SASMO 2014 PRIMARY
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QUESTION 1
Jane is 9 years old and John is 5 years old . How old will
John be when Jane is 15 years old ?
QUESTION 2
A textbook is opened at random. To what pages is it opened if the
product of the facing pages is 110?
QUESTION 3
Find the number B such that the following statement is true:
8xB=3x9+5x9.
QUESTION 4
It is given that a ⊗ b = a x b + a - b . For Example , 2 ⊗ 3 = 2 x 3
+ 2 - 3 = 5 , Find the value of 4 ⊗ 3 - 3 ⊗ 4 .
QUESTION 5
Jane has a rope of length 23 cm . She wants to cut the rope so that she can form
the biggest possible square, where the length of each side , in cm is a whole
number . What is the length of the rope that she must cut to form the square ?
QUESTION 6
Find the missing term in the following sequence :
1 , 2 , 6 , 24 , ____ , 720 .
QUESTION 7
On National Day , 39 soldiers lined up in a straight row on opposite
sides of Stadium Street to welcome Prime Minister Lee . A soldier
stands on each end of Stadium Street .The distance between
two adjacent soldiers on either side was 20 m . The soldiers on one
side were arranged such that each soldier filled the gap between
two other soldiers on the opposite side . How long was Stadium
Street ?
QUESTION 8
A shop sells sweets where every 3 sweet wrappers can be exchanges for one more sweet .
Sharon has enough money to buy only 11 sweets . What is the biggest number of sweets
that she can get from the shop ?
QUESTION 9
At a workshop , there are 10 participants . Each of them shakes hand once
with one another. How many handshakes are there ?
QUESTION 10
Ali uses identical square tiles to make the following figures. If he
continues using the same pattern , how many tiles will there be in the
15th figure ?
QUESTION 11
What is the least number of cuts required to cut 16 identical sausages so that they can be
shared equally among 24 people?
QUESTION 12
A vending machine accepts 10 cents coins , 20 cents coins , 50 cent coins
and $ 1 coins only . Ivy wants to buy a can of drinks that costs $ 1.60 . She
has eight 10 cents coins , three 20 cent coins , two 50 cents coins and one $1
[Link] she wants to get rid of as many coins as possible , what is the
combination of coins that she should put inside the vending machine?
QUESTION 13
The total cost of a pen and a pencil is $ 2.90 . The pen costs 60
cent more than the pencil. What much does the pen cost ?
QUESTION 14
If the three - digit number 3N3 is divided by 9 , the remainder is [Link] N
QUESTION 15
Charles has 16 marbles . He divides them into 4 piles so
that each pile has a different number of marbles . Find the
smallest possible number of marbles in the biggest pile ?
QUESTION 16
In the following alphametic , all the different letters for different digits
. Find the three - digit sum SEE.
A S
+ A
_________
S E E
___________
QUESTION 17
Find the total number of triangles in the diagram .
QUESTION 18
A teacher has a bag of sweets to treat her class . If she gave 5 sewwts
to each student , then she would have 40 sweets to each student , then
she would have 6 sweets left. How many students and how many
sweets are there ?
QUESTION 19
What are the last 2 digits of the sum 1 + 11 + 111 + 1111
+.........+111111.......111(50 digits)
QUESTION 20
Alvin tells the truth on Monday , Tuesday , Wednesday, Thursday ,.He lies on all
other days . Doris tells the truth on Monday , Friday , Saturday and Sunday .
She lies on all other days .One day they both said , Yesterday I lied .
When was that one day ?
