Metrobank-MTAP-DepEd Math Challenge Answer:

Reviewer for 2018 MTAP DepEd Challenge 43x43x43=79,507

9. Mary has 54 oranges. She gives an equal

1. 27-(11+9)x4÷8+31= ______ number of
oranges to each of her 13 friends. How many
Answer: 48 oranges does she
27-20x4÷8+31=N have left?
27-80÷8+31=N Answer:
27-10+31=N 54÷13 = 4 remainder 2, 2 oranges left to
17+31=48 Mary

2. 98–89 + 37 x ( - 4) = 268. What number 10. Mother gave Kian and her younger sister
is in ? Php 2, 115.00 to
share between them. Kian spent Php 778.00
Answer: 11 from his share and
98–89 + (37 x ( -4)) = 268 had Php 271.00 left. How much did Kian’s
younger sister have?
3. 28 and 832 thousandths is subtracted from
56 and 61 hundredths. What is the difference to Answer: Php 1,066.00
the nearest tenths? Total money = PhP 2,155.00
Kian’s Share (Php788.00+271.00)= Php
Answer: 27.8 1,049.00
Subtract first 56.61 – 28.832 = 27.778 Subtract the PhP 2,155.00 by PhP 1,049.00
then round to the answer to nearest tenths the answer is
27.778 = 27.8 Php 1,066.00 share of Kian’s younger sister.

4. Find the product of 3 033 and 94. Divide 11. A water jar can hold 36 cups or 24 glasses
your answer by the difference of 1500 and 1 of water. If there
288. What is your answer to the nearest are already 6 cups and 19 glasses of water in
hundreds? the jar, how many
more cups of water can be put in the jar?
Answer: 1300 Answer: 1.5 cups
(3 033 x 94) ÷ (1 500 – 1 288) = N
285 102 ÷ 212 = N 12. There are 42 notebooks that are going to be
1344.8 = N given equally
The answer is 1344.8 then round to the among 7 children. How many notebooks will
nearest hundred 1300. each child receive?
Answer:
5. The quotient when 0.25 is divided by a 42÷7 = 6 notebooks will receive by each
number is 1000. child
What is the divisor?
Answer: 0.00025
Divide 0.25 by 1000, the quotient is
0.00025

6. What percent of 3 kg is 480 g?

Answer: 16%
Convert first 3 kg to g, so 3 kg = 3000 g
Look for the rate follow the formula
R=P÷B
R = ? , B= 3000g, P= 480g
R=3000 ÷ 480
R= 0.16 x 100
R=16%

7. Express 84 minutes as a fraction of 4 hours

in lowest term.
Answer:
Convert hours to minutes, so 3 hours =
240 minutes
84/240 change to lowest term 84÷12 = 7,
240÷
12=20 so the answer is 7/20

8. Using only the number 43, how many times

you will use it as
a factor to get a product whose ones digit is 7?
13. Ricky had 24 boxes of chocolate candies.
There were 350
chocolates candies in each box. He repacked all
the chocolate
candies into packs of 70 and sold them at Php
24.00 per pack.
How much money did he collect from his total
sale?
Answer:
24 x 350 = 8400 chocolate candies
8400÷70 = 120 packs of 70
120 x PhP 24.00=PhP2880.00

14. Annie, Jenny, Sam, and Gerry want to divide

a certain
number of candies in the corresponding ratio of
1:2:4:6. What is
the ratio of the number of Jenny’s candies to the
number of
Gerry’s candies?
Answer:
Ratio of Jenny to Gerry is 2:6 change to
lowest term
1:3

15. A rectangular tile is 2 cm by 4 cm. What is

the area of a
square with least number of tiles that can be
placed side by side to
form a square?
Answer: 4cm
2cm

A tile is 2cm 2cm , least number to form

a square is
2 tiles 4cm = 4x4 = 16cm2

16. At a furniture store, a chair was sold for PhP

475.00 less
than a side table and PhP 278.00 more than a
kitchen dish
cabinet. The total cost of three items was Php
4,175.00. What was
the selling price of the side table?
Solution: A chair = ___________
B chair = Side table – 475.00
C chair = Kitchen cabinet + 278.00
A+B+C = 4175.00
4,175 –(475-278)
4,175 - 197 = 3 978.00
A+B+C = 3 978.00
3 978.00 ÷3 = 1326.00
A = 1326.00 – chair
B = 1801.00 – side table
C = 1048.00 - Kitchen Dish Cabinet

Answer: Side table = 1326.00+475 = PhP

1801.00
17. In a box factory, Ian finished 5 boxes in 2
hours while Joey
finished 10 boxes in 3 hours. If they work at the
same rate, how
many boxes can they finished together in 12
hours?
Solution: Ian = 5:2 = n:12 Joey = 10:3 = n:12
60 = 2n 120 = 3n
n = 60/2 n = 120/3
n = 30 n = 40

Answer: Ian 30 boxes, Joey 40 boxes, so

30+40 = 70 boxes

18. Mother had 168 kg of flour. She packed it

into 7/10 kg per
.3/5 packs of flour were sold to Tasing at P 3.60
per pack. How
much money did Tasing pay for the flour?
Solution: 168 ÷7 = 1680 = 240 packs
10 7
3/5 of 240 = 3/5 of 240/1 = 720 = 144
packs
144 packs x P 3.60 = P 518.40
Answer: P 518.40

19. Dario gave 1/3 of his oranges to his brother

and donated 160
oranges to children in the neighborhood. He
found that he had 240
oranges left. What fraction of the oranges did
Dario have left?
Express your answer in lowest term.
Solution: 160 + 240 = 400
400 is 2/3 of n ; look for the base
400 ÷2/3 = 1200/2 = 600
240/600 ÷ 120 = 2/5
Answer: 2/5

20. What is the missing number in the

sequence?
1,4,4,7,10,16,25,40,______?
Solution:
1+4 = 5-1 = 4
4+4 = 8-1 = 7
4+7 = 11-1 = 10
7+10 = 17-1 = 16
10+16 = 26-1 = 25
16+25 = 41-1 = 40
25+40 = 65-1 = 64
Answer: 64
21. Uncle Tirso had some fruits. 5/9 of the fruits
were oranges.
1/3 of the remaining fruits were apples. The rest
were guavas.
What fraction of the fruits were guavas?
Solution:
9/9 all fruits - 5/9 oranges = 4/9 remaining
fruits
1/3 of 4/9 = 4/27 apples
2/3 of 4/9 = 8/27 guavas
Answer: 2/3 x 4/9 = 8/27

22. Tony subtracted a number from 21. He then

multiplied the
difference by 3 and divided the product by 8. If
the quotient was 6,
what was the number?
Solution: 21-Nx3÷8=6
6x8 = 48, 48÷3 = 16, 21-16= 5
Answer: 5
23. The price of the kilogram of fish increased 3
½ times during
summer. How many percent was the increased?
Answer: 3 ½ = 3.5 x 100 = 350% -base100
=250%

24. If 4/7 of a number is 112, what is 7/4 of the

number?
Answer: 4/7 of N = 112 then 7/4 of N = N
112÷4/7 = 112 x 7/4 = 784/4 = 196
7/4 x 196 = 1372/4 = 343

25. What is the difference of 4 and 2 hundredths

and 3 and 27
thousandths?
Answer: 4.020 – 3.027 = 0.993

26. If 25 + - 115 = 75, what number is in ?

Answer: 165
25 + - 115 = 75
115+75 = 190, 190 – 25 = 165
Check: 165 +25 = 190 , 190 -115 = 75

27. Basha bought 8 t-shirts and 5 pairs of shorts

pants for PhP
1,062.00. Each pair of short pants cost twice as
much as a t-shirt.
How much is the cost of the t-shirt?
Answer: P 59.00 cost of t-shirt
8 t-shirts = 8, 5 short pants x 2 = 10
8+10 = 18
Php 1,062 ÷ 18 = PhP 59.00
t-shirts 8 x 59 = 472.00, short pants 118 x
5 = 590.00
so 472.00 + 590.00 = Php 1 062.00
28. Each box contains 48 candies. Out of 77 Convert 3000dm3 to cm3
boxes of candies, 1dm3 = 1000 cm3
29 were sold. The remaining boxes of candies 3000 x 1000 = 3,000,000
were repacked in 3,000,000 cm3
packs of 50. How many packs of 50 candies
were there? 34. A baker packed 29 boxes of 9 cupcakes
Answer: each pack and had
77 – 29 = 48, 48 x 48 = 2304 / 50 = 46.08 3 cupcakes left. How many more boxes of
so therefor cupcakes would he get
there are 46 packs of 50 candies. if he packed 3 cupcakes into each box instead?
Answer:
29. The ratio of two numbers is 7:9. If their sum Get the total number of cupcakes
is 192, what is (29x9)+3 = 264 cupcakes/3 = 88 boxes
there difference? 88 boxes – 29 boxes = 59 more boxes
Answer:
Add the ratio 7+9 = 16, then 192 ÷16 = 35. The product of two-digit numbers is 351.
12 What is their sum?
7x12 = 84 , 9x12=108, Answer:
108 + 84 = 192 (sum) The two digit number that you can use
108 – 84 = 24 (difference) are 27 and 13.
27x13 = 351, so 27 + 13 = 40
30. Pens are sold in bundles of 25. For every 5
bundles of pens 36. How many 25 thousandths are there in
that you buy, you will get an extra of 3 pens. If 5/8?
you want to buy Answer: 25
364 pens for your friends, how many bundles of 5/8 ÷25/1000 we cannot divide so use the
pens must you reciprocal
buy? 5/8 x 1000/25 = 5000/125 = 25
Answer:
25x5=125+3 = 128 = 5 bundles 37. What is the sum of the digits in the product
128 = 5 bundles of 23 hundreds
128 = 5 bundles and 2 tens?
384 = 15 bundles Answer: 10
You need to buy 15 bundles of pens. 2 300 x 20 = 46 000 = 4+6+0+0+0= 10

31. Three squares are place together to form a 38. What is the sum of 3 consecutive odd
rectangle. If each numbers if the largest
square has an area of 93cm3, what is the of these numbers is 19?
perimeter of the Answer: 51
rectangle formed? If the largest odd number given is 19, the
Answer: three
Area of 1 square is 9 cm2 each side of consecutive odd number are 15,17,19,
square is 3cm, then add
therefore if you put together the 3 them 15+17+19=51
squares side by side
it will have a length of 9 cm and a width
of 3 cm so the
perimeter is 24 cm.
9 cm
3cm 3cm

32. When Tessa bought a glass of juice for P

25.00 and a
sandwich for P 48.00, she still had P 68.00 left in
her wallet. How
much money did Tessa have at the beginning?
Answer:
Add expenses and money left to get the
total money
PhP 25.00 + PhP 48.00 + PhP 68.00 =
PhP 141 total
money of Tessa.

33. The volume of rectangular block is 3,000

dm3. What is its
volume in cm3?
Answer:
39. A tank has a capacity of 50 liters. How many
seconds will it
be filled if its flow rate is 2.5 liters per second?
Answer: 20 seconds
Just divide 50 liter by 2.5 liters = 20.

40. Lito is weighing his school bag. He says “If I

add 725 grams,
it will weigh 2 kilograms.” How many grams does
his bag weigh?
Answer: 1275g
2kg = 2000g – 725g = 1275g

41. There are 36 packs of candies in a box. The

packs of the
candies are divided equally among 4 children.
How many packs
will each child receive?
Answer: 9 packs
36 packs divided by 4children = 9

42. Twenty-seven apples are put in boxes.

There are 6 boxes.
How many boxes contain exactly the same
number of apples?
Answer: 5 boxes
27 apples divided by 6 boxes = 4.5 round
to the
nearest whole number answer is 5.

43. Liza has read 4/5 of the total number of

pages of a book.
Today, she reads 21 pages. She still needs to
read 1/10 of the
total number of pages to finish reading the book.
How many pages
does the book have?
Answer: 210 pages
4/5 is equal to 8/10, 1/10 = 21 pages of
the book
so 10/10 or the whole book is 210pages.

44. Teresa has 53 apples. She is going to give

them equally to
13 children. How many more apples does she
need so that each
child will received 6 apples?
Answer: 25 apples
13 children x 6 apples = 78 apples,
there are
already 53 apples so 78 – 53 = 25.

45. A container holds 8 times the amount of

water in a cup that
holds 2 deciliters of water. How many deciliters
of water can be
poured into the container?
Answer: 16deciliters
8 x 2 = 16
46. The sum of 2 numbers is 100. Their
difference is 20. What
is the quotient when the bigger number is
divided by the smaller
number?
Answer: 1.5
100 – 20 = 80 ÷2 = 40 smaller number,
40+20= 60
bigger number, 60+40=100, 60-40 = 20,
60 ÷40 =1.5

47. Betty has PhP 60.00 and Nena has PhP

120.00. How much
money must Betty give to Nena so that the
amount of money Nena
has is 5 times that of Betty?
Answer: PhP 30.00
Betty must give PhP 30.00 to Nena so
that if
Nena’s money divide by Betty’s money it is
5
times as many as Betty’s.
48. There are 99 1-cm cubes. If the cubes are
arranged to form
3 cubes of different sizes. What is the length of
the sides of the
smallest cube formed?
Answer: 2cm
4x4x4 = 64pcs
3x3x3 = 27pcs
2x2x2 = 8pcs
99pcs

49. What is the 49th number in

the sequence
4,11,18,25,32,39,...?
Answer: 340
(n -1) interval + the first number
49-1 = 48 x 7 = 336+4 = 340
(Note; n=the place of the last number)

50. Kate collects coins. Everyday, she gets 6

additional coins,
On every 4th day, she gives 4 coins to her
sister. If Kate started
with 24 coins, on which day will Kate have 70
coins?
Answer: 9th day