Section A:

Short questions
Each question carries 3 marks

1. 1 US dollars can be exchanged for 15000 Vietnam Dong (VD) on a particular day.
80 US dollars can be exchanged for 120 Singapore dollars on the same day. How
much Singapore dollars can 20000 Vietnam Dong be exchanged for on that day?

Solution:
USD 1 → S $120 ÷ 80 = S$1.50
USD 1 → 15000VD
Hence, S$1.50 → 15000VD
S$1 → 15000 ÷ 1.5 = 10000VD
Since, $1 can be exchanged for 10000VD, 20000VD can be exchanged for $2.
[ 2 marks for method and 1 mark for correct answer]

2. Evaluate

Solution:

[ 2 marks for
method]

[ 1 mark for correct

answer]

3. 5 times Harry’s age equals 4 times Paul’s age. 9 years later, 8 times Harry’s
age equals 7 times Paul’s age. How old is Harry now?

Solution:
Let Harry’s age be h. Hence, Paul’s age is h.

[ 2 marks for working]

Harry is now 12 years old. [1 mark]

 4. A piece of rectangular land has width 75m and length 120m. It is to be divided
into a number of smaller identical square plots of land for planting purposes.
a) What is the length of the side of each square?
b) How many such squares can be attained without leaving any parts of the
land out?

Solution:
a) By using prime factorization, we factorise 75 and 120:

5 75, 120

3 15, 24
5,8

[1 mark for working and 1

mark for answer ]

b) There are squares [1 mark]

5. When it is 12 noon in Montreal, it is 6 pm in Paris. The times of take-off and

landing

of aircraft are given in local times. A plane leaving Montreal at 7 pm arrives in

Paris at

8 am. Assuming that the travel time is the same in both directions, what time
would a

plane leaving Paris at 11 am arrive in Montreal?

Solution:

Time difference between Montreal and Paris is 6 hours. Paris is ahead by 6 hours.

It takes 7 hours to fly from Montreal to Paris and vice-versa.

11 am + 7 hrs = 6pm – 6 hours = (Ans) 12 noon.

[2marks for method and 1 mark for correct answer]

6. Which number should replace each question mark in the empty squares?

Solution:

The students should find the pattern, which is numbers in the 2nd row subtract
numbers in the 3rd row
= numbers in the 1st row. Hence, 7 – 2 = 5 and 5 – 1 = 4.
Answers are 5 and 5. [1 mark for each correct answer and 1
mark for method]

7. I think of three numbers. Call them A, B and C. I realise that

A + B + C = 10

A × B × C = 30

A × B + B × C + C × A = 31 What whole numbers am I

thinking of?

Solution:

By guessing or trial and error, we get 2 + 3 + 5 = 10. We try to substitute 2, 3

and 5 into the 2nd equation and it works. If these 3 numbers work in the 3rd
equation, then we have our answers.

2 × 3 + 3 × 5 + 5 × 2 is indeed 31. Hence, A = 2, B = 3 and C = 5. [1 mark

for each correct answer]

This will not work with other numbers.

Section B: Each question carries 5 marks
Higher Order Thinking

1. A palindrome is a positive integer that is the same when read forwards or

backwards. For example, 131 is a palindrome. What is the largest palindrome
less than 200 that is the sum of three consecutive integers?

Solution:
Suppose that a palindrome p is the sum of the three consecutive integers

In this case, p = (a - 1) + a + (a + 1) = 3a, so p is a multiple of 3.

The largest palindromes less than 200 are 191, 181, 171.

Note that 191 and 181 are not divisible by 3, but 171 is divisible by 3.

One way to check these without using a calculator is to use the test for
divisibility by 3:

A positive integer is divisible by 3 if and only if the sum of its digits is

divisible by 3.

Therefore, 191 and 181 cannot be the sum of three consecutive integers.

[4 marks for method ]

The integer 171 can be written as 56 + 57 + 58, so 171 is the largest

palindrome less than 200 that is the sum of three consecutive integers.
[1 mark for correct answer]

2. Julie has 5 boxes of chocolate. Tamara has 4 bags of gummy. The total cost of
all the items is $44. The cost of 4 boxes of chocolate and a bag of gummy
equal the cost of 3 bags of gummy and a box of chocolate. Find the cost of a
box of chocolate and a bag of gummy.

Solution:
Let the cost of a box of chocolate and the cost of a gummy be c and g
respectively.
5c + 4g = 44…….(1)
4c + g + 3g + c = 5c + 4g = 44 [1]

Since 4c + g = 3g + c,
4c + g = 22 …. (2) [1]
c + 3g = 22….(3) [1]

From (3):
4c + 12g = 88 …(4)
 (4) – (2):
11g = 66 [1]
g=6

From (3):
c= $22-$18 = $4 [1]

A box of chocolate costs $4 and a bag of gummy cost $6.

3. A length of wire is cut into several smaller pieces. Each of the smaller pieces
are bent

into squares. Each square has a side that measures 2 centimeters. The total
area of the

smaller squares is 92 square centimeters. What was the original length of

wire?

Solution:

Area of each square is 2 × 2 = 4 square centimeters.

[1]

Total no of squares = 92 ÷ 4 = 23. [1]

The perimeter of each square is 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 = 8cm [1]

Therefore, the original length of wire is 23 squares × 8 cm [1]

= 184 cm [1]