Primary 5 (Grade 5) – GEP Practice

2019
Contest Problems with Full Solutions

Authors:
Henry Ong, BSc, MBA, CMA
Merlan Nagidulin, BSc

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Section A (Correct answer – 2 points| No answer – 0 points| Incorrect answer – minus 1 point)

Question 1
Find the sum of all digits of the following product
369 × 333
A. 122877
B. 121877
C. 27
D. 25
E. None of the above

Question 2
Which of the following results in an odd number?
A. 6875 − 4213
B. 1648 + 6742
C. 54 × 357
D. 252 ÷ 12
E. None of the above

Question 3
What is the value of C so that the 4-digit number 187C is divisible by 9?
A. 0
B. 1
C. 2
D. 3
E. None of the above

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Question 4
Find the next number in the sequence below.
7, 11, 22, 40, 65, ____
A. 104
B. 129
C. 72
D. 97
E. None of the above

Question 5
Andrew and Caden had some stamps in the ratio 6:8. Andrew gave a quarter of his
stamps to Caden. Caden then had 280 stamps more than Andrew. How many
stamps did they have altogether?
A. 392
B. 784
C. 336
D. 448
E. None of the above

Question 6
From which figure onwards will the number of black circles in the figure be more
than the number of white circles in the same figure?

Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3 Figure 4

A. Figure 7
B. Figure 8
C. Figure 9
D. Figure 10
E. None of the above

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Question 7
Find the value of the following fraction in simplest form.
1
2−
1
0+ 1
1−
9
1
A. 1
9
8
B.
9
26
C.
17
7
D.
8
E. None of the above

Question 8
Which of the following will form a knot when the two ends are pulled away from
each other at the same time?

A B C

D E

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Question 9
Find the sum of all whole numbers 𝑛 such that when 60 is divided by 𝑛 it gives a
remainder of 4.
A. 120
B. 113
C. 57
D. 56
E. None of the above

Question 10
Edison left Town A at 2:30 pm and drove towards Town B at 60 km/h. At 3 pm,
Jason also left Town A and drove in the same direction as Edison at 75 km/h. What
time did Jason catch up with Edison?
A. 4:30 pm
B. 5:00 pm
C. 3:45 pm
D. 4:00 pm
E. None of the above

Question 11
In how many different ways can the circles be coloured
using 3 colours: white, blue and green so that any 2
circles connected by a line do not share the same colour?
A. 6
B. 8
C. 16
D. 24
E. None of the above

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Question 12
The number of male viewers of a YouTube channel was twice as many as the
number of its female viewers. The average watch time per video of its male viewers
was 24 seconds and the average watch time per video of female viewers of this
channel was 36 seconds. What was the average watch time per video of all the
viewers of this YouTube channel?
A. 24 seconds
B. 28 seconds
C. 32 seconds
D. 33 seconds
E. None of the above

Question 13
Two identical squares overlap each other as shown
on the right. Given the vertical sides of the squares
are parallel, and the area of the square is 676 cm2,
what is the area of the shaded triangle?
A. 128 cm2
B. 165 cm2
C. 167 cm2
D. 284 cm2
E. None of the above

Question 14
Four friends made the following statements:
Kieran: I’m not the shortest.
Franklin: I’m neither the tallest nor the shortest.
Mabel: I’m the shortest
Jeff: I’m the tallest
If only one of them lied, who is the tallest?
A. Kieran
B. Franklin
C. Mabel
D. Jeff
E. Insufficient data

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Question 15
Find the missing figure in the diagram below.

A B C D E

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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 on the right?

Question 17
In a 24-hour period on a digital clock, from 0:00 to 23:59, how many times does the
digit “5” occur?
[At the time 3:55, the digit “5” occurs 2 times]

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Question 18
The following bar chart shows the number of students from Happy Primary School
who received 4 different awards in SASMO competition. All the horizontal lines are
equally spaced. The difference between the number of students who received Silver
Award and Perfect Score was 140. Students who didn’t win any award received
Certificate of Participation and they weren’t indicated on the graph. The ratio
between the number of students who received Gold Award to the number of
students who received Certificate of Participation was 4:9. Find the number of
students who received Certificate of Participation.
Number of students

0
Gold Silver Bronze Perfect Score
Awards

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Question 19
A pipe can fill up an empty tank in 18 hours. Full tank can be emptied by a pump in
20 hours. How long (in hours) will it take to fill up an empty tank if both the pipe
and the pump are turned on at the same time?

Question 20
Ren selected 20 different whole numbers greater than 0 such that the product of
any 9 numbers is always even. The sum of the 20 numbers is an odd number. Find
the least possible sum of these numbers.

3 cm

Question 21
The big square on the right is made up
of 4 rectangles and 1 small square. 7 cm

The lengths and the breadths of 2

rectangles are given in the picture.
Find the perimeter (in cm) of the big 11 cm

square.

5 cm

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Question 22
In the following cryptarithm, all the different letters stand for different digits. What is
the value of the 4-digit number AECA?

A C A E

+ A E C A

C E D A

Question 23
Shells are being distributed into a fixed number of boxes. If the shells are distributed
into groups of 14, there will 6 extra shells. When shells are grouped into 16, there
will be a shortage of 84 shells. What is the total number of shells?

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Question 24
Four 2-digit numbers are made up from the digits 2, 3, 4, …, 9 with no repetition.
The following are the hints about these numbers:
• In the smallest number, the ones digit is twice of tens digit.
• In the largest number, the sum of ones and tens digits is 11.
• In one of the numbers, tens digit is 5 more than ones digit.
• One of the numbers is divisible by 7.
Find the second smallest number.

Question 25
Stan got some notebooks and pens from a bookstore. The price of a notebook was
$7, and a pen’s price was $3. There was a promotion “Buy 4 notebooks, get 5 pens
free”. He spent exactly $82 in total and enjoyed the promotion to the fullest such
that he got the largest combined number of notebooks and pens. What is the total
number of pens (including the free ones) that he got from the bookstore?

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