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2 Ali and Amna have 10 sweets, but Amna has 2 more than Ali How many
sweets does Amna have?
3 In the diagram any of the eight kangaroos can jump
to another square What is the least number of kangaroos that
must jump so that each row and each column has exactly two
kangaroos?
4 Ali lives with his father, mother, brother and also one dog, two cats, two
parrots and four goldfish How many legs do they have altogether?
5 A butterfly sat down on my correctly solved exercise
What number is the butterfly covering?
2005 − 205 = 25+
6 The diagram shows a cube with sides of length 12 cm
An ant is walking across the cube’s surface from A to B on the
route shown How far does it walk?
(D) It is impossible to determine
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7 Saima cut a sheet of paper into 10 pieces Then she took one of the pieces and
cut it into 10 pieces also She repeated this twice more How many pieces of paper did she
have in the end?
8 Aisha chose a whole number and multiplied it by 3 Which of the following
numbers could not be her answer?
4-Point-Problems
9 The five cards with the numbers from 1 to 5
lie in a horizontal row (see the figure) Per move, any two
cards may be interchanged Find the smallest number of the
moves required to arrange all cards in increasing order?
11 Raza needs 40 minutes to walk from home to the sea by foot and to return
home on an elephant When he rides both ways on an elephant, the journey takes 32 minutes
How long would the journey last, if he would walk both directions?
12 If the sum of five consecutive positive integers is 2005, then the largest of these numbers
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14 If you count the number of all possible triangles and the number
of all possible squares in the picture how many more triangles than
squares do you find?
15 Which of equalities means that m makes 30 % from k?
16 If you fold up the net on the right, which of these
cubes can you make?
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5-Point-Problems
17 Different figures represent the different digits Find the digit
corresponding to the square
18 In a trunk there are 5 chests, in each chest there are 3 boxes, and in each box there are
10 gold coins The trunk, the chests, and the boxes are locked How many locks must be
opened in order to get 50 coins?
19 A caterpillar starts from his home and move directly on a ground, turning after each hour at 90°
to the left or to the right In the first hour he moved 1 m, in the second hour 2 m, and so on At what
minimum distance from his home the caterpillar would be after six hours traveling?
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Benjamin: Class (5-6)
3-Point-Problems
1 3 2006 = 2005 + 2007 + Find the missing number
2 Six numbers are written on the cards, as
shown What is the largest number you can form with the given cards by placing them in
a row?
3 Four people can sit at a square table For the school party the students put together 10
square tables in order to make one long table How many people could sit at this long table?
4 Choose the picture where the angle between the hands of a watch is 150º
5 On the left side of Main Street one will find all odd house-numbers from 1 to 39 On the
right side the house-numbers are all the even numbers from 2 to 34 How many houses are there on the Main Street?
6 With how many ways one can get a number 2006 while following the
arrows on the figure?
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8 The cube in the figure has one of the following nets:
4-Point-Problems
9 We need 9 kg of ink to paint the whole cube How much ink
do you need to paint the surface of figure near the cube (see figure)?
10 What is the difference between the sum of the first 100 strictly positive even numbers and the
sum of the first 100 positive odd numbers?
11 A paper in the shape of a regular hexagon, as the one shown, is folded in such
a way that the three marked corners touch each other at the centre of the hexagon What is the obtained figure?
12 The diameter AB of the circle is 10 cm (as shown in figure) What
is the perimeter of the figure which is marked with dark line, if the rectangles in the figure are coincident?
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13 Which path is the shortest?
14 Ali is building squares with matches
adding small squares that it already has built according to the schema of the figure
How many matches does he have to add to
15 The first three letters of the word KANGAROO
are put in equal squares with length of side 2 (as shown in figure) Find a false statement
A perimeter of K is more than perimeter of A by 1
B perimeter of N is more than perimeter of A by 1
C perimeters of A and N are equal
D perimeters of K and N are equal
16 Find a truly end of the sentence: If I look on your reflection then
A your reflection looks on me
B my reflection looks on you
C my reflection looks on your reflection
D your reflection looks on mine reflection
5-Point-Problems
17 A rod of length 15 dm was divided into the greatest possible number of pieces of
different integer lengths in dm The number of cuts is:
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18 A river goes through a city and there are two islands There are
also six bridges as shown in the figure How many paths there are going out of a shore of the river (point A) and come back (to point B) after having spent one and only one time for each bridge?
1,2
1
3
2,2
1,31
20 What is the smallest number of dots that need to be removed from the
pattern shown, so that no three of the remaining dots are at the vertices
of an equilateral triangle?
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3-Point-Problems
Q1 Asia walks from the left to the right and puts the numbers in her basket Which of the following
numbers can be in her basket?
Q2 Which piece fits together with the given one to form a rectangle?
Q5 Usman, who is older than Ali by 1 year minus 1 day, was born on January 1, 2002 What is the
date of Ali’s birth?
D) December 31, 2002
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Q6 The Carpenter’s shop has two machines A and B A is a “printing machine” and B is a “turning
machine” What’s the right sequence to obtain starting from ?
Q7 If you cut a 1 meter cube into 1 decimeter cubes and put one on the other, what height this
structure will have?
Q8 Uzma cut a paper in the shape of a square with perimeter 20 cm into two rectangles The
perimeter of one rectangle was 16 cm What was the perimeter of the second rectangle?
4-Point-Problems
Q9 In a square grid Hina colours the small squares that lie on the two diagonals What is the size
of the grid if Hina altogether colours 9 small squares?
Q10 In three adjacent faces of a cube, diagonals are drawn as shown in the
figure Which of the following net is that of the given cube?
Q11 There were 60 birds at three trees In some moment 6 birds flew away from the first tree, 8
birds flew away from the second tree, and 4 birds flew away from the third tree Then there were the same number of birds at each of the three trees How many birds were there at the second tree at the beginning?
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Q12 Two 9 cm × 9 cm squares overlap to form a 9 cm ×13 cm rectangle as shown Find the area
of the region in which the two squares overlap.
Q13 Imran let a pigeon out at 7.30 a.m., to deliver a message to Saad The pigeon delivered the
envelope to Saad at 9.10 a.m A pigeon flies 4 km in 10 minutes What was the distance between Saad and Imran?
Q14 A parallelogram is divided in two parts P1 and P2, as shown in the
figure What sentence is surely true?
A12B (see the Fig.) Find the length of AA1A2 A12B.
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5-Point-Problems
Q17 Iqra is 10 years old Her mother Asma is 4 times as old How old will Asma be when Iqra is
twice as old as she is now?
Q18 To the right side of a given 2-digit number we write the same number obtaining 4-digit
number How many times the 4-digit number is greater than the 2-digit number?
Q19 Ahmed thought of an integer Umar multiplied it either by 5 or by 6 Ali added to the Umar’s
result either 5 or 6 Tahir subtracted from Ali’s result either 5 or 6 The obtained result was
73 What number did Ahmed think of?
once What is digit Y?
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Benjamin Level: Class (5 & 6) Max Time: 2 Hours
3)
Javed likes to multiply by 3, Parvaiz likes to add 2, and Naveed likes to subtract 1 In what
order should they perform their favorite actions to convert 3 into 14?
Numbers 2, 3, 4 and one more number are written in the cells of 2 × 2 table It is known
that the sum of the numbers in the first row is equal to 9, and the sum of the numbers in
the second row is equal to 6 The unknown number is
A) 5 B) 6 C) 7 D) 8
6)
Before the snowball fight, Ali had prepared a few snowballs During the fight, he made
another 17 snowballs and threw 21 snowballs at the other boys After the fight, he had 15
snowballs left How many snowballs had Ali prepared before the fight?
A) 53 B) 33 C) 23 D) 19
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30 ? What is the number in the square with the question mark ?
A) 54 B) 56 C) 65 D) 36
8)
In a shop selling toys a four-floor black and white “brickflower” is displayed (picture 1)
Each floor is made of bricks of the same colour On picture 2, the flower is shown from the
top How many white bricks were used to make the flower?
A) 9 B) 10 C) 12 D) 14
4-point problems
9)
With what number of identical matches it is impossible to form a triangle? (The matches
should not be broken!)
A) 7 B) 6 C) 5 D) 4
10)
There are 5 boxes and each box contains some cards labeled A, B, O, R, V as shown Peter
wants to remove cards from each box in such a way that at the end each box contains only one
card, and different boxes contain cards with different letters What card remains in box 5?
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each of them is a neighbour of exactly one person The largest possible value for n is
A) 40 B) 30 C) 20 D) 10
13)
By shooting two arrows at the shown aiming board on the wall,
how many different scores can we obtain? (Missing the board is
possible.)
A) 4 B) 6 C) 8 D) 9
14)
Rabia has some CDs on a table She put them into three cases She put seven CDs into each,
but there were still two more CDs, which did not fit into those cases, so she left them on the
table How many CDs does Rabia have?
A) 23 B) 21 C) 20 D) 19
15)
Which of the “buildings” (A), , (E) – each consisting of
exactly 5 cubes – can you not obtain from the building on the
right hand side if you are allowed only to move exactly one
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16)
Points A, B, C and D are marked on the straight line in some order It is known that AB = 13,
BC = 11, CD = 14 and DA = 12 What is the distance between the farthest two points?
A) 14 B) 38 C) 50 D) 25
5-point problems
17)
One of the cube faces is cut along its diagonals (see the fig.) Which of the following
nets are impossible?
1 2 3 4 5
A) 1 and 3 B) 1 and 5 C) 3 and 4 D) 3 and 5
18)
Seven cards lie in a box Numbers from 1 to 7 are written on these cards (exactly one number
on the card) Two persons take the cards as follows: The first person takes, at random, 3 cards
from the box and the second person takes 2 cards (2 cards are left in the box) Then the first
person tells the second one: “I know that the sum of the numbers of your cards is even” The
sum of card’s numbers of the first person is equal to
A) 10 B) 12 C) 6 D) 9
19)
For each 2-digit number from 30 to 50, the digit of units was subtracted from the digit of tens
What is the sum of all the results?
A) 0 B) 15 C) – 5 D) – 15
20)
How many digits can be at most erased from the 1000-digit number 20082008…2008, such
that the sum of the remaining digits is 2008?
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International Kangaroo Mathematics Contest 2010
3-point problems
Q1) Knowing that ▲ + ▲ + 6 = ▲ + ▲ + ▲ + ▲, which number is hidden by ▲?
A) 2 B) 3 C) 4 D) 6
Q2) The number 4 is next to two mirrors so it reflects twice as shown When the same thing happens
to number 5, what do we get instead for the question mark?
A) B) C) D)
Q3) Kalim goes directly from Zoo to School He
counts each flower on the way Which of the
following number can not be his result School
Zoo
A) 9 B) 10 C) 11 D) 12
Q4) A ladder has 21 stairs Nadeem and Mahmood are counting stairs; one – from bottom to top,
another – from top to bottom They met on a stair that was called the 10th by Nadeem What number
will Mahmood give to this stair?
A) 13 B) 11 C) 12 D) 10
Q5) Adil has connected all the upper points to all the lower
points How many lines Adil has drawn?
A) 20 B) 25 C) 30 D) 35
Q6) A fly has 6 legs, while a spider has 8 legs Together, 2 flies and 3 spiders have as many legs as
10 birds and
A) 3 cats B) 4 cats C) 5 cats D) 6 cats
Q7) There are seven bars in the box It is possible to slide the bars in
the box so there will be space for one more bar At least how many
bars have to be moved?
A) 1 B) 2 C) 3 D) 4
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Q8) A square sheet of paper has grey upper side and white lower
side Sadia has divided it in nine little squares Along which does
she have to cut?
A) 1, 3, 5 and 7; B) 2, 4, 6 and 8; C) 2, 3, 5 and 6;
2 4
Q12) Bilal has selected a number, has divided it by 7, then added 7 and finally multiplied the sum
by 7 That way he comes up with the number 777 Which number was it he selected?
A) 111 B) 722 C) 567 D) 728
Q13) The numbers 1, 4, 7, 10 and 13 have to be written in the
picture so that the sum of three numbers in a row equal to the sum of
three numbers in a column What is the biggest possible sum?
A) 20 B) 21 C) 22 D) 24
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colour the flower, but she has only 2 different colours –
red and yellow How many different flowers can Esha get
if she has to colour each petal using one of these 2
1
C) 5
1
D) 83
5-point problems
Q17) The picture shows a balanced mobile We neglect
weights of horizontal bars and vertical strings The total weight
is 112 grams What is the weight of the star?
A) 7 B) 12 C) 16 D) We can’t know
Q18) A pizza-shop offers a basic version of pizza with mozzarella and tomatoes One or two toppings
must be added: anchovies, artichokes, mushrooms, capers Moreover, for each pizza three different sizes
are available: small, medium, large How many different types of pizza are available at all?
A) 30 B) 12 C) 18 D) 48
Q19) A jeweller makes chains by connecting identical grommets (picture 1) Proportions of grommets
are shown on picture 2 What is the length of a chain which consists of 5 grommets?
A) 20 mm B) 19 mm C) 17.5 mm D) 16 mm
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3 point problems
PROBLEM 01
Basil wants to paint the word KANGAROO He paints one letter each day He starts on Wednesday
On what day will he paint the last letter?
(A)Monday (B)Tuesday (C)Wednesday
A square of paper is cut into two pieces using a single straight cut
Which of the following cannot be the shape of either piece?
(A) a square (B) a rectangle (C) a right-angled
triangle
(D) a pentagon (E) an isosceles
triangle
PROBLEM 04
Hamster Fridolin sets out for the Land of Milk and Honey His way to the legendary Land passes
through a system of tunnels There are 16 pumpkin seeds spread through the tunnels, as shown in the
picture
What is the highest number of pumpkin seeds Fridolin can collect if he is not allowed to visit any
junction more than once?
(A)12 (B)13 (C)14 (D)15 (E)16
PROBLEM 05
In Crazytown, all the houses on the right side of Number Street have odd numbers However,
Crazytowners don't use numbers containing the digit 3, though they use every other number The first
house on the right side of the street is numbered 1, and the houses are numbered in increasing order
What is the number of the fifteenth house on the right side of the street?
(A)29 (B)41 (C)43 (D)45 (E)47
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PROBLEM 06
The picture shows a partially built cuboid
Which of the following pieces will complete the cuboid?
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
PROBLEM 07
We pour 1000 litres of water into the top of the pipework shown in the picture
Every time a pipe forks, the water splits into two equal parts How many litres of water will reach
container Y?
(A)500 (B) 660 (C)666.67 (D) 750 (E) 800
PROBLEM 08
The date 01-03-05 (1 March 2005) consists of three consecutive odd numbers in increasing order
This is the first date with this feature in the 21st century Including 01-03-05, how many dates in the
21st century, when expressed in the form dd-mm-yy, have this feature?
(A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 16 (D) 13 (E) 8
PROBLEM 09
The picture shows four cardboard pieces
All four pieces are put together without gaps or overlaps to form various shapes Which of the
following shapes cannot be made in this way?
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PROBLEM 10
When Liza the cat just lazes around, she drinks 60 ml of milk per day But each day that she catches
mice, she drinks a third more milk In the last two weeks she has been catching mice every other day
How much milk did she drink in the last two weeks?
(A)840 ml (B)980 ml (C)1050 ml (D)1120 ml (E)1960 ml
4 point problems
PROBLEM 11
Andrew wrote the letters of the word KANGAROO in cells He can write the first letter in any cell he
wants He writes every subsequent letter in a cell that has at least one point in common with the cell in
which the previous letter was written Which of the tables can Andrew not create in this way?
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
PROBLEM 12
All 4-digit integers with the same digits as the number 2011 are listed in increasing order (so each
number in the list has two 1s, one 0 and one 2) What is the difference between the two numbers
appearing on either side of 2011 in this list?
(A)890 (B)891 (C)900 (D)909 (E)990
PROBLEM 13
Four of the numbers on the left are moved into the cells on the right so that the addition is correct
Which number remains on the left?
(A)17 (B)30 (C)49 (D)96 (E)167
PROBLEM 14
Nina used 36 identical cubes to build a fence of cubes around a square region Part of her fence is
shown in the picture
How many more cubes will Nina need in order to fill the region inside her fence?
(A)36 (B)49 (C)64 (D)81 (E)100
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PROBLEM 15
Some square floors have been covered with white and grey tiles Floors using 4 and 9 grey tiles are
shown in the picture
Each floor has a grey tile in every corner and all the tiles around a grey tile are white How many white
tiles are needed altogether for a floor using 25 grey tiles?
(A)25 (B)39 (C)45 (D)56 (E)72
PROBLEM 16
Paul wanted to multiply an integer by 301, but he forgot the zero and multiplied by 31 instead The
result he got was 372 (He did manage to multiply by 31 correctly!) What result was he supposed to
get?
(A)3010 (B)3612 (C)3702 (D)3720 (E)30 720
PROBLEM 17
In three games FC Barcelona scored three goals and let one goal in In these three games, the club won
one game, drew one game and lost one game What was the score in the game FC Barcelona won?
(A) 2-0 (B) 3-0 (C) 1-0 (D) 4-1 (E) 0-1
PROBLEM 18
We are given three points on a sheet of paper The points are the vertices of a triangle We want to
draw another point so that the four points are the vertices of a parallelogram How many possibilities
are there for the fourth point?
(A)1 (B)2 (C)3 (D)4 (E)It depends on
the initial triangle
PROBLEM 19
The picture shows eight marked points connected by lines
One of the numbers 1, 2, 3 or 4 is to be written at each of the marked points so that the two
numbers at the ends of every line are different Three numbers have already been written
How many times does 4 appear in the completed picture?
(A)1 (B)2 (C)3 (D)4 (E) 5
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There are 10 pupils in a dance class Their teacher has 80 jelly beans After she gives the same number
of jelly beans to each of the girls in the class, there are 3 jelly beans left over How many boys are there
in the class?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 5 (E) 6
PROBLEM 22
A cat has 7 differently-coloured kittens: white; black; red; black & white; red & white; black & red; and
white, black & red How many ways are there to put 4 kittens in a basket so that every pair in the
basket has at least one colour in common?
(A)1 (B)3 (C)4 (D)6 (E)7
PROBLEM 23
The picture shows four identical right-angled triangles inside a rectangle
What is the total area of all four triangles?
(A)46 cm2 (B)52 cm2 (C)54 cm2 (D)56 cm2 (E)64 cm2
PROBLEM 24
Alex says Pelle is lying Pelle says Mark is lying Mark says Pelle is lying Tony says Alex is
lying How many of these four boys are lying?
(A)0 (B)1 (C)2 (D)3 (E)4
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PROBLEM 25
Lina has fixed two shapes on a 5 × 5 board, as shown in the picture
Which of the following 5 shapes should she place on the empty part of the board so that none of the
remaining 4 shapes will fit in the empty space that is left? (The shapes may be rotated or turned over,
but can only be placed so that they cover complete squares.)
(A) (B)
(C)
(D) (E)
PROBLEM 26
The picture shows three identical dice stacked on top of each other
For each die, the total number of pips on every pair of opposite faces is 7 The stack was made so that
the sum of the pips on every pair of faces that meet is 5 How many pips are on the face marked X?
(A)2 (B)3 (C)4 (D)5 (E)6
PROBLEM 27
I want to draw four circles on the blackboard so that every pair of circles has exactly one common
point What is the greatest number of points that can belong to more than one circle?
(A)1 (B)4 (C)5 (D)6 (E)8
PROBLEM 28
In a particular month there were 5 Saturdays and 5 Sundays, but only 4 Fridays and 4 Mondays In the
next month there were
(A)5 Wednesdays (B)5 Thursdays (C)5 Fridays
(D)5 Saturdays (E)5 Sundays
PROBLEM 29
You are given four positive numbers , , and in ascending order of size You are asked to increase
one of them by 1 in such a way that the product of the four resulting numbers is as small as possible
Which number should you increase?
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E) either or
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PROBLEM 30
The digits of a positive five-digit number are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 in some order The first digit of the number is
divisible by 1, the first two digits (in order) form a number divisible by 2, the first three digits (in
order) form a number divisible by 3, the first four digits (in order) form a number divisible by 4, and
the whole number is divisible by 5 How many such numbers are there?
(A) 0 (B)1 (C)2 (D)5 (E)10
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Level Benjamin (Class 5 & 6)Time Allowed : 3 hoursSECTION ONE - (3 points problems)
1 Basil wants to paint the slogan VIVAT KANGAROO on a wall He wants different letters
to be coloured differently, and the same letters to be coloured identically How many colours
will he need?
2 A blackboard is 6 m wide The width of the middle part is 3 m The two other parts have
equal width How wide is the right-hand part?
6 m
3 Sally can put 4 coins in a square built with 4 matches (see picture) At least how many
matches will she need in order to build a square containing 16 coins that do not overlap?
kangaroo
4 In a plane, the rows are numbered from 1 to 25, but there is no row number 13 Row
number 15 has only 4 passenger seats, all the rest have 6 passenger seats How many seats for
passengers are there in the plane?
5 When it is 4 o’clock in the afternoon in London, it is 5 o’clock in the afternoon in Madrid
and it is 8 o’clock in the morning on the same day in San Francisco Ann went to bed in San
Francisco at 9 o’clock yesterday evening What was the time in Madrid at that moment?
(A) 6 o’clock yesterday morning (B) 6 o’clock yesterday evening
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(C) 12 o’clock yesterday afternoon (D) 12 o’clock midnight
(E) 6 o’clock this morning
6 The picture shows a pattern of hexagons We draw a new pattern by connecting all the
midpoints of any neighbouring hexagons
What pattern do we get?
7 To the number 6 we add 3 Then we multiply the result by 2 and then we add 1 Then
the final result will be the same as the result of the computation
(A) (6 + 3 · 2) + 1 (B) 6 + 3 · 2 + 1 (C) (6 + 3) · (2 + 1)
(D) (6 + 3) · 2 + 1 (E) 6 + 3 · (2 + 1)
8 The upper coin is rotated without slipping around the fixed lower coin to a position shown
on the picture Which is the resulting relative position of kangaroos?
9 One balloon can lift a basket containing items weighing at most 80 kg Two such balloons
can lift the same basket containing items weighing at most 180 kg What is the weight of the
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basket?
10 Vivien and Mike were given some apples and pears by their grandmother They had 25
pieces of fruit in their basket altogether On the way home Vivien ate 1 apple and 3 pears,
and Mike ate 3 apples and 2 pears At home they found out that they brought home the same
number of pears as apples How many pears were they given by their grandmother?
SECTION TWO - (4 points problems)
11 Which three of the numbered puzzle pieces should you add to the picture to complete the
square?
12 Lisa has 8 dice with the letters A, B, C and D, the same letter on all sides of each die
She builds a block with them
B C A
Two adjacent dice always have different letters What letter is on the die that cannot be
seen on the picture?
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13 There are five cities in Wonderland Each pair of cities is connected by one road, either
visible or invisible On the map of Wonderland, there are only seven visible roads, as shown
Alice has magical glasses: when she looks at the map through these glasses she only sees
the roads that are otherwise invisible How many invisible roads can she see?
14 The positive integers have been coloured red, blue or green: 1 is red, 2 is blue, 3 is green,
4 is red, 5 is blue, 6 is green, and so on Renate calculates the sum of a red number and a blue
number What colour can the resulting number be?
15 The perimeter of the figure below, built up of identical squares, is equal to 42 cm What
is the area of the figure?
16 Look at the pictures Both shapes are formed from the same five pieces The rectangle
measures 5 cm × 10 cm, and the other parts are quarters of two different circles The difference
between the perimeter lengths of the two shapes is
17 Place the numbers from 1 to 7 in the circles, so that the sum of the numbers on each of
the indicated lines of three circles is the same What is the number at the top of the triangle?
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18 A rubber ball falls vertically through a height of 10 m from the roof of a house After
each impact on the ground it bounces back up to 4
5 of the previous height How many timeswill the ball appear in front of a rectangular window whose bottom edge has a height of 5 m
and whose top edge has a height of 6 m?
19 There are 4 gearwheels on fixed axles next to each other, as shown The first one
has 30 gears, the second one 15, the third one 60 and the last one 10 How many
rev-olutions does the last gearwheel make, when the first one turns through one revolution?
20 A regular octagon is folded in half exactly three times until a triangle is obtained, as
shown
Then the apex is cut off at right angles, as shown in the picture
If the paper is unfolded what will it look like?
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21 Winnie’s vinegar-wine-water marinade contains vinegar and wine in the ratio 1 to 2, and
wine and water in the ratio 3 to 1 Which of the following statements is true?
(A) There is more vinegar than wine
(B) There is more wine than vinegar and water together
(C) There is more vinegar than wine and water together
(D) There is more water than vinegar and wine together
(E) There is less vinegar than either water or wine
22 Kangaroos Hip and Hop play jumping by hopping over a stone, then landing across so
that the stone is in the middle of the segment traveled during each jump Picture 1 shows how
Hop jumped three times hopping over stones marked 1, 2 and 3 Hip has the configuration of
stones marked 1, 2 and 3 (to jump over in this order), but starts in a different place as shown
on Picture 2 Which of the points A, B, C, D or E is his landing point?
A
23 There were twelve children at a birthday party Each child was either 6, 7, 8, 9 or 10
years old, with at least one child of each age Four of them were 6 years old In the group the
most common age was 8 years old What was the average age of the twelve children?
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24 Rectangle ABCD is cut into four smaller rectangles, as shown in the figure The four
smaller rectangles have the properties: (a) the perimeters of three of them are 11, 16 and 19;
(b) the perimeter of the fourth is neither the biggest nor the smallest of the four What is the
CD
25 Kanga wants to arrange the twelve numbers from 1 to 12 in a circle such that any
neighbouring numbers always differ by either 1 or 2 Which of the following pairs of numbers
have to be neighbours?
(A) 5 and 6 (B) 10 and 9 (C) 6 and 7 (D) 8 and 10 (E) 4 and 3
26 Peter wants to cut a rectangle of size 6 × 7 into squares with integer sides What is the
minimal number of squares he can get?
27 Some cells of the square table of size 4 × 4 were colored red The number of red cells
in each row was indicated at the end of it, and the number of red cells in each column was
indicated at the bottom of it Then the red colour was eliminated Which of the following
tables can be the result?
(A)
4211
0 3 3 2 (B)
1213
2 2 3 1 (C)
3300
1 3 1 1 (D)
2122
2 1 2 2 (E)
0331
0 3 1 3
28 A square-shaped piece of paper has area 64 cm2 The square is folded twice as shown in
the picture What is the sum of the areas of the shaded rectangles?
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29 Abid’s house number has 3 digits Removing the first digit of Abid’s house number, you
obtain the house number of Ben Removing the first digit of Ben’s house number, you get the
house number of Chiara Adding the house numbers of Abid, Ben and Chiara gives 912 What
is the second digit of Abid’s house number?
30 I give Ann and Bill two consecutive positive integers (for instance Ann 7 and Bill 6)
They know their numbers are consecutive, they know their own number, but they do not know
the number I gave to the other one Then I heard the following discussion: Ann said to Bill:
”I don’t know your number” Bill said to Ann: ”I don’t know your number” Then Ann said
to Bill: ”Now I know your number! It is a divisor of 20.” What is Ann’s number?
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KSF 2013 – finalized problems Benjamin
(picture 1) However, Nathalie ran out of small cubes and built only the part of the cube, as you can
see in the picture 2 How many small cubes must be added to fig 2 to form fig 1?
# 3 Find the distance which Mara covers to get to her friend Bunica
# 4 Nick is learning to drive He knows how to turn right but cannot turn left What is the smallest
number of turns he must make in order to get from A to B, starting in the direction of the arrow?
A B
# 5 The sum of the ages of Ann, Bob and Chris is 31 years What will the sum of their ages be in
three years time?
1
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