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SASMO 2014 Round 1 Primary 4 Solutions
SASMO 2014 Round 1 Primary 4 Solutions
1. Find the missing term in the following sequence: 1, 4, 9, 16, _____, 36.
Solution
2. Find the smallest whole number between 1 and 100 that is divisible by 5 and by 7.
Solution
3. A frog fell into a drain that was 20 cm deep. After one hour, it mastered enough
energy to make a jump of 6 cm but it then slid down 4 cm. If it continued in this
manner after every one hour, how many hours will it take to get out of the drain?
Solution
4. The diagram shows a circle with centre O and radius 5 cm. OABC is a rectangle. What
is the length of AC?
A B
O C
Solution
AC = OB (diagonal of rectangle)
= 5 cm (radius of circle)
Solution
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6. A shop sells sweets where every 3 sweet wrappers can be exchanged for one more
sweet. Kelvin has enough money to buy only 19 sweets. What is the biggest number
of sweets that he can get from the shop?
Solution
7. A clock takes 6 seconds to make 3 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 4 chimes?
Solution
8. The diagram shows a square being divided into four rectangles. If the sum of the
perimeter of the four rectangles is 32 cm, find the area of the square.
Solution
9. Alvin, Betty and Cheryl scored a total of 2014 points during a competition. Betty
scored 271 points less than Alvin. Betty scored 3 times as many points as Cheryl.
How many points did Betty score?
Solution
Cheryl
Betty 2014
Alvin 271
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Method 2
There are 1 white square on the left side and 1 white square on the right side of the
row of black squares.
The pattern for the no. of white squares is 3 2 + 2, 4 2 + 2, 5 2
figure number with 2014 white squares = (2014 2) 2 2 = 1004
Method 3
Method 4
The pattern for the no. of white squares is 8, 10, 12, …, which is equal to 2 4, 2 5,
2 6, …
figure number with 2014 white squares = 2014 2 3 = 1004
Solution
No. of 1 1 squares = 16 = 42
No. of 2 2 squares = 9 = 32
No. of 3 3 squares = 4 = 22
No. of 4 4 squares = 1 = 12
total no. of squares in a 4 4 square grid = 12 + 22 + 32 + 42 = 30
14. How many digits are there before the fifteen 7 of the following number?
37337333733337333337…
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Method 1
1 + 15 = 16
2 + 14 = 16
3 + 13 = 16 7 pairs
7 + 9 = 16
8
total no. of digits before the fifteen 7 of the number = 14 + (7 16) + 8 = 134
Method 2
15. A box contains 30 coloured pens: 15 blue, 10 red and 5 black. Alice takes some pens
from the box without looking at the colours of the pens. What is the least number of
pens she must take so that she has at least 8 pens of the same colour?
Solution
Worst case scenario for all the pens taken out by Alice to be of different colours:
7 blue, 7 red and 5 black, i.e. a total of 19 pens.
Then the next pen taken out has to be either blue or red, i.e. Alice will have at least 8
pens of the same colour, either 8 blue or 8 red pens.
least no. of pens Alice must take so that she has at least 8 pens of the same colour
= 19 + 1 = 20
16. In the following alphametic, all the different letters stand for different digits. Find the
four-digit sum PEEL.
A M
+ L A P
P E E L
Solution
Since the addition of two digits will give a maximum of 18, or a maximum of 19 if
there is a carryover (or renaming) of 1, this means that the maximum carryover is
1.
So L = 9 and there is a carryover of 1 for L to give 10, i.e. P = 1 and E = 0.
the four-digit sum PEEL is 1009.
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17. A teacher has a bag of sweets to treat her class. If she gave 4 sweets to each student,
then she would have 82 sweets left. If she gave 9 sweets to each student, then she
would have 2 sweets left. How many students and how many sweets are there?
Solution
If the teacher gave 4 sweets to each student, then she would have 82 sweets left.
From the 82 sweets left, if she gave 5 more sweets to each student so that each student
has 9 sweets, then she would have 2 left.
This means that she gave a total of 82 2 = 80 sweets from the 82 sweets left to the
students.
Since each student receives only one 5 more sweets (i.e. the 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th
sweets), then there are 80 5 = 16 students.
there are 16 9 + 2 = 146 sweets.
18. When Amy, Betty and Cheryl eat out, each orders either beef or chicken.
a. If Amy orders beef, Betty orders chicken.
b. Either Amy or Cheryl orders beef, but not both.
c. Betty and Cheryl do not both order chicken.
Who could have ordered beef yesterday and chicken today?
Solution
If Amy orders beef, Condition a says that Betty orders chicken, and Condition b says
that Cheryl also orders chicken, contradicting Condition c.
19. What are the last 3 digits of the sum 1 + 11 + 111 + … + 111…111?
70 digits
Solution
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20. The diagram shows 9 points. Draw 4 consecutive line segments (i.e. the start point of
the next segment must coincide with the endpoint of the previous segment) to pass
through all the 9 points.
Solution
If you try to draw the line segments within the region bounded by the dots, you will
realise that you need at least 5 consecutive line segments.
you must draw some of the line segments outside the region as shown:
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