International Mathematics Assessments for Schools
2013 UPPER PRIMARY DIVISION FIRST ROUND PAPER
Time allowed：75 minutes
INSTRUCTION AND INFORMATION
GENERAL
1. Do not open the booklet until told to do so by your teacher.
2. No calculators, slide rules, log tables, math stencils, mobile phones or other
calculating aids are permitted. Scribbling paper, graph paper, ruler and compasses
are permitted, but are not essential.
3. Diagrams are NOT drawn to scale. They are intended only as aids.
4. There are 20 multiple-choice questions, each with 5 choices. Choose the most
reasonable answer. The last 5 questions require whole number answers between
000 and 999 inclusive. The questions generally get harder as you work through the
paper. There is no penalty for an incorrect response.
5. This is a mathematics assessment, not a test; do not expect to answer all questions.
6. Read the instructions on the answer sheet carefully. Ensure your name, school
name and school year are filled in. It is your responsibility that the Answer Sheet
is correctly coded.
7. When your teacher gives the signal, begin working on the problems.
THE ANSWER SHEET
1. Use only lead pencils.
2. Record your answers on the reverse side of the Answer Sheet (not on the question
paper) by FULLY filling in the circles which correspond to your choices.
3. Your Answer Sheet will be read by a machine. The machine will see all markings
even if they are in the wrong places. So please be careful not to doodle or write
anything extra on the Answer Sheet. If you want to change an answer or remove
any marks, use a plastic eraser and be sure to remove all marks and smudges.
INTEGRITY OF THE COMPETITION
The IMAS reserves the right to re-examine students before deciding whether to
grant official status to their scores.
2013 UPPER PRIMARY DIVISION FIRST ROUND PAPER
Questions 1-10, 3 marks each
1. What is the value of the expression 3 × 11 × 61 + 3 + 11 + 61?
（A）2013 （B）2088 （C）2113
（D）4026 （E）4052169
2. Which of the following is the closest length of time for one day?
（A）0.9 days （B）1.2 days （C）23 hours
（D）26 hours （E）1410 minutes
3. Walter has two options in going to school. He can (a) walk 3 minutes to the bus
stop and ride the bus for 15 minutes to the school, or (b) walk 5 minutes to the
LRT station, ride a train for 6 minutes and walk 5 minutes to school. If he does
not have to wait for the bus at the bus stop, nor the train on the LRT station, what
is the minimum number of minutes required for him to get to school?
（A）15 （B）16 （C）17 （D）18 （E）19
4. Which of the following five numbers is divisible by 6?
（A）98 （B）163 （C）192 （D）212 （E）254
5. Zachary has a computer program which accepts an input and produces an output.
Some of the data are shown in the following table.
Input 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Output 4 7 10 13 16 ？ 22
What is the output when the input is 6?
（A）17 （B）18 （C）19 （D）20 （E）21
6. In the diagram, AD is parallel to BC. A point P moves from C to D along the
side CD. Which of the following is the accurate description of the change in the
area of triangle ABP during the motion?
A D
P
B C
（A）increasing （B）decreasing （C）increasing then decreasing
（D）decreasing then increasing （E）unchanged
UP 2
7. Langford has a square piece of chocolate divided into unit squares. After eating
some of the unit squares, what is left of the square piece is shown in the diagram.
At least how many unit squares of chocolate Langford must have eaten?
（A）20 （B）24 （C）36 （D）40 （E）64
22
8. When is expressed as a decimal without rounding, how many decimal
7
places should we take so that the positive difference of the result with 3.14159 is
small as possible?
（A）1 （B ）2 （C ）3 （D）4 （E）5
9. The diagram shows nine cards numbered 1 to 9. One of the cards is taken out,
and the sum of the numbers of the remaining cards is 8 times that card. What is
the number on the card that was taken out?
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
（A）5 （B）6 （C）7 （D）8 （E）9
10. Mrs. Huang spent three days making ornaments. The diagram shows the
percentage of the number of ornaments she made on each day. If she made 152
ornaments on the first day, how many ornaments did she make on the third day?
19% First day
45% Second day
36% Third day
（A）190 （B）360 （C）450 （D）720 （E）800
UP 3
Questions 11-20, 4 marks each
11. The tangram puzzle is arranged as shown in the diagram. Start with a 4 by 4 grid
as shown in figure (a) and cut along the dotted lines as shown in (b). This will
result with seven pieces as in (c). Both figures (d) and (e) are constructed from
some of these pieces. What is the ratio between the area of the figure in (d) and
the area of the figure in (e)?
(a) (b) (c) (d) (e)
（A）1：1 （B）3：1 （C）5：3 （D）9：7 （E）11：5
12. The two digits of each of four consecutive two-digit numbers are multiplied, and
the respective products are 24, 28, 32 and 36. What is the sum of the four
consecutive numbers?
（A）120 （B）136 （C）160 （D）172 （E）190
13. Lily makes a butterfly-shaped figure as illustrated in the diagram. She uses two
squares of side length 6 cm and four semicircles with diameter 6 cm. If we take π
to be 3.14, what is the area of the figure?
（A）36 （B）72 （C）128.52 （D）185.04 （E）298.08
14. A box contains ten black balls and ten white balls, and there are no balls outside
it. In each step, Mickey is allowed to do one of the two tasks. (a) He may take a
white ball and a black ball from the box and place them outside. (b) If there is at
least one black ball outside the box, he may take a white ball from the box and
leave it outside, and return a black ball from outside into the box. After six steps,
Mickey counts the number of balls outside the box. How many possible answers
are there?
（A）2 （B）3 （C）4 （D）5 （E）6
UP 4
15. Bucket A is one-sixth full of water while bucket B contains 60 litres of water. If
we empty the water in bucket B and pour it into bucket A, then bucket A is half
full of water. If instead we empty the water in bucket A into bucket B, then
bucket B is full. What is the capacity, in litres, of bucket B?
（A）70 （B）80 （C）90 （D）100 （E）180
16. The diagram shows an addition table of three numbers X, Y and Z. A number in
the table is the sum of the two numbers, one in the same row and the other in the
same column, which are represented by letters. For instance, X+Y=16. What is
the product of the numbers X, Y and Z?
+ X Y Z
X 16 19
Y 16 23
Z 19 23
（A）780 （B）800 （C）850 （D）900 （E）960
a+b 3 1 1
17. We define a Θ b = . If Θ Θ □ = , what number is represented by
2 4 6 2
□ ?
1 13 1
（A）3 （B ） （C ） （D）4 （E）
3 24 4
18. Mickey is asked to multiply three positive integers, but he adds them instead.
Amazingly, his correct answer is equal to the correct answer for the
multiplication problem. What is the sum of these three numbers?
（A）3 （B ）4 （C ）5 （D）6 （E）7
19. There are 54 grid points on the 5 by 8 grid diagram as shown, where the side of
each small square is 1 cm. Starting from point P, an ant crawls from grid point to
grid point along the grid lines, visiting each grid point exactly once before
returning to P. What is the maximum length of its path, in cm?
P
（A）26 （B）30 （C）36 （D）54 （E）93
UP 5
4 5 7 9
20. When asked to find + + + , each of four children makes a mistake. Peter
5 6 9 11
4 5
interchanges the numerator and denominator in , Quentin does that to ,
5 6
7 9
Rachel does that to and Sarah does that to . Whose solution is closest to
9 11
the correct answer?
（A）Peter （B）Q uentin （C）Rachel
（D）Sarah （E）Can not be determined
Questions 21-25, 6 marks each
21. Three workers are cutting the grass in seven plots of equal size. Each worker can
cut the grass in one plot in three hours. To avoid interference with each other, at
most one worker may be cutting grass in the same plot at the same time. What is
the required minimum number of hours before they can finish cutting the grass in
all seven plots?
22. Jerry buys n books from eight bookshops. For any two bookshops, there is
exactly one of the n books that both shops have stock. What is the value of n?
23. The diagram shows a square swimming pool with a layer of white tiles
surrounding it. This inner layer is surrounded by a layer of black tiles, and this
layer is surrounded by an outer layer of white tiles. There are no gaps between
layers or between the inner layers of the swimming pool. Each tile, black or
white, is a square of side length 0.5 m. If the number of white tiles is 60 more
than the number of black tiles, what is the area, in m2, of the swimming pool?
Swimming
Pool
UP 6
24. The number 1234567891011…198199200 is obtained by writing 1 to 200 in
ascending order in a row. We now divide this number into blocks of length three,
resulting in a sequence of three-digit numbers 123, 456, 789, 101, 112, and so on.
What are the three numbers in the 35th block in the given sequence?
25. The six faces of a cubical die are labeled with six different positive integers. If
the numbers on any two adjacent faces differ by at least 2, what is the minimum
value of the sum of these six numbers?
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