Week 45

1. Mao Mao is 8 years old.

Her mum is 40 years old.
How many years later will the mum’s age be 3 times Mao Mao’s age?

2. How many triangles are there in the figure?

3. The teacher is giving sweets away to the class.

If each student is to get 8 sweets, the teacher needs 7 more sweets.
If each student gets 7 sweets, the teacher would have 8 sweets left.
a) How many students are there in the class?
b) How many sweets does the teacher have?

4. The figures below are formed by squares of side 1 cm.

Find the perimeter when a figure is formed by 78 squares.
5. It is known that a, b are whole numbers. If

1155×a=210×b
Find the value of (a + b).

6. The grass at a farm grows at a constant rate.

27 cows will finish eating the grass in 6 days.

23 cows will finish eating the grass in 9 days.
How many days can the ranch sustain 21 cows?

7. Find the value of A in the number sequence below.

1, 3, 6, 15, 33, A, …

8. Given that the 4-digit number is divisible by 35, find N.

9. Paul’s savings is 3 times Mary’s savings at first. If Paul

withdraws $180 of his savings while Mary saves another $40, they
will have the same amount of money.
What is Mary’s savings at first?

10. If 10 chickens lay 10 eggs in 10 days, how many eggs

can 30 chickens lay in 30 days?

11. In mathematics,
31=3
32=3×3=9
33=3×3×3=27
34=3×3×3×3=81
…
Find the ones digit in 333.

12. Find the value of C in the cryptarithm below.

13. In a box, there are 6 red, 7 yellow, 2 white and 5 black marbles.
What is the least number of marbles that must be taken out,
without looking, to ensure that one has marbles of 4 different
colours?

14. Evaluate

1−2+3−4+5−6+⋯+101

15. What is the missing number in the grid below?