PRIMARY

MATHEMATICS QUIZ
1. A glass holds 0.5 litres of water. How many glasses can be filled from a 5 litre-can of
water?
Answer: 10 glasses
2. A pipeline is assembled from sections each measuring 3.66m long. If 85 sections are
needed, how long is the pipeline?
Answer: 311.1m
3. The distance between two villages is 55km.Round this to the nearest 10km.
Answer: 60km
4. Negative and positive numbers are together known as
Answer: directed numbers.
5. The temperature is -80c.It rises to 30c, what is the new?
Answer:-5
6. The sum of two numbers is 20.One of the numbers is -5. What is the other number?
Answer: 25
7. In a circle the region between a chord and an arc is called?
Answer: segment
8. Expand 3a (a + b + 1).
Answer:3a2 + 3ab +3a
9. Mary’s sister Rachael is 5 years young than she is. The sum their ages is 33 years. How
old is Mary?Answer: 19 years
10. What is the difference in the value of the two seven digit numbers in
67, 075?
Answer: 6,920

11. Work out 80.32 + 8.3

Answer: 88.62

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12. Concrete blocks weigh 12kg each. What is the weight of 58 of them?
Answer: 6,969kg
13. There are 1,000grams in 1kg.What is 4,560,000grams in kg?
Answer: 4,560kg
14. A bus left at 11:45 hours and arrived at 15:20 hours. How did the journey take?
Answer: 3hours 35 minutes
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15. Work out to its lowest term ÷ 4.
9
2
Answer:
9
16. 27 cakes are shared equally among three people. How much does each person get?
Answer: 9 cakes
17. Find the missing term in the following sequence; 25, 23, 21
Answer: 19
18. Arrange -5, 3, -2, -4, 1 in order of size starting with the largest
Answer: 3, 1, -2, -4, -5
19. An angle less than 64 angle is called ……..
Answer: acute angle
20. Find the sum of 0, 6, 4, 8, 12
Answer: 30
21. State the law used in 5 +2 = 2 + 5
Answer: Commutative law of addition
22. Find the value of 3 – (-5)
Answer: 8
23. Chanda is 12 years old. Monica is X years older than Chanda. How old is Monica?
Answer: x + 12
24. 24. Find the value of 20 + q, when q = -2 Answer: 18

3 1
25. Simplify 5 +2
4 4
Answer: 14
26. Express 24: 16 in its lowest terms.

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 Answer: 3:2
27. What is the cost of 15 metres of chitenge material at a cost of K54.75 per metre?
Answer: K821.25
28. What is the smallest prime number?
Answer: 2
29. Last year, the sum of ages of Ben, Peter and George was 120 years. How old are they
together this year?
Answer: 123
30. What is an even number?
Answer: It is a number that is only divisible by 0 and 2
31. What is the LCM of 3 and 6?
Answer: 12
32. Mr. Zulu makes 50 bricks a day. However, children damage 7 of these bricks each
evening. How many good bricks will Mr. Zulu have after 10 days?
Answer: 430 bricks
33. Set A ={ colours of the rainbow } , what is the number of elements in set A?
Answer: 7
34. The Answer we get when we multiply is called……..
Answer Product
35. What is the place value of 9 in the number 908?
Answer Hundreds.
36. Given that set A ={6, 9, 12, 15} and set B= {9, 12, 13, 14, 15}. List the intersection
Answer:{9,12,15}

37. If there are 857 pupils at St Jones’s Basic school and the number of boys is 504, find the
number of girls.
Answer: 353
38. Divide the product of 23 and 25 by 5.
Answer: 115
39. How can 1545 be written in Roman numerals?
Answer:MDXLV

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40. Find the difference between 271, 589 and 102,809.
Answer: 168,780.
41. What is 82 divided by 1000?
Answer:0.082
42. If 100 pupils take 6 days to clear the grass from a football ground, how long would 60
pupils take?
Answer: 10 Days
43. The average mass of three blocks is 10kg.If two of the masses are 10kg and 15kg, find
the third mass.
Answer:5Kg
44. What is 24 multiplied by 6,divided by 3?
Answer: 48
45. 3y =4x15. Find the value of y.
Answer:20
46. Find the value of 13 - (-7).
Answer:20

47. Change 0.62 to a percentage.

Answer: 62%
48. How many hours are there in two and half days?
Answer: 60 hours.
49. Subtract 0.75 from 1.
Answer: 0.25
50. Mary takes 45 minutes to walk to school. If she starts at 06:50hrs, what time will she
reach school?
Answer:07:35hrs
51. Calculate the average of 15, 25, 35 and 45.
Answer:30
52. If 36/x =4. What is the value of x?
Answer:9
53. How many degrees are in an interior angle of an equilateral triangle?

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 Answer:60degrees
54. 2Y + 4 =12. Find y.
Answer: 4
55. A man bought a T-shirt at K35 500. How much change did he get from K50 000?
Answer: K14,500
56. What is 15 % 0f 200 000?
Answer: 30 000
57. A farmer planted 165 rows of mango trees. If each row had 18 trees, how many trees
were planted altogether?
Answer:2970
58. Mary bought a packet of sugar at K8200 and a loaf of bread at k4500. How much change
did he receive from k20 000?
Answer:k7 300.

59. 3 1/3 x 4 ½ divided by 1/3.

Answer 45.
60. Express the ratio 10:15:30 in its lowest terms.
Answer: 2:3:6
61. Express 3/10 as a decimal.
Answer: 0.3
62. The average of 25 degrees, 35 degrees, 5 degrees, 75 degrees and 10 degrees is…..
Answer: 30 degrees
63. Change 242 base 5 to base 10.
Answer:72
64. Express 3/5 as a percentage.
Answer: 60%
65. 40 pencils were shared between Mwansa and Mwila in the ratio 3:2. How many pencils
did Mwila receive?
Answer; 16
66. A x A =64. What is A?
Answer:8

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67. Express 0.4 as a percentage.
Answer; 40%
68. 0.16 x 0.5 =
Answer:0.08
69. What is the average of 1/2 and 1/3
Answer: 5/12.
70. 10 divided by 2 is 5. What is 2 called?
Answer:divisor.
71. The area of a square is 81 cm square. Find its perimeter.
Answer:36cm

72. Arrange the following fractions in ascending order: 1/3, 1/6, 1/5,
Answer: 1/6, 1/5, 1/3.

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