Primary 5 Maths Weighted Assessment 2 (WA2) – Paper 5

1. 7 children shared 5 kg of rice equally. Find the weight of rice each child received.
Give your answer correct to 2 decimal places.

Answer:   kg

📖 REMINDER: Divide total amount by number of people; round only at the end.

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2. (a) 3.72 = ______ hundredths

Answer: 

📖 REMINDER: Remember place value: 1 hundredth = 0.01, 1 tenth = 0.1.

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3. Mrs. Lee mixed 3 ℓ 125 ml of water with 500 ml of orange syrup to make some orange drink.
Find the ratio of the amount of orange syrup used to the amount of orange drink she made.
Express your answer in the simplest form.

Answer:

📖 REMINDER: Convert all measurements to the same unit before finding the ratio.

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4. Bella has less than 90 pencils. If she gives 5 pencils to each of her friends, she will have none left.
If she gives 8 pencils to each of her friends, she will be short of 27 pencils. How many pencils does Bella have?

Answer:   pencils

📖 REMINDER: Set up two equations from the conditions and solve for the number of pencils.

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5. Lucas bought some notebooks at $2.40 each and some markers at $4.25 each.
He bought 14 more notebooks than markers and spent a total of $176.70.
How many markers did he buy?

Answer:   markers

📖 REMINDER: Use model drawing or systematic guess-and-check to solve without algebra.

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6. Sophia spent $1340 of her salary on rent and $860 on a new laptop.
She gave ³⁄₇ of the remaining to her parents and had ¹⁄₅ of her salary left.
How much was Sophia's salary?

Answer: $ 

📖 REMINDER: Work backwards using fractions of the salary after expenses.

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7. 25 identical pens and 15 identical pencils were stacked up to a height of 43.75 cm.
When 12 of the pens and 5 of the pencils were removed, the height of the remaining
stack was 19.25 cm. What was the thickness of each pen?

Answer:   cm

📖 REMINDER: Use simultaneous reasoning without algebra—guess and check or comparison of differences.

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8. An equal number of boys and girls attended a camp in the morning. In the afternoon,
another 62 boys joined and 15 girls left. In the evening, another 30 boys and 20 girls joined.
In the end, there were 4 times as many boys as girls. How many children attended the camp in the morning?

Answer:   children

📖 REMINDER: Use model drawing or systematic guess-and-check to solve without algebra.

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