MINISTRY OF EDUCATION

CURRICULUM PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DIVISION

MENTAL MATHEMATICS MARATHON 2011
SEMIFINAL ROUND

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1. Which solid has curved edges?

(A) Cylinder 10 seconds

(B) Pyramid
(C) Sphere
(D) Triangular Prism

2. State the place value of the digit 8 in the number 4 875.

VISUAL

10 seconds
4 875

3 A square number that is also a multiple of seven is ________. 10 seconds

4 How many hundred dollar bills have the same value as

$ 50 000? VISUAL

$ 50 000 10 seconds

5 The sequence of terms continues until the last term is zero

VISUAL
28, 21, 15, 10, …….
20 seconds
How many more terms are there in the sequence?

6 What fraction of a kilogram is 375 grams?

State the fraction in its lowest terms. 12 seconds
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7. Which one of the items below is most likely to have a length of VISUAL
3 cm?
10seconds

8. Joanna made a three quarter turn in a clockwise direction, she READ TWICE
is now facing south. What direction was she facing before she 12 seconds
made the turn?

9. The bar chart shows the number of wickets taken by Bob and
Barney in a cricket series.

VISUAL

If all four bowlers took a total of 65 wickets and Alf and Syd READ TWICE
took the same number of wickets, calculate the number of
15 seconds
wickets taken by Alf.

10. The mean of two odd numbers is 6 and their difference is 2, 12 seconds
what are the numbers?
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11. Blocks are placed together to make a 3-step staircase, as VISUAL

shown below.
15 seconds

How many additional blocks would be required to make a

6-step staircase?

12. Tim left for school 20 minutes after he woke up. The journey to READ TWICE
school took 20 minutes and he arrived at 7:30 am.
At time did Tim wake up? 20 seconds

13. At a store, a T-shirt costs $18.50 and a pair of socks is half the VISUAL
price of the T-shirt.
20 seconds

If Madeline bought 2 T-shirts and 1 pair of socks, how much did

she pay?

14. David wants to cut a cube from the rectangular block measuring
8 cm by 4 cm by 6 cm, shown below. VISUAL

15 seconds

What is the length of the LARGEST cube that he can cut?

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15. Six pears and four apples weigh 1 kg 750 g and six pears and
two apples weigh 1 kg 500 g. VISUAL

20 seconds

Find the weight of one apple.

16. When this shape is folded along the dotted lines, a solid is
formed. How many edges does the solid have?
VISUAL

12 seconds

17. How many shaded regions should NOT have been shaded if
1 READ TWICE

only 3 of the shape must be shaded? 12 seconds

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18. The shaded region shows a square inside a rectangle.

VISUAL

20 seconds

Calculate the area of the unshaded region in square cm.

19 Karyl needs to ship a box that is 4 cm high, 12 cm wide and 24 20 seconds

cm long. After sealing the box, she tied it with ribbon as shown.
VISUAL

What is the total length of ribbon needed, if the bow uses 12 cm

of ribbon?

20. Four families, totaling 27 family members, brought the same READ TWICE
number of chairs to the beach. If three more chairs were
needed to seat all of them, how many chairs did each family 20 seconds
bring to the beach?