SIMOC, Primary 4

SIMOC PRIMARY 4 MOCK TEST

Section A

1. Find the total number of triangles in the following figure.

(a) 9
(b) 10
(c) 11
(d) 12
(e) None of the above

2. The difference of two numbers is 14, and their quotient is 3 (i.e. when one number is
divided by the other, the answer is 3). Find the larger number of the two.

(a) 15
(b) 18
(c) 21
(d) 24
(e) None of the above

3. The following bar graph shows the favourite fruit of a class of 40 students (each
student chooses exactly one fruit). The tic marks on the vertical axis are equally
spaced. How many students’ favourite fruit is pear?

No. of
Favourite Fruit
students

0 apple orange banana pear Fruit

(a) 4
(b) 8
(c) 12
(d) 16
(e) 20

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4. The diagram shows some cubes of the same size stacked at a corner of a room. How
many cubes are there altogether? (Note: The floor is horizontal and the two walls are
vertical. There are no gaps or holes behind the visible cubes.)

(a) 8
(b) 9
(c) 10
(d) 11
(e) 12

5. Some people are standing equally spaced around a circle, and they were numbered
starting from the number 1 in an anticlockwise direction. If the person numbered 3 is
directly opposite the person numbered 10, how many people are there?

(a) 10
(b) 12
(c) 14
(d) 16
(e) 18

6. What is the largest number of parts that can be obtained from cutting a circle using 4
straight cuts? (Note: Do not count the parts outside the circle.)

(a) 8
(b) 9
(c) 10
(d) 11
(e) 12

7. In a chess tournament, each player has to play one game with every other player. Six
players, Albert, Ben, Charles, Dennis, Ethan and Francis, took part in the tournament.
So far, Albert has played 5 games, Ben has played 4 games, Charles has played 3
games, Dennis has played 2 games and Ethan has played 1 game. How many games
has Francis played?

(a) 1
(b) 2
(c) 3
(d) 4
(e) 5

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8. A big cube is made up of 125 small cubes. All the faces of the big cube are then
painted. How many of the small cubes have exactly one painted face?

(a) 24
(b) 36
(c) 54
(d) 150
(e) None of the above

9. Except for the first term, each term in the following sequence is found by adding the
same number to the previous term.

7, x, y, z, 19, …

Find the value of z.

(a) 13
(b) 14
(c) 15
(d) 16
(e) None of the above

10. The police arrested four suspects who know one another. The suspects know which
one of them has stolen the watch, but the police could not find the watch on any one
of them.
Albert: I did not steal the watch.
Bernard: Albert is lying.
Cecilia: Bernard stole the watch.
Denise: Bernard is lying.
If only one of them is telling the truth, who stole the watch?

(a) Albert
(b) Bernard
(c) Cecilia
(d) Denise
(e) It can’t be determined based on the given information

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Section B

11. Fill in the missing number in the box.

  31  37 + 41  431 = 2015

12. A stationery shop sells only one type of pens and one type of pencils. If the total cost
of one pen and two pencils is $4, but the total cost of two pens and one pencil is $4.70,
how much does one pen cost?

13. If the three-digit number 6N8 is divisible by 7, find N.

14. The diagram shows parts of a city where the lines are roads. Siti walks from point A
to point B along the roads without ‘backtracking’ (i.e. she can only walk upwards or
to the right in the diagram below). How many ways can she walk from A to B?

15. Find the sum of the terms in the 20th pair of brackets:

(1, 3), (5, 7), (9, 11), (13, 15), …

16. The decimal numeral system uses ten symbols 0 to 9 to form numbers, while the
binary numeral system uses only two symbols 0 and 1 to form numbers. The
following table shows the binary numbers for the decimal numbers 0 to 5.

Decimal Number 0 1 2 3 4 5
Binary Number 0 1 10 11 100 101

What is the binary number for the decimal number 8?

17. In the following alphametic, all the different letters stand for different digits. Find the
value of C.

A T
 A T
C A T

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18. There are 10 students, and 10 lockers numbered 1 to 10.

The first student opens all the 10 lockers.
The second student then closes every locker with an even number, i.e. 2, 4, 6, …
The third student then ‘reverses’ every third locker, i.e. if the locker is open, she will
close it; but if the locker is closed, she will open it.
The fourth student then ‘reverses’ every fourth locker, and so on until the tenth
student has ‘reversed’ the tenth locker.
What is the locker with the largest number that will remain open in the end?

19. A list of whole numbers from 1 to 50 is written on a sheet of paper. All the multiples
of 5 are then struck off from the list. What is the last digit of the product of the
remaining numbers?

20. The diagram shows four cubes in which some of the corners have been removed. Two
of the cubes have exactly the same shape. Which are the two cubes?

A B C D