QUESTIONS 1 TO 10 ARE WORTH 4.

How many cubes are there in the figure

3 MARKS EACH below?
1. Find the next number in the sequence

5611, 111223, 232447, …

(A) 232495
(B) 464793
(C) 474895
(D) 474896
(A) 20
(E) None of the above
(B) 22
(C) 23
2. Find perimeter of the figure below.
(D) 24
(E) 25

5. In the following additions, each letter

represents a different digit.

(A) 38 11111111.
Find -./0
(B) 42
(C) 44
(D) 46
(E) None of the above

3. 6 footballs and 3 basketballs cost $279.

2 footballs and 3 basketballs cost $139.
Find the prices of a football and a
basketball, respectively.
(A) 8370
(B) 9464
(A) $35 and $21
(C) 8371
(B) $35 and $23
(D) 9465
(C) $40 and $21
(E) None of the above
(D) $40 and $23
(E) None of the above

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6. Pine trees are planted at equal 8. There are 14 children at a party.
intervals of 16 m along a straight road, If each child shakes hands with each
including both ends of the road. If the other exactly once, how many
road is 960 m long, how many pine handshakes will take place?
trees are there altogether?
(A) 75
(A) 56 (B) 85
(B) 58 (C) 87
(C) 59 (D) 89
(D) 60 (E) 91
(E) 61

9. When 925 is divided by 8, the quotient

is 35 and the remainder is 15. Find 8.
7. The numbers 1, 2, 3, … , 9 is to be filled
in each circle, such that the sum of (A) 23
numbers along each line is 9. Find 9. (B) 25
(C) 26
(D) 27
(E) None of the above

10. There are 15 red, 20 white, 25 black

and 40 yellow balls in bag. Without
looking into the bag, find the least
number of balls to be removed,
(A) 25
without replacement, to obtain at
(B) 26
least 4 balls of different colours.
(C) 22
(D) 34
(A) 86
(E) None of the above
(B) 76
(C) 75
(D) 66
(E) 67

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 QUESTIONS 11 TO 20 ARE WORTH 13. Teacher Ali has a bag of sweets. If he
4 MARKS EACH gives each student 4 sweets, he will
11. Find the missing number in the be left with 4 sweets. If he gives each
number puzzle below. student 5 sweets, he will be short of 7
sweets. How many sweets does
Teacher Ali have?

(A) 45
(B) 46
(C) 47
(A) 5 (D) 48
(B) 7 (E) None of the above
(C) 4
(D) 8
(E) None of the above 14. There is a total of 15 questions in a
mathematics test. For every correct
answer, 8 marks will be awarded. For
12. Peter has a total of 100 chickens and every wrong answer, 4 marks are
rabbits on his farm. If the animals deducted. If John scored a total of
have 260 legs altogether, how many 72 marks, how questions did he
chickens are there on the farm? answer wrongly?

(A) 40 (A) 2
(B) 50 (B) 3
(C) 60 (C) 4
(D) 70 (D) 5
(E) 80 (E) 6

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15. Cindy’s father is 4 times older than 17. The diagram below shows a rectangle
her. Three years ago, both their ages of length 36 cm . It contains two
added up to 49. How old are Cindy shaded regions and 7 identical small
and her father, respectively, this rectangles. Find the area of one small
year? rectangle, in cm; .

(A) 10 and 45
(B) 11 and 44
(C) 12 and 46
(D) 9 and 36
(E) None of the above

(A) 98
16. Mark had some stamps. He gave
(B) 120
10 less than half of his stamps of to
(C) 144
Shaun. Then, he gave 6 more than
(D) 156
half the remainder to Cindy. Finally,
(E) None of the above
he gave 30 stamps to his cousin and
was left with 40 stamps. How many
stamps did he have at first? 18. Train - left Town < for Town =, at a
speed of 60 km/h. 1h later, Train . left
(A) 284 Town < for Town = , at a speed of
(B) 304 75 km/h. How many hours did Train .
(C) 322 take to catch up with Train -?
(D) 354
(E) None of the above (A) 2 h 30 min
(B) 3 h
(C) 3 h 30 min
(D) 3 h 45 min
(E) 4 h

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19. In the diagram below, the topmost QUESTIONS 21 TO 25 ARE WORTH
layer has 60 circles. How many 6 MARKS EACH

circles are there altogether? 21. A new operation is defined as

B⊚D = 5×B−3×D
Given that 14 ⊚ D = 13, find the value of D.

22. Alan wrote on the whiteboard

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, … , 173
How many times did he write the digit
‘7’ altogether?

(A) 1750
(B) 1780 23. Many years ago, there were
(C) 1830 5 Saturdays in the month of February.
(D) 1880
(E) None of the above On which day of the week was the last
day of that year?

20. The diagram shows a square -./0 of

side 10 H8 and a shaded rectangle of
24. Jane walked from her house to Peter’s
area 6 cm; . What is the area of IJKL?
at a speed of 80 m/min. At the same
time, Peter walked from his house to
Jane’s at a speed of 60 m/min. They
met 15 m from the mid-point of the
two houses.

How far is Jane’s house from Peter’s?

(A) 49 cm;
(B) 51 cm;
(C) 62 cm;
(D) 53 cm;
(E) 58 cm;

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25. In the diagram below, -./0 is a
square of side 4 cm . 0IJK is a
rectangle. I-J is a straight line.
Given that /K = 3 cm and 0K = 5 cm ,
find the length of 0I in cm.

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 SEAMO 2018
Paper B – Answers

Multiple-Choice Questions
Questions 1 to 10 carry 3 marks each.

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5
C D B B C

Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10
E A E C A

Questions 11 to 20 carry 4 marks each.

Q11 Q12 Q13 Q14 Q15

A D D C B

Q16 Q17 Q18 Q19 Q20

A C E C D

Free-Response Questions

Questions 21 to 25 carry 6 marks each.

21 22 23 24 25

19 31 THURSDAY 210 m 3.2 cm

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