Primary 5 Maths WA1 2024 [Test Paper 8]

6. (a) Find the value of 12 + 6 ÷ (2 + 1)

Answer: (a)

(b) Use all the digits 2, 3, 7, 8 to form a number closest to 3000.

Answer:  (b)

📖 REMINDER: For (a), follow PEMDAS/BODMAS rules. For (b), arrange digits to make a number as close as possible to 3000.

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7. Find the value of

(a) ³⁄₄ + ¹⁄₃  (Express your answer in its simplest form)

Answer: (a)

(b) ⁵⁄₆ × 9   (Express your answer as a mixed number)

Answer: (b)

📖 REMINDER: For (a), find a common denominator before adding. For (b), multiply the fraction by the whole number, then convert to a mixed number.

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8. Sarah had 4500 g of flour and she used 250 g of flour each day. How many days would Sarah take to finish using all her flour?

Answer: days

📖 REMINDER: Divide the total amount by the amount used each day to find how many days it will last.

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9. There are 40 boys and 15 girls in a class. ²⁄₅ of the boys and none of the girls wear spectacles.
What fraction of the students in the class wear spectacles? (Leave your answer in its simplest form)

Answer:

📖 REMINDER: First find how many boys wear spectacles. Then find the total number of students. Finally, express the number who wear spectacles as a fraction of the total students.

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10. The numbers in the table below follow a certain pattern. Study the pattern carefully and answer the question.

In which column will the number 73 appear?

Answer: Column

📖 REMINDER: Look for the pattern in how numbers are arranged. Each row has 4 numbers. Odd rows go left to right (increasing), even rows go left to right (decreasing).

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11. Mr. Lee had 88 apples and peaches at first. He sold ¹⁄₃ of the apples and ³⁄₄ of the peaches in the morning and had the same number of each fruit left.
In the afternoon, he sold ¹⁄₂ of the remaining peaches.

(a) Which fruit did he have more of at first?

Answer: 

(b) How many peaches did he sell in the afternoon?

Answer:   peaches

📖 REMINDER: Compare the leftover fractions to find the ratio of the starting numbers.

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12. Susan had an equal number of red and blue beads. She gave 35 red beads and 13 blue beads to Jenny.
She gave the remaining beads to Tom. Tom received three times as many blue beads as red beads.

(a) How many more red beads than blue beads did Susan give to Jenny?

Answer: beads

(b) Who received more beads from Susan? How many more?

Answer:   ,    more beads

📖 REMINDER: Use model drawing to compare what Tom received.

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