2016 Grade 5 Math Challenge Elimination Questions

1.) 27 – (11 + 9) × 4 ÷ 8 + 31 =

2.) 98 – 89 + 37 × (__ – 4) = 268. What number is in __?

3.) 28 and 832 thousandths is subtracted from 56 and 61 hundredths. What is its difference to the nearest
tenths?

4.) Find the product of 3 033 and 94. Divide your answer by the difference of 1 500 and 1 288. What is
your answer to the nearest hundreds?

5.) The quotient when 0.25 is divided by a number 1 000. What is the divisor?
6.) What percent of 3 kg is 480 g?
7.) Express 84 minutes as a fraction of 4 hours in lowest term.

8.) Using only the number 43, how many times will you use it as a factor to get a product whose ones digit
is 7?

9.) Mary has 54 oranges. She gives an equal number of oranges to each of her 13 friends. How many
oranges does she have left?

10.) Mother gave Kian and his younger sister Php 2,115.00 to share between them Kian spent Php 778.00
from his share and had Php 271.00 left. How much did Kian’s younger sister have?

11.) A water jar can hold d36 cups of water of 24 glasses of water. If there are already 6 cups and 19 glasses
of water in the jar, how many more cups of water can be put in the jar?

12.) There are 42 notebooks that are going to be given equally among 7 children. How many notebooks
will each child receive?

13.) Ricky had 24 boxes of chocolate candies. There were 350 chocolate candies in each box. He repacked
all the chocolate candies into packs of 70 and sold them at Php 24.00 per pack. How much money did he
collect from his total sale?

14.) Annie, Jenny, Sam, and Gerry want to divide a certain number of candies in the corresponding ratio
of 1:2:4:6. What is the ratio of the number of Jenny’s candies to the number of Gerry’s candies?

15.) A rectangular tile is 2 cm by 4 cm. What is the area of a square with least number of rectangular tiles
that can be placed side by side to form a square?

16.) At a furniture store, a chair was sold Php 475.00 less than a side table and Php 278.00 more than a
kitchen dish cabinet. The total cost of the 3 items was Php 4,175.00. What was the selling price of the side
table?
17.) In a box factory, Ian finished 5 boxes in 2 hours while Joey finished 10 boxes in 3 hours. If they work
at the same rate, how many boxes can they finish together in 12 hours?

18.) Mother had 168 kg of flour. She packed it into 7/10 kg per pack 3/5 of the packs of flour were sold to
Tasing of Php 3.60 per pack. How much money did Tasing pay for the flour?

19.) Dario gave 1/3 of his oranges to his brother and donated 160 oranges to children in the neighborhood.
He found that he had 240 oranges left. What fraction of the oranges did Dario have left? Express your
answer in lowest term?

20.) What is the missing number in the sequence? 1, 4, 4, 7, 10, 16, 25, 40, ____

21.) Uncle Tirso had some fruits, 5/9 of the fruits were oranges, 1/3 of the remaining fruits were apples.
The rest were guavas. What fraction of the fruits were guavas?

22.) Tony subtracted a number from 21. He then multiplied the difference by 3 and divided the product by
8. If the quotient was 6, what was the number?

23.) The price of a kilogram of fish increased 3 1/2 times during summer. How many percent was the
increase?

24.) If 4/7 of a number is 112, what is 7/4 of the number?

25.) What is the difference of 4 and 2 hundredths and 3 and 27 thousandths?

26.) If 25 + __ – 115 = 75, what number is in __?

27.) Basha bought 8 t-shirts and 5 pairs of short pants for Php 1, 062.00. Each pair of short pants costs
twice as much as a t-shirt. How much is the cost of the t-shirt?

28.) Each box contains 48 candies. Out of 77 boxes of candies, 29 were sold. The remaining boxes of
candies were repacked in packs of 50. How many packs of 50 candies were there?

29.) The ratio of two numbers is 7:9. If their sum is 192, what is their difference?

30.) Pens are sold in bundles of 25. For every 5 bundles of pens that you buy, you will get an extra of 3
pens. If you want to buy 364 pens for your friends, how many bundles of pens must you buy?

31.) Three squares are placed together to form a rectangle. If each square has an area of 9 cm2, what is the
perimeter of the rectangle formed?

32.) When Tessa bought a glass of juice for Php 25.00 and a sandwich for Php 48.00, she still had Php
68.00 left in her wallet. How much money did Tessa have at the beginning?
33.) The volume of a rectangular block is 3, 000 dm3. What is its volume in cm3?

34.) A baker packed 29 boxes of 9 cupcakes each pack and had 3 cupcakes left. How many more boxes of
cupcakes would he get if he packed 3 cupcakes into each box instead?
35.) The product of 2 two-digit number is 351. What is their sum?

36.) How many 25 thousandths are there in 5/8?

37.) What is the sum of the digits in the product of 23 hundreds and 2 tens?

38.) What is the sum of 3 consecutive odd numbers if the largest of these numbers is 19?

39.) A tank has a capacity of 50 liters. How many seconds will it be filled if its flow rate is 2.5 liters per
second?
40.) Lito is weighing his school bag. He says “If I add 725 grams, it will weigh 2 kilograms.” How many
grams does his bag weigh?

41.) There are 36 packs of candies in a box. The packs of candies are divided equally among 4 children.
How many packs will each child receive?
42.) Twenty seven apples are put in boxes. There are 6 boxes. How many boxes contain exactly the same
number of apples?

43.) Liza has read 4/5 of the total number of pages of a book. Today, she reads 21 pages. She still needs to
read 1/10 of the total number of pages to finish reading the book. How many pages does the book have?
44.) Teresa has 53 apples. She is going to give them equally to 13 children. How many more apples does
she need so that each child will receive 6 apples?

45.) A container holds 8 times the amount of water in a cup that holds 2 deciliters of water. How many
deciliters of water can be poured into the container?

46.) The sum of 2 numbers is 100. Their difference is 20. What is the quotient when the bigger number is
divided by the smaller number?

47.) Betty has Php 60.00 and Nena has Php 120.00. How much money must Betty give to Nena so that the
amount of money Nena has is 5 times that of Betty?
48.) There are 99 1-cm cubes. If the cubes are arranged to form 3 cubes of different sizes. What is the
length of the sides of the smallest cube formed?

49.) What is the 49th number in the 4, 11, 18, 25, 32, 39,…?

50.) Kate collects coins. Every day, she gets additional coins. On every fourth day, she gives 4 coins to her
sister. If Kate started with 24 coins, on which day will Kate have 70 coins?

2004 GRADE 5 MTAP ELIMINATION QUESTIONS

1.) What is the place value of 6 in 874,695,457?
Answer: hundred thousand

2.) 735,480 = 7 x 105 + 3 x 104 + N + 480. What is N?

Answer: 5 x 10^3 or 5000

3.) Which number has 2 and 9 as factors? 6282, 7262, 6380.

Answer: 6282
4.) What is the remainder when 34,785 is divided by 37?

Answer: 5

5.) How many prime numbers are there between 80 and 100?

Answer: 3

6.) Round 478,512 to the nearest ten thousand.

Answer: 480, 000

7.) Round each number to the nearest thousand and estimate the sum of 7 501 + 8 398 + 6 521 .

Answer: 23, 000

8.) In 345,846, how many times as great is the underlined 4 than the4 that is not underlined?

Answer: 1000

9.) What is the largest digit that can be placed in the blank to make 45_78 divisible by 6?

Answer: 9

10.) Two numbers are 2^3 x 3^2 x 5 x 11 and 22 x 33 x 5 x 7 respectively written as products of their prime
factors. Write their least common multiple using exponents. (Note: 2^3 means 2 cubed; ^ means raised
to)

Answer: 2^3 x 3^3 x 5 x 7 x 11

11.) Write the smallest 9-digit number with 3 different digits repeated only once.
Answer: 100, 122, 345
12.) What is the difference between the largest and the smallest numbers that can be formed using all the
digits 4, 5, 7 and 9?

Answer: 5175

13.) Write 2520 as a product of prime factors using exponents.

Answer: 2^3 x 3^2 x 5 x 7

14.) What is the smallest number that has 12, 25 and 30 as factors?

Answer: 300

15.) What is the greatest common factor of 240 and 270?

Answer: 30

16). 168 is what percent of 480?

Answer: 35 %

17.) 387 is 45% of what number?

Answer: 860

18.) What is the least common multiple of 240 and 270?

Answer: 2^4 x 3^3 x 5 or 2160

19.) Reduce105/147to lowest terms.

Answer: 5/7

20.) Change 87/12to an improper fraction.

Answer: 103/12

21.) Change131/14to a mixed number.

Answer: 9 5/14
22.) Joy bought 1 ½ dozen mangoes for ₱105. At the same rate, how much will 5 dozen mangoes cost?

Answer: P 350

23.) A gold coin weighs 20 grams. If the coin contains gold, copper and tin in the ratio 4:3:1, how much
gold is there in the coin?
Answer: 10 g

24.) Find two numbers whose sum is 16 and the product is 48.

Answer: 4, 12

25.) A book is opened to where the sum of the numbers of the facing pages is 313. What is the bigger of the
two page numbers?
Answer: 157

26.) Pat had 12 apples. He gave each of his friends ¾ of an apple and kept ¾ for himself. If there was no
apple left, how many friends were with him?

Answer: 15

27.) There are 680 Grades 4-6 students in a school. If 35% of them are in Grade 5, how many Grade 5
students are there?

Answer: 238
28.) Rose bought a blouse at a discount of 18% for ₱147.60. What was the marked price of the blouse?

Answer: P 180

29.) There are 240 scouts in a school. If 90 of them are cubs, what percent of the scouts in the school are
cubs?

Answer: 37.5

30.) Ann can make one uniform with 2.4 m of cloth. How many uniforms can she make from 20 m of
cloth?

Answer: 8

31.) Which of the following numbers can be written as the sum of two primes?
a. 25 b. 35 c. 51 d. 57

Answer: 25
32.) Find N if N : 84 = 5 : 6. 16m

Answer: 70

Note: Questions 33-34 have missing figures, so I did not include them here.

35.) If 8 men can do a piece of work in 6 days, how many men can do it in 4 days at the same rate?

Answer: 12

36.) A restaurant charges 4% service charge. If your order amounted to ₱450, how much did you pay?

Answer: P 468

37.) A closed box for a raffle is 5 dm long, 3.5 dm wide and 7 dm high. If it is to be completely covered with
colored paper, how much surface is to be covered?

Answer: 154 dm^2

38.) An aquarium is 6 dm long, 4 dm wide and 4 dm high. How many liters of water does it contain when
it is 6/5 full?

Answer: Maybe there is a typo error here, but 6/5 full is not possible.

39.) A base angle of an isosceles triangle is 52 degree. What is the vertex angle?
Answer: 76 degrees

40.) How many cubic meters of soil will be needed to raise a 4 m long and 2.5 m wide flower plot by 15
cm?

Answer: 1.5 m^3

41.) If your step is about 70 cm and you can make 60 steps a minute, how far can you walk in 10 minutes?
Answer: 420 m

42.) A park is 85 m long and 70 m wide. If you jog around it 6 times, how many meters will that be?

Answer: 1860 m

43.) The ratio of two numbers is 3 : 5 and their difference is 34. Find the bigger number?

Answer: 85
44.) The average of two fractions is 7/8 and one fraction is 3/2. What is the other?

Answer: 1/4

45.) The scale of a map is 1cm : 15 km. If two towns are 4.5 cm apart on a map, how many kilometers apart
are they?
Answer: 67.5 km

46.) A school basketball team won ¾ of its games. If it won 14 more games than it lost, how many games
did it play?

Answer: 28

47.) The parallel sides of a trapezoidal field are 52 m and 68 m. If they are 48 m apart, what is its area?

Answer: 2, 880 m^2

48.) A certain sum of money is sufficient to pay the wages of 12 men for 15 days. For how many days will it
be enough for 9 men?
Answer: 20

49.) The length of a rectangular garden is 3 m more than the width. If the perimeter is 106 m, find the
length of the garden.

Answer: 28 m

50.) A room is 5.7 m wide and 6.6 m long. How many 30-cm tiles are needed to cover it?

Answer: 418