2014 Math Challenge

Grade 5
Solve each item on a scratch paper, when necessary. Write the answer on the blank.
1. How many times smaller is 50 than 5 million?

2. If 25% of a number is 50, what is 75% of the number?

3. The average of Rosa’s savings on Monday and Tuesday was ₱ 50.00. On Thursday and Friday, she saved ₱51.00 and ₱46.00
respectively. If the average of her savings for the whole week was ₱ 53.00, how much did she save on Wednesday?

4.Sixty-five percent of the teachers in grade 5 are females. What is the ratio of the male teachers to the female teachers in grade 5?

5. How many times bigger is the least common multiple of 44 and 54 than their greatest common factor?

6. Consider the counting numbers from 35 to 55. Place <, =, or > on the blank. Number of odd composite numbers ______ number of
prime numbers.

7. The product when a number is multiplied by 10.2 is 20.502. What is the number?

8. If 84 players split themselves into teams, how many more teams can they form by splitting into teams of 4 instead of teams of 6?

9. I multiplied 1111x1111 and wrote down the product. What is the largest odd digit in the product?

10. When Nena sells a poem, she gets paid ₱ 4 per word. If she sells a poem with 85 words, how much does she received?

11. Twenty-seven men can do a job in 15 days. In how many days can 18 men do it?

12. What is the remainder when (11x10x9x8x7x6) is divided by (1x2x3x4x5)?

13. What is the sum of the digits of all prime numbers less than 20?

14. Ten years ago, the sum of the ages of Ted and his twin brother Todd was 22. How old is Ted now?

15. Every birthday of my life, I put as many peso in a jar as my age in years. I now have 120 pesos in the jar. How old I am?

16. The ratio of grade 4 pupils to grade 5 pupils is 5:8. The grade 6 pupils are 75% of the grade 5 pupils. What is the ratio of the grade
6 pupils to the grade 4 pupils?

17. During a sale, an item was sold at a price that was five times smaller than its original price. How many percent was the discount on
the item?

18. Kiel divided a number by 7 then multiplied the quotient by 5. She then subtracted 4 from the product and added 10 to the
difference. If the final result is the original number itself, what is the original number?

19. The sum of 4 consecutive whole numbers is 2014. What is the sum of all digits of these numbers?

20. If 1+3+5+…+99 = 2500, then 2+4+6…+100= ?

21. In the division (121 121 121 005) ÷ (11) the remainder is ________

22. When a two – digit number is divided by 7, the remainder is 5, When it is divided by 9, the remainder is also 5. What is the smallest
possible value of the number?

23. The ratio of Grade 5 to Grade 6 pupils is 5;6. The ratio of Grade 6 to Grade 7 pupils is 6:7. There are 55 in Grade 5. How many
pupils are Grade 7?

24. Sandra has few boxes of chocolate cupcakes. Each box contains 12 cupcakes and cost ₱63.00. If she sells each cupcake ₱6.25,
how much is her profit for selling 8 boxes of cupcakes?

25. What is the next number in this sequence? 1,2,2,4,8,32,…

26. What is the tenth term of the sequence? 2,2,4,6,10,16

27. A ball is dropped from the top of a building. Each time it hits the ground, it bounces to a height which is ¾ of the height from which it
last fell. If it is dropped at a height of 12 m, how high does it bounce for the 4 th time?

28. On the first day, one tourist came to visit the park. If on each succeeding day a group of tourist with 2 more persons than the
previous group visit the park, how many tourists will be on the 12 th day?

29. A popsicle stick is 6 cm long. How many popsicle sticks are the same length as a 117-m string?

30. When the clock reads 10:30, what kind of angle is formed by the hand of the clock?

31. Mario has 60 kg of rice. He packed them into 4 small packs in the ratio of 1:2:3:4. What is the total weight of the smallest and
biggest packs?

32. Mary attends her ballet training for 1 hr and 45 min. After 20 min she attends her voice lesson for 2 h and 5 min. If she starts her
ballet training at 2:30 pm, at what time will she end her voice lesson?
33. The perimeter of a rectangular garden is 60 meters. If the width is 5 m longer than the length, what is the area of the garden?

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34. Alvin jogs around a rectangular lot. The lot measures 25 m by 50 m. How many rounds around the lot should he jog to complete
1.5km?

35. What is area of triangle whose base is 12.5 cm and whose height is 3cm?

36. Mark glues together 42 cubes with 1dm edges to form a solid rectangular brick. If the perimeter of the base is 10dm, find the height
of the brick in decimeters?

37. A rectangle is 2cm by 6cm. If a minimum number of such rectangle are place side by side to form a square, what is the area of the
square?

38. An aquarium is 50 cm by 40 cm by 30 cm. It contains 45 000 cubic cm water, what percent of its capacity is not filled with water?

39. Jose has rectangular prism made of wood. It measures 10cm by 9cm by 5cm. He wants to cut it into 5 pieces with equal volume.
What is the volume of its piece?

40. Maria cuts a trapezoid with bases 4 cm and 8 cm and a height of 5 cm from a 9 cm by 10cm cardboard. How many sq. cm of
cardboard were left unused?

41. A rectangular field is 25 m by 20 m. If Daria runs around the field 5 times and she runs for 50 meters a minute, how long does it
take her to complete two rounds?

42. The diameter of a car wheel is 65 cm. How far will it travel in 10 complete turns?

43. The perimeter of an equilateral triangle is twice the perimeter of a square. How many long is the side of an equilateral triangle if the
side of a square is 17cm?

44. An open-top box with rectangular base when laid has 12 edges. If the base of the open-top box is a hexagon, how many edges
does the board have when laid flat?

45. When two diameters of a circle divide the circle into 4 congruent parts, what kind of angle is formed by the diameter?

46. Which pair of shapes is congruent?

A. B. C. D.

47. There are 6 hexagon cells around 1 cell. There are 8 hexagon cells around 2 cells. How many hexagon cells around a row of 3
cells?

48. What is the greatest number of possible points of intersection of a circle and a square?

49. A shape has 7 corners. It is divided into triangles. What is the minimum possible number of triangle?

50. In a pyramid with a square base, how many triangular faces are there?