PRIMARY 5 (GRADE 5) 2022 CONTEST PAPER
NAME: Index Number:
SCHOOL:
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Please DO NOT OPEN the contest booklet until the Proctor has given permission to
start
2. TIME: 1 hour 30 minutes.
3. There are 25 questions:
Section A: Questions 1 to 15 score 2 points each, no points are deducted for an
unanswered question and 1 point is deducted for the wrong answer.
Section B: Questions 16 to 25 score 4 points each, no points are deducted for an
unanswered or wrong answer.
4. Shade your answers neatly using a 2B lead pencil in the Answer Entry Sheet.
5. PROCTORING: No one may help any student in any way during the contest.
6. No electronic devices capable of storing and displaying visual information are allowed
during the course of the exam.
7. Strictly No Calculators are allowed into the exam.
8. All students must fill and shade their Name, School and Index Number in the
Answer Entry Sheet and Contest booklet.
9. MINIMUM TIME: Students must stay in the exam hall for at least 1 hour.
10. A student must show detailed working and transfer answers to the Answer Entry
Sheet.
11. No exam papers and written notes can be taken out by any contestant.
Rough Working
SASMO 2022, Primary 5 (Grade 5) Contest
Section A (Correct answer – 2 points| No answer – 0 points| Incorrect answer – minus 1 point)
Question 1
Calculate the following.
(37 + 54 × 81) ÷ (82 × 54 − 17)
A. 0
B. 1
C. 2
D. 1.5
E. None of the above
Question 2
What is the missing number in the sequence below?
1, 4, 8, __ , 19, 26, …
A. 13
B. 12
C. 16
D. 14
E. None of the above
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Question 3
In the diagram, a small square lies inside a large square. The shaded area is 48 cm2.
If the perimeter of the small square is 44 cm, find the perimeter (in cm) of the large
square.
A. 12 cm
B. 13 cm
C. 48 cm
D. 52 cm
E. None of the above
Question 4
In an election for class president, 92 votes are cast by students who are voting to
choose one of five candidates. Each student must vote for only one candidate. The
candidate with the highest number of votes is the winner. What is the smallest
number of votes the winner can receive?
A. 18
B. 19
C. 21
D. 22
E. None of the above
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Question 5
Mason built a pyramid using identical cubes. The pyramid is shown below from
different angles. Mason paints the whole pyramid in green colour. How many cubes
have exactly 2 sides painted in green?
A. 12
B. 16
C. 32
D. 36
E. None of the above
Question 6
In a bag, there are oranges and bananas. If we give away 140 bananas, the
percentage of fruits in the bag that are bananas will decrease from 60% to 40%.
How many oranges are there in the bag?
A. 14
B. 168
C. 252
D. 420
E. None of the above
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Question 7
One hundred marbles can be distributed equally among a few students. If 8 more
students are to share the 100 marbles, each of all the students can still get an equal
number of marbles. How many marbles can each student get originally?
A. 20
B. 25
C. 50
D. 100
E. None of the above
Question 8
How many two-digit numbers are divisible by 3 but not by 6?
A. 14
B. 15
C. 17
D. 30
E. None of the above
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Question 9
An ant is at one vertex of a cube and can only walk along the edges of the cube. It
cannot walk along any edge more than once. If the length of the cube is 9 cm, what
is the greatest distance (in cm) that the ant can walk before it cannot continue?
A. 81 cm
B. 72 cm
C. 108 cm
D. 9 cm
E. None of the above
Question 10
A certain month has 3 Wednesdays falling on even number dates. Which day is the
20th of this month?
A. Sunday
B. Monday
C. Wednesday
D. Saturday
E. None of the above
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Question 11
What is the sum of digits of the following product?
1008 × ⏟
111 … 111
12 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠
A. 81
B. 90
C. 99
D. 108
E. None of the above
Question 12
How many five-digit whole numbers, divisible by 9, can be written using only the
digits 3 and 6?
A. 32
B. 16
C. 24
D. 10
E. None of the above
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Question 13
The first common term of the 2 sequences below is 54. What is the next common
term of both sequences?
18, 27, 36, 45, 54, …
22, 30, 38, 46, 54, …
A. 72
B. 116
C. 126
D. 198
E. None of the above
Question 14
How many whole numbers smaller than 300 can be formed with the digits 2, 6, 1 or
3 if each of the digits can only be used at most once in any number?
A. 29
B. 28
C. 24
D. 12
E. None of the above
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Question 15
How many whole numbers can be expressed as a sum of three different numbers
chosen from the set below?
{5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25}
A. 10
B. 15
C. 9
D. 6
E. None of the above
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Section B (Correct answer – 4 points| Incorrect or No answer – 0 points)
When an answer is a 1-digit number, shade “0” for the tens, hundreds and thousands place.
Example: if the answer is 7, then shade 0007
When an answer is a 2-digit number, shade “0” for the hundreds and thousands place.
Example: if the answer is 23, then shade 0023
When an answer is a 3-digit number, shade “0” for the thousands place.
Example: if the answer is 785, then shade 0785
When an answer is a 4-digit number, shade as it is.
Example: if the answer is 4196, then shade 4196
Question 16
How many triangles are there in the figure below?
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Question 17
The graph below shows the number of books Mr Goh sold in the first 6 days of a
week. All the horizontal lines are equally spaced. The ratio of the number of books
sold on Monday to the number of books sold on Sunday is 2 : 5. If the average
number of books sold during the whole week was 252, how many books did Mr Goh
sell on Sunday?
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
Number of books
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Question 18
In the following cryptarithm, all the different letters stand for different digits. What is
the value of the 4-digit number ABCD?
A B C D
× D
D C A A
Question 19
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A school library has a total of 124 Science and Maths textbooks. If of the Science
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textbooks and of the Maths textbooks were loaned out, there will be 48 Science
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and Maths textbooks left. How many Maths textbooks does the library have?
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Question 20
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Sam, Mark and Lucy went shopping. Sam spent of the total sum. The rest of the
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money were spent by Mark and Lucy in the ratio 8 : 7. If the total sum spent by Sam
and Lucy was $475, find the average sum of money spent by each child.
Question 21
Robots are used to assemble cars in a factory. Five robots assemble 29 cars in 9
minutes. If all robots assemble cars at the same speed, how many cars can 23
robots assemble in 6 hours?
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Question 22
Ninety students numbered from 1 to 90 were asked to line up in a straight line. The
first student in the line was asked to leave, the second student remained. The third
student was asked to leave the line, the fourth student remained and so forth. This
process was then repeated until there was only one student left in the line. What
was the number of the only student left in the line?
Question 23
The figure below is made up of 2 identical squares and a rectangle. The area of the
square is 144 cm2 and the area of the rectangle is 216 cm2. Points 𝐴, 𝐵, 𝐶 and 𝐷 are
on the vertices of the rectangle and squares as shown. If the breadth of the
rectangle is 9 cm, find the area (in cm2) of the shaded region 𝐴𝐵𝐶𝐷.
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Question 24
When Bernard was as old as Hector is now, Bernard’s age was 4 times Hector’s age
then. When Hector will be as old as Bernard is now, the sum of their ages will be 51.
How old will Bernard be when Hector turns 18 years old?
Question 25
A number is formed using the digits 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. Any digit can be used more
than once, but adjacent digits cannot be the same. Once a pair of adjacent digits
has occurred, that pair, in that order, cannot be used again. How many digits are in
the largest such number?
END OF PAPER
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