CREST Mathematics Olympiad (CMO)

Previous Year Paper (2022-23)

Class 5 (Set - A)
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 Practical Mathematics (Each Question is 1 Mark)

1. Simplify the following numbers: a. 452 b. 432

(-134) + (-125) - (-264) + 128 - (-120) c. 67 d. 39

a. -253 b. -235 7. Mr. Anderson wants to purchase a flat

c. 253 d. 273 of cost $8,975,890. If he has
$6,852,198, then how much money
2. The degree of angle is made by the does he need to take as a loan?
minute hand in going from 10:20 am to
10:35 am is ______. a. $2,038,292 b. $2,096,292
c. $2,123,692 d. $2,323,296
a. 90° b. 15°
c. 45° d. 20° 8. Which of the following is the highest
common factor of 36 and 63?
3. Alben grew a small plant. He measured
it at the end of every week. After the a. 2 b. 9
first week, the plant's height was 12 cm c. 7 d. 6
long. It grew 1.5 cm every week. Find
the height of the plant at the end of the 9. The mass of a rice bag is 15,000 g,
sixth week: corrected to the nearest thousand
gram. What could be the greatest mass
a. 18 cm b. 19.5 cm of the rice bag?
c. 15 cm d. 22 cm
a. 15,599 g b. 14,499 g
4. Lucy's teacher asked him to add eight c. 15,499 g d. 15,400 g
to the 9th multiple of 19. Her answer
should be equal to: 10. Andry wants to pack 250 g of chocolate
burfi, 750 g of choco-pies, 370 g of
a. 157 b. 171 coconut sweets, some cherry sweets
c. 164 d. 181 and dry fruits as well. If the filled box
after packing weighs 1 kg 750 g, then
5. Which of the following statements is the weight of sweets is:
false with respect to concentric circles?
i. A concentric circle is defined as two a. Less than 1.75 kg
or more circles with a common b. More than 1 kg 500 g
centre. c. Equal to 17.5 g
ii. All concentric circles have the same d. Equal to 1750 g
radius.
iii. Concentric circles share different 11. What will be the time 4 hours 15
common points. minutes before midnight shown in a 24-
hour clock?
a. ii and iii b. i and iii
c. i and ii d. only ii a. 19:45 hours b. 20:15 hours
c. 21:15 hours d. 20:45 hours
6. Find the value of the following:
400 ÷ (5 x 4) + (77 - 5 x 6) 12. Ronald types 945 words in 15 minutes.
How many words can he type from
9:45 am to 11:45 am?

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 a. 5670 b. 5760 in each building. There are 25 such
c. 7270 d. 7560 buildings in a complex. Calculate the
total number of doors fitted in these
13. The given rectangle is divided into 6 buildings:
equal parts. If its breadth is 2/3 of its
length, then find the area of the shaded a. 2400 doors b. 3000 doors
region. c. 6000 doors d. 5000 doors

18. Hiltson visited a stationery store and

purchased six boxes of glitter markers.
Each box contains 19 glitter markers.
He wants to sell it loose. How much
42 cm
money would Hiltson make if he sold
a. 196 cm2 b. 190 cm2 each glitter marker for $0.75?
c. 184 cm2 d. 178 cm2
a. $85.50 b. $90
14. If the perimeter of the shaded region c. $98.20 d. $99
(rectangle) in the given figure is 32 cm,
then the area of the shaded region is: 19. The HCF and LCM of two numbers are
3 and 84, respectively. One of the
4 cm numbers is 12. The other number is:

5 cm 5 cm
12 cm a. 42 b. 21
c. 12 d. 6
4 cm
1
20. Nike, Pam and Amy bought 1 8
m,
2 2
a. 48 cm b. 60 cm 4
2 m, and 3 m of ribbon for decorating
c. 72 cm2 d. None 5
the birthday party for Selin. What is the
15. Selber wants to cover a room 4 m 50 total length of ribbon they bought?
cm wide and 8 m long using square
tiles. If each square tile is of side 60
cm, then find the number of square
tiles required to cover the floor.

a. 80 b. 96
c. 100 d. 144

37 37
16. Look at the image given below and find a. 6 40
m b. 40
m
the missing number: 24 24
c. 40
m d. 3 40
m

21. Mike sold his building for $76,290 and

he suffered a loss of $3,570. What was
the price at which he had purchased
a. 4 b. 5 his building?
c. 8 d. 9
a. $72,520 b. $73,260
17. Each floor of a high-rise building is c. $72,080 d. $79,860
fitted with 20 doors. There are 12 floors

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 22. Mr. Meh went to a medical store and
spent $157 on medications. He handed
over four $50 bills to the cashier at the
store. How much money did he receive
as a balance?

a. Four $10 note and two $1 coins

b. Two $20 notes
c. One $20 note, two $10 note and a. AC b. OD
three $1 coins c. WY d. BD
d. One $20 note, one $10 note and
three $1 coins 26. Look at the bowling figures of a cricket
club during a recent limited-overs
23. Hills View international school has match:
recorded their school enrolments in the
form of a line graph as shown below. What is the average number of runs
How many students were there in the given for every wicket?
last two years combined?
Bowler Wickets No. of runs
given
Lucy 2 25
Max 1 8
Mehel 3 32
Luke 3 15
Run out : 1 Not out : 1

a. 11 / wicket b. 15 / wicket
c. 8 / wicket d. 10 / wicket

27. Which of the following is the number

a. 2055 b. 2550 obtained by rounding 178762 to the
c. 2005 d. 2000 nearest hundreds?

24. The Society in America hosted an Indo- a. 178760 b. 178800

American fashion show. Angelina c. 178700 d. 17800
dressed up in a fit and flare dress.
Yards, an old metric unit of length, are 28. Which of the following is the same as
traditionally used. One-yard equals 3
11 5
x 15?
0.92 metres. What is the length in
metres of her 6-yard fit and flare dress?
45 45
a. 11 x 5
b. 55 x 5
a. 6.25 m b. 5.52 m 45 d. 58 x 3
c. 165 x
5
c. 5.25 m d. 6.25 m

29. What is the simplest form of 55 minutes

25. Look at the diagram given below and 1
answer the following question: as a fraction of 2 4
hours?
Which of the following options is not a
10 55
diameter? a. b.
27 59
12 11
c. 30
d. 27

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 4 35. Match the following:
30. After selling 4 5
kg of salt, a shop
7
keeper had 4 kg of salt left. How
10 List - I List - II
much salt did he have at first? P. 10234 + 23435 + 1. 1000
16324
5 25
a. 5 18
kg b. 33
kg Q. 50 tens and 500 2. 19809
c. 9
1
kg d.
1
kg ones
2 10
R. 900 + 8001 + 3. 1500
10908
31. In a school, there were 125 teachers
S. 1000 + 5hundreds 4. 49993
out of whom 15 were maths teachers.
Find the percentage of maths teachers:
a. P - 2, Q - 3, R - 1, S – 4
b. P - 4, Q - 3, R - 2, S – 1
a. 12% b. 14%
c. P - 2, Q - 1, R - 4, S – 3
c. 15% d. 25%
d. P - 4, Q - 1, R - 2, S - 3
32. Sia has a cubical tank in which each
36. Duke, Minnie, Milo, and Max went to a
edge of 25 cm. Find the volume of her
school exhibition where he saw a solar
tank:
system, and his teacher began
explaining the shape of the Earth and
a. 16525 cm3 b. 15652 cm3
asked her students to tell her how
c. 15625 cm3 d. 15620 cm3
many lines of symmetry it has.
Duke: It has 45 symmetry lines.
33. Find the perimeter of the given figure, if
Minnie: It has 100 symmetry lines.
it is made up of identical squares of
Milo: It has 999 symmetry lines.
sides 3 cm.
Max: It has an unlimited number of
symmetry lines.

Which statement is correct?

a. Max b. Milo
c. Duke d. Minnie
a. 60 cm b. 45 cm
37. If the length and breadth of a
c. 54 cm d. 48 cm
rectangular house are 25 m and 10 m,
then find its perimeter.
34. Which of the following statements are
true?
a. 20 m b. 40 m
i. Two lines are said to be
c. 70 m d. 90 m
perpendicular if the angle between
them is equal to 90⁰.
38. Sam visits a school with a rectangular
ii. A point is a zero-dimensional shape.
playing field. Find the field's breadth if
iii. The points lying on the same
the field's perimeter and length are 120
straight line are called non-collinear
and 45 metres, respectively.
points.
iv. A line has two ends.
a. 12 m b. 15 m
c. 17 m d. 20 m
a. Only ii b. i and ii
c. i, ii and iii d. only iv

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 39. The school has a rectangular flower 40. Give 180o turn clockwise to the
garden that is 5m long by 12m wide numbers from 0 to 9, and determine
one bag of fertilizer can cover 5 m2. which of them look the same?
How many bags will the school needed
to buy to cover the entire garden? a. 0, 2, 8 b. 0, 1, 8
c. 3, 6, 9 d. 8, 1, 9
a. 7 b. 9
c. 12 d. 15

Achievers’ Section (Each Question is 2 Marks)

41. Ricky and Ronald had arranged for a 44. How many prime numbers are there
low-cost trip. They considered taking from 50 to 100?
various modes of transportation. They
drove for 4 hours and 35 minutes, took a. 18 b. 12
the train for 5 hours and 40 minutes, c. 10 d. 8
and took the auto-rickshaw for 50
minutes. How long did it take Ricky and 45. A tank can hold 20.145 L of water.
3
of
Ronald to arrive at their destination? 5
the water in the tank is used for
a. 11 hours 5 minutes different purposes. What amount of
b. 13 hours 3 minutes water is used?
c. 15 hours 2 minutes
d. 19 hours a. 4.029 L b. 9.058 L
c. 12.087 L d. 60.435 L
42. The school has 58 school buses
running on various routes. 10 of them 46. 7 similar iron balls and 4 similar steel
carry 60 children each and the rest balls have a total mass of 7.4 kg. Find
carry 59 children each. How many the mass of each steel ball if each iron
children are carried by the school ball weighs 560 g:
buses in one round?
a. 870 g b. 3480 g
a. 5800 b. 7600 c. 780 g d. 3920 g
c. 3400 d. 3432
47. The pie-chart shows the number of
43. Study the pattern below. Find the vehicles in a car park. The total number
missing figure in the pattern: of vehicles in the car park is 7000. AB
is the diameter.
If 30% of the 'Others' are cycles, how
many cycles are there?

a. b.

c. d.

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 a. 117 b. 28 49. The ratio of the sides of a triangle is 2:
c. 147 d. 49 3: 4 and its perimeter is 180 m. Find
the length of each side:
48. Amy: HCF of two numbers always
remains the same even if the numbers a. 40 m, 70 m, 80 m
are multiplied by any number. b. 40 m, 60 m, 80 m
Terry: HCF of two numbers gets c. 50 m, 60 m, 80 m
doubled when the numbers are d. 40 m, 60 m, 100 m
doubled.
Sam: The HCF of 8 and 12 will be 3. 50. A rectangle has a length of 6 cm and a
Gen: The HCF is not equal to greatest width of 4 cm. What should the width
common divisor. be if the length is increased by 2 cm so
Who is correct? that the new rectangle has the same
area as the first?
a. Amy b. Terry
c. Sam d. Gen a. 2 cm b. 3 cm
c. 4 cm d. 5 cm

Answer Key
1. c 2. a 3. b 4. b 5. a 6. c 7. c 8. b 9. c 10. a
11. a 12. d 13. a 14. a 15. c 16. b 17. c 18. a 19. b 20. a
21. d 22. c 23. b 24. b 25. b 26. c 27. b 28. d 29. d 30. c
31. a 32. c 33. d 34. b 35. d 36. a 37. c 38. b 39. c 40. b
41. a 42. d 43. b 44. c 45. c 46. a 47. c 48. b 49. b 50. b

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