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Teacher: ToiDM

TĐN, Practice 7, May 22, 2016.


Section A. (Correct answer = 2 marks)
1. The radius of a circle is increased by 10%. Find the percentage increase in the area?

(A) 10% (B) 20% (C) 25% (D) 21% (E) 100%
2. On standard dice the total number of pips on each pair of opposite faces is 7. Two standard dice
are placed in a stack, as shown, so that the total number of pips on the two touching faces is 5.
What is the total number of pips on the top and bottom faces of the stack?

(A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 7 (D) 8 (E) 9


3. Helen has a string of black beads and white beads which follows a certain pattern. She put a
portion of the string beads inside the box as shown in the diagram on the right. How many black
beads are there in the portion of the string inside the box?

A) 1 B) 2 C) 3 D) 4 E) 5

4. Two identical rulers are placed together, as shown (not to scale). Each ruler is exactly 10 cm
long and is marked in centimetres from 0 to 10. The 3 cm mark on each ruler is aligned with the
4 cm mark on the other. The overall length is L cm. What is the value of L?

(A) 13 (B) 14 (C) 15 (D) 16 (E) 17

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5. The diagram below shows four cups in a row, labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4. Initially, there is a ball inside
cup #3. In each move, the ball may be transferred to an adjacent cup. From cup #1, the ball can
only go to cup #2, and from cup #4, the ball can only go to cup #3. After 2016 moves, which of
the following statements about the ball is correct?

(A) It cannot be in cup #1 and cannot be in cup #2


(B) It cannot be in cup #1 and cannot be in cup #3
(C) It cannot be in cup #2 and cannot be in cup #3
(D) It cannot be in cup #2 and cannot be in cup #4
(E) It cannot be in cup #3 and cannot be in cup #4
Section B (Correct answer = 3 marks)
6. Benito has 20 small balls of different colours: yellow, green, blue and black. 17 of the balls are
not green, 5 are black, 12 are not yellow. How many blue balls does Benito have?

ANSWER:
7. Class A has 10 students and class B has 15 students. In a test, the average grade for class A is
60, and the average grade for class B is 66. A new student writes the test in the office. If he is
put in class A, its average will become 62. If he is put in class B, what will its average become?
8. The picture shows Dave the clown dancing at the top of two balls and one cubic box. The radius
of the lower ball is 6 dm, the radius of the upper ball is three times less. The side of the cubic
box is 4 dm longer than the radius of the upper ball. How high above the ground is Dave
standing?

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9. When painting the lounge, I used half of a 3 litre can to complete the first coat of paint. I then
used two thirds of what was left to complete the second coat. How much paint was left after both
coats were complete?
10. Weighing the baby at the clinic was a problem. The baby would not keep still and caused the
scales to wobble. So I held the baby and stood on the scales while the nurse read off 78 kg. Then
the nurse held the baby while I read off 69 kg. Finally I held the nurse while the baby read off
137 kg. What was the combined weight of all three?

Section C: (Correct answer = 4 marks)


11. A boy saved 1 dollar in the first week, 4 dollars in the second week, he saved 3 dollars more
than he did the previous week. What was the total number of dollars that the boy had in the first
ten weeks?
12. A nursery school play ground is 160 m long and 80 m wide. In it 80 m × 80 m is kept for swings
and in the remaining portion, there is 1.5 m wide path parallel to its width and parallel to its
remaining length as shown in Fig below. The remaining area is covered by grass. Find the area
covered by grass.

ANSWER:
13. A palindrome is a number which reads the same backwards as forwards. A car odometer read
26962 km. After two hours driving the odometer showed the next palindrome. What was the
average speed of the car, in km per hour?

ANSWER:
14. Dad walks at 6 km per hour when alone and mom walks at 4 km per hour when alone. When
they walk together, they compromise at 5 km per hour. They leave home to go to the store 1 km
away. Six minutes after leaving home, dad has to return for the shopping list while mom goes
on. How long does mom have to wait in the store, in minutes, before dad arrives with the
shopping list?

ANSWER:

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15. Peter arranges 5 poker cards on the table as shown in Figure 1. Then he rotates one of them 180°.
Now the five cards are as shown in Figure 2. Which card, A, B, C, D or E, has been rotated?

ANSWER:

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