Q1
MCQ
1 mark
A number when rounded off to the nearest thousand is 700 000. What is the number?
P6 Mathematics SA2 2016 — Methodist Girls
Source: Methodist Girls, 2016
This P6 Mathematics SA2 paper from Methodist Girls (2016) covers measurement, area and perimeter, money, geometry and angles, ratio and percentage across 48 questions worth 97 marks. Practise Mathematics the way it's tested at P6 level in Singapore, with step-by-step answers on LearnBuddy.
Q2
MCQ
1 mark
24/27 = 32/□. What is the missing number in the box?
Q3
MCQ
1 mark
🖼 Visual
In the figure below, which angle is closest to a right angle?
Q4
MCQ
1 mark
🖼 Visual
Sophia faced South-West after turning 135° anti-clockwise. Where was she facing at first?
Q5
MCQ
1 mark
🖼 Visual
Mariam has $20. What is the greatest number of pens that she can buy? (First 6 pens at $1 each, additional pens at 80 cents each)
Q6
MCQ
1 mark
🖼 Visual
The solid below is made up of 3 similar cubes. The area of the shaded surface is 48 cm². What is the volume of the solid?
Q7
MCQ
1 mark
🖼 Visual
What is the area of triangle ABC as shown in the figure?
Q8
MCQ
1 mark
Mei Lin had $80. She gave $20p to her daughter and shared the remainder equally among her 3 sons. How much did each son receive?
Q9
MCQ
1 mark
🖼 Visual
The graph below shows the timing of the six boys who competed in the 50 m freestyle. Which 2 boys were the fastest swimmers?
Q10
MCQ
1 mark
🖼 Visual
The figure below shows a cube. Which one of the following is not a net of a cube?
Q11
MCQ
1 mark
Find the sum of 33 ones, 30 tens, 300 hundreds and 3 thousands.
Q12
MCQ
2 marks
🖼 Visual
The figure below is made up of a semicircle and two squares of sides 10 cm and 4 cm. Find the area of the figure. Give your answer in terms of π.
Q13
MCQ
2 marks
Two classes participated at a carnival. Each class had the same number of students. The ratio of the number of girls to the number of boys in class A is 2:3. The ratio of the number of boys to the number of girls in class B is 3:7. What is the ratio of the number of girls to the number of boys at the carnival?
Q14
MCQ
2 marks
🖼 Visual
The pie chart represents the favourite animal of the pupils in Primary 6A. There are as many fish as birds. How many pupils chose the terrapins as their favourite animal?
Q15
MCQ
2 marks
Uncle Tan took a walk from his home to the park and back home again. The distance between Uncle Tan's home and the park was 480 m. On the way to the park, he walked at a speed of 40 m/min. Uncle Tan took 20 minutes to walk home from the park. What was his average speed for the whole journey?
Q16
Open-ended
1 mark
Express 2.8 as a percentage. Ans: ______ %
Q17
Open-ended
1 mark
Melody spent 25% of her allowance and had $60 left. How much did she spend?
Q18
Open-ended
1 mark
🖼 Visual
In the number line below, FG = GH. What is the fraction represented by G?
Q19
Open-ended
1 mark
5/12 × 11 = 5/12 × 6 + 5/12 + 5/12 + 5/12 + ______ . Give your answer in its simplest form.
Q20
Open-ended
1 mark
Ali and Muthu had some marbles. After Ali gave 15 marbles to Muthu, he had 20 marbles more than Muthu. How many more marbles did Ali have than Muthu at first?
Q21
Open-ended
1 mark
🖼 Visual
Part of a scale is shown below. What is the value of the reading at X?
Q22
Open-ended
1 mark
🖼 Visual
The solid below is made up of 6 identical 3-cm cubes. What is the total surface area of this solid including the base? Ans: ______ cm²
Q23
Open-ended
1 mark
🖼 Visual
There are three shaded triangles on a grid made of 2-cm squares. What is the total area of the three shaded triangles? Ans: ______ cm²
Q24
Open-ended
1 mark
🖼 Visual
In the figure below, STUV is a square and ∠TVW = 11°. Find ∠WVU.
Q25
Open-ended
1 mark
🖼 Visual
The figure below shows a line MN and a point X. Draw a parallel line to MN passing through X.
Q26
Open-ended
2 marks
The perimeter of a rectangle is 48 cm. The length of the rectangle is 2 cm longer than its breadth. Find its breadth. Ans: ______ cm
Q27
Open-ended
2 marks
Mrs Lee had $13 in her wallet. She spent all her money on 10 apples and 4 pears. If she had bought 3 apples and 12 pears instead, she would need $7.10 more. What was the cost of one pear? Ans: $______
Q28
Open-ended
2 marks
2/5 of Aditya's current age is the same as 3/7 of Hafiz's current age. Hafiz's current age is 70 years old, what was their total age 3 years ago?
Q29
Open-ended
2 marks
Sam scored an average of 80 marks for 3 tests. He scored 20 marks more for his Science test than his English test. For the Math test, he scored 5 marks lower than his English test. How many marks did he score for his English test?
Q30
Open-ended
2 marks
A library classifies its books as fiction, non-fiction and reference books. 1/3 of the books are fiction books. The ratio of non-fiction books to reference books is 4 : 1. What is the ratio of the number of fiction books to the number of reference books?
Q31
Structured
2 marks
Tree A is y m tall. Tree B is twice as tall as Tree A. Tree C is 5 cm taller than Tree B. (a) What is the total height of the three trees in terms of y? (b) If Tree A is 1.5 m tall, what is the height of Tree C?
Q32
Open-ended
2 marks
Mr. Tey travelled at a constant speed of 80 km/h for 45 min, and covered 3/5 of his journey from Town A to Town B. Find the distance for the whole journey. Ans: ______ km
Q33
Open-ended
1 mark
🖼 Visual
PQ and QR are two sides of a parallelogram. Complete the parallelogram PQRS by drawing the other two sides in the square grid below.
Q34
Open-ended
2 marks
🖼 Visual
A rectangular piece of cardboard was folded as shown below. Find ∠e. Ans: ______ °
Q35
Open-ended
2 marks
🖼 Visual
The figure below is made up of two squares. Find the perimeter of the figure. Ans: ______ cm
Q36
Open-ended
3 marks
A machine printed a total of 6 000 newsletters for the first 5 days. When the machine was upgraded, it printed 1 800 newsletters per day. How many days in all did the machine take to print 34 800 newsletters?
Q37
Structured
3 marks
A group of girls shared some sweets among themselves. If each girl took 11 sweets, the last girl would have only 6 sweets. If each girl took 8 sweets, there were 25 sweets left over. (a) How many girls were there? (b) How many sweets were there?
Q38
Open-ended
3 marks
🖼 Visual
Anne needs to pack 6-cm cubes into a box measuring 33 cm by 15 cm by 27 cm as shown below. What is the volume of the remaining space in the box after the maximum number of cubes have been packed in?
Q39
Open-ended
3 marks
Mrs. Lim gave 7/10 of her stickers to Dolly and the rest to Hong. After Dolly gave Hong 1/5 of her stickers, Dolly had 24 stickers more than Hong. How many stickers did Dolly give to Hong?
Q40
Open-ended
3 marks
Melissa had some money. She used 1/4 of it on a bag and 1/6 of the remainder on a dress. The bag and the dress cost $133.50 altogether. How much money had she left?
Q41
Structured
4 marks
Lance left Town X and drove towards Town Y. Along the way, he met Ali who was driving at a speed of 80 km/h in the opposite direction. 45 minutes later, Lance reached Town Y but Ali was still 50 km from Town X. Both did not change their speed throughout. Lance took 2 hours to complete the whole journey. (a) What was Lance's speed? (b) What was the distance between Town X and Town Y?
Q42
Open-ended
4 marks
Mr Lee bought four times as many ties as wallets. He spent $840 altogether. A wallet cost $50 more than a tie. The total cost of the ties was $184 more than the total cost of the wallets. How many wallets did he buy?
Q43
Structured
4 marks
🖼 Visual
The pie chart shows the number of coloured ribbons. The ratio of the number of green ribbons to the number of pink ribbons is 1 : 4. (a) What percentage of the ribbons was green? (b) If there were 45 more yellow than green ribbons, how many blue and pink ribbons were there?
Q44
Open-ended
4 marks
A box contained apples, oranges and pears. The ratio of the number of apples to the number of oranges was 7 : 2. The number of pears was 5/6 of the total number of apples and oranges. After some apples were eaten, the total number of apples and oranges was equal to the number of pears. There were 180 fruits left in the box in the end. How many apples were eaten?
Q45
Structured
4 marks
🖼 Visual
In the figure, CDEF is a rhombus and EFGH is a trapezium. ∠CFD = 28° and ∠GEH = 106°. (a) Find ∠x. (b) Find ∠y.
Q46
Structured
4 marks
Christine and Audrey went shopping together with a total sum of $60. Christine spent twice as much as Audrey. The amount Audrey had left was $7 more than what she had spent. She had twice as much money left as Christine. (a) How much money did Audrey spend? (b) How much money did Christine have at first?
Q47
Structured
5 marks
Mdm Yani made some cushions to sell at a funfair. She made 25% of the cushions in the first week. In the second week, she made another 28 cushions. The number of cushions made in the first and second week was 40% more than the number of cushions that had not yet been made. She made the rest of the cushions in the third week. (a) How many cushions did Mdm Yani make in the third week? (b) How many cushions did Mdm Yani make altogether?
Q48
Structured
5 marks
🖼 Visual
The shaded figure below is cut out from a rectangle measuring 60 cm by 40 cm. (a) Find the area of the shaded part. (b) Find the perimeter of the shaded part. (Round off your answers to (a) and (b) to 2 decimal places)