Old School - Test Papers - Old School - Preliminary Examination (#7)

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Old School - Preliminary Examination (#7) Section A
For each question, four option are given. One of them is the correct answer. Make your choice (1, 2, 3 or 4). 1. Which one of the following pairs of numbers is smaller than 6405 but greater than 6356? A. 6392, 6450 B. 6365, 6409 C. 6361, 6400 D. 6355, 6404
2. What is the missing number? 430 - 130 = 40 + 56 + ________ A. 204 B. 214 C. 296 D. 396
3. Which of the following numbers has the same number of factors as 30? A. 15 B. 21 C. 24 D. 32
4. In 864,935, what is the value of the digit 9? A. 90 tens B. 90 tenths C. 90 hundredths D. 90 thousandths
5. What is the value of 320.65 X 9? A. 2785.45 B. 2884.25 C. 2885.85
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D. 2925.85
6. The figure in the right shows a cuboid with a square base. The volume of the cuboid is 200 cm3 and it height is 8 cm. Find the length of the cuboid.
A. 5 cm B. 6.25 cm C. 25 cm D. 1600 cm
7. In the figure below, AB and CD are straight lines. Find x.
A. 10 B. 20 C. 35 D. 45 8. The figure below shows the net of a cube. Which 2 faces lie opposite each other?
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A. A and D B. B and F C. C and E D. D and F
9. The usual price of a watch is $50. How much is the discount?
A. $10 B. $20 C. $30 D. $40
10. What is the ratio of n cents to $n? A. 1 : 1 B. 1 : 100 C. 1 : n D. n : 100
11. Sally was facing south at the beginning of a game. Her classmate gave her some instructions to follow. Judy said, "Make a
Then Annie said, "Turn 135 anticlockwise." After making the 2 turns, which direction would Sally be facing?
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A. Northeast B. Northwest C. Southeast D. Southwest
12. The ratio of the 3 sides of a right-angled triangle is 3 : 4 : 5. If the area of the triangle is 150 cm , what is its perimeter? A. 12 cm B. 60 cm C. 150 cm D. 300 cm
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A. 3 : 2 B. 5 : 3 C. 9 : 10 D. 10 : 9
14. The pie chart shows how Mr Tan divided the cash prize which he won in a lucky draw. His daughter received receive?
of the amount that his wife received. His son received $240. How much did his wife
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A. $120 B. $320 C. $360 D. $480
15. A solid made up of unit cubes is viewed from three different directions (Top, Front and Right) as shown in the figure below.
Which one of the following options could not be the possible arrangement of the cubes?
A.
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Section B
Write your answer in the spaces provided. For questions which require units, give your answers in the units stated. 1. Divide 8364 by 9. What is the remainder? Ans: _________________ 2. What is the value of the missing fraction in the box? Leave your answer in its simplest form. 3 + ______ = 4 -1
Ans: _________________ Find the product of 3
Ans: _________________
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4. The mass of a sack of rice, when rounded off to the nearest hundredth is 36.45kg. What is the smallest possible mass of the sack of rice? Ans: _________________kg 5. John reached home at 0205 after travelling for 10.5 hours. What time did he start travelling? Express your answer in 24-hour clock. Ans: _________________ 6. Express 20.4 cm in metres. Ans: _________________m 7. In the figure below, ABCD is a trapezium. Given that DCB = 130 and DBA = 35 find CBD. ,
Ans: _________________ 8. Which one of the following words has only one line of symmetry?
Ans: _________________ 9. Mrs Tan needs to mix 3 litres of apple juice with 5 litres of orange juice to get the mixed juice she wants. How much apple juice does she need when she uses 9 litres of orange juice? Ans: _________________litres 10. Mr Lim cycles 5 kn in 25 minutes. Find the average speed in m/min. Ans: _________________m/min 11. Find the value of 22 x (43 - 38) + 48 8 - 9 Ans: _________________ A bag of pepper weighed 8
2 kg or
kg each. There were four 2 kg packets. How many more
did he have? Ans: _________________
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13. The table below shows how John, David and Mary spent their pocket money last week. Name John David Mary Transport $50 ? $40 Books $30 $40 $40 Food $45 $60 $95 Toys $20 $30 $0 Total $145 ? $175
The amount of money David spent on transport was 25% of the total amount of money the 3 children spent on food. How much pocket money did David spend? Ans: $_________________ 14. In the figure below, 4 identical rectangular strips of paper were arranged into two different patterns whereby the 2 horizontal strips were placed over the 2 vertical strips. In Figure A, the 2 horizontal strips formed a rectangle of breadth 6cm. In Figure B, the area of the empty space outlined by the 4 strips was 100cm2. Find the length of 1 rectangular strip of paper.
Ans: _________________cm 15. The figure below is made from some pieces of
Draw appropriate lines in the figure above to show all the unit shapes that formed the tessellation.
Section C
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Show your working clearly in the spaces provided for each question and write the answer. For questions which require units, give your answers in the units stated. 1. Mr Tan's bookshelf has enough space for either 15x hardcover books or 20 paperbacks. If there are already 18 hardcover books and 4 paperbacks, how many more hardcover books can be placed on the bookshelf? Express your answer in terms of x. Ans: _________________ 2. The figure below shows the net of a cuboid made 4 identical rectangles and 2 identical squares. Find the volume of the cuboid.
Ans: _________________cm
3. Peter's Mathematics score for the mid-year examination was 76. His Mathematics score for the year-end examination was 95. Find the percentage increase in his Mathematics score. Ans: _________________% 4. The bar graph below shows the Science results of a group of pupils.
Find the average marks obtained by pupils who scored 40 marks, 50 marks and 70 marks. Ans:_________________ 5. The figure below shows a right-angled triangle ABC.
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In the figure above, draw two lines, AD and CD, such that AD // BC and ACD = 60 . 6. The cost of 3 apples is the same as that of 2 oranges. The total cost of 4 apples and 3 oranges is $3.40. Mrs Tan bought 7 apples and 5 oranges. How much did she pay for apples and oranges altogether? Ans: _________________ 7. Andy, Ben and Carl went for dinner and paid a total of $935 for the meal. Andy paid 25% of what Ben and Carl paid. Ben paid 20% more than what Andy and Carl had paid. How much did Carl pay for his share for the dinner? Ans:$_________________ 8. The square ABCD was cut into 6 parts using 5 straight lines. The length of the square is 15 cm. Given that the ratio of AE : EG is 1 : 1, the ratio of BF : FG :GD is 2 : 1 : 3 and the ratio of BH : HC is 1 : 3. Find the total area of the shaded part.
Ans: _________________
9. Mrs Tan purchased some shoes at $294.52 from USA. She engaged a shipping company to ship them back to Singapore. The cost of shipping is as follows: USA Shipping Charges
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Base Charge Weight Charge Fuel Charge
$13.40 $7.45 / kg $1.90 / kg
Given that the weight of her purchases was 10.8kg, how much did she pay for the shoes in all? Ans: _________________ 10. Ali and Ben started jogging from Park X to Park Y at the same time. Ali jogged at an average speed of 7.5 km/h while Ben jogged at an average speed of 4.5 km/h. After jogging for 1.2h, Ali decided to turn back and jog towards Ben. Ali met Ben at point Z which was halfway between Park X and Park Y at an average speed of 4.5 km.h. What was the distance between Park X and Park Y?
Ans: _________________ 11. Bob plans to cover a wall of length 6 m and height 3.2 m with either Design A or Design B as shown below. Both designs are squares of length 40 cm and identical semi-circular arcs are used to outline the design within each square. Bob will like to paint the shaded area of the design which he selects for the wall. To save on paint, Bob will like to select the design that has the lesser shaded area. How much more area does Bob have to paint if he accidentally selects the design that has the greater shaded area instead? (Take =3.14)
Ans: _________________ 12. The graph below shows the number of television sets sold by Shop A and Shop B from April and August.
(a) Use the information given in the graph to complete the table given below.
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Month April May June July August
Shop A 200 600
Shop B
500
600 600
(b) What was the total number of television sets sold by Shop A from April to July? (c) Shop A sold each television set at a fixed price of 1$200. In September, a sum of $418 800 was collected from the sales of television sets. How many more television sets were sold in July than September? Ans: (b)_________________ Ans: (c)_________________ 13. In the figure below, ABCD is a rectangle and KMN is a triangle. Given that AQK = 114 QLM = , 110 PMN = 24 and JKLM is a straight line, find ,
(a) x, and (b) y Ans: (a)_________________ Ans: (b)_________________ 14. In the Village of Happipeople, the villagers built their houses underground as shown in the figure below. (a) Fill in the House Numbers of Basement Level 6 in the figure below. (b) Miss Sunshine stays in the house on the extreme right basement Level 10. What is her House Number? (c) Mr Beam stays at Basement Level 100. What is the smallest House Number on Mr Beam's level?
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Ans: (b)_________________ Ans: (c)_________________ A rectangular tank measuring 3 m by 3 m by 1.5 m was
to fill it up with water at a rate of 18 L/min. Every 2 minutes after the tap was turned on, 6L of water was poured from a pail into the tank. How long did it take for the rectangular tank to be completely filled with water? Leave your answer as a mixed number in its simplest form. Ans: _________________ In a confectionery, of the cupcakes baked were strawberry cupcakes,
chocolate cupcakes and the rest were grape cupcakes. was
of the strawberry cupcakes were sold. This
of the number of chocolate cupcakes sold. The number of grape cupcakes sold was
number sold in the other two flavours. Given that there were 190 cupcakes left, how many cupcakes were there at first? Ans: _________________ 17. Packet A, Packet B and Packet C each contained some salt. At first, there were 200g more salt in Packet A than Packet B. Packet C had of he amount of salt in Packet A. After
of the amount of
salt in Packet A was transferred to Packet B, there was 82.15g of salt in Packet B. How many percent less salt were there in Packet C than Packet A at first? Ans: _________________ 18. In a cinema, the ratio of the number of girls to the number of boys was 3 : 2. The ratio of the number of women to the number of boys was 5 : 4. The ratio of the number of girls to the number of men was 2 : 5. During the movie, 6 women and 27 men left the cinema. The ratio of the number of women to the number of men then became 1 : 2. (a) Express the number of women as a fraction of the number of men at first. Leave your answer in its simplest form. (b) How many children were there in the cinema? Ans: (a)_________________
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Section A (Answers)
Answers 1. C. 2. A. 3. C. 4. C. 5. C. 6. A. 7. C. 8. A. 9. A. 10. B. 11. B. 12. B. 13. C. 14. C. 15. D.
Section B (Answers)
Answers 1. 3
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4. 36.445kg 5. 1535 6. 0.204 m 7. 15 8. DOE 9. 5.4 litres
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10. 200 m/min 11. 107 12. 6 packets 13. $180 14. 16cm 15.
Section C (Answers)
Answers 1. (12x - 18) 2. 400 cm3 3. 25% 4. 50 5.
6. $5.80 7. $238
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8. 75cm2 9. $408.90 13
11. 54720 cm2 12. (a) April = 600 June = 900, 300 July = 900 August = 1000 (b) 2300 (c) 251 13. (a) x = 136 (b) y = 42 14. (b) 55 (c) 4951 428
16. 280 17. 25% (a)
(b) 30
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5. What is the value of 320.65 X 9? A. 2785.45 B. 2884.25 C. 2885.85