PSLE Foundation Math 2023
PSLE Foundation Math 2023
For each question, four options are given. One of them is the correct answer. Make
your choice and shade your answer (1, 2, 3 or 4) in the Optical Answer Sheet.
(30 marks)
(1) 8
(2) 2
(3) 5
(4) 9
2
6 =
3 5
(1) 11
(2) 13
(3) 18
(4) 20
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4. Which of the following fractions is the greatest?
3
(1)
5
3
(2)
7
3
(3)
4
3
(4)
8
3
5. Find the value of 3 ÷
4
(1) 3
(2) 4
(3) 9
(4) 12
(1) 105
(2) 385
(3) 445
(4) 455
(1) 4.057
(2) 4.507
(3) 5.803
(4) 5.083
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8. The area of the square shown is 49 cm2.
? cm
(1) 5 cm
(2) 7 cm
(3) 15 cm
(4) 22 cm
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9. How many boys and men are there at the party?
(1) 12
(2) 13
(3) 25
(4) 50
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(1)
25
13
(2)
50
1
(3)
5
3
(4)
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11. A rectangle has a perimeter of 40 cm. Its breadth is 8 cm. What is its length?
(1) 8 cm
(2) 12 cm
(3) 24 cm
(4) 30 cm
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12. What is the missing decimal in the box?
(1) 5.73
(2) 5.76
(3) 5.77
(4) 5.78
13. Peter bought a sofa for $800 at sale and was left with $200. What percentage
of his money did he spend?
(1) 2%
(2) 25%
(3) 60%
(4) 80%
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14. Express 2 as an improper fraction.
3
8
(1)
3
9
(2)
3
10
(3)
3
11
(4)
3
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15. Henry took 15 minutes to ride his bicycle to the school from his house. He left
home at the time shown below. At what time did he arrive at the school?
(1) 11 55
(2) 12 00
(3) 12 05
(4) 12 15
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16. There are 40 colour pencils in a drawer. of the colour pencils are red. How
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many colour pens are red?
(1) 38
(2) 35
(3) 20
(4) 16
10 cm
2 cm
4 cm
(1) 6 cm2
(2) 16 cm2
(3) 24 cm2
(4) 100 cm2
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18. In the figure below, ABC and DBE are straight lines. Find ∠ EBF.
(1) 25°
(2) 35°
(3) 60°
(4) 95°
19. Sally went to a sale. The usual price of a blouse was $120. She bought the
blouse at a discount of 25%. How much did Sally pay for blouse?
(1) $30
(2) $90
(3) $105
(4) $145
20. Aiman saved some during Hari Raya. He has $150 worth of notes. 15 of them
are $2 notes, 4 of them are $10 notes and the rest are $5 notes. How many
$5 notes does he have?
(1) 18
(2) 16
(3) 14
(4) 10
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Questions 21 to 30 carry 2 mark each. Show your working clearly and write your
answers in the spaces provided. For questions that require units, give your answers
in the units stated
(20 marks)
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23. Use the digits below to form the smallest 5-digit even number. Each digit can
only be used once.
3 8 5 1 2
Ans: ___________________
2 7
24. What is the value of + ?
3 9
Ans: ___________________
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25. A bed cost $110 more than a sofa. If I paid a total of $350 for the bed and the
sofa, how much did the sofa cost?
Ans: ___________________
26. Tom deposits $900 in the bank. The annual interest given is 3%.
How much will Tom have in the bank in total after a year?
Ans: ___________________
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27. 25000 people are expected to attend this year’s National Day celebrations at
The Padang. 45% of them will be females. How many males will be there?
Ans: ___________________
28. In the figure shown below, AB, CD and EF are straight lines. ∠ BOF = 63° and
∠ DOE = 50°. Find ∠ h.
Ans: ___________________
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29. Jonathan spent 25 min at the shopping centre and left at 3.15 p.m. At what
time did he arrive at the shopping centre?
Ans: ___________________
30. Matthew, Tim and Greg had 96 stamps altogether. Matthew had 2 times as
many stamps as Tim. Greg had 28 more stamps than Tim.
How many stamps did Tim have?
Ans: ___________________
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Questions 1 to 10 carry 2 marks each. Show your working clearly and write your
answers in the spaces provided. For questions that require units, give your answers
in the units stated.
(20 marks)
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1. Pauline used a string of length m to tie a box. She used another string that
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2
was m longer to tie a parcel. What was the total length of the 2 strings
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used?
Ans: ___________________ m
2. Glen went to an electronics store and bought 1 computer for $3850 and 3
similar keyboards. Each keyboard costs $72.70 and had $400 left. How much
money did he have at first?
Ans: $___________________
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3. Bala cycled from his home to his grandparents’ house which is 3.17 km away.
After cycling 850 m, how much further must he cycle to reach his
grandparents’ house? Give your answer in metres.
Ans: ___________________ m
Ans: __________________
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5. Look at the bar graph below. It shows the amount of money raised by four
classes during their school’s charity event.
If the average amount collected by the four classes is $90, how much money
did students in 6D raise?
Ans: $ ___________________
6. Janice has $45 to buy some stamps. Each stamp cost 60¢. What is the
maximum number of such stamps can she buy with her money?
Ans: __________________
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7. Wayne had a piece of square paper. He cut Square A, of side 16 cm, from it
as shown in the figure below.
20 cm
16 cm
Ans: ___________________ cm
Ans: ____________________º
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9. Dolly wanted to buy a dress. She only had $17, which was of the price of
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the dress. How much more money did she need to buy the dress?
Ans: $ ___________________
Ans: __________________ º
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For questions 11 to 16, show your working clearly and write your answers in the
spaces provided. The number of marks available is shown in brackets [ ] at the end
of each question.
(20 marks)
Duration Rate
1st hour $4.50
1 $2.00
Every additional hour or part
2
thereof
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a) James rented a pair of bicycles for 1 hours. How much will he have to
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pay?
b) Mr Tan, his wife and 3 children each rented a pair of rollerblades from 1.30
p.m. to 3.15 p.m. How much do they have to pay in all?
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12. The graph shows the number of visitors to Kallang Park from Wednesday to
Sunday.
a) The entrance fee to Kallang Park is $2.50 per person. How much more
entrance fee was collected on Saturday than on Thursday?
b) There was 500 less visitors to the park on Sunday than on Saturday.
Complete the line graph to show the number of visitors on Sunday. [1]
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13. Mrs Lim, Mrs Chan, and Mrs Ong took part in a baking competition. They
baked a total of 465 cupcakes. Mrs Lim baked three times as many cupcakes
as Mrs Chan and Mrs Ong baked 30 cupcakes more than Mrs Chan.
How many cupcakes did Mrs Ong bake?
12. Larry loves riding e-scooters. He saved $680 and spent 35% of his savings to
buy an e-scooter.
(a) How much money did he spend on the e-scooter?
(b) How much money did he have left?
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15. Robert receives $1.60 of pocket money each day. On each day, he spends
the same amount of money and saves the rest. After five days, he has saved
$2.75. How much does he spend each day?
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16. Samantha had a piece of cardboard in the shape of a square at first. The area
of the cardboard was 25 cm2.
A right-angled triangle P was cut out from one side of the square paper.
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