PRIMARY 3 (GRADE 3) 2022 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 45 questions:

Section A: Questions 1 to 40 score 2 points each, no points are deducted for an
unanswered question or wrong answer.
Section B: Questions 41 to 45 score 4 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. A student must show detailed working and transfer answers to the Answer Entry
Sheet.

11. No exam papers and written notes can be taken out by any contestant.
Appendix A

Instructions for completing your Answer Entry Sheet (AES)

1. Use only 2B lead pencils.

2. Write your name on both side of AS. On the front page of AES, please write your name and
school name on the space provided.

3. Write your index number in the space provided and fill in the proper circle directly below each
number.

4. Write your grade in the space provided and fill in the proper circle directly below your grade.

5. Mark only one answer to each question.

6. Make heavy black marks that fill the circle completely.

7. Write the answer in the space provided and fill in the proper circle directly below each number.
There should only be one answer for each question.

8. Erase cleanly any answer you wish to change.

9. Do not make stray marks on this AES.
10. Do not fold or staple the AES.
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Section A: 40 Open-ended Questions (40 × 2 marks = 80 marks)

Read the questions carefully. For questions 1 to 40, show your working clearly and
write your answers in the blank provided. Then write and shade your answers in the
Answer Entry Sheet (AES) sheet provided.

1. Express 4 km 80 m in metres.

Answer: ______________ m

2. Which of the following numbers has the digit 4 that stands for 40?

4096 3045 1402 5104

Answer: _________________

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3. Dave arranges 20 identical tables together side by side in a row.

How many people can sit at the tables altogether?

Table Table Table Table Table Table

……
1 2 3 4 5 20

Answer: ________ people

4. What is the value of digit A in the working below?

3 0 6 8

− 1 2 A 9
______________

1 7 7 9
______________

Answer: _________________

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5. Use the digits below to form 4-digit numbers that can be divided by 2 exactly.
Use all the digits only once for each 4-digit number.

3 2 0 5

How many 4-digit numbers can be formed?

Answer: ________________

6. Mindy spent 3 h 55 min baking a cake.

She spent another 35 minutes to decorate the cake and finished at 3.30 p.m.

What time did Mindy start baking her cake?

Answer: ____________ a.m.

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7. The length of a cable was 48 m at first. A worker cut away of the cable.
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What was the length of the cable left? (Give your answer in m)

Answer: ____________ m

8. Tom poured some water into the beaker as shown.

How much more water was needed to make 1ℓ ? (Give your answer in mℓ)

1ℓ

Answer: _______________ mℓ

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9. The bar graph shows the number of seashells collected by Elsa from March to
June.

Number of Seashells Collected

60

50

40

30

20

10

0
March April May June

Months

How many more seashells did Elsa collect in June than in March?

Answer: ________________

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10. The bar graph below shows the number of oranges sold at a supermarket over 5 days
from Monday to Friday.

1600

1400
Number of oranges sold

1200

1000

800

600

400

200

0
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

What is the difference between the highest number of oranges sold and the lowest
number of oranges sold in a day?

Answer: _________________

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11. An empty jar has a mass of 220 g.

It has a mass of 980 g when it is filled with marbles.

Each marble has a mass of 8 g.
How many marbles are there in the jar?

Answer: ________________

12. Use the digits below to form the greatest 4-digit even number.

Use the digits only once.

5 , 2 , 6 , 7 , 9

Answer: _________________

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13. Siti saved $25 each day.

She continued to save daily for 9 weeks.

How much savings did she have at the end of 9 weeks?

Answer: $ _______________

14. Bella has some candies. The number of candies is between 15 and 35.
If she packs her candies into bags of 5, there will be no candies left.
If she packs her candies into bags of 4, there will be 2 candies left.
How many candies does Bella have?

Answer: __________ candies

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15. The figure below is made up of two identical squares.

The perimeter of the figure is 56 cm.
Find the area of the figure. (Give your answer in cm2)

Answer: ________________ cm2

16. Linda wrote a 4-digit number on a piece of paper. The number is divisible by 4.
The digit in the ones place is 8.
The digit in the tens place is 3 times the digit in the hundreds place.
The digit in the hundreds place is half of the digit in the thousands place.
What number did Linda write?

Answer: _________________

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17. Mrs Kim drove to the mall to buy groceries.

She entered the carpark of the mall at 11.30 am.
The parking rates were shown below.
Parking rates per hour
First hour $2

Every additional hour or less $3

How much did she pay for parking if she left the carpark at 2.20 pm?

Answer: ________________

18. Study the equations below.

Find the value of .

÷ 3 =

× 5 = 600

Answer: ________________

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19. The figure below is made up of a square and 2 identical rectangles.

The breadth of each rectangle is 2 cm. The length of each side of the square is 5 cm.
What is the perimeter of the figure? (Give your answer in cm)

5 cm

2 cm

Answer: ____________ cm

20. Look at the balancing scales below. The mass of object B is 600 g.

What is the total mass of objects A, B and C? (Give your answer in g).

A A C
Diagram 1

C A B
Diagram 2

Answer: _______________ g

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21. Jane wants to buy a toy costing $2.20 using the coins shown below.
What is the least number of coins she needs to pay for it?

Answer: ____________ coins

22. A farmer had a total of 98 oranges and pears.

He packed all of them into identical boxes.
Each box can hold 6 oranges or 5 pears.
There are 2 more boxes of pears than oranges.
How many oranges did he have?

Pears ? Number of boxes 5p 5p

98
Oranges ? Number of boxes

Answer: ______________

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23. There were 386 apples in Box A and Box B altogether. After 50 apples were
transferred from Box A to Box B, there were 96 more apples in Box A than Box B.
How many apples were there in Box B at first?

A 96
386
B

Answer: ________________

24. Steven has a piece of paper.

Its length is 29 cm and its breadth is 18 cm.
He wants to cut 3-cm squares from it.
What is the greatest possible number of 3-cm squares he can cut out from the paper?

29 cm

18 cm

3 cm
3 cm

Answer: _______________

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25. Leonard bought some packets of popcorns at a shop.

A packet of popcorns cost $3.
2 packets of popcorns were given free for every 5 packets bought.
Leonard walked out of the shop with a total of 28 packets.
How much did Leonard spend in total?
Buy 5 and get 2 free!

Free!

Answer: $ ________________

26. The wall of the living room measures 15 m by 8 m.

After painting for an hour, a painter only managed to paint 24 m2.
What was the area of the wall not painted? (Give your answer in m2)

8m
24 m2

15 m

Answer: _______________ m2

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27. There were some stickers in a box.

2 1
Farah took 3 of the stickers and Siti took 6 of the stickers.

Farah took 36 more stickers than Siti.

How many stickers were there in the box at first?

Answer: _______________ stickers

28. The figure shows a square garden of sides 8 m.

A cement path of 2 m wide is built around it.
Find the area of the path in m2. 2m

2m Garden

8m

path

Answer: ________________ m2

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29. Study the pattern below.

How many shaded squares are there in Pattern 10?

Pattern 1 Pattern 2 Pattern 3 Pattern 4

Answer: ________________

30. Deborah had $100.

She bought a pair of shoes and a dress.
A pair of shoes cost 3 times as much as a dress.
She received $4 change.
How much did the dress cost?

Solution:

Answer: $ _______________

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31. There are 24 motorcycles and cars in a carpark altogether.

The vehicles have a total of 78 wheels.
Each motorcycle has 2 wheels and each car has 4 wheels.
How many cars are there in the carpark?

Answer: _____________ cars

32. Dave bought 5 kg of rice.

He gave his neighbour 800 g of the rice.
After packing the remaining rice equally into 5 bags, he had 450 g of rice left.
What was the mass of rice in each bag? (Give your answer in g)

Answer: ______________ g

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33. Andy had half as many erasers as Brian.

Camden had 3 times as many erasers as Brian.
They had 171 erasers altogether. How many more erasers did Camden have than
Brian?

Answer: _________________

34. Ali, Ben and Carl went shopping. Ali and Ben spent $715.
Ali and Carl spent $1075. Carl spent 4 times as much as Ben.
How much did Ali spend?

Answer: $ _____________

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35. A small bus and 4 big buses took 272 students on a school trip.

Each big bus carried the same number of students.

The small bus carried 23 fewer students than each of the big buses.
How many students were there in the small bus?

Answer: ____________ students

36. Keith cut out a square from a rectangular piece of cardboard measuring 25 cm
by 16 cm. The remaining piece of cardboard, as shown in the figure, has a perimeter
of 90 cm. Find the area of the cut-out square. (Give your answer in cm2)

25 cm

16 cm

Answer: _____________ cm2

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37. In a competition, Ali completed all 45 questions.

For each correct answer he gave, he scored 3 marks.
For each wrong answer he gave, 2 marks were deducted.
He scored a total of 85 marks. How many questions did Ali answer correctly?

Answer: _____________________

38. Melissa has a string that is 866 cm long.

She uses it to hang some flags measuring 7 cm each.
She leaves a 20–cm gap at both ends of the string as shown below.
There is a gap of 2 cm between each pair of flags.
How many flags are there on the string?

20 cm 7 cm 2 cm 2 cm 7 cm 20 cm

…
mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm
m m m m m m

Answer: _____________ flags

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39. A rectangle is cut into 4 parts, W, X, Y and Z as shown below.

W and Y are identical triangles.
The 4 pieces of cut-outs are rearranged to form a square by shifting Y and Z.
What is the perimeter of the square that is formed? (Give your answer in cm)

4 cm 12 cm

3 cm W
Z

X
6 cm
Y

Answer: ___________________ cm

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40. A stack of 7 identical flower pots were arranged as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 2 shows the stack after it had been re-arranged and 4 more identical flower pots
were added to it. What is the height of one flower pot? (Give your answer in cm)

45 cm

Figure 1 Figure 2 Flower pot

Answer: ______________ cm

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Section B: 5 Open-ended Questions (5 × 4 marks = 20 marks)

Read the questions carefully. For questions 41 to 45, show your working clearly and
write your answers in the blank provided. Then write and shade your answers in the
Answer Entry Sheet (AES) sheet provided.

41. Rebecca bought an equal number of muffins and burgers and spent a total of $82.
How much did Rebecca spend on all the burgers?

3 muffins for $8 5 burgers for $14

Answer: $ _____________

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42. Shop A sold 3 times as many boxes of masks as Shop B.

Shop C sold 136 fewer boxes of masks than Shop A.
Shop D sold 60 more boxes of masks than Shop B.
Altogether, the four shops sold 900 boxes of masks.
How many boxes of masks did Shop B sell?

Answer: _________ boxes

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43. Miss Nurul packs some goodie bags for Children’s Day.
She packs 2 pens and 1 stapler into each goodie bag.
A pen costs $3 and a stapler costs $2.
She spends $216 in total. How many pens does she buy?

Answer: ____________ pens

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44. A rectangular garden has an area of 112 m2 and a breadth of 7 m. Mr Wong

wants to lay 1-m square tiles around the perimeter of the garden. He has laid
some tiles as shown below.

1m

1m

7m 112 m2

How many square tiles does Mr Wong need in total?

Answer: ______________ tiles

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45. The number of marbles Melvin has is more than 50 but less than 70.
He packs the marbles equally in some bags.
If he packs 8 marbles in each bag, she would have 2 marbles left.
If he packs 9 marbles in each bag, she would be short of 6 marbles.
How many marbles does Melvin have?

Answer: _________ marbles

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