CREST Mathematics Olympiad (CMO)

Previous Year Paper (2022-23)

Class 1 (Set - A)
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 Practical Mathematics (Each Question is 1 Mark)

1. A clock shows the time as 7:30. At this a. Angelina, one hour

time the hour hand is between which of b. Angelina, one and a half hour
the two numbers? c. Andrea, one hour
d. Andrea, one and a half hour
a. 6 and 7 b. 5 and 6
c. 7 and 8 d. 3 and 4 7. Which of the following options has the
same value as the following?
2. The length of a house is 7 m more than
its breadth. The breadth of the house is 4 tens 3 ones - 2 tens 12 ones
15 m. Find the length of the house:
a. 10 tens + 1 ones
a. 15 m b. 7 m b. 11 ones
c. 22 m d. 24 m c. 1 tens + 1 ones
d. b and c
3. Look at the image given below and
solve: 8. Fill in the blank:

32, 36, 40, 44, ____, 52

a. 46 b. 48
c. 50 d. 45

9. Nicky is given pocket money of 20

a. 1 g b. 4 g cents every week. What amount of
c. 6 g d. 12 g money will she have at the end of the
month if the month has 4 weeks.
4. Weight of a mother elephant and its
baby is 98 kg and 43 kg respectively. a. 100 cents b. 80 cents
How much heavier is the mother than c. 60 cents d. 70 cents
the baby?
10. Fill in the blank:
a. 141 kg b. 105 kg
c. 72 kg d. 55 kg The shape of the given object
resembles a ____________.
5. Oliver pays $100 for a smart watch
costing $75 at a toy store. How much
money should he receive back?

a. $175 b. $35
c. $25 d. $125 a. triangle b. circle
c. square d. rectangle
6. Andrea reached a shopping mall in two
and a half hours whereas Angelina 11. Pia has 6 packets of chips. Her friend
reached the shopping mall in one hour. Terry asks for 2 packets of chips. How
Who took more time and by how many packets of chips will be left with
much? Pia after giving it to Terry?

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 a. 2 b. 4 many lollipops does she have
c. 6 d. 8 altogether?

12. There are 17 candies in a jar. Andry a. 11 b. 28

ate 9 of them. How many candies are c. 45 d. 43
left in the jar?
18. Which number represents 17 tens 22
a. 6 b. 7 ones?
c. 8 d. 9

13. How many triangles are there in the

picture? a. 184 b. 168

c. 148 d.
192
a. 2 b. 3
c. 4 d. 0

14. Which of these objects is the lightest? 19. What will come in place of '?'

a. b.
a. b.

c. d.

20. How many butterflies are there in all?

c. d.

15. In a class there are 13 boys and 15

girls. How many students are there
altogether?

a. 29 b. 26 a. 16 b. 15
c. 27 d. 28 c. 14 d. 17

16. Which of these is the smallest? 21. Complete the series

a. 18 tens 12 ones - 14 tens 2 ones 13, ____, 17, 19, 21

b. 17 tens 3 ones - 12 tens 8 ones
c. 16 tens 4 ones - 12 tens 2 ones a. 14 b. 15
d. 19 tens 8 ones - 12 tens 4 ones c. 16 d. 18

17. Winnie has 28 lollipops. Her 22. Harry has ten different coloured
grandfather gives her 17 lollipops. How candies, while Alex has five different

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 coloured candies. How many candies a. 6 b. 16
did they have in total? c. 18 d. 24

a. 10 b. 12 25. Sia visited a bird sanctuary. How many

c. 15 d. 16 penguin groups are there in the image?

23. Neo buys three pizzas, each has three

slices. How many slices are there in
total?

a. 9 b. 6
c. 4 d. 3

24. Leo found two spiders in his home. a. 2 b. 3

How many legs do two spiders have c. 4 d. 5
together?

Achievers’ Section (Each Question is 2 Marks)

26. Mrs. Anderson wishes to have her son's
shorts shortened. As a result, she went
to the tailor. The shorts are 15 inches
long when they should be 12 inches.
How many inches should the shorts be
trimmed?
29. Andy's summer vacations begin on the
second Wednesday in the month of
May. The date mentioned in her ticket
to Washington DC is on the third day
after her vacations begin. What is the
date mentioned in her ticket?

a. 2 b. 3
c. 4 d. 5

27. The train to Paris was supposed to leave

London at 8 a.m., but it was delayed by
one hour. When will the train arrive in
Paris if the trip usually takes about 2
hours?
a. 4 b. 11
a. 10 a.m. b. 11 a.m.
c. 18 d. 25
c. 12 p.m. d. 1 p.m.
30. Which of these will be ideally measured
28. Alice has 50 chocolates. Her friend
in kilometres?
gave her 2 more chocolates. How
many chocolates she has now?
a. Length of a safety pin
b. Distance between two cities
a. 52 b. 48
c. Length of a brick
c. 46 d. 51
d. Length of cloth

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 31. Find the difference between the 34. As seen in the image, Penguin is
greatest and smallest number in the teaching a class about shapes. How
given picture: many of the shapes in the image have
only three sides?

a. 84 b. 65 a. 1 b. 2
c. 86 d. 63 c. 3 d. 0

32. Serena wants to buy a tennis racket 35. Anna is drawing a lovely house on a
and a box of 5 tennis balls. How much white sheet. How many circles did she
amount will she have to pay? draw?

$120
$20

a. $220 b. $100
c. $120 d. $200

33. The ice cream shop has four tables,

each with three seats. How many seats a. 1 b. 2
are there in the ice cream shop? c. 3 d. 4

a. 7 b. 9
c. 12 d. 14

Answer Key
1. c 2. c 3. c 4. d 5. c 6. d 7. d 8. b 9. b 10. d
11. b 12. c 13. a 14. b 15. d 16. c 17. c 18. d 19. d 20. a
21. b 22. c 23. a 24. b 25. b 26. b 27. b 28. a 29. b 30. b
31. c 32. a 33. c 34. a 35. b

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