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Problem Set 5
Problem Set 5
Solve each item and write the answer on the blank before the number.
_________2.What is the smallest digit that can be placed in the blank to make
3__,863 > 32,862?
_________16.If you have P200, how many apples costing P8.50 each can you buy?
_________17.What is N in [ N ] -13 [ ] x9 [ ] +7 [ ] - 50 [ 20 ]. .
_________ 20. In three tests, Rod got 84, 92 and 85. What was his average?
129
_________ 21.Change to a mixed number.
7
80
_________ 22.Reduce 112 to lowest terms.
_________ 23. Lucy bought a blouse for ₱135.75. She gave the cashier two ₱100-bills.
How much change did she get?
_________ 24. Rolly can cover 11.6 km/h in his bicycle. How far can he go in 2.5 hours?
_________ 25. Phil has a garden 18.5 m long and 13.7 m wide. Find the perimeter of Phil’s
garden.
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_________ 27.Miss Lily has 42 pupils in her Sewing Class. Each needs 3 m of cloth for a
placemat. How many meters of cloth does Miss Lily have to buy for them?
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_________ 28. Mr. Go bought a lot 23 ½ m long and 18 3 m wide. What is the perimeter of the
lot?
_________ 30. Linda started a 45-minute piano lesson at 3:30 P.M. After her lesson, Linda
walked home for 20 minutes. What time did Linda reach home?
_________ 31. Lester left his office and drove 15 minutes to a meeting that lasted 1 hour
20 minutes. He drove another 20 minutes before arriving home at 5:00 P.M. What time did he
leave his office?
_________ 32. In a factory with 336 employees, 114 are men. What is the ratio of male
employees to female employees?
_________ 33. The ratio of two numbers is 4:7. If their sum is 132, find the bigger number.
_________ 34. In a class, there are 23 girls and 19 boys. If 14 pupils got merit certificates in
the Math Challenge Eliminations, what fraction of the pupils got merit certificates?
_________ 35. A vendor bought 125 pineapples at ₱12 each and sold them at ₱15 each.
What was his gain percent?
_________ 36. What is 44% of 950?
_________ 37. A stove marked ₱2850 was bought at a 15% discount. How much was paid for
it?
_________ 38. A pair of shoes marked ₱950 was bought for ₱760. What was the
percent discount?
_________ 39. A blouse was bought for P196.80 at a discount of 18%. What was the
marked price?
_________ 40. A string is stretched ½ cm for every 10 kilos of weight. How far will a 24-kilo
weight stretched the spring?
_________ 41. A picture is 30 cm long and 22 cm wide. It is placed in a uniform frame that is
3 cm wide. What is the outside perimeter of the frame?
_________ 42. A milk can has a radius of 6 cm and a height of 18 cm. How much milk does
it contain?( Use π = 3.14)
_________43.How many different rectangular gardens can you make, whose dimensions are
whole numbers, if you have 48 m of fencing materials and the width is at least 4 m? Consider a
6 m by 18 m rectangle the same as an 18 m by 6 m rectangle.
_________44.I am a decimal with my last digit in the hundredths. Rounded to the nearest
tenth, I am 6.5. Rounded to the nearest whole number, I am 6. If the sum of my digits is 16,
what number am I?
_________45.Jim, Tim and Kim have 67 marbles together. Tim has 6 more marbles than Jim
and Kim has 8 fewer marbles than Jim. How many marbles has Tim?
_________46.There are bicycles and tricycles parked along a road. There are 29 wheels and
11 riders. How many bicycles are there?
_________47.Twin primes are prime numbers that differ by 2, like 3 and 5. Find twin primes
between 65 and 80.
_________48.Nick used straws, popsicle sticks and barbecue sticks to build a model house.
He used twice as many barbecue sticks as straws and 5 more popsicle sticks as barbecue
sticks. He used 35 popsicle sticks. How many straws and barbecue sticks did he use?
_________49.The canteen sold 327 bowls of noodles and served 185 bowls of pancit more
than noodles. How many bowls of food were served in all?
_________50.The scale of a school building is 2 cm to 3 m. If a library is 18 m by 13.5 m, what
is its area on the blueprint?