SASMO 2016, Primary 6 Contest

SASMO 2016 Primary 6 [15 MCQ + 10 non-MCQ = 25 Q]

Section A (Correct answer – 2 points| No answer – 0 points| Incorrect answer – minus 1 point)

1. Suppose it is now the month of December. What month will it be 100 calendar months
from now?

A. February C. June E. October

B. April D. August
2. Six machines can produce 15 items every 30 minutes. How many additional machines
are needed to produce 70 items every hour?

A. 8 C. 12 E. None of the
B. 10 D. 14 above
3. How many of 17 whole numbers must be odd if their product is odd?

A. 0 C. 2 E. 17
B. 1 D. 16
4. In a magic show, the magician placed 4 cards on the table, as shown below. Each
card has a math symbol on one side and a number on other side.

After showing the cards, he flipped over some (maybe all) of the cards and rearranged
them. The new arrangement of the cards is shown below.

How many of these four cards have an even number on one side?

A. 0 C. 2 E. 4
B. 1 D. 3
5. Find the largest value of M if the number 201M6 is divisible by 9.

A. 0 C. 5 E. 9
B. 4 D. 8
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6. Bianca and Jordan went to a market to buy some food. Bianca paid $29 for 4 muffins
and 3 pies. Jordan paid $31 for 5 muffins and 2 pies. What was the price of a muffin?

A. $4 C. $6 E. $8
B. $5 D. $7
7. It is given that 𝑎𝑏 = 𝑎 × 𝑎 + 𝑏 for any whole numbers 𝑎 and 𝑏. For example,
23 = 2 × 2 + 3 = 7. What is the value of 𝐴 given that 67=5A.

A. 18 C. 22 E. None of the
B. 20 D. 24 above
8. Daniel cut a paper into half. Then he cut the papers to produce half of each of the
pieces of paper. He repeated this many times until he got more than 1000 pieces of
paper. What was the least number of cuts he made?

A. 499 C. 1000 E. None of the

B. 999 D. 1023 above
9. Daniel participated in a chess tournament. There were 10 players in the tournament.
Each player played once with every other player. A player received 2 points for a win, 1
point for a draw and 0 points for a loss. What is the sum of the scores of all players?

A. 90 C. 110 E. None of the

B. 100 D. 120 above
10. How many squares are there in the figure?

A. 15
B. 16
C. 17
D. 13
E. None of the above
11. The year 2016 is an interesting number because it is divisible by 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8
and 9. When is the next year that has the same properties as above?

A. 72 576 C. 3024 E. None of the

B. 4032 D. 2520 above
12. Find the next fraction in the sequence below

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3 1 5 3 7
, , , , ,?,…
4 2 12 8 20

A. C. E. None of the
above
B. D.

13. How many times do the hour hand and minute hand form 90° from 2pm to 10pm?

A. 6 C. 10 E. 14
B. 8 D. 12
14. The teacher asks Lisa to write numbers from 1 to 100. However, Lisa made a mistake
by writing the all the digit seven as ‘1’ instead of ‘7’. In total, how many ‘1’s did Lisa
write?

A. 20 C. 40 E. 50
B. 31 D. 41

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is rotated to

as is rotated to

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A. B. C.

D. E.

Section B (Correct answer – 4 points| Incorrect or No answer – 0 points)

16. In the figure below, what percentage of the grid below is shaded?

3 cm

3 cm

17. Find the pattern and solve for 𝑥.

211 ↔ 6 303 ↔ 4 333 ↔ 1 404 ↔ 2 900 ↔ 𝑥

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18. Amy had 45 fewer marbles than Cheryl. of Amy’s marbles and of Cheryl’s marbles

were given away. The remaining number of marbles that Cheryl has, is twice the number
of Amy’s remaining marbles. How many marbles did Cheryl have at first?

19. The bar chart below shows the number of cars sold in Town A in 2015. All the
horizontal lines are equally spaced. The average number of cars sold in each month is
20 cars. How many more cars were sold in the second half of the year compared to the
first half of the year?
Number of cars

0
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Month

20. How many different 4-digit numbers can be formed using the digits 0, 2, 7, 8 and 9
such that no digits repeat and the resulting number is divisible by four?

21. The figure below shows a 12-sided regular polygon, which is called DODECAGON.
How many diagonals can be drawn in it?

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22. Nine identical circles are inscribed in the square as shown in the diagram. Find the
area of the shaded region. (Area of circle = 𝜋𝑟 , take 𝜋 = )

23. A car took 3 hours and 41 minutes to travel from Town A to Town B and travel back
from Town B to Town A. The car travelled downhill at 6 km/h (kilometres per hour), on
level at 5 km/h, and uphill at only 4 km/h. The road from Town A to Town B is on levelfor
4 km. Find the distance between the two towns.

24. Find the following sum

1 1 1 1 1 1
+ + + + ⋯+ +
1 × 6 6 × 11 11 × 16 16 × 21 2006 × 2011 2011 × 2016

25. In the following alphametic, all the different letters stand for different digits. Find
the 5-digit number OGAMS.

S A S M O

× 4

O G A M S

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