Middle Primary Division Competition Paper: What Is The Amc?
Middle Primary Division Competition Paper: What Is The Amc?
Middle Primary Division Competition Paper: What Is The Amc?
The AMC is a mathematics competition containing thirty problems that students can attempt to answer A u s t r a l i a n M a t h e ma t i c s C o m p e t i t i o n
in the time allowed. The students use a special answer sheet that is processed and marked by computer.
There are five papers. While each paper is attempted by students from different year levels, each student an activity of the australian mathematics trust
is assessed only against other students in the same school year and region.
The earliest problems are very easy, then the problems get progressively more difficult until the end when
they are challenging to the most gifted student. Students of all standards will progress and find their
point of challenge.
We believe this to be the largest event in Australia for which participants pay an entry fee. t h u r s d ay 31 J u l y 2 0 0 8
The AMC has run every year since 1978 and is now a significant international event.
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4. Wendy has 20 marbles. She has five times as many marbles as Jim.
How many marbles does Jim have?
(A) 4 (B) 100 (C) 5 (D) 25 (E) 15
6. On Sue’s 5th birthday, her brother Joe was 8 years old. How old will
Joe be on Sue’s 10th birthday?
7. In the diagram, the arrow ‘−→’ means ‘is half of’. For example,
‘ −→ ’ means ‘ is half of ’,
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8. A park needs seven new picnic tables, each with a top and two seats.
The tops are each made from four boards and each seat is made from
two boards.
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11. Jenny has three boxes, each having the same number of toy cars
inside. She finds two more cars down the back of the sofa. When
she counts all her cars she finds that she has 17. How many cars are
there in each box?
12. Three drips make two drops. How many drips make 18 drops?
13. A box holds socks which are all the same size. There are 6 white, 10
blue and 16 grey socks. What is the least number of socks I need to
take out, without looking, so that I can be certain of getting a pair
of matching socks?
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16. Annie leaves home at 9:15 am to walk to Derek’s house, which takes
her 25 minutes. Carl leaves his house 5 minutes after Annie but only
takes 6 minutes to get to Derek’s house. When Carl arrives, how
long, in minutes, will he and Derek have to wait for Annie to arrive?
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edges, what is the smallest possible perimeter of their combined
shape?
(A) 14 cm (B) 16 cm (C) 18 cm (D) 20 cm (E) 24 cm
20. Lying Larry decided that from now on he is going to tell the truth
on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, but will lie on all the other
days. Once, he said ‘Tomorrow I am going to tell the truth.’
On what day did this happen?
(A) Saturday (B) Friday (C) Sunday
(D) Wednesday (E) Monday
21. If four days after the day before yesterday was Saturday, what day
will tomorrow be?
(A) Saturday (B) Wednesday (C) Sunday (D) Thursday (E) Friday
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When the square is completed, the number which is in the square
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24. I have some animals, an equal number of goats and lions, which I wish
to ferry across a river but my boat will allow me to take only one
animal at a time. I cannot leave one goat on its own on either side nor
can I leave 1 goat with 1 lion (but I can leave 2 or more goats with a
lion or 2 or more lions with a goat). What is the smallest number of
goats such that I can ferry the group across without breaking these
restrictions?
25. The desks in Amy’s classroom are arranged in five rows of five, equally
spaced apart. Amy’s friend Sam sits in the opposite corner to her.
How many people are closer to Sam than they are to Amy?
26. In a circle dance, everyone is evenly spaced around a circle and has
a number in the order 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, . . . , and so on. The dancer with
number 15 is directly opposite dancer number 3. How many dancers
are in the circle?
27. A theatre sets up its chairs in equal rows. Alison had a seat which
was third from the front and 18th from the back. Naida could see 8
chairs to her left and 11 to her right. How many chairs are in the
theatre?
28. Jim takes an hour to fold the weekly washing for the whole family.
His older sister Susan can do the same job in half the time. How
many minutes would it take them to fold the washing together if
they continue to fold at their own rates?
29. What is the largest number less than 1000, which is odd, leaves a
remainder of 2 when divided by 3, and a remainder of 4 when divided
by 5?
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