2023 SCHOLASTIC CHAMPS MATHS COMPETITION

UPPER PRIMARY CATEGORY (FINAL ROUND)

INSTRUCTIONS: TIME: 40 Minutes
 Write all your answers on the ANSWER SCRIPT ONLY and not on your question paper.
 Any answer written on the question paper will attract no mark
 There are a total of 40 questions (20 objectives and 20 subjective). ANSWER ALL
SECTION A: OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS
1. 2016 hours are how many weeks? 2011 2012 2013
A) 6 B) 8 C) 10 D) 12 A) B) C)
1 2 3
E) 16 2014 2015
D) E)
2. Express 84 as a product of it’s prime 4 5
factors in index form.
A) 2²×3×7 B) 2²×5×7 C) 2³×3²
D) 2³×3×5×7 E) 2²×3³×5×7. 10. Which number could be added to this
spinner to make it more likely that the
3. Ruth takes part in the Scholastic maths spinner will land on an odd number than a
competition where 30 questions have to be prime number?
answered. She answers every question and
each answer is either right or wrong. She has
50% more right than wrong answers. How
many answers are right?
A) 10 B) 12 C) 15 D) 18 E) 20

4. Six(6) people meet for a particular

programme. Each person shakes hands with A. 3 B. 9 C. 5 D. 1 E) 4
every other person present. How many
handshakes took place? 11. In Roman numerals subtract XLII from
A) 24 B) 15 C) 30 D) 60 E) 6 XCIV.
A) L B) LII C) LIV D) LVII E) LIX
5. In a certain city, there are m men, f
women and k children. It is true that 12. For the real numbers a, b, c, d the
m:f=2:3 and f:k= 8:1. In what ratio is the following holds true: a + 5 = b2 – 1 =c2 + 3
number of adults (men and women) to the = d – 4. Which of the numbers a, b, c, d is
number of children? biggest?
A) 5:1 B)10:3 C)13:1 D) 12:1 E) 40:3 A) a B) b C) d E) It cannot be
6. The quotient of zero divided by a non- uniquely determined using this
zero number is: information.
A) Zero B) itself C) -1 D) 1 E) 2 13. The area of a trapezium can be
calculated using which of the formula
7. Which one statement is true?
A) Dividend = Divisor x Quotient + Remainder A) ½(a-b)h B) ½ ah C) ½ bh
B) Remainder = Divisor x Quotient + Dividend D) ½ (a-b)h E) ½(a+b)h
C) Quotient = Divisor x Dividend + Remainder
D) Divisor = Dividend x Quotient + Remainder 14. The owner of the plot faces a loss of 15% and
E) None of the above sells it at 18700. What should be the price at which
the plot should be sold to receive a profit of 15%?
1 1 A) Rs. 25800 B) Rs. 24300 C) Rs. 21500
8. Simplify –
3a 5a D) Rs. 2600 E) Rs.25300
1 2 3 5
A) B) C) D) E) 15. A rectangle has a perimeter of 276m.
15 a 15 a 6a 16 a
Find the length of the rectangle if its
1 breadth is 42m.
16 a A) 42m B) 45m C) 96m D) 138m E)
120m
9. Which of the following fractions is not a
whole number?
16. What is the value of 9 in the number
28. A trader has three pieces of cloth. One
4905.57?
A) 9000 B) 9 C) 90,000 D) 900 E) 90 piece is 125cm long. The second piece is
90cm and the third piece is 115cm long.
17. A line that touches two parts of the
circumference of a circle without passing What is the total length of the three pieces
through the center is called a/an ------- of cloth in meters?
A) arc B) chord C) radius
D) Semicircle E) Diameter 29. What is a quarter of half of 104?
18. Which number is an equal distance 30. Evaluate the value of 7 – 1 × 0 + 3² ÷
2 4
from and on the number line? 3
3 5
11 7 3 6 5 31. A student bought a computer for
A) B) C) D) E)
15 8 4 15 8 $100,000. How much will it cost in 2 years
if the rate of inflation is 5% per annum
19. In a mixed school of m students, there are
t girls. What fraction of the students are boys?
32. The radius of a bicycle wheel is 49cm.
A) m-t/m B) t-m/m C) m-t/mt
Find the distance moved by the wheel in 5
D) m/ m-t E) m/t
revolutions.
20. The number of white balls and red
balls in a jar is in the ratio of 3:2. If there 33. Express 0.020485 to 3 significant
are 9 white balls, how many balls are in figures
the jar altogether?
34. What is the minor angle between the
A) 6 B) 8 C) 10 D) 12 E) 15
hour and minute hands of a clock when it
21. Solve the equation 3a - 8 = -29 to is 11:15am?
determine the value of a
35. This comb is about 12 buttons long. How many
22. The average of 8, 3, y and 10 is 7.5. toothpicks long is the comb?
What is the value of y?

23. A number is multiplied by 5 and then 9

is subtracted from the result, giving 51.
What is the original number?
24. Calculate the volume of the triangular
prism below: 36. The area of a rectangle is 108cm2. If the length is
3 times the breadth, find the perimeter of the
rectangle.

37. Mr Kola received a container of fresh eggs. He

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sold of the eggs in the morning and sold another
3
320 eggs in the afternoon. At the end of the day, he
25. A herd of cows gives 4 litres of milk 1
found that of the eggs were not sold. How many
each day. But each cow gives one-third 4
of total milk each day. They give 24 eggs did he receive in the beginning?
litres milk in six days. How many cows
are there in the herd? 38. Add two-third of an hour to 7:30am

26. A man bought a thousand eggs. He 39. Katrin has 38 matches. She uses all the matches
sold thirteen dozen in one market and
and makes a triangle and a square. The triangle and
then fifteen dozen. How many had he left?
the square do not share any matches. Each side of
27. The sum of two numbers is 40 and one the triangle consists of 6 matches. One side of the
of them is 2 more than the other. What is square is made of how many matches?
the larger number?
40. A cake weighs 900g. Paul cuts it into 4 pieces. other three pieces together. How much does the
The biggest piece weights exactly as much as the biggest piece weigh?