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PRACTICE TEST 1
GRADE 6

Your full name: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

INSTRUCTION

Please read all the instructions below carefully.

1 Please DO NOT OPEN the contest booklet until the Proctor has given permis-
sion.
2 TIME: 1 hour 30 minutes
3 Attempt all 25 questions. Each question scores 1 point. No points are de-
ducted for incorrect answers.
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4 Write your answers neatly in the answer sheet in the booklet.

5 PROCTORING: No one may help any student in any way during the contest.
6 No calculators are allowed.
7 All students must fill in your Name, Class and School.
8 MINIMUM TIME: Students must stay in the exam hall at least 1h 15 min.
9 Students must show detailed working and put answers in the answer sheet.
10 No spare papers can be used in writing this contest. Enough space is provided
for your working of each question.

Remark. Counting numbers are whole numbers except 0, i.e. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ...

GOOD LUCK!

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1 Multiple-choice questions (3 points each)

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Question 1. The value of is
0.04
A 15 C 25 E None of the above
B 20 D 40

Question 2. How many digit 1 are there in the value of following expression?
A = 9 + 99 + 999 + . . . + 999
| {z. . . 9} .
10 digits 9

A 7 C 9 E None of the above

B 8 D 10

Question 3. Five students entered a contest where they guessed how many marbles

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were in a jar. The person with the closest guess won the contest.
• Angela guessed 198 marbles.

• Bob guessed 205 marbles.

• Cynthia guessed 209 marbles.

• Derrick guessed 213 marbles.

• Eileen guessed 215 marbles.

Two of the students were 3 away from the actual number of marbles. Who won the
contest? (In your answer, put 001 for Angela, 002 for Bob, 003 for Cynthia, 004 for
Derrick, 005 for Eileen)

A 001 B 002 C 003 D 004 E 005

Question 4. What is the greatest number of 3 × 3 × 2 bricks that will fit in a box that
has dimensions 13 × 8 × 4 without exceeding the dimensions of the box?

13 8

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A 23 C 16 E None of the above

B 24 D 8

Question 5. How many 3-digit numbers are there that are one more than a multiple
of 9, 1 more than a multiple of 8, and 1 less than a multiple of 10?

A 6 C 2 E None of the above

B 1 D 4

Question 6. It takes 12 workers exactly 2 hours to build a total of 60 widgets. Work-

ing at the same rate, find the number of minutes it would take 1 worker to build 1
widget.

A 600 C 400 E None of the above

B 150 D 200
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5 3
Question 7. If of a number is 30 , what is of the number?
6 4

A 22.5 C 25 E None of the above

B 24 D 27

Question 8. If the area of the square ABCD is 4544 cm2 ., find the area of the shaded
region. The dots on the sides represent mid-points.

A B

D C

A 568 C 71 E None of the above

B 142 D 284

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Question 9. Find the missing term in the following pattern

1, 1, 2, 5, 29, . . .? . . .

A 120 C 637 E None of the above

B 250 D 866

Question 10. The first January, 1929 was on Tuesday. What day of the week was
October 1st of the same year ?

A Tuesday C Thursday E None of the above

B Wednesday D Friday

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Question 11. Find the ratio of the least and the greatest four digit numbers which
are exactly divisible by 34.

5 1 E None of the above

A C
49 10
7 1
B D
17 98

Question 12. 90% of the boys of a school pass in English and 85% in Arithmetic, 150
boys pass in both the subjects and no boy fails in both. How many boys are there in
the school?

A 180 C 250 E None of the above

B 220 D 300

Question 13. Six lines drawn from a given point 0 intersect another line XY as given
in the following figure. Find the total number of triangles formed.

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X Y

A 12 C 16 E None of the above

B 14 D 18
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Question 14. Each May a farmer plants barley seed and then in October he harvests
12 times the weight of seed planted. From each harvest, he sells 50 tonnes and the rest
he keeps as seed for the next year’s crop. This year he has planted enough to harvest
120 tonnes. How many tonnes did he plant last year?

A 5 B 10 C 20 D 30 E 60

Question 15. Zac has three jackets, one black, one brown and one blue. He has four
shirts, one white, one blue, one red and one yellow. He has three pairs of trousers,
one brown, one white and one yellow. How many combinations of jacket, shirt and
trousers are possible if no two items are of the same colour?

A 23 C 26 E None of the above

B 25 D 27

2 Open-ended questions (5 points each)

Question 16. Mr Teddy had $654 in the bank. He borrowed enough money to buy
something for $369. That week he earned $411. He paid off his debt and put the rest in
the bank. How much does he have in the bank?

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Question 17. In the figure, how many rectangles (of any size) can be drawn along
existing lines, such that the number or the number sum inside the rectangle is divisible
by 3 ?

1 2 3
4 5 6
7 8 9

Question 18. In the list of numbers 3, 8, 13, 18, . . ., each number after the first is five
more than the previous number. What is the first 3 -digit multiple of 11 in the list?

Question 19. In the following cryptarithm, each letter represents a different digit
from 1 through 9. If T is 5, how many possible values for P ET S are there?

D O G
+ C A T
P E T S

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Question 20. Teams A, B, C, D and E are five local little league baseball teams. Each
edge connecting two teams means that those teams have played a game against one
another so far this season. Some teams have played each other twice, such as A and C.
How many more games were played by the team with the greatest number of games
played, than the team with the fewest number of games played?

A C

E D

3 Open-ended questions (6 points each)

Question 21. Given the following expression

a 9 9 9 9
=1+ + + + ... +
b 45 105 189 29997

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Find the value of a + b.

Question 22. Three brothers have the same birthday, but were born in different years.
Four years ago, the oldest brother’s age was 5 times the age of the youngest brother
at that time, and the age of the middle brother was 3 times the age of the youngest
brother at that time. Today, the middle brother’s age is twice the age of the youngest
brother. Today, how old is the oldest brother?
1
Question 23. The fraction is written as a decimal number. What is the 2020th digit
54
to the right of the decimal point?

Question 24. At a supermarket, canned dog food has one bundle price and canned
cat food has another set price. If four canned dog food and three canned cat food cost
$58, and five canned dog food and four canned cat food cost $75, determine the cost
of one canned dog food.

Question 25. In all, how many two-digit prime numbers have 7 as one of their digits?
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ANSWER KEY

1 C 6 E 11 A 16 0696 21 0251
2 C 7 D 12 E 17 0021 22 0024
3 D 8 C 13 E 18 0143 23 0005
4 C 9 D 14 A 19 0002 24 0007
5 C 10 A 15 A 20 0004 25 0008

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