Grade 5
1997 Individual Round 1
Logical Reasoning, Properties of Numbers, Geometry, Measurement, Time
Individual Rounds in the Math Masters Competitions are timed (10 minutes), and calculators are allowed.
Note: Test Preparation Packets containing hundreds of problems (fact drills,
individual and team) from previous years' competitions can be ordered
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1. Which of the following is the closest guess for the measure of the angle shown below?
a) 73°
b) 89°
c) 125°
d) 178°
2. It is now 3:30 p.m. James plays a piano solo 5,970 minutes from now. What time of day is James' piano solo?
3. A honey bee makes 0.1 ounce of honey in its lifetime. If there are 16 ounces in a pound, and a quart contains 3 pounds of honey, how many bees are needed to make a quart of honey?
4. If the original figure below is rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise, which of the figures below shows the result of this rotation?
5. Which of the following fractions is an expression for the number zero?
6. The areas of the square and the rectangle shown below are the same. What is the length of the rectangle?
7. It takes Gary 3 minutes to walk up a flight of stairs at his apartment building, but only 2 minutes to walk down a flight of stairs. Gary is on the third floor. How long does it take him to walk up to the sixth floor and then walk down to the first floor?
8. Shane was told to add 3 to his favorite number and then multiply the result by 6. Instead, Shane added 6 to his favorite number and then multiplied the result by 3. His answer was 57. What answer would Shane have gotten if he had done the problem correctly?
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