2012 Primary 3 Mathematics Mid Year Examination 2

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.

The digit '5' in 4580 stands for ________.

1. 5
2. 50
3. 500
4. 5000

2.

Find the difference between 2314 and 1026.

1. 1288
2. 1298
3. 1312
4. 1388

3.

4 x 6 is the same as ________.

1. 6 x 6 x 6 x 6
2. 6 + 6 + 6 + 6
3. 4 x 4 x 4 x 4 x 4 x 4
4. 4 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 4

4.

Fifteen dollars and nine cents is the same as ________.

1. $50.90
2. $50.09
3. $15.90
4. $15.09

5.

Which of the following has the greatest value?

1. 20 five-cent coins
2. 19 ten-cent coins
3. 10 twenty-cent coins
4. 3 fifty-cent coins

6.

What is the product of 316 and 4?

1. 79
2. 312
3. 320
4. 1264

7.

Which of the following is equal to 3082?

1. 30 + 80 + 2
2. 300 + 80 + 2
3. 3000 + 80 + 2
4. 3000 + 800 + 20

8.

3 hundreds less than 6457 is ________.

1. 6454
2. 6427
3. 6157
4. 3457

9.

Add up all the even numbers between 1 and 9. What is the answer?

1. 29
2. 25
3. 20
4. 15

10.

40 x 3 = ________.

1. 4 tens
2. 12 tens
3. 40 tens
4. 120 tens

11.

3 x 5 is 3 more than ________.

1. 3 x 6
2. 3 x 4
3. 2 x 5
4. 3 x 3

12.

Kim has the following amount of money in her purse. She wants to change all the money to 50-cent coins. How many 50-cent coins will she get?

1. 23
2. 20
3. 15
4. 12

13.

Which one of the following numbers when divided by 2 leaves no remainder?

1. 857
2. 823
3. 585
4. 574

14.

5 girls ran a 200-metre race. Alice was 1^st and Beatrice was last. If Diana was ahead of Carol and Elle was just behind Diane, who was 2^nd?

1. Beatrice
2. Carol
3. Diane
4. Elle

15.

Sue has four brothers. She has just bought 40 sweets and wants to share her sweets equally with all her brothers. How many sweets will each of them get?

1. 35
2. 20
3. 10
4. 8

16.

Devi had 24 baskets. After putting 5 eggs into each basket, she was then left with 3 eggs. How many eggs did she have altogether?

1. 72
2. 77
3. 120
4. 123

17.

A farmer had 96 chickens and 32 ducks. He sold 7 chickens and bought 12 ducks. What was the total number of chickens and ducks in the end?

1. 109
2. 123
3. 133
4. 147

18.

Mabel and Ned share 28 stamps. Mabel gets 4 more than Ned. How many stamps does Mabel get?

1. 32
2. 24
3. 16
4. 12

19.

Kumar has 2 two-dollar notes, 3 twenty-cent coins and 2 five-cent coins. How much does he have altogether?

1. $2.25
2. $2.70
3. $4.25
4. $4.70

20.

Benedict saw the following advertisement.
He used up his five-dollar note to buy some ABC pens.
How many pens did he get altogether?

1. 13
2. 12
3. 11
4. 10

Section B

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

1.

Write 7412 in words.

Ans: ________________________________________________

2.

In 6825, the digit '8' is in the ________ place.

Ans: ________

3.

50 more than 9876 is ________.

Ans: ________

4.

What is the quotient when 65 is divided by 7?

Ans: ________

5.

Zhi Hao bought a pen and a file. He gave the cashier $10 and received a change of $4.85. The file cost $3.80. How much did the pen cost?

Ans: $________

6.

Divide 93 by 4. What is the remainder?

Ans: ________

7.

Hao Ran wants to buy a few of the items shown below.

He only had $30 and he used up all his money to buy 3 of the above items. Name the 3 items bought.

Ans: Items: ________, ________, and ________

8.

What is the missing number in the box?

Ans: ________

9.

Subtract 40 from 1460. The answer is ________.

Ans: ________

10.

Complete the number pattern below.

Ans: ________

11.

How many will be needed to make Pattern 8?

Ans: ________

12.

Kate had 200 stamps. She gave her sister 20 of them and her father gave her another 10 stamps. How many stamps did she have in the end?

Ans: ________ stamps

13.

Complete the number pattern below.

1, 4, 9, 16, _____, 36, 49

Ans: ________

14.

Jun Jie baked 5 times as many cookies as Larry. If they both baked 816 cookies altogether, how many cookies did Larry bake?

Ans: ________ cookies

15.

Mrs Lim wants to get 24 posters for the classroom. How much will she have to pay if the posters are sold at 4 for $6?

Ans: $________

16.

Given that + = 18 and

+ + + = 30


What is the value of ?

Ans: ________

17.

Romeo has 500 more game tokens than James. He gives James 300 game tokens.

a) Who has more game tokens now, Romeo or James?
b) How many more?


Ans: a) ________

b) ________ more

18.

Sue has 11 coins. She has only one-dollar coins and fifty-cent coins. The total amount is $8. How many one-dollar coins does she have?

Ans: ________ one-dollar coins

19.

Michael bought 12 boxes of apples.
How many boxes of oranges must he buy so that he can have the same number of apples and oranges?

Ans: ________ boxes

20.

A watch costs 3 times as much as a T-shirt.
If the watch costs $105, find the total cost of 4 such T-shirts.

Ans: $________

Section C

Write your answers in the space provided.

1.

There were 2684 visitors at the zoo on Saturday.
There were 152 fewer visitors at the zoo on Sunday than on Saturday.
Find the total number of visitors on both days.








Answer: ________

2.

Susan baked 73 strawberry muffins and Camy baked 26 chocolate muffins.
Vanessa baked twice as many banana muffins as the total number of muffins Susan and Camy baked altogether.
How many muffins did they bake altogether?








Answer: ________

3.

A dress cost $88. Lily already had $16 in her piggy bank. If she saved $4 each day, how many more days would she need to save in order to buy the dress?








Answer: ________

4.

Jaye bought 3 boxes of egg tarts, each containing 28 egg tarts.
She distributed the tarts equally among 7 friends.
How many egg tarts did each friend receive?








Answer: ________

5.

Mrs Lee bought 35 blue and pink hair clips. She then packed them equally into 5 packets. If there are 3 more pink hair clips than blue hair clips in each packet, how many blue hair clips are there in each packet?








Answer: ________

Section A (Answers)

Answers

1.

C.

2.

A.

3.

B.

4.

D.

5.

C.

6.

D.

7.

C.

8.

C.

9.

C.

10.

B.

11.

B.

12.

A.

13.

D.

14.

C.

15.

D.

16.

D.

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18.

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D.

20.

A.

Section B (Answers)

Answers

1.

Seven thousand, four hundred and twelve

2.

hundreds

3.

9926

4.

9

5.

$1.35

6.

1

7.

Ball, whistle, bat.

8.

4

9.

1420

10.

3837

11.

36

12.

190 stamps

13.

25

14.

136 cookies

15.

$36

16.

7

17.

a) James
b) 100 more

18.

5 one-dollar coins

19.

9 boxes

20.

$140

Section C (Answers)

Answers

1.

There were 5216 visitors on both days.

2.

They baked 297 muffins altogether.

3.

She would need 18 more days in order to buy the dress.

4.

Each friend received 12 egg tarts.

5.

There are 2 blue hair clips in each packet.