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G5 SASMO 2017
Full Name: __________________________________

Index Number: __________________________________

Class: __________________________________

School: __________________________________

INSTRUCTIONS
1. Please DO NOT OPEN the contest booklet until the Proctor has given permission.

2. TIME: 1 hour 30 minutes.

3. There are 25 questions.

Section A: Questions 1 to 15 score 2 points each, no points are deducted for
unanswered question and 1 point is deducted for wrong answer.
Section B: Questions 16 to 25 score 4 points each, no points are deducted for
unanswered or wrong answer.

4. Shade your answers neatly using a pencil in the answer entry sheet.

5. PROCTORING: No one may help any student in any way during the contest.

6. No electronic devices capable of storing and displaying visual information is

allowed during the course of the exam.

7. Strictly No Calculators are allowed into the exam.

8. All students must fill and shade their Name, Index Number, Class and School in
the answer sheet and contest booklet.

9. MINIMUM TIME: Students must stay in the exam hall at least 1h 15 min.

10. Students must show detailed working and transfer answers to the answer entry sheet.

11. No exam papers and written notes can be taken out by any contestant.
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Section A (Correct answer – 2 points| No answer – 0 points| Incorrect answer – minus 1 point)

Question 1
Find the value of the expression below.
2017 + 77 + 555 + 983 + 23 + 345

A. 3900
B. 4000
C. 4100
D. 5000
E. None of the above

Question 2
What are the last two digits of 888×999?

A. 1
B. 11
C. 12
D. 22
E. None of the above

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Question 3
If the five-digit number 543A1 is divisible by 9, what is the value of the digit A?

A. 2
B. 5
C. 6
D. 8
E. None of the above

Question 4
Find the greatest 3-digit number which is divisible by 4 and 18.

A. 990
B. 954
C. 936
D. 918
E. None of the above

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Question 5
The figure on the right is formed by identical squares with length of 4.
What is the perimeter of the figure?

A. 100
B. 102
C. 112
D. 124
E. None of the above

Question 6
How many ways are there to cut out the word SASMO from a piece of paper below?
The word SASMO must be in one piece as shown in the Example below.

A. 3
B. 4
C. 5
D. 6
E. None of the above

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Question 7
Toby wrote down numbers from 1 to 100 on the whiteboard. Which digit appeared
the least number of times?

A. 0
B. 1
C. 2
D. 3
E. 4

Question 8
The right figure is formed by 4 squares. The second square is
inscribed inside the first square by joining the midpoints of the
sides of the first, and so on. What is the ratio of the area of the
smallest square to the area of the largest square?

A. 1:4
B. 1:6
C. 1:8
D. 1:12
E. None of the above

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Question 9
Grace and Paul join a marathon together. They start at the same time beside each
other. Grace runs at 6 kilometers every hour and Paul runs at 8 kilometers every
hour. After how many minutes will Paul be 5 kilometers ahead of Grace?

A. 60 minutes
B. 90 minutes
C. 120 minutes
D. 150 minutes
E. None of the above

Question 10
Jane has 120 candies. She wants to separate them into different plastic bags. She put
8 candies in each big plastic bag and 6 candies in each small plastic bag. In total, she
used 17 plastic bags. How many big plastic bags did she use?

A. 10
B. 11
C. 12
D. 13
E. None of the above

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Question 11
In the sequence below, some numbers are missing. Each number is the sum of its two
preceding numbers. What is the value of X?

X, __, __, __, 16, __, __, 68, …

A. 2
B. 4
C. 6
D. 8
E. 10

Question 12
Teacher Thomas did a survey of Primary 6 students to find out how the students go
to school. The results are shown in the pie chart:

What is the value of angle 𝛼 for the Train sector in the pie chart?

A. 66°
B. 88°
C. 90°
D. 99°
E. None of the above

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Question 13
A square paper is folded as shown below. In the final step, 3 holes with different
shapes are made. Where will the holes appear on the paper when it is unfolded back
to its original size?

A. B. C.

D. E.

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Question 14
What is the last digit of the expression below?

2×2×2× …×2 × ⏟
⏟ 3×3×3× …×3
2017 2017

A. 2
B. 4
C. 6
D. 8
E. None of the above

Question 15
Amy and her four friends each own a cat. The names of the cats are Max, Oliver,
Charlie, Kitty and Smokey. The colour of the cat is either black or white (but not both).

a. Three cats are black and the other two cats are white.
b. Oliver and Smokey have the same colour.
c. Charlie and Kitty have different colours.
d. Three cats are male and the other two cats are female.
e. Max and Charlie have the same gender.
f. Kitty and Smokey are different genders.

If Amy’s cat is female and white, what is the name of Amy’s cat?

A. Max
B. Oliver
C. Charlie
D. Kitty
E. Smokey

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Section B (Correct answer – 4 points| Incorrect or No answer – 0 points)

Question 16
The product of 47 whole numbers is 47. What is the sum of these numbers?

Question 17
The pattern below is made up of dots.

Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3

Which figure will contain 2017 dots?

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Question 18
Find the denominator of the following fraction in its simplest form.
1
2+
1
0+ 1
1+7

Question 19
As shown in Example 1, each number in a cell represents the number of shaded cells
that surround it.

Example 1:

How many shaded cells will be in the grid below after you shade it according to the
rules above?

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Question 20
For Event A, the organizer arranged 15 rows of seats in a hall. Then for Event B, the
organizer removed 3 rows of seats and added 5 more seats to each row to hold the
same number of people. Given that each row has the same number of seats, how
many seats are in the hall?

Question 21
How many squares are there in the figure below?

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Question 22
Find the following product

1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
( − )×( − )×( − )×( − )×… ×( − )×( − )
2 50 3 49 4 48 5 47 49 3 50 2

Question 23
There are 100 Primary 5 students in Happy Primary School, 78 of these students are
in Swimming club and 86 are in Badminton club. What is the largest possible number
of students who are neither in Swimming club nor Badminton club?

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Question 24
In the following, all the different letters stand for different digits.
A B A
+ C D C
7 2 6

Find the sum of A + B + C + D.

Question 25
Alice and Bob are exchanging their tokens in a game. At the beginning, the ratio of
the number of tokens Alice had to the number of tokens Bob had was 4:7. After the
1 1
1st round of the game, Alice lost of her tokens to Bob. Then Bob lost of his
3 4
tokens after the 2nd round of the game to Alice. If after 2nd round Alice had 57
tokens how many token do they have altogether?

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