2004 Grade 1 MTAP Division Orals

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Below are the questions and answers in the 2004 Metrobank-MTAP-NCR Math Challenge
Division Orals for Grade 1.

A. 15-second questions – 2 points each

1.) What is 14 more than one-half of 60?

Answer: 44

2.) What number is missing in 7, 11, 15, __ , 23, 27?

Answer: 19

3.) Nicole is 7 years old today. In what year was she born?

Answer: 1997

Note: This question was in 2004.

4.) How many more are six eights than six fives?

Answer: 18

5.) What is left if you take away six eights from 60?

Answer: 12
6.) Andre bought a cup of noodles for P18 and a sandwich for P12. How much change did
he get from his P50?

Answer: P 20

7.) A cake was divided into 24 equal pieces. One-half of the cake and 4 more pieces were
eaten by Jessica’s friends. How many pieces remained?

Answer: 8

8.) What is N if 41 + N = 35 + 19?

Answer: 13
9.) Five papayas are each cut into eighths. How many pieces are there?

Answer: 40

10.) What number is midway between 21 and 37?

Answer: 29

11.) What number comes after the difference of 70 and 37?

Answer: 34

B. 30-second questions – 3 points each

1.) If there are 10 fives in 50, how many fives are there in 85?

Answer: 17

2.) How many seconds are there in 3 ½ minutes?

Answer: 210

3.) Nellie bought 2 notebooks for P12.50 each and one pad paper for P14.50. How much
change did she get from a P50-bill?

Answer: P 10.50

4.) Lea has thirty 25¢ coins and Lina has six 1-peso coins. Who has more money and how
much more?

Answer: Lea, P 1.50

5.) Lea gave 3 apples to each of her friends. If she gave out 3 ½ dozen apples, how many
friends received apples?

Answer: 14

6.) Flora studied for 35 minutes. If she started at 7:35, what time did she finish?

Answer: 8:10
C. 1-minute questions – 5 points each
1.) A rectangular garden is 28 m long and 18 m wide. If you walk around it twice, how many
meters will that be?

Answer: 184m

2.) Mother had ten 5-peso coins and six 10-peso coins. She gave Tom P35 for his allowance.
How much was left of Mother’s money?

Answer: P 75

3.) Oranges cost 3 for P 25 and apples cost P 15 each. How much money do I need for 9
oranges and 4 apples?

Answer: P 135

4.) A school bus left the school at 5:30 A.M. and came back at 7:15 A.M. in time for the 7:30
A.M. class. How long did it take to pick up the children on its route?

Answer: 1 hr 45 min or 105 min

5.) Half of a pizza remained after 14 boys each ate one-fourth of a pizza. How many pizzas
were there at the start?

Answer: 4

6.) Some roses were distributed among 8 girls. If each girl received 3 roses, how many roses
were there?

Answer: 24

Clincher questions
1.) How many hundreds are there in the sum of 66 and 33?

Answer: 0 or none

1. What is N in 56 + 78 = 69 + N?
Answer: 65

1. In a garden, 16 cabbages can be planted in a row. If 5 rows are full and the 6th row is
only half-full, how many cabbages are there in the garden?
Answer: 88

Do-Or-Die questions
1. In a 3-game basketball tournament, the Red Team scored 32, 38 and 36 points while
the Blue Team scored 35, 31 and 36. Which Team won and by how many points?
Answer: Red Team, 4

1. There are 25 boys and 23 girls in a Grade 1 class. One stormy day, 6 boys and 5 girls
were absent. How many pupils were present?
Answer: 37

2015 Grade 1 MTAP Elimination Questions with Answers

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Below are the 2015 Grade 1 MTAP Elimination Questions with Answers. For items that need
solution, I will post them later, once I have uploaded the questions for all levels.

1. ) What is the sum? 11 + 12 + 13 + 14 + 15 + 16 + 17

Answer: 98
2.) What is the tens digit of the sum of 47 and 56?
Answer: 0

3.) Jo has 48 candies. She will give 5 candies to each of her friends. What is the largest
number of candies that she can give?
Answer: 45

4.) Kit and Kat had 50 stickers in all. Then, Kit gave Kat 5 stickers. They then have equal
number of stickers. How many stickers had Kit initially?
Answer: 30

5.) Angel colored the flowers drawn on her book as follows: pink, red, purple, yellow, pink,
red purple, yellow, and so on. What color is the 30th flower?

Answer: Red
6.) An old book has missing pages. Next to page 20 is page 35. How many sheets of paper
were missing?
Answer: 7
7.) Shown is a stair that is 3 cubes tall. How many more cubes are needed to make that
stairs 8 cubes high?
Answer: 30
8.) Rico had 55 pesos. Father gave him two 50-peso bills. Uncle gave him four 20-peso bills.
How much money had Rico in all?
Answer: P 235

9.) If the digits in 58 are interchanged, will the number increase or decrease? By how much?
Answer: 27

10.) A total of 50 men and women are in a bus. There are 14 more men than women. How
many women are in the bus?
Answer: 18

11.) Ms. Perez has 40 pupils in her class. Yesterday, ¼ of the number of pupils were absent.
How many pupils were present?
Answer: 30

12.) How many digits are used for printing the page numbers of a booklet with 25 pages?
Answer: 41

13.) Mother made 15 cookies. There are 10 cookies with raisins and 10 cookies with nuts.
How many cookies have both raisins and nuts?
Answer: 5

14.) A bus can hold 45 passengers. The bus starts out empty and picks up 1 passenger at the
first stop, 2 passengers at the second stop, 3 passengers at the third stop, and so forth. After
how many stops will the bus be full?
Answer: 9 stops

15.) Ben and his younger sister have the same birthday. This year, the sum of their ages, in
years, is 21. What would be the sum of their age 3 years from now?
Answer: 27

16.) Thirty candies are placed in 6 jars. Each jar has different number of candies. No jar has
exactly 3 candies. One jar is empty. What is the greatest number of candies that any one
jar can have?
Answer: 18
17.) Bel sold an entire roll of consecutively numbered tickets. The number on the first ticket
was 2001. The number on the last ticket was 2245. How many tickets did Bel sell?
Answer: 245

18.) If you saved 5 pesos on January 1, ten pesos on February 1, fifteen pesos on March 1,
twenty pesos on April 1, and so on, how much money would you save in one year?
Answer: P 390.00

19.) Neri bought 2 pens. The total cost is 100 pesos. If one pen costs 22 pesos more than the
other, how much does the cheaper pen cost?
Answer: P 39.00

20.) Selmo had 13 marbles. He gave Dan 3 marbles, Bill 3 marbles and Anton 3 marbles.
What fraction of the marbles was left with Selmo?
Answer: 4/13

21.) Lyca bought two dozen cupcakes for her party. Darren ate 2 cupcakes. JK ate ¼ of a
dozen cupcakes. How many cupcakes were left for the other guests?
Answer: 19

22.) Seven pupils sit around a table as shown. Abbey sits next to Benoni and Carlo. Delia sits
next ot both Benoni and Len. The numbers on Abbey’s and Carlo’s chairs add up to 8. Who
sits in chair number 4?

Answer: Len
23.) Miss Reyes ordered three pizzas. Each pizza was divided in 6 pieces. If each kid gets a
slice of pizza and Miss Reyes got 2 slices, how many kids would be able to get a share of
pizza?
Answer: 16

24.) One-half of the class wear black shoes, ¼ of the class wear white shoes and the rest of
the class wear brown shoes. If there are 48 pupils in the class, how many pupils wear brown
shoes?
Answer: 12

25.) Karen cuts a piece of rope to 3 equal parts. She then cuts one of the pieces to half. The
tow smallest pieces are each 3 meters long. What was the length of the rope before Karen
made any cuts?
Answer: 18 m

26.) Bacteria in a dish double the area they cover every day. If the dish is fully covered after
25 days, on what day was one-half of it covered?
Answer: 24th day

27.) My chicken lays 4 eggs a week. My sister’s chicken lays 6 eggs a week. How many eggs
in all do both chickens lay in 3 weeks?
Answer: 30

28.) One avocado weighs the same as 3 oranges. One orange weighs 35 grams. How many
grams does an avocado weigh?
Answer: 105g

29.) There are two clocks in Cathy’s room. One of them is 15 minutes behind the correct
time. Now it is showing 7:40. The second clock is 15minutes ahead of the correct time. What
is the time in the second clock now?

Answer: 8:10
30.) Gary forms three numbers with the digits 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9. All numbers have two digits
and each digit is used only once. Gary adds all the three numbers. What is the greatest sum
Gary can obtain?
Answer: 255

2015 Grade 1 MTAP Math Challenge – Division Orals

Posted on January 3, 2016 | 9 Comments
Below are the 2015 MTAP Math Challenge Division Orals for Grade 1 with answers.

Part 1 (15 seconds) 2 pts each

1.) One more than 9 is equal to 1 less than what number?
Answer: 11
2.) What number is equal to 30 tens and 7 ones?
Answer: 307

3.) What number is 5 more than the smallest 3-digit number?

Answer: 105

4.) How many tens are there in 784?

Answer: 78

5.)What is the sum of 11 + 19 + 12 + 18 + 13 + 17?

Answer: 90

6.) Grace had her fifty-peso bill changed to 5-peso coins. How many 5-peso coins did she
get?
Answer: 10
7.) Teacher Bea has 40 pupils in her class. Today, one-fourth of the students attended an
out-of-school activity. How many pupils attended the out-of-school activity?
Answer: 10

8.) Ron cut a rope into 2 equal parts. Then he cut one of the equal parts into 3 equal parts.
What part of the whole rope is the smallest piece?
Answer: 1/6

9.) The first day of a certain month falls on a Tuesday. What day is the 9th of that month?
Answer: Wednesday

10.)How many fifths are there in 3 wholes?

Answer: 15

11.) What is the difference between 75 and 57?

Answer: 18

Part 2 (30 seconds) 3 pts each

1.) Skip count by 50 from 200 to 500. How many times does the digit 5 appear?
Answer: 4

2.) What is the tens digit of the difference between 56 and 37?
Answer: 1

3.) Today, Ben is 7 years old while Tina is 9 years old. What will be the sum of their ages next
year?
Answer: 18
4.) Gino has 3 twenty-peso bills while Gary has 2 fifty-peso bills. Who has more money? By
how much?
Answer: Gary, by 40 pesos

5.) Without repeating any digit, how many two-digit numbers can you form with the digits 7,
0 and 3?
Answer: 4

6.) How many pairs of whole numbers have a product of 48?

Answer: 5

Part 3 (60 seconds) 5 pts each

1.) Jen went to a book store and bought a notebook for 25 pesos. She also bought 2 pencils
at 5 pesos each. She had 15 pesos left. How much money did she have at the start?
Answer: Php 50

2.) There are 12 men and women in the van. There are 2 more men than women. How
many women are there?
Answer: 5

3.) The ones digit of a two-digit number is 3 more than the tens digit. What numbers can
these be?
Answer: 14, 25, 36, 47, 58, 69

4.) Gelo has 6 boxes that hold 21 mangoes. Each box has a different number of mangoes.
How many mangoes are there in each box?
Answer: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

5.) Tom and Jerry are waiting in line to watch a movie. There are 5 people between them.
Tom is 3rd in the line while Jerry is exactly at the middle of the line. How many people are in
the line?
Answer: 17

6.) Two numbers have a sum of 18 and a difference of 6. What are the numbers?
Answer: 12 and 6

Clincher
1.) What is 2 more than the product of 3 and 4?
Answer: 14

2.) The flaglets along the corridor are displayed in this order: Yellow, blue, red, green, yellow,
blue, red, green, and so on. What color is the 25th flaglet?
Answer: Yellow
3.) Jane has 3 dogs and 7 chickens. How many animal legs are there in all?
Answer: 26

2005 MTAP Sectoral Finals for Grade 1

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Below are the questions for the 2005 Metrobank-MTAP-DepEd Math Challenge Sectoral
Finals for Grade 1. Kindly comment if you see any error.

2005 Metrobank-MTAP-DepEd Math Challenge Sectoral Finals

A. 15-second questions – 2 points each

1.) How much greater is 7 tens and 4 ones than 42 ones?

Answer: 32

2.) If 3 is added to1/3, how many thirds will that be?

Answer: 10

3.) What number is 7 more than1/3 of 39?

Answer: 20

4.) Liz is 6 ½ years old now. Nita is 2 years younger than Liz. How old will Nita be in the
year 2010?

Answer: 9 ½

5.) I bought a ballpen for P5.50. How much change did I get from a P10-bill?

Answer: P4.50

6.) Twenty-seven girls were present in a party. Eight more girls came in. Then, 6 girls went
home. How many girls were left?

Answer: 29

7.) Ricky has 157 popsicle sticks. He wants to bundle them in tens. How many bundles
can he make?

Answer: 15

8.) What is the 7th number in the pattern 7, 11, 15, … ? 7, 11, 15, 19, 23, 27

Answer: 31

9.) Tina received 7 P5-bills and 5 P10-bills on her birthday. How much in all did she
receive?

Answer: P85.00
10.) Which digit in 429 has the smallest value in the number?

Answer: 9

11.) Write 5 hundreds and 6 ones in symbols.

Answer: 506

B. 30-second questions – 3 points each

1.) Twelve eggplants can be planted in each row of Eddie’s garden. He has enough
seedlings for 4 ½ rows. How many seedlings has he?

Answer: 54

2.) The sum of two numbers is 33. One number is 3 more than the other. What are the
two numbers?

Answer: 15 and 18

3.) Mrs. Lopez bought 2 packs of cookies. Each pack contains 2 dozen cookies. Her
children ate 20 cookies. How many cookies were left?

Answer: 28

4.) Lala had P245. She spent P68 on Saturday. She spent P10 more on Sunday than on
Saturday. How much money had she left?

Answer: P99

5.) Lorna left home at 7:45 and reached her grandma’s house in1 1/3 hours. What time
did she reach grandma’s house?

Answer: 8:05

6.) If you add 24 to my number and then subtract 17, you get 25. What is my number?

Answer: 18

C. 1-minute questions – 5 points each

1.) Three sections of Grade 1 and 6 teachers went on a field trip. Each section had 50
pupils. They used 3 buses each with 56 seats. How many empty seats were there?

Answer: 18

2.) Kathie bought the following items: a pair of shoes for P550, a pair of socks for P35.50
and a blouse for P125.50. How much change did she get from a P1000-bill?

Answer: P289.50

3.) George had 10 P5-bills and five P10-bills. He gave his sister P35 for her project. How
much money had he left?
Answer: P65

4.) What will you add to the sum of 327 and 148 to get 500?

Answer: 25

5.) Nita had 30 stamps. Mila had 4 more than twice as many stamps as Nita. Mila gave
Nita ¼ of her stamps. How many stamps did Nita then have?

Answer: 46

6.) Lana had 14 eggs. She bought 2 dozen more eggs. She used 25 eggs. How many
eggs remained?

Answer: 13

Clincher questions

1.) Julia had 35 candies. She gave 10 candies to each of her two brothers. How many
candies had she left?

Answer: 15

2.) Pete counted 24 tricycle wheels and 18 bicycle wheels. How many tricycles and
bicycles were there?

Answer: 8 tricycles and 9 bicycles

3.) Letty receives P150 for her weekly allowance. She spends P45 for transportation, P48
for merienda and P40 for other things and saves the rest. How much does she save a
week?

Answer: P17

Do-Or-Die questions

1.) Liza has 60 roses. One-fourth of the roses are red,1/3 of them are yellow,
1/5 of them are white and the rest are pink. How many are
pink?

Answer: 3

2005 Grade 1 MTAP Division Orals

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2005 Metrobank-MTAP-NCR Math Challenge

Division Orals – Grade 1

A. 15-second questions – 2 points each

1.) What time is it when the hour hand is between 3 and 4 and the minute hand is at 9?

Answer: 3:45
2.) What is 15 more than 8 sevens?

Answer: 71

3.) How much greater is ½ of 50 than 1/3 of 60?

Answer: 5

4.) What number is 5 more than one half of 32?

Answer: 21

5.) What is N in N – 19 = 35?

Answer: 54

6.) What is the 9th number in the pattern 8, 13, 18, …

Answer: 48

7.) Which is greater, eight 9s or ten 7s?

Answer: Eight 9s

8.) Marco left home at 6:10. He arrived at school 45 minutes later. What time did he
arrive in school?

Answer: 6:5

9.) You are to bundle 543 popsicle sticks in tens. How many bundles will you be able to
make?

Answer: 54

10.) How many half hours are there in 9 hours?

Answer: 18
11.) Therese is 7 years old in 2005. In what year was she born?

Answer: 1998

B. 30-second questions – 3 points each

1.) In 256, change 5 into 0. How much less is the new number than the original number?

Answer: 50

2.) If you count oranges by 5s, how many oranges have you counted when you reach
the 12th count?

Answer: 60

3.) What number is 7 less than the sum of 26 and 29?

Answer: 48
4.) A bottle contains 101, 25¢ coins. How much money is in it?

Answer: Php 25.25

5.) What number is midway between 82 and 96?

Answer: 89

6.) Nina has 2 dozen chicos. She gives 6 to each of her 3 sisters. How many chicos has
she left?

Answer: 6

C. 1-minute questions – 5 points each

1.) A toy car costs P159.50. Tony has only P95. How much more does he need?

Answer: Php 64.50

2.) In a game, Thelma scored 15, 12 and 18 while Joy scored 12, 15 and 21. Who won
and by how many points?

Answer: Joy, 3 points

3.) The sum of the ages of Moly, Chris and Bing is 24. If Moly is 10 years old and Bing is
half Moly’s age, how old is Chris?
Answer: 9 years old

4.) Sonny has 5 more 5-peso coins than Rolly. If Rolly has seven 5-peso coins, how much
money do the two boys have?

Answer: Php 95.00

5.) A garden is 36 m long and 28 m wide. If you walk around it 3 times, how many
meters will that be?

Answer: 384 meters

6.) If I add 25 to my number and then subtract 41, the result is 5. What is my number?

Answer: 21

Clincher questions

1.) Which of the fractions 1/2, 1/5, ¼, 1/3 is the smallest?

Answer: 1/5

2.) Gerald is 7 years old. John is 1 ½ years older than Gerald. How many months older is
John?

Answer: 18 months
3.) There are 9 rows of pechay plants in a garden. Each row has 8 plants except the 9th
row which has only 6. How many plants are in the garden?

Answer: 70

Do-Or-Die questions

1.) In her purse, Mother has 2 P500-bills, 4 P100-bills and 9 P10-bills. How much money has
Mother in her purse?

Answer: Php 1, 490.00

2015 Grade 1 MTAP Math Challenge – Division Orals

Below are the 2015 MTAP Math Challenge Division Orals for Grade 1 with answers.

Part 1 (15 seconds) 2 pts each

1.) One more than 9 is equal to 1 less thanwhat number?

Answer: 11

2.) What number is equal to 30 tens and 7 ones?

Answer: 307

3.) What number is 5 more than the smallest 3-digit number?

Answer: 105

4.) How many tens are there in 784?

Answer: 78

5.)What is the sum of 11 + 19 + 12 + 18 + 13 + 17?

Answer: 90

6.) Grace had her fifty-peso bill changed to 5-peso coins. How many 5-peso coins did
she

get?

Answer: 10

7.) Teacher Bea has 40 pupils in her class. Today, one-fourth of the students attended
an

out-of-school activity. How many pupils attended the out-of-school activity?

Answer: 10

8.) Ron cut a rope into 2 equal parts. Then he cut one of the equal parts into 3 equal
parts. What part of the whole rope is the smallest piece?

Answer: 1/6

9.) The first day of a certain month falls on a Tuesday. What day is the 9th of that

month?

Answer: Wednesday

10.)How many fifths are there in 3 wholes?

Answer: 15

11.) What is the difference between 75 and 57?

Answer: 18

Part 2 (30 seconds) 3 pts each

1.) Skip count by 50 from 200 to 500. How many times does the digit 5 appear?

Answer: 4

2.) What is the tens digit of the difference between 56 and 37?

Answer: 1

3.) Today, Ben is 7 years old while Tina is 9 years old. What will be the sum of their ages

next year?

Answer: 18

4.) Gino has 3 twenty-peso bills while Gary has 2 fifty-peso bills. Who has more money?

By how much?

Answer: Gary, by 40 pesos

5.) Without repeating any digit, how many two-digit numbers can you form with the

digits 7, 0 and 3?

Answer: 4

6.) How many pairs of whole numbers have a product of 48?

Answer: 5

Part 3 (60 seconds) 5 pts each

1.) Jen went to a book store and bought a notebook for 25 pesos. She also bought 2

pencils at 5 pesos each. She had 15 pesos left. How much money did she have at the
start?

Answer: Php 50

2.) There are 12 men and women in the van. There are 2 more men than women. How

many women are there?

Answer: 5

3.) The ones digit of a two-digit number is 3 more than the tens digit. What numbers can

these be?

Answer: 14, 25, 36, 47, 58, 69

4.) Gelo has 6 boxes that hold 21 mangoes. Each box has a different number of
mangoes.

How many mangoes are there in each box?

Answer: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

5.) Tom and Jerry are waiting in line to watch a movie. There are 5 people between

them. Tom is 3rd in the line while Jerry is exactly at the middle of the line. How many

people are in the line?

Answer: 17

6.) Two numbers have a sum of 18 and a difference of 6. What are the numbers?

Answer: 12 and 6

Clincher

1.) What is 2 more than the product of 3 and 4?

Answer: 14

2.) The flaglets along the corridor are displayed in this order: Yellow, blue, red, green,

yellow, blue, red, green, and so on. What color is the 25th flaglet?

Answer: Yellow

3.) Jane has 3 dogs and 7 chickens. How many animal legs are there in all?

Answer: 26
Grade 1 MTAP Reviewer Set 9

Posted on November 18, 2015 | 4 Comments

This is the 9th set of the MTAP Reviewer for Grade 1.

1.) What is the largest number 3-digit number that can be formed between 300 and
than 800 using the digits 2, 5, 8 and 6 if the digits cannot be repeated?

2.) What is six groups of 3 added to eight groups of 4?

3.) Levi divided a cake into 12 equal slices. He gave 3 slices to his friends and 2 slices
each for her mother and father. How many slices of cake were left?

4.) The sum of a number and 12 is 25. What is the number?

5.) Three cups of flour are needed to bake 6 pieces of muffins. How many cups are
needed to bake 18 pieces of muffins?

6.) Fill in the blanks with the correct number?

8 + 12 = ___ + 11

7.) If March 12 is a Monday, what date is the next Monday?

8.) Sheila studies for 1 and half hours a day. Yesterday, she started studying at 7:30 pm.
What time did she finish?

9.) Jimmy bought a bag for Php500 and a book for Php300. He gave the cashier a Php
1000 bill. How much was his change?

10.) Fill in the blanks with >, =, or <

8 + 12 ____ 5 + 16

11.) Mario was born on November 16, 2002. How old is he now (November 17, 2015)?

12.) One half of a number is 42. What is the number?

Answers

1.) 685 (read full solution)

2.) 50
3.) 5
4.) 13
5.) 9
6.) 9
7.)March 19
8.) 9:00pm
9.) Php200
10.)<
11.) 13 years old
12.) 84

Grade 1 MTAP Reviewer Set 2

Posted on March 20, 2014 | 5 Comments

If you are preparing for the MTAP-DepEd Math Challenge for Grade 1, below are some
of the questions that might help you in your review. Of course, this reviewer is also good
for higher grades.

Please use the comment box below if you have some questions.

Grade 1 MTAP Reviewer – Set 2

1.) What is the sum of the 83 and 49?

Answer: 132.

2.) What time does the clock below show?

Answer: 8:05

3.) How many minutes are there in 2 hours?

Answer: 120 minutes.

4.) What is the place value of 9 in 2938?

Answer: Hundreds

5.) Pamela was assigned by her teacher to read pages 28 – 35 of the text book. How
many pages did Pamela read?

Answer: 8 (not 7)

6.) ___ is three times as large as 4.

Answer: 12

7.) Look at the numbers below.

9, 13, 17, 21, 25, ___

What number goes into the blank?

Answer: 29. The number increases by 4 each time..

8.) Jasmine bought 20 candies. She gave 5 to Ria and 6 to Lyka. How many candies
were left to her?

Answer: 9

9.) If , then what is ?

Answer: 2

10.) What part of the circle below is colored?

Answer: one third

11.) If March 3 is Wednesday, then what date is the nearest Saturday?

Answer: March 6

12.) A pencil costs Php6.00 and a notebook costs P15.00. How much will 2 notebooks
and 1 pencil cost?

Answer: Php36.00