2019 ~ 2020 UPPER PRIMARY DIVISION FIRST ROUND PAPER

Questions 1-10, 3 marks each

1. What is the simplified value of 2.5 3.2 0.76 12.5?
（A）0.76 （B）7.6 （C）76 （D）176 （E）760

2. The purchase volume of apples in a hypermarket is 1560 kg, and it is three times
that of pears. What is the total purchase amount of apples and pear, in kg, of that
hypermarket?
（A）520 （B）2080 （C）2180 （D）4680 （E）6240

3. Which of the following statements is correct for the approximation of the

"rounding method"?
（A）When representing approximations of numbers, 3.00 is the same as 3.0.
（B）The approximation 4.0 is as precise as 4.
（C）The result in approximation of 2.019 0.5 to the nearest thousandth is
1.009.
（D）If the approximate value of a certain number is 3, then this number must
be less than 3.05.
（E）The approximation of repeating decimal number 2.019 2.019019... to the
fifth place after the decimal point is 2.01902.

4. Which of the following statements is correct?

（A）The quotient of the dividend divided by the divisor must be less than the
dividend.
（B）The quotient obtained when the dividend is divided by the divisor must be
greater than the dividend.
（C）The quotient obtained when a number is divided by 0.4 must be greater
than this number.
（D）If both the dividend and divisor are greater than 0, then when the divisor is
doubled, the quotient is doubled.
（E）If both the dividend and divisor are greater than 0, and if the quotient is
less than the dividend, then the divisor must be greater than 1.

5. Use “ < ” to connect 12.521 , 12.521 , 12.521, 12.522.

Which of the following statement is correct?
（A）12.521 12.521 12.521 12.522 （B）12.521 12.521 12.522 12.521
（C）12.521 12.521 12.522 12.521 （D）12.521 12.521 12.521 12.522
（E）12.521 12.521 12.521 12.522
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6. The following table records the number of students in a certain primary six class
in their mathematics mid-term exam.
90~99 80~89 70~79 60~69 Below 60
Score 100 points
points points points points points
No. of students 3 8 16 6 4 3
If the score of a student in this examination is more than 79 points, he/she will
receive a gift. What is the percent rate of the students that will receive a gift in
Number of students receiving gift
the mid-term exam? Percent Rate
Total number of students in the class
（A）40% （B）60% （C）67.5% （D）82.5% （E）92.5%

7. There are 110 meters of blue cloth, capable of making 22 sets of adult uniforms.
After making 15 sets, the remaining cloth is just enough for 10 children's
uniforms. How much less cloth, in meters, does a child uniform use than an adult
uniform?
（A）1 （B）1.5 （C）2 （D）2.5 （E）3

8. A classroom is 8 m long, 6 m wide and 4 m high. Jose wants to paint the ceiling
and surrounding walls of the classroom, but the door and window with a total
area of 22 m2 will not be painted. What is the total area that needs to be painted?
（A）138 （B）160 （C）186 （D）192 （E）208

9. A two-digit prime number has two distinct digits. When the two digits are
swapped, one gets another prime number. How many such two-digit primes are
there?
（A）2 （B）4 （C）6 （D）8 （E）10

10. In a division of positive integers, the quotient is 24 and the remainder is 42.
When the divisor takes the smallest possible value, what is the dividend?
（A）1008 （B）1032 （C）1050 （D）1074 （E）2019

Questions 11-20, 4 marks each

11. It is known that a three-digit number 2ab is divisible by 6. What is the

maximum possible value of a b ?
（A）14 （B）15 （C）16 （D）17 （E）18
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12. How many parallelograms with sides on the grid lines are there in the figure
below?

（A）6 （B）8 （C）10 （D）13 （E）15

13. The same number of white and black balls are placed in a box. In one operation,
five white balls and three black balls were taken out from the box. After several
operations, there were zero white balls and only 6 black balls left in the box.
How many operations was performed?
（A）3 （B）4 （C）5 （D）6 （E）7

14. In the figure below, the distance between two adjacent vertices is 1 cm. What is
the area of the shaded portion of the figure, in cm2?

（A）7.5 （B）8 （C）8.5 （D）9 （E）9.5

15. The side length of square ABCD is 6 cm, while that of square CEFG and CPQR
are both 4 cm, as shown in the figure. What is the area, in cm2, of the shaded
portion?
A B
P Q

D G R
C

F E
（A）32 （B）36 （C）40 （D）42 （E）48
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16. There are three kinds of lunch boxes in the school cafeteria, the prices are $15,
$13 and $11, respectively. At a certain day noon time, the total income of the
cafeteria from selling lunch boxes was $2019. How many lunch boxes might the
cafeteria sold at noon time on that day?
（A）105 （B）130 （C）155 （D）185 （E）205

17. Each square in the figure below is filled with a positive integer so that the sum of

each (five squares) is divisible by 3.

1
B 2 A 4
D 3 C 5
E
What is the minimum value of A B C D E?
（A）3 （B）6 （C）8 （D）9 （E）15

18. As shown in the figure below, an ant starting from vertex A of the cuboid needs
to move along the edges to reach its destination, vertex B. If the ant can only pass
through three edges, how many possible paths can the ant crawl to reach the
destination?

（A）3 （B）6 （C）9 （D）12 （E）15

19. Given a concave quadrilateral, draw a sector with radius of 5 cm from each of the
four vertices as shown below. What is the area, in cm2, of these four sectors?
(Assume 3.14 )

（A）39.25 （B）78.5 （C）157 （D）235.5 （E）Undetermined

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20. There is a conical wheat heap on the yard, which weighs about 10 385.55 kg.
If the bottom circumference is 18.84 m, the weigh of the wheat is 735 kg per m3.
What is the approximate distance, in m, from top of the heap to the ground?
(Assume 3.14 )
Distance from the
ground to the top

（A）0.5 （B）0.8 （C）1 （D）1.2 （E）1.5

Questions 21-25, 6 marks each

21. It is known 34, 40 and 28 divided by a positive integer give the same remainder.
What is the maximum possible value of this positive integer?

22. A pile of 54 cards contains a complete set of playing cards with two “ghost”
cards. It is known that on top of the pile is “King heart”. If in each operation the
top 4 cards are moved to the bottom without changing their order and direction.
At least how many operations will it take such that “King heart” appears on the
top again?

23. There is a series of integers: 1, 1, 3, 5, 11, 21, 43, 85, 171, 341, 683, 1365,
2731, ... , this series has totally 109 numbers, and starting from the third number,
each term is sum of the last number before it and twice the second last number
before it. If we divide these 109 integers by 7, we get 109 remainders. What is
the sum of all these remainders?

24. Suppose a, b, c, d , e, f , g , h, i, j is an arrangement of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,

9, 10 with different letters representing different numbers. At most how many of
a b c d e f g h i j
the ten fractions , , , , , , , , , can be reduced to integer
b c d e f g h i j a
values?

25. Arrange all positive integers less than 30 and not divisible by 3 in a line,
calculate the reciprocal of the product of every three successive numbers, then
add the reciprocals to obtain S, that is;
1 1 1
S ... .
1 2 4 2 4 5 26 28 29
What is the numerator of S reduced to the simplest fraction?
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