Factors and multiples

8 questionswork in pencil

name   date

  1. G21-A32 marks

    Find the sum of all the factors of 81.

    answer

  2. G21-A52 marks

    I am a 3-digit odd number. All my three digits are different. All my three digits are multiples of 3. The digit in the ‘hundreds’ place is twice the digit in the ‘ones’ place. What number am I?

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  3. S23-A142 marks

    Alice’s present age is a 2-digit number which is also a multiple of 4. 5 years ago, her age was a factor of 54. What is Alice’s age 5 years later?

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  4. S23-A372 marks

    Mike had 72 oranges and 45 pears. He packed the fruits such that each bag contained an equal number of oranges and an equal number of pears. He packed the fruits into as many bags as possible. How many fruits were there in each bag?

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  5. S24-C25 marks

    Kenny has 3 pieces of rope of length 24 cm, 60 cm and 96 cm. He wants to cut them into smaller pieces of equal length without any leftovers. Each smaller piece must be as long as possible. How many such pieces of equal length can he get?

      24 cm  |------------|
      60 cm  |------------------------------|
      96 cm  |------------------------------------------------|

    answer

  6. M26-A112 marks

    Using all the digits 8, 0, 9, 2, form the smallest multiple of 5.

    (1) 2890   (2) 2980   (3) 8920   (4) 9820

    answer (1) (2) (3) (4)

  7. M26-C15 marks

    After a rectangular piece of paper was cut into a maximum of 18 squares of sides 4 cm each, an L-shaped strip of paper was left over as shown. Given that the length of the rectangular piece of paper is 26 cm, what is the perimeter of the rectangular piece of paper before it was cut?

      +--+------------------------------+
      |  |                              |
      |  |                              |
      |  |    the 18 squares of 4 cm    |
      |  |                              |
      |  |                              |
      +--+------------------------------+
      |              strip              | -+- 1 cm
      +---------------------------------+ -+-
      |<------------ 26 cm ------------>|
    
      the leftover L-strip is the narrow band down the left edge
      plus the 1 cm band along the bottom

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  8. D01-A22 marks

    What is the smallest number greater than 1 that leaves a remainder of 1 when it is divided by 2, by 3 and by 4?

    (A) 7   (B) 9   (C) 13   (D) 25   (E) 49

    answer (A) (B) (C) (D) (E)