GRADE 5 MATHEMATICS – ANSWER KEY
Word Problems (Quarters 1–4): Easy, Average, and Difficult
Name: ____________________ Grade & Section: ____________________ Date: ____________
EASY (Items 1–11)
1. Answer: 06:15
2. Answer: 2:30 PM
3. Answer: ₱96
4. Answer: 10
5. Answer: 30 cm²
6. Answer: 3/10 meter
7. Answer: 3 groups
8. Answer: Hundredths place
9. Answer: 3/8
10. Answer: Line graph
11. Answer: 6 faces
AVERAGE (Items 12–22)
12. Answer: 10:00 a.m.
13. Answer: 10 points
14. Answer: 84 cm²
15. Answer: 7 pieces
16. Answer: 3/8
17. Answer: 4.768
18. Answer: Yes, 324 is divisible by 9
19. Answer: 6 books
20. Answer: 1/2
21. Answer: 64 cm³
22. Answer: 1 quarter turn
DIFFICULT (Items 23–33)
23. Answer: 12:45 p.m.
24. Answer: 25/12 (or 2 1/12)
25. Answer: 105 cm²
26. Answer: 15/8 cups (or 1 7/8 cups)
27. Answer: 2
28. Answer: ₱84.98
29. Answer: 7 prime numbers
30. Answer: 15 students
31. Answer: 1/3
32. Answer: 236 cm²
33. Answer: 90° counterclockwise
ANSWER KEY (Problems with Final Answers)
EASY (Items 1–11)
1. Maria woke up at 6:15 a.m. for school. What is this time in the 24-hour clock system?
Final Answer: 06:15
2. A basketball game begins at 14:30. What time is this in the 12-hour clock system?
Final Answer: 2:30 PM
3. Ben bought 2 kilograms of rice at ₱48 per kilogram. How much did he pay in all?
Final Answer: ₱96
4. A store sold 6 notebooks. Then it packed 12 pencils equally into 3 boxes. If the store adds
the number of notebooks to the number of pencils in one box, what is the result?
Final Answer: 10
5. A triangular flag has a base of 10 cm and a height of 6 cm. What is the area of the flag?
Final Answer: 30 cm²
6. Mia used 3/4 meter of ribbon to decorate one gift box. She needs to decorate 2/5 as many
gift boxes as her sister did. What fraction of a meter of ribbon represents 3/4 × 2/5?
Final Answer: 3/10 meter
7. Carlo shared 6/7 of a pizza equally by groups of 2/7 of a pizza per group. How many
groups can he make?
Final Answer: 3 groups
8. In the number 3.457, what is the place value of the digit 5?
Final Answer: Hundredths place
9. A bag contains 3 red marbles and 5 blue marbles. If you pick one marble without looking,
what is the probability that it is red?
Final Answer: 3/8
10. A teacher wants to show how the daily temperature changes over a week. Which type of
graph should she use: a bar graph or a line graph?
Final Answer: Line graph
11. A gift box is shaped like a rectangular prism. How many faces does this solid figure
have?
Final Answer: 6 faces
AVERAGE (Items 12–22)
12. When it is 9:00 a.m. in the Philippines, Japan is 1 hour ahead. What time is it in Japan?
Final Answer: 10:00 a.m.
13. In a game, Ana had 18 points. She lost 6 points twice, then gained 4 points. Using
GMDAS, what is her final score?
Final Answer: 10 points
14. A garden is shaped like a parallelogram with a base of 12 cm and a height of 7 cm. What
is the area of the garden?
Final Answer: 84 cm²
15. A ribbon is 3½ meters long. It is cut into pieces that are ½ meter each. How many pieces
can be made?
Final Answer: 7 pieces
16. A distance on a map is 0.375 meter. Write 0.375 as a fraction in simplest form.
Final Answer: 3/8
17. A science measurement is 4.768 liters. What is this number rounded to the nearest
thousandth?
Final Answer: 4.768
18. A teacher wrote the number 324 on the board. Using the divisibility rule for 9,
determine whether 324 is divisible by 9.
Final Answer: Yes, 324 is divisible by 9
19. In a reading challenge, boys read 24 books and girls read 30 books. How many more
books did the girls read than the boys?
Final Answer: 6 books
20. A coin is tossed one time. What is the probability that it lands on heads?
Final Answer: 1/2
21. A small cube-shaped box has an edge length of 4 cm. What is the volume of the box?
Final Answer: 64 cm³
22. A square sign is turned 90° clockwise around its center. How many quarter turns did it
make?
Final Answer: 1 quarter turn
DIFFICULT (Items 23–33)
23. The time in the Philippines is 8:45 p.m. If London is 8 hours behind, what time is it in
London?
Final Answer: 12:45 p.m.
24. Compute using GMDAS: 3/4 + 5/6 × 2 − 1/3.
Final Answer: 25/12 (or 2 1/12)
25. A trapezoid has bases 12 cm and 18 cm and a height of 7 cm. What is its area?
Final Answer: 105 cm²
26. A recipe needs 3/4 cup of sugar per batch. How much sugar is needed for 2½ batches?
Final Answer: 15/8 cups (or 1 7/8 cups)
27. Divide 1⅔ ÷ 5/6.
Final Answer: 2
28. Liza bought items costing ₱125.375 and ₱89.645. How much change will she receive
from ₱300?
Final Answer: ₱84.98
29. How many prime numbers are there between 20 and 50?
Final Answer: 7 prime numbers
30. Attendance increased from 35 to 50 students over 5 days. What is the total increase in
attendance?
Final Answer: 15 students
31. A die is rolled once. What is the probability of getting a number greater than 4?
Final Answer: 1/3
32. A rectangular prism has dimensions 8 cm × 6 cm × 5 cm. What is its surface area?
Final Answer: 236 cm²
33. A triangle is rotated 90° clockwise, then 180° counterclockwise about the same center.
What is the net rotation?
Final Answer: 90° counterclockwise