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Factors and Multiples Problem Set

1. This document contains two sections - Section A with 6 multiple choice questions about factors, prime numbers, and time calculations. Section B contains 3 short answer questions about factors and finding the highest common factor (HCF) and lowest common multiple (LCM) of pairs of numbers. 2. Section C contains 3 short answer questions - one about finding the sum of the HCF and LCM of two numbers, one about dividing stationary items into pencil cases, and one about dividing students into groups with equal numbers of boys and girls. 3. The document tests concepts related to factors, prime numbers, multiples, HCF, LCM and word problems involving dividing items into equal groups.

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Factors and Multiples Problem Set

1. This document contains two sections - Section A with 6 multiple choice questions about factors, prime numbers, and time calculations. Section B contains 3 short answer questions about factors and finding the highest common factor (HCF) and lowest common multiple (LCM) of pairs of numbers. 2. Section C contains 3 short answer questions - one about finding the sum of the HCF and LCM of two numbers, one about dividing stationary items into pencil cases, and one about dividing students into groups with equal numbers of boys and girls. 3. The document tests concepts related to factors, prime numbers, multiples, HCF, LCM and word problems involving dividing items into equal groups.

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  • Section A
  • Section B
  • Section C

Section A:

1. Which of the following are prime factor 3. In a “Spring Clean” Campaign, the
of 54? organiser has prepared 32 garbage
bags, 96 brooms and 160 bottles of
A 1, 2 , 3 drinking water to be equally divided to
each group of volunteers. How many
B 2, 3 groups of volunteers can be formed in
this campaign?
C 2, 3, 5
A 16
D 5, 7
B 24

C 32

D 48

TP1 TP4
2. The diagram shows four numbered 4. Which of the following matches is
card. correct?

12 18 24 36 Numbers Lowest Common


Multiple
A 12, 15 180
Find the highest common factor of the
four numbers above.
B 18, 24 48
A 2
C 14, 28 56
B 4
D 25, 35 175
C 6

D 8

TP 3
TP 3
5. Three alarm clocks are set to chime at 6. Which of the following shows that 36
interval 6 minutes, 15 minutes and 20 can be expressed as a product of prime
minutes respectively. If all the alarm factors?
clocks chime together at 0815 hours, at
what time will they next ring together A 6×6
again?
B 9 ×2 ×2
A 0835 hours
C 2 ×2 ×3 ×3
B 0842 hours
D 2 ×3 ×6
C 0900 hours

D 0915 hours

TP5 TP2

Section B:

1. Circle the factors of 81. [3 marks] TP2

Answers:
9 27 21

18 81 6

2. Match the following pair of numbers with their correct highest common factor. [3 marks]
TP3

Answers:
• 2

15 and 20 • • 3

6 and 8 • • 5

27 and 45 • • 9

• 15
Section C:

1. The highest common factor (HCF) and the lowest common multiple (LCM) of 15 and 18
are p and q respectively. Find the value of p + q. [3 marks] TP4

2. A principal in a secondary school want to give stationary to the form 1 students for year-
end examination. 308 black ink pens, 220 pencils and 124 rulers divided equally in each
pencil case. How many maximum pencil cases can be provided? [3 marks] TP5

3. A class has 40 students. 16 of them are boys. Teacher Lily wants to divide the students in
the class into few numbers of groups where each group has the same combination of girls
and boys.
(i) What is the biggest number of groups that can be formed by Teacher Lily? [2 marks]

(ii) State the combination of girls and boys in each group. [2 marks]

TP5

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