SENIOR DIVISION

Questions 1 - 10, 3 marks each

1. 1.1 × 0.7 equals

(A) 77 (B) 7.7 (C) 0.77 (D) 0.707 (E) 7.07

32 + 32 + 32
2. equals
23 + 23 + 23
3 9 3 729
(A) (B) (C) 1 (D) (E)
2 8 4 512
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4. The sum of 250 − 249 + 248 − 247 + 246 − · · · + 2 − 1 is

(A) 125 (B) 225 (C) 250 (D) 124 (E) 126

k−m
5. If k = 4, m = −0.4 and t = 4.4, then the value of is
2t
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(A) 1 (B) (C) (D) (E) 4.2
2 11 22

6. Which of the following is the largest?

(A) 2002 (B) (20.02)2 (C) 2002 (D) 2 × 104 (E) 2002 × 20.02

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(D) 72 (E) 16
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8. If a = , b = and c = , which of the following is true?
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(A) b < c < a (B) a < c < b (C) c < a < b
(D) a < b < c (E) b < a < c

9. Suppose an Australian dollar is worth 55 US cents. An Australian

tourist in the USA buys an item worth $US100 and pays $A200.
What should the change be in $US?

(A) 5 (B) 10 (C) 15 (D) 20 (E) 25

10. The average weight of the potatoes in a bag is doubled when one
extra large potato is added to the four potatoes already in the bag.
The ratio of the weight of this large potato to the total weight of
the other four potatoes is

(A) 3 : 2 (B) 6 : 1 (C) 8 : 3 (D) 2 : 1 (E) 8 : 1

Questions 11 - 20, 4 marks each

11. In copying a problem involving multiplication of two numbers,

James mistakenly wrote one of the numbers as 54 instead of 45.
His answer was 198 larger than it should have been. The correct
answer to the multiplication problem is

(A) 990 (B) 1188 (C) 405 (D) 945 (E) 1200

12. A square piece of paper 10 cm by 10 cm is folded, cut and unfolded

as shown.
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The area of the inner square (unshaded), in square centimetres, is

(A) 50 (B) 25 (C) 75 (D) 12.5 (E) 40

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13. 2 2 2 equals
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(A) 3 2 (B) 2 4 2 (C) 2 (D) 3
2 (E) 6

14. On a twenty-four-hour digital clock whose display ranges from

00 : 00 to 23 : 59 , how many times during one day does the
display show a palindrome? (A palindrome is a number that is the
same forwards as backwards, for example 02 : 20 , 23 : 32 .)

(A) 12 (B) 16 (C) 17 (D) 18 (E) 20

15. U V W X is a parallelogram with area

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16. A class consists of 10 boys and 15 girls. Two of the boys and five
of the girls are left-handed. Two students are chosen at random
from the class. The probability that both are left-handed is
7 21 7 18 7
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
15 50 100 25 25

17. A car 3 m long is travelling on a freeway at 110 km/h and overtakes

a 17 m long truck travelling at 100 km/h.
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How long, in seconds, does it take the car to overtake the truck?

(A) 0.5 (B) 2 (C) 4.1 (D) 5.6 (E) 7.2

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18. Farmer Taylor of Burra Creek is
very annoyed. A 4 m wide road has
been put through one of his rectan-
gular paddocks, splitting it into two. 71
As a result, he has lost some of his
land. If all dimensions in the fig-
ure are in metres, how much land, PPP
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in square metres, has he lost? PPP PPP
PP°£± 4 PP
(A) 120 (B) 150 (C) 160 24 PP P
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(D) 200 (E) 250 PP

1 + an+1
19. A sequence a1 , a2 , a3 , . . . is defined by an+2 = for n ≥ 1.
an
Given that a1 = 2 and a2 = 5, what is the value of a2002 ?
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(A) (B) (C) 2 (D) 3 (E) 5
5 5

20. A 4 × 4 antimagic square is an arrangement in

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a square of the numbers from 1 to 16 so that
the totals of each of the four rows and four 9 3 7
columns and two diagonals are ten consecutive 12 13 5
numbers in some order. The diagram shows 10 11 6 4
an incomplete antimagic square. When it is
completed, what number will replace the asterisk?

(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 8 (D) 15 (E) 16

Questions 21 - 30, 8 marks each correct response, 0 marks

each incorrect response, 3 marks each no response

21. When we divide the numbers 272 758 and 273 437 by a two digit
number N , we get remainders of 13 and 17 respectively. Find the
sum of the digits of N .

(A) 6 (B) 9 (C) 10 (D) 11 (E) 12

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22. There are 40 students in a class. One week a group of students
from the class went on an excursion, then the next week a group of
students went on a different excursion, and the next week again a
group of students from the class went on another excursion. When
the teacher added up the number of students that went on the first
excursion, the number of students that went on the second one and
the number of students that went on the third one, he got 75. The
number of students that were on all three excursions is 7 and every
student went on at least one excursion. What is the total number
of students that have been on exactly two excursions?

(A) 14 (B) 21 (C) 26 (D) 28 (E) 33

23. The walls of a castle form a quadrilateral

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ing point.
The length, in metres, of his walk was

(A) 125 + 4π (B) 121 + 5π (C) 125 + 5π (D) 121 + 6π (E) 125 + 6π

24. A right angled triangle P QR has its hypotenuse P R trisected at

points S and T . If QS 2 + QT 2 = kP R2 , then the value of k is
5 2 1 1
(A) (B) (C) (D) 2 (E)
9 3 2 4

25. An increasing sequence of integers a1 , a2 , a3 , . . . is such that

an = an−1 + an−2 for n ≥ 3.
If a5 = 59, what is the largest possible value for a1 ?

(A) 4 (B) 7 (C) 10 (D) 11 (E) 12

26. Note that 1 + 2 + 3 + 45 + 6 + 78 + 9 = 144. In how many other
ways is it possible to make a total of 144 using only 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,
7, 8, and 9 in that order and addition signs?

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

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27. How many pairs of real numbers (x, y) satisfy the equation

(x + y)2 = (x + 3)(y − 3)?

(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3 (E) infinitely many

28. A rectangular prism 77 × 81 × 100 is cut into cubes of edge 1 by

planes parallel to the faces of the prism. A given internal diagonal
pierces how many of these cubes?

(A) 255 (B) 256 (C) 257 (D) 258 (E) 259

29. In the diagram,

PQ QS P
= , 6 P QR = 38◦ and CHH
PR RS ­­ C HH
6 P RQ = 46◦ . ­ C HH
Find 6 RP S in degrees. ­ HH
C H
­ C H
(A) 42 (B) 43 (C) 44 Q R S
(D) 45 (E) 46

30. How many times does the digit 1 occur in the result of

1 + 11 + 111 + · · · + 111
| .{z
. . 111}?
2002 digits

(A) 512 (B) 2002 (C) 1001 (D) 224 (E) 223