2015 Metrobank-MTAP-DepEd Math Challenge
Elimination Level Grade 1
NAME ___________________________________ SCHOOL_____________________SCORE _______
DIVISION ________________________________ REGION_____________________TIME 60 minutes
Direction: Write the correct answer for each of the following in the blank before each number. Use scratch
papers for your computations when necessary.
__________ 1. What is the sum? 11 +12 + 13 + 14 + 15 + 16 + 17
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__________ 2. What is the tens digit of the sum of 47 and 56?
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__________ 3. Jo has 48 candies. She will give 5 candies to each of her friends. What is the
_ largest number of candies that she can give?
__________ 4. Kit and Kat had 50 stickers in all. Then, Kit gave 5 stickers. They then have equal
_ number of stickers. How many stickers had kit initially?
__________ 5. Angel colored the flowers drawn on her book as follows: pink, red, purple, yellow,
_ pink, red, purple, yellow, and so on. What color is the 30 th flower?
pink red purple yellow pink red purple yellow
__________ 6. An old book has missing pages. Next to page 20 is page 35. How many sheets of
_ paper were missing?
__________ 7. Shown is a stair that is 3 cubes tall. How many more cubes are
_ needed to make the stairs 8 cubes high?
__________ 8. Rico had 55 pesos. Father gave him two 50-peso bills.uncle gave him four 20-
_ peso bills. How much money had Rico in all?
__________ 9. If the digits in 58 are interchagned, will the number increase or decrease? By how
_ much?
__________ 10. A total of 50 men and women are in a bus. There are 14 more men than women.
_ How many women are in the bus?
__________ 11. Ms. Perez has 40 pupils in her class. Yesterday, of the number of pupils were
_ absent. How many pupils were present?
__________ 12. How many digits are used for printing the page numbers of a booklet with 25
_ pages?
__________ 13. Mother made 15 cookies. There are 10 cookis with raisins and 10 cookies with
_ nuts. How many cookies have both raisins and nuts?
__________ 14. A bus can hold 45 passengers. The bus starts out empty and picks 1 passenger at
_ the first stop, 2 passengers at the second stop, 3 passengers at the third stop, and
so forth. After how many stops will the bus be full?
__________ 15. Ben and his younger sister have the same birthday. This year, the sum of their
_ ages in years is 21. What would be the sum of their ages 3 years from now?
__________ 16. Thirty candies are placed in 6 jars. Each jar has a different number of candies. No
_ jar has exactly 3 candies. One jar is empty. What is the greatest numberof candies
that any one jar can have?
__________ 17. Bel sold an entire roll consecutively numbered tickets. The number on thhe first
_ ticket was 2001. The number on the last ticket was 2245. How many tickets did
Bel sell?
__________ 18. If you saved 5 pesos on January 1, ten pesos on February 1, 15 pesos on March
_ 1, twenty pesos on April 1, and so on. How much mony would you save in one
year?
__________ 19. Neri bought 2 pens. The total cost is 100 pesos. If one pen costs 22 pesos more
_ than the other, how muh does the cheaper pen cost?
__________ 20. Selmo had 13 marble. He gave Dan 3 marbles, Bill 3 marbles and Anton 3
_ marbles. What fraction of the marbles was left with Selmo?
__________ 21. Lyca bought two dozen cupcakes for her party. Darren ate 2 cupcakes. JK ate
_ dozen cupcakes. How many cupcakes were left for the other guests?
__________ 22. Seven pupils sit around a table as shown. Abbey sits
_ next to Benoni and Carlo. Delia sits next to both Benoni 1
and Len. The numbers on Abbeys and Carlos chairs 7 2
add up to 8. Who sits in chair number 4?
__________ 23. Miss Reyes ordered three pizzas. Each pizza was divided into 6 pieces. If each kid
_ gets a slice of pizza and Miss Reyes got 2 slices, how many kids 6 would be able to3
get a shere of pizza?
__________ 24. One-half of the class wear black shoes, of the class wear white shoes and the
_ 5 4
rest of the class wear brown shoes. If there are 48 pupils in the class, how many
pupils wear brown shoes?
__________ 25. Karen cus a piece of rope to 3 equal parts. She then cuts one of the pieces to half.
_ The two smallest pieces are each 3 meters long. What was the length of the rope
before Karen made any cuts?
__________ 26. Bacteria in a dish double the area they cover every day. If the dish is fully covered
_ adter 25 days, on what day was one-half of it covered?
__________ 27. My chicken lays 4 eggs a week. My sisters chicken lays 6 eggs a week. How
_ many eggs in all do both chickens lay in 3 weeks?
__________ 28. One avocado weighs the same as 3 oranges. One orange weighs 35 grams. How
_ many grams does an avocado weigh?
__________ 29. There are two locks in Cathys room. One of them is 15 minutes behind the correct
_ time. Now it is showing 7:40. The second clock is 15 minutes ahead of the correct
time. What is the time in the second clock now?
__________ 30. Gary forms three numbers with the digits 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9. All numbers have two
_ digits and each digit is used only once. Gary adds all the three numbers. What is
the greatest sum Gary can obtain?
