Gauss Contest: Grade 8

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Gauss Contest
Grade 8
(The Grade 7 Contest is on the reverse side)
Wednesday, May 11, 2016
(in North America and South America)
Thursday, May 12, 2016
(outside of North America and South America)
Time: 1 hour ©2015 University of Waterloo

Calculators are allowed, with the following restriction: you may not use a device
that has internet access, that can communicate with other devices, or that contains
previously stored information. For example, you may not use a smartphone or a
tablet.
Instructions
1. Do not open the contest booklet until you are told to do so.
2. You may use rulers, compasses and paper for rough work.
3. Be sure that you understand the coding system for your answer sheet. If you are not sure,
ask your teacher to explain it.
4. This is a multiple-choice test. Each question is followed by five possible answers marked
A, B, C, D, and E. Only one of these is correct. When you have made your choice, enter
the appropriate letter for that question on your answer sheet.
5. Scoring: Each correct answer is worth 5 in Part A, 6 in Part B, and 8 in Part C.
There is no penalty for an incorrect answer.
Each unanswered question is worth 2, to a maximum of 10 unanswered questions.
6. Diagrams are not drawn to scale. They are intended as aids only.
7. When your supervisor instructs you to start, you will have sixty minutes of working time.
The name, school and location of some top-scoring students will be published on the Web site,
cemc.uwaterloo.ca. You will also be able to find copies of past Contests and excellent resources
for enrichment, problem solving and contest preparation.
Grade 8
Scoring: There is no penalty for an incorrect answer.
Each unanswered question is worth 2, to a maximum of 10 unanswered questions.
Part A: Each correct answer is worth 5.
1. The value of 444 − 44 − 4 is

(A) 396 (B) 402 (C) 392 (D) 400 (E) 408
2. Which of the following is equal to 54 ?

(A) 4.5 (B) 0.8 (C) 80.0 (D) 0.08 (E) 0.45
Stan’s Time Working on a Project
3. The graph shows the number of hours Stan worked on a
3
Hours Worked
school project. For how many hours in total did he work
on the project? 2
(A) 6 (B) 2 (C) 8 1
(D) 9 (E) 10 0
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Day of the Week
4. Three tenths plus four thousandths is equal to
(A) 4030 (B) 0.0403 (C) 0.304 (D) 0.34 (E) 30.004
5. A cube is created by folding the figure shown. Which 1

face is opposite the face with 1 on it?
2
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4
5 3 6
(D) 5 (E) 6
4
y
6. In 4P QR shown, side P R is horizontal and side P Q is
vertical. The coordinates of P are x
(A) (−8, −2) (B) (−6, −8) (C) (−11, −6) P R (−6, −2)
(D) (−11, −2) (E) (−8, −6)

Q (−11, −8)
7. A rectangle with a width of 2 cm and a length of 18 cm has the same area as a square
with a side length of
(A) 6 cm (B) 12 cm (C) 9 cm (D) 10 cm (E) 8 cm
8. Gaby lists the numbers 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9. In her list, the ratio of the number of
prime numbers to the number of composite numbers is
(A) 3 : 4 (B) 5 : 2 (C) 2 : 5 (D) 3 : 7 (E) 1 : 6
9. 10% of 200 is equal to 20% of

(A) 40 (B) 50 (C) 100 (D) 400 (E) 800
10. The circumference of a circle is 100π cm. What is the radius of the circle?
(A) 20 cm (B) 100 cm (C) 50 cm (D) 25 cm (E) 10 cm
Grade 8
Part B: Each correct answer is worth 6.
11. In the diagram, 4P QR is right-angled. Point S lies on

P R so that 4QRS is equilateral and 4P QS is isosceles P
with P S = QS. The measure of ∠QP R is
(A) 35◦ (B) 37.5◦ (C) 25◦ S
(D) 32.5◦ (E) 30◦
R Q
12. Operations are placed in each so that 3 5 7 9 = 78. Listed from left to
right, the operations are
(A) +, ×, + (B) +, +, × (C) ×, ×, − (D) ×, ×, + (E) ×, +, ×
13. Ahmed chooses two different items for a snack. His choices are an apple, an orange,
a banana, and a granola bar. How many different pairs of snacks could he choose?
(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6 (E) 7
14. One soccer ball and one soccer shirt together cost $100. Two soccer balls and three
soccer shirts together cost $262. What is the cost of one soccer ball?
(A) $38 (B) $50 (C) $87.30 (D) $45 (E) $40
15. A map has a scale of 1 : 600 000. On the map, the distance between Gausstown and
Piville is 2 cm. What is the actual distance between the towns?
(A) 12 km (B) 1.2 km (C) 120 km (D) 1200 km (E) 12 000 km
16. The mean (average) of a set of six numbers is 10. If the number 25 is removed from
the set, the mean of the remaining numbers is
(A) 6 (B) 7 (C) 8 (D) 9 (E) 10
17. How many positive integers between 10 and 2016 are divisible by 3 and have all of
their digits the same?
(A) 9 (B) 12 (C) 6 (D) 18 (E) 3
18. Joe filled up his car’s gas tank. After travelling 165 km, 83 of the gas in the tank was
used. At this rate, approximately how much farther can the car travel before its fuel
tank is completely empty?
(A) 99 km (B) 440 km (C) 605 km (D) 264 km (E) 275 km
19. The two scales shown are balanced. Which of the

following is not true?
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
(E)
Grade 8
20. In the diagram, what is the length of BD?
√ y
(A) 13 (B) 17 (C) 205 A (−2, 9) B (3, 9)
√
(D) 160 (E) 15
D (−2, −3) C (3, −3)
Part C: Each correct answer is worth 8.
21. Two 5-digit positive integers are formed using each of the digits from 0 through 9
once. What is the smallest possible positive difference between the two integers?
(A) 469 (B) 269 (C) 247 (D) 229 (E) 249
22. In rectangle ABCD, what is the total area of the shaded A 6 cm D

region?
4 cm
(A) 25 cm2 (B) 31 cm2 (C) 39 cm2
E
(D) 35 cm2 (E) 41 cm2 2 cm H
6 cm
G
B 5 cm F C
23. Zeus starts at the origin (0, 0) and can make repeated moves of one unit either up,
down, left or right, but cannot make a move in the same direction twice in a row. For
example, he cannot move from (0, 0) to (1, 0) to (2, 0). What is the smallest number
of moves that he can make to get to the point (1056, 1007)?
(A) 2112 (B) 2161 (C) 2063 (D) 2111 (E) 2113
24. What is the tens digit of 32016 ?

(A) 0 (B) 2 (C) 4 (D) 6 (E) 8
25. In the table, the numbers in each row form an arithmetic

sequence when read from left to right. Similarly, the 18
numbers in each column form an arithmetic sequence 43
when read from top to bottom. What is the sum of the 40
digits of the value of x?
(An arithmetic sequence is a sequence in which each term x 26
after the first is obtained from the previous term by
adding a constant. For example, 3, 5, 7, 9 are the first
four terms of an arithmetic sequence.)
(A) 5 (B) 2 (C) 10
(D) 7 (E) 13

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The CENTRE for EDUCATION

in MATHEMATICS and COMPUTING

Time: 1 hour ©2015 University of Waterloo

Part A: Each correct answer is worth 5.

1. The value of 444 − 44 − 4 is

2. Which of the following is equal to 54 ?

5. A cube is created by folding the figure shown. Which 1

(D) (−11, −2) (E) (−8, −6)

9. 10% of 200 is equal to 20% of

Part B: Each correct answer is worth 6.

11. In the diagram, 4P QR is right-angled. Point S lies on

19. The two scales shown are balanced. Which of the

D (−2, −3) C (3, −3)

Part C: Each correct answer is worth 8.

22. In rectangle ABCD, what is the total area of the shaded A 6 cm D

24. What is the tens digit of 32016 ?

25. In the table, the numbers in each row form an arithmetic

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