CURIE-TANA Math Bowl sample questions (2016-17)
Group 3 (Grades 6-7 )
Name __________________________
Date ________________
1. A bag contains 5 green balls, 4 red balls and 9 yellow balls. If Jane picks a ball at
random, what are the chances the ball is neither red nor green?
A) 1/2
B) 1/4
C) 2/9
D) 5/18
E) 13/18
2. Sam went bowling and earned scores of 82, 92, 100,and 102 in each of her 4
games. What was the average score for the 4 games?
A) 90
B) 92
C) 91
D) 95
E) 94
3. At a park, only 75% of the raffle tickets were sold. If 450 tickets were sold, how
many tickets were not sold?
A) 200
B) 250
C) 100
D) 120
E) 150
4. A cube has a volume of 27cm3.What is the surface area of that cube?
A) 9 cm2
B) 54 cm2
C) 64 cm2
D) 32 cm2
E) 44 cm2
5. Water is being poured into a tank at a rate of 5 gallons/min. In 10 minutes
the tank will be filled to one-third of its capacity. How much water can the tank
hold?
A) 30 gal.
B) 50 gal.
C) 150 gal.
D) 180 gal.
C) 36
D) 38
E) 120 gal
6. Evaluate the following:
(4−2 × 82) + (33 + 1) =
A) 32
B) 34
E) 39
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7. Sasha has 15 blue buttons. She has 7 fewer white buttons than blue buttons.
She has 13 more red buttons than the white buttons. How many buttons does she
have in total?
A) 42
B) 43
C) 44
D) 45
E) 46
8. What is the area of the shaded region?
A) 25π
B) 100
C) 25
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D) 100π E) 100 – 25π
9. 75% of 32 is what percent of 160?
A) 80%
B) 20%
C) 35%
D) 15%
E) 75%
10. Find the slope of a line that passes through the points (5, 6) and (3, -9)
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11. Evaluate
A) 57.75
46.2 / 0.008
B) 577.5
C) 5775.0
D) 0.5775
E) 5.775
12. In a box, there are 15 more apples than there are oranges.There are a total of 95 fruits
in the box. What is the ratio of apples to oranges?
A) 11:8
B) 2:3
C) 3:19
D) 8:11
E) 19:3
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13. If Jay can cut 6 blocks of wood in 1 hour and Henry can cut 4 blocks of wood in
30 mins, then how many more blocks of wood can Henry cut in 1 hour and 30 mins
than Jay can in the same time?
A) 3
B) 9
C) 12
D) 8
E) 4
14. Length of 2 sides of a triangle ABC are 7 cm and 10 cm. Which of the following cannot be
the length of 3rd side?
A) 4 cm
B) 9 cm
C) 6 cm
D) 8 cm
E) 3c m
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Answer Key
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15/2 or 7.5
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