Primary 2 (Grade 2) - GEP Practice: Contest Problems With Full Solutions
Primary 2 (Grade 2) - GEP Practice: Contest Problems With Full Solutions
2020
Contest Problems with Full Solutions
Authors:
Henry Ong, BSc, MBA, CMA
Merlan Nagidulin, BSc
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SASMO 2020, Primary 2 (Grade 2) Contest Questions
Section A (Correct answer – 2 points| No answer – 0 points| Incorrect answer – minus 1 point)
Question 1
A. 40
B. 38
C. 48
D. 36
E. None of the above
Question 2
The shapes below formed a pattern. Observe carefully and find out the two missing
shapes.
? ?
A.
,
B.
,
C.
,
D.
,
E None of the above
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Question 3
How many months of the year have exactly 30 days?
A. 4
B. 5
C. 12
D. 11
E. None of the above
Question 4
A B C
D E
Question 5
A. 3
B. 5
C. 11
D. 2
E. None of the above
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Question 6
Anastacia bought one blue and one red dress. The blue dress costs $100 more than
the red one. If she spent $110 in total, how much did the red dress cost?
A. $10
B. $5
C. $105
D. $110
E. None of the above
Question 7
A. 12
B. 17
C. 18
D. 19
E. None of the above
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Question 8
Samuel was 7 years old 5 years ago. His brother David is 2 years older than him.
How old will David be 4 years from now?
A. 13
B. 14
C. 16
D. 17
E. None of the above
Question 9
It is given that
A. 11
B. 8
C. 3
D. 5
E. None of the above
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Question 10
Daniel had 6 apples fewer than Laura. After each of them sold 5 apples, they have a
total of 36 apples. How many apples does Daniel have now?
A. 20
B. 15
C. 26
D. 21
E. None of the above
Question 11
If the volume of the kettle is 1200 ml, what is the volume of the stewpan?
A. 1500 ml
B. 1450 ml
C. 1600 ml
D. 400 ml
E. None of the above
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Question 12
A B C D E
Question 13
A two-digit number can be divided by both 3 and 5. It is also an even number. How
many such numbers are there?
A. 3
B. 30
C. 6
D. 43
E. None of the above
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Question 14
Aria, Evelyn and Camila sit at a round table. They study in primary 2, 3 and 4. The
primary 4 girl is on Camila’s left. The primary 3 girl is on Aria’s right. Who is the
primary 2 girl?
A. Aria
B. Evelyn
C. Camila
D. Impossible to determine
E. None of the above
Question 15
Which picture below can form the pyramid shown on the
right?
A B C
D E
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Question 16
29 + 37 + 76 + 63 + 24 + 45 + 61 + 55
Question 17
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Question 18
The picture graph below shows the number of cookies that were sold yesterday in
Tasty Bakery. How many cookies did Tasty Bakery sell yesterday altogether?
Chocolate Chip
Oatmeal Raisin
Peanut Butter
Almond
Question 19
3 × 13 + 5 × 13 = 𝐴 × 8
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Question 20
Trevor made number 2020 using 22 matchsticks as shown below. What is the
smallest whole number he can construct using exactly 27 matchsticks?
Question 21
What number am I?
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Question 22
Question 23
There are 8 cows and chickens altogether in a barn. The total number of legs of all
the cows and chickens is 26. How many chickens are there in the barn?
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Question 24
There are 11 green, 5 red and 7 yellow apples in a basket. Isabella wants to take 3
red apples from the basket without looking. What is the smallest number of apples
she needs to take out to make sure that she gets 3 red apples?
Question 25
In the following, all the different letters stand for different digits.
C O R
+ O R
R E E F
END OF PAPER
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SASMO 2020, Primary 2 (Grade 2) Contest Solutions
Question 1
There are 6 × 2 = 12 dots on top and bottom of the figure, 2 × 7 = 14 dots in middle
of the figure. Thus, there are altogether 12 + 12 + 14 = 𝟑𝟖 dots in the figure.
Answer: (B)
Question 2
The pattern is → → → → .
Question 3
February has either exactly 28 days in a non-leap year or exactly 29 days in a leap
year. January, March, May, July, August, October and December have exactly 31 days.
April, June, September and November have exactly 30 days. Thus, there are 4 months
in a year that have exactly 30 days.
Answer: (A)
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Question 4
The correct keyhole should contain 3 indents (“bumps”) on
one side and one indent on the other side as shown on the
right. The indent on the left side of the keyhole is somewhere
in between the largest and the 2nd largest indents on the opposite side. Only option
E matches those indents.
Answer: (E)
Question 5
The pattern is as follows:
−3 −6 −9 −12 −15
47 → 44 → 38 → 29 → 17 → 𝟐,
where each subtracted number is 3 more than the previous one.
The next number in the sequence is 2.
Answer: (D)
Question 6
Let the cost of the red dress be 1 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡. Then the cost of the blue dress is
(1 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡 + 100). It is given that
1 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡 + (1 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡 + 100) = 110
2 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑠 + 100 = 110
2 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑠 = 110 − 100 = 10
1 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡 = 10 ÷ 2 = $𝟓
Answer: (B)
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Question 7
Let us count the cubes on each stack from left to right.
There are 2 cubes in the 1st stack.
There are 4 cubes in the 2nd stack.
There are 5 cubes in the 3rd stack.
There are 7 cubes in the 4th stack.
In total, there are 2 + 4 + 5 + 7 = 𝟏𝟖 cubes.
Answer: (C)
Question 8
Since Samuel was 7 years old 5 years ago, Samuel is 7 + 5 = 12 years old now.
As Samuel’s brother, David is 2 years older than him, David is 12 + 2 = 14 years old
now.
Answer: (E)
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Question 9
As per the figure above, since the value of is 11, the value of is 14 − 11 =
𝟑.
Answer: (C)
Question 10
As each of them sold the same number of apples, the difference between their number
of apples remains the same before and after selling the apples.
Let the number of apples Daniel has after selling be 1 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡. Then Laura has
(1 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡 + 6) apples. Then
1 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡 + (1 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡 + 6) = 36
2 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑠 + 6 = 36
2 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑠 = 36 − 6 = 30
1 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡 = 30 ÷ 2 = 𝟏𝟓
Answer: (B)
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Question 11
Since 3 cups = 1 coffee pot, then from the second equation we get that
4 coffee pots = 1200ml or 1 coffee pot = 300ml.
Volume of the stewpan = volume of one kettle + volume of one coffee pot + volume
of one cup = 1200ml + 300ml + 100ml = 𝟏𝟔𝟎𝟎𝐦𝐥
Answer: (C)
Question 12
The same pattern repeats in each row of 3 figures but in different orders as illustrated
in the table below:
Part Pattern
Leaf 2 at the left, 1 at the right
Stalk bowing leftwards, rightwards or S-shaped
Flower tulip-shaped, star-shaped or different tulip-shaped
Shape of flower pot square, square or oval-shaped
Pattern of flower pot dotted, shaded or white
So, the missing figure should be Option C which has a leaf at the left, a stalk
bowing rightwards, a star-shaped flower, and a shaded square pot.
Answer: (C)
Question 13
If a number is divisible by both 3 and 5, it must also be divisible by 15. Two-digit
multiples of 15 are 15, 30, 45, 60, 75, 90. However, only 30, 60 and 90 are even.
Thus, there are only 3 two-digit even numbers that can be divided by both 3 and 5.
Answer: (A)
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Question 14
Aria, Evelyn and Camila sit at a round table. They study in primary 2, 3 and 4. The
primary 3 girl is on Aria’s right. Who is the primary 2 girl?
The primary 4 girl is on Camila’s left:
P4 Camila
Aria
P4 Camila
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Question 15
Let us describe the characteristics of the two faces of the pyramid.
Face 1:
Face 2:
Answer: (E)
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Question 16
Pair numbers to make tens or hundreds:
29 + 61 = 90
37 + 63 = 100
76 + 24 = 100
45 + 55 = 100
Sum = 100 × 3 + 90 = 390
Answer: 390
Question 17
1-part: 5 triangles
2-part: 6 triangles
3-part: 2 triangles
4-part: 1 triangle
Total number of triangles = 5 + 6 + 2 + 1 = 𝟏𝟒
Answer: 14
Question 18
Answer: 140
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Question 19
3 × 13 + 5 × 13 = A × 8
(3 + 5) × 13 = A × 8
8 × 13 = A × 8 = 8 × A
A = 𝟏𝟑
Answer: 13
Question 20
Observe that the number “8” requires 7 matchsticks to be formed. Since the smallest
whole number should have the least number of digits, we want to pick the number
which requires the most number of matchsticks to be formed, and this number is 8.
This 4-digit number cannot start with 0, but it can start with 6. Hence, the smallest
number is 6888.
Answer: 6888
Question 21
From the third clue, tens and ones digits must be 8 and 7 for them to add up to 15.
They cannot be 9 and 6 as 9 is already in hundreds place and all the digits are
different.
Since the number is even, ones digit must be 8 and tens digit must be 7.
Answer: 978
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Question 22
List down all the possible ways for the sum of 3 numbers lesser than 7 to be equal
to 12.
Let the first dice roll out 1 dot, then the only possible ways to get 12 are 1 + 5 + 6
and 1 + 6 + 5, making it 2 possible ways.
Let the first dice roll out 2 dots, then the only possible ways to get 12 are 2 + 4 + 6
and 2 + 6 + 4, making it 2 possible ways.
Let the first dice roll out 3 dots, then the only possible ways to get 12 are 3 + 4 + 5
and 3 + 5 + 4, making it 2 possible ways.
Let the first dice roll out 4 dots, then the only possible ways to get 12 are 4 + 2 + 6,
4 + 6 + 2, 4 + 3 + 5 and 4 + 5 + 3, making it 4 possible ways.
Let the first dice roll out 5 dots, then the only possible ways to get 12 are 5 + 1 + 6,
5 + 6 + 1, 5 + 3 + 4 and 5 + 4 + 3, making it 4 possible ways.
Let the first dice roll out 6 dots, then the only possible ways to get 12 are 6 + 1 + 5,
6 + 5 + 1, 6 + 2 + 4 and 6 + 4 + 2, making it 4 possible ways.
Answer: 18
Question 23
Suppose all the animals were chickens. Then there would be 8 × 2 = 16 legs in total.
As the actual number of legs is 26, there is a difference of 26 − 16 = 10 legs.
The difference between the number of legs of a cow and a chicken is 4 − 2 = 2.
Hence, there are 10 ÷ 2 = 5 cows and 8 − 5 = 𝟑 chickens in the barn.
Answer: 3
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Question 25
A three-digit number plus a two-digit number can only result in a four-digit number
that starts with 1. Hence R must be 1. F must then be 1 + 1 = 2.
Different letters stand for different digits, so C cannot be the same as E. Thus, there
should be a carry over of 1 from the tens place addition and C = 9. Hence, E = 0 and
O = 5,
Therefore, REEF stands for 1002.
Answer: 1002
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