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MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, SINGAPORE
PRIMARY SCHOOL LEAVING EXAMINATION
OOOS/2 PSLE
2 ocroBER 2015
MATHEMATICS
PAPER 2
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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)
Zaleha bought 1.2k9 of grapes. How much did she pay?
Ans: $
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Malek paid $945 for a table and 4 chairs. The price of a chair was of the
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price of the table. How much did Malek pay for the table?
Ans: $
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Rei bought 150 oranges and 100 apples for her neighbours, Do not write
She divided the oranges equally among them and had 17 oranges left. in this space
She also divided the apples equally among them and had 5 apples left.
How many neighbours were there?
Ans:
ln the figure, ABCD is a square, EBFG is a rectangle and IEBC = 252o
Find IABF.
Ans:
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A player has to play a total of four games in Round 1 of a competition, Do not write
The scores for Chong's first three games are shown below. in this space
Round 1
Game Score
1rt 23
2nd 21
3rd 24
4th
Chong will qualify for Round 2 if his average score for three of the four games
is 25 or more. What is the towest score Chong must get in the 4th game to
qualify for Round 2?
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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 I J at the end of each in this space
question or paft-question. (50 marks)
tn the figure, CDEF is a parallelogram. AFC and BFE are straight lines and
BA = BC. /ABF = 30o and IDEF = 54".
(a) Find ZEFC,
(b) Find LFBC.
Ans: (a) t1l
(b) l2)
At first, Ben had $90 and Chandra had $48. Each bought a shirt at the same
price. The amounts of money Ben and Chandra had left were in the ratio 4 : 1.
How much did the shirt cost?
Ans:
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Liming had a piece of wire 13vv cm long. He formed a triangle, with sides Do not write
measuring w cm, 3w cm and 20 cm, with part of the wire. in this space
(a) Express the length of the remaining wire in terms of w in the simplest
form.
(b) Liming used the remaining wire to form a rectangle of length 2w cm.
lf w = 6, what was the breadth of the rectangle?
Ans: (a) t1I
(b) l2l
At a concerl, 55o/o of the tickets were sold at full price and 40o1o of the tickets at
half price. The remaining 20 tickets were given away free. The total amount of
money collected was $7200. What was the full price of a ticket?
Ans:
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10 A company offered B0 printers at a 25o/o discount during a 7-day sale. The line Do not write
graph shows the number of pri.nters left unsold at the end of each day. in this space
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printers 4fr
left
unsold
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Start Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Day 7
of Sale
{a) On which day was the most number of printers sold?
(b) What percentage of the 80 printers were sold in the first three days of
the sale?
(c) During the sale, the discounted price of the printers was $120. After
the sale, the remaining printers were sold without discount. What was
ihe total amount of money collected from selling all 80 printers?
Ans: (a) t1l
(b) t1l
(c) l3l
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'11 ln a school ,70a/a of the members in the Band and 60% of the members in the Do not write
Choir are girls. Both the Band and the Choir have the same number of boys. in this space
The Band has 20 more girls than the Choir.
How many members are there in the Band?
12 At 11 50, Kiran started cycling at 25 km/h from her home to a park, 10 km
away. She was at the park for t h 50 min.
(a) What time did she leave the park?
(b) After leaving the park, Kiran cycled back along the same route and
took 40 min to reach home. What was her average speed, in kmih, for
the journey home?
Ans: (a) t21
(b) t2)
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13 The figure shows a right-angled triangle. Do not write
in this space
26 cm
(a) Find the area of the triangle.
(b) Dinesh wants to cut such triangles from a rectangular piece of
cardboard 60 cm by 100 cm. At most, how many of such triangles can
he cut?
Ans: (a) l1l
(b) t3l
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14 The figure shows a path of width 2 m in a rectangular garden of length 28 m. Do not write
The outline of the path is rnade up of quarter circles with centre W, semicircles in this space
with centre Z and straighi lines. VYX = YZ.
(a) What is the width of ihe rectangular garden?
tb) Find the area of the path. Take n = 3.14.
W X Z
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28
Ans: (a) I1l
{b) 13I
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15 Yan filted two types of bottles, Iarge and small, with the drink she made. Do not write
She filled 3 large bottles and 5 small bottles with 7 .2 t, of the drink. in this space
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She could not fill another large bottle with the remaining drink as she was shorl
of 0.5 t. lnstead, she filled another small bottle and had 0.3 t of the drink left.
(a) How many more litres of drink did each large bottle hold than each
small bottle?
(b) How many litres of drink did Yan make?
Ans: (a) l1l
(b) i3l
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16 Peiyi and Jamal bought potted plants at the prices shown below. Do not write
in this space
Large potted plants Small potted plants
2 for $15 3 for $10
(a) Peiyi bought an equal number of large and small potted plants.
She spent $175 more on the large ones. How many potted plants did
she buy altogether?
(b) Jamal spent an equal amount of money on the large and smalt potted
ptants. What fraction of the potted plants he bought were large?
Ans: (a)
(b)
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',7 Three girls Amy, Beth and Cindy had the same number of coins. Amy and Beth Do not write
each had a mix of fifty-cent and ten-cent coins. Amy had I ten-cent coins while in this space
Beth had 15 ten-cent colns. Cindy had only fifty-cent coins.
(a) Of the three girls, who had the most money and who had the least?
(b) What was the difference in the total value of Amy and Beth's coins?
{c) Beth used all her fifty-cent coins to buy some food. She then had $10
less in coins than Cindy. How many fifg-cent coins did Cindy have?
Ans: (a) Most
Least t1l
(b) 121
(c) l2l
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18 lshak uses rods to form figures that follow a pattern. The first four figures are Do not write
in this space
shown below.
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(a) The table below shows the number of rods used for each figure.
Complete the table for Figure 5 and Figure 6.
Figure Number Number of rods used
1 10
2 15
3 18
4 23
(b) What is the difference in the number of rods lshak would use for Figure 9
and Figure 11?
(c) How many rods would he use for Figure 30?
Ans: (b) l1l
(c) lzJ
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