MMC 2019 Grade 6 National Team Orals 1

Easy
E1 By how much is the number 10 000 − 9 × 1111 smaller than 1250 − 125 × 9? [124]
E2 Adding the whole numbers from 1 to 10 gives a sum of 55. Using this result, what is the sum of 3 + 6 +
9 + 12 + 15 + 18 + 21 + 24 + 27 + 30? [165]
E3 During a summer sale, Vivian bought a pair of slippers for ₧200. If the original price of the slippers was
₧250, what percent discount did she get? [20%]
E4 The price of an adult’s ticket to an amusement park is ₧250. The ratio between the prices of an adult’s
ticket to a child’s ticket is 5 ∶ 4. How much is a child’s ticket? [₧200]
E5 On a test consisting of 30 questions, Sue had 50% more right answers than she had wrong answers. Each
answer was either right or wrong. How many questions did Sue answer correctly? [20]
E6 Joel’s car uses 12 liters of gas to make a 144 km tip. How many liters of gas is required by this car to
travel 336 km? [336 km]
E7 The total cost of P articles is Q pesos. What is, then, the cost, in pesos, of R articles, of the same type?
QR
[₧ ]
P
E8 A rectangle has a length of 6 cm and a width of 5 cm. A square has been cut out from each of the four
corners of the rectangle. Each of the squares has a perimeter of 4 cm. How many square centimeters is
the area of the resulting figure? [26 cm2 ]
E9 The degree measure of the three angles of a triangle are consecutive multiples of 5. What is the degree
measure of the largest angle? [65○ ]
E10 A single 6-sided die is rolled. Find the probability of getting a prime number. [0.5]
Average
A1 A survey shows that 5.6% of the people making flight reservations do not keep them. Out of 125 people
who made reservations, how many can be expected to cancel? [7]
A2 The product of three prime numbers was added to 1 and the result was 1222. Calculate the sum of these
prime numbers. [51]
A3 Three signal lights were set to flash every certain specific time. The first light flashes every 12 seconds,
the second every 30 seconds, and the third every 66 seconds. The signal lights flash simultaneously at
8:30 am. At what time will the signal lights next flash together again? [8:41 am]
A4 The base of a right triangle has length 9 cm and the altitude to this base is 12 cm. What is the length of
the altitude to the longest side of the triangle? [7.2 cm]
A5 When A is increased by 20% and B is decreased by 2-%, the resulting values are equal. What is the ratio
of A to B? [2 ∶ 3]
Difficult
D1 In a class of 30 students, 12 played in the band, and 17 played volleyball. Of these, 5 students did both.
How many students did not participate in either activity? [6]
D2 If the nine-digit number A12 345 67B is divisible by 45, determine all possible values of A and B.
[(A, B) = (8, 0), (3, 5)]
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D3 The areas of two squares are 3481 cm2 and 1681 cm2 , respectively. Find the difference of their perimeters
in centimeters. [72 cm]
D4 The total number of ducks and chickens in the garden is 335. If the number of chickens is two-thirds
of the number of ducks, how many chickens are there in the garden? [134]
D5 The faces of some dice are marked with dots from 1 to 6 such that the total number of dots on any two
opposite faces of a die is 7. Four dice are arranged as shown so that the faces of two dice that touch
each other have the same number of dots. What is the total number of dots on the faces that touch each
other? [22]

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