AMestpac AUSTRALIAN MATHEMATICS COMPETITION FOR THE WESTPAC AWARDS [ |AN ACTIVITY OF THE AUSTRALIAN MATHEMATICS TRUST THURSDAY 29 JULY 2004 INTERMEDIATE DIVISION COMPETITION PAPER AUSTRALIAN SCHOOL YEARS 9 AND 10 TIME ALLOWED: 75 MINUTES INSTRUCTIONS AND INFORMATION GENERAL 1. Do not open the booklet until told to do so by your teacher. 2. NO calculators, slide rules, log tables, maths stencils, mobile phones or other calculating aids are permitted. Scribbling paper, graph paper, ruler and compasses are permitted, but are not essential. 3. Diagrams are NOT drawn to scale, They are intended only as aids. 4. This is a competition not a test; do not expect to answer all questions. You are only competing against your own year in your own State or Region so different years doing the same paper are in no way discriminated against. 5, You are encouraged to attempt all of the first 20 questions. To maximize your score in the last 10 questions only guess if you have narrowed the possibilities down to at most two options 6. Read the instructions on the answer sheet carefully. Ensure your name, school and school year are filled out. It is your responsibility that the answer sheet is correctly coded, 7. When your teacher gives the signal, begin working on the problems. THE ANSWER SHEET 1. Use only B or 2B lead pencil. 2. Record your answers on the Answer Sheet (not on the question paper) by FULLY colouring the circle matching your answer.. 3. Your Answer Sheet will be read by a machine. The machine will see all markings even if they are in the wrong places so please be careful not to doodle or write anything extra on the Answer Sheet. If you want to change an answer or remove any marks use a plastic eraser and be sure to remove all marks and smudges. INTEGRITY OF THE COMPETITION ‘The AMC reserves the right to re-examine students before deciding whether to grant official status to their score.Questions 1 - 10, 3 marks each 2004 + 6 100 (A) 30 (B) 2.1 (C) 201 (D) 20.1 (E) 2.01 » The value of R In the diagram. PQR is a straight line. The value of x is (A) 65 (B) 75 (C) 55 (D) 45, (B) 35 . The value of 2 is closest to 5 (A) 0 (B)1 (C2 (D)3 (B) 4 . If y = 3 and = =2—y then = equals (A) 3x (B)3r-2 0 (C)2—-4 (D)3-2r — (E) 2-3e . The temperature at Jindabyne was 7.6° C at 10:00pm last night. The temperature fell by 16.7° between 10:00pm last night and 5:00am this morning. ‘The temperature at 5:00am this morning was (A) -10.9°C (B) -9.1°C (C)0°C (D) ~10.1°C (E) -9.9°C . Every chair in the school hall has 4 legs. There are 484 chair legs in the hall. The number of chairs is (A) 242 (B) 480 (C) 141 (D) 212 (E) 121 phe valne of w in the diagram oo is (A) 50 (B) boo (C) 80 (D) 40 (E) 70 40° L10. 1. 12, 13. 12 3 . Martin's weight a year ago was 5 of his present weight. If he put on 16kg in this last. year. what is his weight, in kilograms. now? (A) 28 (B) 36 (C) 42 (D) 49 (E) 64 . A farmer buys a truckload of 30 bales of hay to feed his cattle. He intends to feed his cattle two thirds of a bale each day to supplement their diets. For how many days will this load last? (A) 36 (B) 39 (C) 42 (D) 45 (E) 48 If a person's wage rose 20% to $360 per week, the wage before the rise was (A) $288 (B) $300 (C) $310 (D) $280 (E) $320 Questions 11 - 20, 4 marks each A rectangle has its length 25 times its width. What is the ratio of its perimeter to the perimeter of the square of the same area? (A) 13:5 (B) 13:10 (C) 5:1 (D) 51:20 (E) 51:10 1 The fraction zs tripled by adding the same number to both amnerator aud denominator, That number is tA) 2 (B) 3 (Cc) 5 (D)8 (E) 9 An equilateral triangle FGH sits on top of a square GIJH as shown, The size of the angle FGI is H G (A) Go (B) 105 (C) 150° (D) 905 (B) 75°14, 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 13 Which of the following is the sum of four consecutive integers (A) 2000 = (B) 2001 ~=— (C) 2002.» (D) 2003 (B) 2004 Some beads are arranged on a line as shown. Starting with the bead at the head of the arrow, how many beads must be moved. from left to right so that the fraction of the beads on the left that are black is equal to the fraction of the beads on the right that are white? (A)4 (B) 3 (c)2 (D) 1 (E)0 Tina has to mal of blocks large number of 1 x 2 x 6 rectangular blocks. She wants solid cube out of the blocks. What is the smallest number she needs? (A) 6 (B) 12 (©) 18 (D) 36 (E) 144 ‘The school canteen packs 37 lamingtons into bags of 3 or 4 so that there is no wastage. The maximum number of bags containing 4 lamingtons is (A) 9 (B)4 (C)8 (D) 5 (E)7 In how many ways can an X be placed in the cells of the grid shown so that each row and each column contains exactly two cells with an x? (A) 6 (B) 9 (c) 12 (D) 18 (B) 27 ‘atural fruit juice contains 80% water. In concentrating the juice, % of the water is removed. What is the percentage of water in the concentrated juice? (A) 25 (B) 40 (©) 50 (D) 60 (E) 75 The only information that an electronic watch displays is hours as a 2digit number and minutes as a 2-digit number. What is the total time in minutes that the digit 2 was visible on the face of the watch from 15:00 to 16:30 during an afternoon? (A) 12 (B) 15 (©) 24 (D) 27 (E) 304 ‘Questions 21-30: MINIMUM 30 MARKS FOR THIS SECTION GUARANTEED 8 marks each correct response, 0 marks each incorrect response, 3 marks each no response. If your total for this section is less than 30, you will score 30 marks. 21, Four 10¢ coins lie on a table as shown. Keeping in contact, with the other three coins. the shaded coin is rolled around the other three coins until it returns to its starting place. Through what angle does the shaded coin turn, on its axis. in rolling once around the other three coins? (A) 360° (B) 540° (C) 720° (D) 900° (E) 1080° 22, Susan and Jenny rma 200m race which Susan wins by 101, Jenny suggests that they rim another race. with Susan starting 10m be- hind the starting line. Assuming they run at the same speeds as in the first race. the outcome of the race is (A) adeadheat (B) Susan wins by 1m (C) Jenny wins by Lin (D) Susan wins by 0.5m (E) Jenny wins by 0.5m 1 23. In the diagram, the value of «ris (A) 90 (B) 120 (C) 135 1 1 (D) 137.5 (E) 140 24, John tells the truth on Monday, Tuesday. Wednesday and Thurs- day. He lies on all other days. Dieter tells the truth on Monday Friday, Saturday and Sunday. He lies on all other days. One day they both said. “Yesterday I lied’. ‘The day they said that was (A) Monday (B) Wednesday (C) Thursday (D) Friday (B) Saturday25. 26. 27. 28. Michael has a block of chocolate consisting of 5 x 5 little pieces. He wants to break the whole block in order to get the 25 pieces separated. At any stage he can put several pieces one on top of the other and break them simultancously into smaller pieces. If he organises the breaks in the most efficient way, what is the smallest number of breaks needed? (A) 5 (B) 6 (c) 8 (D) 12 (E) 16 Some corners are cut off four cubes. Afterwards, only two of the solids formed are the same shape. Which two are they? DBBYE (A) P and Q (B) PandR (C) Qand R (D) P and S (E) Qand S What is the largest possible size of an angle of a triangle formed by joining the midpoints of three edges of a cube? (A) 60° = (B) 90° (C) 120° (D) 135° (E) 150° The integers 1, 2, 3,.. . , 100 are written on the board. What is the smallest number of these integers that can be wiped off so that the product of the remaining integers ends in 2? (A) 20 (B) 21 (©) 22 (D) 23 (E) 2429. The Fibonacci numbers are R=1, R=1, =2, i=3, B=5, =8, = 13,... where the first two are both equal to 1, and from then on, each one is the sum of the two preceding it. Of the first, 2004 Fibonacci numbers, how many have 2 as their last digit? (A) 131 (B) 133, (C) 135 () 137 (B) 139 30. Lois and Ben are playing a game with red, yellow, green and blue counters. They are making as long a line as possible while obeying the following two rules: (1) No two adjacent counters can be the same colour. (2) If, in the sequence, any colour occurs twice, no colour between them can occur elsewhere. ‘Thus rygbgg would be banned by only the first rule, and rbgygbrg would be banned by only the second rule. Lois has started her line with ryr and Ben has started his with ryg. Which of the following statements is true? (A) It is possible for Lois to make a longer sequence than Ben can make. (B) It is possible for Ben to make a longer sequence than Lois can make. (C) It is possible for both to make sequences of length 6, but no longer. (D) It is possible for both to make sequences of length 7, but no longer. (E) There is no limit on the length of the sequence either can make.A SELECTION OF AUSTRALIAN MATHEMATICS TRUST PUBLICATIONS AUSTRALIAN MATHEMATICS COMPETITION BOOKS Tue 2004 AUSTRALAN MaTHemarics COMPETITION SOLUTIONS AND SransTics ~ $A3O.80 EACH This book provides questions, full solutions and statistics for all divisions for this year’s competition. It also provides information on Australian achievement rates, analyses of the statistics as well as discrimination and difficulty factors for each question. 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