PRIMARY 5 (GRADE 5) 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 25 questions:

Section A: Questions 1 to 15 score 2 points each, no points are deducted for an
unanswered question and 1 point is deducted 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. 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 allowed in this section. No marks
will be deducted for wrong answers.)

Question 1
2
Express 25
as a decimal.

A. 0.08
B. 0.80
C. 12.5
D. 2.25

Question 2

In the diagram below, what type of triangle is triangle WXZ?

22° 44°
Z X
Y

A. Acute-angled triangle
B. Right-angled triangle
C. Equilateral triangle
D. Isosceles triangle

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Question 3

What is the ratio of the total number of shapes to the number of triangles to the
number of squares?

A. 5 : 7 : 12
B. 7 : 5 : 12
C. 12 : 7 : 5
D. 12 : 5 : 7

Question 4

Which of the following distances are arranged from the shortest to the longest?

Shortest Longest

4
A. 1 5 km 1.45 km 1 km 405 m
4
B. 1.45 km 1 km 405 m 1 5 km
4
C. 1 km 405 m 1.45 km 1 5 km
4
D. 1 km 405 m 1 km 1.45 km
5

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Question 5

The figure is made up of three squares ABGH, BCFG and CDEF.

What fraction of the figure ADEH is shaded?

A B C D

H G F E

1
A.
3
2
B.
3
1
C.
6
2
D.
7

Question 6

Adeline scored an average of 60 marks for her three tests.

She scored the lowest for her last test.

Which of the following cannot be her scores for the first two tests?

A. 65, 70
B. 50, 60
C. 60, 70
D. 60, 65

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Question 7

Chicken pies were sold at the following prices at a shop.

The hawker missed out a part of the price list.

First 8 chicken pies $1 each

Each Additional chicken pie ? each

Angela paid $11.20 for 12 chicken pies.

What was the cost of each additional chicken pie?

A. $0.80
B. $1.60
C. $2.00
D. $3.20

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Question 8

Four girls scored the following marks for their Science test.

Science Test
100

80

60

40

20

0
Anna Belle Cindy Daphne

When one more girl joined their group, their average marks became 83.2.

What was the score of the fifth girl?

A. 68
B. 80
C. 84
D. 88

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Question 9

The figure below shows a trapezium.

e f

g h

Which of the following statement(s) is/are true?

i. Ðe= Ðh
ii. Ð e + Ð f = 180°
iii. Ð e + Ð g = 180°

A. i only.
B. iii only.
C. i and ii only.
D. ii and iii only.

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Question 10

Jane used stickers of four different shapes to make a pattern.

The first 12 stickers are shown below.
What is the shape of the 59th sticker?

…. ?
1st 12th 59th

A.

B.

C.

D.

Question 11

A pizza cost $14.50.

Cindy bought 10 such pizzas and 30 identical bottles of soft drink.

She gave the cashier $220 and received $3 change.

How much did one bottle of soft drink cost?

A. $2.40
B. $2.50
C. $2.60
D. $5.50

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Question 12

During the Library Week, students must read at least a certain number of books to get the
Star Reader Award.

The table below shows the number of books read by 300 students.

40% of the students received the Star Reader Award.

What is the least number of books that must be read for the students to get the Star Reader
Award?

Number of Books Read Number of students

0 11
1 109
2 60
3 63
4 40
5 or more 17

A. 1
B. 3
C. 5
D. 6

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Question 13

Mrs Ng bought 9.08 kg of flour to bake some cookies.

She used 15 g of flour for each cookie.

She made 500 cookies.

How much flour was left?

A. 1.58 kg
B. 2.03 kg
C. 6.592 kg
D. 8.33 kg

Question 14

The figure shows three objects on a balanced scale.

The total mass of objects A, B and C is 5.7 kg.

Object A weighs 50 g more than Object B.

What is the total mass of Objects B and C?

A C
B

A. 2.85 kg
B. 3.80 kg
C. 4.25 kg
D. 4.75 kg

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Question 15

A group of children was asked to choose 1 cupcake each.

The table below shows the percentage of the children who chose the different flavours of
cupcakes.
The children’s choices were also represented by a bar graph as shown below but the names
of the flavours were not shown.

50
Cupcake Percentage
Flavours of children 40
Strawberry 30% Number
of 30
Butter 25% children
Chocolate 35% 20

Vanilla 10% 10

How many more children choose Strawberry than Vanilla?

A. 20
B. 22
C. 24
D. 30

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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 allowed in this section. No marks will be
deducted for wrong answers.)

Question 16

A pen cost 95¢ and a marker cost $1.40.

Benson bought some pens and markers for $260.55.

He bought 30 more markers than pens.

How many markers did he buy?

Answer: __________

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Question 17

A T-block is made up of 6 unit squares and has a perimeter of 14 cm.

The pattern below is made up of identical T-blocks joined in single rows.

What is the perimeter of the 55th T-Block?

Give your answer in cm.

Answer: __________ cm

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Question 18

In the figure below, ABCD and DEFG are two parallelograms.

AGB is a straight line.

ÐDEF = 50°, ÐDAG = 77° and ÐCDE = 155°.

Find ÐADG.

E
F A
50°
77°

D G
155° B

Answer: __________ °

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Question 19

Lionel uses sticks to form a pattern that is made up of 5-sided figures.

Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3

Figure 4 Figure 5

A figure has a total of 753 sticks.

What is the figure number?

Answer: Figure________

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Question 20

Mdm Pang baked some egg tarts and blueberry tarts.

1
of the tarts were egg tarts and the rest were blueberry tarts.
4

1
She gave away 2
of the total number of tarts.

1
of the tarts given away were egg tarts.
8

There were 70 blueberry tarts left.

How many tarts did Mdm Pang bake in total?

Answer: __________

Question 21

In a contest, there were 50 questions.

For every correct answer, contestants were awarded 3 points.

1 point was deducted for each question that was left blank and 2 points deducted for each
question that was answered wrongly.

Michael left nine questions blank and scored a total of 64 points.

How many questions did he answer correctly?

Answer: __________

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Question 22

The figure is made up of a square and a rectangle.

The perimeter of Square ABCD is 72 cm longer than the perimeter of Rectangle DEFG.

A B

10 cm
F
G

E D C
34 cm

What is the area of the shaded part?

Give your answer in cm2.

Answer: __________ cm²

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Question 23

In the figure below, CDEF is a rectangle.

CK, DK, FG and EG are straight lines.

CD = 20 cm and DE = 12 cm.

The area of GHKJ is 70 cm2.

What percentage of rectangle CDEF is shaded?

Give your answer correct to the nearest whole number.

20 cm
C G D

J 12 cm
H

F K E

Answer: _________ %

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Question 24

A box contains some coloured ribbons.

44% of the ribbons are yellow and the rest are pink and blue.

The ratio of the number of pink ribbons to the number of blue ribbons is 3 : 5.

There are 1748 more yellow ribbons than pink ribbons.

How many ribbons are there altogether?

Answer: __________

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Question 25

Tank X, a rectangular tank measuring 30 cm by 7 cm by 20 cm, was empty at first.

1
Tank Y, another rectangular tank, was filled with water at first.
3

1
Some water from Tank Y was poured into Tank X until Tank X was 5
full.

In the end, the amount of water left in Tank Y was 1860 cm3.

20 cm

7 cm
30 cm
Tank X Tank Y

What was the capacity of Tank Y?

Give your answer in cm3.

Answer: __________ cm3

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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 allowed in this section. No marks will be
deducted for wrong answers.)

Question 26

Aunt Susan collected $348.80 from the sale of milk shake and bubble tea.

She sold 3 times as many cups of milk shake as bubble tea.

She collected $131.20 more from the sale of milk shake than the sale of bubble tea.

Each cup of bubble tea costs 90¢ more than a cup of milk shake.

How many cups of milk shake did Aunt Susan sell?

Answer: __________

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Question 27

In the figure below, PRT is a triangle.

TU = TS and QS = QR.

ÐTSQ = 139o and ÐUSR = 110o

P
U

110o
139o
T R
S

Find the sum of ÐSQP and reflex ÐTPR.

Answer: __________ o

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Question 28

Gizelle made 32 identical big and 25 identical small bows from a roll of ribbon for a party.

She made 15 of the big bows and 6 of the small bows using 14.88 m of ribbon.

The length of ribbon used for 3 of the big bows was the same as 5 of the small bows.

What was the length of ribbon Gizelle used to make all the bows?

Give your answer in cm.

Answer: __________ cm

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Question 29

Joelle used some wire to form 3 squares and 3 identical equilateral triangles as shown in the
figure below.

AC is a straight line.

B is the mid-point of AC.

BC = 42 cm.

She had 34 cm of wire left in the end.

A B C
13 cm

What was the length of the piece of wire Joelle had at first?

Give your answer in cm.

Answer: __________ cm

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Question 30

Miss Tan and Miss Ong went shopping at Happy Toy Shop.

HAPPY TOY SHOP SALE!

1 toy at 10% discount!
2 toys and above at 20% discount!

Pokémon toy Mario toy

Miss Tan bought a Pokémon toy and paid $18.90 for it.

Miss Ong bought a Pokémon and a Mario Toy and paid $40 for them. What was the usual
price of a Mario Toy?

Answer: $__________

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Question 31

The table below shows the fare charges by a taxi company for its Premium taxis.

Taxi charges (Premium)

Flag down (the first km) $4.50

Every 400 m thereafter or less up to 10 km $0.35

Every 350 m thereafter or less after 10 km $0.35

Every 45 seconds of waiting time $0.35

Additional Surcharges

Peak Period 25% of the total charges

(6 a.m. – 9.29 a.m.)
(6 p.m. – 11.59 p.m.)
Late Night 50% of the total charges
(Midnight – 5.59 a.m.)

John took a taxi home at 12.10 a.m. and reached home at 12.35 a.m.

The total distance travelled was 19.8 km.

The total waiting time for the whole journey was 3 minutes.

How much was the taxi fare?

Round your answer to the nearest dollar.

Answer: $__________

~~ End of Grade 5 Paper ~~

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