Q&A - PSLE Math

[tianzhu]

AJH:

Hi - nd help with this question:


Mr Lee packed some oranges into big boxes and apples into small boxes. Each big box contained 50 oranges and each small box contained 30 apples. After packing, there were 12 more big boxes than small boxes. Given that there were 1240 fewer apples than oranges, how many oranges were there? ( ans: 2200 )

Thank you.

Hi

You may use MD or work with units.

Draw three boxes (stacked up) to show the number of apples.

12*50 ------ 600

Draw five boxes to show the number of oranges. To make the MD look neater, divide 600/5 to give 120, add a bar showing 120 to each of the box.

5 boxes + 600 ------- 3 boxes + 1240

2 boxes ------- 640

1box ------ 320

Number of apples ------- 2200

Best wishes

[tianzhu]

jewelbox:

2. Chairs are arranged in rows in a sch hall. There are 6 chairs left over if 13 chairs are put in each row. Hwoever, if 15 chairs are arranged in each row, there will be a shortage of 4 chairs. if the no. of people attending the concert is betw 200 and 30, find the no. of chairs in the hall.

Hi

Use “SL” to get the answer of 266.

Do a tabulated list of multiples of 13 + 6 and multiples of 15 – 4.

Or alternatively find the multiples of 13 and 15 which give a difference of 10.

Then find multiple of 13 + 6 or multiple of 15 – 4.

Best wishes

[tianzhu]

ximinful:

Hi,can someone help me with nanyang 2012 prelim q10?

Hi

If you’re referring to the Speed question, I’ll try to do some sketch and PM to you early next week.

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[Michaelia0816]

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[brastilava]

Hi, please help in these 2 questions:


1) 7 rows of soldiers with 20 soldiers in each row were assembled on a parade square. The soldiers were spaced out equally to form the perimeter of the parade square. The number of soldiers on the length of the parade square was twice the number of soldiers on its breadth. How many soldiers were on each side of the rectangle?

2) I am a 2-digit number. I am a multiple of 4. When I am divided by 9, there will be a remainder of 6. When I am divided by 7, there will be a remainder of 5. Who am I?

[ximinful]

tianzhu:

ximinful:

Hi,can someone help me with nanyang 2012 prelim q10?

Hi

If you’re referring to the Speed question, I’ll try to do some sketch and PM to you early next week.

Best wishes

:rahrah: :thankyou:

[tianzhu]

brastilava:

Hi, please help in these 2 questions:


1) 7 rows of soldiers with 20 soldiers in each row were assembled on a parade square. The soldiers were spaced out equally to form the perimeter of the parade square. The number of soldiers on the length of the parade square was twice the number of soldiers on its breadth. How many soldiers were on each side of the rectangle?

2) I am a 2-digit number. I am a multiple of 4. When I am divided by 9, there will be a remainder of 6. When I am divided by 7, there will be a remainder of 5. Who am I?

Hi

Good Morning.

For Q1, please refer to this similar question.

The answers to your question are 48 and 24.

7*20 ------ 140

140 + 4 ------144

6 units ------ 144

You may carry on from here.

For Q2, use “Systematic Listing”

It may be a bit tedious, but this is the sort of durian bao chiak type of questions if students are careful in their calculations. All one needs to do is to list down the multiples and make appropriate adjustment.

The answer is 96.

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[ksmama]

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MathIzzzFun:

match3frog:

Please help with the following question:

Hi mathsizzfun,
Regardg yr ans to the foll questn, my kid calculated a diff way n the ans is different. Please comment on why his method is not acceptable. Is it because when d ques asks for average sp, we have to calculate based on whole dist n time taken n not assume aver sp same throughout? Thanks.

Diff in speed-> 65/3 =21.67km/h
Speed of car 70+21.67 = 91.67km/h.





A car was travelling from Town P to Town Q.

After completing 2/7 of the journey in 1/2 hour, the car passed a van travelling at a constant speed of 70km/h in the same direction.
3 hours later, the car reached Town Q but the van was still 65 km away from Town Q.

(a) Find the average speed of the car.

(b) If the van left Town P at 0810, at what time would it arrive at Town Q?

Thank you

5/7of distance PQ --> 3 x 70 + 65 = 275 km
distance PQ --> 275/5 x 7 --> 385 km
total time taken by car --> 3. 5 h
average speed of car --> 385/3. 5 --> 110 km/h

cheers.

[ksmama]

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[jonaandr]

please help to solve the problem.


Mrs Hodge bought three times as many key chains as stuffed toys and spent $124 in total. She spent $64 more on the stuffed toys than the key chains. Given that a stuffed toy cost $8.40 more than a key chain, find the cost of a key chain.

Thanks a lot!