2017 Grade 6 MTAP Elimination Round – Part 1

I will post the solutions very soon. If you see any errors, please inform me using the comment
section.

1.) What is the value of 7 × 8 + 4 × 25 – 48 ÷ 3?

2.) If 16 is added to one-third of a number, the result is three times the number. What is the number?

3.) If my pet runs 300cm/sec and a bird flies 300m/sec, then the bird travels ______ times as fast
as my pet.
4.) If n = 0.3, what is the value of 1/n?

5.) A class of 20 students averaged 66% on an examination. Another class of 30 students averaged
56%. What is the averaged percentage for all students?
6.) Paula spent 5% of her money on a magazine, 30% of it on a skirt, 25% of it on a bag and 10% of it
on a T-shirt. If she had P1600 at first, how much did she have left?

7.) Alvin saved P 1 600 in May. He saved P2 000 in June. What is the percentage increase in Alvin’s
savings from May to June?

8.) Robert has 30% as many marbles as Anthony. Anthony has 90% as many marbles as Aldwin. If
Aldwin has 400 marbles, how many marbles does Robert have?

9.) The average length of 4 rods is 2.33m. The lengths of 3 rods are 1.88 m, 2.67 m and 2.4 m. What
is the length of the fourth rod?

10.) A fax machine can fax 36 letters in 6 minutes. How many letters can it fax in 10 minutes?

11.) A worker can pack 45 boxes of shirts in 3 hours. How long does it take him to pack 255 boxes of
shirts?

12.) Alex has 50% more money than Bob, and Carl has 25% more money than Bob. Altogether, they
have a total of P 3 750. How much does Alex have?

13.) The total surface area of a cube is 54 square centimeters. How long is its edge?

14.) At a rate of 80km/hr, how many kilometers can I run in 18 minutes?

15.) If 2 mangoes weigh as much as 3 oranges and 2 oranges weigh as much as 30 grapes, how many
mangoes weigh as much as 90 grapes?

16.) A bag contains 40 marbles of which 39 are green and 1 is blue. A marble is chosen from the bag.
What is the probability that the marble is green?
17.) A container has 6 blue balls and 6 green balls. One ball is randomly selected. What is the
probability that it is a green ball?

18.) The number 1 is both a square of an integer and the cube of an integer. What is the next larger
integer which is both a square and a cube of a positive integer?

19.) If each letter in the word MATHEMATICS was written on a card and placed in a hat, what would
be the probability of drawing a vowel?
20.) In a card game, Matt’s scores on each of the first five games are +13; -10; -20; +16; -10. At that
time, the sum of the five scores of Paul is 25. How many points is Matt behind Paul?

21.) If A # B = (A × B) ÷ (A + B), calculate 8 # (5 # 5).

22.) Ric jogs along a road. Starting from the jeepney station, he jogs 4 m/s due north for 20 minutes,
then 5 m/s due south for 15 minutes, and finally 3 m/s due south for 10 minutes. Find her final
position from the station.

23.) A motorist made a 60-mile trip driving at an average speed of 20 miles per hour. On the return
trip, the motorist drove at an average speed of 30 miles per hour. What was the motorist’s average
speed for the entire trip?

24.) A train is travelling at the rate of 1 kilometer in 1 minute and 20 seconds. If the train continues
at this rate, how far will it travel in one hour?
25.) A square and a regular octagon have the same perimeter. if the area of the square is 36 sq. cm.,
what is the length of a side of a regular octagon? Note: All the sides of a regular octagon are equal.

Answers:

1.) 140
2.) 6
3.) 100
4.) 3 1/3
5.) 60
6.) 480
7.) 25%
8.) 108
9.) 2.37 m
10.) 60
11.) 15 hrs
12.) Php 1, 500.00
13.) 3 cm
14.) 24 km
15.) 4
16.) 39/40
17.) 1/2
18.) 64
19.) 4/11
20.) 36
21.) 1 19/21
22.) 1,500 south of the station
23.) 24 kph
24.) 45 km
25.) 3 cm

26.) You are given one hour to complete a contest. What fraction of the hour remains for you to
complete the contest after thirty-fie minutes have elapsed?

27.) What is the value of 3/4 + 5/2 × 3/4?

28.) In a class of 30 students, 12 are boys. If 6 more girls join the class, what fraction of the class is
now female?

29.) What is the value of the product

30.) It requires 12 hours to fill 3/5 of a swimming pool. At this rate, how many hours is required to
fill the remainder of the pool?
31.) Two equal circles are placed in a rectangle, as shown. The distance between the centers of the
circles is 12cm. What is the area of the rectangle?

32.) A star is light-years away. How many light-years are there in half this distance?

33.) Of the numbers 0.5129, 0.9, 0.89, and 0.289, what is the sum of the smallest and the largest?

34.) What is the value of

35.) Each number in a sequence is obtained by adding the two previous numbers. The 6th, 7th, and
8th numbers of the sequence are 29, 47, 76. What is the third number in the sequence?

36.) A square piece of paper is folded in half to form a rectangle. This rectangle has a perimeter of
18cm. What is the area of the original square?
37.) The sides of a cube are doubled in length to form a larger cube. How many original small cubes
will fill this larger cube?
38.) A rectangular box has volume 15cm3. If the length, width, and height are doubled, what is the
volume of the resulting box?

39.) If each edge of a cube is increased by 150%, what is the percentage increase in surface area?

40.) A rectangular 4 × 3 × 2 block has its surface painted red, and then is cut into cubes with each
edge 1 unit. How many cubes have exactly one of its faces painted red?
41.) The sum of fifty consecutive even integers is 3 250. What is the largest of these integers?

42.) The three digit number 2A4 is added to 329 and gives 5B3. If 5B3 is divisible by 3, what is the
largest possible value of A?

43.) What number is obtained when the difference 14.2 and 1.69 is divided by 0.03?

44.) What is the radius of a circle having a circumference of 6n cm?

45.) The arc lengths of three semicircles are as shown. What is the area of the shaded region?

46.) The numbers in the sequence 2, 7, 12, 17, 22, … increased by fives. The numbers in the sequence
3, 10, 17, 24, 31, … increased by sevens. The number 17 occurs in both sequence. What is the next
number which occurs in both sequence?

47.) If , what is the value of x?

48.) When half a number is increased by 15, the result is 39. What is its original number?

49.) Three cuts are made through a larger cube to make eight identical smaller cubes. The total
surface area of the smaller cube is
(a) one-eight of the surface are of the larger cube
(b) one-half of the surface are of the larger cube
(c) double the surface are of the larger cube
(d) eight times the surface are of the larger cube
(e) the same as the surface are of the larger cube
50.) Caloy multiplies a number by 4, adds 8 to the product, then divides the sum by 3. If the final
result is 28, what is the original number?

Answers:

26.) 5/12
27.) 2 5/8
28.) 2/3
29.) 1/5
30.) 8
31.) 288
32.)
33.) 1.189
34.) -5
35.) 7
36.) 36 sq m
37.) 8
38.) 90 cubic cm.
39.) 525%
40.) 4
41.) 114
42.) 4
43.) 417
44.) 3
45.)
46.) 52
47.) 0.9
48.) 48
49.) c
50.) 19

2015 Grade 4 MTAP Elimination Questions with Answers

Posted on January 10, 2016 | 25 Comments
Below are the 2015 Grade 4 MTAP Elimination Questions with Answers. I will post the solutions of selected
items later. Also, if time permits, I will redraw some of the figures.
1.) How do you read the numeral 2 followed by 8 zeroes?
Answer: two hundred million

2.) How many tens should be added to 212 ones and 100 to get 572?
Answer: 26
3.) What is the largest three-digit prime number?
Answer: 997

4.) What is the smallest multiple of 3 that is greater than 200?

Answer: 201

5.) What is the sum of the 4 largest two-digit prime numbers?

Answer: 348

6.) Lynn counts numbers starting from 105 and adds 4 each time. So she counts 105, 109, 113, and continues.
What is the largest three-digit whole number that Lynn counts?
Answer: 997
7.) What is the ones digit in the product of 87 x 87 x 87 x 87 x 87?
Answer: 7

8.) The average of 6 consecutive odd numbers is 26. What is the largest number?
Answer: 31

9.) Five identical squares placed side by side formed a rectangle. The area of the rectangle is 45 cm^2. Squares
are then removed from one end so that the resulting rectangle has a perimeter of 24 cm. What is the area of the
new rectangle?
Answer: 27 sq. cm.

10.) What is ¼ of 80% of 120?

Answer: 24

11.) Forty is how much more than the sum of 12 and 21?
Answer: 7

12.) What number is 20 more than the product of 6 ones and 3 tens?
Answer: 200

13.) What number is 100 less than the sum of 80 and 50?
Answer: 30

14.) Write three hundred eight thousand six in symbols.

Answer: 308, 006

15.) One number is 15 more than another. The sum of the numbers is 93. What is the larger number?
Answer: 54

16.) Patrick needs to paint 79 chairs. He has already painted 57 chairs. How many more chairs does he need to
paint?
Answer: 22 chairs
17.) Mary has some cookies. She gave 18 to her friend. She has 21 left. How many cookies did she have at the
beginning?
Answer: 39 cookies.

18.) A rectangular table can seat 8 people. Two tables placed side by side can seat 14 people. Three tables
placed side by side can seat 20 people. At most 4 tables can be placed side by side. How many tables are
needed to seat 51 people?
Answer: 8 tables

19.) A container is 2/3 full of water. When 8 liters of water was removed from it, it became 2/7 full. What is
the capacity of the container?
Answer: 21 liters
20.) What is the sum of 5 tens and 20 ones?
Answer: 70

21.) In a farm, 354 oranges were harvested on Tuesday and 978 were harvested on Thursday. How much
greater was the harvest on Thursday than on Tuesday?
Answer: 624 oranges.

22.) Margie bought 3 boxes of cupcakes. Each box contains 6 cupcakes. How many cupcakes did Margie buy
in all?
Answer: 18 cupcakes

23.) Three times a number added to the product of 4 and 3 is 24. What is the number?
Answer: 4

24.) A vendor had 3 boxes of oranges to sell. There were 20 oranges in each box. If he sold 42 oranges, how
many oranges were not sold?
Answer: 18 oranges are not sold.

25.) If a number is divided by 7, its quotient is 5. What is the number?

Answer: 35

26.) The sum of 18 and 12 divided by 5 is ___?

Answer: 6

27.) What is the sum of the digits in the product of 23 ones and 32 tens?
Answer: 16

28.) What is the sum of 3 consecutive whole numbers if the largest of these numbers is 9>
Answer: 24

29.) What is ¼ of the sum of 6 tens and 8 ones?

Answer: 17
30.) Daria had Php 125.00. She bought a glass of juice for Php 15.00 and a sandwich for Php 37.00. How
much money did she have left?
Answer: Php 73.00 was left.

31.) Eva called her friend at 10:15 am. They talked for 57 mins. What time did their conversation ended?
Answer: 11:12 am

32.) Marissa wants to buy a cake for her mother on her birthday. She has Php 500.00. The cake costs Php
675.50. How much more does she need to buy the cake?
Answer: Php 175.50

33.) A ribbon is 7 m and 60 cm long. How many ribbons each with a length of 50 cm can be cut from it?
Answer: 15
34.) Randy bought 23 oranges and apples for Php 378.00. An orange cost Php 15.00 and an apple costs Php
18.00. How many apples did he buy?
Answer: 11

35.) Using the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8, and without repeating the digits, make an addition sentence using
two 4-digit numbers that has the largest sum.
Answer: 8541 + 7632 = 16173

36.) There are 36 packs of candies in a box. The packs of candies are divided equally among 4 children. How
many packs will each one receive?
Answer: 9 packs
37.) There are 45 pencils that will be given equally among 7 children. How many pencils will each child
receive?
Answer: 6 pencils, remainder 3.

38.) A number divided by 3 and multiplied by 5 gives 40. What is the number?
Answer: 24

39.) Shown below is a portion of a calendar. What is the product of the numbers in the squares?
Answer: 150

2015 Grade 5 MTAP Elimination Questions with Answers

Posted on January 10, 2016 | 2 Comments
Below are the 2015 Grade 5 MTAP Elimination Questions with Answers. I will post the solutions of selected
items later. Also, if time permits, I will redraw some of the figures.
1.) Write the missing number: 1, 3, 2, 6, 3, 9, 4, ___.
Answer: 12

2.) Using only the number 87, how many times will you use it as a factor to get a product whose ones digit is
7?
Answer: 5
3.) Write three hundred thousand twelve and 5 tenths in symbols.
Answer: 300 0012. 50

4.) How many 0.001 are there in 1 000?

Answer: 1 000 000

5.) The ratio of two numbers is 7:9. If their difference is 24, what is their sum?
Answer: 192

6.) When Daria bought a glass of juice for Php 15.00 and a sandwich for Php 37.00, she still had Php 73.00 left
in her wallet. How much money did Daria have at the beginning?
Answer: Php 125.00
7.) How many 3 cm by 3 cm square tiles can cover a square floor with an area of 36 cm^2.
Answer: 4 square tiles

8.) The volume of a rectangular block is 30, 000 cm^3. What is its volume in dm^3?
Answer: 30 dm^3
9.) The product of 2 two-digit numbers is 351. What is their sum?
Answer: 40

10.) If 2 * 5 = 3, 4 * 9 = 5, and 5 * 12 = 7. What is 12 * 17?

Answer: 9

11.) How many 15 thousandths are there in 3/8?

Answer: 25

12.) What is the sum of the digits in the product of 23 tens and 32 ones?
Answer: 16

13.) What is the sum of 3 consecutive whole numbers if the smallest of these numbers is 9>
Answer: 30

14.) What is 1/5 of the sum of 6 tens and 5 ones?

Answer: 13

15.) Dolly had Php 155.00. She bought a glass of juice for Php 18.00 and a sandwich for Php 41.00. How
much money did she have left?
Answer: Php 96.00

16.) Marissa called her friend at 10:15 am. They talked for 157 min. What time did their conversation end?
Answer: 12:52

17.) Liza wants to buy a cake for her mother on her birthday. She already has Php 460.00. The cake costs Php
675.50. How much more does she need to buy the cake?
Answer: Php 212.50
18.) How many 25-centavo coins are equal to Php 5.00?
Answer: 20

19.) If two congruent equilateral triangles are placed side by side, what kind of shape is formed?
Answer: rhombus

20.) What is the value of 15 + 3 x 2 – 6 / 3 – 1 x 3?

Answer: 16

21.) The cost of a box of chocolate decreased from Php 120.00 to Php 115.00. What percent of the original
price is the amount of decrease?
Answer: 4.167%

22.) Mark, Thea, Lota, and Lito want to divide 140 pieces of marbles in the corresponding ratio of 1:2:4:7.
How many more marbles will Lota get than Mark?
Answer: 30 marbles

23.) A tank has a capacity of 50 liters. How many seconds will it be filled if the flow rate into it is 2.5 liters per
seconds?
Answer: 20 seconds.

24.) What is the missing number in the sequence? 1, 3, 5, 10, 18, 32, ___.
Answer: 55

25.) What is the sum of all the numbers in the set {2^3, 3^2, 4^3, 3^4}?
Answer: 162

26.) An airplane arrived at 10:45 am. It was delayed for 1 hour and 25 minutes. If the flight time is 1 hour and
30 minutes, what time was the airplane supposed to depart?
Answer: 7:50 am

27.) On 6 December 2014, Risa bought a load worth Php 300.00 for her cellphone. If the load is valid for 75
days, until when is the load available if December 6 is included in the 75 days?
Answer: February 18, 2015

28.) The average of one set of 3 numbers is 25 and the average of another set of 5 numbers is also 25. What is
the average of the 8 numbers?
Answer: 25

29.) Lina’s weekly transportation expenses reduced by 75% when she joined her aunt in going to school. If she
used to spend Php 140.00 a week, how much does she spend now for transportation?
Answer: P 35.00

30.) 34 – 6 / 3 + 8 x 4 is ___
Answer:
31.) If 50% of a number is 500, how many percent of the number is 250?
Answer: 25%

32.) Observe the pattern: 2, 5, 8, 11, 14, … If the pattern continues, what is the 30th number?
Answer: 89

33.) What number is 2/3 between 7 and 13?

Answer: 11

34.) An airplane departed at 2:15 pm and flew for 1 ½ hours. It arrived 25 minutes earlier than the scheduled
arrival. What should have been its scheduled arrival?
Answer: 4:10 pm

35.) The vertex of an isosceles triangle is 36 degrees. What is the measure of its base angle?
Answer: 72 degrees

36.) The perimeter of an equilateral triangle and a rhombus are both equal to 45 cm. How many cm shorter is a
side of the rhombus than a side of the triangle?
Answer: 3.75

37.) The sum of 2 numbers is 80. Their difference is 16. What is the quotient when the bigger number is
divided by the small number?
Answer: 1.50

38.) A tray of salted eggs contains 30 pieces. Each piece costs Php 11.00. Liza sells each egg at Php 11.75.
How much is her profit if she sold 6 ½ trays of salted eggs?
Answer:

39.) Ernesto is weighing his school bag. He says “if I add 725 grams, it will weigh 2 kilograms”. How many
grams does his bag weigh?
Answer: 1, 275 grams

40.) There are 36 packs of candies in a box. The packs of candies are divided equally among 4 children. How
many packs will each child receive?
Answer: 9 packs
41.) Twenty seven apples are put in box. There are 6 boxes. How many boxes contain exactly the same number
of apples?
Answer:

42.) Liza has read 4/5 of the total number of pages of a book. Today, she reads 21 pages. She still needs to read
1/10 of the total number of pages to finish reading the book. How many pages does the book have?
Answer: 210 pages

43.) Alice has 47 apples. She is going to give them equally to 6 children. How many more apples are needed so
that each child will receive 9 apples?
Answer: 7 apples
44.) A container holds 8 times the amount of water in a cup that holds 2 deciliters of water. How many
deciliters of water can be poured into the container?
Answer: 16 deciliters

45.) Each marble weighs 25 grams. The total weight of the marbles is 2 kilograms. How many marbles are
there in the box?
Answer: 80 marbles

46.) An 8-meter ribbon costs Php 96.00. How much is the cost of 4.5 meters of ribbon?
Answer: Php 54.00

47.) Which fraction is the smalles? 3/5, 2/3, ¾, 4/7

Answer: 4/7

48.) Mark added 2 to a number then divided the sum by 3. He multiplied the quotient by 10 then subtracted 7
from the product and got a difference of 23. What was the number he started with?
Answer: 7

49.) A ribbon is 4 m and 60 cm long. Rissa cut it into shorter pieces each with a length of 50 cm. What is the
length of the piece that was left?
Answer: 10 cm

50.) The area of the square ABCD below is 16 cm^2. If CE = 1 cm, what is the area of triangle ABE?
Answer: 6 cm^2