SASMO 2017, Primary 5 (Grade 5) Contest

SASMO 2017 Primary 5 (Grade 5) Contest

Question 1 - Answer B
Find the value of the expression below.
2017 + 77 + 555 + 983 + 23 + 345

A. 3900
B. 4000
C. 4100
D. 5000
E. None of the above

Question 2 - Answer C
What are the last two digits of 888 × 999?

A. 1
B. 11
C. 12
D. 22
E. None of the above

Question 3 - Answer B
If the five-digit number 543A1 is divisible by 9, what is the value of the digit A?

A. 2
B. 5
C. 6
D. 8
E. None of the above

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Question 4 - Answer E
Find the greatest 3-digit number which is divisible by 4 and 18.

A. 990
B. 954
C. 936
D. 918
E. None of the above

Question 5 - Answer C
The figure on the right is formed by identical squares with length of 4.
What is the perimeter of the figure?

A. 100
B. 102
C. 112
D. 124
E. None of the above

Question 6 - Answer E

How many ways are there to cut out the word SASMO from a piece of paper
below? The word SASMO must be in one piece as shown in the Example below.

A. 3
B. 4
C. 5
D. 6
E. None of the above

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Question 7 - Answer A
Toby wrote down numbers from 1 to 100 on the whiteboard. Which digit
appeared the least number of times?

A. 0
B. 1
C. 2
D. 3
E. 4

Question 8 - Answer C
The right figure is formed by 4 squares. The second square is
inscribed inside the first square by joining the midpoints of the
sides of the first, and so on. What is the ratio of the area of the
smallest square to the area of the largest square?

A. 1:4
B. 1:6
C. 1:8
D. 1:12
E. None of the above

Question 9 - Answer D
Grace and Paul join a marathon together. They start at the same time beside
each other. Grace runs at 6 kilometers every hour and Paul runs at 8 kilometers
every hour. After how many minutes will Paul be 5 kilometers ahead of Grace?

A. 60 minutes
B. 90 minutes
C. 120 minutes
D. 150 minutes
E. None of the above

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Question 10 - Answer E
Jane has 120 candies. She wants to separate them into different plastic bags.
She put 8 candies in each big plastic bag and 6 candies in each small plastic bag.
In total, she used 17 plastic bags. How many big plastic bags did she use?

A. 10
B. 11
C. 12
D. 13
E. None of the above

Question 11 - Answer A
In the sequence below, some numbers are missing. Each number is the sum of
its two preceding numbers. What is the value of X?

X, __, __, __, 16, __, __, 68, …

A. 2
B. 4
C. 6
D. 8
E. 10

Question 12 - Answer B
Teacher Thomas did a survey of Primary 6 students to find out how the students
go to school. The results are shown in the pie chart:

What is the value of angle 𝛼 for the Train sector in the pie chart?

A. 66°
B. 88°
C. 90°
D. 99°
E. None of the above

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Question 13 - Answer B
A square paper is folded as shown below. In the final step, 3 holes with different
shapes are made. Where will the holes appear on the paper when it is unfolded
back to its original size?

A. B. C.

D. E.

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Question 14 - Answer C
What is the last digit of the expression below?

2 ×2 × 2× …×2 × ⏟
⏟ 3× 3× 3 ×…× 3
2017 2017

A. 2
B. 4
C. 6
D. 8
E. None of the above

Question 15 - Answer D
Amy and her four friends each own a cat. The names of the cats are Max, Oliver,
Charlie, Kitty and Smokey. The colour of the cat is either black or white (but not
both).

a. Three cats are black and the other two cats are white.
b. Oliver and Smokey have the same colour.
c. Charlie and Kitty have different colours.
d. Three cats are male and the other two cats are female.
e. Max and Charlie have the same gender.
f. Kitty and Smokey are different genders.

If Amy’s cat is female and white, what is the name of Amy’s cat?

A. Max
B. Oliver
C. Charlie
D. Kitty
E. Smokey

Question 16 - Answer 93
The product of 47 whole numbers is 47. What is the sum of these numbers?

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Question 17 - Answer 505

The pattern below is made up of dots.

Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3

Which figure will contain 2017 dots?

Question 18 - Answer 7
Find the denominator of the following fraction in its simplest form.
1
2+
1
0+ 1
1+7

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Question 19 - Answer 16
As shown in Example 1, each number in a cell represents the number of shaded
cells that surround it.

Example 1:

How many shaded cells will be in the grid below after you shade it according to
the rules above?

Question 20 - Answer 200

For Event A, the organizer arranged 15 rows of seats in a hall. Then for Event B,
the organizer removed 3 rows of seats and added 5 more seats to each row to
hold the same number of people. Given that each row has the same number of
seats, how many seats are in the hall?

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Question 21 - Answer 26
How many squares are there in the figure below?

Question 22 - Answer 0
Find the following product

1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
( − )×( − )×( − )×( − )×… ×( − )×( − )
2 50 3 49 4 48 5 47 49 3 50 2

Question 23 - Answer 14
There are 100 Primary 5 students in Happy Primary School, 78 of these
students are in Swimming club and 86 are in Badminton club. What is the
largest possible number of students who are neither in Swimming club nor
Badminton club?

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Question 24 - Answer 18
In the following, all the different letters stand for different digits.
A B A
+ C D C
7 2 6

Find the sum of A + B + C + D.

Question 25 - Answer 132

Alice and Bob are exchanging their tokens in a game. At the beginning, the
ratio of the number of tokens Alice had to the number of tokens Bob had was
1
4:7. After the 1st round of the game, Alice lost 3 of her tokens to Bob. Then
1
Bob lost 4 of his tokens after the 2nd round of the game to Alice. If after 2nd
round Alice had 57 tokens how many token do they have altogether?

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