MMC 2019 Grade 6 National Individual Orals 1

Easy
E1 When 20 is divided by n, the resulting quotient is 3 and the remainder is 2. What number is n? [6]
E2 If 30% of a number is 150, what is 25% of the same number? [125]
E3 John always gives a 10% tip every time he dines in a restaurant. How much tip did John give if he paid
a total of ₧2750 for his meal, including tips? Assume no taxes. [₧250]
E4 A cereal mixture contains rice, wheat, and corn in the ratio of 2 ∶ 3 ∶ 5. If a bag of the mixture contains
4 kilograms of rice, how many kilograms of corn does the mixture contain? [10 kilograms]
E5 A robot produces sweets that are identical in size and taste. It takes an hour and a half for it to produce
24 tons of sweets. How many tons will it produce in 2 hours? [32 tons]
E6 A car can go x kilometers on y liters of gasoline. How many liters of gasoline will the car need for a
yz
journey of z kilometers? [ liters]
x
E7 What is the greatest possible value of the smallest of four different counting numbers with a sum of
34? [7]
E8 What is the answer to 2019 − 2009 + 1999 − 1989 + 1979 − 1969 + ⋯ + 39 − 29 + 19 − 9? [1010]
E9 The surface of a cube is to be painted so that no two faces of the same color share a common edge. What
is the minimum number of different colors needed to paint the cube? [3]
E10 The area of circle A is 9 times smaller than the area of circle B. By how much smaller is the circumference
2
of circle A smaller than that of circle B? [ ]
3
Average
A1 When the numbers 5.02, 5.18, 5.2, 5.007, and 5.018 are arranged from least to greatest, determine the
middle number. [5.02]
A2 The difference between a 4-digit number and the sum of its digits is also a 4-digit number 658X. What
is the value of X? [8]
A3 Mr. Valdez gives his students 6 examinations in each grading period. The scores of Paul in the first 5
exams are 80, 79, 84, 87, and 93. If Paul hopes to get an average score for the 6 exams to be at least
4 marks than his average score for the first 4 exams, find the least score that he must get in the sixth
exam. [96]
A4 Matt, a race driver, drove a 6 kilometer track. For the first 3 kilometers, his speed was 150 kilometers
per hour; for the next 2 kilometers, his speed was 200 kilometers per hour; and for the final kilometer,
his speed was 300 kiometers per hour. What is his average speed for the complete circuit?
[180 kilometers per hour]
A5 A wire 60 centimeters in length is cut into two parts in the ratio 2 ∶ 1. Each part is bent to form a square.
What is the total area of the two squares? [125 cm2 ]
Difficult
D1 Water pours into a tank at a constant rate. One day, the tank was 36% full at 2:00 pm and it became
100% full at 10:00 pm. How full was the tank at noon that day? [20%]
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D2 When Gerry arrived at a party, two-thirds of those invited had already arrived. Six more people arrived
just after Gerry, bringing the fraction of those invited already present to five-sixths. What was the total
number of invited guests? [36]
D3 Bids have to be housed in cages so that each cage contains at least one bird and no two cages contain
the same number of birds. What is the maximum number of cages that can be used to house 100 birds?
[13]
D4 A PIN code consists of exactly 4 digits. How many different PIN codes can be constructed in which the
sum of the digits is 34 or greater? [15]
D5 Each of the circles shown has an area of 60 cm2 . One-fourth of the area of circle A is shaded. One-fifth
of the area of circle B is shaded. One-sixth of the area of circle C is shaded. What is the sum of the areas
of the shaded region in square centimeters? [18.5 cm2 ]

A B