INTERNATIONAL SINGAPORE MATHS COMPETITION

2020

Primary 6
1 hour 30 minutes

Instructions to participants

1. Do not open the booklet until you are told to do so.

2. Attempt ALL 25 questions.

3. Write your answers neatly in the Answer Sheet provided.

4. Marks are awarded for correct answers only.

5. All figures are not drawn to scale.

6. Scientific calculators may be used.

Questions in Section A carry 2 marks each, questions in Section B carry

4 marks each and questions in Section C carry between 6 to 10 marks
each.

Jointly organised by

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Section A:
Each of the questions 1 to 10 carries 2 marks.

1. Which one of the following is likely to be the mass of a can of unopened

soft drink?

(a) 3 g
(b) 30 g
(c) 300 g
(d) 3000 g

2. If the direction to the north is indicated as shown,

which of the following statement is correct? D
(a) B is North-West of E
A
(b) C is South-East of E

(c) E is North-East of A E
C
(d) E is South-West of D

3. 30 pupils planned to bake cookies to give 4 cookies to every pupil in the level. 5 more pupils
decided to join them on the day of the baking and so each of the rest of the pupils baked
2 fewer cookies than planned at first. How many pupils were there in the level?

4. James saved $2 more than Mary every day. They saved a total of $k in a week.
How much did James save each day? Give your answer in terms of k.

A B
5. O is the centre of Square ABCD.
What fraction of ABCD is shaded?

D C
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M
6. Within the square grid in your Answer Sheet,
draw a line PQ where O

• PQ is perpendicular to OP,
• PQ = OP and
• PQ does not cross the line MN. Q
P

7. Represented on a map, the distance of a lake from

one end to another is 5 cm. The actual distance is
35 km. If the area represented on the map is 16 cm2,
What is the actual surface area of the lake?
Give your answer in km2.

5 cm
8. Khalid donated $50 and Abdul donated $300 to a charity organisation.
What percentage of Khalid’s amount was Abdul’s amount?

9. A machine took 0.2 of 2 hours to extract 30 litres of juice from a barrel of grapes.
How long did it take to extract 1 litre of juice? Give your answer in seconds.

10. There are 1000 reference books, 220 textbooks and 550 novels in a school library.
How many different ways are there to borrow 2 books of different types if the order that they are
borrowed does not matter?

Section B
Each of the questions 11 to 20 carries 4 marks.

11. Samuel had a total of 45 candies and biscuits. He had 60 biscuits after exchanging every
2 candies for 3 biscuits. How many biscuits did he have at first?

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12. The average height of a group of pupils was 156 cm. Two pupils, of heights 160 cm and
163 cm joined the group. The new average height of the group became 157 cm.
How many pupils were there in the group at first?

13. This is an obtuse-angled isosceles triangle:

In your Answer Sheet, draw the 3 different types of quadrilaterals that can be formed when a
full edge of this obtuse isosceles triangle touches another full edge of another similar obtuse
isosceles triangle.

14. Given that 30% of X = 80% of Y, find the value of Y as a percentage of X.

15. Neal had some strawberries and grapes. He ate up an equal number of strawberries and
5 1
grapes. He had of the strawberries and of the grapes left. What fraction of all the
9 4
fruits did Neal eat?

16. Ray packed some egg tarts into 6 small boxes and 8 large boxes. Each large box can hold
1
5 more egg tarts than each small box. If 4 of all the egg tarts were packed into small boxes,
how many egg tarts did he have altogether?

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17. The parking rates display board at a carpark is shown below. The amount for parking after
5 pm could not be read as the paint had peeled off.

Parking Charges
8 a.m. to 5 p.m. $1.40 per hour or part thereof
After 5 p.m. 1
$▒▒▒ per 2 hour or part thereof

Prices above are for weekdays only.

Additional 25% chargeable for parking on Sat and Sun

Alea parked her car from 3 p.m. to 6.45 p.m. on a Sunday. She paid $8.00.
What is the amount charged for parking for half an hour or part thereof after 5 p.m.?

18. Jenny used black and white square tiles to form figures that follow a pattern.
The first three figures are shown below.

Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3

How many white tiles did she use to form Figure 15?

19. The length of 6 boxes of A is 7 cm. 7 cm

The length of 4 boxes of B is 10 cm.

A A A A A A A A A
All the boxes of A fit exactly on a shelf
without leaving any gaps.
All the boxes of B also fit exactly on the B B B B B B

shelf without leaving any gaps. 10 cm

If there are 64 more boxes of A than B, how many boxes are there altogether?

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20. Mr Fong ate at a restaurant and paid $32.10. He had been given a 20% discount on the usual
price. What he paid included a 7% tax on the discounted price. What was the usual price of his
dinner, before tax?

Section C
Questions 21, 22, 23, 24 and 25 carry 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 marks respectively.

21. The diagram below shows the remainder of a rectangular piece of cardboard after 2 smaller
rectangles were cut out from it. Its perimeter is 78 cm.
3 cm

12 cm
5 cm
5 cm

11 cm

a) What is the length of the rectangular cardboard before it was cut?

b) What is the area of this remaining piece?

22. The total amount of pocket money that Ashley and Beatrice have is $802. The ratio of Ashley’s
spending to savings is 1 : 3. The ratio of Beatrice’s spending to savings is 1 : 6. Ashley spent
$41 more than Beatrice.

a) Who has more pocket money? How much more?

b) What is the ratio of Ashley’s savings to Beatrice’s savings?

Reduce your answer to its simplest form.

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B
23. In the figure not drawn to scale, ABCD is a trapezium and
EAB is an isosceles triangle. A
20° 40°
ABC = 40°, EAD = 20° and EDC = 89°.
Find the values of
D
a) ABE 89°
E
b) BCD

24. How many 3-digit numbers are there where the digit in its Hundreds place is smaller than the
digit in its Tens place which is in turn smaller than the digit in its Ones place?

25. Adriel secretly chose a card from a display of 15 coloured-number cards:

Red cards: 12, 11, 8, 5

Blue cards: 13, 11, 7, 6, 3, 2
Green cards: 11, 12, 1
Yellow cards: 5, 1

Adriel told Chris the colour of the card and the number on the card to Ben.

Knowing Ben was told only the number on the card and not the colour,
Chris said: Ben will not know which card was selected.
Ben said: I see, and now I know which card was selected.
Chris said: And now I know it too.

Which card did Adriel select?

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