Placement Assessment

Year 5

Name:_________________________

Date of Assessment: ____________

Score: _________________________

Comments: ____________________
Answer all Questions. Show your working.

Part A

1. Fill in the blanks.

412 395

The value of 9 is tens or 10

The value of 1 is ___________

2. Write in number.
168 thousands 2 hundreds 7 tens and 9 ones

_________________

3. Write the number in words.

1 453 607 _______________________________________

4. Round off to the nearest thousand.

(a) 824 499 = _________

(b) 136 805 = _________

5. Find all the factors of the number.

63: __________________________

6. Find the four multiples of the number.

6: _____, ______, ______, ______

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7. Find the approximate value of

394: _____ 539 : _____

8. Find the common factors of 4 and 12.

____________________________

9. Find the common multiples of 2 and 6.

____________________________

10. Fill in the blanks.

(a) 12 – 6 + 4 = _____

(b) 4 + 3 x 28 = _____

(c) 78 – 36 ÷ 4 x 7 = ______

11. Multiply

7 2 6
X 5 3

12. Divide

70 2 8 0 48 2 8 4

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13. Fill in the blanks.

(a) 7
=  
8 72

(b) 5 1
7 +     6 =    
12 4

(c) 2 1
5 _   2 =    
3 6

14. Simplify the following.

5 4
X     =    
12 15

15. A carton contains 21 apples and 56 oranges. The ratio of the

number of apples to the number of oranges is given by
(circle the correct answer)

(a) 9:3 (b) 8:3

(c) 3:9 (d) 3: 8

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16 Express 1 as a percentage.
!

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Part B

17. Complete the number pattern.

81 659, 82 659, 83 659, __________, __________

18. Arrange the fraction from the smallest to the biggest.

! ! !
! ! !

_________________________

19 Find the whole number in the square to make the statement true

247 < 50 x < 258

20. Write down the smallest value that can be rounded off to the
nearest 1000.

59 000 ______________

21. Write down the greatest value that can be rounded off to the
nearest thousand

346 000 _____________

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22. Find the missing numbers.

4 6 2

+ 8
7 8 0

23. Farmer Brown had 89 boxes of chicks. If each box contained 25

chicks, how many chicks had Farmer Brown?

24. Karen had 4 times as many marbles as Henry. If Karen had 27

more than Henry, how many marbles do they have altogether?

25. Lee had $540. He spent 2/5 of his money on a watch and 3/10 of
his money on a book. How much money had he left?

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26. Lyniece had 4 children. 68 cakes were shared among them. How
many did each child get?

27. The floor area of a living room is 9 5/8 m2. A carpet of area 5 7/8
m2 is placed on the floor. Find the floor area of the room not
covered with the carpet

28. Chris has a number.

When the number is divided by 5, the remainder is 3. When the
number is divided by 9, the remainder is 1. What is the number?

29. Linda has 5 small envelopes and 3 big envelopes. She puts 126
stamps inside each envelop. How many stamps are there
altogether?

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30. 120 oranges cost $ 70.20 and 80 apples cost $ 42.00. How much
change will you get if you gave $200 to the cashier for all the
fruits?

31. A small square measures 50cm x 50cm.

A big square is made up of 4 such small squares.

The big square measures ___ cm x ___cm

32. Pan A is 5 times as heavy as Pan B. Pan B weighs 450g. How

many g or kg of weight must be added to Pan B so that Pan A and
Pan B are equal in weight?

33. 2/9 of a cup contains water. When the water is poured into a
glass, the water fills up ¼ of the glass. Which container has a
bigger capacity (that is the volume of the inner space)

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 Part C

34. The ratio of the number of white marbles to the number of black
marbles is 3:8. When 5 more white marbles are added to them, the
ratio becomes 1:2. How many black marbles are there?

35. The overlapping area of 2 equal rectangles is 12 cm2. The non-

overlapping part of each rectangle is 7/9 of the rectangle. Find the
area of the figure.

36. Beth drew a line AB 172m long. She puts a post at each end of the
line and at every 2 m. How many posts did she use?

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37. A bag contains 5kg 24g of red and green beans. When 1 kg of
red beans and 500g of green beans are added, the weights of red
beans and green beans are equal. What is the weight of the green
beans at the beginning?

38. A rectangle with length 42 cm and breadth 1.6 cm is made from a

rubber band. The lengths are stretched to 50 cm while the
breadths remain the same. What is the difference between the first
perimeter and the second perimeter (the distance going round the
rectangle is the perimeter).

39. The height of the water in a container with a small pebble in it is 8

¼ cm. When a bigger pebble is dropped into the water, the water
level rises to 10 cm in height. When the small pebble is taken out,
the water level drops to 8 ¾ cm. What will be the water level of the
container when there is no pebble?

40. Maggie’s cake is 3/8 kg lighter than Linda’s cake. If Linda’s cake is
8/3 as heavy as Maggie’s cake, what is the weight of Linda’s cake?

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41. The figure is made up of six equal rectangles. Find the area of the
figure.

26cm

14cm

42. Each bag contains 36 balloons. There are 42 pupils in a class. If

each pupil is given 58 balloons, how many bags of balloons are
required?

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43. Charles and Liam had $280 and $150 respectively. Each of them
spent the same amount on a pair of glasses. Then Charles had 3
times as much money as Liam left. Find the cost of the pair of
glasses.

44. William went shopping with some money. If he bought 21 pears, he

would need $8 more. If he bought 29 pears, he would need
another $14. Find (a) the cost of each pear (b) the amount of
money William first had.

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