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1.
During a newspaper drive, three .sections of St. Peter's School collected. 42 1/2 kg, 47
2/3 kg, and 59 1/8 kg of newspapers. How many kg of newspaper did the three sections
collect?
2. . A man working 8 1/2 hours 2 day car: finish a job in 12 days. How many hours a day must
. he work to complete the job in 10 1/5 days?
Peter read the first page of a book in 1 1/5 min, The second page took him 1 1/4 times as
long. How long did it take. to read the .2.nd p2ge?
Jun had 12 apples. He gave each of his friends 3/4 of an apple and kept 3/4 for himself.
How many friends did he have if all apples were finished?
7. Three-fifths of a class prepared for a spelling contest and 1/6 of them qualified. What
fraction of the class qualified for the contest?
8.
A car traveled at 50 km/hr for 3 hours and at 60 km/hr for 2 hours. What was the
average speed?
9. If 2/3 of the graduating class of 420 Grade V are girls, how many boy are graduating?
10. If there were 12 rainy days in a certain November, what fraction of the days were not
rainy?
Challenge!!!
A. 1. A car tank is 3/5 full. After us1ng 6 liters, it is only 9/20 full. How many liters does it hold
when full?
2. Of three numbers, two are 1 2/3 and 12/7. What should the third numbers be so that the
average of all three is 2?
3. Find the smallest odd counting number, greater than 1, which
it is divided by either 5 or 7, the remainder is 1.
4 . _What fraction is between
hundreds digit, the number increases by 396. If she instead switches the tens and the ones
digits, the number decreases by 18. What is the original number?
3. Lucy has a piece of cartolina 32 cm by 48 cm. She wants to cut pieces which are 4 cm by 6
cm. How many can she cut?
4,. You have 2 jars, one that holds 5 liters and another that holds 3 liters. You are asked to get
Exactly 4 liters of water and you have no other jar. How will you do it?
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Challenge!!!!!!!!
1. Bianca forms two 4-digit numbers using each of the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 exactly
once. She wants the sum of the two numbers to be as large as possible. What is the value of
the largest possible sum?
2 Consider all four-digit numbers that can be formed each time taking the 4 digits of 2014.
Without repeating any digit, what is the sum?
3. The odometer of my car indicates 187 569. All the digits of this number are different. After
how many more kilometers will this happen again?
4. Mico's house number has three digits. Removing the leftmost digit of this number, you
obtain the house number of Mice's friend Ben. Removing the leftmost digit of Ben's house
number, you obtain the house number of Chiara. The sum of the three house numbers is 912.
What is the middle (the tens) digit of Mico's house number?
5. In a list of 200 numbers, each number after the first is 4 more than the number that comes
before it. What is the difference between the first and the last number on this list?
6. Most numbers can be made into palindrome numbers by doing the following steps:
Pick a number.
Example:
25
Reverse its digits.
52
Add the original and the reversed number.
25 + 52 = 77
25 becomes a palindrome in one step
If the result is not a palindrome, repeat the process.
Example: 39 + 93 = 132 ; 132 + 231 = 363 39 becomes a palindrome in two steps
In how many steps will the following numbers become a palindrome? What is the resulting
palindrome number? A. 68
B. 79
C.149
D. 155