Section A 5 marks each

A. Choose the correct answers and write (1, 2, 3 or 4) on the answer sheet.

1. In 6 : 18 = A : B, what are the values represented by A and B?

1. 3 : 1 3. 4 : 20
2. 1 : 3 4. 8 : 16

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2. Write 4 7 as a decimal, correct to 2 decimal places.
1. 4.33 3. 4.43
2. 4.37 4. 4.44

3. The product of 3 numbers is 210. Which of the following is not the possible set of numbers?
1. 5, 6, 7 3. 3, 7, 10
2. 3, 5, 14 4. 2, 6, 20

4. What is the value of 93 420 – (128 – 15) x 4, correct to the nearest thousand?
1. 91 000 3. 93 000
2. 92 000 4. 94 000

5. What is the maximum number of rulers you can buy with $13 if each ruler costs $0.30?
1. 39 3. 43
2. 40 4. 44

6. ABCD is a rectangle. What is the height of triangle ADE, given that its base is AD?

1. AB 3. BC
2. AF 4. EF

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7. At a birthday party, 12 of the guests wore red party hats. 3 of them wore blue party hats and
the rest wore green party hats. What fraction of the participants wore green party hats?
1 3
1. 12 3. 5
1 3
2. 4 4. 4

8. Anthony had 468 more stamps than Stella did. Stella had 36 less stamps than Johan did. How
many stamps did Johan have if the 3 of them had a total of 1 104 stamps?
1. 164 3. 236
2. 200 4. 600

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9. Find the product of 8 and 9 .
1 11
1. 12 3. 1 16
5 43
2. 17 4. 72

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10 A box contained 32 blue balls and 24 green balls. Ms. Fiona gave 4 of the blue balls and 8 of
the green balls to her pupils. What is the ratio of blue balls to green balls left?
1. 8 : 5 3. 8 : 9
2. 9 : 10 4. 1 : 2

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11. Joe had 4 m of wire. Harry had 1 4 m of wire. Each of them cut their wires into 8 m pieces.
How many such pieces of wire did they get in all?
1. 10 3. 15
2. 12 4. 20

12. In the triangle ABC shown below, the shaded part is 30 cm2. Find the area of triangle ABC.

1. 105 cm2 3. 135 cm2

2. 120 cm2 4. 240 cm2

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13. What is the sum of 1 5 and 2 4 ?
1. 3.44 3. 3.15
2. 3.6 4. 3.85

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14. A container had some rice in it at first. I used 6 kg of the rice to cook porridge. Then, I added
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1 8 kg of rice into the container and there was 4 2 kg of rice in the end. Find the mass of rice
in the container at first.
1 5
1. 2 24 kg 3. 6 24 kg
19 13
2. 2 24 kg 4. 6 24 kg

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15. The figure below is made up of 4 rectangles. What fraction of the figure is shaded?

1 3
1. 4 3. 8
2 4
2. 5 4. 9

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16. John and Timothy shared a bag of marbles. John got 4 as much as Timothy did. When Timothy
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gave 60 marbles to John, Timothy had 3 of what John had. How many marbles were there in
the bag?
1. 300 3. 420
2. 350 4. 2 100

Section B 5 marks each

B. Write your answers, based on the units provided, on the answer sheet. Express answers that
are in the form of fractions or ratios in the simplest form.

17. Write five million, seventeen thousand and one in figures.

18. Write 2 050 095 in words.

19. How many more circles must be shaded so that the ratio of the number of unshaded circles to
the total number of circles is 1 : 3?

20. There were 11 girls and 15 boys at a party. What fraction of the children at the party were
boys?

21. What is the product of 807 and 16?

22. Rearrange the following fractions in ascending order.

3 4 5 7
, , ,
4 9 12 18

23. Find the value of 72 – (4 + 32 ÷ 2 x 3) ÷ 2.

24. A number when rounded off to the nearest thousand is 45 000. What is the largest possible
number?

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25. Sam had $245 at first. He saved $12 every week. After saving for some time, he had $413 in
all. For how many weeks did he save?

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26. Shanna had 2 750 marbles. She gave 5 of her marbles to Tommy. She then gave 5 of the
remainder to Minnie. How many marbles did Minnie receive from Shanna?

27. The perimeter of a rectangle is 72 cm. If the ratio of its length and its breadth is 3 : 1, find the
area of the rectangle.

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28. 1 kg of prawns cost $10 and 1 kg of fish cost $8. How much do 6 5 kg of prawns and 8 4 kg of
fish cost altogether?

29. The table below shows the number of books read by the pupils of Primary 5. What is the total
number of books read by the pupils?

Number of books read by each pupil 0 1 2 3

Number of pupils 17 23 25 38

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30. A butcher sold 1 3 kg of meat on Monday. He sold 9 kg less on Tuesday than on Monday. The
mass of meat that he sold on Wednesday was twice that of what he sold on Tuesday. What
was the total amount of meat sold on these 3 days?

31. ACDG is a rectangle. FGHJ and DEKL are identical squares with a total area of 128 cm 2. The
perimeter of EFJK is 52 cm. Find the total area of the shaded parts.

A B C

10 cm

H J K L

G F E D

32. Mrs Thorne was born in 1978. Her daughter was born in 2012. In which year will Mrs Thorne
be thrice as old as her daughter is?

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 Mathematics Grade 5 Name

Semester 1 Final Test Grade 2 December 2016

A. B.

1. _______ 17. _____________________

2. _______ 18. ___________________________________________________________

3. _______ 19. _____________________circles

4. _______ 20. _____________________

5. _______ 21. _____________________

6. _______ 22. __________, __________, __________, __________

7. _______ 23. _____________________

8. _______ 24. _____________________

9. _______ 25. _____________________weeks

10. _______ 26. _____________________marbles

11. _______ 27. _____________________cm2

12. _______ 28. $____________________

13. _______ 29. _____________________books

14. _______ 30. _____________________kg

15. _______ 31. _____________________cm2

16. _______ 32. _____________________

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 Section C 5 marks each

Show your workings on the given spaces under each question. Write your answer(s), with the
correct units, on the line(s) provided at the bottom of each page. Express answers that are in the
form of fractions or ratios in the simplest form.

33. Xavier has 1 498 stamps while Paul has 509 stamps less than what Xavier Calculation
does. Ben has twice as many stamps as Paul does. How many stamps do
they have altogether?

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34. The table below shows the price of roses on a normal day and on Calculation
Valentine's Day.

Normal Day Valentine's Day

Roses (per stalk) $1.20 $2.80

a) How much more do you need to pay for 1 dozen stalks of roses on
Valentine's Day than on a normal day? (3 marks)
b) I have $50 and decide to spend it all on roses. What is the maximum
number of stalks of roses that I can buy on a normal day? (2 marks)

a)______________________________

b)______________________________

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35. Gerry had 52 storybooks. Ravi had 34 storybooks less than Gerry did. Gerry Calculation
then gave 10 of his storybooks to Ravi. What is the ratio of Gerry’s
storybooks to the number of Ravi’s storybooks in the end?

______________________________

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 5 Calculation
36. At a football match, the spectators were children and adults. 9 of the
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spectators were children. 12 of the adults were women. If there were 336
men, find the number of spectators.

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37. Max and Wilson had $71 altogether. Wilson and Janssen had a total of Calculation
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$109. Max had 5 of the money that Janssen had. How much money did
Wilson have?

______________________________

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38. Aileen has 9 times as much as Mike. If Aileen has $1 080, how much must Calculation
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Aileen give to Mike so that Mike will have 2 of what she has?

_____________________________

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39. Catherine, Mindy and Shawn shared some beads in the ratio 3 : 4 : 5 Calculation
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respectively. Mindy then gave 3 of her beads to Catherine. Shawn in turn
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gave 5 of his beads to Mindy. What was the ratio of Mindy's beads to the
total number of beads in the end?

______________________________

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40. The figure below, not drawn to scale, is made up of a square and a Calculation
rectangle. Find the shaded area.

10 cm

14 cm

6 cm

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 Semester 1 Final Test
Section A
1) 1
2) 3
3) 4
4) 3
5) 3
6) 2
7) 2
8) 3
9) 1
10) 1
11) 4
12) 3
13) 4
14) 2
15) 1
16) 2
Section B
17) 5 017 001
18) Two million, fifty thousand and ninety nine
19) 4 circles
15
20) 26
21) 12 912
7 5 4 3
22) 18 , 12 , 9 , 4
23) 46
24) 45 499
25) 14 weeks
26) 330 marbles
27) 243 cm2
28) $132
29) 187 books
30) 5 kg
31) 210 cm2
32) 2029
Section C
33) 4 465 stamps
34) a) $19.20 b) 41 stalks
35) 3:2
36) 1 296 spectators
37) $14
38) $280
39) 7 :18
40) 58 cm2

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