SCHOLASTIC CHAMPS MATHS CONTEST 1

9. How many halves ( ) are contained in 2

UPPER PRIMARY CATEGORY (STUDY QUESTIONS) 2
wholes?
1. Express 2021 in Romans numeral A) 1 B) 2 C) 3 D) 4 E) 5
A) MXI B) MXX C) MMXII
D) MMXXI E) MMXII 10. In the triangle below, what is the value of the
2. Express four thousand and sixty two in figures angle marked x°?
A) 40062 B) 4062 C) 460
D) 4602 E) 400062

3. Write in words: 10079

A) One hundred and seventy nine A) 30o B) 50o C) 60o D) 90o E) 120o
B) Ten thousand and seventy nine
C) Ten thousand seven hundred and nine 11. Calculate the LCM of 2, 8 and 12.
D) one hundred and seven thousand and nine A) 2 B) 24 C) 36 D) 72 E) 96
E) One thousand seven hundred and nine
12. The HCF of 14 and 28
4. The average of 8,8,9,11,22 and 26 is? A) 2 B) 7 C) 56 D) 28 E) 14
A) 13 B) 14 C) 15 D) 16 E) 17
13. What is the value of 2.75 + 0.003 + 0.158?
5. Find the area of a circle of radius 10cm. (Take π A) 4.36 B) 2.911 C) 0.436 D) 2.938 E) 3.5
= 3.14)
A) 10cm2 B) 100cm2 C) 30cm2 14. 25 added to a number makes it half a gross.
D) 31.4cm2 E) 314cm2 What is the number?
A) 35 B) 72 C) 97 D) 47 E) 100
6. How many faces does a triangular prism have?
15. A box weighs 2.25kg. What will 20 boxes
weigh?
A) 12.7kg B) 25.4kg C) 22.5kg D) 45.0kg E)
22.25kg
A) Four B) Five C) Six D) Eight E) Three
16. A 3-D shape has been opened up to a flat 2-D
7. What type of angle is 98°? shape (a net) and is shown below? What was the
A) Acute angle B) Obtuse angle C) Right angle 3-D shape?
D) Reflex angle E) Angle at a point

8. The triangle has a base of 5m and a height of 6m

A) Sphere B) Cuboid C) Cone

D) Cube E) Cylinder

17. If there are 9 squares on each face of a Rubik’s

What is the area of the triangle in m2?
Cube, how many squares are there in total?
A) 60 B) 30 C) 17 D) 15 E) 8.5
 25. If 7(x - 2) = 3x – 2, what is the value of x?
A) -4 B) -3 C) 2 D) 3 E) 4

26. Study the sample below and answer the given

question:
A) 15 B) 27 C) 45 D) 54 D) 60

18. The ________ of a circle is the distance from

the center of a circle to any point on the
circumference
A) Radius B) Diameter C) Center
D) Chord E) Circumference

19. What fact makes a cube unique and makes its

surface area easy to determine?
A) It's a three-dimensional shape
B) It is the only three-dimensional shape whose
area is expressed in square units.
C) It always consists of six edges.
D) Its surface always consists of six squares that A) 1 B) 65 C) 194 D) 169 E) 196
are equal in size and area.
E) None of the above 27. Study the sample carefully and answer the
following question:
20. The value of 112 is ----------?
A) 16 B) 22 C) 64 D) 81 E) 121

21. One quintillion is?

A) 1 X 109 B) 1 X 1012 C) 1 X 1015
D) 1 X 1018 E) 1 X 10100

22. Which numeral is in the tenths place of the

number 53.04?
A) 5 B) 4 C) 3 D) 0 E) None of the above
A) 37 B) 30 C) 24 D) 14 E) 5
23. George left home at 7:30 a.m. for school.
School begins at 8:45 a.m. George was 10 minutes 28. Which of the following is an improper fraction?
late. How long did George take to get to school? A) 2 B) 3 C) 1 2 D) 1 E) 1
A) 1 hr 25 mins B) 1 hr 55 mins C) 3 hrs 25 mins 3 2 3 3 2
D) 4 hrs 55 mins E) 30 mins
29. You had $10,000.00 in your account. If you
24. At what speed does a man walk to cover withdrew 10% of your current balance, how much
12kilometer in 3 hours? money is your new balance?
A) 36kph B) 4kph C) 6kph D) 3kph E) 2kph A) $1000.00 B) $8000.00 C) $9000.00
D) $10,000.00 E) $11,000.00
30. A triangle in which two sides are equal is called
----- triangle? 41. What is the value of “n” in 1 420 628 + n =
A) Equilateral B) Isosceles C) Right-angle 3928 716
D) Scalene E) Isometric
42. Divide 2.58 by 0.7, giving the answer correct to
2 2 decimal places.
31. Of the following fractions, which is less than ?
3
7 5 3 3 5 43. Simplify 7 X 6 + 8 ÷ 2
A) B) C) D) E)
8 6 4 5 7
1
44. Express as a percentage
32. How many factors does the number 60 have? 8
A) 3 B) 6 C) 9 D) 12 E) 18
45. Taiwo, Kehinde and Idowu are to share, $600
33. The digits 2, 3, 5, 6 and 9 are each used once to in the ratio 3:2:1 respectively. What is Idowu’s
form the greatest possible odd five digit number. share?
The digit in the tens place is?
A) 5 B) 9 C) 3 D) 6 E) 2 46. Ayodeji is thinking of two whole numbers.
Their product is 132 and their sum is 23. What is
1 the smaller number?
34. Which one is the equivalent fraction of ?
2
6 3 1 2 2 1
A) B) C) D) E) 47. Find the value of 6 % of $1200
12 5 4 5 8 4
48. If €120 is shared between Cole, Ella, and
35. Write 48 in index form 5
A) 24 x 3 B) 23 x 3 C) 25 x 3 Vicky. Cole receives of the money and Ella
3 2
8
D) 2 x 3 E) 2 X 24 2
receives of the remainder while Vicky received
3
36. The smallest decimal among the following is?
the rest. How much more money does Cole
A) 0.0634 B) 0.634 C) 0.0643
receives than Vicky.
D) 1.634 E) 0.6001

37. The perimeter of a rectangle is 60cm. its 49. The diagram below shows 3 angles on a
breadth is 10cm, find the length. straight line. What is the sum of the two smaller
A) 10cm B) 20cm C) 30cm angles?
D) 40cm E) 50cm

38. Evaluate 4 – 0.6

A) 0.2 B) 2.0 C) 2.2 D) 3.4 E) 4.6

39. Divide 3.888 by 7.2

A) 5.4 B) 0.54 C) 0.054 D) 0.0054 E) 54
50. What is the area of the Square below in cm2?
40. Which of the following is both a perfect cube
and perfect square?
A) 64 B) 81 C) 9 D) 40 E) 110
 A) 24 B) 13 C) 10 D) 8 E) 4
Observe the following bar graph carefully and use
it to answer questions 10 and 11:

51. How many months are there in a century?

A) 1200 B) 120 C) 1200 D) 12 E) 100

52. Which value of x makes the equation true? X –

7 = -13
A) -20 B) 20 C) 6 D) -6 E) -9

53. The perimeter of a circle is known as

A) Square B) Radius C) Diameter
D) Area E) Circumference

54. Two numbers are in the ratio 4:5. If the sum of

the numbers is 135, find the numbers.
60. Of which subject are there the maximum books
A) 60 and 65 B) 60 and 75 C) 70 and 85
?
D) 50 and 85 E) 65 and 75
A) Hindi B) English C) Maths
D) Science E) Social science
55. Find the common factors 0f 9, 15 and 21
A) 3,5 B) 1,3 C) 3,7 D) 3 E) 1,3,5
61. How many books are there of the subject
56. What comes after trillion and quadrillion? whose books are maximum ?
A) Sextillion B) Pentillion C) Quadrillion A) 100 B) 200 C) 300 D) 400 E) 500
D) Quintillion E) Lakhs
62. Observe the pie chart given below and answer
57. 16 cm and 12 cm are the measure of the the following questions:
diagonals of a rhombus. Therefore the length of
each side of the rhombus is ………
A) 4cm B) 8cm C) 9cm D) 10cm E) 12cm

58. A farmer plants 4 apple trees for every 3 pecan

trees in the orchard. She plants 2 peach trees for
every 5 pecan trees. If the farmer plants 24 peach
The central angle for sector A is
trees, how many apple trees are in the orchard?
A) 108° B) 144° C) 72° D) 150° E) 30°
A) 60 apple trees B) 96 apple trees
C) 80 apple trees D) 48 apple trees
E) None of the above 63. The angles opposite to the equal sides of a
triangle are:
59. A pudding recipe for 50 people calls for 4 cups A) Sum up to 180° B) Equal C) Unequal
of sugar. Each bag of sugar contains 6 cups. How D) supplementary angles
many bags of sugar will be needed to make this E) Complementary angles
recipe for 300 people?
64. A shopkeeper buys 5 bangles for $8880 and A) 0.025km B) 2.50 km C) 0.0025 km
later sells them for $9875. How much profit does D) 0.250 km E) 25000000km
the shopkeeper make per bangle?
A) 205 B) 191 C) 199 D) 213 E) None of these 70. In the diagram, the percentage of small
squares that are shaded is?
65. In the decimal number 1234.567, the digit 1 is
in the thousand position. What position is the digit
6 in?
A) Hundredth B) Tenth C) Hundred
D) Tens E) Unit
A) 9% B) 33% C) 36% D) 56.25% E) 64%
66. Which statement is TRUE of a right angled
triangle? 2
71. Tammy spent of her savings on a watch. She
A) Its three angles are right angles 5
B) It has a pair of parallel lines 1
then spent of the remainder on a bag. What
C) One of its angles is obtuse 6
D) It has a pair of perpendicular lines fraction of her money did she have left?
E) The sum of its angles is 90°
72. Which of the following is the solution to the
67. In the multiplication question, the sum of the equation -9(k - 17) = -54 ?
digits in the four boxes is?
73. A cube has volume 125 cm³. What is the area
of one of its faces?

74. Aaron is twice as old as Ryan. In 3 years, the

sum of their ages will be 30 years. Find Aaron’s age
A) 13 B) 12 C) 27 D) 9 E) 22 3 years ago.

68. Kalyn cut rectangle R from a sheet of paper. A 75. Jessie baked p cupcakes on Saturday. She
smaller rectangle is then cut from the large baked (p + 3) more cupcakes on Sunday than on
rectangle R to produce figure S. In comparing R to Saturday. She baked 30 cupcakes altogether. How
S many cupcakes did Jessie bake on Saturday?

4
76. How many times can be taken from 20?
5

A) The area and perimeter both decrease 77. From the difference between 37.58 and
B) The area decreases and the perimeter increases 27.21 take away 1.85
C) The area and perimeter both increase
D) The area increases and the perimeter decreases 78. Find the cost of 30cm of cloth at 4.20 a
E) The area decreases and the perimeter stays the meter?
same
1 3 7
79. Calculate - +
69. Convert 250 centimeters to kilometers. 2 5 10
80. A boy spent ¾ of his money and found he had 92. Calculate the value of 3 x (4 x 5²) ÷ 6 + 7 – 8
1.25 left. What had he at first?
93. The total mass of a block of butter and a box of

135o then ∠P is:

81. In the given figure, if the exterior angle is cherries is 384g. The mass of the block of butter is
twice the mass of the box of cherries. Find the
mass of the block of butter.

94. Approximate 0.003325 to 1 significant figure

95. A triangle has an area of 72 square inches with

a height of 4 inches. How long is the base
associated with this height?
82. What is the positive difference between the
0.7 x 0.2 96. I think of a number then add 24. The answer is
values of (42 ÷ 0.6) and ( )? 45. What is my number?
0.0028

83. An alloy contains 26% of copper. What 97. It costs Ben £4.16 to post two parcels. One
quantity of alloy is required to get 130 g of parcel costs £3.32 to post. How much does the
copper? other parcel cost to post?

84. The average of three numbers is 120. What 98. Find the median of the given data: 13, 16, 12,
number must be added so that the average will 14, 19, 12, 14, 13 and 14
become 110?
99. What day of the week was it a fortnight ago if
85. The average of five numbers is 120. The today is Wednesday?
average of the five numbers is 18 when one of the
numbers is changed to 4. What is the original value 100. If 3 men can dig a garden in 4 days, how many
of the changed number?
men would be needed to dig it in 2 days?
1 1
86. Simplify 20 – 12 +4
2 3

2 2
87. Evaluate (6 - 3 ) ÷ (6 + 3 )
3 3

88. If the length of a rectangle is four times the

width and the area is 36m2, what is the length?

89. How many sixths are there in 5 wholes?

90. Express 0.007 as a percentage.

91. The ratio of boys to girls in a school is 3:5. If

there are 312 boys, how many girls are in the
school?