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3 point problems

1. My umbrella has KANGAROO written on top, as shown in the picture on the right. One

of the following pictures also shows my umbrella. Which one?

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

2. Four identical small rectangles are put together to form a large rectangle as shown. The
length of the shorter side of the large rectangle is 10 cm. What is the length of the longer
side of the large rectangle?

(A) 10 cm (B) 20 cm (C) 30 cm (D) 40 cm (E) 50 cm

3. Which of the following numbers is closest to 2.015 × 510.2 ?

(A) 0.1 (B) 1 (C) 10 (D) 100 (E) 1000

4. The net of a cube with numbered faces is shown in the diagram.

Sasha correctly adds the numbers on opposite faces of this cube. What three totals does
Sasha get?

(A) 4, 6, 11 (B) 4, 5, 12 (C) 5, 6, 10 (D) 5, 7, 9 (E) 5, 8, 8

5. Which of the following numbers is not an integer?

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

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6. A journey from Koice to Poprad through Preov lasts 130 minutes. The part of the journey
from Koice to Preov lasts 35 minutes. How long does the part of the journey from Preov to
Poprad last?

(A) 95 minutes (B) 105 minutes (C) 115 minutes

(D) 165 minutes (E) 175 minutes

7. The diagram shows the net of a triangular prism. Which edge coincides with edge when
the net is folded to make the prism?

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

8. A triangle has sides of lengths 6, 10 and 11. An equilateral triangle has the same perimeter.
What is the side length of the equilateral triangle?

(A) 18 (B) 11 (C) 10 (D) 9 (E) 6

9. When Simon the squirrel comes down to the ground, he never goes further than 5 m from
the trunk of his tree. However, he also stays at least 5 m away from the doghouse. Which of
the following pictures most accurately shows the shape of the region on the ground where
Simon might go?

(A) (B) (C)

(D) (E)
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10. A cyclist rides at 5 m per second. The wheels of his bicycle have a circumference of 125 cm.
How many complete turns does each wheel make in 5 seconds?

(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 10 (D) 20 (E) 25

4 point problems

11. In a class, no two boys were born on the same day of the week and no two girls were born
in the same month. Were a new boy or a new girl to join this class, one of these two
conditions would no longer be true. How many children are there in the class?

(A) 18 (B) 19 (C) 20 (D) 24 (E) 25

12. In the diagram, the centre of the top square is directly above the common edge of the lower
two squares. Each square has sides of length 1. What is the area of the shaded region?

(A) (B) (C) 1 (D) 1 (E) 1

13. Every asterisk in the equation 2 ∗ 0 ∗ 1 ∗ 5 ∗ 2 ∗ 0 ∗ 1 ∗ 5 ∗ 2 ∗ 0 ∗ 1 ∗ 5 = 0 is to be replaced

with either + or − so that the equation is correct. What is the smallest number of asterisks
that must be replaced with +?

(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5

14. During a rainstorm, 15 litres of water fell per square metre. By how much did the water
level rise in an open-air pool?

(A) 150 cm (B) 0.15 cm (C) 15 cm (D) 1.5 cm

(E) It depends upon the size of the pool.

15. A bush has 10 branches. Each branch has either 5 leaves only or 2 leaves and 1 flower.
Which of the following could be the total number of leaves the bush has?
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(A) 45 (B) 39 (C) 37 (D) 31

(E) None of (A) to (D).

16. The mean score of the students who took a mathematics test was 6. Exactly 60% of the
students passed the test. The mean score of the students who passed the test was 8. What
was the mean score of the students who failed the test?

(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5

17. One corner of a square is folded to its centre to form an irregular pentagon. The areas of
the pentagon and of the square are consecutive integers. What is the area of the square?

(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 8 (D) 16 (E) 32

18. Rachel added the lengths of three sides of a rectangle and got 44 cm. Heather added the
lengths of three sides of the same rectangle and got 40 cm. What is the perimeter of the
rectangle?

(A) 42 cm (B) 56 cm (C) 64 cm (D) 84 cm (E) 112 cm

19. The diagram indicates the colours of some unit segments of a pattern. Luis wants to colour
each remaining unit segment in the pattern either red or blue or green. Each triangle must
have one side of every colour. What colour can he use for the segment marked ?

(A) only green (B) only red (C) only blue

(D) either red or blue (E) The task is impossible.

20. Irina asked five of her students how many of the five of them had studied the day before.
Pol said none, Berta said only one, Ona said exactly two, Eugeni said exactly three and
Gerard said exactly four. Irina knew that those students who had not studied were not
telling the truth, but those who had studied were telling the truth. How many of these
students had studied the day before?

(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3 (E) 4

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5 point problems

21. Ria wants to write a number in each of the seven bounded regions in the diagram. Two
regions are neighbours if they share part of their boundary. The number in each region is
to be the sum of the numbers in all its neighbours. Ria has already written in two of the
numbers, as shown. What number must she write in the central region?

(A) 1 (B) −2 (C) 6 (D) −4 (E) 0

22. Five positive integers (not necessarily all different) are written on five cards. Peter
calculates the sum of the numbers on every pair of cards. He obtains only three different
totals, 57, 70, and 83. What is the largest integer on any card?

(A) 35 (B) 42 (C) 48 (D) 53 (E) 82

23. A square with area 30 is divided in two by a diagonal and then into triangles, as shown.
The areas of some of these triangles are given in the diagram.

Which part of the diagonal is the longest?

(A) a (B) b (C) c (D) d (E) e

24. In a group of kangaroos, the two lightest kangaroos weigh 25% of the total weight of the
group. The three heaviest kangaroos weigh 60% of the total weight. How many kangaroos
are in the group?

(A) 6 (B) 7 (C) 8 (D) 15 (E) 20

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25. Cyril has seven pieces of wire with lengths 1 cm, 2 cm, 3 cm, 4 cm, 5 cm, 6 cm and 7 cm. He
uses some pieces to make a wire cube with edges of length 1 cm without any overlaps.

What is the smallest number of these pieces that he can use?

(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5

26. In trapezium , the sides and are parallel. Angle is 120°and

= = . What is the size of angle ?

(A) 15° (B) 22. 5° (C) 25° (D) 30° (E) 45°

27. Five points lie on a line. Alex finds the distances between every possible pair of points. He
obtains, in increasing order, 2, 5, 6, 8, 9, , 15, 17, 20 and 22. What is the value of ?

(A) 10 (B) 11 (C) 12 (D) 13 (E) 14

28. Yesterday I wrote down my friend Ekin's telephone number. The telephone number on my
note has six digits, but I remember that Ekin said that the number had seven digits. I have
no idea what digit I forgot to write down, or its position in the number. How many
different telephone numbers do I have to try to be sure that I use the correct one?
(Note that a telephone number may start with any digit, including 0).

(A) 55 (B) 60 (C) 64 (D) 70 (E) 80

29. Mary divides 2015 successively by 1, 2, 3 and so on, up to and including 1000. She writes
down the remainder for each division. What is the largest of these remainders?

(A) 15 (B) 215 (C) 671 (D) 1007

(E) Some other value

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30. Every positive integer is to be coloured according to the following three rules.
(i) Each number is either red or green.
(ii) The sum of any two different red numbers is a red number.
(iii) The sum of any two different green numbers is a green number.
In how many different ways can this be done?

(A) 0 (B) 2 (C) 4 (D) 6

(E) more than 6