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QUALIFYING TEST
FOR
PRIMARY SCHOOL
NATIONAL MATHEMATICS CAMP
2019
11 MARCH 2019
1 hour 30 minutes
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3. Four students A, B, C and D stand facing each other in a circle and each
student puts on a colour hat. These hats have been randomly chosen from
2 red, 2 yellow and 2 green hats. Each student can only see the other
three students’ hats.
A says : “I do not see a green hat.”
B says : “I see two students wearing the same colour hats.”
C says : “I see three different colour hats.”
D says : “Neither A nor C is wearing a red hat.”
What colour hat is each student wearing?
A B C
5. There are ten cards with numbers 1 to 10. Ben takes two cards each time
without repetition and computes the difference by using the larger
number minus the smaller number. What is the maximum possible sum of
the five differences?
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
7. Suppose all the counting numbers are written in columns in the pattern
shown. Name the letter of the column in which the number 2019 will
appear.
A B C D E F G
1 2 3 4
7 6 5
8 9 10 11
14 13 12
: : : :
: : :
8. 729 small cubes are used to make a larger cube that measures 9 × 9 × 9.
The external faces of the larger cube are painted red and the cube is
dismantled.
How many of the small cubes will have exactly two faces painted red?
10. Sunil and Raju shared a total of 45 books. When their teacher gave each
of them 9 more books, Sunil had 25% more books than Raju. Find the
number of books Raju has at first.
11. Fill the number 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 in the circle as shown in the diagram
such that the sum of the four numbers in the circle, horizontal straight
line and the three numbers on the vertical straight line are equal. What is
the possible number in circle “A”?
14. 2019 pencils are divided among a number of children so that each child
gets at least one pencil and all children get a different number of pencils.
What is the maximum number of pencils that one of the children can get?
16. Two cubes are joined together as shown below. An ant wants to crawl
from point A to point B and it can only crawl along the edges. Find the
number of shortest paths for the ant to reach point B.
17. Arun, Burhan and Chee were given some funfair tickets to sell. Each
ticket was priced at RM6. Burhan sold 2 of the tickets. Arun and Chee
3
sold the remaining tickets in the ratio of 1 : 2 respectively. Burhan sold
70 tickets more than Arun. How much money did they collect altogether?
19. Sherry has a 5 x 5 square grid in her garden which she is trying to place
as many flower pots as possible.
No more than one flower pot may be placed on any square and no more
than four pots on any row, column or diagonal. What is the maximum
number of flower pots she can place in this way?
20. Three grades of coffee powder priced at RM6, RM9 and RM12 per
kilogram are mixed in the ratio 3 : 5 : 7 respectively. Find the cost of
10 kilogram of this mix coffee powder.
22. Three waitresses, Kim, Winnie and Anne, were supposed to share equally
1
the tips in a container. At the end of a working day, Kim took of the
3
tips from the container and left. Winnie, who did not realize that Kim
1
had taken her share, took of the remaining money from the container.
3
After that, Anne, who did not know that her friends had taken their
1
share, came to the container and took of the remaining money; leaving
3
behind RM 18 for her friends. What was the total amount of tips in the
container in the beginning?
23. Diagram below shows three squares, I, II and III. The area of square I
is 36 cm2 and the area of square II is 64 cm2.
I
III
II
25. Mr. Azmi wrote a set of consecutive numbers on the whiteboard, starting
from 1. He then erased one number from the set and the average of the
10
remaining numbers is 38 . What number is erased?
37
26.
You are in box 1 and may go directly from a box to any other adjacent
box of a higher number. Thus, from box 1 you have one way to get to box
2, but two ways to get to box 5 ( 1 5 or 1 2 5 ). With these
restriction, in how many different ways can you go from box 1 to box 10?
If the plane continues to fly at the same speed, find the distance, in km,
from Kuala Lumpur to Kota Kinabalu.
[Ignore the take-off and landing time for the plane.]
28. ABCD is a rectangle with sides 8 cm and 6 cm. AC, AF, BD, BF, CE and DE
are straight lines. Point E and Point F are the midpoints of AB and CD
respectively. Find the area, in cm2, of the shaded region.
30. A rubber ball falls vertically from the roof of a house, at a height of
4
10m. After each impact on the ground it bounces back up to of its
5
previous height. How many times will the ball appear in front of a
rectangular window whose top edge is at a height of 6m and the bottom
edge is at a height of 5m from the ground?
School : ________________________________________________________
District : _________________________ State : __________________
For For
No Answer No Answer
Examiner Examiner
1 16 paths
2 17 RM
A: B:
3 18
C: D:
4 RM 19 flower pots
5 20 RM
6 21 ways
7 Column 22 RM
8 small cubes 23 cm
9 RM 24 pupils
10 books 25
11 26 ways
12 pupils 27 km
13 triangles 28 cm2
14 pencils 29
15 30 times