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Singapore Math Global Team Competition 2019

SINGATEERS Round
Middle Division (Grade 3 & 4)
November 23, 2019
Time: 45 minutes
NAME:
GRADE:
COUNTRY:

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Please DO NOT OPEN the contest booklet until the Proctor has given permission.

2. There are 25 questions.


Section A: Questions 1 to 15 score 2 marks each, no points are deducted for unanswered or
wrong answer.
Section B: Questions 16 to 25 score 2 marks each, no points are deducted for unanswered
or wrong answer.

3. Shade your answers neatly using a 2B pencil in the Answer Entry Sheet.

4. PROCTORING: No one may help any student in any way during the contest.

5. Students must show detailed working and transfer answers to the Answer Entry Sheet.

6. No exam papers and written notes can be taken out by any contestant.
Singa Mathematics Competition – Singateers (Individual Round: 45 minutes) Division Middle (Grade 3 & 4)

Section A: 15 Multiple Choice Questions (15 x 2 marks = 30 marks)


For questions 1 to 15, choose the correct option and write its number
(1, 2, 3 or 4) in the brackets provided. Then shade your option in the Answer Entry Sheet
(AES) provided.

1. 9 + 9 + 9 + 9 + 9 + 9 = _____ × 9

(1) 5
(2) 6
(3) 54
(4) 81 ( )

2. 2 kg 75 g is the same as ________.

(1) 275 g
(2) 275 kg
(3) 2075 g
(4) 2750 kg ( )

3. Mr Su wanted to buy 9 pencils. The pencils were priced at $0.85 each or


2 for $1.65. What was the least amount that Mr Su could have spent on the pencils?

1 pencil for $0.85 2 pencils for $1.65

(1) $6.60
(2) $7.45
(3) $7.65
(4) $8.25 ( )

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Singa Mathematics Competition – Singateers (Individual Round: 45 minutes) Division Middle (Grade 3 & 4)

4. Which pair of lines is parallel?

E G
B
C D
K

A
J F
H

(1) AB and EF
(2) CD and GH
(3) JK and EF
(4) AB and JK ( )

5. There are three pencils labelled M, L and S as shown below.


The total length of the three pencils is 210 cm. What is the length of pencil S?

S
20 cm 40 cm

(1) 50 cm
(2) 60 cm
(3) 70 cm
(4) 90 cm ( )

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Singa Mathematics Competition – Singateers (Individual Round: 45 minutes) Division Middle (Grade 3 & 4)

6. Amy took a 35-minute bus ride from her home to the library. She reached the library
at the time shown below. At what time did she board the bus?

(1) 04 25
(2) 15 50
(3) 16 25
(4) 17 00 ( )

7. In the figure below, a small square is cut out from a 30-cm square as shown below.
Find the perimeter of the remaining figure.

30 cm

(1) 30 cm
(2) 90 cm
(3) 120 cm
(4) 900 cm ( )

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Singa Mathematics Competition – Singateers (Individual Round: 45 minutes) Division Middle (Grade 3 & 4)

8. The figure below is made up of Squares X, Y and Z.


Square Y and Square Z are identical.
What is the total area of the figure?

12 cm X

(1) 72 cm2
(2) 108 cm2
(3) 144 cm2
(4) 216 cm2 ( )

9. Which of the following numbers when rounded to the nearest hundred


becomes 38 000?

(1) 37 944
(2) 37 984
(3) 38 054
(4) 38 544
( )

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Singa Mathematics Competition – Singateers (Individual Round: 45 minutes) Division Middle (Grade 3 & 4)

10. There are 5 identical plastic toy oranges on the weighing scale.
What is the mass of each plastic toy orange?

(1) 70 g
(2) 305 g
(3) 350 g
(4) 1750 g ( )

11. Peter and James shared 1 cake. Peter ate a smaller portion of the cake than
James. Which of the following shows the possible fractions of the cake Peter and
James had eaten?

Peter James

(1) 2 1
4 2
(2) 3 1
4 4
(3) 3 5
8 8
(4) 1 1
2 4 ( )

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Singa Mathematics Competition – Singateers (Individual Round: 45 minutes) Division Middle (Grade 3 & 4)

Xavier was facing the Train Station at first. Then, he made a Error!- turn anti-
12.
clockwise. Where would he be facing in the end?

Library
Field School

Market Xavier Garden

Playground Shopping Mall


Train Station

(1) Field
(2) Garden
(3) School
(4) Market ( )

13. Coin pouches are sold at 3 for $5. What is the greatest number of coin pouches
Amelia can buy with $1288?

3 for $5
(1) 257
(2) 258
(3) 429
(4) 771 ( )

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Singa Mathematics Competition – Singateers (Individual Round: 45 minutes) Division Middle (Grade 3 & 4)

14. PQRS is a rectangle and  j and  k are equal.  j = 29°, find  h.

P Q
k
j
h

S R

(1) 29°
(2) 32°
(3) 58°
(4) 61° ( )

1 5 . There is a sale at a bookstore.

Special offer

1 box of crayons for $6.30

3 boxes of crayons for $17.50

Shirley wants to buy 28 boxes of crayons.


What is the least amount of money she has to pay?

(1) $157.50
(2) $163.80
(3) $175.00
(4) $176.40 ( )

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Singa Mathematics Competition – Singateers (Individual Round: 45 minutes) Division Middle (Grade 3 & 4)

Section B: 10 Open-ended Questions (10 x 2 marks = 20 marks)


Read the questions carefully. For questions 16 to 25, show your working clearly and
write your answers in the blank provided. Then write and shade you answer in the
Answer Entry Sheet (AES) sheet provided.

16. Count and write the amount of money.


Give your answer in cents.

Answer: ______________ cents

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17. The table below shows different ways children go to school. Unfortunately, parts of the

table have been covered by ink stains.

Boys Girls Total

Walk 689
298

Bus 398 183

Total 696 872 1568

Using the information available in the table, find the number of girls who walk to school.

Answer: ________________

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18. Figure A shows the mass of an empty bowl.


Figure B shows the mass of the same bowl with 4 identical balls.
Find the mass of 1 ball.

Empty bowl Bowl with 4 balls

600 g 904 g
Figure A Figure B

Answer: _______________ g

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9. The figure below shows a big square field of side 25 m.


Four square tiles of side 4 m are built on all the four corners of the field.
Find the area of the field that is not covered by the tiles.

25 m

4m

Answer: _____________ m2

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Singa Mathematics Competition – Singateers (Individual Round: 45 minutes) Division Middle (Grade 3 & 4)

20. Study the pattern below.


The figures are made up of identical white and grey tiles.

Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3 Figure 4

Based on the above pattern, which figure has a total of 75 tiles altogether?

Answer: ______________

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Singa Mathematics Competition – Singateers (Individual Round: 45 minutes) Division Middle (Grade 3 & 4)

21. The first 12 numbers of a number pattern are given below.

4, 0, 3, 1, 1, 4, 0, 3, 1, 1, 4, 0…

What is the sum of the first 82 numbers?

Answer: ______________
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Singa Mathematics Competition – Singateers (Individual Round: 45 minutes) Division Middle (Grade 3 & 4)

22. In the figure below, LMQN and PQRS are squares and they overlap each other.
 PQM = 62° and  NQT = 37°. Find  TQR.

L
P M

62°
N
37° Q
S

Answer: _______________ ⁰
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23. Jermaine drew some lines at equal distance along one side of a piece of cloth as
shown below.
The length of the cloth was 368 cm.
The distance between the 1st and 4th line was 24 cm.
She drew a line at both ends of the cloth.
How many lines did she draw on the cloth in total?

368 cm

… … … …
24 cm

A piece of cloth

Answer: ______________

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24. At Yummy Buffet Restaurant, the prices for the dinner set were shown below.

Welcome to Yummy Buffet!

Each adult: $20

Each child: $12

Last Sunday evening, there was a total of 30 diners at the restaurant.


The total amount collected from the dinner sets was $496.
How many children ate at the restaurant last Sunday?

Answer: ______________

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25. Rayner and his father jogged round a stadium at a constant speed.
Rayner took 7 minutes to jog 1 round on the track at a stadium while his father
took 3 minutes to jog 1 round. Both of them started jogging round the track at the
same point in the same direction at 07 30. At what time did they meet each other
for the 5th time at the starting point? Give your answer in 24-hour clock.

starting point

Answer: _____________

~~ End of Middle Singateers Paper ~~

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