2005 Math Challenge

Grade 5

Directions: Check your answers analyze the solution given in

every question. Be sure you deeply understand the concepts
involved. Test yourself again by answering the question.

1. Write “four million, two hundred sixty thousand, ninety-five.”

Answer: 4 260 095

2. What is the place value of 9 in 39, 451,628?

Answer: millions

3. What is the value of 8 in 523,852,123?

Answer: 800 000

4. How many times are great is the underlined 4 in 45,642 than the
4 that is not underlined?
Answer: 1 000 times

5. Round to the nearest thousand and estimate 6,123 + 7,512 +

4,123.
Solution: 6 123 – 6 000
7 512 – 8 000
4 123 – 4 000
6 000 + 8 000 + 4 000
Answer: 18 000

6. Round 36,957,345 to the nearest hundred thousand.

Answer: 37 000 000

7. What is the remainder when 3,567 is divided by 47?

Solution: 3 567 ÷ 47 = 75 r. 42
Answer: 42
8. Write 5 x 105 + 7 x 104 + 9 x 102 +7 x 10 + 5 as one number?
Solution: 500 000 + 70 000 + 900 + 70 + 5
Answer: 570 975

9. Use exponents to write 3960 as a product of its prime factors.

Solution: 2 3 960
2 1 980
2 990
 3 495
3 165
5 55
11
3 2
Answer: 2 x 3 x 5 x 11

10. What is the smallest prime number larger than 100.

Answer: 101

11. How many prime numbers are there between 20 and 40?
Solution: 23, 29, 31, 37
Answer: 4

12. What is the greatest common factor of 72 and 90?

Solution: 2 72 90
3 36 45 GCF: 2 x 3 x 3
3 12 15
4 5
Answer: 18

13. What is the least common factor of 72 and 90?

Solution: 2 72 90
3 36 45 LCM: 2 x 3 x 3 x 4 x 5
3 12 15
4 5
Answer: 360

14. Change 78/90 to lowest terms.

Solution: The GCF of 78 and 90 is 6.
78÷6 = 13; 90÷6 = 15
Answer: 13/15

15. Change 6 6/13 to an improper fraction.

Solution: 13x6=78; 78+6=84
Retain the denominator
Answer: 84/13

16. Change 134/9 to a mixed number.

Solution: 134÷9 = 14 r. 8
Answer: 14 8/9

17. A garden is 5 3/5 m long and 3 ¾ m wide. Find its perimeter.

Solution: P = 2(l + w)
 = 2(5 3/5 + 3 ¾)
= 2(9 7/20)
= 18 7/10
Answer: 18 7/10 m

18. What is the area of the garden in # 17?

Solution: A = l x w
= 5 3/5 x 3 ¾
= 21
Answer: 21m

19. Nita multiplied 4.27 x 56.9 with a calculator and got 242 963
because she forgot to put the decimal points. What is the correct
answer?
Solution: 4.27 has 2 decimal places
56.9 has 1 decimal places
There should be 3 decimal places in the product.
Answer: 242.963

20. Two numbers are in the ratio 3:5 and their sum is 112. Find the
bigger number.

Solution: Change 3:5 to higher terms such that their

sum is 112.
3/5 = 42/70 wherein 42+70 = 112
Answer: 70

21. Tonton picked 273 mangoes and put them 60 to a basket to

sell. How many mangoes were not in a full basket?
Solution: 273÷60 = 4 r.33
Answer: 33

22. Nita can make 6 glasses of drink from a can of fruit juice. If she
has to prepare for 76 people, how many cans of juice does she
have to buy?
Solution: 76÷6 = 12.66
Answer: 13

23. The lengths of sides of triangle are 12.3 cm, 15.8 cm and 16.5
cm. Find its perimeter.
Solution: P = s + s + s
= 12.3 + 15.8 + 16.5
= 44.6
 Answer: 44.6 cm

24. An apple cost ₱8.50. How many can you buy with ₱100 bill?
Solution: 100÷8.5 = 11.76
Answer: 11

25. A P. E. teacher has 61 pupils. She told them to line up in rows

of 9. How many pupils are in the last incomplete row?
Solution: 61÷9 = 6 r.7
Answer: 7

26. If 7:9 = 84:N, what is N?

Solution: 7n = 84 x 9
7n = 756
n = 756÷7
Answer: 108

27. What is the perimeter of the figure?

Solution: 50+27+27+15+15+12+12+20
Answer: 178 m

28. What is the area of the figure?

Solution: 50 x 15 = 750 m2
2(12 x 15) = 360 m2
750 m2 + 360 m2
Answer: 1 110 m2
29. What fraction of the figure is shaded?
Answer: 13/18

30. One side of a regular decagon is 12 dm. What is its perimeter?

Solution: 12 x 10 = 120
Answer: 120 dm

31. A circular lagoon has a radius of 12 m. how much shorter will it

be to go from A to B through O, in a boat, than to go along the
edge as shown by the arrows? [Use in 3.14]
Solution: 12 x 2 = 24 m – A to B
C = 75.36÷2 = 37.68 m – edge
37.68 – 24
Answer: 13.68 m

32. What is the area of the lagoon in # 31?

Solution: A = лr2
 = 3.14 x 122
= 3.14 x 144
Answer: 452.16 m2

33. Bing has a 10 m piece of string. He cut from a 3 ½ m piece

and another 2 1/7 m piece. How much string remained?
Solution: 10 – (3 ½ + 2 1/7)
10 – (3 7/14 + 2 2/14)
10 – 5 9/14
Answer: 4 5/14 m

34. What is the ratio of 25 dm to 4 ½ m?

Solution: 4.5 m = 45 dm
25:45
Answer: 5:9

35. During a storm, 12 out of 40 students in a class were absent.

What percent of the class were absent?
Solution: 12÷40 = 0.3 x 100
Answer: 30%

36. A dress marked ₱185 was bought at a sale at 15% discount.

How much was paid for it?
Solution: 185 x 0.15 = 27.75
185 – 27.75
Answer: ₱157.25

37. 144 is 32 percent of what number?

Solution: 144÷0.32
Answer: 450

38. The sum of three consecutive pages of a book is 534. What is

the middle page?
Answer: 178

39. What is the total surface are of a closed wooden box. 1.5 m
long, 0.4 m wide and 0.8 m high?
Solution: S = Ph + 2B
= 2(1.5+0.4)0.8 + 2 (1.5 x 0.4)
= 3.04 + 1.2
Answer: 4.24 m2
40. A piece of cartolina is 42 cm by 32 cm. how many circles of
radius 5 cm can be cut from it?
Solution: 42 x 32 = 1 344 cm2 – cartolina
5 x 5 x 3.14 = 78.5 cm2 – circle
1 344÷78.5 = 17.12
Answer: 17

41. The bases of a trapezoidal field are 180 and 142 m. the
distance between them is 95 m. how many hectares is the field?
Solution: (180 + 142) x 95÷2 = 15 295 ÷ 10 000
15 295 m2 = ______ hectares
Answer: 1.5295 hectares

42. The area of table cloth is 6.3 m2. If the width is 1.8, what is the
length?
Solution: 6.3 m2÷1.8 m
Answer: 3.5 m

43. What is N in 7, 9, 12, 16, 21, 27, N.

Solution: 7 + 2 = 9
9 + 3 = 12
12 + 4 =16
16 + 5 = 21
21 + 6 = 27
27 + 7 = 34
Answer: 34

44. A vendor bought 120 watermelons at ₱ 32 each. He sold them

at a profit of 20%. Find his profit.
Solution: 120 x 32 = 3 840
3 840 x .2
Answer: ₱768

45. The scale of the plan of the house is 2 cm to 1 m. on the plan

a room is 7 cm by 6 cm. what is actual area of the room?
Solution: 7÷2 = 3.5; 6÷2 = 3
3.5 x 3
Answer: 10.5 m2
46. A family has monthly income of 12,000. On a circle graph
representing their budget, how many degrees will be the sector for
food if they spend ₱4200 a month for food?
Solution: 4 200÷12 000 = 0.35
360 x 0.35
 Answer: 126°

47. Find two numbers with a sum of 50 and difference of 14.

Solution: 50 – 14 = 36
36 ÷ 2 = 18
18 + 14 = 32
Answer: 32 and 18

48. The vertex angle of an isosceles triangle is 58O. Find each

base angle.
Solution: 180 – 58 = 122
122÷2 = 61
Answer: 61˚

49. In a 100 item test, Ricky did not answer 6 questions. His
number of correct answer is 4 more than 4 times his mistakes.
How many correct answers did he get?
Solution: 100 – 6 = 94
94 – 4 = 90
90 ÷ 5 = 18
18 x 4 = 72
72 + 4 = 76
Answer: 76

50. The base of an isosceles triangle is 4 cm more than a leg. If

the perimeter is 58 cm, find the base.
Solution: 58 – 4 = 54
54 ÷ 3 = 18
18 + 4 = 22
Answer: 22 cm