METROBANK-MTAP-DEP ED MATH CHALLENGE

Regional Finals - Grade 1

15-second questions 2 points each

1. Mother duck takes her ducklings for a walk. They formed a line. She counts her babies as she
walks.
There are 6 ducklings in front of her and 7 ducklings behind her. How many ducks are there in
all?
[14]
2. Jose and Pedro have 12 pencils each. After using up the same number of pencils, Jose has 3
pencils left.
How many pencils does Pedro have left?
[3]
3. Today is Saturday. What day of the week is 5 days after tomorrow?
[Friday]
4. A water fountain leaks half a liter of water in one hour. How many liters of water does it leak in
a day?
[12 ]
5. My uncles garden has 10 tomato plants, 14 eggplants and 16 corn plants. In summer, 5
tomato plants died.
How many plants are still alive?
[35]
6. Alejo, Berto and Carlos each had 12 grapes on their plate at the beginning of a party.
At the end of the party, Alejo had 1 grape left, Berto had 3 grapes left and Carlos had 5 grapes
left.
Who ate the most grapes and how many?
[Alejo 9 grapes]
7. In 869, which digit has the greatest value?
[8]
8. What is the answer to: 998 + 998 + 4 + 9 + 9 ?
[2018]
9. Beas chicken lays 5 eggs a week. Carlas chicken lays 6 eggs a week.
How many eggs in all do both chickens lay in 3 weeks?
[33]
10. Three kids eat 1 mango each at the same time. It took them 3 minutes to eat them.
How many minutes does it take for 6 kids to finish eating 6 mangoes? Each kid eats 1 mango.
[3 minutes]
11. Twenty-six children line up in a row. If Ann is number 10 from the front of the line,
what is her number counting from the back of the line?
[16]

30-second questions 3 points each

1. Juana started to read pocket books. She read 2 pocket books in January, 4 pocket books in
February, 6 pocket books in March. If she continues to read 2 more pocket books each month,
how many pocket books in all would she have read by the end of May?
[30]
2. Mina bought two books. The total cost is 300 pesos. If one book costs 50 pesos more than the
other, how much does the cheaper book cost?
[Php125]
3. What is the time difference between 4:15 am and 9:23 am on the same day?
hours and 8 minutes]

[5

4. Today is February 15, 2014. Liza celebrated her birthday 20 days ago. When is her birthday?
[January 26]

5. What is the smallest 3-digit number that leaves a remainder of 1 when divided by 5?
[101]
6. If 1/4 of a number is added to itself, the answer is 100, find the number.
[80]

1-minute questions 5 points each

1. Alice has 7 stickers. Ben has 8 stickers. If Alice gave Ben 2 stickers and Ben gave Alice 4
stickers, how many stickers do each of them have at the end?
[Alice 9; Ben 6]
2. Fill the empty circles so that the sum of the 3 numbers on each side of the triangle is 18.

3. Emma has just transferred to a new school. She met 5 other girls who are also transferees.
They all shook hands with each other. How many handshakes were made?
[15]
4. Ben collected 15 coins and separated them into 5 piles. Each pile has a different number of
coins. How many coins are there in each pile?
[1,2,3,4,5]
5. Use the digits 1, 3, and 5 to form 3-digit numbers. Do not use the same digit more than once
in any 3-digit number.What is the third largest number?
[351]
6. Making cuts across the diameter, a worker can cut a log into 2 pieces in 5 minutes.
How long will it take the worker to cut a log of the same size into 4 pieces?
[15 minutes]

Clincher

C1. There is a number between 1 and 9. It is not smaller than 5. It is an even number.
When you take away 4, the result is larger than 3. What is this number?
[8]
C2. Jimmy is 7 years old and his dad is 35 years old. In 20 years,
how many years older is Jimmy's dad than Jimmy?
[28 years]
C3. If the month now is February, what month will it be 40 months from now?
[June]
Do or Die:

DoD. I went to a store and spent

1
4

1
2

of my money and P5 more. Then, I went to a second store

where I spent
of my original money plus P7.50 more. I had exactly P12.50 left. How much
money had I at first?
[P100]

PWEDENG MAKISAWSAW hehe

(1) Given three consecutive whole numbers such that the ones digit of the product of the
smallest and biggest is 9, what is the ones digit of the middle number?
[0]
(2) What is the greatest possible area of a triangle with one side of length 8 and another side of
length 10?
[40]
(3) In a certain store, the regular price of a bag is 800 pesos. How much money is saved by
buying this bag at 20 percent off the regular price rather than buying it on sale at 10 percent off
the regular price with an additional discount of 10% off the sale price?
[8 pesos]
(4) Consider the pattern 1,2,3,1,2,3,1,2,3,What is the sum of the first 100 numbers?
[199]
(5)There are many numbers which divide 109 with a remainder of 4. List ALL two-digit numbers
that have this property.
[15, 21, 35]

(6)How many numbers less than 100 have a remainder of 3 when divided by 7?
[14 numbers]
(7) Joe and Jim together have 14 marbles. Jim and Tim together have 10 marbles. Joe and Tim
together have 12 marbles. What is the maximum number of marbles that any of the person can
have?
[8]
(8) How many numbers between 1 and 100 is the product of two consecutive numbers?
[9]
(9)A class of 50 students is to be divided into smaller groups. If each group is to contain 3,4,or 5
people, what is the largest number of groups possible?
[16]