointly organised by

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Section A:
Each of the questions 1 to 10 carries 2 marks.

1. What is the largest multiple of 4 that is less than 700?

700 is a multiple of 4.
The largest multiple of 4 less than 700 is 700 – 4 = 696

2. Each of the symbols , and in the addition below

represents a different digit. What is the value of + + ?

 has to be equal to 1 and  has to be equal to 9.

1 + 9 + 0 = 10

3. Andre, Jean, Luis and Sal each receives a different parcel. The four parcels are a blue square
box, a green square box, a blue circular box and a green circular box. Andre receives a
square box, while Luis and Sal both receive circular boxes. If Andre and Luis receive green
boxes, whose parcel is a blue square box?

Andre gets the green square box, while Luis gets the green circular box and Sal gets the blue
circular box. This leaves Jean with the blue square box.

4. Laura goes to the market every Thursday. What is the most number of times that she goes to
the market in 57 days in a row?

If the 1st day is a Thursday, then the 8th, 15th, 22nd … 57th days are also Thursdays.
The maximum number of Thursdays is 9.

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5. The table below shows the number of questions Isabelle answered correctly for a test.

Answered
Test Questions
correctly
Section A: Each question carries 3 marks 8 questions
Section B: Each question carries 5 marks 6 questions
Section C: Each question carries 10 marks 3 questions

How many more questions from Section A should Isabelle have answered correctly if she
wanted to score 90 marks?

8 × 3 + 6 × 5 + 3 ×10 = 84
90 – 84 = 6
6÷3=2
She would have needed to answer 2 more questions from Section A correctly.

6. How many complete weeks are there altogether in a year?

365 1
7
= 52 7
There are 52 complete weeks in a year.

7. How many white and how many black beads are hidden behind the card?

1st

There is one more bead added to each subsequent chain of white or black beads. The blue
card covers two beads in a chain of four white beads and four beads in a chain of six white
beads, while obscuring a chain of five black beads.
There are 6 white beads and 5 black beads behind the card.

8 4 3 11
8. Arrange the following fractions from smallest to largest: , , ,
9 5 4 12
3 4 8 11
Smallest to largest: 4 , 5
, 9
, 12

9. Fill in the blanks below.

5 20
= =
32 24

5 20 15
= =
8 32 24

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10. Study the diagram. B

Find the value of C × B – A .

8 6

2 A 2 C
A = 4, B = 48, C = 3
3 × 48 – 4 = 140
2 1 3 1

Section B
Each of the questions 11 to 20 carries 4 marks.

11. If  +  +  +  +  +  +  =  +  + +  +  and  =  + , then how

many  is equal to 1 of ?

 +  +  +  +  +  +  =  +  + +  + 
3 = 
=+
 = 3 + 3
 = 6

12. In the subtraction sentence below, X represents the same digit.

X2 – 3X = 2X

What digit is X?

62 – 36 = 26
The digit is 6.

13. Three children with a ball are standing in a triangle.

When the teacher calls out 1, Child A passes the ball to Child B.
When the teacher calls out 2, Child B passes the ball to Child C.
When the teacher calls out 3, Child C passes the ball to Child A.
When the teacher calls out 4, Child A passes the ball to Child B, and so on.

Fill in the blanks:

When the teacher calls out 44, Child _____ will pass the ball to Child _____.

With every third call the ball is passed from Child C to child A.
At 42, which is a multiple of 3, the ball is passed from Child C to Child A.
At 44, the ball is passed from Child B to Child C.

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14. Mother wants to know which of her three daughters, Ling, Mei or Nan had broken her
vase. This is what each of them said:

Ling: Nan broke it.

Mei: I did not break it
Nan: Mei broke it.

If two of them are lying, which of them is definitely not the one who broke the vase?

If Ling is telling the truth, then Mei would be telling the truth too; and that would be wrong since
two of them had to be lying. So, Ling had to be lying.
If Ling is lying, then (i) either Ling broke it or (ii) Mei broke it. Either way, two of them (either
Ling and Nan, or Ling and Mei) would be lying. Therefore, Nan is definitely not the one who
broke the vase.

The graph below shows the number of cookies baked by some children. Refer to the data below
and answer questions 15 and 16.
Number of children

Number of cookies
15. How many children are there altogether?

2 + 5 + 8 + 1 + 3 + 2 = 21 children

16 a. How many children baked less than three cookies?

5+2=7
7 children baked less than three cookies.

b. How many children baked more than four cookies?

3+2=5
5 children baked more than four cookies.

17. How many cubes are used to form the figure?

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Top layer: 6
Bottom layer: 11
Total: 17

18. Robert, Frederick, Michael and Paul were sharing some muffins. Robert took 10 muffins,
1
Frederick took 8 muffins and Michael took 11 muffins. If Paul took 3 of the remaining muffins
and there are 4 muffins left, how many muffins were there at the beginning?

4÷2=2
2×3=6
10 + 8 + 11 + 6 = 35
There were 35 muffins at the start.

19. Which of the shapes below combines with Shape E to form a Rectangle F?

A B C D

Shape E Rectangle F

Shape C combines with shape E to form rectangle F.

20. There are 19 stools in a room. Some of them have 4 legs while the others have 3 legs.
There is a total of 67 legs. How many stools had 3 legs?

If all 19 stools were 4-legged, there would be 76 legs.

76 – 67 = 9
4–3=1
9÷1=9
There are 9 stools which have 3 legs.

Section C
Questions 21, 22, 23, 24 and 25 carry 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 marks respectively.
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21. Two straight lines will cross each other at 1 point.

Three straight lines will cross one another at a maximum of 3 points.

Four straight lines will cross one another at a maximum of 6 points.

What is the maximum number of points that five straight lines will cross one another?

1 , 3 , 6 , 10
+2 +3 +4

22. There are 365 days in a year for last year (2017), this year (2018) and next year (2019). There
are 366 days for the year 2020. Christmas Day in 2016 was on a Sunday. What day of the
week will Christmas Day be on in the year 2020?

For every 365 days there are 52 weeks and 1 day, so if 25th December is on a Sunday in
2016, it will be on a Monday in 2017, a Tuesday in 2018 and a Wednesday in 2019.
Because 2020 is a leap year (366 days), Christmas will not be on a Thursday but on a Friday.

23. David drew the following shapes inside the oval area.
2
How many more triangles should he draw inside the oval area so that of all the shapes are
3
triangles?

1 unit → 3 non-triangle shapes

2 units → 6 triangles
6–2=4
David needs to draw 4 more triangles.

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24. Fill in all the missing digits.

× 4
6 0
5
1 1 0

65 × 34 = 260 + 5850 = 6110

25. Our family of 6 people sat at a round table with six numbered seats. Mom and Dad are sitting
together with Mom on Dad’s left. My brother is separated from Dad by two seats. I am not
sitting next to my sister nor my brother. If Grandma’s seat number is 1, what is my seat
number?

1: Grandma
2: Me
3: Dad
4: Mom
5: Sister
6: Brother

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