2019 NMOS Question

2019 + 4567  7890

1. Evaluate .
4568  7890 − 5871

2. How many triangles are there in the figure below?

3. Lan wanted to finish reading a book in 4 days. He completed reading 40% of the book on the 1st day. He
read 20% of the remaining pages on the 2nd day. On the 3rd day, he read three times the number of pages he
read on the 2nd day. Find the number of pages Ian read on the last day as a percentage of what he read on
the 1st day. (For example, if your answer is 10%, shade the answer as “10%”.)
4. Emma has three rows of two 7-feet by 4-feet flower beds in her garden. The beds are separated and
surrounded by 2-feet-wide walkways, as shown in the diagram. What is the total area of the walkways, in
square feet?

5. When Paul was 7 years old, his mother was 37 years old. Now his mother is 4 times as old as Paul. How
old is his mother now?

6. Fill in the following 3  3 array with whole numbers, such that the average of the three numbers in
each row, column or diagonal is the same. Given that A = 2019 and B = 9201, find the value of C.
7. The rectangle shown is separated into eight right-angled triangles by line segments. The areas of three
of the triangles are indicated in the figure. What is the area (in cm2) of the entire rectangle?

8. Mary forgot to bring her math textbook when she went to school. Her father found out 18 minutes after
Mary left the house, and he immediately cycled after her to give her the textbook. After they met, Mary
continued to walk to school and her father cycled back home. They reached their destinations at the same
time. Given that the average speed of her father is 5 times that of Mary, how long does it take (in minutes)
for Mary to walk to school from home?

9. Study the following pattern:

1+ 2 +1 = 4
1+ 2 + 3 + 2 +1 = 9
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 3 + 2 + 1 = 16
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 4 + 3 + 2 + 1 = 25
Find the sum of 10 + 11 + 12 +  + 36 + 37 + 36 +  + 12 + 11 + 10.
10. Mrs. Tan places 50 candies inside a jar. Andy, Benjamin and Cheryl each takes a number of candies.
Andy: If Benjamin gives two candies to me, I will have eight more candies than Cheryl.
Benjamin: If I give all of my candies to Cheryl, Cheryl and Andy will have the same number of candies.
Cheryl: I have less candies than Benjamin.
If all of them are telling the truth, find the smallest possible number of remaining candies inside the jar.

11. There are 30 questions in a mathematics contest. 6 marks will be awarded for each correct answer. 4
marks will be deducted for each wrong answer. All the questions must be answered. If Brandon scores
100 marks in the mathematics contest, how many questions does he answer correctly?

12. A prime number is a whole number greater than 1 whose only factors are 1 and itself. For example, 2,
3, 5, 7 and 11 are prime numbers. If 110 is written as a sum of 11 prime numbers, what is the largest
possible value of the largest prime number?
13. In the following figure, both AOB and COD are right angles. Obtuse AOD is greater than
obtuse AOC by 20°. Find acute BOC (in degrees).

14. Car X travels from Town A to Town B at a constant speed. 30 minutes after Car X leaves Town A, Car
Y also leaves Town A at the same speed as Car X, and travels towards Town B along the same route. A
truck travels from Town B to Town A along the same route at a constant speed 4 km/h faster than both Car
X and Car Y. After the truck passes by Car X, it passes by Car Y 14 minutes later. Find the speed of the
truck in km/h.

15. Lucky Machine is a special game in a theme park. Anyone who pays a ticket of $25 will get the
remaining amount of money in his/her wallet doubled. Jimmy wants to play this game repeatedly, hoping
to earn a large sum of money. However, after playing the game five times, he has only $18 left in his
wallet and cannot continue. How much money, in dollars, was there in Jimmy’s wallet before he started
this game?
16. Daniel read a book. On the first day, he read 5 pages in 5 minutes. On the second day, he read 6 pages
in 10 minutes. On the third day, he read 7 pages in 15 minutes. Each day thereafter, Daniel read one more
page and he spent five more minutes than he did in the previous day. When Daniel completed reading this
396-page book, how long (in hours) did Daniel spend in total?

17. Given numbers A and B, the operator  is defined as A  B = 5 A + 3B . For example,

3  4 = 5  3 + 3  4 = 27 .
1 1
If a  9 = 37 , what is the value of  (a  ) ?
5 3

18. In the figure below, △ABC is an isosceles triangle with AB = AC , BAD = 30 and AE = AD .
Find CDE (in degrees).
19. In the following figure, the length of the side of square ABCD is 16cm, and the length of the side of
square BEFG is 12cm. DE intersects BC at point P. Find the area (in cm2) of the shaded region APEG.

20. In the following cube, each of the faces is assigned with a different number from 1 to 6. Tom worked
out a net of this cube based on his view of the only 3 numbers. Find the largest possible value of the 3-digit
number ABC.
[If A is 1, B is 2 and C is 3, then answer is the 3-digit number 123.]

21. A coin box contained some twenty-cent and fifty-cent coins in the ratio of 3 : 4 . Alice removed 13
fifty-cent coins and added 20 twenty-cent coins. In the end, the amount of money made up of twenty-cent
coins is twice the amount of money made up of fifty-cent coins. Find the total number of coins Alice had
at first.
22. NUS and SUN are two 3-digit numbers. Each of the letters N, U and S represents a different one of
digits from 0 to 9. Given that NUS  SUN = 53703 , find the value of NUS + SUN .

23. In the following diagram, ABCDEFGHI is a regular nine-sided polygon with AB = BC = CD = DE =

EF = FG = GH = HI = IA. Find ∠GID (in degrees).
24. While Train X was crossing a bridge from end A to end B, Train Y was crossing the bridge from end
B to end A. They started travelling from their end at the same time and each of them travelled at a same
constant speed along the bridge. They took 12 seconds to meet each other on the bridge. Then each of
them took 23 seconds to leave the bridge. Given that the bridge is 492 meters long, what is the total length
(in meters) of Train X and Train Y?

25. A and B are two different prime numbers, such that A + B = 680 and A  B is a 4-digit number. Find
the largest possible value of the product A  B .
26. A palindrome is a whole number that remains the same when its digits are reversed. For example,
7887, 12521 and 60906 are palindromes. Find the number of 4-digit palindromes which are multiples of 7.
(For example, 7007 is a palindrome which is a multiple of 7.)

27. In the figure below, the area of the rectangle ABCD is 704cm2. AEGF is a trapezium with AE parallel
to FG. Point F is on BC and D is the midpoint of EG. Find the area of the trapezium AEGF.

28. Consider the following pattern:

Find the sum of all the whole numbers in Figure 19.

29. The numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 are filled in the following 5  5 square grid, such that each number
appears only once in each row, in each column and in each region bounded by bold lines. Find the
three-digit number ABC.
[If A is 1, B is 2 and C is 3, then the answer is the 3-digit number 123.]

30. There are 30 students in Mr. Lim’s class. 12 students obtained Distinction in English, 10 students
obtained Distinction in Mathematics, and 17 students obtained Distinction in Science. Find the largest
possible number of students who did not obtain Distinction in any of the three subjects.
 2019 NMOS Answer
1． 1
2． 14
3． 30%
4． 232
5． 40
6． 5610
7． 60 cm 2
8． 27min
9． 1279
10． 28

11． 22
12． 89
13． 35°
14． 32km/h
15． 49
16． 25
17． 34
18． 15°
19． 72 cm 2
20． 563

21． 35
22． 504
23． 60°
24． 451
25． 4711
26． 18
27． 704 cm 2
28． 6859
29． 241
30． 13

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