Mathematics Past-Papers Questions

Strand: Number & Money (2015 – 2022)

Section I QUESTIONS
1. Solve
7469 - 2361

2. Write in figures: Two hundred and five thousand and seventy-three

3. State the VALUE of the underlined digit in the following numeral.

753 291

4. Write the number in the box that CORRECTLY completes the following sentence.
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12
x ____ = 20

5. Write the following numbers in descending order (starting with the GREATEST in value).

5 173, 5 731, 5 317

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6. Write 4
as a mixed number.

7. A chocolate factory produces 250 boxes of chocolates in a day. Each box contains 30 bars.
How many chocolate bars are produced in a day?

8. Complete the following number sequence.

4, 9, 15, 22, 30, 39, _____

9. Write in words 109 215.

10. State the place value of the underlined digit.

87 564

11. Solve
7215 + 2456

3 9
12. 5 =

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13. Write 2 6 as an improper fraction.

14. Approximate 2875 to the NEAREST thousand.

15. Write the next term in the following sequence.

27, 36, 45, 54, _____

16. A baker uses 6 eggs to make a cake.

How many eggs will he use to make 9 similar cakes?
17. State the TOTAL value of the bills and coins shown below.

18. Chad buys a bag of oranges for $9.50. How much change should he get if he pays with a
$20.00 bill?

19. Mrs. Ali bought a laptop for $2500 and sold it for $2000. How much money did she lose?

20. Arrange these numbers in ASCENDING order (smallest first).

8372 8273 8237 8327

21. Write the numeral that represents six hundred and twelve thousand, nine hundred and three.

22. Subtract 2.73 from 6.94.

23. Approximate 26387 to the nearest HUNDRED.

24. √64 + 12 = 12 + ______

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25. Change 3 6 to an improper fraction.

26. Write the next term in the sequence. 32, 16, 8, ______

27. What is 25% of 40?

28. Mala bought the items shown below.

Calculate the total mass of the items.

29. State the value of the underlined digit in the number below. 2 3 4 1 6

30. What percentage of the shape below is shaded?

31. What number must be placed in the circle to given the result shown?

32. Write the numeral that represents nine hundred and five thousand, four hundred and twelve.
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33. Write 5 as a mixed number.

34. Arrange the numbers below in ascending order.

3165 3651 3561 3156

35. Add 4.75 and 2.16.

36. Shade the fraction of the second shape to complete the statement below.

37. Write the value of the underlined digit in the place value chart.

38. What is the largest prime number in the box below?

41 75 49
87 67 23

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39. Write 5
as a mixed number.

40. 36.48 ÷ 6 =

41. Write the missing numeral to make the number statement correct

42. √121 + 92
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43. 5 - 4 =

44. Write the total value of the bills and coins.

45. 312 x 15 =

46. Write the missing numbers in the boxes below.

47. Complete the place value chart to represent the numeral forty-five thousand, three hundred
and six.

48. Write a whole number in the box to make the statement true

49. What number is represented by

50. The total value of the 5 bills shown below is $81.00. Write the missing value on the bill.

51. Paul picked 1 725 mangoes. Estimate the number of mangoes he picked to the nearest
thousand.
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52. . Jamaal baked the cookies on the tray below. He ate 15of the cookies.

How many cookies did he eat?

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53. Ariana spent 3 of her allowance and had $10.00 remaining.
How much was her allowance?

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54. 6 - 7 =

55. Write the correct value in the box to complete the number sentence.

56. Arrange the values below in ascending order.

57. Write the numeral represented below.

58. Complete the statement below.

64 = _____2

59. Calculate 305 x 7

60. Divide 288 by 9.

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61. Write 5
as a mixed number.

5 1
62. 3 9 − 9
=

63. Draw a circle around the 4 that has the value of 4 tenths.
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64. Write ONE of the following symbols in the box below to make the number sentence correct.

65. Calculate 40% of 500.

66. Daniel used the coins and bills below to buy a T-shirt. What was the cost of the T-shirt?

67. Write the numeral for thirty-five thousand and ninety-six

68. The number 875 is increased by 625. What is the new number?

69. Divide 372 by 12.

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70. 7 of _____ = 19

71. Circle the number that is NOT a square number.

9 12 16 25

72. Calculate
11 2
12
− 3
=

73. Calculate
6
𝑥 84
7
47
74. Convert 5
to a mixed number

75. The maximum score on a spelling test was 50. Anika scored 60%. What was Anika’s score on
the test?

76. Sam bought two of the bottled water shown below. How much change did he receive from
$10.00?

SECTION II QUESTIONS

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78. Maria has 413 stamps. Her brother has 49 stamps fewer than she has. How many stamps do
they have ALTOGETHER?
79. The following diagram shows a wall that is to be covered with identical square tiles. The
shaded area is already tiled.

Express the area of the tiled portion as a decimal fraction of the area of the entire wall.

80. Express as a SINGLE decimal fraction:

81. Jerry has 40 stickers that are either red, yellow or blue in colour. There are 24 red ones and
equal numbers of blue and yellow.
Calculate the percentage of his stickers that are yellow.

82. Sasha used 55% of her savings to buy a game. She has $135 remaining. How much was her
savings before buying the game?

83. Brian and his father went fishing on the weekend (Saturday and Sunday). They caught 120
fishes on Saturday. Their catch decreased by 25% on Sunday.
How many fishes did they catch ALTOGETHER on the weekend?

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84. Mummy cuts 8 pizzas into SIXTHS. Kori gets 3 of ONE pizza. How many SIXTHS of pizza does
Mummy have remaining?

85.

86. Arrange the following numbers in ASCENDING order.

2 716, 2 617, 2 167, 2 176

87. Students of Standard 4 planted ochro plants for their CAC project. If the plants increased in
height by 0.25 metres every week, how many weeks would it take for the plants to grow to a
height of 1 metre?

88. There are 800 students in a school. If 320 are boys, what percentage of the students is girls?
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89. In Mrs. Chin’s class,3 of the students drank juice, of the remainder drank water and the others
drank soft drinks. In Mrs. Chin’s class, of the students drank juice, of the remainder drank
water and the others drank soft drinks? If there are 48 students in Mrs. Chin’s class, how
many students drank soft drinks?
90. In a school, each class has 7 charts to display on a notice board. Each chart must have 9
thumb tacks to support it.

a) How many thumb tacks are needed if three classes have to display their charts on the
notice board

b) The three classes have a total of 171 thumb tacks. How many charts could NOT be placed
on the notice board?

91. The square of a number is 9 less than the sum of 28 and 45.
What is the number?

92. A class of 50 students has to perform exercises in groups of 2 OR 3 students. The number of
groups with 2 students is the SAME as the number of groups with 3 students. Each group
must use 2 balls to perform its exercise. What is the TOTAL number of balls needed?

93.

94. Two-thirds of a number is 48.

What is three-quarters of the number?

95. Ryan picked a bucket of plums. He made 13 heaps. Each heap contained 6 plums and had 3
extra plums. How many plums did Ryan pick?

96. Pictures are numbered in sequence from 1 to 152. Zack is sticking 8 pictures in order on a
Bristol board to form posters.
On which poster will the picture numbered 60 be found?

97. Mr. Lewis needs to buy some materials. He receives the following cost statements from two
hardware stores, A and B, respectively.

The hardware store MUST transport the materials. Which hardware store offers Mr. Lewis the
better purchase?
98. A television costs $5 000. During a sale, it was marked down to $3 500.
What was the percentage discount on the television?

99. Jada is 9 years old. The sum of her parents’ ages is the square of Jada’s age. Her father is 11
years older than her mother.
How old is Jada’s mother?

100. A pattern is formed using dots as shown below.

How many dots will form Figure 6?

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101. Angeni shared a bag of mangoes with her friends. She gave 5 to Jenny and 3 of the
remainder to Paul.
What fraction of the mangoes did Angeni give her friends?

102. There are 300 students in an auditorium. Of these, 210 are boys. If 60% of the
students leave the auditorium, how many students are left?

103.

104. Two-fifths of a number is 36. What is half of the same number?

105. A bakery has two types of cupcake trays as shown below.

The bakery uses the same number of each type of tray to make 216 cupcakes. How many of
each type of tray are used?

106. A cinema has 7 rows. Each row has 20 seats. All of the seats in 6 rows were
completely occupied while 5 seats in the 7th row were not occupied.
How many seats were occupied altogether?
107. A pattern is formed using triangles as shown below.

How many triangles will form the 7th pattern?

108. Paula has 125 cupcakes of three different flavours: chocolate, strawberry and vanilla.
There are 45 strawberry cupcakes and an equal number of vanilla and chocolate cupcakes.
What percentage of the cupcakes are vanilla flavoured?

109. The sum of Harry, Peter and Celina’s ages is 45. Peter is 12 years older than Harry,
and Celina is 15 years older than Harry.
What is Celina’s age?

110. Eighteen identical tables fit exactly along the length of a hall. Each table measures 2.5
m in length.
What is the total length of the hall?

111. John has to do a book report on a book that contains 375 pages. He has finished
reading 225 pages of the book.
What percent of the book does he still have to read?

112. Darren filled boxes with tins of orange juice and numbered the boxes in the order in
which they were filled. He packed the 496th tin in Box 21 then stopped for lunch. Box 21 was
not completely filled.
How many tins were in Box 21?

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113. Sita has 36 marbles. She has 7 the number of marbles that Diana has. How many
marbles do they have altogether?
114. The prices of three different items are shown below.

Erin bought the items shown in the table below. Complete the table.

115.

116. At a school, 55% of the students are boys. All of the boys and 40% of the girls
participated in the school’s concert.
What percentage of the students participated in the school’s concert?

117. A farmer sold avocados over a period of 6 days. The number of avocados sold each
day follows a pattern as shown in the table below. The number of avocados sold on Day 5 and
Day 6 is not shown.

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118. Express
22
𝑥
15
in its lowest form.
119. Write the correct value in the box to complete the number sentence.

120. Angie, Keisha and Chen shared 125 stickers among themselves. Keisha and Chen
received an equal number of stickers and Angie received one less sticker. How many stickers
did Keisha receive?

121. What is the sum of the five smallest prime numbers?

122. On the grid shown below, 5 squares are shaded

How many more squares must be shaded for 60% of the grid to be shaded?

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123. Greg spent 3 of his allowance and loaned 2 of the remaining money to his friend. He
now has $20.00 remaining. How much money did Greg have a first?

124. Insert the possible values of the missing digits to complete the operation.

125. Andra needs to pay 2 sums of money, $75.00 and $54.00. She can use any number of
each bill shown below to the pay the exact amounts.

Which of the 2 sums of money can be paid using the fewer number of bills? Explain your
answer.

126. Each week, Imran read 3 books and Shiva read two more books than Imran. They read
96 books altogether during the same number of weeks. For how many weeks did they read?

127. Twenty per cent of Kyra’s savings is equal to 10% of Selena’s savings. What fraction of
their total savings belongs to Kyra?
128. Complete the bill shown below.

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129. A banner is painted in three colours, 5 blue,10 red and the remainder white. What
fraction of the banner is painted white?

130. Jerome has 17.5 m of rope to make swings. Each swing requires 2 m of rope. How
many swings can he make from the rope?

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131. One third of a number is 18. What is of the same number?
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132. . Jenny and Cindy picked 72 cherries altogether. Jenny picked 16 cherries more than
Cindy. How many cherries did each girl pick?

133. Maria and Sam bought the items shown below.

Calculate the TOTAL cost of one iPad, one smartwatch and one cellphone.

134. . Jessie has some marbles. The number of marbles he has is more than 50 but less
than 100. When the marbles are placed in groups of 10, there is a remainder of 3 and when
they are placed in groups of 6, there is a remainder of 1.

How many marbles does Jessie have?

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135. Two students were asked to use manipulatives to add 5 and 10. Fraction pieces and
counters were used as shown below.

Priya’s Fraction pieces

Sharda’s Counters

State which student’s manipulatives represent the correct solution, and explain why.

136. Write the following numbers in ascending order.

135.9 319.5 53.91 95.31

137. Write the correct number in each shape below to complete the number sentences.

138. The shaded fraction of the square represents 16 students in a class.

What is the total number of students in the class?

139. Anil’s age is a factor of 48. Seven years ago, his age was a multiple of 5. What is Anil’s
age now?

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140. Mr. Grant bought 48 m of wire. He used 16 of the wire to make basket frames. He cut
the remaining wire into equal lengths to make basket handles. Each basket handle was made
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with m of wire. How many basket handles did he make?
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141. The costs of rackets and balls are shown below.

Calculate the cost of 1 racket.

142. A vendor received a total of $125.00 from the sale of snow cones and ice cream
cones. The cost of a snow cone is $5.00 and the cost of an ice cream cone is $10.00. He sold 7
more snow cones than ice cream cones.
Calculate the total number of snow cones sold.

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143. Corey’s weekly allowance was $60.00. He received 8 of a weekly allowance for each of
the three additional chores he completed. Calculate Corey’s total allowance for the week.
 SECTION III QUESTIONS

144. In one day, Factory A produces 1 650 video games, while Factory B produces 123
FEWER video games than Factory A. In five days, Factory A produced 615 more video games
than Factory A. Factory A wants to increase its production by 10% a day. How many video
games should be produced to meet this target?

145. There are 450 mangoes and oranges in a fruit stall. There are twice as many mangoes
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as there are oranges. 3 of the oranges were green and the others were ripe. The vendor
decided to package the oranges in boxes of 24. How many boxes are needed to pack ALL the
oranges?

146. Omari bought some magnets and spinners. Each magnet cost $2.00 and each spinner
cost $4.00. He bought 7 more magnets than spinners and spent a total of $104.00.
How many magnets did he buy?

147. A family of 4 persons bought lunch from the menu.

The total bill was $125.00. Each person’s meal included a fruit punch. How many burger(s)
and salad(s) were bought?

148. Identical counters are used to form patterns in a sequence. The first four patterns are
shown below.

a) Determine the number of counters that will form the fifth pattern in the sequence.

b) Draw the fifth pattern in the sequence.

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149. There were 450 spectators at a cricket match. Of these, 5 were adults (men and
women) and the others were children (boys and girls). There were twice as many boys as girls.
The number of men was equal to half the number of girls.
How many women were at the cricket match?

150. Macy shared plastic bottles and straws between Group A and Group B. The number of
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bottles given to Group B was 3 the number given to Group A. For every 4 bottles Macy gave to
a group, she gave 5 straws.

Complete the table to show the number of plastic bottles and straws each group received.

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151. Indira had 90 pens. She kept 3 for herself and gave 4 of the remainder to Keone. She
shared the remaining pens between Alison and Yvette such that Alison received 9 more pens
than Yvette. How many pens did Alison receive?