Speed Questions, Grade 5

2022 Math League International Summer Challenge

(Unofficial version, for reference only)

Note:
Listed below are the four types of coins currently being minted in United States.
a. Penny: 1¢
b. Nickel: 5¢
c. Dime: 10¢
d. Quarter: 25¢

1. 1% of 1% =
A) 1
B) 1%
1
C)
1000
1
D) %
100
Answer: D

2. 200% of ? is a prime.
A) 1
B) 2
C) 3
D) 5
Answer: A

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3. 1 =
2+ 1
2+
2

1
A) 3

2
B) 5

2
C) 9

5
D) 12

Answer: D
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4. Find the missing number: = 4 × 5.
?

A) 11
B) 22
C) 45
D) 121
Answer: D

5. The average of six consecutive whole numbers could be

1
A) 36 3

1
B) 44 6

1
C) 48 2
D) 54
Answer: C

6. If 5% of a certain number is 16, then 25% of half the number is

A) 2
B) 4
C) 40
D) 80
Answer: C

7. Ali’s crystal ball grants two-fifths of one-fifth of all wishes. This is ？ of all
wishes.
3
A)
5
2
B)
25
C) 8
D) 60
Answer: C

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8. After a girl spends of her money and loses of the remainder, she then has $10
3 2

left. She started with

A) $30
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B) $45
C) $50
D) $60
Answer: A

9. Which of the following fractions has the greatest value?

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A) 100

152
B) 300

52
C) 103

50
D) 99

Answer: A

10. If 5 apples cost the same as 4 oranges, find the ratio of the cost of 1 apple to the
cost of 1 orange.
A) 5: 9
B) 4:9
C) 5:4
D) 4:5
Answer: D

11. The least common multiple of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 is

A) 1
B) 1260
C) 2520
D) 3628800
Answer: C

4 3 2
12. By what fractional part of does exceed 5?
5 5

1
A) 5

1
B) 4

2
C) 5

3
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D) 5

Answer: B

13. In a right triangle whose area is 12, each leg is as long as the side of a certain
square. What is the area of the square?
A) 12
B) 24
C) 48
D) 144
Answer: B

14. Find the last digit of 19831984 .

A) 1
B) 2
C) 3
D) 9
Answer: A

15. I have 5 coins of equal value in my left pocket, and 2 coins of equal value in my
right pocket. If the total value of the coins in each pocket is the same, my left pocket
contains
A) pennies
B) nickels
C) dimes
D) quarters
Answer: C

16. A circle has an area of 36π. What is the area of the smallest square that can
surround this circle?
A) 18
B) 48
C) 72
D) 144
Answer: D

17. The number 1000 has only 16 positive whole number factors. The product of all
16 of these factors is
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A) 108
B) 1016
C) 1024
D) 1032
Answer: C

18. (− 1) + (− 1) + (− 1) +     +(− 1) + (− 1) =
1 2 3 2021 2022

A) − 1
B) 0
C) 1
D) 1011
Answer: B

19. If Bo’s score was 8/10 of Al’s, and Cy’s score was 3/4 of Bo’s, then the ratio of
Al’s score to the average of Bo’s and Cy’s scores was
A) 10:7
B) 7:10
C) 5:3
D) 3:5
Answer: A

20. Jack picks 3 liters of berries in 8 minutes. Jill pick 4 liters of berries in 10 minutes.
Working together, how many berries can they pick in 1 minute?
7
A)
9
7
B)
18
8
C)
19
31
D)
40
Answer: D

21. 5% is what percent of 0.1?

A) 10%
B) 50%
C) 200%
D) 500%
Answer: B
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22. The length of a radius of a circle is decreased by 10%. This causes the area to be
decreased by
A) 19%
B) 20%
C) 21%
D) 25%
Answer: A

23. The hundreds digit of 999999 is

A) 3
B) 5
C) 7
D) 9
Answer: D

24. An ant crawls outside a square of side 1 cm, at all times remaining exactly 1 cm
from the boundary of the square. In square cm, the area bounded by one complete
circuit of the ant is most nearly equal to
A) 7
B) 8
C) 9
D) 10
Answer: B

25. From noon one day till noon 2 days later, how many times will the hour hand of a
clock pass the 1 o’clock mark?
A) 2
B) 3
C) 4
D) 48
Answer: C

26. The reciprocal of 1.01 is

A) 0.101
B) 1.01
C) 0.99
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D)
101
Answer: D

27. If, every 2 seconds, a unicycle wheel of radius 1 m rolls once around without
slipping, what is the wheel’s average ground speed?

A) 0.5 m/sec
B)  m/sec
C) 2 m/sec
D) 4 m/sec
Answer: B

28. The volume of cube Ⅰ is 331 m 3 less than the volume of cube Ⅱ. If an edge of
cube Ⅰ is 10 meters, an edge of cube Ⅱ is
A) 14 meters
B) 13 meters
C) 12 meters
D) 11meters
Answer: D

29. 7 2 + 7 2 + 7 2 + 7 2 + 7 2 + 7 2 + 7 2 = 7  ?

A) 72

B) 7 3

C) 7 7

7
D) 7 8
Answer: A

30. Which of the following figures can not be folded along the dotted lines to form a
cube?

A)

B)

C)

D)
Answer: D

31. When I turn my calculator upside down, the digits 0, 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, and 9 still
appear as digits. For example, When I turn my calculator upside down, 65259 remains
the same—that is, it stays 65259. How many whole numbers between 100 and 1000
remain the same when I turn my calculator upside down?

A) 6×7
B) 6×5
C) 6×5×6
D) 6×7×6
Answer: B

32. For each whole number n  1 , list all the fractions between 0 and 1 with
1 1 2 1
denominator n and a whole number numerator. The list, which begins , , , ,
2 3 3 4
2 3 1
, , , …, continues in increasing order for each denominator. The 100th such
4 4 5
fraction is
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A)
46
9
B)
46
10
C)
46
11
D)
46
Answer: C

33. If the hands on a round clock moved counter clockwise, to what number would
the minute hand point 20 minutes before the hour hand pointed to the 3?
A) 4
B) 7
C) 8
D) 11
Answer: A

34. If M and N are positive two-digit numbers, then, of the following fractions, the
one with the largest value is
N
A)
M
N +1
B)
M −1
N −1
C)
M
N
D)
M +1
Answer: B

35. Find the area of the trapezoid below.

A) 44
B) 48
C) 90
D) 100
Answer: A
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36. If a  0 and b  0 , which of the following must be true?
A) − a  b
B) a  −b
C) b − a  0
D) ab  0
Answer: C

37. 299 + (−2) 99 =

A) 099
B) 299
C) 2198
D) 499
Answer: A

38. The first 1000 primes are multiplied together. This number must be divisible by
A) 10
B) 100
C) 1000
D) 101000
Answer: A

39. Two sides of a triangle have lengths 9 and 11. If no two sides of the triangle have
equal lengths, the perimeter could be
A) 21
B) 23
C) 29
D) 31
Answer: B

40. To form a certain sequence, the rules are:

If a number is even, divide by 2 to get the next number;
If a number is odd, multiply by 3, then add 1 to the next number.
Starting with 12, the first few terms are 12, 6, 3, 10, 5, 16, … In this particular
sequence, the 100th term is
A) 1
B) 2
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C) 3
D) 4
Answer: A

41. If x + 3 represents an even number, then which of the following will always
represent an odd number?
A) x + 1
B) 6 x + 4
C) 3 x + 5
D) 5 x + 8
Answer: D

42. A number is rounded to the nearest whole number. The original number is then
rounded to the nearest ten. The difference between the 2 new numbers formed cannot
be
A) 3
B) 4
C) 5
D) 6
Answer: D

43. How many of the first 1992 prime numbers have reciprocals which are less than
0.05?
A) 1972
B) 1984
C) 1985
D) 1988
Answer: B

44. If x people can do a job in d days, how long would it take y people to do the same

job?
x
A)
yd

xd
B)
y
y
C)
xd

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D)
x
Answer: B

45. There are 2 red, 3 blue, and 4 green marbles in a bag. I take one marble at a time
out of the bag without looking. What is the least number of marbles I must take out to
be sure that I have 3 of the same color?
A) 3
B) 5
C) 7
D) 9
Answer: C

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46. If Pat is 33 % taller than Lee, then Lee is what percent shorter than Pat?
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A) 20%
B) 25%
C) 30%
1
D) 33 %
3
Answer: B

47. How many different integers have reciprocals whose values are greater than
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and less than ?
1998 1998
A) 78
B) 79
C) 84
D) 85
Answer: D

48. What is the remainder when the product of all the prime numbers between 1 and
100 is divided by 4?
A) 3
B) 2
C) 1
D) 0
Answer: B

49. As shown, a vertex of a square with sides of length 2, and the center of a circle
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with a radius of 2, coincide. What is the area of the shaded region?

A) 4 − 4
B) 2 + 4
C) 3 − 4
D) 
Answer: B

50. What is the quotient of the least common multiple of the first 40 positive integers
divided by the least common multiple of the first 30 positive integers?
A) 1147
B) 2294
C) 36704
D) 89466
Answer: B

51. In Professor Tuffguy’s mathematics class, 36 students took the final exam. If the
average passing grade was 78, the average failing grade was 60, and the class average
was 71, how many of these students passed the final?

A) 14
B) 22
C) 24
D) 29
Answer: B

52. Frank and Alice went to a “Bring a Snack” party. Frank spent 10 pennies + 16
dimes. Alice spent as much as Frank, but her 26 coins consisted of only quarters and
nickels. How many nickels did Alice spend?

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A) 16
B) 20
C) 22
D) 24
Answer: D

53. In the ordered sequence 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, …, each positive integer n

occurs in a block of n terms. If I add the reciprocals of all the terms, in order
beginning with the first term, then at some point the sum will be
A) 98.1
B) 99.25
C) 100.5
D) 102.75
Answer: B

54. If n is a positive integer, n ！ is the product of the first n positive integers. For
example, 4！= 4  3  2  1 = 24 . If u and v are positive integers and u!= v!56 , then v
could equal
A) 6
B) 8
C) 56
D) 57
Answer: A

55. If the lengths of the sides of a rectangle are integers, and if one sides is 2 more
than another, then the perimeter could equal
A) 1998
B) 1999
C) 2000
D) 2002
Answer: C
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56. I found the product of n different positive prime numbers. Of the following,
which could be the number of positive integers that are factors of this product?

A) 1024
B) 1000
C) 676
D) 400
Answer: A

57. If I add together ? different positive odd numbers, the value of the sum can
be 12321, but it can never be less than 12321.
A) 111
B) 121
C) 131
D) 221
Answer: A

58. The product 1.25 10 n is the cube of an integer when n =

A) 1999
B) 2000
C) 2001
D) 2002
Answer: B

59. If 3 x : 5 y = 7 : 11 , then x : y =

A) 2:3
B) 21:55
C) 35:33
D) 55:21
Answer: C

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60. If my rocketcar goes 30 km at an average speed of 30 km/hr, what average speed
must it maintain over the next 30 km for it to achieve an average speed of 50 km/hr
for the entire 60 km?

A) 70 km/hr
B) 80 km/hr
C) 100 km/hr
D) 150 km/hr
Answer: D

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