Below are the questions and answers of the 2007 MTAP Elimination questions for Grade 3, items 1-25. You can read items 26-50 here.

Solve each item and write the answer on the blank before the number.

1.) Write “six hundred forty thousand, two hundred ninety” in symbols.

Answer: 640290

2.) What is the place value of 7 in 5 473 846?

Answer: 70 000

3.) What is the value of 5 in 8 536 912?

Answer: 500 000

4.) What number is 246 more than 3 487?

Answer: 3733

5.) What number is midway between 64 and 72?

Answer: 68 

6.) Write CLXXIX in Hindu-Arabic.

Answer: 179

7.) In 3N8 + 243 = 621 what is N?

Answer: 7

8.) Find the remainder when 5678 is divided by 29?

Answer: 23

9.) Add 123 to 249 and divide the sum by 12. What is the result?

Answer: 31

10.) What digit placed in the blank will make 67_58 divisible by 9?

Answer: 1

11.) In a fruit stand, there are 276 ripe mangoes and 189 unripe mangoes. How many mangoes are there?

Answer: 465

12.) Vague question

13.) Father’s age is thrice my eldest brother’s age. If my eldest brother is 16 years, how old is my father?

Answer: 48

14.) Scouts are in a camp. There are 5 rows of tents. Each row has 12 tents and each tent has 6 scouts. How many scouts are in camp?

Answer: 360

15.) Multiply 28 by 4 and divide the product by 7. What do you get?

Answer: 16

16.) How many twelfths are equal to 5/3?

Answer: 20

17.) Make the equation correct by replacing A and B by the correct digits in 83A + 1B9 = 975.Write only the values of A and B.

Answer: A = 6, B = 3

18.) How many hundred peso-bills are equal to 4 P1,000-bills?

Answer: 40

19.) The 8 nieces and nephews of a balikbayan got a P1,000 gift from him. How much did each get if the money was shared equally?

Answer: P125

20.) My hundreds is 3 more than my ones; my tens is 1 less than my ones. If the sum of my digits is 8, what number am I?

Answer: 512

21.) How much more is 12 x 35 than 7 x 23?

Answer: 259

22.) Miss Torres has 5 sheets of red paper and 7 sheets of green paper. If she cuts each into 12 pieces, how many pieces will she have?

Answer: 144

23.) In a classroom, the desks are arranged in 8 rows. Each row has 6 desks except the last which has only 5. How many desks are there?

Answer: 47

24.) Pete gathered 185 eggs in their poultry. He put them 12 eggs to a carton. How many cartons did he fill?

Answer: 15

25.) Nine times Nina’s age plus 3 is 84. How old is Nina?

Answer: 9