Upper Primary Questions

1. How many pieces have been placed in the jigsaw puzzle so far?

(A) 25 (B) 27 (C) 30 (D) 33 (E) 35

2. What is half of 2020?

(A) 20 (B) 101 (C) 110 (D) 1001 (E) 1010

3. What is the perimeter of this triangle?

(A) 33 m (B) 34 m (C) 35 m (D) 36 m (E) 37 m

4. Which fraction is the largest?

(A) one-half (B) one-quarter (C) one-third

(D) three-quarters (E) six-tenths

5. A protractor is used to measure angle PXQ.

The angle is

(A) 45° (B) 55° (C) 135°

(D) 145° (E) 180°

6. Some friends are walking to a lake in the mountains. First they climb a hill before they
walk down to the lake. Which graph most accurately represents their journey?

(A) (B)

(C) (D)

(E)

7. How many tenths are in 6.2?

(A) 62 (B) 8 (C) 4 (D) 12 (E) 36

8. The graph shows the number of eggs laid by backyard chickens Nony and Cera for the
first six months of the year. In how many months did Nony lay more eggs than Cera?

(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5

9. A class of 24 students, all of different heights, is standing in a line from tallest to shortest.
Mary is the 8th tallest and John is the 6th shortest. How many students are standing
between them in the line?

(A) 6 (B) 7 (C) 8 (D) 9 (E) 10

10. Maria divided a rectangle into a number of identical squares and coloured
some of them in, as shown.

She wants three-quarters of the rectangle’s area to be coloured in

altogether. How many more squares does she need to colour in?

(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3 (E) 4

11. At the end of a game of marbles, Lei has 15 marbles, Dora has 8 and Omar has 4. How
many marbles must Lei give back to his friends if they want to start the next game with
an equal number each?

(A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 7 (D) 8 (E) 9

12. In the grid, the total of each row is given at the end of the row, and the
total of each column is given at the bottom of the column. The value of
N is

(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5

13. At his birthday party, Ricky and his friends wear stripy paper hats in the
shape of a cone, as shown on the left. After the party, Ricky makes a straight cut in one of
the hats all the way up to the point at the top, as shown on the right.

Which of the following best matches what the hat will look like when Ricky flattens it
out on the table?
14. Emma is going to write all the numbers from 1 to 50 in order. She writes 25 digits on the
first line of her page. What was the last number she wrote on this line?

(A) 13 (B) 15 (C) 17 (D) 19 (E) 21

15. The playing card shown is flipped over along edge b and then flipped over again along
edge c.

What does it look like now?

16. Which labelled counter should you remove so that no two rows have the
same number of counters and no two columns have the same number of
counters?

17. Aidan puts a range of 3D shapes on his desk at school. This is the view from his
side of the desk:

Nadia is sitting on the opposite side of the desk facing Aidan. Which of the following
diagrams best represents the view from Nadia’s side of the desk?

(C)
(A) (B)

(D
(E)
)

18. The area of each of the five equilateral triangles in the diagram is 1 square metre. What is
the shaded area?

(A) 1.5 m2 (B) 2 m2 (C) 2.5 m2

(D) 3 m2 (E) 3.5 m2

19. Kayla is 5 years old and Ryan is 13 years younger than Cody. One year ago, Cody’s age
was twice the sum of Kayla’s and Ryan’s age. Find the sum of the three children’s
current ages.

(A) 10 (B) 22 (C) 26 (D) 30 (E) 36

20. Mary has a piece of paper. She folds it exactly in half. Then she folds it in half again. She
finishes up with this shape.

Which of the shapes P, Q and R shown below could have been her starting shape?

(A) only P (B) only Q (C) only R (D) only P and R (E) all three

21. Four positive whole numbers are placed at the vertices of a

square. On each edge, the difference between the two numbers at
the vertices is written. The four edge numbers are 1, 2, 3 and 4 in
some order.

What is the smallest possible sum of the numbers at the vertices?

(A) 10 (B) 11 (C) 12

(D) 13 (E) 14
22. The large rectangle shown has been divided into 4 smaller rectangles. The perimeters of
three of these are 10 cm, 16 cm and 20 cm. The fourth rectangle does not have the largest
or the smallest perimeter of the four smaller rectangles

What, in centimetres, is the perimeter of the large rectangle?

(A) 26 (B) 30 (C) 32 (D) 36 (E) 46

23. A bale of hay can be eaten by a horse in 2 days, by a cow in 3 days and by a sheep in 12
days. A farmer has 22 bales of hay and one horse, one cow and one sheep to feed. How
many days will his bales last?

(A) 20 (B) 22 (C) 24 (D) 26 (E) 28

24. This rectangle is 36 cm long. It is cut into two pieces and rearranged to form a square, as
shown.

What is the height of the original rectangle?

(A) 14 cm (B) 16 cm (C) 18 cm (D) 20 cm (E) 24 cm

25. A bottle with a sealed lid contains some wa-ter.

The diagram shows this bottle up the right way and upside down.

How full is the bottle?

1 4 5
(A) (B) (C)
2 7 2

2 9
(D) (E)
3 14

26. A number is oddtastic if all of its digits are odd.

For example, 9, 57 and 313 are oddtastic.

However, 50 and 787 are not oddtastic, since 0 and 8 are even digits.

How many of the numbers from 1 to 999 are oddtastic?

27. On my chicken farm where I have 24 pens, the pens were a bit crowded. So I built 6 more
pens, and the number of chickens in each pen reduced by 6. How many chickens do I have?

28. How many even three-digit numbers are there where the digits add up to 8?

29. Madeleine types her three-digit Personal Identification Num-ber (PIN) into
this keypad.

All three digits are different, but the buttons for the first and second digits
share an edge, and the buttons for the second and third digits share an edge.

For instance, 563 is a possible PIN, but 536 is not, since 5 and 3 do not share
an edge.

How many possibilities are there for Madeleine’s PIN?

30. Writing one digit every second, you have half an hour to list as many of the counting
numbers as you can, starting 1, 2, 3, . . . . At the end of half an hour, what number have you
just finished writing?