2012 Primary 3 Mathematics End Year Examination 5

Section A

For each of the questions, four options are given. One of them is the correct answer. Make your choice (1, 2, 3 or 4).

1.

In 7489, the digit 8 is in the ________ place.

1. ones
2. tens
3. hundreds
4. thousands

2.

Express 9 km 6 m in metres. The answer is ________.

1. 96 m
2. 906 m
3. 9006 m
4. 9060 m

3.

Convert 3500 cents to dollars.

1. $0.35
2. $3.50
3. $35.00
4. $350.00

4.

Jonathan has $33. His sister has $17.20 less than what he has. How much does his sister have?

1. $15.20
2. $15.80
3. $16.20
4. $16.80

5.

5000 + 3 + 60 = _________

1. 5036
2. 5063
3. 5360
4. 5630

6.

Divide 79 by 9. What is the quotient?

1. 6
2. 7
3. 8
4. 9

7.

What fraction has the smallest value?

1. ${\displaystyle \frac{1}{2}\mathrm{}}$
2. ${\displaystyle \frac{1}{5}\mathrm{}}$
3. ${\displaystyle \frac{1}{8}\mathrm{}}$
4. ${\displaystyle \frac{1}{12}\mathrm{}}$

8.

Find the sum of 211 and 799.

1. 588
2. 988
3. 1000
4. 1010

9.

In the figure below, how many angles are greater than a right angle?

1. 5
2. 2
3. 3
4. 4

10.

What is the missing numerator?

${\displaystyle \frac{2}{3}=\frac{?}{15}\mathrm{}}$

1. 8
2. 10
3. 12
4. 14

11.

Multiply 570 by 4. The answer is ________.

1. 20 hundreds and 8 tens
2. 20 hundred and 80 tens
3. 22 hundreds and 8 tens
4. 22 hundreds and 80 tens

12.

Eunice had 7 boxes of books. Each box contained 28 books. How many books were left after Eunice sold 48 books?

1. 98
2. 148
3. 196
4. 244

13.

Jeremy has 759 cards. His brother has 452 cards more than him. How many cards do they have altogether?

1. 1211
2. 1663
3. 1850
4. 1970

14.

Cindy ate ${\displaystyle \frac{1}{2}\mathrm{}}$ of the pizza. Doreen ate ${\displaystyle \frac{1}{8}\mathrm{}}$ of the same pizza. What fraction of the pizza was eaten altogether?

1. ${\displaystyle \frac{3}{8}\mathrm{}}$
2. ${\displaystyle \frac{5}{8}\mathrm{}}$
3. ${\displaystyle \frac{3}{14}\mathrm{}}$
4. ${\displaystyle \frac{7}{24}\mathrm{}}$

15.

12 hundreds is ________ tens less than 1900.

1. 70
2. 178
3. 700
4. 1888

16.

18 x 5 = 2 x 3 x ______

1. 5
2. 8
3. 3
4. 15

17.

Thomas cut a cake into 11 equal pieces. He gave 4 pieces to his friend and 5 pieces to his brother. What fraction of his cake was left?

1. ${\displaystyle \frac{2}{11}\mathrm{}}$
2. ${\displaystyle \frac{4}{11}\mathrm{}}$
3. ${\displaystyle \frac{5}{11}\mathrm{}}$
4. ${\displaystyle \frac{9}{11}\mathrm{}}$

18.

The clocks below show the start of a lesson and the end of the lesson. How long was the lesson?

1. 1 h 50 min
2. 2 h 50 min
3. 3 h 50 min
4. 50 min

19.

If the perimeter of rectangle A is 42 cm, what is the length of the rectangle?

1. 15 cm
2. 18 cm
3. 30 cm
4. 36 cm

20.

Amanda is 6 years older than Churu. In 4 years' time, their total age is 34 years old. How old is Churu now?

1. 9 years old
2. 10 years old
3. 14 years old
4. 15 years old

Section B

Write the correct answers in the blanks provided.

1.

Complete the following number patterns.

1620, 1740, 1860, ________, 2100

Ans: ________

2.

How many 20¢ coins can be exchanged for a dollar?

Ans: ________

3.

Arrange the fractions in order, starting with the smallest.

${\displaystyle \frac{2}{7},\frac{11}{12},\frac{2}{3},\frac{5}{6}\mathrm{}}$

Ans: ________, ________, ________, ________
(smallest)

4.

Use the digits below to form the greatest 4-digit number which is divisible by 5.

3, 5, 1, 4

Ans: ________

5.

Bernice is thinking of a 2-digit even number that is greater than 30 but smaller than 40. The product of the digits of the number is equal to 18. What is the 2-digit even number?

Ans: ________

6.

The figure is made up of identical 1 cm squares. Find the area of the figure.

Ans: ________ cm²

7.

How many pairs of parallel lines are there in the figure below?

Ans: ________

8.

This bar graph shows the number of sweets that 4 boys have. Find the difference between the boy with the most number of sweets and the boy with the least number of sweets.

Ans: ________

9.

This bar graph shows the number of sweets that 4 boys have. If the 4 boys share the sweets equally, how many sweets would each of them have?

Ans: ________

10.

Eugenia had four $5 notes. She bought a T-shirt that costs $16.85. How much money had she left?

Ans: ________

11.

What is the missing digit?

Ans: ________

12.

What are the values of A and of B?

Ans: A: ________
B: ________

13.

Bernard had thrice as much money as Charlie. Charlie had $462 less than Bernard. How much did they have altogether?

Ans: $________

14.

Janice started doing her homework at 3.30 p.m. She spent 45 minutes on her homework. What time did she complete her homework?

Ans: ________ p.m.

15.

What is the mass of if the mass of is 10 kg?

Ans: ________ kg

16.

Karen, Peggy and Joyce shared a roll of ribbon. Peggy received twice as much as Joyce and Karen received thrice as much as Joyce. If the roll of ribbon was 5 m 4 cm long, what was the length of ribbon that Joyce received?

Ans: ________ cm

17.

The table below shows the scores awarded to 4 participants during a story telling competition. The participant with the highest total score won the competition.

Participant	Judge 1	Judge 2	Judge 3	Judge 4	Position
A	9	8	8	7	2nd
B	8	6	7	6	4th
C	10	9	10	8	1st
D	8	6	8	?	3rd

Participant D was 3^rd in position after the competition. What was the smallest possible score Judge 4 could have awarded to Participant D?

Ans: _______

18.

Mike has twice as many game cards as Paul. After Paul bought 60 game cards, Paul has twice as many game cards as Mike. How many game cards does Paul have at first?

Ans: ________

19.

Amanda wanted to buy a watch. She saved $4 on the first day. Everyday she would save $4 than the previous day. After 6 days, Amanda saved the exact amount of money to buy the watch. How much did the watch cost?

Ans: $________

20.

Teresa and Jaya sold 145 rice dumplings. Jaya and Nancy sold 275 rice dumplings. How many more rice dumplings did Nancy sell than Teresa?

Ans: ________

Section C

Solve the following story sums.

1.

Bernice, Caroline and Diana shared 1500 stickers. Caroline and Diana had a total of 1045 stickers while Bernice and Caroline had the same number of stickers.

(a) How many stickers did Bernice have?








Answer: ________

(b) How many more stickers did Diana have than Caroline?








Answer: ________

2.

Carol bought some marbles. She gave ${\displaystyle \frac{3}{5}\mathrm{}}$ of them to her friends and ${\displaystyle \frac{1}{10}\mathrm{}}$ of them to her cousins. If she was left with 60 marbles, how many marbles did she buy?








Answer: ________

3.

Josephine has $405. She has twice as many $2 notes as $5 notes. What is the total value of $2 notes that she has?








Answer: ________

4.

Anna placed some cones along a straight line with an equal distance between each of them. The distance between the 5^th and the 13^th cone was 1 m 20 cm. The distance between the 9^th and the last cone is 1 m 50 cm. How many cones did Anna place along the straight line?








Answer: ________

5.

Xiao Hui had a piece of rectangle strip of paper. She folded according as what was shown below.

(a) What is the area of the piece of paper before the fold?









Answer: ________

(b) What is the perimeter of the piece of paper before the fold?








Answer: ________

Section A (Answers)

Answers

1.

B.

2.

C.

3.

C.

4.

B.

5.

B.

6.

C.

7.

D.

8.

D.

9.

C.

10.

B.

11.

C.

12.

B.

13.

D.

14.

B.

15.

A.

16.

D.

17.

A.

18.

A.

19.

A.

20.

B.

Section B (Answers)

Answers

1.

1980

2.

5

3.

${\displaystyle \frac{2}{7},\frac{2}{3},\frac{5}{6},\frac{11}{12}\mathrm{}}$

4.

4315

5.

36

6.

7 cm²

7.

3

8.

14

9.

15

10.

$3.15

11.

3

12.

A: 417
B: 130

13.

$924

14.

4.15 p.m.

15.

2 kg

16.

84 cm

17.

6

18.

20

19.

$84

20.

130

Section C (Answers)

Answers

1.

(a) 455

(b) 135

2.

200

3.

$180

4.

19 cones

5.

(a) 24 cm²

(b) 28 cm