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SASMO 2014 Round 1 Primary 6 Solutions
SASMO 2014 Round 1 Primary 6 Solutions
SASMO 2014 Round 1 Primary 6 Solutions
1. A clock takes 3 seconds to make 4 chimes. Assuming that the rate of chiming is
constant, and the duration of each chime is negligible, how long does the clock take to
make 8 chimes?
Solution
Solution
3. Find the smallest whole number between 1 and 100 that is divisible by 12 and by 30.
Solution
4. A shop sells sweets where every 3 sweet wrappers can be exchanged for one more
sweet. Catherine has enough money to buy only 26 sweets. What is the biggest
number of sweets that she can get from the shop?
Solution
Method 1
Method 2
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Method 2 (Model Method)
4 kg
Duck 1.2
Chicken
Solution
Since the number leaves a remainder of 3 when divided by 5, then it must end with 3
or 8, i.e. the possible values of the number are 53, 58, 63, 68, …, 98.
Since the number leaves a remainder of 3 when divided by 5, we can either check
each of the above possible values one by one, or we can start with 7 7 + 5 = 54, and
then add 7 until we get a number ending in 3 or 8, i.e. 54, 61, 68, …
the number is 68.
9. A man travelled at 120 km/h for the first half of a 12-km journey. Then he travelled at
60 km/h for the rest of his journey. What is his average speed for the whole journey?
Solution
Time taken for first half of the 12-km journey = 6 km / 120 km/h = 0.05 h
Time taken for second half of the 12-km journey = 6 km / 60 km/h = 0.1 h
average speed for whole journey = 12 km / 0.15 h = 80 km/h
Note: Common mistake is 90 km/h. Since speed = distance / time, if you want to
average speeds, then the base (in this case, the time taken) must be the same.
But instead the distance travelled for both parts of the journey is the same, so
you cannot average speeds.
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10. Amy buys an item for a 20% discount during a sale, but she still needs to pay a 5%
GST (Goods and Services Tax). She is given two options.
Solution
Note: Common mistake is Option A. If you pay 5% GST first (Option B), although
this GST is bigger than the GST in Option A, this GST is also discounted 20%,
so it ends up the same as if you pay the GST after the discount (Option A).
Notice that the base is the same (in this case, the selling price).
11. The digits 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 are all used to write a five-digit number ABCDE where the
three-digit number ABC is divisible by 4, BCD is divisible by 5 and CDE is divisible
by 3. Find all the possible values of the five-digit number ABCDE.
Solution
12. At a workshop, there are 20 participants. Each of them shakes hand once with one
another. How many handshakes are there?
Solution
Method 1
1 + 19 = 20
2 + 18 = 20
3 + 17 = 20 9 pairs
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9 + 11 = 20
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Method 2
13. In the following cryptarithm, different letters represent different digits and an asterisk
* may represent any digit. The product MATH is a four-digit number less than 5000.
What number does MATH represent?
E H
E H
* * 6
+ * * 8
M A T H
Solution
14. There are 100 buns to be shared among 100 monks (consisting of senior and junior
monks). The senior monks get 3 buns each and every 3 junior monks share 1 bun.
How many senior monks are there?
Solution
Observe that if you group one senior monk and 3 junior monks together, they will get
a total of 4 buns.
And 25 such groups will give a total of 100 monks and 100 buns.
there are 25 senior monks.
Method 2 (Algebra)
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8x = 200
x = 25
there are 25 senior monks.
15. What is the least number of cuts required to cut 5 identical sausages so that they can
be shared equally among 9 people?
Solution
16. How many digits are there before the 50th ‘8’ of the following number?
85855855585555855555…
Solution
Method 1
1 + 49 = 50
2 + 48 = 50
3 + 47 = 50 24 pairs
24 + 26 = 50
25
total no. of digits before the 50th ‘8’ = 49 + 50 24 + 25 = 1274
Method 2
Since 1 + 2 + 3 + … + n = , then total no. of digits before the 50th ‘8’ of the
number = 49 + = 1274
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17. Find the total number of triangles in the diagram.
Solution 1
18. A teacher has a bag of sweets to treat her class. If she gave 5 sweets to each student,
then she would have 13 sweets left. If she gave 8 sweets to each student, then she
would have 20 sweets short. How many students and how many sweets are there?
Solution
If the teacher gave 5 sweets to each student, then she would have 13 sweets left.
But 13 sweets left are not enough to give 3 more sweets to each student since she
would have 20 sweets short.
So if she had 20 more sweets, then she could give 20 + 13 = 33 sweets to the students
so that each student has 3 more sweets, i.e. 8 sweets each.
Since each student receives only 3 more sweets (i.e. the 6th, 7th and 8th sweets), then
there are 33 3 = 11 students.
there are 11 5 + 13 = 68 sweets.
Solution
Method 1
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Method 2
20. Susie has 23 coins. She divides them into 5 piles so that each pile has a different
number of coins. Find the smallest possible number of coins in the biggest pile.
Solution
For each pile to have a different number of coins, and the biggest pile to have the
smallest possible number of coins, put 1 coin in the 1st pile, 2 coins in the 2nd pile,
3 coins in the 3rd pile, 4 coins in the 4th pile and 5 coins in the 5th pile. So the
biggest pile is the 5th pile, but there are only 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 = 15 coins.
The 16th coin will have to go to the 5th pile so that each pile will have a different
number of coins. The 17th coin cannot go to the 5th pile because we want to find the
smallest possible number of coins in the biggest pile, so the 17th coin will have to
go to the 4th pile. Similarly, the 18th, 19th and 20th coins will go to the 3rd, 2nd and
1st piles respectively.
The 21st coin will go to the 5th pile again, the 22nd coin to the 4th pile, and the 23rd coin
to the 3rd pile.
the largest pile (which is the 5th pile) will contain 5 + 1 + 1 = 7 coins.
Solution
Observe that the first 3 terms are perfect squares: 12, 22 and 32. But subsequent terms
are not perfect squares.
However, if you compare the given sequence with perfect squares (1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36,
49, 64, 81, 100, …), you will observe that the n-th term can be found by squaring n
and then adding the digits continuously until a single-digit number is obtained.
the next term, which is the 11th term, is obtained by: 112 = 121 1 + 2 + 1 = 4.
22. Given that 5! means 5 4 3 2 1, find the last two digits of 2014!.
Solution
Since 2014! contains the factor 100, and any number multiplied by 100 will have 00
as the last two digits, then the last two digits of 2014! are 00.
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23. There were 210 students in the hall. 2 of the boys and 1 of the girls wore T-shirts. If
5 3
there were 78 students in the hall who wore T-shirts, how many boys were in the hall?
Solution
The first model shows 2 of the boys and 1 of the girls wearing T-shirts (indicated by
5 3
solid boxes, not the dotted ones). We will call an unshaded box from the boys as B-
box, and a shaded box from the girls as G-box.
Boys B1 B1 B2 B2
210
Girls G1 G2
The 2 solid B-boxes and the one solid G-box (i.e. B1 + B1 + G1) represent a total of 78
students.
If you take 2 dotted B-boxes and 1 dotted G-box (i.e. B2 + B2 + G2), the 3 dotted
boxes also represent a total of 78 students.
But you can’t do anything with the remaining 2 dotted boxes.
So we double all the boxes as shown in the second model, where the total no. of
students is 210 2 = 420.
Boys B1 B1 B2 B2 B3 B3 B4 B4 B5 B5
420
Girls G1 G2 G3 G4 G5
From the second model, we are able to form 5 groups of 2 B-boxes and 1 G-box (i.e.
from B1 and G1 to B5 and G5), leaving behind only one G-box, where each group of
2 B-boxes and 1 G-box represent a total of 78 students.
This means that the last G-box represents 420 5 78 = 420 390 = 30 students.
there are 30 3 = 90 girls and 210 90 = 120 boys in the hall.
Method 2 (Algebra)
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24. A farmer wants to plant 10 trees in 5 rows such that there are exactly 4 trees in each
row. Draw a diagram to show how the trees should be planted.
Solution
If you start with 10 trees and then try fitting 5 lines onto them, you will realise that the
lines must overlap because there are not enough trees, and it’s not easy to fit 5 lines
onto 10 trees.
try to draw 5 overlapping lines first, and a common figure with 5 overlapping lines
is the following star:
25. Frank knows 5 women: Amy, Betty, Cheryl, Doris and Elaine.
a. 3 women are under 30 and the other 2 women are over 30.
b. 3 women are nurses and the other 2 women are teachers.
c. Amy and Cheryl are in the same age bracket.
d. Doris and Elaine are in different age brackets.
e. Betty and Elaine have the same occupation.
f. Cheryl and Doris have different occupations.
g. Of the 5 women, Frank will marry the teacher over 30.
Who will Frank marry?
Solution
Conditions a, c and d Amy and Cheryl are under 30, and Betty is over 30.
Conditions b, e and f Betty and Elaine are nurses, and Amy is a teacher.
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