Chithambara:

Mathematics
Challenge2022
Year 5
CWN:கணிதப்ப ோட்டி

Time: 45 Minutes
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Q5
Instructions Q6
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Use pencil/pen. Q9
Fill in the boxes at the bottom of this page with Q10
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your name, centre number and candidate Q12
number. Q13
Q14
✓ Answer the questions in the spaces provided – Q15
there may be more space than you needed. Q16
Q17
✓ Calculators must not be used. Q18
Q19
✓ Answer All questions Q20
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Q23
Q24
Q25
Total

STUDENT NAME: …………………………………………………….

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EXAM CENTRE: ……………………………………………………….

 Chithambara : Maths Challenge 2022 Year5
Q1)
1 1
Work out the value of 15% of 5 of 3 of 600.

(4marks)
Q2)
There are 1350 students in a school. The number of girls is 34 less than the number of boys.
How many boys are there in the school?

(4marks)
Q3)
A satellite orbits the Earth once every 16 hours. How many orbits of the Earth does the
satellite make in two weeks?

(4marks)
Q4)
Jathusan and Amal have £4 between them. Jathusan has 90p more than Amal.
Find out the amount of money does Amal have?

(4marks)
Q5)
Travelling by train from Birmingham to London, I passed a sign saying ‘London 105 miles.’
After 7 more miles, I passed another sign saying ‘Birmingham 79 miles.’ How far is it by train
from Birmingham to London?

(4marks)

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 Chithambara : Maths Challenge 2022 Year5
Q6)
The rainfall on Tuesday was 6cm less than on Monday. On Wednesday twice as much
rainfall than on Tuesday. In fact, 40 cm of rain fell on Wednesday. How much rain fell on
Monday?

(4marks)
Q7)
James buys a box of 80 apples for £16. There are 10 bad apples. If he finds bad and can’t be
sold, What price must he sell each of the good apples so that he makes a total profit of £12?

(4marks)

Q8)
This picture is two identical rectangles. What is the value of angle x

650
(4marks)
Q9)
A cake weighs 900 g. Paul cuts it into 4 pieces. The biggest piece weights exactly as much
as the other three pieces together. How much does the biggest piece weigh?

(4marks)

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 Chithambara : Maths Challenge 2022 Year5
Q10)
The figure below is made up of three squares. What is the perimeter of the figure?
9cm

5cm

(4marks)
Q11)
Mr. Thomas has some erasers. When he gives 4 erasers or 5 erasers to each student, he has
2 erasers left. There are no erasers left when he gives 6 erasers to each student. What is the
least number of erasers Mr. Thomas could have?

(4marks)
Q12)
A big square is divided up into smaller squares of different sizes as shown. Some of the
smaller squares are shaded in blue. What fraction of the big square is shaded in blue?

(4marks)
Q13)
Paul goes on a 5day hiking trek. He starts on Monday and finishes on Friday.
Every day he covers 3 km more than the day before. In total he hikes 90 km.
What distance does he cover on Thursday?

(4marks)

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Q14)
Write down the next two numbers in each of the following sequences.

a) 1.5 , 3.5 , 6 ,9 , ......., ........

b) 25, 29, 34 , 40 , ......, ........

(4marks)
Q15)
A baby weighs 4.5kg when he is born. One week later he weighs 20% less than his birth
weight.
a) How much does the baby weigh when he is one week old? ………………

b) The baby then gains 150g every two weeks for the next eight weeks.
How much does the baby weigh when he is six weeks old? ……………….

(4marks)
Q16)
Sara has 16 blue marbles. She can swap her marbles in the following way: For 3 blue
marbles she gets 1 red marble. For 2 red marbles she gets 5 green marbles. What is the
maximum number of green marbles she can get?

(4marks)

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Q17)
In a bag there are only red and green marbles.
If five marbles are taken randomly, there is at least one red one.
If six marbles are taken randomly, there is at least one green one.
What is the maximum number of marbles in the bag?

(4marks)
Q18)
Bacteria in a petri dish double the area they cover every day. If the dish is covered after 20
days, on what day was only one quarter of it covered?

(4marks)

Q19)
How big is the difference between the smallest five-digit and the biggest four-digit number?

(4marks)

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 Chithambara : Maths Challenge 2022 Year5
Q20)
Here is a train timetable.
Train1 Train2 Train3 Train4 Train5
Weymouth 09:03 09:20 10:03 10:20 11:03
Pool 09:40 10:07 10:40 11:07 11:40
Bournemouth 09:53 10:17 10:54 11:17 11:54
Southampton 10:26 10:58 11:28 11:58 12:28
Working 11:19 12:19 13:19
London Waterloo 11:49 12:20 12:49 13:20 13:49

Kokul lives in Weymouth. He has a meeting in Southampton at 12:00. When Kokul arrives
at Southampton it takes another 35 minutes for him to travel to his meeting.

What is the time of the latest train that he can take from Weymouth to attend the meeting
in time?

(4marks)
Q21)
One of the 5 children Alex, Bartek, Cora, Dani and Emil has eaten a cake.
• Alex says: „I did not eat a cake.“
• Bartek says: „I ate a cake.“
• Cora says: „Emil has not eaten a cake.“
• Dani says: „I did not eat a cake.“
• Emil says: „Alex has eaten a cake.“
One of the children lies. Which child has eaten a cake?

(4marks)
Q22)
Theeran sits at the hairdressers. In the mirror he sees a clock as shown in the diagram:
What was the mirror image of the clock 10 minutes earlier?

(4marks)

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Q23)
Balloons are sold in packages of 5, 10 or 25 pieces each. Marius buys exactly 70 balloons.
What is the minimum number of packages he has to buy?

(4marks)
Q24)
Each one of the 5 keys locks exactly one padlock.
Every letter on a padlock stands for exactly one digit, same letters mean same digits.
Which digits are on the key with the question mark?

ABC BCA DAB ACD CBA

(4marks)
Q25)
The perimeter of the regular decagon A is ten times the perimeter of the regular octagon B.
Each edge of the regular octagon B is 20 cm long. How long is each edge of the regular
decagon A?

(4marks)

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2022Year 5 Answers

UK
1. 6
2. 692 (boys)
3. 21
4. £1.55
5. 177 miles
6. 26cm
7. 40p or £0.40
8. 130°
9. 450g
10. 56cm
11. 42

13
12.
36

13. 21km
14. a) 12.5 16.5
b) 47, 55
15. a) 3.6kg
b) 3.975kg
16. 10
17. 9
18. 18 days
19. 109,998
20. Train 2
21. Bartek
22. 8:55
23. 4 (packs)
24. 715
25. 160cm