2012 Primary 3 Mathematics End Year Examination 4

Section A

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

1.

Which of the following has the same value as 2107?

1. 21 thousands + 7 ones
2. 20 hundreds + 10 tens + 7 ones
3. 20 hundreds + 17 ones
4. 2 thousands + 10 hundreds + 7 ones

2.

The table below shows the number of participants who had signed up for the various sports that would be conducted at a Sports Carnival.

Sport	Number of participants
Skipping	5658
Jogging	4987
Swimming	5748

How many more participants signed up for the most popular sport than the least popular sport?

1. 671
2. 771
3. 761
4. 861

3.

Ahmad has 4292 stamps and Govin has 2464 stamps.
How many stamps must Ahmad give to Govin so that both boys will have the same number of stamps?

1. 914
2. 1828
3. 2146
4. 3378

4.

Mr Ho earned $358 in a day.
If he earned the same amount of money each day, how much money would he earn in a week?

1. $2156
2. $2456
3. $2506
4. $4256

5.

Fang Yu had 376 cards. She arranged them equally into packs of 8. How many packs of cards were there?

1. 47
2. 48
3. 2968
4. 3040

6.

Muthu bought some items at the supermarket. The receipt below shows the price of each item and the total amount paid by Muthu.
How much did Muthu pay for the dustpan?

1. $5.65
2. $8.35
3. $10.60
4. $11.70

7.

Ali wanted to buy some magazines. Each magazine cost $8 and he needed $14 more to buy 10 such magazines. How much money did he have at first?

1. $60
2. $66
3. $80
4. $94

8.

Ghandi went to an arcade on Saturday and Sunday.
He spent $56 on Saturday.
He spent $22.50 more on Sunday than on Saturday.
If he gave the cashier 2 fifty-dollar notes on Sunday, how much change did he receive?

1. $78.50
2. $66.50
3. $32.50
4. $21.50

9.

Aminah completed a race by running a distnce of 8 km 50 m. Jaiho ran a distance of 6 km 120 m.
How much further must Jaiho run in order to complete the race?

1. 1 km 930 m
2. 2 km 380 m
3. 14 km 620 m
4. 14 km 170 m

10.

Aimee's watch is 20 minutes slower than the clock in the classroom. The clock shows 9.15 a.m.
What time will Aimee's watch show 30 minutes later?

1. 9.25 a.m.
2. 9.35 a.m.
3. 9.45 a.m.
4. 10.05 a.m.

11.

What is the mass of the pie?

1. 107 g
2. 170 g
3. 107 kg
4. 170 kg

12.

Mrs Chen travelled from the bus station to the school to fetch her son. She then brought him to the playground to play before going home. What was the total distance travelled by Mrs Chen if she took the shortest possible route?

1. 1 km 299 m
2. 2 km 404 m
3. 2 km 304 m
4. 3 km 765 m

13.

Latifah drank 1250 ml of water each day. If Latifah drank the same amount of water each day, how much water would she drink in 5 days?

1. 6 ℓ 255 ml
2. 6 ℓ 250 ml
3. 62 ℓ 50 ml
4. 625 ℓ

14.

There was 560 ml less lemonade in Jug A than Jug B. The two jugs contained 3580 ml of lemonade in all. How many millilitres of lemonade were there in Jug A?

1. 1510 ml
2. 2070 ml
3. 2460 ml
4. 3020 ml

15.

Study the figure below. What fraction of the figure is shaded?

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

16.

Which one of the following fractions is an equivalent fraction of ${\displaystyle \frac{4}{6}\mathrm{}}$ ?

1. ${\displaystyle \frac{1}{3}\mathrm{}}$
2. ${\displaystyle \frac{2}{6}\mathrm{}}$
3. ${\displaystyle \frac{4}{5}\mathrm{}}$
4. ${\displaystyle \frac{8}{12}\mathrm{}}$

17.

Alan counted the number of pupils who visited the school dental clinic daily. The bar graph below shows the number of pupils who visited the dental clinic on the 4 days.

Which of the following statements is true?

1. 10 more children visited the dental clinic on Day 2 than Day 3.
2. The most number of children that visited the dental clinic was on Day 2.
3. The total number of children who visited the dental clinic on Day 1 and Day 3 was more than the number of children who visited the dental clinic on Day 2.
4. The total number of children who visited the dental clinic on Day 1 and Day 2 was the same as the number of children who visited the dental clinic on Day 4.

18.

Study the figure carefully.

Which line is both parallel to Line AB and perpendicular to Line CD?

1. Line ST
2. Line UV
3. Line WX
4. Line YZ

19.

Study the figure below carefully.

How many right angles are there inside the figure?

1. 6
2. 7
3. 10
4. 12

20.

Look at the figure below. What is the perimeter of the figure?

1. 82 m
2. 89 m
3. 109 m
4. 124 m

Section B

Write your answers in the spaces provided. For questions which require units, give your answers in the units stated.

1.

Write 5348 in words.

Answer: ____________________________________________________

2.

Arrange the following numbers in descending order:

9364

9643

9634

9346

Answer: ________, ________, ________, ________

3.

Complete the number pattern as shown below:

2, 6, 14, _____, 62, _____

Answer: _____, _____

4.

David had 1857 stickers.
He had 2466 fewer stickers than Andy.
How many stickers did they have altogether?

Answer: ________

5.

Andy, Bala and Chandra had a total of 2400 marbles.
Andy and Bala had a total of 646 marbles.
Bala and Chandra had a total of 1923 marbles.
How many marbles did Bala have?

Answer: ________

6.

Form the greatest 4-digit even number using the digits provided. (You can use each digit once only).

6

3

7

2

4

Answer: ________

7.

Susan used 154 beads to make a necklace. How many beads must she use to make 6 such necklaces?

8.

Abdullah baked 231 cookies. He packed them equally into 9 jars. How many cookies were not packed into the jars?

Answer: ________

9.

Jane changed her 2 ten-dollar notes for 3 five-dollar notes and some fifty-cent coins.
How many fifty-cent coins did she receive?

Answer: ________

10.

Lynn had $43.95 in her wallet at first. Her mother gave her 5 five-dollar notes, 8 twenty-cent coins and 14 five-cent coins. How much money did Lynn have in the end?

Answer: $_________

11.

A tailor had a piece of cloth which was half a metre long. After using 30 cm of the cloth, how much cloth did he have left?

Answer: ________ cm

12.

Celine mixed 5 ℓ 375 ml of water with some lemon syrup to make 8 ℓ of lemonade.
How much more water than lemon syrup was used? Express your answer in litres and millilitres.

Answer: _____ ℓ _____ ml

13.

Arrange the fractions in order. Begin with the smallest fraction.

${\displaystyle \frac{1}{6},\frac{3}{4},\frac{5}{12},\frac{1}{2}\mathrm{}}$

Answer: _____, _____, _____, _____

14.

Shuli ate ${\displaystyle \frac{1}{3}\mathrm{}}$ of a watermelon.
Her brother ate ${\displaystyle \frac{1}{2}\mathrm{}}$ of the watermelon.
What fraction of the watermelon was left?

Answer: ________

15.

Three boys ate 206 sweets altogether.
Tom ate 16 more sweets than Xie Min.
Hariff ate 24 more sweets than Tom.
How many sweets did Xie Min eat?

Answer: ________

16.

The bar graph below shows the number of seashells collected by four children.

Fill in the blank with the correct answer.

The total number of seashells collected by Faizu and Vitha is _________ times as many as the number of seashells collected by Aileen.

Answer: ________

17.

Study the figure carefully.
How many angles in the figure are smaller than a right angle?

Answer: _________

18.

Study the tissue box below.
How many right angles can you find on the shaded face of the box?

Answer: ________

19.

Study the figure carefully.
What is the area of the shaded figure?

Answer: _________ cm²

20.

The square tile is made up of 2 rectangular tiles.
What is the length of the square tile of the area of the rectangular tile is 32 cm²?

Answer: _________ cm

Section C

Do these word problems carefully.

1.

A printer cost $160 less than a camera.
A computer cost thrice as much as the camera.
If the printer cost $860, what was the total cost of the printer, computer and camera?








Answer: ________

2.

The mass of a box containing a steel ball is 3550 g.
When Mr Lim puts in 2 more such steel balls into the box the mass of the box and 3 identical steel balls is 5900 g.
What is the mass of the box?








Answer: ________

3.

Salim, Ernst and Matthew took part in a card-making competition.
Salim took 1 hour 27 minutes to complete his card.
Ernst took 35 minutes more than Salim but 12 minutes less than Matthew.

a) How long did Matthew take to complete his card?








Answer: ________

b) How much longer did Matthew take than Salim to complete the card?








Answer: ________

4.

Ling Ling had 4200 stamps at first. After giving Mei Hui 950 stamps, Ling Ling still had 165 more stamps than Mei Hui.
How many stamps did Mei Hui have at first?








Answer: ________

5.

Zorah spent $58 on a total of 12 pizzas.
A Hawaiian pizza cost $2 more than a Seafood pizza.
If one Hawaiian pizza cost $6, how many Seafood pizza did she buy?








Answer: ________

Section A (Answers)

Answers

1.

B.

2.

C.

3.

A.

4.

C.

5.

A.

6.

C.

7.

B.

8.

D.

9.

A.

10.

A.

11.

B.

12.

B.

13.

B.

14.

A.

15.

C.

16.

D.

17.

D.

18.

A.

19.

B.

20.

D.

Section B (Answers)

Answers

1.

Five thousand, three hundred and forty-eight

2.

9643, 9634, 9364, 9346

3.

30, 126

4.

6180

5.

169

6.

7642

7.

924

8.

6

9.

10

10.

$71.25

11.

20 m

12.

2 ℓ 150 ml

13.

${\displaystyle \frac{1}{6},\frac{5}{12},\frac{1}{2},\frac{3}{4}\mathrm{}}$

14.

${\displaystyle \frac{1}{6}\mathrm{}}$

15.

50

16.

4

17.

3

18.

4

19.

12 cm²

20.

8 cm

Section C (Answers)

Answers

1.

The total cost of the printer, computer and camera is $4940.

2.

The box is 2350 g.

3.

a) Matthew took 2 h 14 min to complete the card.

b) Matthew took 47 min longer than Salim to complete the card.

4.

Mei Hui had 2135 stamps at first.

5.

She bought 7 seafood pizzas.