INTERNATIONL MATHENATICS AND SCIENCE OLYMPIAD

FOR PRIMARY SCHOOLS (IMSO) 2004

Mathematics Contest in Taiwan

Short Answer
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1. Three signal lights were set to flash every certain specified time. The
first light flashes every 12 seconds, the second flashes every 30 seconds
and the third one every 66 seconds. The signal lights flash simultaneously
at 8:30 a.m. At what time will the signal lights next flash together?

2. Dinas money consists of ten-thousand and five-thousand rupiah bills.

The number of ten-thousand bills is three more than twice the number
of five-thousand bills. If Dina has Rp355, 000, what is the number of
ten-thousand bills that she has?

3. The principal of Makmur Jaya Elementary School is replaced every 4

years. At most how many principals will the school have from 2006 to
2020?

4. The area of the shaded region shown in the figure below is 98cm2 . Find
the length of a.

5. The sequence below is arranged by using numbers 1, 2 and 3 only:

1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, . . .
What is the 100th number?

6. Every whole number larger than 7 can always be expressed as a sum

of 3s, 5s, or both. For example, 9 = 3 + 3 + 3, 10 = 5 + 5 and
19 = 5 + 5 + 3 + 3 + 3. With the rule that 5 always comes before 3,
how many ways can we express 444?

7. Consider all possible numbers between 100 and 2006 which are formed
by using only the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 with no digit repeated. How many
of these are divisible by 6?

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 8. Two runners run in opposite directions from the same starting line.
They run around a field which has 300 m perimeter. If the first runner
runs at 150 m/minute and the second one runs at 125 m/minute, how
many times will the two runners pass each other in the first 20 minutes?

9. The ratio of the number of students in Class A to Class B is 1:2. The

ratio of the respective average test scores is 8:9. If the average score of
class A is 72, find the average score of all the students.

10. In the following figures, the area of the biggest equilateral triangle is
16cm2 . A new triangle is formed by connecting the midpoints of the
sides of the previous triangle. If the pattern continues, find the area of
the smallest triangle in Figure 5.

11. Each vertex of a regular pentagon is connected to the other vertices

as shown in the figure below so that the pentagon is divided into 11
non-overlapping regions. How many non-overlapping regions can be
obtained if we do the same procedure to a regular hexagon?

12. A 20cm 40cm 80cm wooden block is sliced into four small identical
blocks. Find the largest possible sum of the surface areas of the small
blocks.

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13. The perimeters of a square and an equilateral triangle are equal. If the
length of the side of the equilateral triangle is 8 cm, find the area of the
square.
14. The faces of a cube are to be painted so that two faces with a common
edge are painted with different colours. Find the minimum number of
colours needed to do this.
15. How many non-congruent triangles with perimeter 11 have integer side
lengths?
16. The following magic square is to be filled with numbers 17, 18, ..., 24
so that the sums of numbers in every column, every row and the two
diagonals are equal.
Which number should be in the cell with the star ()?

17. The faces of a dice are marked with dots from 1 to 6. The total number
of dots on two opposite faces (top-bottom, left-right, front-back) is
7. Four dices are arranged as shown below. The faces of two dices
that touch each other have the same number of dots. What is the total
number of dots on the faces that touch each other?

18. Every edge of a cube is colored either red or green. In order to have at
least one red edge on every face of the cube, find the minimum number
of edges that must be colored red.

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19. Let A, B, C represent three different digits such that:

Find the largest possible value of the 3-digit number ABC.

20. When 31513 and 34369 are each divided by a certain 3-digit number,
the remainders are equal. Find this remainder.

21. What is the volume of the concrete foot bridge shown below?
(Use = 22
7)

22. The sides of a trapezoid touch the circle of radius 10 as shown in

the figure below. The non parallel sides are of lengths 23 and 27 cm
respectively. Find the area of trapezoid.

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23. Each of the letters A, D, E, K, S, W and Y represents a different one
of the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 such that

Which digit does E represent?

24. Dogol writes a sequence of five non-negative 1-digit numbers on the

blackboard. He then erases two consecutive numbers and replaces
them with their difference. He obtains the sequence 5, 0, 3, 5 on the
board.
How many possible sequences can he start with?

25. If you read the picture on the left below, it says there are 3 ones, 1 two
and 1 four, which is correct. Fill in the four boxes in the picture on
the right to make it correct too. Write down the four digits from left to
right as a 4-digit number.

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 MATHEMATICS
SHORT ANSWER PROBLEMS
IMSO 2007

1. If 672 is divided into three parts proportional to 3, 4 and 5, what is the largest

number?

2. Anelkas weight is a whole number. If Anelka gains 6 kilograms, his weight will be less

than 36 kilograms. If he gains 8 kilograms, his weight will be more than 36 kilograms.

What is Anelkas weight?

3. In the figure, a circle is inscribed in the larger square. The

four vertices of the smaller square are on the circle. The area

of the larger square is 49 cm2. What is the area of the smaller

square?

4. Initially, two elevators were at the same floor. The first elevator went up 4 floors

and then went down 7 floors. The second elevator went up 11 floors and then went

down 9 floors. After the movements, how many floors apart were the two elevators?

5. Use each of the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 exactly once to form two 3-digit numbers.

What is the largest possible product of the two 3-digit numbers?

a c e
6. In the expression + + , each letter is replaced by a different digit among 1, 2, 3,
b d f

4, 5, and 6. What is the smallest possible value of this expression?

7. Some cats and some pigeons are in the pigeon loft. The total number of their heads

is 34 and the total number of their legs is 80. How many cats are there?

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8. A 10 cm x 10 cm x 10 cm cube is cut parallel to its three faces as shown in the

figure. After cutting, eight smaller solids are formed. What is the total surface

area of these smaller solids?

9. What is the largest 2-digit prime number that can be obtained by adding two prime

numbers?

10. In the figure, two equivalent circles are placed in the rectangle. The distance
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between the two center points of the circles is y. What is the value of y ?
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11. Sixteen matchsticks are used to construct Figure 1, thirty-six matchsticks for

Figure 2, and so on. With this gradual increase (the middle row of Figure n contains

2n+1 squares), how many matchsticks are needed to construct the Figure 10?

Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3

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12. In the figure, three circles a, b and c touch at the point P.

The center of circle c is on circle b, and the center of circle

b is on circle a. What is the ratio of the shaded area to the

unshaded area of circle c?

13. In the following grid, how many shortest paths are

there to travel from A to B?

14. Mary has six $0.1 stamps, five $0.4 stamps, four $0.5 stamps, three $5 stamps, and

two $10 stamps. She is going to send a parcel by mail and the mailing fee required is

$38.1. At most how many stamps remain after mailing?

15. Tony is drawing some triangles and their side lengths are whole numbers. Each

triangle has a perimeter of 7 units. At most how many triangles of different sizes

can Tony draw?

16. The average of the squares of seven consecutive integers is 629. What is the

smallest integer?

17. Some people are waiting in a queue. Abel is exactly in the middle of the queue.

Sarah is number 14 and she is somewhere behind Abel. Bart is number 20. At most

how many people can be in the queue?

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18. In the figure below, what is the value of x, in degrees?

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19. Given ab = (a b)(a + b) and c d = d 2 c . What is the value of (105) 3 ?
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20. In the figure, the diagonal of a 4x4 square passes through

5 corner points of the small squares. The diagonal of a 4x2

rectangle passes through 3 corner points of the small

squares. In how many corner points of the small squares will

one diagonal of a 45 x 60 rectangle pass through?

21. Sisca counts from 1 using her left hand fingers starting from thumb, index finger,

middle finger, ring finger, little finger, ring finger, middle finger, index finger,

thumb, and then index finger again, and so on. Which finger will be on the 2007th

count?

22. Euis has a list of all 4-digit natural numbers. Each number satisfies the following

four conditions:

All digits are different.

No digit is 0, 5, 7 or 9.

The sum of the four digits is 20.

It is divisible by 4.

How many numbers are there in the list?

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23. Adi writes the number 1234567891011121314 99100101102 996997998999 by

first writing the numbers 1, 2, 3, , 996, 997, 998, 999, then removing all the

commas. What is the 2007th digit counting from the right?

24. In the figure below, ABC and PQR are two equilateral triangles of area 1 unit each.

If CY = AX = 2YB = 2XB and RY = PX = 2YQ = 2QX, what is the area of ACYRPX?

25. A number is called palindrome if it reads the same from the left and from the right.

For example, 130031 is a palindrome. Writing all palindromes in order we get 1, 2, 3,

4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 22, 33. What is the 2007th palindrome?

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Mathematics Short Answer Problems

5th International
Mathematics and Science Olympiad
(IMSO) for Primary School 2008

Lombok, November 10, 2008

Instructions:

* Write down your name and country on the answer sheet.

* Write your answer on the answer sheet.

* Answer all 25 questions in English.

* You have 60 minutes to work on this test.

* Use pen or pencil to write your answer.

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Name : .....................................................................
Country : .....................................................................

1. The following diagram shows a way to factorize 330.

The largest possible value of (p + q) is . . . .

2. A tank in the shape of rectangular box is half full of water. The height
of the tank is 30 cm and the size of its base is 20 cm 40 cm. If 4000
cm3 water is added, the depth of the water is . . . cm.

3. During the first forty-eight days of a year, Monday will appear at most
. . . times.

4. The picture below shows the arrangement of twelve drinking cans. The
number of cans in one row is always one less than the numbers of cans
in the row directly below it.

Anto is asked to arrange 39 cans using similar formation. The maxi-

mum height of his arrangement is . . ..

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Country : ..................................................................

5. In 2007, 33% of participants in an olympiad were male. The following

year, the number of participants increases by 12.5%, but the number
of female participants decreases by 10%. The percentage of the male
participants in 2008 is . . .

6. In the following figure, two points

that must be connected to the point A
to form two lines that will divide
the region ABCD into
three parts of equal area are . . ..

7. Using the digits 1, 2, 3, and 4, we obtain 24 four-digit numbers. Those

numbers are sorted from the smallest to the largest. the rank of 4213 is
....

8. A rectangle P QRS is inscribed in a semi-circle of radius 10 cm. The

points P and Q are on diameter and points R and S are on the circle
perimeter. If P Q = 2QR, the area of the region outside the rectangle
is . . ..

9. The sum of Denys age and Alis age is 29. The sum of Banus age and
Carlis age is 35. The sum of Alis age and Banus age is 31. Banu is
younger than Ali. Among the four people, the oldest is . . .

10. Two distinct straight lines meet at most at one point. Three distinct
straight lines meet at most at three points. Eight distinct straight lines
meet at most at . . . points.

11. Given a 2-digit natural number. If order of the digits are changed then
value of new number is exactly 20% more than the value of the given
number. The given number is . . ..

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 Name : ..................................................................
Country : ..................................................................

12. The figure shows a cube net in which

each side is numbered from 1 to 6.
The product of all numbers on the sides
adjacent to the side
numbered 1 is . . ..

13. There are some boxes. These boxes are labelled by 1, 2, 3, 4, and so
on. In this way, digit 2 appears 50 times in the labels. The number of
boxes is . . .

14. A rectangular block of wood of dimension 4 m 5 m 6 m was

painted. It is then cut into smaller cubes of dimension 1 m 1 m
1 m. The number of smaller cubes with two sides painted is N. The
number of smaller cubes with three sides painted is M . The ratio of N
to M is . . . .

15. A positive pair of whole numbers that contain no 0 is called commen-

surable(with each other) if their sums of digits are equal. For example,
14 is commensurable with 5, 14, 32, 1121, and 11111. There are . . .
numbers that are commensurable with 10.

16. A rectangle intersects a circle of radius 5, as shown in the figure.

BC = 6 and DE = 7. The length of AC is . . .

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Country : ..................................................................

17. There are some black and white balls in a box. The ratio of numbers
of black balls to white balls is 3 : 4. Each of the white balls is marked
by either A or B. The number of balls A is 32 of the number of balls B.
The difference between numbers of balls A and B is 52. The number
of the black balls is . . . .

18. Fatimah wants to make a drink that contains 40% pure orange juice.
This drink is called 40% orange juice. Her mom gives her 100ml of
20% orange juice, and a large bottle of drink that contains 80% pure
orange juice. Fatimah needs . . . ml the drink in the bottle to produce
the 40% orange juice.

19. Seventeen unit cubes are arranged to form a solid. The minimum sur-
face area of all possible solids is . . . .

20. In the figure, M is a center of the circle, F is the intersection of the

lines AC and BD, and E is the intersection
of the lines CM and BD. The line
CM is perpendicular to the line BD.
If the measure of angle M BE is 32 ,
the measure of angle CF D is . . ..

21. Two candles of the same height were lit at the same time. The first took
four hours to burn completely while the second one took two hours.
Assume that each candle burns at a constant rate. Then it takes . . .
hour for the first candle to be thrice the height of the second candle.

22. Five one-digit positive numbers are sorted from the smallest to the
largest. Their average is equal to the forth number. The second number
is different from the forth number. These five numbers that give that
the maximum product are . . .

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Country : ..................................................................

23. The volume of a rectangular box is 2008 cm3 . In centimeters, the

length, width and height of the box are whole numbers. The largest
possible surface area of the box is . . . .

24. A rectangular cross section of a can ABCD with base AB of length

40 cm and the height BC is filled by water of depth two third of BC.
When AB is tiled at 45o (see figure), the water just came up to C. The
height BC is . . . cm.

25. A box of size 4 2 1 is divided into eight compartments. Sixteen

identical balls are put inside the compartments.
Each compartment must be filled with
at least one ball. The numbers
of balls put into rows of compartments
are printed on the box, see figure.

For example, there must be 7 balls in the four front compartments, 9

balls in the four back compartments, and 6 balls in the two rightmost
compartments. We can put the sixteen balls into the eight compart-
ments in . . . ways.

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 IMSO 2009 IMSO2009
Short Answer Yogyakarta, 8-14 November

1. A big square is formed from twenty five small squares. Some of the small
squares are black. To make the big square symmetric about both diagonals, at
least additional small squares are needed to be colored black.

2. If , then =.

3. In a training program, an athlete must eat 154 eggs, during a period of time from
November 8th till November 14th. Every day in this period he must eat 6 more
eggs than the previous day. The number of eggs he eats on November 13th
is

4. .

5. In the following grid, the area of the shaded region is unit square.

6. Danny wants to create a set of cards of sizes from a sheet of

paper of size . The number of cards that can be made by Danny
is at most .

7. Mrs. Anna has 4 children: Alex, Brad, Christine, and Dennis. Alex is not the
youngest, but he is younger than Dennis. If Brads age is the same as the
mean of the ages of Alex and Dennis, then the oldest one is .

8. In a math test, a correct answer will be marked 5 points and a wrong answers
points. Tom answered all of the 35 questions and got a total score of 140.
The number of questions Tom answered correctly is .

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Short Answer Yogyakarta, 8-14 November
9. The following shape is made from horizontal and vertical lines. The lengths of
some of the lines are given. The perimeter of the shape is unit.

10. Use numbers 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 8 exactly once to form two three-digit numbers P
and Q. If is a positive number; the smallest possible value of is ... .

11. The natural numbers bigger than 1 are arranged in five columns as given by the
following figure. The number 2009 appears in the column and the row.

I II III IV V
2 3 4 5
9 8 7 6
10 11 12 13
17 16 15 14

12. The integer 8 has two properties:

If the number 1 is added, we get the number 9, which is a square number,
i.e., 9 = 33.
Half of it is 4, which is also a square number, i.e., 4 = 22.
The next natural number which has the same properties is .

13. The next natural number which has the same properties is . ABCD is a trapezoid
(trapezium) with AB parallel to CD. The ratio of AB : CD is 3 : 1. The point P is
on CD. The ratio of the area of triangle APB to the area of trapezoid ABCD
is :.
D P C
C

A B

14. I have some marbles and some empty boxes. If I try to put 9 marbles on each
box, then there will be 2 empty boxes. If I try to put 6 marbles in each box, then
there will be 3 remaining marbles. I have boxes.

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 IMSO 2009 IMSO2009
Short Answer Yogyakarta, 8-14 November

15. The ten numbers 1,1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, are arranged in a row (see the figure),
so that each number, except the first and last, is the sum or the difference of its
two adjacent neighbors. The value of X is ... .

4 1 X 3
2

16. In a football competition, if a team wins it will get 3 points. If it draws it will get 1
point, and if it loses it will get 0 points. After playing 20 times, Team B gets the
total score of 53. Team B loses at least times.

17. Among 8 points located in a plane, five of them lie on one line. Any three points
are selected from those 8 points as corner points of a triangle. There are at
most triangles that can be formed.

18. Fill in all the numbers 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 on the ten squares below, so that the
sum of numbers located on each arrowed line is 20. Two numbers are already
filled in. The number on the square with a question mark ("?") is ....

19. Nine dots are arranged as shown in the figure below, where ABCD is a square.
AT=TD, DS=SC, CR=BR, and AP=PQ=QB. A triangle can be constructed by
lining from dot to dot. At most, there are different right triangles that one can
construct so that at least one of the dots P,Q,R,S, and T is its vertex.

20. ABCDE is a five-digit positive number. ABCDE1 is three times 1ABCDE.

ABCDE is .

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 IMSO 2009 IMSO2009
Short Answer Yogyakarta, 8-14 November
21. In the diagram below, BC=5, DE=1 and DC=20, where D lies on AC and E lies
on AB. Both ED and BC are perpendicular to AC. The length of AD is .
(Note: the figure is not in proportional scale)

22. The number N consists of three different digits and is greater than 200. The
digits are greater than 1. For any two digits, one digit is a multiple of the other or
the difference is 3. For example, 258 is one of such numbers. There are at
most possible N.

23. In the figure, two half-circles are inscribed in a square. These two half-circles
intersect at the center of the square. If the side of the square has length 14 cm,
then the area of the shaded region is cm2.

24. Replace the asterisks with digits so that the multiplication below is correct:
The product is .

25. The areas of 3 sides of a block are 44 cm2, 33 cm2, and 48 cm2. The volume of
the block is cm3.

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International Mathematics and Science Olympiad 2010

SHORT ANSWER PROBLEMS

1. E is the midpoint of the side BC of a triangle ABC. F is on AC, so that AC = 3 FC.

The ratio of the area of quadrilateral ABEF to the area of triangle ABC is . . . : . . . .

2. A rectangle is divided into four rectangles, as shown in the figure below. The areas of
three of them are given in cm2 . The area of the original rectangle is . . . cm2 .

3. A shape on the right is constructed by putting

two half circles with diameter 2 cm on the top and on the bottom
of a square with 2 cm sides. A circle is inscribed in the
square as shown in the figure. The area of the shaded region is . . . cm2 .

4. The least positive integer a so that 490 a is a perfect cube number is . . . .

5. A number of cubes are stacked as shown seen in the figure below. The highest level
consists of one cube, the second highest level consists of 3 3 cubes, the third highest
level consists of 5 5 cubes, and so on.

If there are 2010 cubes to be stacked in this way, such that all levels are complete, some
cubes may not be used. There can be as many as . . . levels.

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 6. Draw a square inside a circle of radius 1 so that all four vertices lie on the circle. The
ratio of the area of the square to the area of the circle is . . . : . . . . [Use = 22
7
.]

7. If we move from point A to B along the directed lines shown in the figure, then the
number of different routes is . . . .

8. The areas of three faces of a rectangular box are 35, 55 and 77 cm2 . If the length, width
and height of the box are integers, then the volume of the box is . . . cm3 .

9. In a certain year, the month of January has exactly 4 Mondays and 4 Thursdays. The
day on January 1st of that year is . . . .

10. In an isosceles triangle, the measure of one of its angles is four times the other angle.
The measure of the largest possible angle of the triangle, in degree, is . . . .

11. The average of 2010 consecutive integers is 1123.5. The smallest of the 2010 integers is
....

12. If the length of each side of a cube is decreased by 10%, then the volume of the cube is
decreased by . . .%.

13. The operations and  are defined by the following tables.

For example, 2 3 = 2 and 23 = 3 . The value of (12) 3 is . . . .

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14. The number of zeros in the end digits in the product of
15101520253035404550556065707580859095 is . . . .

15. In the addition sentence below

each letter represents a different digit. The number of all possible digits represented by
E is . . . .

16. A piece of rod is 16 meters long. There is a device that can divide any piece of rod into
two equal pieces. We can use this device 8 times. In the end, we will have 9 pieces of
rod. The maximum possible difference between the length of the longest piece and the
length of shortest piece is . . . meters.

17. Rearrange the twelve numbers of the clock 1, 2, 3, . . . , 12 around its face so that any two
adjacent numbers add up to a triangle number. The triangle numbers are 1, 3, 6, 10,
15, 21 and so on. If 12 is placed in its original position, then the number that should
be placed in the opposite position of 12 must be . . . .

18. In the figure, A, B and C are circles of area of 60 cm2 . One-half the area
of A is shaded, 31 area of B is shaded, and 41 area of C
is shaded. The total area of the shaded regions is . . . cm2 .

19. For any positive integer n, let d(n) be the sum of digits in n.
For example, d(123) = 1 + 2 + 3 = 6 and d(7879) = 7 + 8 + 7 + 9 = 31.
The value of
d (d (999 888 777 666 555 444 333 222 111))
is . . . .

20. The numbers 1447, 1005 and 1231 have something in common. Each is a four-digit
number beginning with 1 that has exactly two identical digits. There are . . . such
numbers.

21. Let n be a positive integer greater than 1. By the length of n, we mean the number
of factors in the representation of n as a product of prime numbers. For example, the
length of the number 90 is 4, since 90 = 2 3 3 5. The number of odd numbers
between 2 and 100 having length 3 is . . . .

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22. A rectangle intersects a circle as shown:
AB = 8cm, BC = 9cm and DE = 6cm. The length of
EF is . . .cm.

23. The numbers on each pair of opposite faces on a die add up to 7. A die is rolled without
slipping around the circuit shown. At the start the top face is 3.
At the end point, the number displayed on the top face is . . . .

24. Let A, B and C be three distinct prime numbers. If A B C is even and A B C >
100, then the smallest possible value of A + B + C is . . . .

25. The product of a b c d = 2010, where a, b, c and d are positive integers and
a < b < c < d. There are . . . different solutions for a, b, c and d.

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Math Short Answer Problems IMSO 2011

1. The sum of the three smallest prime numbers and another prime
number n is 2021. Find the value of n.

2. The average of x and y is 19. The average of a, b and c is 14. Find the
average of x, y, a, b and c.

3. The figure is made up of semicircles of diameter 2 cm, 4 cm and 8 cm.

What fraction of the figure is shaded?

4. The sum of the numbers A, B and C is 390. Given A is 3 times of B and

A is one third of C, find the value of C.

5. What is the smallest number that can be expressed as the sum of two
squares in two different ways?

6. How many rectangles are there in the 3 3 grid shown?

7. Find the smallest positive integer with exactly 30 factors.

8. Find the value of

2009 2010 6 1 2009 2010 2 1 2009 2010 6 2009 2010 2

+ + + + + + + + + +
2010 2011 7 2 2010 2011 5 2 2010 2011 7 2010 2011 5

9. The number 119 is very amazing. When divided by 2, it leaves a

remainder of 1. When divided by 3, it leaves a remainder of 2. When
divided by 4, it leaves a remainder of 3. When divided by 5, it leaves a
remainder of 4. When divided by 6, it leaves a remainder of 5. Find the
smallest three-digit number, larger than 119, which has this property.
10. Pedro can finish a job in 14 minutes while his younger brother Juan can
finish the same job in 7 minutes. How long will it take the two of them to
finish the job together?
11. In the diagram shown, find the measure of a +b +c +d +e.

b
e

c
d

12. The sum of the two digits of Emmas age this year is 5. Seven years from
now, her age will be 2 less than the reverse of the digits of her age this
year. How old is Emma now?

13. Half of the punch in the bowl is pure mango juice. When 6 more cups of
2
pure mango juice are added to the bowl, of the resulting punch in the
3
bowl is pure mango juice. How many cups of punch were in the bowl to
start with?

14. Five test scores have a mean (average score) of 88, a median (middle
score) of 89, and a mode (most frequent score) of 93. What is the sum of
the two lowest test scores?

15. The area of a rectangle with integer sides is 2011 cm2. Find its largest
possible perimeter, in cm.

16. In the grid shown, how many paths are there from corner A to corner B
that only have steps to the right or up and do not pass through neither C
nor D? B

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 17. Chords EF and GH are perpendicular to each other. A and B are centers
of circle A and circle B respectively. Circle A and circle B are tangent to
the chords, as shown in the diagram. If the radius of circle A is 12 and
the radius of circle B is 5, find the length of line segment AB.
E
B
G H
A C

F
18. Six points A, B, C, D, E and F are arranged as shown. How many triangles
can be formed with any 3 of the 6 points as vertices?
A B C

D
E
F

19. A square piece of paper has area 96 cm2. It is folded along the dotted line
MN. The shaded area in the resulting figure is one-half of the total visible
area. Find the length of MN.

20. What is the maximum number of circles of radius 2 that can be packed
without overlap into a circle of radius 6?

21. What is the total surface area, in cm2, of a regular tetrahedron with edge
length 5 cm?
22. A 6-digit number, 8ab8ab is divisible by 12 where a and b are distinct.
Find the last two digits of the 6-digit number for it to be as small as
possible.

23. Of 100 students in a certain school, 17 like math, 80 like MTV and 4
neither like math nor MTV. How many students like math and MTV?

24. Lanis mother promised to give her a call between 2:30 p.m. and 4:00
p.m. Sometime during this period, Lani left her cell phone inside her
locker for 40 minutes. What is the probability that Lani missed her
mothers call?

25. Mother gave Greg a recipe of a mixture of juice with 2 parts juice and 5
parts water. However, Greg squared both numbers in the recipe. How
many ounces of juice need to be added to correct a 29-ounce mixture
prepared by Greg?
International Mathematics and Science Olympiad 2012

SHORT ANSWER PROBLEMS

(1) The radius of a circle is increased by 100%. Find the percentage increase in
the area?
(2) Three committees meet today. Of these three committees, one meets every 11
days, a second meets every 15 days, and the third meets every 21 days. What
is the number of days before they all meet on the same day again?
(3) A nonzero number is halved and the result is squared. This yields a number
which is twice the original number. What is the original number?
(4) The hypotenuse of a right triangle has length 10 cm, and the other two sides
have lengths y and 3y respectively. Find the area of the triangle, in cm2.
(5) In the diagram below, ABC is an equilateral triangle of side length 7 cm. The
arcs AB, BC and CA are drawn with centres C, A and B respectively. Find the
22
total length, in cm, of the three arcs. (Using )
7
A

C B
(6) Carmen selects four different numbers from the set {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7} whose
sum is 11. If l is the largest of these four numbers, what is the value of l?
(7) When my age is divided by 2, 3, 4 or 6 there is always a remainder of 1, but
when divided by 7 there is no remainder. How old am I if my age is under
100?
(8) If 7 is subtracted from a three-digit number x, the result is a multiple of 7. If 8
is subtracted from x, the result is a multiple of 8. If 9 is subtracted from x, the
result is a multiple of 9. When x is divided by 10, what is the remainder?
(9) In a class of 25 children, 12 wear glasses and 11 wear braces. If 7 wear both
glasses and braces, what is the number of those who wear neither?
(10) IMSO, MOSI and SMIO are some arrangements of the letters I, M, S and O.
How many different arrangements are there such that the letter I is not next to
the letter O?
(11) A boy saved 1 dollar in the first week, 4 dollars in the second week, he saved
3 dollars more than he did the previous week. What was the total number of
dollars that the boy had in the first ten weeks?
(12) A two-digit odd number is a multiple of 9. The product of its digits is also a
multiple of 9. What is this number?
(13) The product of two positive integers is 1 000 000. Neither of the two numbers
contains the digit 0. What is their sum?
(14) In triangle ABC, A =50 and the external bisector of B and C meet
in O. find the measure of BOC , in degrees?
A

50

B C

D E
O
(15) In the diagram below, each of the small squares in the 44 grid measures 1 cm
by 1 cm. Find the area of the 11-sided polygon, in cm2.

(16) The teacher gave ten tests during the year, each carrying the same weight. If
Mary had got 10 more marks on the last test, her average would have become
92. What was her actual average?
(17) The faces of a cube contain the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 such that
2
the sum of the numbers on each pair of opposite faces is 7. For
each of the cubes eight corners, we multiply the three numbers 1 3
on the faces incident to that corner, and write down its value. (In
the diagram, the value of the indicated corner is 1 2 3 = 6.)
What is the sum of the eight values assigned to the cubes corners?
(18) In a certain province, there are twelve highways, each joining a pair of cities.
Each city is situated at the termination of three highways. What is the number
of cities in this province?
(19) A positive integer n is divisible by four of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7, but not by the
other two. If the two numbers that do not divide n are consecutive, what is the
smallest value of n?
5 a 9
(20) The positive integers a and b are such that .
7 b 11
Find the value of a + b when b takes the smallest possible value.
(21) In the diagram below, ABCD is a square, E is a point on AD and F a point on
AB such that DE=2AE and AF=2BF. What is the ratio of the area of triangle
CEF to that of square ABCD?
A F B

D C
(22) Consider the following pattern:




Y1 6 Y2 15 Y3 28
Find Y199 .
(23) The first four digits of an eight-digit perfect square are 2012. Find its square
root.
(24) Peter arranges 5 poker cards on the table as shown in Figure 1. Then he
rotates one of them 180. Now the five cards are as shown in Figure 2. Which
card, A, B, C, D or E, has been rotated?

Fig. 1
A B C D E

Fig. 2

(25) When a two-digit number is divided by the sum of its digits, what is the
largest possible remainder?
International Mathematics and Science Olympiad 2013

SHORT ANSWER PROBLEMS

(1) Square pieces of sides 0.5 cm are cut from a sheet which is 11 cm long and
2 cm wide. What is the total number of squares that can be cut?
(2) Study the following pattern.
1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 3
= , + = , + + = .
1 2 2 1 2 2 3 3 1 2 2 3 3 4 4
1 1 1 1 a+2
Given that + + +" + = , where a is a
1 2 2 3 3 4 2013 2014 a + 3
positive integer. Find the value of a.
(3) Thirty girls joined a mathematics contest. The first girl scored 70 and the
second girl scored 80. The teacher then announced that the score of every girl
after the first two was equal to the average of the scores of all the girls before
her. What was the score of the last girl?
(4) Five boys, A, B, C, D, and E, attended a meeting. In this meeting :
a. A shook hands with one boy.
b. B shook hands with two boys.
c. C shook hands with three boys.
d. D shook hands with four boys.
How many boys did E shake hands with?
(5) What is the simplified value of
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
2 1 + 3 1 + 4 1 + 5 1 + 6 1 + 7 1 + 8 1 + 9 1 ?
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
(6) The sum of the digits of a two-digit number ab is 6. By reversing the digits,
one obtained another two-digit number ba . If ab ba = 18 , find the original
two-digit number.
(7) The side length of the biggest square in the given diagram is 10 cm long. As
shown in the diagram, the total shaded regions formed by two diagonals
inside the circle and two squares is 26 cm2. What is the length side of the
smallest square in cm?

(8) The product of 1110, 1111, 1112 and 1113 is the thirteen digit number
152628 x755760 , with one digit replaced by x. What is the value of x?
(9) Each of A, B, C and D either always tells the truth or always tells lies. A says
C always tells lies. B says A always tells lies. C says D always tells the truth.
D says either A or C always tells lies. Who always tells lies?
(10) In the Figure below each of the interior angles of hexagon PQRSTU is 120 .
Given that PQ = 1 cm, QR = RS = 4 cm and ST = 3 cm. Find the perimeter of
the hexagon PQRSTU.
1
P Q

U
4

T 3 S
(11) PQRSTU is a regular hexagon with side 2 cm. The polygon ABCDEFGHIJKL
is obtained by drawing the equilateral triangles of side 4 cm, producing the
area of ABCDEFGHIJKL
sides of the hexagon. Find .
area of PQRSTU
I
K J
T S H G
L
R
U
A Q F
B P
D E
C
(12) Nine lines, parallel to the base of a triangle, divide each of the other sides into
10 equal segments and the area into 10 distinct parts. Find the area of the
original triangle, if the area of the largest of these parts is 76 cm2.
(13) The dates of three Sundays in a month are even numbers. What day is the 28th
day of the month?
(14) The company Coco has a number of operational cars. The tax for the first car
is $2,000, the tax for second car is 5 % more than the tax for the first car, the
tax for third car is 10 % more than the tax for the first car, the tax for the other
cars are 15 % more than the tax for the first car. The company pays $15,500
tax for all cars. How many cars does the company have?
(15) There are 1500 red dots and 513 white dots on a circle. We write 1 between
two red dots, 1 between two white dots, and 0 between two dots that have
different colours. What is the sum of the 2013 numbers we have written on
this circle?
(16) A paper cutter will cut a stack of up to 500 sheets of paper in one operation. If
no piece of paper is ever folded, what is the minimum number of operations
to get 2013 sheet of paper, starting with one sheet?
(17) On Monday, Austin kept half of his cows and divided the other half equally
between Dustin and Justin. On Tuesday, Dustin kept half of his cows and
divided the other half equally between Justin and Austin. On Wednesday,
Justin kept half of his cows and divided the other half equally between Austin
and Dustin. Each now had 8 cows. How many cows did Dustin have
originally?
(18) In a 4 4 table, there is a symbol in each square, a white circle, a black circle, a
triangle right side up or a triangle upside down. There is exactly one symbol of
each kind in each row, each column and each of the two long diagonals. The
symbols in four of the squares are shown in the diagram below. What is the
symbol in the square marked with a question mark?

(19) In the figure below, AB= 5 cm, AC= 12 cm, DB= 1 cm, ED= 4 cm, CE= 8 cm.
What is the size of EAD, in degrees?
A

12 5

C 8 E 4 D1 B

(20) Find the smallest multiple of 9 which is not divisible by the sum of its digits.

(21) Cut a cube by two planes parallel to the base of the cube into three rectangular
blocks. The ratio of surface areas of these three blocks is 345. Find the ratio
of their volumes in simplified form.
(22) The diagram below shows five squares of respective side lengths 1, 1, 2, 3
and 5. The centres A, B and C of three of the squares lie on a straight line.
What is the ratio of the length BC to the length AB?

A
B
C

(23) Let and be two distinct positive integers such that = 2013 ,
669
= . What is the value of ?
2011
(24) Robert bought two different candles. The ratio of the length of the short
candle to the longer candle is 57. It is known that the longer candle, when
lighted can melt in 3.5 hours while the shorter candle, when lighted, can melt
in 5 hours. Now the two candles are lighted at the same time, after how many
hours will the length of two candles be exactly equal?
(25) In a game, Alvin and Benny take turns painting a rectangle in the diagram
below. When a rectangle is painted, then all rectangles adjacent to it can no
longer be painted. The player who cannot make a move loses the game. For
example, if Alvin paints the rectangle a first and Benny paints the rectangle e,
then Alvin cannot paint any other rectangle. Thus Alvin loses. If Alvin wants
to win the game, then what rectangle must he paint first?
b d
a
c
e f

g
 International Mathematics and Science Olympiad 2014

SHORT ANSWER PROBLEMS

(1) Calculate 9+99+999+9999+99999+999999+9999999+99999999+999999999.
(2) The income of a taxi driver is the sum of the regular salary and some tips. The
5
tips are of his salary. What is the fraction of his income which comes
4
from his tips?
(3) The base of a large triangle is two times the altitude of a small triangle, and
the altitude of the large triangle is three times the base of the small triangle.
What is the ratio of the area of the large triangle to the area of the small
triangle?
(4) In an election, only 80% of people planned to vote. However only 85% of
those who planned to vote actually vote. What is the percentage of the people
who actually vote?
(5) INTERNUTS company offers internet service with an initial payment of
300000 rupiahs and a monthly fee of 72000 rupiahs. Another company,
VIDIOTS, offers internet service with no initial payment but a monthly fee of
90000 rupiahs. Johnny prefers INTERNUTS company. What is the minimum
number of months he should subscribe in order to pay less than the
subscription with VIDIOTS company?
(6) Twelve identical squares are put together in a 6 2 configuration to form a
rectangle. If the perimeter of each square is 6 cm, what is the perimeter of the
rectangle?
(7) The sum of two 2-digit numbers is also a 2-digit number. What is the
maximum value of the product of those three 2-digit numbers?
(8) How many positive integers less than 2014 such that the sum of the digits of
each is a multiple of 5?
(9) The diagram below shows two 3 4 pieces of paper, part of which is shaded.
A student copies both figures on the same 3 4 piece of paper. What is the
fraction of this piece of paper which is shaded?

(10) In total: Alice and Brian have 377 cards, Brian and Colin have 685 cards,
Colin and Alice have 546 cards. How many cards does Brian have?
(11) Write down six positive integers whose sum is 100 such that each integer
contains at least one digit 6.

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(12) ABCD is a square piece of paper. M and N are the respective midpoints of AB
and CD. P is a point on AM such that if the piece of paper is folded along DP,
then A lands on a point Q on the segment MN. What is the degree of ADP ?
(13) The sum of five different positive integers is 364, and the largest one is 95.
What is the maximum possible value of the smallest integer of these five
integers?
1 1
(14) Alice gives of her apples to Brian and of the remaining apples to
4 3
Colin. The leftover apples of hers are worth 13500 rupiahs. What is the worth
of Colins apples received from Alice?
(15) ABCD is a rectangle with AD = 8 cm and CD = 12 cm. P is the point on CD
such that DP = AD and Q is the point on AD such that DQ = CP. What is the
area of the quadrilateral ABPQ?
(16) Each pair of five positive integers is added, so there are ten sums, which are
110, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 120 and 121. What is the largest
integer among these five integers?
(17) What is the sum of all multiples of 6 each of which has exactly ten positive
divisors?
(18) What is the smallest positive integer which leaves remainders of 3, 4 and 5
when divided respectively by 5, 7 and 9?
(19) What is the remainder when 1 2 3 14 15 is divided by 1 + 2 + 3
+ + 14 + 15?
(20) We want to draw a number of straight lines such that for each square of a
chessboard, at least one of the lines passes through an interior point of the
square. At least how many lines we need for a 3 3 chessboard?
(21) Three children go on an 84 km trip. Each can walk at 5 km/h or ride a bicycle
at 20 km/h, but they only have two bicycles among them. At any moment, a
bicycle can take only one rider. Also, bicycles can safely be left on the
roadside. At least how many hours for all three children to finish the trip?
(22) An ant crawls along the surface of a 3 3 3 cube from one corner to the
farthest corner. It must travel along exactly 9 unit segments on the edges of
the cube or on the faces of the cube separating two 1 1 squares. How many
such routes are there?
(23) Andy writes a positive integer using each of the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and
9 exactly once. Any sequence of two adjacent digits in it forms an integer
which is divisible by either 7 or 13. Write down all possible integers that
Andy could write.
(24) In triangle ABC, the bisector of B intersects CA at E and the bisector of
C intersect AB at F. If BEF = 24 and CFE = 18 , what is the degree
of CAB ?

(25) ABC is a triangle such that AB = 1 cm and BC = 1.5 cm. D is a point on the
line through A parallel to BC, such that CD = 4 cm. Write down all possible
integral values of the length of AD.
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 International Mathematics and Science Olympiad 2015

SHORT ANSWER PROBLEMS

(1) Anne asks her teacher his age. He replied My age now is a square number
but after my birthday it will be a prime number. Assuming his age is below
65 and above 20, how old is he now?

(2) Given that 240a84 234 56b90256 . What is the value of a b ?

(3) If I place all three operational symbols +, , in all possible ways into the
blanks of the expressions 5____4____6____3, one symbol per one blank,
each resulting expression will have a value. What is the largest of these values?

(4) In the diagram below, the regular octagon ABCDEFGH and the regular
hexagon IJKLMN are centered around the same point O such that AB // IJ.
If the measure of CBJ 56 , find the measure of BJK , in degrees.
B A
I
C J H
O
K N
D G
L M
E F
(5) A boy has a cup of tea and a girl has an empty glass having the same volume
1
as the cup. In the first step, the boy pours of the tea from the cup into the
2
1
glass. In the second step, the girl pours of the tea from the glass into the
3
1
cup. In the third step, the boy pours of the tea from the cup into the glass.
4
1
In the fourth step, the girl pours of the tea from the glass into the cup.
5
This alternate pouring continues such that in each step, the denominator
increases by 1. What fraction of the tea is in the cup after the thirteenth step?

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(6) There is a committee of 5 members. The chairman will be seated in a
permanent chair at the round table. In how many ways can the other 4
members be seated at the same table if there are exactly 8 chairs?

(7) In the arrangement below, each number is the non-negative difference of the
two numbers above it. What is the average of the eight possible values of z?
76 z

36 y

28 x

6 w

(8) How many positive integers from 1 up to 2015 are not divisible by any
of the following numbers: 2, 20, 201 and 2015?

(9) In a survey of 100 students, 84 said they disliked playing Tennis, 74 said they
disliked skiing, 62 students said they disliked both playing tennis and skiing.
How many students liked both playing tennis and skiing?

(10) We know that 0, 2, 4, 6 and 8 are even digits. How many even digits are used
from 1 to 100?

(11) Two numbers are called mirror numbers if one is obtained from the other by
reversing the order of digits. For example, 123 and 321. If the product of a
pair of mirror numbers is 146047, then what is the sum of this pair of mirror
numbers?

(12) In the hexagon at the right, 1 is placed in the top triangle.

In how many different ways can we place 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 1
in the remaining empty triangles, such that the sum of the
numbers in opposite triangles is 5, 7 or 9?

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(13) Six identical pyramids with square bases are assembled to make a cube which
has a volume 2744 cm3 (Refer Figure 2). What is the length OH, which is the
height from the vertex to the base square ABCD of each pyramid, in cm?
(Refer Figure 1).

A O

D
H
B
C
Figure 1 Figure 2

(14) How many of the following numbers 1 2 , 2 3 , 3 4 , , 29 30 are

divisible by 3 or 5?

(15) A fox sees on its front a rabbit grazing 21 meters from his place. In one
second, the rabbit runs 5 steps while the fox runs only 3 steps; it is also
known that the distance travelled by the fox in 4 steps takes the rabbit 9 steps.
If the distance the rabbit runs in every step is 0.6 meter, how many seconds
will it take the fox to catch the rabbit?

(16) Consider all the 3-digit numbers such that its digits are all different and there
is no digit 0 used. Find the sum of all such 3-digit numbers.

(17) ABC is a right triangle with C 90 . The bisector of A intersects CB at

D. If CD 3 cm and BD 5 cm, what is the length of AB, in cm?
A

C 3 D 5 B

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(18) The diagram shown in the figure below composed of 15 unit squares. AB
divides the area of the given figure into two equal parts. Find the value of
MB
.
BN
M
B
N

(19) The square ABCD is drawn with points E, F, G and H as the midpoints of
each side as shown in the figure below. If the total area of the shaded region is
15 cm2, what is the area of the square ABCD, in cm2?

D G C

H F

A E B

(20) The symbols I, M, S, O, 1 and 5 are written in a row in some order.

(1) M is either the first or the last symbol from the left.
(2) S is the fourth symbol from the left.
(3) S is to the left, not necessarily immediately, of O.
(4) I is to the right, not necessarily immediately, of M.
(5) The symbols O and 1 are next to each other.
(6) There is exactly one other symbol between I and 1.
What is the symbol in the second place from the left?

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(21) ABCD is a rectangle with E as a point on CD and F is a point on BC such
that AEF 90 and AF 25 cm. The length of DE, EC, CF, FB, AE and
EF are positive integers. What is the area of rectangle ABCD, in cm2?

D E C

25
A B

(22) There are some distinct positive integers whose average is 38 with 52 as one
of those integers. If 52 is removed, the average of the remaining integers is 37.
Find the largest possible positive integer in those integers.

(23) The sum of 47 distinct positive integers is 2015. At most how many of these
positive integers are odd?

(24) Unit fractions are those fractions whose numerator is 1 and denominator is any
positive integer. Express the number 1 as the sum of seven different unit
1 1 1 1 1
fractions, given five of them are , , , and . Find the product of
3 5 9 15 30
the two remaining unit fractions.

(25) From the 99 positive integers less than 100, I chose as many different
numbers as I could so that no subset of my numbers had a sum of 100. If the
sum of all my numbers was as large as possible, what was the smallest
number I actually chose?

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 International Mathematics and Science Olympiad 2016

SHORT ANSWER PROBLEMS

(1) Alex and Benito make 880 pies in 8 hours working together. Alex makes 10
more pies in one hour than Benito. Find the number of pies made by Alex in
one hour.

(2) Divide 108 students into four groups such that two times the number of
students in group 1 is
(i) half of the number of students in group 2,
(ii) 2 less than the number of students in group 3.
(iii) 2 more than the number of students in group 4.
Find the number of students in group 1.

(3) In the diagram below, C, D and E are points on the line AB.
Given AB = 9.2 cm and CE = 4.7 cm, find the sum of the lengths of all ten
line segments determined by these five points.
A C D E B

(4) Four cube with edge length 1 m are cut up into cubes each with edge length 4
cm. If all these cubes were placed one on the right of the other to form a line,
find the length of the line, in m.

(5) Michael wanted to tie 20 ropes. The length of each rope was 50 cm. 5 cm of
one end of a rope was tied to 5 cm of one end of another rope. Each of the
resulting knots was 5 cm long. What was the length of the new rope?

(6) Class A and Class B have the same number of students.

z The number of students in class A who took part in a mathematics
1
competition is of the students in class B who did not take part.
3
z The number of students in class B who took part in a mathematics
1
competition is of the students in class A who did not take part.
5
Find the ratio of the number of students in class A who did not take part in
this competition to the number of students in class B who did not take part.

(7) What number can be added to both 170 and 30 so that the sums are in the
ratio 3: 1?

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 (8) Two different shirts at a shop were sold at the same price. While one shirt
made a profit of 30%, the shop had incurred a 30% loss for the other one. Did
the shop record a profit or loss from these two transactions, and by how
many %?

(9) A television show has 483 episodes. If the show starts on Saturday and
broadcasts everyday with three episodes each day, on what day will the last
episode be broadcasted?

(10) Find the area, in cm2, of the isosceles trapezoid ABCD, given that
AD = 16 cm, BC = 8 cm, AB = CD and A = D = 45 .

B C

45 45
A D

(11) On her 40th birthday, Mrs. Sharma makes gifts to her two sons whose ages are
prime numbers. She gives to one son a number of dollars equal to the square
of his age, and to the other son a number of dollars equal to his age. She gives
300 dollars in total. Find the sum of the ages of Mrs. Sharmas two sons.

(12) The numbers 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 are to be filled in the squares so that the sum of
the numbers in the row is equal to the sum of the numbers in the column.
How many different possible values of A are there?

(13) A farmer harvested 2016 apples. He wishes to pack them as many boxes as
possible, not necessarily packing all the apples, with each box a whole
number of apples. The second box must be 10 more than the first, the third 10
more than the second and so on. What is the smallest number of apples left
unpacked?

(14) Three containers A, B, and C contain a total of 48 apples. First, 6 apples are
taken from A and are put into B. Second, 9 apples are taken from B and are
put into C. Now, each container has the same number of apples. What is the
original number of apples in container A?

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 (15) The square PQRS has area of 400 cm2. The points X and Y divide PQ into 3
parts.
P X Y Q
Z

S R
1
If the perimeter of triangle XYZ is of the perimeter of triangle SRZ, find
4
the area, in cm2, of XYZ.
(16) In the diagram, line AB and line DE meet in O and COF = 88 . Given that
OE is the angle bisector of AOF and OB is the angle bisector of COF .
Find the measure, in degrees, of COD .
D
C

O 88
A B

E F
(17) 243a 688 31b2 = 764 , find the value for a b .
(18) Find the area of the cross made of five identical squares in the figure below,
given that the length of AC is 12 cm.

(19) Three positive two-digit integers and 63 are arranged in a 2 2 table. For
each row and column of the table, the product of the two numbers in this row
or column is calculated. When all four such products are added together, the
result is 2016. What is the largest possible number in the square A of the
table?
A
63

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 (20) Ali has 5 consecutive numbers while Ben has 7 consecutive numbers, none of
the Alis number is in the group of Bens numbers. If the second number of
Alis number is 5 and the sum of Alis and Bens numbers are 128. What is
the largest number of Bens number?

(21) Sam, Tom and Una are three chefs of a restaurant. One day, they cooked 320
plates of spaghetti and in this day, Sam cooked for 6 hours, Tom cooked for 8
hours and Una cooked for 5 hours. They also cook spaghetti at different
speeds, with Sam cooking 5 plates for every 3 plates Tom cooks and every 2
plates Una cooks. How many plates of spaghetti did Sam cook this day?

(22) How many equilateral triangles are in the figure below, in all possible sizes
and directions?

(23) With the appropriate order of the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9, find the
smallest 9-digit number that is divisible by 99.

(24) In the diagram shown below, ABC, DGH and EFI are isosceles right triangles.
Given AG = GF = CD = DE = 1 cm and FE = 4 cm. Find the ratio of area of
shaded region to the area of triangle ABC.
A
G
F

E
D

B C
(25) Whenever Sam reads a date like 20/11/2016, he incorrectly interprets it as
two divisions, with the second one evaluated before the first one:
40320 5
20 (11 2016) = = 3665
11 11
For some dates, like this one, he does not get an integer, while for others, like
20/8/2016, he gets 20 (8 2016) = 5040 , an integer. How many dates this
year (day/month/year) give him a non-integer?

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