Upper Primary Division Round 2: Questions 1 To 5, 4 Marks Each
Upper Primary Division Round 2: Questions 1 To 5, 4 Marks Each
Upper Primary Division Round 2: Questions 1 To 5, 4 Marks Each
Answer:
2. Max gives 27 apples to a group of friends. The numbers of apples they receive
are consecutive positive integers. What is the maximum size of this group?
(A)2 (B)3 (C)4 (D)5 (E)6
Answer:
3. What is the sum of all possible two-digit perfect squares such that the sums of
their digits are also perfect squares?
(A)100 (B)110 (C)117 (D)181 (E)271
Answer:
4. The diagram shows a point A inside a pentagon with area 20 cm2. If the distance
from A to each side of the pentagon is 5 cm., what is the perimeter, in cm, of the
pentagon?
Answer:
5. What is the sum of the digits of the number whose square is equal to
15984 × 48951 ?
(A)18 (B)21 (C)24 (D)27 (E)36
Answer:
UP 2
Answer: °C
7. The diagram shows two intersecting circles of radius 10 cm. The four arcs inside
each circle have the same shape and equal length. Taking π ≈ 3.14 , what is the
area, in cm2, of the shaded region which consists of 7 identical parts?
Answer: cm2
8. The total number of players on three badminton teams is 29. No two players on the
same team play against each other, while every two players on different teams play
each other exactly once. What is the maximum number of games played?
Answer: games
9. A class is putting up 40 rectangular posters of the same shape and size on a wall.
Each poster must be held in place by one nail near each corner. Adjacent posters
may overlap slightly so that the same nail can serve to hold both of them. The
diagram shows how 9 nails can hold four posters adjacent diagonally. What is the
minimum number of nails required to hold all 40 posters?
Answer: nails
UP 3
10. The diagram shows a sheep on a lawn, tied by a string to a metal rod parallel to
the ground. The length of the string is 10 m, the length of the metal rod is 3 m.
The sheep is of negligible size and the height of the rod above the ground is also
negligible. Taking π ≈ 3.14 , what is the area, in m2, of the part of the lawn from
which the sheep can eat the grass?
Answer: m2
11. Leon uses a code to convert a letter string consisting only of As, Bs and Cs, into a
number string consisting only of 0s and 1s, by replacing A with 101, B with 11
and C with 0. If the number string obtained is 111010101111100110101, what is
the number of letters in the original letter string?
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12. Divide the ten positive integers from 1 to 10 into two groups so that when the
product of the numbers in the first group is divisible by the product of the
numbers in the second group, the quotient is a positive integer. What is the
minimum value of this quotient?
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13. Wally writes down three positive integers a, b and c in a row on the blackboard,
where a + c = 2b. He then erases the commas between the three numbers to
obtain a five-digit number. What is the maximum value of this number?
Answer:
UP 4
Questions 14 to 15, 20 marks each
(Detailed solutions are needed for these two problems)
14. In an equilateral triangle of side length a, the distance h from the centre of the
triangle to any side satisfies a 2 = 12h 2 . Lily uses four equilateral triangles of side
length 6 cm to make a cardboard windmill with three blades. Two triangles
sharing a common vertex have the corresponding sides lying on the same straight
line, as shown in the diagram. Taking π ≈ 3.14 , what is the area, in cm2, of the
circle swept out by the blades of the windmill?
h
a
Answer: cm2
UP 5
15. The diagram shows a hexagon ABCDEF partitioned into four triangles by three
diagonals AC, CF and FD, no two of which intersect except at the vertices. What
the total number of ways of partitioning ABCDEF into four triangles with three
non-crossing diagonals?
F
A
E
B
C D
Answer: ways
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