MINISTRY OF EDUCATION

CURRICULUM PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DIVISION

MENTAL MARATHON 2012
SEMIFINAL ROUND

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1. How many rectangular faces are there in a triangular prism? 10 seconds

(A) 1
(B) 2
(C) 3
(D) 4

2. Round off the number 532 correct to the nearest ten 10 seconds

3 In the classroom, which one of the following has a length of 10 seconds

approximately one metre?

(A)Height of the door

(B)Width of a door
(C)Thickness of the door

4. Multiply 50 by 21 15 seconds

5. 96 plums are to be packed in bags that must contain 7 each. 12 seconds

How many plums are left back?

6. I started on a journey at 8:45 and arrived 1 hour and 45 15 seconds

minutes later.
What is my arrival time?

7. What is the next term in the sequence 10 seconds

8, 4, 2, 1, ?

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8. If May 17th is a Thursday, then what day is May 27th? 12 seconds

The diagram shows the number of bananas eaten by Farrah and

9. Jenna over the last month. If Farrah ate 12 bananas more than 15 seconds
Jenna, how many bananas did Jenna eat?

Farrah

Jenna

10. There are 37 students in Mr. Ken’s class. Mr. Ken wants to give each 12 seconds
student one quarter of an apple. What is the least amount of apples
he must buy?

Figure A shows a rectangle. Figure B shows 3 squares joined

11. together. Which figure has the larger area? 15 seconds

Figure A Figure B

10cm 10cm

7cm

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12.
Sandra bought 5 oranges and 7apples and the total cost was $50. 15 seconds
If the cost of each orange was $3, what was the cost of each apple?

13.
Anne bought a jar of sweets. 15 seconds
On Monday she sold 30 sweets.
On Tuesday she packaged the remainder in sets and got exactly 16
sets of 5 sweets.
How many sweets were there in the jar?

14.
The area of this rectangle is 36 cm2. If the length of one side is 9 cm, 15 seconds
what is the perimeter of the rectangle?

15. 15 seconds
Write the missing number to complete the number sentence.

( 25 + ) × 10 = 450

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16. How many edges are there in the shape shown?

20 seconds

17. The blocks shown represent a three digit number.

20 seconds
Hundreds Tens Ones

Subtract 52 from this number.

What fraction of the square ABCD below is shaded in green?

18. 20 seconds
A B

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A 2 litre jug of juice is poured into glasses, each holding 125ml.
19.
How many glasses can be filled? 20seconds

20. Five numbers add up to 60. If the numbers are next to each 20 seconds
other, what is the largest of the five numbers?

(This question was not marked due to ambiguity)