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MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, SINGAPORE

PRIMARY SCHOOL LEAVING EXAMINATION

0008/1 (A)
PSLE 28 SEPTEMBER
2012

MATHEMATICS

PAPER 1
(BOOKLET
A)

Additional materials: Optical Answer Sheet

(OAS)
Total Time for Booklets A and B : 50
min

INSTRUCTIONS TO
CANDIDATES

1. Write your Index No. in the boxes at the top right

hand corner. 2.Do not turn over this page until you
are told to do so. 3. Follow all instructions carefully. 4.
Answer all questions. 5. Shade your answers in the Optical
Answer Sheet (OAS) provided. 6. The use of calculators is
NOT allowed.
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Questions 1 to 10 carry 1 mark each. Questions 11 to 15 carry 2 marks each. For each question,
four options are given. One of them is the correct answer. Make your choice and
shade your answer (1, 2, 3 or 4) on the Optical Answer Sheet.
(20 marks)

There were 212 089 visitors to a tourist attraction last year. Express this number to the
nearest thousand.

(1
)
(2
)
200 000 210 000
212 000

(4
)
213
000

In the figure, PQRS and PSTU are rhombuses. Which of the following pairs of lines are
parallel?

(1
)
QR and
ST
QR and UT

(3) PQ
and PS (4)
PQ and PU

The opening hours of a shop are shown below. How long is the shop open each day?

(1)
 5 h 15
min

5 h 45 min
The Teddy Bear
Shop
Open Daily 9.45
a.m. to 4.00 p.m.
6 h 15 min

(4)
6 h 45
min

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What is the value of 10 = 2000?

(1) 200 (2)

20 (3)
0.05 (4)
0.005

5
The figure shows an 8-point compass. Ali was facing south-east (SE) at first.
He then turned 135o clockwise. Which direction is he facing now?
 NW

SWT
SE

(1)
North
(N) South
(S)

East (E)
(3)
(4
)
West
(W)

There are 45 cookies in a box. 27 of them have raisins while the rest are plain.
What is the ratio of the number of plain cookies to that of raisin cookies in
the box?

(1) (2)
(3
)
 (4)
2:3 3:2 3: 5
5:3

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Part of a scale is shown below. What is the value of the
reading at X?

(1) (2)
(3)
(4)
10.0
2
10.0
4
10.2
10.4
The top half of a symmetric figure is shown above. XY is the line of symmetry. Which one of
the following completes the symmetric figure?

(1) XT

(2) XT

(3) XT

(4) XT

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Arrange the following fractions from the smallest to the largest:
‫ܣܐܗ‬

‫ܛ |ܚ ܩ ܙܣ ܩ | ܗ ܝܗ‬
‫ܩܙܣ ܬ ܙܝ ܝܗ ܩܙܗ‬
‫ܝܗ ܝܗ ܬ | ܠ | ܢ‬

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The figure is made up of three squares ABGH, BCFG and CDEF. What
fraction of the figure ADEH is shaded?
‫ܝ|ܐ‬
‫ܝ|ܗ‬
‫ܘܕܘ ܤܗܚܣ ܝܟܤܝܝ ܀ ܗ ܀‬

‫ܝ |ܙ‬
‫ܝ|ܣ‬

In the figure, AEC and BED are straight lines. AB = BC = CD. ZAED = 110° and
ZCDE = 30°. Find ZABE.
#

(1)_700
IN

110‫ܘ‬

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Raju cut out three identical right-angled triangles. He joined them to
form the figure PQRS shown below. RS = 12 cm and SP = 10 cm. The
perimeter of the figure is 36 cm. Find the area of the figure PQRS.

(1)

(2) (3) (4)

72 cm? 84 cm 144
cm?
180 cm
+
12
cm

10 cm

Participants of a quiz must obtain at least a certain score in the first round to qualify
for the second round. There were 160 participants in the first
round and the table shows the number of participants for each score.

Score
Number of participants

13

17

18
 34

48

5 or more
30

30% of the participants did not qualify for the second round. From the table, what was
the lowest score of a participant who qualified for the second round?

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A roll of ribbon is made up of white, grey and black segments. Each segment is 1
cm long. The segments follow a repeated colour pattern as shown below.

grey
CCCCCCO>>>

1 cm

A piece of ribbon 60 cm long is cut from the roll. In that piece, how many
grey segments are there?

(1)
12
 (3
)
(4
)
20 24

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Siti had 30 more stickers than Wendy at first. Wendy gave 12 of her stickers to
Siti. Siti now has 3 times as many stickers as Wendy. How many stickers
did Wendy have at first?

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MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, SINGAPORE

PRIMARY SCHOOL LEAVING
EXAMINATION

0008/1 (B)
PSLE 28 SEPTEMBER
2012

MATHEMATICS
PAPER 1
(BOOKLET
B)

Total Time for Booklets A and B :

 50 min

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES

1. Write your Index No. in the boxes at the top right

hand corner, 2. Do not turn over this page until you are
told to do so. 3. Follow all instructions carefully. 4. Answer
all questions. 5. Write your answers in this booklet. 6.
The use of calculators is NOT allowed.

This booklet consists of 8 printed

pages.

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© MOE 2012
Questions 16 to 25 carry 1 mark each. Write your answers in the spaces provided. Do not
write For questions which require units, give your answers in the units stated. (10 marks)
in this space

16
Find the value of 108 X 70.

Ans:

17
Find the value of 11 -0.66.

Ans:

18
Express 7.05 as a mixed number in its
simplest form.

Ans:
19
Find the value
of
+=

Ans:

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The pie chart shows how a class of 40 pupils go to school. What
percentage of the class walk to school?
Do not write in this space

Walk

18

Bus

13
Ans:

21
Aishah baked a cake and gave- of it to her friend. She cut the
remainder
equally into 5 slices. What fraction of the whole cake was each slice?

Ans:

22
Lee packs
Lee packs 5 kg of rice into small packets. Each packet contains 200 g of
rice. How many small packets of rice are there?
Ans:

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Use the information below to answer

questions 23 and 24.
Do not write in this space
Sam received $70 from his father each month
for his pocket money. The line graph shows
the amount of pocket money he spent each
month.
50
11
TO
1

Amount 30
Sam spent
.
1
11
1
1
1
1
1

1
1
11
11
i
1

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May

23
What is the difference between the amounts
Sam spent in March and in May?
Ans: $

24
Write down all the months in which Sam
spent more than half his pocket money.

Ans:

25
The figure shows a rectangular glass
box partly filled with unit cubes. When
the box is completely filled with unit cubes,
how many cubes are there altogether?

Ans:

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Questions 26 to 30 carry 2 marks each. Show your working clearly and

write your Do not write answers in the spaces provided. For questions which
require units, give your answers in this space in the units stated.
(10 marks)

26
Find the value of 2w - 4+ 3W when w = 5.
Ans:

27
Rani has a rectangular piece of paper. She folded it along the dotted line as
shown below. Find Zy.

Before folding
After folding
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The mass of a container with 50 identical metal balls is 750 g. When 20 of
the Do not write balls are removed, the mass of the container with the remaining balls
is 510 g. in this space What is the mass of each metal ball?
Ans:

A total of 110 people stand in a queue for concert tickets. There are at least 3 women
between any 2 men. What is the largest possible number of men in the queue?
 Ans:

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A shop sells. T-shirts in four different sizes. The table shows the number of
T-shirts sold in June for size S, M and L but not XL.
Do not write
in this space

Size of T-shirt
Number of T-shirts

140

302
95
(a)
50% of the T-shirts sold were in size M. How many of the T-shirts
sold were in size XL?

In July the number of T-shirts sold in size XL remained the same but there was
an increase in the number of T-shirts sold in the other sizes. Did the
percentage of the T-shirts sold in size XL increase, decrease or
remain the same from June to July?

Ans:
(a)

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MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, SINGAPORE PRIMARY SCHOOL LEAVING

EXAMINATION

0008/2
PSLE 28 SEPTEMBER 2012

MATHEMATICS
PAPER 2

Time: 1 h 40 min

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right hand comer. 2. Do not turn over this page until you are told to do so. 3. Follow
all instructions carefully. 4. Answer all questions. 5. Write your answers in this
booklet. 6. The use of an approved calculator is expected, where appropriate.
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Questions 1 to 5 carry 2 marks each. Show your working clearly and write
your Do not write answers in the spaces provided. For questions which
require units, give your answers in this space in the units stated.
(10 marks)

First 6 cupcakes
$1 each

Additional cupcakes
80¢ each

Ben has $20. What is the greatest number of cupcakes he can buy?

Ans:
1

A group of dancers are arranged in 4 rows. Each row has k more dancers
than the row in front of it. There are 8k dancers in the second row.
How many dancers are there altogether? Give your answer in terms of k in
the simplest form.
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3
The average of four 3-digit numbers is 250. Two of the numbers are 190
and 230. What is the largest difference between the other two numbers?

Ans:

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The ratio of the number of angelfish to that of clownfish in an aquarium was Do not write 5: 4 at first.
After 3 clownfish were sold, the ratio of the number of angelfish to in this space that of
clownfish became 4: 3. What was the total number of angelfish and clownfish in the
aquarium at first?
 Ans:

Liyan had a bottle of syrup. She used an equal amount

of syrup each day. At the end of the 12th day, 5 of the
bottle was left. At the end of the 14th day, the amount of syrup
left was 200 ml. What was the amount of syrup in the bottle at first?
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For questions 6 to 18, show your working clearly and write your answers in the spaces
Do not write provided. The number of marks available is shown in brackets [ ] at the
end of each in this space question or part-question.
(50 marks)

At a sale, Mr Lim bought 10 mugs of the same kind. His sister bought 8
such mugs. She also bought 3 towels at $2.50 each. Altogether, she spent $2.30
less than Mr Lim. What was the total amount of money Mr Lim and his sister
spent?
Ans:

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In the square grid, two sides of a parallelogram ABCD have been
drawn. (a) Complete the drawing of the parallelogram
ABCD.
CB also forms one side of a triangle CBE in which ZCBE is a right angle and CB =
BE. Complete the drawing of the triangle CBE within the grid.
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C

1500
Do not write in this space
B

45.
00

In the figure, ABCD is a parallelogram. CFD and EBF are straight lines. ZCBE =
150°, ZBCD = 45° and ZDBF = 20°.

(a) (b)
Find ZEBA Find ZBDA.

Ans: (a)

There are two numbers. One is 5 times the other. They have exactly six common
factors. Three of the common factors are 1, 2 and 9.

(a) (b)
What are the other three common factors? What are the two
numbers?

Ans: (a)

(b)
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A shop sold three brands of pens: Bright, Click and Dott. The bar graph shows Do not
write the number of pens sold for each brand in one day.
in this space

Number of pens sold

Bright
Click
Dott

(a)
How many pens were sold altogether?

(b)
The shop collected $270 from selling the pens. The prices of the Bright,
Click and Dott pens were in the ratio 1:2:3. How much money was collected from
selling the Click pens?
Ans: (a).

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Do not write in this space
Three girls used the same number of beads to make
necklaces. Devi used of her beads, Esther
used of hers and Farah used of hers. They had a
total of 1440 beads at first. How many beads did each
girl use?
Ans:
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P and Q are two rectangular containers. The base area of P is 60 cm2
while Do not write that of Q is 40 cm? At first P contained water to a height
of 32 cm and Q was in this space empty, as shown below.
INNOR

32 cm

(a)
What was the volume of the water in P at first?

(b)
Rahim then poured some water from P to Q. After that, the height of the
water level in p was twice that in Q. What was the new height of the water level in
P?
Ans: (a)

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A bakery and a library are 120 m apart. They are located between Hong's house and
Jeya's house, as shown below. The bakery is exactly half-way in between the
two houses.
Do not write in this space

Hong's house
Bakery Library
Jeya's house

120 m

One day, Hong and Jeya started cycling from their houses at the same time
and they arrived at the library together. Jeya cycled at 70 m/min while Hong
cycled at a speed 15 m/min faster than Jeya.

(a)
(b)
How much further did Hong
cycle than Jeya? How far is
Jeya's house from the
library?
 Ans: (a)

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The figure shows an empty tank placed below two taps E and F. It takes Do not write 12
min to fill the tank with Tap E alone and 8 min with Tap F alone.
in this space
a)
With only Tap E turned on, what fraction of the tank will be filled in
1 min?

(b)
Starting with an empty tank, how long does it take for both
taps together
to fill of the tank? Give your
answer in seconds.

Tap E
Tap F
Ans: (a).

(b).

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Weiyang started a savings plan by putting 2 coins in a money box
every day. Do not write Each coin was either a 20¢ or 50¢ coin. His mother also
put in a $1 coin in the in this space box every 7 days. The total value of the
coins after 182 days was $133.90.

(a)
How many coins were there altogether?

(b)
How many of the coins were 50¢ coins?
-
:-

Ans: (a)

(b).

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Six identical rectangular boxes can be stacked into a cupboard 0.9 m wide. Do not write Two
arrangements are shown below. The first arrangement in Figure A leaves in this space a
42-cm gap at the top. The second one in Figure B leaves a 10-cm gap at the top and
another gap at the side.

10
cm
 42 cm
11
cupboard
cupboard

Figure A
Figure B

(a)
In the arrangement shown in Figure B, what is the width of the gap at the side?

(b)
What is the height of the cupboard
in metres?

Ans: (a).
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Lisa had a collection of stamps from Australia, France and Japan. She had Do
not write 124 stamps from Australia. 30% of her stamps were from France. She had in
this space 12 fewer stamps from Japan than from France.

(a)
What was the total number of stamps in Lisa's
collection?

(b)
Lisa's aunt gave her some stamps from France. Her total collection increased by
25%. What percentage of her collection was from France after
that?
Ans:
(a)
(b)
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The figure shows a rectangular grass patch and an L-shaped
footpath. Do not write The width of the footpath is 100 cm. The footpath is
tiled using 38 circular tiles in this space of diameter 50 cm, following the pattern
shown below. Each tile is in contact with those next to it.

100 cm
grass patch
ΥΥΥΥ Υ Υ ΥΥΥΥΥ -ΥΥΥΥΥΥΥΥΥ Υ
ΥΥ Υ Υ ΥΥΥΥΥΥΥ
Υ Υ Υ Υ Υ Υ Υ Υ Υ Υ rrrrrrrrrrr
Υ Υ ΥΥΥ Υ Υ Υ Υ Υ
footpath

100 cm 1888:::::89

What is the area of the footpath not covered by the tiles? Take n = 3.14.

(b)
What is the perimeter of the grass patch?
Ans: (a).

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