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    www.e-nemo.

    nl

    wizBRAIN

    2015

    www.education.ti.com

    www.smart.be

    www.sanderspuzzelboeken.nl

    www.schoolsupport.nl

    www.blinkuitgevers.nl

    www.idpremiums.nl

    Good luck and most of


    all have fun.!

    www.ru.nl

    www.platformwiskunde.nl

    Stichting Wiskunde Kangoeroe


    www.rekentuin.nl

    calculators are not


    allowed

    you may use


    75 minutes

    Only a pencel, an
    eraser and scribbling
    paper are allowed

    results and prizes will


    arrive at school in May

    www.denksport.nl

    www.cito.nl

    answers will be posted


    on the website March
    26th

    wizBRAIN
    havo 1, 2 & 3
    vwo 1 & 2
    vmbo 3 & 4 m.u.v. basisberoepsgerichte leerweg.

    solutions will be
    posted on the website
    April 19th

    www.museumboerhaave.nl

    wizBRAIN

    2015

    1. An umbrella has the word WISKUNDE written on top.



    See picture.

    Which of the following pictures does not show the same umbrella?

    A.

    B.

    C.

    D.

    E.

    2. 4 identical small rectangles form a larger rectangle as shown.



    The width of the large rectangle is 10 cm.

    What is the length of the large rectangle?

    A. 10 cm

    B. 20 cm

    C. 30 cm

    D. 40 cm

    3. Which of the following numbers is closest to 2,015 510,2?



    A. 0,1
    B. 1
    C. 10
    D. 100

    E. 50 cm

    E. 1000

    4. Sabine folds this net into a cube.



    Then she adds the numbers on each pair of opposite faces.

    Which 3 answers will Sabine get?

    A. 4, 5, 12
    5.

    D. 5, 7, 9

    E. 5, 8, 8

    B. 105

    C. 115

    D. 165

    E. 175

    A triangle has sides of lengths 6, 10 and 11.


    Tom now wants to draw an equilateral triangle with the same perimeter as this triangle.
    How long is each side of the equilateral triangle?

    A. 6
    7.

    C. 5, 6, 10

    A journey by car from Groningen to Utrecht via Assen takes 2 hours and 10 minutes.
    From Groningen to Assen takes 35 minutes.
    How many minutes will it take from Assen to Utrecht?

    A. 95
    6.

    B. 4, 6, 11

    B. 9

    C. 10

    D. 11

    E. 18

    D. XW

    E. XY

    Nassim wants to fold this net into a triangular prism.


    Which side will coincide with side UV then?

    A. QR

    B. RS

    C. WV

    wizBRAIN

    2015

    8. Squirrels Chip and Dale want to collect nuts.



    On the ground they stay within 5 meters of the tree (
    ).

    They also stay at least 5 meters away from Plutos doghouse (
    ).

    Which of the following pictures shows where Chip and Dale might go?

    A.

    9.

    Which of the following fractions cannot be written as a whole number?

    2011
    A.
    1

    B.

    2012
    B.
    2

    C.

    2013
    C.
    3

    D.

    2014
    D.
    4

    E.

    E.

    2015
    5

    10. The top square is placed exactly in the middle on the 2 bottom squares.

    All squares have sides of length 1

    What is the area of the shaded part?

    3
    A.
    4

    B.
    7

    C. 1

    1
    D. 1
    4

    E. 1 1

    11. Samira rides her bike at a speed of 5 meters per second.



    The front wheel of her bike has a circumference of 125 cm.

    How many complete turns does Samiras front wheel make in 5 seconds?

    A. 4

    B. 5

    C. 10

    D. 20

    E. 25

    12. There is something special in a class: no two boys have their birthdays on the same day of

    the week and no two girls have their birthdays in the same month. Tomorrow a new pupil will

    join the class. After that, we know for sure, there is nothing special any more in this class.

    How many pupils will be in this class from tomorrow on?

    A. 18

    B. 19

    C. 20

    D. 24

    E. 25

    13. By substituting + or for each in 201520152015 = 0 we will



    get a correct equation.

    What is the smallest number of asterisks () that has to be replaced by +?

    A. 1

    B. 2

    C. 3

    D. 4

    E. 5

    14.


    Tamara wants to colour each side of each triangle in the picture red, green or blue.
    The sides of each triangle have to be of different colours.
    Tamara already coloured some of the sides.
    Which colour will the side with the question mark be?

    A. blue
    B. green
    C. red
    D. red or blue

    E. It is impossible for Tamara to choose the right colour.
    15. In a bouquet of 10 branches each branch has either only 5 leaves

    or 2 leaves and 1 flower.

    Which of the following could be the total number of leaves in the bouquet?

    A. 36

    B. 37

    C. 38

    D. 39

    E. 40

    16.


    At an exam the average score of the students was 6.


    Exactly 60% of the students passed.
    The avarage score of the students who passed was 8.
    What was the average score of the students who failed?

    wizBRAIN

    2015

    A. 1

    B. 2

    C. 3

    D. 4

    E. 5

    17.



    Of a square sheet of paper 1 corner is folded to the centre.


    That way an irregular pentagon is formed, see picture. The areas of the
    pentagon and of the square are consecutive whole numbers.

    A. 2

    What is the area of the square?


    B. 4

    C. 8

    D. 16

    E. 32

    18. Tim has added the lengths of 3 sides of a rectangle. His outcome was 44 cm.

    Tom too has added the lengths of 3 sides of the same rectangle. His outcome was 40 cm.

    How many cm is the perimeter of the rectangle?

    A. 42

    B. 56

    C. 64

    D. 84

    E. 112

    19. During a rainstorm 15 litres of water fell per square metre.



    By how many cm did the water level rise in a swimming pool during that rainstorm?

    A. 0,15
    B. 1,5
    C. 15
    E. It depends on the size of the swimming pool.

    D. 150

    20. Mister Kei lets his 5 students guess how many of them did their homework.

    Ali answers 0, Bert 1, Caroline 2, Desi 3 and Elsie 4.
    Mister Kei notices that the ones who did their homework guessed

    correctly and the ones who did not do their homework guessed wrong.

    How many students did their homework?

    A. 0

    B. 1

    C. 2

    D. 3

    E. 4

    21. Roel wants to write a number in each of the 7 regions of the figure.

    The number in a region has to be the sum of all numbers in the

    neighbouring regions (2 regions are neighbours if they border each other)

    Roel has already written down 2 numbers.


    Which number does Roel has to write down in the region with the question mark?

    22.



    A. -4

    B. -2

    C. 0

    D. 1

    E. 6

    5 positive whole numbers are written on 5 cards, 1 per card (a number could be written
    down more than once). Peter adds the numbers of every possible pair of cards.
    He only gets 3 different outcomes: 57, 70 and 83.
    What is the largest number that occurs on these cards?
    A. 35

    B. 42

    C. 48

    D. 53

    E. 82

    23. In a group of kangaroos the 2 lightest animals together weigh 25% of the total weight of the

    group. The 3 heaviest kangaroos together weigh 60% of the total weight.

    How many kangaroos are in the group?
    A. 6

    B. 7

    C. 8

    D. 15

    E. 20

    24. A square of area 30 cm2 is divided into a number of triangles as shown.



    The area of 4 of these triangles is given.

    Which part of the diagonal is the longest?

    wizBRAIN

    2015

    A. a
    25.



    B. b

    C. c

    D. d

    E. e

    Igor has pieces of wire of lenghts 1 cm, 2 cm, 3 cm, 4 cm, 5 cm, 6 cm and
    7 cm long, one of each length. He uses some of them to make a wire
    model of a cube with edges of length 1 cm. The pieces do not overlap.
    What is the smallest number of pieces that he can use?

    A. 1

    B. 2

    C. 3

    D. 4

    E. 5

    26. The figure alongside is an example of a trapezium.



    In a trapezium PQRS with parallel sides PQ and SR is angle S = 120
    and RS = SP = 1 PQ .
    3


    How many degrees is angle Q?
    A. 25

    B. 30

    C. 40

    D. 45

    E. 60

    27. 5 points are drawn on a line. Lionel measures the distance between each possible

    pair of these points. He finds, in ascending order, 2, 5, 6, 8, 9, k, 15, 17, 20 and 22.

    Which number is k?
    A. 10

    B. 11

    C. 12

    D. 13

    E. 14

    28.





    Last week my friend Thomas from Atlantis gave me his phone number.
    I want to call Thomas now, but I notice that he only wrote down six digits.
    In Atlantis phone numbers consist of seven digits.
    The numbers may start with 0, just like in the Netherlands.
    I want to calculate how many telephone numbers Ill have to try at the most to make sure that Ill
    speak to Thomas.
    How many telephone numbers do I calculate?

    A. 55

    B. 60

    C. 64

    D. 70

    E. 80

    29. Fatima divided the number 2015 by each of the numbers 1, 2, 3 etcetera, up till and including

    1000. She wrote down the remainder of each of these divisions.

    What is the largest remainder Fatima wrote down?
    A. 15
    30.



    B. 215

    C. 671

    D. 1007

    E. none of these

    We will colour all positive whole numbers according to the following 3 rules.
    (1) Every number is either red or green.
    (2) Every number you can get by adding two different red numbers is red too.

    (3) Every number you can get by adding two different green numbers is green too.
    In how many different ways can we colour the numbers?

    A. 0

    B. 2

    C. 4

    D. 6

    E. more than 6

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