PRIMARY 3 (GRADE 3) 2024 CONTEST PAPER

NAME: Index Number:

SCHOOL:

INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Please DO NOT OPEN the contest booklet until the Proctor has given permission to
start

2. TIME: 1 hour 30 minutes.

3. There are 31 questions:

Section A: Questions 1 to 15 score 2 points each, no points are deducted for an
unanswered question and for the wrong answer.
Section B: Questions 16 to 25 score 4 points each, no points are deducted for an
unanswered or wrong answer.
Section C: Questions 26 to 31 score 5 points each, no points are deducted for an
unanswered or wrong answer.
4. Shade your answers neatly using a 2B lead pencil in the Answer Entry Sheet.

5. PROCTORING: No one may help any student in any way during the contest.

6. No electronic devices capable of storing and displaying visual information are allowed
during the course of the exam.

7. Strictly No Calculators are allowed into the exam.

8. All students must fill and shade their Name, School and Index Number in the
Answer Entry Sheet and Contest booklet.

9. MINIMUM TIME: Students must stay in the exam hall for at least 1 hour.

10. All students must show detailed workings in the contest booklet and transfer answers
to the Answer Entry Sheet.

11. No exam papers and written notes can be taken out by any contestant.
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Section (A)(Questions 1 to 15 carry 2 marks each. For each question, 4 options are given.
One of them is the correct answer. Make your choice (A, B, C or D). Shade the correct circle
on the Answer Entry Sheet (AES). The use of calculator is not allowed. No marks will be
deducted for wrong answers.)

Question 1

? > 8176. What is the missing number in the box?

A. 7681
B. 7816
C. 8167
D. 8716

Question 2

How many numbers between 30 and 60 can be divided exactly by 8?

A. 5
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4

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Question 3

9 + 9 + 9 + 9 = 6 × ?

What is the missing number in the box?

A. 36
B. 30
C. 6
D. 4

Question 4

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Which of the following shows of the figure shaded?
4

A.

B.

C.

D.

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Question 5

Mr Loh bought a loaf of bread as shown.

Which of the following could be the mass of the loaf of bread?

White
A. 1 kg bread
B. 5g
C. 50 g 14 slices
D. 500 g

Question 6

What is 25 minutes before the time shown on the clock?

A. 15 30
B. 16 20
C. 16 30
D. 17 20

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Question 7

Which of the following figures have the same perimeter?

A B C D

A. Figure A and Figure D

B. Figure B and Figure C
C. Figure B and Figure D
D. Figure C and Figure D

Question 8

Andy has 3 fifty-dollar notes, 7 five-dollar notes and 6 twenty-cent coins. How much money
does Andy have?

A. $156.20
B. $158.20
C. $185.20
D. $186.20

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Question 9

The bar graph shows the number of students from four Primary 3 classes who borrowed
books from the school library.

Primary 3 students who borrowed books

30

25

20
Number
of 15
students Boys
10 Girls

0
3A 3B 3C 3D
Primary 3 Classes

How many more boys than girls from the four Primary 3 classes borrowed books from the
school library?

A. 15
B. 55
C. 70
D. 125

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Question 10

What is the mass of the bunch of bananas?

A. 3 kg 4 g
B. 3 kg 40 g
C. 3 kg 400 g
D. 4 kg 600 g

Question 11

Which pair of fractions are equivalent fractions?

4 2
A. and
8 6
2 6
B. and
6 10
2 3
C. and
6 9
4 3
D. and
9 9

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Question 12

James uses triangles and lines to form figures that follow a pattern.
40. John uses triangles and lines to form figures that follow a pattern. The first three
The first three figures are shown below.
figures are shown below.

Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3

Figure Number Number of triangles Number of lines

1 2 7
2 4 12
3 6 17

How many triangles are there in the figure which has 47 lines?

A. 14
B. 16
C. 18
D. 20

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Question 13

× = 49

× = 81

What is the product of and ?

A. 7
B. 9
C. 16
D. 63

Question 14

Daniel wanted to fill a pail completely with water.

He used 2 identical bottles to fill half the pail.

Each bottle has a capacity of 300 ml.

He used 5 identical cups to fill the remaining half of the pail.

What was the capacity of a cup?

A. 120 ml
B. 240 ml
C. 750 ml
D. 1200 ml

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Question 15

A supermarket was having a promotion for sale of cookies.

Mrs Mandy left the supermarket with 10 packets of cookies.

What was the least amount of money she had paid for the cookies?

SPECIAL OFFER!
$12 per packet

Buy 2 packets and get 1 packet free

A. $60
B. $72
C. $84
D. $120

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Section (B)(Questions 16 to 25 carry 4 marks each. Shade your answers in the Answer
Entry Sheet (AES) provided. The use of calculator is not allowed. No marks will be deducted
for wrong answers.)

Question 16

Andy is thinking of a 4-digit number between 2000 and 4000.

The digit in the hundreds place is twice the digit in the thousands place.

The digit in the ones place is 5 less than the digit in the tens place.

All the digits add up to 20.

What number is Andy thinking of?

Answer: _________

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Question 17

Mrs Tan baked 390 cookies.

Mrs Lee baked 255 cookies.
They packed all their cookies into packets.
Each packet can hold 6 cookies.
What is the least number of packets needed to contain all the cookies?

Answer: __________

Question 18

Benjamin took 4 hours and 50 minutes on a flight from Singapore to Taipei.

He took another 45 minutes moving from the airport to his hotel.
He reached his hotel at 14 15.
What time did Benjamin leave Singapore?
Give your answer in 24-hour clock.

Answer: ________ h

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Question 19

Apples were sold in Shop A and Shop B at the following prices.

Shop A Shop B

6 apples for $8.50 8 apples for $11

Mdm Lee bought 24 apples from Shop A.

Mrs Benson bought the same number of apples from Shop B.

How much did they pay in total?

Answer: $__________

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Question 20

The figure below is made up of one rectangle and two identical squares. The breadth of the
rectangle is 21 cm.

Each side of the square is 46 cm.

Find the area of the figure.

Give your answer in cm2.

21 cm

46 cm

Answer: __________ cm2

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Question 21

Mr Wong bought 8 ℓ of orange juice.

His guests drank 6090 ml of it.

He poured the remaining orange juice equally into 5 bottles.

How much orange juice did he pour into each bottle?

Give your answer in millilitres.

Answer: __________ ml

Question 22

There were some passengers on a bus when it left bus stop A.

At bus stop B, 9 passengers alighted from the bus.

After 12 passengers boarded the bus and 5 passengers alighted from the bus at bus stop C,
there were 47 passengers on the bus.

How many passengers were there on the bus when it left bus stop A?

Answer: __________

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Question 23

Helen has 3 bottles.

Bottle A contains 230 more buttons than Bottle B.

Bottle C contains 4 times as many buttons as Bottle B.

Bottle C contains 276 buttons.

How many buttons does Helen have altogether?

Answer: __________

Question 24

4 umbrellas and 5 raincoats cost $173 altogether.

Each raincoat costs $13 more than each umbrella.

Find the cost of each raincoat.

Answer: $__________

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Question 25

Ben wants to hang some stars at an equal distance from each other on a string.

The first four stars on the string are shown in the diagram below.

The distance between the first star and the fourth star is 24 cm.

24 cm

1st 2nd 3rd 4th

How many stars can Ben hang on the string if the string is 3 m long?

The width of each string that hangs the star is negligible.

Answer: __________

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Section (C) (Questions 26 to 31 carry 5 marks each. Shade your answers in the Answer
Entry Sheet (AES) provided. The use of calculator is not allowed. No marks will be deducted
for wrong answers.)

Question 26

At a fruit stall, for every 5 oranges bought at $8, 2 oranges would be

given free. Each orange cost $1.50.

Miss Hong paid for some oranges and received a total of 60 oranges.

5 oranges for $8
0
$1.5
each Buy 5 get 2 FREE!

How much did Miss Hong pay?

Answer: $__________

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Question 27

Factory A made 1252 chairs more than Factory B.

Factory C made twice as many chairs as Factory B.

After 3216 chairs were sold from Factory A, there were 5 times as many chairs in Factory B
as in Factory A.

How many more chairs were there in Factory C than Factory B?

Answer: __________

Question 28

A number pattern is shown below.

1 8 8 9 11 8 8 9 118 8 9…

What is the sum of the first 54 numbers of the number pattern?

Answer: __________

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Question 29

A worker completely covered a square-shaped floor with identical tiles using the tiling
pattern below.

What is the perimeter of the floor?

Give your answer in cm.

23 cm

46 cm

1 tile
Square
Floor

Answer: __________ cm

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Question 30

The bar graph shows the number of cakes sold in a bakery from Monday

to Friday.

The number of cakes sold is not shown on the scale

A total of 45 cakes were sold on Friday.

How many cakes were sold from Monday to Thursday?

Answer:_________

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Question 31

There was an equal number of red and green beans in a box.

After taking out 170 red beans and adding 250 green beans, the number of green beans
became 8 times as many as the number of red beans.

How many beans were there altogether at first?

Answer: __________

~~ End of Grade 3 Paper ~~

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