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circle is shaded?

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20. A rectangle with area 125 cm2 has sides in the ratio 4:5. What is the perimeter of the
rectangle?
UK INTERMEDIATE MATHEMATICAL CHALLENGE
A 18 cm B 22.5 cm C 36 cm D 45 cm E 54 cm
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21. The parallelogram PQRS is formed by joining together four P Q and supported by
equilateral triangles of side 1 unit, as shown.
What is the length of the diagonal SQ?
S R
A 7 B 8 C 3 D 6 E 5

22. What is the maximum possible value of the median number of cups of coffee bought per
customer on a day when Sundollars Coffee Shop sells 477 cups of coffee to 190 customers,
and every customer buys at least one cup of coffee? RULES AND GUIDELINES (to be read before starting)
A 1.5 B 2 C 2.5 D 3 E 3.5 1. Do not open the paper until the Invigilator tells you to do so.

23. In triangle PQR, PS = 2; SR = 1; ∠PRQ = 45°; T is the foot P 2. Time allowed: 1 hour.
of the perpendicular from P to QS and ∠PST = 60°. No answers, or personal details, may be entered after the allowed hour is over.
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What is the size of ∠QPR?
S 3. The use of rough paper is allowed; calculators and measuring instruments are forbidden.
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A 45° B 60° C 75° D 90° E 105° T 1 4. Candidates in England and Wales must be in School Year 11 or below.
45 o
Q R Candidates in Scotland must be in S4 or below.
Candidates in Northern Ireland must be in School Year 12 or below.
24. All the positive integers are written in the cells of a
square grid. Starting from 1, the numbers spiral 5. Use B or HB pencil only. Mark at most one of the options A, B, C, D, E on the
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anticlockwise. The first part of the spiral is shown in the Answer Sheet for each question. Do not mark more than one option.
17 16 15 14 13 30
diagram.
18 5 4 3 12 29 6. Do not expect to finish the whole paper in 1 hour. Concentrate first on Questions 1-15.
19 6 1 2 11 28 When you have checked your answers to these, have a go at some of the later questions.
What number will be immediately below 2012?
20 7 8 9 10 27 7. Five marks are awarded for each correct answer to Questions 1-15.
A 1837 B 2011 C 2013 D 2195 E 2210 21 22 23 24 25 26 Six marks are awarded for each correct answer to Questions 16-25.
Each incorrect answer to Questions 16-20 loses 1 mark.
Each incorrect answer to Questions 21-25 loses 2 marks.
25. The diagram shows a ceramic design by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi. 8. Your Answer Sheet will be read only by a dumb machine. Do not write or doodle on the
It is formed by drawing eight lines connecting points which divide the sheet except to mark your chosen options. The machine 'sees' all black pencil markings
edges of the outer regular octagon into three equal parts, as shown.
even if they are in the wrong places. If you mark the sheet in the wrong place, or leave bits of
What fraction of the octagon is shaded? rubber stuck to the page, the machine will 'see' a mark and interpret this mark in its own way.
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A B C D E 9. The questions on this paper challenge you to think, not to guess. You get more marks,
5 9 4 10 16 and more satisfaction, by doing one question carefully than by guessing lots of answers.
The UK IMC is about solving interesting problems, not about lucky guessing.
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1. How many of the following four numbers are prime? 10. An ‘abundant’ number is a positive integer N, such that the sum of the factors of N (excluding
N itself) is greater than N . What is the smallest abundant number?
3 33 333 3333
A 5 B 6 C 10 D 12 E 15
A 0 B 1 C 2 D 3 E 4
11. In the diagram, PQRS is a parallelogram; ∠QRS = 50°; Q o R
2. Three positive integers are all different. Their sum is 7. What is their product? ∠SPT = 62° and PQ = PT . 50

A 12 B 10 C 9 D 8 E 5 What is the size of ∠TQR? P

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A 84° B 90° C 96° D 112° E 124°
3. An equilateral triangle, a square and a pentagon all have the same side length. The
triangle is drawn on and above the top edge of the square and the pentagon is
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drawn on and below the bottom edge of the square. What is the sum of the interior
angles of the resulting polygon?
12. Which one of the following has a different value from the others?
A 10 × 180° B 9 × 180° C 8 × 180° D 7 × 180° E 6 × 180°
A 18% of £30 B 12% of £50 C 6% of £90 D 4% of £135 E 2% of £270
4. All four digits of two 2-digit numbers are different. What is the largest possible sum of two 13. Alex Erlich and Paneth Farcas shared an opening rally of 2 hours and 12 minutes during their
such numbers? table tennis match at the 1936 World Games. Each player hit around 45 shots per minute.
A 169 B 174 C 183 D 190 E 197 Which of the following is closest to the total number of shots played in the rally?

5. How many minutes will elapse between 20:12 today and 21:02 tomorrow? A 200 B 2000 C 8000 D 12 000 E 20 000

A 50 B 770 C 1250 D 1490 E 2450 14. What value of x makes the mean of the first three numbers in this list equal to the mean of the
last four?
6. Triangle QRS is isosceles and right-angled. 15 5 x 7 9 17
Beatrix reflects the P-shape in the side QR to get an image.
A 19 B 21 C 24 D 25 E 27
She reflects the first image in the side QS to get a second image.
Finally, she reflects the second image in the side RS to get a third 15. Which of the following has a value that is closest to 0?
image.
+ ÷ ÷ 14 ÷ 14
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
What does the third image look like? A + × B C × D − E − ×
2 3 4 2 3 4 2 3 2 3 2 3 4

A B C D E 16. The diagram shows a large equilateral triangle divided by three straight lines
into seven regions. The three grey regions are equilateral triangles with sides

P P of length 5 cm and the central black region is an equilateral triangle with sides
P

of length 2 cm.
P
P

What is the side length of the original large triangle?

A 18 cm B 19 cm C 20 cm D 21 cm E 22 cm
7. The prime numbers p and q are the smallest primes that differ by 6. What is the sum of p and q?
17. The first term of a sequence of positive integers is 6. The other terms in the sequence follow
A 12 B 14 C 16 D 20 E 28 these rules:
if a term is even then divide it by 2 to obtain the next term;
8. Seb has been challenged to place the numbers 1 to 9 inclusive
in the nine regions formed by the Olympic rings so that there is 9 * 8 if a term is odd then multiply it by 5 and subtract 1 to obtain the next term.
exactly one number in each region and the sum of the numbers For which values of n is the n th term equal to n?
in each ring is 11. The diagram shows part of his solution. 5
A 10 only B 13 only C 16 only D 10 and 13 only E 13 and 16 only
What number goes in the region marked * ?
A 6 B 4 C 3 D 2 E 1
18. Peri the winkle starts at the origin and slithers anticlockwise around a semicircle with centre
(4, 0). Peri then slides anticlockwise around a second semicircle with centre (6, 0), and finally
clockwise around a third semicircle with centre (3, 0).
9. Auntie Fi's dog Itchy has a million fleas. His anti-flea shampoo claims to leave no more than
1% of the original number of fleas after use. What is the least number of fleas that will be Where does Peri end this expedition?
eradicated by the treatment? A (0, 0) B (1, 0) C (2, 0) D (4, 0) E (6, 0)
A 900 000 B 990 000 C 999 000 D 999 990 E 999 999