2015 Grade 5 MTAP Math Challenge – Division Orals

Below are the 2015 Grade 5 MTAP Math Challenge Division Oral Competition questions with answers.

15-second question (2 points each)

1.) If 25 + N – 100 = 75, what is N?
Answer: 150

2.) 75% of ½ of a number is three times 15. What is the number?

Answer: 120

3.) In a basket factory, Mario finished 5 baskets in 2 hours while Jose finished 10 baskets in 3 hours. If they
work at the same rate, how many baskets can they finish together in 12 hours?
Answer: 70

4.) What is the smallest whole number N that will make N – 7 > 35 true?
Answer: 43

5.) Two identical trapezoids are put together to form a parallelogram. The bases of each trapezoid are 8 cm and
15 cm. Its height is 6 cm. What is the area of the parallelogram?
Answer: 69 sq cm or 69 cm^2

6.) A cylinder exactly contains a sphere inside. If the radius of a sphere is 2 cm, how high is the cylinder?
Answer: 4 cm
7.) When two diameters of a circle divide the circle into 4 parts such that only 2 angles are congruent, but pair is
not congruent to the other pair, what kinds of angles are formed by the diameters?
Answer: acute and obtuse angles
8.) Two identical trapezoids are put together to form a parallelogram. The bases of a trapezoid are 8 cm and 15
cm. Its height is 6 cm. What is the base of the parallelogram?
Answer: 23 cm

9.) How many 1.5 cm × 1.5 cm × 1.5 cm cubes can fill in the 3 cm × 5 cm× 6 cm box?
Answer: 24

10.) The area of a rectangle is 14 cm^2. If the length is one more than three times its width, what is the
perimeter of the rectangle?
Answer: 18 cm

11.) In an elementary school, 450 pupils are in grade 5. If each has 50 students per class, how many classes are
there?
Answer: 9

30-second question (3 points each)

1.) The sides of a triangle have measures in the ratio of 5:8:10. If the perimeter of a triangle is 46 cm, what is
the length of the longest side?
Answer: 20 cm

2.) The perimeter of a rectangle is 18 cm. Its length is 7 cm. If the ratio of the length to the width remains the
same, what is the area of the resulting rectangle when the perimeter of the original triangle is tripled?
Answer: 126 cm^2

3.) The surface area of a rectangular box is 94 cm^2. The area of one face is 15 cm. What are the dimensions of
the box?
Answer: 3 cm, 4 cm, and 5 cm
4.) How many numbers between 100 and 999 whose sum of the digits is 10?
Answer: 54

5.) The sum of two numbers is 80. What is the sum of two other numbers so that the average of the four
numbers is 37.5?
Answer: 70

6.) Observe the sequence below: 3, 8, 13, 18 … What is the 20th term of the sequence?
Answer: 98

1-minute question (5 points each)

1.) Tommy glues together 72 cubes with 2 cm edges to form a solid rectangular brick. If the area of the base is
96 sq cm, find the volume of the brick in cubic centimeters.
Answer: 576. NOTE: the solid is 6 cm by 8 cm by 12 cm

2.) Five posts are placed around an oval. The posts are numbered consecutively. Suppose that 21 and 24 are two
of these numbers, what is the least possible sum of the numbers on all five posts?
Answer: 110

3.) The length and width of a rectangle are 5 cm and 3 cm, respectively. The base of an isosceles triangle whose
perimeter is 15 cm is 3 cm. The two figures were placed together so that they form a pentagon. What is the
perimeter of the trapezoid?
Answer: 25 cm

4.) Six equilateral triangles were placed together to form a hexagon. A square is placed on one side of the
hexagon so that an octagon is formed. If the perimeter of the octagon is 56 cm, what is the length of a side of an
equilateral triangle?
Answer: 7 cm

5.) For senior citizens, a tricycle fare costs Php 6.50 for the first kilometers and Php 1.00 for every additional
kilometer. Lolo Frisco gave the driver Php 40.00 for his fare and those of his three friends who are also senior
citizens. He received a change of Php 2.00. How many kilometers did they travel?
Answer: greater than or equal to 4 km but less than 5 km

6.) The ratio of intermediate pupils to primary pupils in a school club last year was 5:8. When 9 of the primary
pupils became intermediate pupils this year, the ratio of intermediate pupils to primary pupils became 8:5. If
there were 39 pupils in the school club, how many intermediate and primary pupils were there at the start?
Answer: number of primary pupils = 24, number of intermediate pupils = 15

Clincher Question
1.) Rey was twice as old as Linda. 5 years ago and Linda is 9 years today, how old is Rey today?
Answer: 13

2.) If 85% of the 60 questions in a Math test are on problem solving, how many questions are on problem
solving?
Answer: 51

3.) What must have been the average score of Dora in her first three test so that her average score in the four test
was 86 when she scored 95 in her fourth test?
Answer: 83
Do or Die Question
Find the value of (2^3 + 10^2 – 5^2) – 2 × 40.
Answer: 3
 2013 Grade 5 MTAP Division Finals Round
15-Second Questions
1.) Express 3/8 as a decimal.
2.) What fraction in lowest terms is equal to 45%?
3.) Write 5 × 105 + 7 + 104 + 6 × 102 + 8 in standard notation.
4.) Two numbers are in the ratio 5:12. The bigger number is 108. What is the smaller number?
5.) If a boat traveled 560km in 8 hours, what was its speed in kilometers per hour?
6.) What number is 25 more than the product of 12 and 15?
7.) What is N in 15N = 225?
8.) What is the number with a prime factorization of 23 × 32 × 5?
9.) How many 25-centavo pieces are equal to P37.50?
10.) Express the product of 50 000 × 60 in scientific notation.
11.) What is the prime factorization of 240.
12.) The area of a square is 625cm^2. What is its perimeter?

30-Second Questions
1.) Robert mixes 3 bags of sand with 2 bags of cement. How many bags of sand should he mix with 12 bags of
cement?
2.) Find the difference of (8 3/5 × 3) from 18 ½.
3.) Three loaves of bread cost P127.50. How much do 2 loaves cost?
4.) A machine stamps 250 envelopes in 1 2/3 minutes. How many can it stamp in a minute?
5.) The product of two numbers is 15 5/6. If one number is 3 1/3, what is the other?
6.) The perimeter of an isosceles ∆ABC is 53cm. If the base is 17cm, what is the length of each leg?
7.) Of the boys who tried out for a basketball team, 65% passed. If 13 players made it to the team, how many
boys tried out?

1-Minute Questions
1.) Nine times Eva’s age decreased by 12 and divided by 3 gives 32. How old is Eva?
2.) What is the regular price of a shirt bought for P175.00 at a discount of 30%?
3.) A fast train traveled at 90km/hr for 3 hours and at 85km/hr for 3 ½ hours. What was its average speed?
Give the answer to the nearest tenth of a km.
4.) The distance around a standard tennis court is 228 feet. If the length of the court is 6 feet more than twice the
width, find the dimensions of the court.
5.) The three angles of a triangle are consecutive multiples of 5. What is the biggest angle?
6.) Twenty percent of 93.75 is what percent of 75?
7.) A triangle and a square have the same base. If they have equal areas, how do their altitudes compare?
8.) Find at least one 5-digit number so that 5[] 34[] is divisible by 5 and 9.

Answer Key
15- 30-Second Questions 1-Minute Questions
Second Questions 1.) 18 1.) 12 years old
1.) 0.375 2.) 7 3/10 2.) P250.00
2.) 9/20 3.) P85.00
3.) 570 608 3.) 87.3 km/hr
4.) 150 4.) w = 36ft l = 78ft
4.) 45
5.) 19/4 or 4 ¾ 5.) 65ᵒ
5.) 70 or 70 km/hr
6.) 205 6.) 18cm 6.) 25 percent
7.) 15 7.) 20 7.) The altitude of the triangle is twice the altitude of the
8.) 360 square.
9.) 150 8.) 56 340 or 51 345. Ones digits must be either 0 or 5.
10.) 3 x 106 Sum of the digits must be a multiple of 9.
11.) 24 × 3 × 5
12.) 100cm
2011 Grade 5 MTAP Division Team Finals Questions with Answers

EASY:
1.) What is the Perimeter of a pentagon if each side is 19 cm?
Answer: 95 cm

2.) A storekeeper puts 75 kg. of rice into 8 bags. How many kg. does each bag weigh?

Answer: 9.375 kg or 75/8 kg

3.) What is n if n=3 2/5 + 5 4/8?

Answer: 8 9/10
4.) What is the reciprocal of 0.9?

Answer: 10/9

5.) Express 4.125 as a mixed number with the fraction part in lowest term.
Answer: 4 1/8

6.) Subtract the greatest 2 digit even no. from the greatest 3 digit odd no.

Answer: 901

7.) What is 25% of 852?

Answer: 213

8.) A blouse marked P180 was bought at a discount of 15%. How much was the discount?
Answer: P 27

9.) 4 x 4 = 16. 16 is a square number. What are the square numbers between 20 and 50?
Answer: 25, 36, 49

10.) In a school, there are 4 boys for every 5 girl students, if there are 2,700 students, how many boys are there?

Answer: 1, 200 boys

AVERAGE:
1.) When the area of a square is 900 cm., what is the perimeter?

Answer: 120 cm

2.) Toy robot marked at P885 was sold at 15% discount, how much was paid for it?

Answer: P 752.25
3.) Product of 2 whole numbers is 48, what is the greatest possible sum of the 2 whole numbers?

Answer: 49

4.) PJ got 72% after missing 7 items. How many items are there in the test?

Answer: 25

5.) Cube edge of 15 cm was already filled with 2L water. How much more water is needed to fill it?
Answer: 1.375

DIFFICULT:
1.) A blouse on sale P150 is 60% of its regular price. Find the regular price.

Answer: P 250

2.) Along the highway, a car travels at 90km./hr. for 3 hrs. and 80km./hr. for 2 hrs. What is the average speed of the
car?

Answer: 86 km/hr

3.) Mila’s father has 2 jobs. 1st job pays P375 more than the 2nd job. How much does he get from the 1st job if he
gets per week a total of P3,875?
Answer: P 2, 125

4.) The area of 4 squares is the same as the area of 12 cm. x 27 cm. rectangle. What is the perimeter of each square?

Answer: 36 cm