INTERNATIONAL SINGAPORE MATHS COMPETITION

2022

Primary 4
1 hour 30 minutes

Instructions to participants

1. Do not open the booklet until you are told to do so.

2. Attempt ALL 25 questions.

3. Write your answers neatly in the Answer Sheet provided.

4. Marks are awarded for correct answers only.

5. All figures are not drawn to scale.

6. No calculators may be used.

Questions in Section A carry 2 marks each, questions in Section B carry

4 marks each and questions in Section C carry between 6 to 10 marks
each.

Jointly organised by

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Section A:
Each of the questions 1 to 10 carries 2 marks.

1. In the addition shown below, the letters A, B, C and D represent digits.

All seven digits are different. What is the sum of A, B, C and D?
5 A
+ B C
D 4 3

2. A number is palindromic if it is the same when read from left to right, or right to left.
For example, 2002 is palindromic. How many 3-digit numbers are palindromic?

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3. A planet spins 1 2 turns about its axis in 24 hours.
How many turns does it spin in 1 week?

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4. Salim has a rope that is 7 5 units long. It cuts it into equal pieces each unit long,
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leaving no remainder. How many pieces do he cut the rope into?

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5. There are 15 houses along a street. At least 1 person lives in each house.
At most 6 people live in two neighbouring houses.
What is the largest number of people living in all the houses along this street?

6. An athlete is training for a marathon. The athlete runs a certain distance per training session.
There are 5 sessions in a week. The next week, the running distance per session is
increased by 2.4 km. By the end of the first two weeks, the athlete ran a total of 60 km since
the start of the training. What was the running distance per session in the first week?
(Give your answer as a decimal.)

7. A night train is scheduled to leave the station at 20 59.

It takes 2 hours and 47 minutes to arrive at its destination.
If the train leaves 15 minutes late, at what time does it arrive at its destination?

8. A group of people are seated equally spaced in a circle.

The people are numbered in order around the circle from 1 up to the last person.
Person 27 is the same distance away from Person 6 as from Person 14.
How many people were there in the circle?

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9. We have three separate transparent square sheets, each printed with a pattern, as shown
below. Only the black areas are opaque. The white areas are transparent.

Each sheet may be rotated but not flipped over. Then the three squares are placed exactly
on top of each other. What least possible fraction of the new overlapped square is black?

10. Jay’s mother gives Jay a sum of money to buy some apples at the fruit shop. With that sum
of money, Jay could buy either 10 apples and 12 oranges or 15 apples and 6 oranges, with
no change in return. Remembering that his mother had told Jay to only buy apples, how
many apples can Jay buy?

Section B
Each of the questions 11 to 20 carries 4 marks.

11. Given that ⍾ + ⍾ + ⍾ + ⍾ + ⩐ = 81

⩐ + ⩐ + ⩐ + ⍾ + ⍾ = 73
What is the value of ⍾?

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12. If of a number is 28, what is of the number?
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13. A flask contained some water. Dad poured ℓ of water from the flask into a glass.
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3
Mom added ℓ of water into the flask.
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1
Cindy accidentally spilled ℓ of water from the flask
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5
There was ℓ of the water in the flask in the end.
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How much water was in the flask at first?
Give your answer as a mixed number in the simplest form.

14. Arul bought two different items from a bookshop.

He gave some $5 notes and three 50¢ coins to the cashier.
He received a change of 15¢. What items did he buy?

Item Price
Crayons $8.90
Story book $9.95
Textbook $11.50
T-shirt $12.45

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15. A total of 8 desks and chairs weigh 21.2 kg. Each chair weighs 1.4 kg and each desk weighs
3.4 kg. What is the total mass of all the desks?

16. A banana cake and 7 cupcakes cost $14.90. A banana cake and 14 cupcakes cost $21.55.
How much does 5 banana cakes cost?

17. What is the fewest number of small squares that must

be shaded so that the given figure has 4 lines of symmetry?

Shade the squares in the figure in the Answer Sheet.

18. There are three brothers in a family.

The product of the ages of the oldest child and the youngest child is 315 years.
The middle child is as many years younger than the oldest child as he is older than the
youngest child. The age gap between the oldest and the youngest child is not more than
12 years. What is the sum of the ages of all three brothers?

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19. A tank was completely filled with water at 8 a.m.

Water flowed out of the tank from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The graph below shows the volume of water left in the tank at each 2-hour interval.
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Volume of water in the tank ( ℓ )

160
140
120
100
80
60
40
20
0
8 a.m. 10 a.m. 12 noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m.

Volume of water in the tank from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

a) Within which 2-hour interval did the greatest amount of water flow out of the tank?

b) What fraction of the original amount of water had flowed out of the tank by 2 p.m.?

20. The bar graph shows the number of students who visited the library from Monday to Friday.
Number of students

Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri

Given that a total of 93 students visited the library on Monday and Tuesday, and a total of
173 students visited the library on Thursday and Friday, how many more students visited the
library on Friday than on Tuesday?

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Section C
Questions 21, 22, 23, 24 and 25 carry 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 marks respectively.

21. A farmer has chicken, sheep, ducks, goats in his farm.

1 1 2
of his animals are chicken, of them are sheep and of them are ducks.
3 6 9
The remaining 115 animals are goats.

a) How many times as many chickens as ducks does he have?

b) How many more 2-legged animals than 4-legged animals does he have?

22a. This is an octahedron.

Ravi started building using 3 rods to form a triangular base, as shown in the first figure.
The he added more rods to form an octahedron with this base as one of its faces. The top
face then becomes the base of the next octahedron. Ravi made his first three octahedra as
shown in the last figure.

Ravi has 160 rods altogether, but that is not enough for him to complete the last octahedron.
How many more rods does he need?

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b. Ravi builds a tower of 2022 octahedra. The top of the tower is painted red while the rest of
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the tower is painted white. If the number of rods painted red is a multiple of 9, how many
more rods are painted white instead of red?

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E A B
23a. The figure shown is a square. Given that ∠ACD = 70º, find y
the difference of ∠x and ∠y.

70º
D C

b. A cube is a solid with 6 faces and 8 corners.

The solid shown is form by cutting off two corners of a cube.

(i) How many faces does this solid have?

(ii) How many corners does this solid have?

24. In the square grid, the drawn line CD is the complete side of a square ABCD.
CD is also the complete side of a rectangle CDEF which has an area 3 times as large as
square ABCD. The square and the rectangle do not overlap.

1 unit

a) In your Answer Sheet, complete the drawing of square ABCD and rectangle CDEF.

b) What is the area of rectangle formed by CDEF in square units?

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25. Study the three sets of balances.

B B
C B D C
D A C D
A A

In your Answer Sheet, state whether each of the statements is True or False.

Statement 1: A is heavier than B.

Statement 2: B is heavier than C.
Statement 3: C is heavier than A.
Statement 4: D is heavier than B.
Statement 5: A is heavier than D.
Statement 6: B is the heaviest.
Statement 7: C is the heaviest.
Statement 8: D is the heaviest.
Statement 9: A is the lightest.
Statement 10: B is the lightest.

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