Primary 2 (Grade 2) Practice Set 1

Question 1
Count the number of blocks in the following picture.

A. 15
B. 18
C. 20
D. 21
E. 24

Question 2
Count the number of triangles in the picture.

A. 5
B. 6
C. 4
D. 3
E. 9

Question 3
Suzy has five kids. Amy is older than Beth but younger than Carla. David is older
than Erwin but younger than Beth. Who is the eldest child?
A. Amy
B. Beth
C. Carla
D. David
E. Erwin

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Questions 4
Sarah’s birthday falls on the 6th of September each year. Today is 27th July and a
Sunday. What day will be Sarah’s birthday this year?
A. Thursday
B. Saturday
C. Sunday
D. Monday
E. Friday

Question 5
On the number table of 1-100, we finally reached 50 after we added 72 and
subtracted 36 from the original number. What is the original number?
A. 86
B. 14
C. 48
D. 50
E. 84

Question 6
How many whole numbers are there which are less than 300 and their digits add up
to 5?
A. 18
B. 10
C. 12
D. 15
E. 14

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Question 7
Roy walks 10 m to his school and then continues the remaining three-fourths of the
whole journey by bus. How far is Roy’s school from his house?
A. 134 m
B. 100 m
C. 30 m
D. 40 m
E. 400 m

Question 8
ABCD is a square with an area of 72 m2. It is further divided into 9 smaller squares
with equal areas. Find the area of 5 such smaller squares, in m2.
A. 36
B. 40
C. 45
D. 50
E. 52

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Question 9
A 1-litre bottle was filled up using a 150-ml and a 50-ml jug. Both jugs were poured
thrice into the empty 1-litre bottle. How much more liquid can be poured into the
bottle to fill it to the brim?
A. 600 ml
B. 650 ml
C. 450 ml
D. 400 ml
E. 500 ml

Question 10
If all alphabets are represented by a number starting with A=1, B=2, C=3, and so
on, find the sum of the digits represented by the word SMART .
(Note: DOG is written as 4157)
A. 20
B. 24
C. 26
D. 28
E. 30

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Question 11
How many times do the hour and minute hands cross an even number on the clock
from 1 a.m. to 1 p.m.?

A. 70
B. 72
C. 78
D. 76
E. 80

Question 12
Find the sum:
4 +16+24 +36+ 44+56
A. 160
B. 170
C. 180
D. 190
E. 200

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Question 13
A fan has three blades. How many blades will there be in 150 such fans?
A. 450
B. 150
C. 500
D. 50
E. 45

Question 14
The sum obtained after we add double of 25 to one-third of 21 is subtracted from
100. What is the final number in the end?
A. 60
B. 29
C. 43
D. 57
E. 71

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Question 15
What number has 2 hundreds, 5 more tens than 20 and 1 less than 7?
A. 251
B. 272
C. 276
D. 271
E. 254

Question 16
Harry scored 3 more marks than Alwin. Sophia scored the same as Harry. The sum
of their scores was 51. How many marks did Alwin score?

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Question 17
Alice picked two cards from a 52-card deck such that the sum of the numbers on the
two cards was 15. Find how many combinations she may have. (In the deck of
cards, A=1, J=11, Q=12 , K=13 while the remaining cards are numbers 2 to 10)

Question 18
Five students entered a contest where they had to guess the number of candies in a
box. Alan guessed 25 candies while Beth guessed 30. Charles guessed 27 and David
guessed 35. Roma was declared the winner. One of the 4 students guessed 4 more
than Roma’s number while another student guessed 4 less than hers. What was the
number guessed by Roma?

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Question 19
Ayer and Kumar tossed a coin. Ayer wins if it is a head while Kumar wins if it is a
tail. The winner gets 3 marbles from the loser. Both had 20 marbles each in the
beginning. They played 10 rounds and Ayer won 4 rounds. What is the total number
of marbles Kumar had in the end?

Question 20
The place cards shown are folded along the dotted line so that only a number or
letter is visible. Chrissy enters the room and sees all five place cards, with at least 2
number cards being shown. The sum of numbers that she sees is less than 8. How
many different sets of numbers are there?

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Question 21
If the digits of a two-digit number are reversed to form a new number, the
difference between the two numbers will be 45. How many different such pairs are
there?

Question 22
Harry wrote 1, 2, 3, 11, 22, 33, 111, 222, 333, … until he got 17 numbers. What is
the sum of the digits of the last number he wrote?

Question 23
A jar of 30 chocolates is shared among Ann, Alice, and Alisha. Alice takes more than
anyone else. What is the least number of chocolates she could have taken?

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Question 24
Few kids were playing cricket. Each of them carried 4 balls. While playing, 17 balls
were hit outside the ground and lost. In the end, they were left with a total of 55
balls. How many kids were playing together?

Question 25
Patrick started jumping every day. He jumped 10 times on Day 1. He jumped 8 more
times on Day 2 than on Day 1. He jumped 8 more times on Day 3 than on Day 2.
Every day, he continued to jump 8 more times than the previous day. Which day will
be the first day when he would have jumped at least 100 times in one day?

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 Solutions to Practice Set 1

Question 1
The first picture has 4 blocks in the lower layer, 2 blocks in the second layer and 1
block in the upper layer. So, the total number of blocks in the first picture =
4 +2+1=7 . There are three identical pictures, so the total number of blocks =
7 ×3=21.

Answer: D

Question 2
There are 2 big triangles and 3 small triangles formed by overlapping triangles.
So, the total number of triangles is 2+3=5.
Answer: A

Question 3
Amy>Beth, Carla>Amy, David>Erwin, Beth> David
Carla>Amy>Beth>David>Erwin
Answer: C

Question 4
Every one week or 7 days later will return to the same day.
There are 4 days from 28th July to 31st July; 31 days in August; 6 days from 1 st
September to 6th September.
There are 4 +31+6=41 days after the 27th of July, Sunday.
41 ÷ 7=5 R 6 implies that 41 days later will be 5 weeks and 6 days after Sunday.

5 weeks after Sunday is still Sunday and 6 days after Sunday is Saturday.
Answer: B

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Question 5
Working backwards:
50+36−72=14
Answer: B

Question 6
Numbers with their digits adding up to 5 can be obtained in the following ways:
One-digit number - 5 1 number
Two-digit numbers - 14, 23, 32, 41, 50 5 numbers
Three-digit numbers - 104, 113, 122,131, 140, 203, 212, 221, 230 9 numbers
1+5+9=15 numbers are possible.

Answer: D

Question 7
Using a visual representation:

Since Roy travels three-fourths of the whole journey by bus, he walks the remaining
one-fourth of the whole journey by foot.
1 unit = 10 m
4 units = 10 × 4=40 m
Answer: D

Question 8
Since a square is divided into 9 smaller squares, so is the area.
Area of each smaller square = 72 ÷ 9=8 m2.
Therefore, the area of 5 such smaller squares = 5 ×8=40 m2
Answer: B

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Question 9
1st jug: 150 ×3=450 ml
2nd jug: 50 ×3=150 ml
The 2 jugs filled up 450 ml+150 ml=600 ml of the bottle.
So, 1000−600=400 ml more liquid can be poured into the bottle.
Answer: D

Question 10
Since A=1, B=2, C=3, …, Y =25, Z=26
S=19, M =13 , A=1, R=18, T =20
SMART represents the number 191311820.

Sum of digits = 1+9+1+3+ 1+ 1+ 8+2+0=26

Answer: C

Question 11
Hour hand crosses 6 even numbers, i.e. 2 , 4 , 6 , 8 , 10 ,12 in a 12-hour period.
Minute hand crosses 6 even numbers, i.e. 2 , 4 , 6 , 8 , 10 ,12 once every hour. Therefore
in 12 hours, it crosses an even number for 12 ×6=72 times.
Thus, both hands cross an even number 72+6=78 times altogether.
Answer: C

Question 12
Regrouping strategy:
(4+16)+(24+36)+(44 +56)=20+60+ 100=180

Answer: C

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Question 13
Total number of blades ¿ 150 ×3=450
Answer: A

Question 14
Double of 25=50 , one third of 21=7
50+7=57
100 – 57=43
Answer: C

Question 15
2 hundreds=200
5 more tens than 20=5 tens+20=50+20=70
1 less than7=7−1=6
200+70+ 6=276
Answer: C

Question 16
Let Alwin’s score be 1 unit ; Harry’s and Sophia’s score be 1 unit+ 3 respectively:
1 unit+ ( 1unit +3 )+ (1 unit +3 ) =51
3 units+6=51
3 units=51−6=45
1 unit=45 ÷ 3=15
Answer: 15

Question 17
We need two numbers from 1 to 13 that add up to 15.
There are 6 possible combinations:
2+13, 3+12, 4 +11, 5+10, 6+ 9, 7+ 8

Answer: 6

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Question 18
Since 31 is the common answer obtained after adding 4 and subtracting 4 from
Charles’ and David’s numbers respectively, Roma must have guessed 31.

Student Number +4 -4
Guessed
Alan 25 29 21

Charles 27 31 23

Beth 30 34 26

David 35 39 31

Answer: 31

Question 19
Kumar had 20 marbles at first.
Ayer won 4 rounds and so, Kumar gave Ayer 4 ×3=12marbles.
Kumar won 6 rounds and so, he received 6 ×3=18 marbles from Ayer.
At the end of 10 rounds, he had 20−12+ 18=26 marbles.
Answer: 26

Question 20
There are 8 possibilities that Chrissy has seen 2 number cards:
(1,2), (1,3), (1,4), (1,5), (2,3), (2,4), (2,5), (3,4)
There are 2 possibilities that Chrissy has seen 3 number cards:
(1,2,3), (1,2,4)
Thus, there are altogether 8+2=10 different sets of numbers.
Answer: 10

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Question 21

A pictorial representation would be helpful:

Since the ones and tens digits are reversed and the difference A B
between the original number and the new number is 45, we notice - B A
that the difference between the tens digit and the ones digit must 4 5
be 5.
Thus, B and A may be:
(0,5),(1,6),(2,7),(3,8),(4,9)
So, the corresponding numbers can be sets of any of the following numbers:
(50,05),(61,16),(72,27),(83,38),(94,49)
Answer: 5

Question 22
The strategy here is to identify which digit will be repeated in the 17 th number and
by how many times. Since the pattern repeats only for numbers 1, 2 and 3 making a
group of 3 numbers each. We find that 17 ÷ 3=5 R 2.
So, after 5 sets i.e. the 16th number will have only 1’s and the 17th number will have
only 2’s.
Also, take note that 1st set has one digit each, 2nd set has 2 digits each, and so on.
So, the 6th set that includes the 17th number will have 6 digits each.
The 17th number will be 222222 and the sum of digits is 2 ×6=12.
Answer: 12

Question 23
30 ÷ 3=10
However, if Alice takes 10 chocolates, Ann and Alisha will take at most 9 chocolates
each. The total number of chocolates will then be only 10+9+ 9=28 .
If Alice takes 11 chocolates, Ann and Alisha will take 10 and 9 chocolates
respectively. The total number of chocolates will then be exactly 11+10+ 9=30 .
Thus, Alice could have taken at least 11 chocolates.
Answer: 11

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Question 24
Total number of balls at first = 55+17=72
Since each kid carried 4 balls, the number of kids = 72 ÷ 4=18
Answer: 18

Question 25
Strategy: Make a table

Day Pattern Number of Jumps

1 10 10
2 10+8 18
3 10+8+ 8=10+ 8× 2 26
4 10+8+ 8+8=10+8 ×3 34
5 10+8 × 4 42
6 10+8 × 5 50
7 10+8 × 6 58
8 10+8 × 7 66
9 10+8 × 8 74
10 10+8 × 9 82
11 10+8 × 10 90
12 10+8 × 11 98
13 10+8 × 12 106
Thus, Patrick jumped more than 100 times on the 13th day.
Answer: 13

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