Ikmc 7-8 (05-23)

IKMC 7-8
(2005 – 2023)
STT Năm Đề Đáp án

1 2005 1 5
2 2006 6 10
3 2007 11 15
4 2008 16 20
5 2009 21 26
6 2010 27 31
7 2011 32 38
8 2012 39 47
9 2013 48 53
10 2014 54 59
11 2015 60 67
12 2016 68 76
13 2017 77 85
14 2018 86 94
15 2019 95 101
16 2020 102 109
17 2021 110 118
18 2022 119 127
19 2023 128 136
Kangaroo 2005— Cadet Max Time: 75 min
Cadet
3-Point-Problems
1. There are eight kangaroos in the cells of the table

(see the figure on the right). Any kangaroo can jump into any
free cell. Find the least number of the kangaroos which have to
jump into another cell so that exactly two kangaroos remain in any
row and in any column of the table.
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4
2. How many hours are there in half of a third of a quarter of a day?
1 1
(A) (B) (C) 1 (D) 2
3 2
3. We have a cube with edge 12 cm. The ant moves on the

cube surface from point A to point B along the trajectory shown
in the figure. Find the length of ant’s path.
(A) 48 cm (B) 54 cm
(C) 60 cm (D) it is impossible to determine
4. At National School, 50% of the students have bicycles. Of the students who have
bicycles, 30% have black bicycles. What percent of students of National School have black
bicycles ?
(A) 15% (B) 20% (C) 25% (D) 40%
5. In triangle ABC, the angle at A is three times the size of that at B and half the
size of the angle at C. What is the angle at A?
(A) 30 (B) 36 (C) 54 (D) 60
6. The diagram shows the ground plan of a room. The

adjacent walls are perpendicular to each other. Letters a, b represent
the dimensions (lengths) of the room. What is the area of the
room?
(A) 2ab + a(b − a) (B) 3a(a + b) − a2

(C) 3a(b − a) + a2 (D) 3ab
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7. Nida cuts a sheet of paper into 10 pieces. Then she took one piece and cut it again to 10 pieces.
She went on cutting in the same way three more times. How many pieces of paper did she have
after the last cutting?
(A) 36 (B) 40 (C) 46 (D) 50
8. Some crows are sitting on a number of poles in the back of the garden, one crow on each pole.
For one crow there is unfortunately no pole. Sometime later the same crows are sitting in pairs on
the poles. Now there is one pole without a crow. How many poles are there in the back of the
garden?
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5
9. A cube with the side 5 consists of black and white unit cubes, so that
any two adjacent (by faces) unit cubes have different color,
the corner cubes being black. How many white unit cubes are used?
(A) 62 (B)63 (C) 64 (D) 65
10. To make concrete, mix 4 shovels of stone, 2 shovels of sand and 1 shovel of cement. The
number of shovels of stone required to make 350 shovels of concrete is:
(A) 200 (B) 150 (C) 100 (D) 50
4-Point-Problems
11. Edward has 2004 marbles. Half of them are blue, one quarter are red, and one sixth are green.
How many marbles are of some other colour?
(A) 167 (B) 334 (C) 501 (D) 1002
12. A group of friends is planning a trip. If each of them would make a contribution of Rs.14 for the
expected travel expenses, they would be Rs.4 short. But if each of them would make a contribution
of Rs.16, they would have Rs.6 more than they need. How much should each of the friends
contribute so that they collect exactly the amount needed for the trip?
(A) Rs.14.40 (B) Rs.14.60 (C) Rs.14.80 (D) Rs.15.20
13. In the diagram, the five circles have the same radii and
touch as shown. The small square joins the centres of the four outer
circles. The ratio of the area of the shaded part of all five circles to
the area of the unshaded parts of all five circles is
(A) 1 : 1 (B) 2 : 5 (C) 2 : 3 (D) 5 : 4
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14. Some angles in quadrilateral ABCD are shown in the C
figure. If BC  AD , then what is the angle ADC? 30° C
B 75°
(A) 75° (B) 50° (C) 55° (D) 65°
50° ?
A D
15. The watchman works 4 days a week and has a rest on the fifth day. He had
been resting on Sunday and began working on Monday. After how many days will his rest
fall on Sunday?
(A) 31 (B) 12 (C) 34 (D) 7
16. Which of the following cubes has been folded

from the plan on the right?
(A) (B) (C) (D)
17. The diagram shows an equilateral triangle and

a regular pentagon. What, in degrees, is the size of the angle
marked x?
(A) 108° (B) 120° (C) 132° (D) 136°
18. This is a products table. What two letters represents the same number?
 7
J K L 56
M 36 8 N
O 27 6 P
6 18 R S 42
(A) L and M (B) O and N (C) R and P (D) M and S
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19. Mike chose a three-digit number and a two-digit number. Find the sum of
these numbers if their difference equals 989.
(A) 1000 (B) 1001 (C) 1009 (D) 1010
20. Point A lays on a circle with a center in point O. What a part of the circle filled the points, which
are closer to O, than to A?
(A) 3/4 (B) 2/3 (C) 1/2 (D) 5/6
5-Point-Problems
21. Two rectangles ABCD and DBEF are shown in the
figure. What is the area of the rectangle DBEF?
(A) 10 cm2 (B) 12 cm2 (C) 14 cm2 (D) 16 cm2
22. For a natural number N, by its length we mean the number of factors in the
representation of N as a product of prime numbers. For example, the length of the number 90 (when
N=90) is 4 because 90 = 2 · 3 · 3 · 5. How many odd numbers less than 100 have length 3?
(A) 3 (B) 5 (C) 7 (D) non of these
23. A caterpillar starts from his home at 9:00 a.m. 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 at 4:00 p.m. in the afternoon?
(A) 0 m (B) 1 m (C) 1.5 m (D) 2.5 m
24. How many degrees are the sum of the 10

angles which you can see in the picture
(A) 300 (B) 360 (C) 600 (D) 720
25. The average of 10 different positive integers is 10. How much can be the biggest
one among the 10 numbers at most?
(A) 10 (B) 14 (C) 55 (D) 60
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KANGAROO-2005: Correct Answers
N Ecolier Benjamin Cadet Junior Student
1 A D A C C
2 A C C C C
3 B A C B B
4 B C A C D
5 A C C D B
6 A C D D A
7 A C C E E
8 B A B C C
9 A B A E B
10 A C A C A
11 A D A D D
12 A B C C A
13 B D C E E
14 B D D C D
15 A A C D A
16 B D D B A
17 B D C D D
18 B C D C C
19 B B C E D
20 B C B D B
21 B E E
22 B D A
23 A E C
24 D E C
25 C A B
26 D E
27 B A
28 E E
29 C D
30 E B
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Cadet: Class (7-8)
3-Point-Problems
1. The contest Kangaroo in Europe has taken place every year since 1991. So, the contest
Kangaroo in 2006 is the
A) 15th B) 16 th C) 17 th D) 14 th
2. 20(0+6) – (200)+6 =
A) 106 B) 114 C) 126 D) 12
3. The point O is the center of a regular pentagon. How much of the pentagon
is shaded? O
A) 20% B) 25% C) 30% D) 40%
4. Fatima told her grandchildren: “If I give 2 toffees each of you I am left with 3 toffees. But if I try
to give 3 toffees each of you I face a short of 2 toffees.” How many grandchildren does Fatima
have?
A) 3 B) 4 C) 5 D) 6
5. A cube with two holes in the right picture has one of the following nets:
A) B)
C) D)
6. An interview of 2006 schoolchildren from Minsk (capital of Belorussia) revealed that 1500 of
them participated in the "Kangaroo" contest, 1200 - in the "Bear cub" competition. How many
from the interviewed children participated in both competitions, if 6 of them did not participate
in either of the competitions?
A) 300 B) 500 C) 600 D) 700
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7. The solid in the picture is created from two cubes. The small cube with
edges 1 cm long is placed on the top of a bigger cube with edges 3 cm long.
What is the surface area of this solid?
A) 56 cm2 B) 58 cm2 C) 59 cm2 D) 60 cm2
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8. A container that can hold 12 litres is full. How much will it contain after 4 litres has been
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poured out of it?
A) 5 B) 6 C) 8 D) 12
9. Two sides of a triangle are each 7 cm long. The length of the third side is an integer number of
centimeters. At most how many centimeters do the perimeter of the triangle measure?
A) 14 B) 15 C) 21 D) 27
10. An air temperature fell 10o in the night but has risen twice in the day and became the same. Find
the night temperature of the air.
A) 50 B) 40 C) 30 D) 20
4-Point-Problems
11. If it’s blue, it’s round. That means:

If it’s square, it’s red. A) It’s red and round
It’s either blue or yellow. B) It’s a blue square
If it’s yellow, it’s square. C) It’s blue and round
It’s either square or round. D) It’s yellow and round
12. Three Tuesdays of a month fall on even dates. What day of a week was the 21st day of this
month?
A) Wednesday B) Thursday C) Friday D) Sunday
13. Ahmad, Babar and Nizami saved money to buy a tent for a camping trip. Nizami saved 60 % of
the price. Ahmad saved 40 % of what was left of the price. This way Babar´ share of the price
was 30 Rs. What was the price of the tent?
A) 60 Rs B) 125 Rs C) 150 Rs D) 200 Rs
14. Several strange spacemen are traveling through the space in their rocket STAR 1. They are of
three colors: green, orange or blue. Green men have two arms, orange men have three arms and
blue men have five arms. In the spaceship there are as many green men as orange ones and 10
more blue ones than green ones. Altogether they have 250 arms. How many blue men are
traveling in the rocket?
A) 15 B) 20 C) 30 D) 40
15. If kangaroo pushes himself with his left leg, he will jump on 2 m, if he pushes with the right leg,
he will jump on 4 m, and if he pushes with both legs, he will jump on 7 m. What the least
number of jumps should kangaroo make to cover a distance of exactly 1000 m?
A) 142 B) 143 C) 144 D) 250
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16. Which number when squared is increased by 500%?
A) 5 B) 6 C) 7 D) 10
17. Raza and Ijaz have drawn a 4x4-square and marked the centers of the
small squares. Afterwards, they draw obstacles and then find out in
how many ways it is possible to go from A to B using the shortest way
avoiding the obstacles and going from centre to centre only vertically
and horizontally. How many shortest paths are there from A to B under
these conditions?
A) 6 B) 8 C) 9 D) 12
18. Amna counts her fingers in such a way (see figure). So the first finger
has a set of numbers: 1, 9, 17… Find the first number for a finger with
number 2006
A) 1 B) 2 C) 3 D) 4
19. Find a truly end of the sentence: If your reflection looks on me then
A) you look on mine reflection B) my reflection looks on you
C) you look on me D) I look on your reflection
20. One fruit of guava has the same number of seeds as 2 tangerines and 11
apples have. One half of guava has the same number of seeds as 4 apples and 3 tangerines. How
many apples have the same sum of seeds as 100 tangerines?
A) 25 B) 50 C) 75 D) 100
5-Point-Problems
21. Shaheen is making patterns with toothpicks

according to the schema of the figure. How many
toothpicks does Shaheen add to the 10th pattern to
make the 11st?
A) 40 B) 42 C) 44 D) 48
22. A train is composed of four wagons, I, II, III and IV, pulled by a locomotive. In how many ways
can the train be composed so that the wagon I is nearer the locomotive that the wagon II?
A) 4 B) 12 C) 24 D) 256
23. If the sum of three positive numbers is equal to 20, then the product of the two largest numbers
among them cannot be
A) greater than 99 B) less than 0.001 C) equal to 25
D) equal to 100
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24. The natural numbers from 1 to 2006 are written down on the blackboard. Akhlaq underlined all
numbers divisible by 2, then all numbers divisible by 3, and then all numbers divisible by 4.
How many numbers are underlined precisely twice?
A) 1003 B) 1002 C) 501 D) 334
25. A house has 10 rooms. Ten boys stay in different rooms and count the number of doors in them.
After that they sum all results and receive 25. What a proposition can't be true about number N
of doors which led outside the house?
A) N=7 B) N=5 C) N=3 D) N=2
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1 B B B D A
2 A D C C B
3 B B C D E
4 A D C E C
5 A C D E B
6 B C D C D
7 B A B D C
8 A D A E B
9 B D D A D
10 B C D D E
11 B D C B D
12 A B D B B
13 B B B D A
14 A D C A A
15 A C C C E
16 B B B A A
17 B C D E D
18 B D D E B
19 A D A A D
20 B C C B B
21 C E A
22 B B B
23 D B D
24 C A C
25 D C C
26 C E
27 C B
28 C A
29 C C
30 B A
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INTERNATIONAL KANGAROO MATHEMATICS CONTEST 2007
Level Cadet: Class (7 & 8) Max Time: 1 Hour &

35 Min
3-Point-Problems
2007
Q1. =
2+ 0+ 0+ 7
A) 1003 B) 223 C) 213 D) 123
Q2. Rose plants were planted in a line on both sides of the path. The distance between each plant
was 2 m. What is the maximum number of plants that were planted if the path is 20 m long?
A) 22 B) 20 C) 12 D) 11
Q3. The robot starts walking on the table from the place A2 in the direction
of arrow, as shown on the picture. It can go always forward. If it meets
with difficulties (black boxes and the boundary), it turns right. The
robot will stop in case, if he can’t go forward after turning right. On
which place will it stop
A) B2 B) A1 C) E1 D) nowhere
Q4. What is the sum of the points on the invisible faces of the dice?
A) 15 B) 12 C) 7 D) 27
Q 5. If the sum of two positive integers is 11, then the maximum of their product will be
A) 24 B) 28 C) 30 D) 32
Q6. A small square is inscribed in a big one as shown in the figure. Find the area
of the small square
A) 16 B) 28 C) 34 D) 36
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Q7. At least how many little squares we have to shade in the picture on the right so that it has an
axis of symmetry?
A) 3 B) 5 C) 2 D) 4
Q8. A palindromic number is one that reads the same backwards as forwards, so 13931 is a
palindromic number. What is the difference between the smallest 5-digit palindromic number
and the largest 6-digit palindromic numbers?
A) 989989 B) 989998 C) 998998 D) 999898
Q9. On the picture, there are six identical circles. The circles touch the sides of a
large rectangle and each other as well. The vertices of the small rectangle
lie in the centres of the four circles. The circumference of the small
rectangle is 60 cm. What is the circumference of the large rectangle?
A) 160 cm B) 120 cm C) 100 cm D) 80 cm
Q10. x is a strictly negative integer. Which is the biggest?
A) -2x B) 2x C) 6x+2 D) x − 2
4-Point-Problems
Q11. The squares are formed by intersecting the segment AB of length 24 cm by the broken line
AA1A2 . . . A12B (see the Fig.). Find the length of AA1A2 . . . A12B.
A) 48 cm B) 72 cm C) 96 cm D) 106 cm
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Q12. On parallel lines l1 and l2, 6 points were drawn; 4 on line l1 and 2 on line l2. What is the total
number of triangles whose vertices are given points?
A) 6 B) 12 C) 16 D) 18
Q13. A survey found that 2/3 of all customers buy product A and 1/3 buy product B. After a
publicity campaign for product B a new survey showed that 1/4 of the customers who
preferred product A are now buying product B. So now we have
A) 1/4 of the customers buy product A, 3/4 buy product B
B) 7/12 of the customers buy product A, 5/12 buy product B
C) 1/2 of the customers buy product A, 1/2 buy product B
D) 1/3 of the customers buy product A, 2/3 buy product B
Q14. In order to obtain the number 88, we must raise 44 to the power
A) 3 B) 2 C) 4 D) 8
Q15. ABC and CDE are equal equilateral triangles. If angle

ACD = 80o , what is angle ABD?
A) 25o B) 30o C) 35o D) 40o
Q16. Look at the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, . . . , 100. How many percent of these numbers is a perfect
square?
A) 1% B) 5% C) 25% D) 10%
Q17. By drawing 9 line segments (5 horizontal and 4 vertical) as shown in figure, Amir has made a
table of 12 cells. If he had used 6 horizontal and 3 vertical lines, he would have got 10 cells
only. How many cells you can get maximally if you draw at most 15 lines?
A) 30 B) 36 C) 40 D) 42
Q18. How many possible routes with the minimum number of moves are there for a man to travel
from A to B of the grid (man can move to any adjacent square, including diagonally)
A) 4 B) 3 C) 5 D) 2
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Q19. If you choose three numbers from the grid shown, so that you have one number from each
row and also have one number from each column, and then add the three numbers together, what is
the largest total that can be obtained?
A) 18 B) 15 C) 21 D) 24
Q20. The segments OA, OB, OC and OD are drawn from the center O of the
square KLMN to its sides so that ∠ AOB= 90o and ∠ COD= 90o (as
shown in the figure). If the side of the square equals 2, the area of the
shaded part equals.
A) 1 B) 2 C) 2.5 D) 2.25
5-Point-Problems
Q21. A broken calculator does not display the digit 1. For example, if we type in the number 3131,
only the number 33 is displayed, with no spaces. Awais typed a 6-digit number into that
calculator, but only 2007 appeared on the display. How many numbers could have Awais
typed?
A) 12 B) 13 C) 14 D) 15
Q22. The first digit of a 4-digit number is equal to the number of zeros in this number, the second
digit is equal to the number of digits 1, the third digit is equal to the number of digits 2, the
fourth - the number of digits 3. How many such numbers exist?
A) 3 B) 2 C) 4 D) 5
Q23. A positive integer number n has 2 divisors, while n+1 has 3 divisors. How many divisors does
n + 2 have?
A) 2 B) 3 C) 4 D) 5
Q24. The table 3 × 3 contains natural numbers (see picture). Nasir and Ali crossed out four
numbers each so that the sum of the numbers crossed out by Nasir is three times as great as
the sum of the numbers, crossed out by Ali. The number which remained in the table after
crossing is:
A) 4 B) 14 C) 23 D) 24
Q25. Five integers are written around a circle in such a way that no two or three consecutive
numbers give a sum divisible by 3. Among those 5 numbers, how many are divisible by 3?
A) 0 B) 1 C) 2 D) 3
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1 B C B E A
2 B B A C A
3 B A D B A
4 A C D D E
5 A D C B C
6 A B C C C
7 A A A B B
8 B D B D A
9 A C C B E
10 A D A B B
11 A B B C C
12 B B C B D
13 A C C B B
14 B D A C E
15 B A D A C
16 B A D B D
17 A D D E C
18 A B A D E
19 A C B D A
20 B A B A D
21 D D D
22 B D D
23 A A D
24 B D B
25 C B B
26 D C
27 C C
28 C C
29 D A
30 B B
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International Kangaroo Mathematics Contest 2008
Cadet Level: Class (7 & 8) Max Time: 2 Hours
3-point problems
1)
How many pieces of string are there in the picture?
A) 3 B) 4 C) 5 D) 6
2)
In a class there are 9 boys and 13 girls. Half of the children in this class have got a cold. How
many girls at least have a cold?
A) 0 B) 1 C) 2 D) 3
3)
6 kangaroos eat 6 sacks of grass in 6 minutes. How many kangaroos will eat 100 sacks of
grass in 100 minutes?
A) 100 B) 60 C) 6 D) 600
4)
Numbers 2, 3, 4 and one more number are written in the cells of 2 × 2 table. It is known
that the sums of the numbers in the first row are 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
5)
The triangle and the square have the same perimeter. What is the perimeter
of the whole figure (a pentagon)?
4cm A) 24 cm B) 28 cm C) 32 cm
D) It depends upon the triangle measures
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6)
A florist had 24 white, 42 red and 36 yellow roses left. At most, how many identical bunches
can she make, if she wants to use all the remaining flowers?
A) 4 B) 6 C) 8 D) 12
7)
A cube has all its corners cut off, as shown. How many edges does the resulting
shape have?
A) 30 B) 36 C) 40
D) Another answer
8)
Three lines intersect in one point. Two angles are given
in the figure. 108°
How many degrees is the grey angle? 124°
A) 52 B) 53 C) 54
D) 56
9)
Ali has 9 coins (each is worth 2 cents); while his sister Saima has 8 coins, each being 5 cents.
What the least number of coins they should interchange (with each other) in order to equalize
their money?
A) 4 B) 5 C) 12 D) it is impossible to do
10)
How many squares can be drawn by joining the dots with line segments?
A) 2 B) 3 C) 4 D) 5
4-point problems
11)
If there are two buses on the circular bus route, the interval between them is 25 min. How
many extra buses are necessary to shorten the interval by 60%?
A) 2 B) 3 C) 5 D) 6
12)
The French mathematician August de Morgan claimed that he was х years old in the year
of х2. He is known to have died in 1899. When was he born?
A) 1806 B) 1848 C) 1849 D) another answer
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13)
We decide to visit by ferry-boat four islands A,B,C & D starting from the mainland. B can be
reached only from A or from the mainland, A & C are connected to each other and with the
mainland and D is connected only with A. Which is the minimum number of ferry runs that
we need, if we want to visit all the islands?
A) 6 B) 5 C) 4 D) 7
14)
Tom and Jerry cut two equal rectangles. Tom got two rectangles with the perimeter of 40
cm each, and Jerry got two rectangles with the perimeter of 50 cm each. What were the
perimeters of the initial rectangles?
A) 40 cm B) 50 cm C) 60 cm D) 80 cm
15)
One of the cube faces is cut along its diagonals (see the fig.). Which of the following
net is impossible?
1 2 3 4 5
A) 1 and 3 B) 1 and 5 C) 3 and 4 D) 3 and 5
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?
17)
Four tangent congruent circles of radius 6 cm are inscribed in a Q P
rectangle. If P is a vertex and Q and R are points of tangency, what is
the area of triangle PQR?
A) 27 cm2 B) 45 cm2 C) 54 cm2 R

D) 108 cm2
18)
Seven cards lie in a box. Numbers from 1 to 7 are written on these cards (exactly one number
on the card). The first sage takes, at random, 3 cards from the box and the second sage takes 2
cards (2 cards are left in the box). Then the first sage tells to 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 sage is
equal to
A) 10 B) 12 C) 9 D) 15
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19)
In an isosceles triangle ABC, the bisector CD of the angle C is equal to the base BC. Then the
angle CDA is equal to
A) 100º B) 108º C) 120º D) impossible to determine
20)
A wooden cube 11 x 11 x 11 is obtained by sticking together 113 unit cubes. What is the
largest number of unit cubes visible from a same point of view?
A) 329 B) 330 C) 331 D) 332
5-point problems
21)
In the equality KAN – GAR = OO any letter stands for some digit (different letters for
different digits, equal letters for equal digits). Find the largest possible value of the number
KAN ?
A) 876 B) 865 C) 864 D) 785
22)
A boy always speaks the truth on Thursday and Fridays, always tells lies on Tuesdays, and
randomly tells the truth or lies on other days of the week. On seven consecutive days he
was asked what his name was, and on the first six days he gave the following answers in
order: Akbar, Ali, Akbar, Ali, Farooq, Ali. What did he answer on the seventh day?
A) Akbar B) Ali C) Amir D) another answer
23)
Four identical dice are arranged in a row (see the fig.). The dice are
not standard, i.e., the sum of points in the opposite faces of the dice
not necessarily equals 7. Find the total sum of the points in all 6
touching faces of the dice.
A) 19 B) 20 C) 21 D) 22
24)
Some straight lines are drawn on the plane so that all angles 10°, 20°, 30°, 40°, 50°, 60°, 70°,
80°, 90° are among the angles between these lines. Determine the smallest possible number of
these straight lines.
A) 4 B) 5 C) 6 D) 7
25)
On my first spelling test, I score one mark out of five. If I now work hard and get full
marks on every test, who many more tests should I take for my average to be four out of
five correct answers?
A) 2 B) 3 C) 4 D) 5
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GOOD LUCK !
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International Mathematics Contest 2008
Answer of Questions
Q. No. Ecolier Level Q. No. Benjamin Level Q. No. Cadet Level Q. No. Junior Level Q. No. Student Level
1 B 1 C 1 A 1 D 1 B
2 B 2 C 2 C 2 C 2 C
3 A 3 B 3 C 3 B 3 B
4 A 4 C 4 B 4 B 4 B
5 A 5 B 5 A 5 B 5 D
6 B 6 D 6 B 6 D 6 D
7 A 7 A 7 B 7 A 7 E
8 A 8 D 8 A 8 C 8 C
9 B 9 D 9 B 9 C 9 C
10 B 10 C 10 B 10 B 10 E
11 B 11 B 11 B 11 B 11 E
12 A 12 A 12 A 12 D 12 A
13 A 13 D 13 B 13 D 13 D
14 A 14 A 14 C 14 B 14 B
15 A 15 C 15 D 15 A 15 A
16 A 16 D 16 C 16 A 16 A
17 A 17 D 17 D 17 B 17 C
18 B 18 B 18 B 18 E 18 A
19 B 19 D 19 B 19 A 19 B
20 B 20 C 20 C 20 B 20 B
21 C 21 D 21 C
22 A 22 E 22 A
23 B 23 D 23 B
24 B 24 D 24 C
25 B 25 B 25 E
26 B 26 D
27 C 27 B
28 A 28 E
29 E 29 B
30 D 30 A
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Answer of Questions
1 B 1 D 1 D 1 C 1 E
2 B 2 B 2 C 2 C 2 A
3 A 3 C 3 C 3 A 3 B
4 B 4 A 4 B 4 C 4 C
5 B 5 D 5 C 5 D 5 C
6 A 6 C 6 D 6 C 6 D
7 B 7 C 7 C 7 B 7 D
8 A 8 D 8 C 8 B 8 E
9 A 9 C 9 B 9 E 9 D
10 A 10 C 10 C 10 B 10 D
11 A 11 B 11 B 11 C 11 B
12 B 12 D 12 C 12 B 12 B
13 B 13 D 13 C 13 C 13 B
14 B 14 C 14 A 14 C 14 C
15 B 15 C 15 B 15 C 15 E
16 B 16 D 16 C 16 C 16 B
17 A 17 B 17 A 17 D 17 D
18 B 18 D 18 D 18 A 18 B
19 B 19 C 19 D 19 C 19 D
20 A 20 A 20 C 20 C 20 D
21 B 21 C 21 D
22 C 22 B 22 C
23 A 23 C 23 C
24 C 24 C 24 B
25 B 25 B 25 B
26 C 26 A
27 A 27 B
28 B 28 C
29 C 29 B
30 D 30 B
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Answer of IKMC 2009.xls
Cadet Level: Class (7 & 8) Max Time: 2 Hours
3-point problems
Q1) How much is 12 + 23 + 34 + 45 + 56 + 67 + 78 + 89?
A) 396 B) 404 C) 405 D) other answer.
Q2) How many axes of symmetry does the figure have?
A) 1 B) 2 C) 4 D) infinitely many
Q3) Toy kangaroos are packed for shipment. Each of them is packed in a box which is a cube. Exactly
eight boxes are packed tightly in a bigger cubic cardboard box. How many kangaroo boxes are on the
bottom floor of this big cube?
A) 1 B) 2 C) 3 D) 4
Q4) The perimeter of the figure is equal to
A) 3a + 4b B) 3a + 8b C) 6a + 6b D) 6a + 8b
Q5) Ehsan draws the six vertices of a regular hexagon and then connects
some of the 6 points with lines to obtain a geometric figure. Then this
figure is surely not a
A) trapezium B) right angled triangle C) square

D) obtuse angled triangle
Q6) If we type seven consecutive integer numbers and the sum of the smallest three numbers is 33,
which is the sum of the largest three numbers?
A) 39 B) 42 C) 48 D) 45
Q7) After stocking up firewood, the worker summed up that from the certain number of logs he made 72
logs besides 53 cuts were made. He saws only one log at a time. How many logs were at the beginning?
A) 18 B) 19 C) 20 D) 21
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Q8) There are seven bars in the box. They are 3 cm × 1 cm in size. The
box is of size 5 cm × 5 cm. Is it possible to slide the bars in the box so
there will be room for one more bar? At least how many bars must be
moved in that case?
A) 2 B) 3 C) 4 D) It is impossible
Q9) A square is divided into 4 smaller equal-sized squares. All the
smaller squares are coloured either green or blue. How many different
ways are there to colour the given square? (Two colourings are
considered the same if one can be rotated to give the other.)
A) 5 B) 6 C) 7 D) 8
Q10) The sum of the first hundred positive odd integers subtracted from sum of the first hundred positive
even integers is
A) 0 B) 50 C) 100 D) 10100
4-point problems
Q11) Grandma baked a cake for her grandchildren who will visit in the afternoon. Unfortunately she
forgot whether only 3, 5 or all 6 of her grandchildren will come over. She wants to ensure that every child
gets the same amount of cake. Then, to be prepared for all three possibilities she better cut the cake into
A) 12 pieces B) 15 pieces C) 18 pieces D) 30 pieces

Q12) Which of the following is the smallest two-digit number that is not the sum of three different one-
digit numbers?
A) 10 B) 15 C) 23 D) 25
Q13) Fatima needs 18 min to make a long chain by connecting three short chains with extra chain links.
How long does it take her to make a really long chain by connecting six short chains in the same way?
A) 27 min B) 30 min C) 36 min D) 45 min
Q14) In quadrilateral ABCD we have AD = BC, ∠DAC = 50º,

∠DCA = 65º, ∠ACB = 70º (see the fig.). Find the value of
∠ABC.
A) 55º B) 60º C) 65º D) impossible to determine.
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Q15) Saima has wound some rope around a piece of wood. She rotates the wood as shown with the
arrow.
Front side
What does she see after the rotation?
A) B) C)
D)
Q16) There are 50 bricks of white, blue and red colour in the box. The number of white bricks is eleven
times the number of blue ones. There are fewer red ones than white ones, but more red ones than blue
ones. How many fewer red bricks are there than white ones?
A) 2 B) 11 C) 19 D) 22
Q17) On the picture ABCD is a rectangle, PQRS is a square. The

shaded area is half of the area of rectangle ABCD. What is the
length of PX?
A) 1 B) 1.5 C) 2 D) 4
Q18) What is the smallest number of straight lines needed to divide the plane into exactly 5 regions?
Q19) If a – 1 = b + 2 = c – 3 = d + 4 = e – 5, then which of the numbers a, b, c, d, e is the largest?
A) a B) c C) d D) e
Q20) The logo shown is made entirely from semicircular arcs of radius 2
cm, 4 cm or 8 cm. What fraction of the logo is shaded?
1 1 1 3
A) B) C) D)
3 4 5 4
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5-point problems
Q21) In the figure there are nine regions inside the circles. Put all the numbers from 1 to 9 exactly one in
each region so that the sum of the numbers inside each circle is 11.
Which number must be written in the region with the question mark?
A) 5 B) 6 C) 7 D) 8
Q22) A paper strip was folded three times in half and then completely unfolded so that you can still see
the 7 folds going up or down. Which of the following views from the side cannot be obtained in this way?
Q23) On each of 18 cards exactly one number is written, either 4 or 5. The sum of all numbers on the
cards is divisible by 17. On how many cards is the number 4 written?
A) 4 B) 5 C) 6 D) 7
Q24) The natural numbers from 1 to 10 are written on the blackboard. The students in the class play the
following game: a student deletes 2 of the numbers and instead of them writes on the blackboard their
sum decreased by 1; after that another student deletes 2 of the numbers and instead of them writes on the
blackboard their sum decreased by 1; and so on. The game continues until only one number remains on
the blackboard. The last number is:
A) less than 11 B) 11 C) 46 D) greater than 46

Q25) A Kangaroo has a large collection of small cubes 1 × 1 × 1. Each cube is a single colour. Kangaroo
wants to use 27 small cubes to make a 3 × 3 × 3 cube so that any two cubes with at least one common
vertex are of different colours. At least how many colours have to be used?
A) 6 B) 8 C) 9 D) 12
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Answer of Questions
1 B 1 B 1 B 1 D 1 B
2 A 2 C 2 B 2 D 2 C
3 B 3 C 3 D 3 C 3 D
4 A 4 C 4 D 4 B 4 D
5 A 5 C 5 C 5 D 5 D
6 B 6 B 6 D 6 D 6 B
7 B 7 B 7 B 7 E 7 D
8 A 8 B 8 B 8 B 8 E
9 A 9 D 9 B 9 D 9 A
10 A 10 D 10 C 10 A 10 A
11 A 11 C 11 D 11 C 11 E
12 B 12 D 12 D 12 D 12 C
13 B 13 D 13 D 13 B 13 C
14 B 14 B 14 A 14 B 14 A
15 B 15 B 15 B 15 E 15 A
16 B 16 A 16 C 16 C 16 A
17 A 17 A 17 A 17 D 17 B
18 A 18 A 18 B 18 B 18 E
19 A 19 D 19 D 19 C 19 A
20 A 20 B 20 B 20 A 20 C
21 B 21 B 21 B
22 D 22 C 22 D
23 B 23 C 23 D
24 C 24 B 24 E
25 B 25 D 25 B
26 A 26 B
27 C 27 C
28 E 28 E
29 A 29 A
30 E 30 C
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3 point problems
PROBLEM 01
Which of the following has the largest value?
(A) 2011 (B) 1 (C) 1 × 2011 (D) 1 + 2011 (E) 1 ÷ 2011
PROBLEM 02
Elsa plays with tetrahedrons and cubes.
She has 5 cubes and 3 tetrahedrons. How many faces are there in total?
(A) 42 (B) 48 (C) 50 (D) 52 (E) 56
PROBLEM 03
A zebra crossing has alternate white and black stripes, each of width 50 cm. The crossing starts and
ends with a white stripe and has 8 white stripes in all. What is the total width of the crossing?
(A) 7 m (B) 7.5 m (C) 8 m (D) 8.5 m (E) 9 m
PROBLEM 04
My broken calculator divides instead of multiplying and subtracts instead of adding. I type
(12 × 3) + (4 × 2). What answer does the calculator show?
(A) 2 (B) 6 (C) 12 (D) 28 (E) 38
PROBLEM 05
My digital watch has just changed to show the time 20:11. How many minutes later will it next
show a time with the digits 0, 1, 1, 2 in some order?
(A) 40 (B) 45 (C) 50 (D) 55 (E) 60
PROBLEM 06
The diagram shows three squares.
The medium square is formed by joining the midpoints of the large square. The small square
is formed by joining the midpoints of the medium square. The area of the small square in the
figure is 6 cm2. What is the difference between the area of the medium square and the area of
the large square?
(A) 6 cm2 (B) 9 cm2 (C) 12 cm2 (D) 15 cm2 (E) 18 cm2
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PROBLEM 07
In my street there are 17 houses. On the èven' side, the houses are numbered 2, 4, 6, and so on. On the
òdd' side, the houses are numbered 1, 3, 5, and so on. I live in the last house on the even side, which is
number 12. My cousin lives in the last house on the odd side. What is the number of my cousin's
house?
(A) 5 (B) 7 (C) 13 (D) 17 (E) 21
PROBLEM 08
Felix the Cat caught 12 fish in three days. Each day after the first he caught more fish than the
previous day. On the third day he caught fewer fish than the first two days together. How
many fish did Felix catch on the third day?
(A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 7 (D) 8 (E) 9
PROBLEM 09
Mary lists every 3-digit number whose digits add up to 8. What is the sum of the largest and the
smallest numbers in Mary's list?
(A) 707 (B) 907 (C) 916 (D) 1000 (E) 1001
PROBLEM 10
The diagram shows an L-shape made from four small squares.
Ria wants to add an extra small square in order to form a shape with a line of symmetry. In
how many different ways can she do this?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 5 (E) 6
4 point problems
PROBLEM 11
× .
What is the value of ?
. × .
(A) 0.01 (B) 0.1 (C) 1 (D) 10 (E) 100
PROBLEM 12
Marie has 9 pearls that weigh 1 g, 2 g, 3 g, 4 g, 5 g, 6 g, 7 g, 8 g, and 9 g. She makes four rings, using two
pearls on each. The total weight of the pearls on each of these four rings is 17 g, 13 g, 7 g and 5 g,
respectively. What is the weight of the unused pearl?
(A) 1 g (B) 2 g (C) 3 g (D) 4 g (E) 5 g

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PROBLEM 13
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 14
Each region in the figure is coloured with one of four colours: red (R), green (G), orange (O), or
yellow (Y). (The colours of only three regions are shown.)
Any two regions that touch have different colours. The colour of the region X is
(A) red (B) orange (C) green (D) yellow (E) impossible to
determine
PROBLEM 15
A teacher has a list of marks: 17, 13, 5, 10, 14, 9, 12, 16. Which two marks can be removed without
changing the average?
(A) 12 and 17 (B) 5 and 17 (C) 9 and 16 (D) 10 and 12 (E) 10 and 14
PROBLEM 16
A square piece of paper is cut into six rectangular pieces.
When the perimeter lengths of the six pieces are added together the result is 120 cm. What is the area
of the square piece of paper?
(A)48 cm2 (B) 64 cm2 (C) 110.25 cm2 (D) 144 cm2 (E) 256 cm2

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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) 2-1 (E) 0-1
PROBLEM 18
Lali draws a line segment of length 2 cm on a piece of paper. How many different points F can she
draw on the paper so that the triangle is right-angled and has area 1 cm2?
(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 6 (D) 8 (E) 10
PROBLEM 19
The positive number is less than 1, and the number is greater then 1. Which of the following
numbers has the largest value?
(A) × (B) + (C) ÷ (D) b (E) the answer depends on and .
PROBLEM 20
The figure shows a net which is cut out of paper and folded to make a cube.
A dark line is then drawn on the cube, as shown, dividing the surface of the cube into two identical
parts.
The cube is then unfolded. The paper could now look like only one of the following. Which one?
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
5 point problems
PROBLEM 21
The five-digit number `24 8 ' is divisible by 4, 5 and 9. What is the sum of the digits and ?
(A) 13 (B) 10 (C) 9 (D) 5 (E) 4

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PROBLEM 22
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) (D) (E)
(C)
PROBLEM 23
The three blackbirds Isaac, Max and Oscar are each on their own nest. Isaac says: `Ì am more than
twice as far away from Max as I am from Oscar”. Max says: ”I am more than twice as far away from
Oscar as I am from Isaac”. Oscar says: ”I am more than twice as far away from Max as I am from Isaac”.
At least two of them are telling the truth. Who is lying?
(A) Isaac (B) Max (C) Oscar (D) none of them (E) impossible to tell
PROBLEM 24
The figure shows a square with side 3 cm inside a square with side 7 cm, and another square with side
5 cm which intersects the first two squares.
What is the difference between the area of the black region and the total area of the grey regions?
(A) 0 cm2 (B) 10 cm2 (C) 11 cm2 (D) 15 cm2 (E) impossible to determine
PROBLEM 25
Myshko shot at a target. When he hit the target he only hit 5, 8 and 10. Myshko hit 8 and 10 the same
number of times. He scored 99 points in total, and 25\% of his shots missed the target. How many
times did Myshko shoot at the target?
(A) 10 (B) 12 (C) 16 (D) 20 (E) 24
PROBLEM 26
In a convex quadrilateral with = , the following angles are known: ∡ = 80°,
∡ = 75, ∡ = 65°. What is the size of ∡ ?
(A) 10° (B) 15° (C) 20° (D) 30° (E) 45°

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PROBLEM 27
Seven years ago Evie's age was a multiple of 8, and in eight years' time her age will be a multiple of 7.
Eight years ago Raph's age was a multiple of 7, and in seven years' time his age will be a multiple of 8.
Neither Evie nor Raph is over a hundred years old. Which of the following statements is true?
(A) Raph is two (B) Raph is one (C) Raph and Evie (D) Raph is one (E) Raph is two
years older than year older than are the same age year younger than years younger
Evie Evie Evie than Evie
PROBLEM 28
∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙
In the expression ∙ ∙ ∙
different letters stand for different non-zero digits, but the same letter
always stands for the same digit. What is the smallest possible positive integer value of the expression?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 5 (E) 7
PROBLEM 29
The left-hand figure shows a shape consisting of two rectangles. The lengths of two sides are marked:
11 and 13. The shape is cut into three parts and the parts are rearranged into a triangle, as shown in
the right-hand figure.
What is the length marked ?
(A) 36 (B) 37 (C) 38 (D) 39 (E) 40
PROBLEM 30
Mark plays a computer game on a 4 × 4 grid. Initially the 16 cells are all white; clicking one of the
white cells changes it to either red or blue. Exactly two cells will become blue and they will always
have a side in common. The aim is to make both blue cells appear in as few clicks as possible. With
perfect play, what is the largest number of clicks Mark will ever need to make?
(A) 9 (B) 10 (C) 11 (D) 12 (E) 13

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Answer of Questions
1 C 1 C 1 D 1 B 1 A
2 C 2 C 2 A 2 C 2 B
3 B 3 A 3 B 3 D 3 A
4 E 4 B 4 A 4 A 4 C
5 B 5 E 5 C 5 E 5 D
6 A 6 E 6 C 6 C 6 C
7 D 7 D 7 E 7 D 7 C
8 C 8 A 8 A 8 C 8 C
9 B 9 E 9 B 9 C 9 C
10 B 10 B 10 C 10 E 10 B
11 B 11 D 11 C 11 B 11 D
12 E 12 B 12 C 12 B 12 E
13 D 13 E 13 B 13 A 13 D
14 A 14 C 14 A 14 B 14 D
15 C 15 D 15 E 15 C 15 B
16 B 16 B 16 D 16 D 16 A
17 C 17 B 17 B 17 D 17 E
18 C 18 C 18 C 18 D 18 D
19 C 19 D 19 B 19 C 19 A
20 E 20 E 20 A 20 B 20 B
21 D 21 C 21 E 21 C 21 B
22 A 22 C 22 D 22 C 22 C
23 E 23 D 23 B 23 B 23 A
24 D 24 C 24 D 24 C 24 A
25 D 25 D 25 B 25 D
26 E 26 D 26 D 26 B
27 D 27 A 27 B 27 C
28 A 28 B 28 C 28 D
29 D 29 B 29 C 29 C
30 A 30 B 30 E 30 C
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International Kangaroo Mathematics Contest 2012 – Cadet
Level Cadet (Class 7 & 8)

Time Allowed : 3 hours
SECTION ONE - (3 points problems)
1. Four chocolate bars cost 6 EUR more than one chocolate bar. What is the cost of one
chocolate bar?
(A) 1 EUR (B) 2 EUR (C) 3 EUR (D) 4 EUR (E) 5 EUR
2. 11.11 − 1.111 =
(A) 9.009 (B) 9.0909 (C) 9.99 (D) 9.999 (E) 10
3. A watch is placed face up on a table so that its minute hand points north-east. How many
minutes pass before the minute hand points north-west for the first time?
(A) 45 (B) 40 (C) 30 (D) 20 (E) 15
4. Mary has a pair of scissors and five cardboard letters. She cuts each letter exactly once
(along a straight line) so that it falls apart in as many pieces as possible. Which letter falls
apart into the most pieces?
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
5. A dragon has five heads. Every time a head is chopped off, five new heads grow. If six
heads are chopped off one by one, how many heads will the dragon finally have?
(A) 25 (B) 28 (C) 29 (D) 30 (E) 35
6. In which of the following expressions can we replace each occurrence of the number 8 by
the same positive number (other than 8) and obtain the same result?
(A) (8 + 8) : 8 + 8 (B) 8 · (8 + 8) : 8 (C) 8 + 8 − 8 + 8
(D) (8 + 8 − 8) · 8 (E) (8 + 8 − 8) : 8
7. Each of the nine paths in a park is 100 m long. Ann wants to go from A to B without
going along any path more than once. What is the length of the longest route she can choose?
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(A) 900 m (B) 800 m (C) 700 m (D) 600 m (E) 400 m
8. The diagram shows two triangles. In how many ways can

you choose two vertices, one in each triangle, so that the straight line through the vertices does
not cross either triangle?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) more than 4
9. Werner folds a sheet of paper as shown in the figure and makes two straight cuts with a
pair of scissors. He then opens up the paper again. Which of the following shapes cannot be
the result?
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
10. A cuboid is made of four pieces, as shown. Each piece consists of four cubes and is a
single colour. What is the shape of the white piece?
(A) (B) (C)
(D) (E)
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SECTION TWO - (4 points problems)
11. Kanga forms two 4-digit natural numbers using each of the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and
8 exactly once. Kanga wants the sum of the two numbers to be as small as possible. What is
the value of this smallest possible sum?
(A) 2468 (B) 3333 (C) 3825 (D) 4734 (E) 6912
12. Mrs Gardner grows peas and strawberries. This year she has changed the rectangular
pea bed to a square by lengthening one of its sides by 3 metres. As a result of this change, the
area of the strawberry bed was reduced by 15 m2 . What was the area of the pea bed before
Last year This year
Peas
Peas
Strawberries
Strawberries
the change?
(A) 5 m2 (B) 9 m2 (C) 10 m2 (D) 15 m2 (E) 18 m2
13. Barbara wants to complete the diagram by inserting three numbers, one in each empty
cell. She wants the sum of the first three numbers to be 100, the sum of the three middle
numbers to be 200 and the sum of the last three numbers to be 300. What number should
Barbara insert in the middle cell of the diagram?
10 130
(A) 50 (B) 60 (C) 70 (D) 75 (E) 100
14. In the figure, what is the value of x?
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100◦
93◦
58◦ x◦
(A) 35 (B) 42 (C) 51 (D) 65 (E) 109
15. Four cards each have a number written on one side and a phrase written on the other.
The four phrases are ”divisible by 7”, ”prime”, ”odd” and ”greater than 100”, and the four
numbers are 2, 5, 7 and 12. On each card, the number does not correspond to the phrase on
the other side. What number is written on the same card as the phrase ”greater than 100”?
(A) 2 (B) 5 (C) 7 (D) 12
(E) impossible to determine
16. Three small equilateral triangles of the same size are cut from the corners of a larger
equilateral triangle with sides of 6 cm, as shown.
The sum of the perimeters of the three small triangles is equal to the perimeter of the
remaining grey hexagon. What is the side length of the small triangles?
(A) 1 cm (B) 1.2 cm (C) 1.25 cm (D) 1.5 cm (E) 2 cm
17. A piece of cheese is cut into a large number of pieces. During the course of the day, a
number of mice came and stole some pieces, watched by the lazy cat Ginger. Ginger noticed
that each mouse stole a different number of pieces less than 10, and that no mouse stole exactly
twice as many pieces as any other mouse. What is the largest number of mice that Ginger
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could have seen stealing cheese?

(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 7 (E) 8
18. At the airport there is a moving walkway 500 metres long, which moves with a speed of
4 km/hour. Ann and Bill step on the walkway at the same time. Ann walks with a speed of 6
km/hour on the walkway while Bill stands still. When Ann comes to the end of the walkway,
how far is she ahead of Bill?
(A) 100 m (B) 160 m (C) 200 m (D) 250 m (E) 300 m
19. A magical talking square originally has sides of length 8 cm. If he tells the truth, then his
sides become 2 cm shorter. If he lies, then his perimeter doubles. He makes four statements,
two true and two false, in some order. What is the largest possible perimeter of the square
after the four statements?
(A) 28 (B) 80 (C) 88 (D) 112 (E) 120
20. A cube is rolled on a plane so that it turns around its edges. Its bottom face passes
through the positions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 in that order, as shown. Which two of these
6 7
4 5
positions were occupied by the same face of the cube? 1 2 3
SECTION THREE - (5 points problems)

21. Rick has five cubes. When he arranges them from smallest to largest, the difference
between the heights of any two neighbouring cubes is 2 cm. The largest cube is as high as a
tower built from the two smallest cubes. How high is a tower built from all five cubes?
(A) 6 cm (B) 14 cm (C) 22 cm (D) 44 cm (E) 50 cm
22. In the diagram ABCD is a square, M is the midpoint of AD and M N is perpendicular

D C
to AC. A B What is the ratio of the area of the shaded triangle M N C
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to the area of the square?

(A) 1:6 (B) 1:5 (C) 7:36 (D) 3:16 (E) 7:40
23. The tango is danced in pairs, each consisting of one man and one woman. At a dance
evening no more than 50 people are present. At one moment 3/4 of the men are dancing with
4/5 of the women. How many people are dancing at that moment?
(A) 20 (B) 24 (C) 30 (D) 32 (E) 46
24. David wants to arrange the twelve numbers from 1 to 12 in a circle so that any two
neighbouring numbers differ by either 2 or 3. Which of the following pairs of numbers have to
be neighbours?
25. Some three-digit integers have the following property: if you remove the first digit of the
number, you get a perfect square; if instead you remove the last digit of the number, you also
get a perfect square. What is the sum of all the three-digit integers with this curious property?
(A) 1013 (B) 1177 (C) 1465 (D) 1993 (E) 2016
26. A book contains 30 stories, each starting on a new page. The lengths of the stories are 1,
2, 3, ..., 30 pages. The first story starts on the first page. What is the largest number of stories
that can start on an odd-numbered page?
(A) 15 (B) 18 (C) 20 (D) 21 (E) 23
27. An equilateral triangle starts in a given position and is moved to new positions in a
sequence of steps. At each step it is rotated about its centre, first by 3◦ , then by a further 9◦ ,
then by a further 27◦ , and so on (at the n-th step it is rotated by a further (3n )◦ ). How many
different positions, including the initial position, will the triangle occupy? Two positions are
considered equal if the triangle covers the same part of the plane.
(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6 (E) 360
28. A rope is folded in half, then in half again, and then in half again. Finally the folded
rope is cut through, forming several strands. The lengths of two of the strands are 4 m and 9
m. Which of the following could not have been the length of the whole rope?
(A) 52 m (B) 68 m (C) 72 m (D) 88 m
(E) all the previous are possible
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29. A triangle is divided into four triangles and three quadrilaterals by three straight line
segments. The sum of the perimeters of the three quadrilaterals is equal to 25 cm. The sum of
the perimeters of the four triangles is equal to 20 cm. The perimeter of the whole triangle is
equal to 19 cm. What is the sum of the lengths of the three straight line segments?
(A) 11 (B) 12 (C) 13 (D) 15 (E) 16
30. A positive number is to be placed in each cell of the 3 × 3 grid shown, so that: in each
row and each column, the product of the three numbers is equal to 1; and in each 2 × 2 square,
the product of the four numbers is equal to 2. What number should be placed in
the central cell?
1 1
(A) 16 (B) 8 (C) 4 (D) 4
(E) 8
7 of 7
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Answer of Questions
Q. No. Pre-Ecolier Level Q. No. Ecolier Level Q. No. Benjamin Level Q. No. Cadet Level Q. No. Junior Level Q. No. Student Level
1 C 1 B 1 C 1 B 1 D 1 E
2 B 2 D 2 C 2 D 2 D 2 B
3 D 3 B 3 A 3 A 3 D 3 C
4 D 4 C 4 C 4 E 4 E 4 A
5 B 5 A 5 E 5 C 5 C 5 C
6 C 6 E 6 C 6 E 6 A 6 A
7 E 7 C 7 D 7 C 7 B 7 D
8 C 8 D 8 A 8 D 8 D 8 D
9 A 9 E 9 B 9 D 9 D 9 E
10 B 10 B 10 B 10 D 10 D 10 C
11 D 11 E 11 D 11 C 11 C 11 A
12 D 12 C 12 B 12 C 12 B 12 D
13 D 13 D 13 D 13 B 13 C 13 A
14 D 14 B 14 C 14 C 14 D 14 C
15 B 15 D 15 D 15 C 15 B 15 C
16 B 16 C 16 D 16 D 16 E 16 D
17 A 17 D 17 C 17 C 17 B 17 E
18 E 18 C 18 D 18 E 18 D 18 B
19 A 19 D 19 A 19 D 19 B 19 C
20 C 20 B 20 C 20 B 20 D 20 E
21 D 21 E 21 B 21 E 21 A 21 E
22 E 22 D 22 D 22 D 22 D 22 C
23 D 23 E 23 D 23 B 23 A 23 D
24 C 24 C 24 B 24 D 24 C 24 B
25 D 25 D 25 C 25 D
26 B 26 E 26 C 26 D
27 D 27 B 27 C 27 A
28 D 28 C 28 C 28 B
29 C 29 C 29 B 29 E
30 B 30 A 30 D 30 B
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Answer of IKMC 2012 Page 1
KSF 2013 – finalized problems Cadet
3 points
# 1. In the picture, the big triangle is equilateral and has area 9. The lines are parallel to the sides
and divide the sides into three equal parts. What is the area of the shaded part?
(A) 1 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6 (E) 7
1111 3333 6666

# 2. It is true that 101 = 11. What is the value of 101 + 303 ?
(A) 5 (B) 9 (C) 11 (D) 55

(E) 99
# 3. The masses of salt and fresh water in sea water in Protaras are in the ratio 7 : 193. How many
kilograms of salt are there in 1000 kg of sea water?
(A) 35 (B) 186 (C) 193 (D) 200 (E) 350
# 4. Ann has the square sheet of paper shown on the left. By cutting along the lines of the square,
she cuts out copies of the shape shown on the right. What is the smallest possible number of cells
remaining?
(A) 0 (B) 2 (C) 4 (D) 6 (E) 8
# 5. Roo wants to tell Kanga a number with the product of its digits equal to 24. What is the sum
of the digits of the smallest number that Roo could tell Kanga?
(A) 6 (B) 8 (C) 9 (D) 10 (E) 11
# 6. A bag contains balls of five different colours. Two are red, three are blue, ten are white, four
are green and three are black. Balls are taken from the bag without looking, and not returned. What
is the smallest number of balls that should be taken from the bag to be sure that two balls of the
same colour have been taken?
(A) 2 (B) 12 (C) 10 (D) 5 (E) 6
# 7. Alex lights a candle every ten minutes. Each candle burns for 40 minutes and then goes out.
How many candles are alight 55 minutes after Alex lit the first candle?
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 6
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# 8. The average number of children in five families cannot be

(A) 0.2 (B) 1.2 (C) 2.2 (D) 2.4 (E) 2.5
# 9. Mark and Liza stand on opposite sides of a circular fountain. They then start to run clockwise
round the fountain. Mark’s speed is 9/8 of Liza’s speed. How many circuits has Liza completed when
Mark catches up with her for the first time?
(A) 4 (B) 8 (C) 9 (D) 2
(E) 72
# 10. The positive integers x, y and z satisfy x × y = 14, y × z = 10 and z × x = 35. What is the
value of x + y + z?
(A) 10 (B) 12 (C) 14 (D) 16 (E) 18
4 points
# 11. Carina and a friend are playing a game of ”battleships” on a 5 × 5 board. Carina has already
placed two ships as shown. She still has to place a 3 × 1 ship so that it covers exactly three cells. No
two ships can have a point in common. How many positions are there for her 3 × 1 ship?
(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 7 (E) 8
# 12. In the diagram, α = 55◦ , β = 40◦ and γ = 35◦ . What is the value of δ?
δ
α β
(A) 100◦ (B) 105◦ (C) 120◦ (D) 125◦ (E) 130◦
# 13. The perimeter of a trapezium is 5 and the lengths of its sides are integers. What are the
smallest two angles of the trapezium?
(A) 30◦ and 30◦ (B) 60◦ and 60◦ (C) 45◦ and 45◦
(D) 30◦ and 60◦ (E) 45◦ and 90◦
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# 14. One of the following nets cannot be folded to form a cube. Which one?
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
# 15. Vasya wrote down several consecutive integers. Which of the following could not be the
percentage of odd numbers among them?
(A) 40 (B) 45 (C) 48 (D) 50 (E) 60
# 16. The edges of rectangle ABCD are parallel to the coordinate-axes. ABCD lies below the x-axis
and to the right of the y-axis, as shown in the figure. The coordinates of the four points A, B, C
and D are all integers. For each of these points we calculate the value y-coordinate ÷ x-coordinate.
Which of the four points gives the least value?
y
x
D C
A B
(A) A (B) B (C) C (D) D
(E) It depends on the rectangle.
# 17. All 4-digit positive integers with the same four digits as in the number 2013 are written on the
blackboard in an increasing order. What is the largest possible difference between two neighbouring
numbers on the blackboard?
(A) 702 (B) 703 (C) 693 (D) 793 (E) 198
# 18. In the 6 × 8 grid shown, 24 of the cells are not intersected by either diagonal.
When the diagonals of a 6 × 10 grid are drawn, how many of the cells are not intersected by either
diagonal?
(A) 28 (B) 29 (C) 30 (D) 31 (E) 32
# 19. Andy, Betty, Cathie, Dannie and Eddy were born on 20/02/2001, 12/03/2000, 20/03/2001,
12/04/2000 and 23/04/2001 (day/month/year). Andy and Eddy were born in the same month. Also,
Betty and Cathie were born in the same month. Andy and Cathie were born on the same day of
different months. Also, Dannie and Eddy were born on the same day of different months. Which of
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these children is the youngest?

(A) Andy (B) Betty (C) Cathie (D) Dannie (E) Eddy
Back
4 2 3 2
3 3 1 2
2 1 3 1
1 2 1 2
# 20. Front John has made a building of cubes standing on a 4 × 4 grid. The diagram
shows the number of cubes standing on each cell. When John looks from the back, what does he see?
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
5 points
# 21. The diagram shows a shaded quadrilateral KLM N drawn on a grid. Each cell of the grid has
sides of length 2 cm. What is the area of KLM N ?
N
M
K
L
# 22. Let S be the number of squares among the integers from 1 to 20136 . Let Q be the number of
cubes among the same integers. Then
(A) S = Q (B) 2S = 3Q (C) 3S = 2Q (D) S = 2013Q (E) S 3 = Q2
# 23. John chooses a 5-digit positive integer and deletes one of its digits to make a 4-digit number.
The sum of this 4-digit number and the original 5-digit number is 52713. What is the sum of the
digits of the original 5-digit number?
(A) 26 (B) 20 (C) 23 (D) 19 (E) 17
# 24. A gardener wants to plant twenty trees (maples and lindens) along an avenue in the park. The
number of trees between any two maples must not be equal to three. Of these twenty trees, what is
the greatest number of maples that the gardener can plant?
(A) 8 (B) 10 (C) 12 (D) 14
(E) 16
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# 25. Andrew and Daniel recently took part in a marathon. After they had finished, they noticed
that Andrew finished ahead of twice as many runners as finished ahead of Daniel, and that Daniel
finished ahead of 1.5 times as many runners as finished ahead of Andrew. Andrew finished in 21st
place. How many runners took part in the marathon?
(A) 31 (B) 41 (C) 51 (D) 61 (E) 81
# 26. Four cars enter a roundabout at the same time, each one from a different direction, as shown
in the diagram. Each of the cars drives less than once round the roundabout, and no two cars leave
the roundabout in the same direction. How many different ways are there for the cars to leave the
roundabout?
(A) 9 (B) 12 (C) 15 (D) 24 (E) 81
# 27. A sequence starts 1, −1, −1, 1, −1. After the fifth term, every term is equal to the product
of the two preceding terms. For example, the sixth term is equal to the product of the fourth term
and the fifth term. What is the sum of the first 2013 terms?
(A) −1006 (B) −671 (C) 0 (D) 671 (E) 1007
# 28. Ria bakes six raspberry pies one after the other, numbering them 1 to 6 in order, with the
first being number 1. Whilst she is doing this, her children sometimes run into the kitchen and eat
the hottest pie. Which of the following could not be the order in which the pies are eaten?
(A) 123456 (B) 125436 (C) 325461 (D) 456231 (E) 654321
# 29. Each of the four vertices and six edges of a tetrahedron is marked with one of the ten numbers
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 11 (number 10 is omitted). Each number is used exactly once. For any
two vertices of the tetrahedron, the sum of two numbers at these vertices is equal to the number on
the edge connecting these two vertices. The edge P Q is marked with the number 9. Which number is
S
P
R
9
used to mark edge RS? Q
(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 8 (E) 11
# 30. A positive integer N is smaller than the sum of its three greatest divisors (naturally, excluding
N itself). Which of the following statements is true?
(A) All such N are divisible by 4.(B) All such N are divisible by 5.(C) All such N are divisible by 6.
(D) All such N are divisible by 7.(E) There is no such N .
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Answer of Questions
1 D 1 D 1 E 1 D 1 D 1 C
2 B 2 D 2 C 2 D 2 C 2 C
3 A 3 E 3 C 3 A 3 C 3 E
4 D 4 B 4 B 4 C 4 C 4 D
5 B 5 C 5 E 5 E 5 C 5 C
6 E 6 D 6 B 6 E 6 E 6 D
7 C 7 B 7 B 7 C 7 E 7 E
8 D 8 E 8 E 8 E 8 C 8 B
9 E 9 B 9 C 9 A 9 D 9 E
10 C 10 D 10 C 10 C 10 C 10 D
11 A 11 D 11 C 11 E 11 D 11 C
12 B 12 A 12 C 12 E 12 B 12 A
13 D 13 D 13 D 13 B 13 D 13 E
14 E 14 E 14 B 14 C 14 D 14 D
15 C 15 B 15 E 15 B 15 D 15 A
16 A 16 B 16 B 16 A 16 D 16 D
17 E 17 D 17 D 17 A 17 A 17 A
18 C 18 D 18 A 18 E 18 C 18 E
19 C 19 B 19 C 19 B 19 D 19 E
20 B 20 C 20 D 20 C 20 E 20 C
21 A 21 E 21 A 21 B 21 C 21 A
22 D 22 B 22 D 22 D 22 D 22 D
23 D 23 B 23 B 23 C 23 C 23 A
24 D 24 B 24 A 24 C 24 E 24 E
25 D 25 B 25 B 25 D
26 D 26 A 26 D 26 C
27 B 27 B 27 C 27 B
28 B 28 D 28 C 28 D
29 D 29 B 29 C 29 E
30 B 30 C 30 B 30 B
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Answer of IKMC 2013.xls Page 1
3 points
# 1. Each year, the date of the Kangaroo competition is the third Thursday of March. What is the
latest possible date of the competition in any year?
(A) 14th March (B) 15th March (C) 20th March (D) 21st March (E) 22nd March
# 2. How many quadrilaterals of any size are shown in the figure?
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 4 (E) 5
# 3. What is the result of: 2014 · 2014 : 2014 − 2014?

(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2013 (D) 2014 (E) 4028
# 4. The area of rectangle ABCD is 10. Points M and N are midpoints of the sides AD and BC.
What is the area of quadrilateral M BN D?
D C
M N
A B
(A) 0,5 (B) 5 (C) 2,5 (D) 7.5 (E) 10
# 5. The product of two numbers is 36 and their sum is 37. What is their difference?
(A) 1 (B) 4 (C) 10 (D) 26 (E) 35
# 6. Wanda has several square pieces of paper of area 4. She cuts them into squares and right-angled
triangles in the manner shown in the first diagram. She takes some of the pieces and makes the bird
shown in the second diagram. What is the area of the bird?
(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 9/2 (D) 5 (E) 6
# 7. A bucket was half full. A cleaner added 2 litres to the bucket. The bucket was then three-
quarters full. What is the capacity of the bucket?
(A) 10 l (B) 8 l (C) 6 l (D) 4 l (E) 2 l
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# 8. Georg built the shape shown using seven unit cubes. How many such cubes does he have to
add to make a cube with edges of length 3?

(A) 12 (B) 14 (C) 16 (D) 18 (E) 20
# 9. Which of the following calculations gives the largest result?

(A) 44 × 777 (B) 55 × 666 (C) 77 × 444
(D) 88 × 333 (E) 99 × 222
# 10. The necklace in the picture contains grey beads and white beads.
Arno takes one bead after another from the necklace. He always takes a bead from one of the ends.
He stops as soon as he has taken the fifth grey bead. What is the largest number of white beads that
Arno can take?
(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 7 (E) 8
4 points
# 11. Jack has a piano lesson twice a week and Hannah has a piano lesson every other week. In a
given term, Jack has 15 more lessons than Hannah. How many weeks long is their term?
(A) 30 (B) 25 (C) 20 (D) 15 (E) 10
# 12. In the diagram, the area of each circle is 1cm2 . The area common to two overlapping circles
is 18 cm2 . What is the area of the region covered by the five circles?
(A) 4cm2 (B) 92 cm2 (C) 35

8 cm
2 (D) 39
8 cm
2 (E) 19
4 cm
2
# 13. This year a grandmother, her daughter and her granddaughter noticed that the sum of their
ages is 100 years. Each of their ages is a power of 2. How old is the granddaughter?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 4 (D) 8 (E) 16
# 14. Five equal rectangles are placed inside a square with side 24 cm, as shown in the diagram.
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What is the area of one rectangle?

# 15. The heart and the arrow are in the positions shown in the figure. At the same time the
heart and the arrow start moving. The arrow moves three places clockwise and the heart moves four
places anticlockwise and then stop. They continue the same routine over and over again. After how
many routines will the heart and the arrow land in the same triangular region for the first time?
(A) 7 (B) 8 (C) 9 (D) 10 (E) It will never happen
# 16. The diagram shows the triangle ABC in which BH is a perpendicular height and AD is the
angle bisector at A. The obtuse angle between BH and AD is four times the angle DAB (see the
diagram). What is the angle CAB?
(A) 30◦ (B) 45◦ (C) 60◦ (D) 75◦ (E) 90◦
# 17. Six boys share a flat with two bathrooms which they use every morning beginning at 7:00
o’clock. There is never more than one person in either bathroom at any one time They spend 8, 10,
12, 17, 21 and 22 minutes at a stretch in the bathroom respectively. What is the earliest time that
they can finish using the bathrooms?
(A) 7:45 (B) 7:46 (C) 7:47 (D) 7:48 (E) 7:50
# 18. A rectangle has sides of length 6 cm and 11 cm. One long side is selected. The bisectors of
the angles at either end of that side are drawn. These bisectors divide the other long side into three
parts. What are the lengths of these parts?
(A) 1 cm, 9 cm, 1 cm (B) 2 cm, 7 cm, 2 cm (C) 3 cm, 5 cm, 3 cm
(D) 4 cm, 3 cm, 4 cm (E) 5 cm, 1 cm, 5 cm
# 19. Captain Sparrow and his pirate crew dug up several gold coins. They divide the coins amongst
themselves so that each person gets the same number of coins. If there were four fewer pirates, then
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each person would get 10 more coins. However, if there were 50 fewer coins, then each person would
get 5 fewer coins. How many coins dig they dig up?
(A) 80 (B) 100 (C) 120 (D) 150 (E) 250
# 20. The average of two positive numbers is 30% less than one of them. By what percentage is the
average greater than the other number?
(A) 75% (B) 70% (C) 30% (D) 25% (E) 20%
5 points
# 21. Andy enters all the digits from 1 to 9 in the cells of a 3x3 table, so that each cell contains one
digit. He has already entered 1, 2, 3 and 4, as shown. Two numbers are considered to be ’neighbours’
if their cells share an edge. After entering all the numbers he notices that the sum of the neighbours
of 9 is 15. What is the sum of the neighbours of 8?

(A) 12 (B) 18 (C) 20 (D) 26 (E) 27
# 22. An antique scale is not working properly. If something is lighter than 1000 g, the scale shows
the correct weight. However, if something is heavier than or equal to 1000 g, the scale can show any
number above 1000 g. We have 5 weights A g, B g, C g, D g, E g each under 1000 g. When they
are weighed in pairs, the scale shows the following: B + D = 1200, C + E = 2100, B + E = 800,
B + C = 900, A + E = 700. Which of the weights is the heaviest?
(A) A (B) B (C) C (D) D (E) E
# 23. Quadrilateral ABCD has right angles only at vertices A and D. The numbers show the areas
of two of the triangles. What is the area of ABCD?
D C
10
5
A B
(A) 60 (B) 45 (C) 40 (D) 35 (E) 30
# 24. Liz and Mary compete in solving problems. Each of them is given the same list of 100 problems.
For any problem, the first of them to solve it gets 4 points, while the second to solve it gets 1 point.
Liz solved 60 problems, and Mary also solved 60 problems. Together, they got 312 points. How many
problems were solved by both of them?
(A) 53 (B) 54 (C) 55 (D) 56 (E) 57
# 25. David rides his bicycle from Edinburgh to his croft. He was going to arrive at 15:00, but
he spent 2/3 of the planned time covering 3/4 of the distance. After that, he rode more slowly and
arrived exactly on time. What is the ratio of the speed for the first part of the journey to the speed
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for the second part?

(A) 5 : 4 (B) 4 : 3 (C) 3 : 2 (D) 2 : 1 (E) 3 : 1
# 26. We have four identical cubes (see picture). They are arranged so that a big black circle appears
on one face, as shown in the second picture. What can be seen on the opposite face?
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
# 27. A group of 25 people consists of knights, serfs and damsels. Each knight always tells the truth,
each serf always lies, and each damsel alternates between telling the truth and lying. When each of
them was asked: ”Are you a knight?”, 17 of them said ”Yes”. When each of them was then asked:
”Are you a damsel?”, 12 of them said ”Yes”. When each of them was then asked: ”Are you a serf?”,
8 of them said ”Yes”. How many knights are in the group?
(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 9 (D) 13 (E) 17
# 28. Several different positive integers are written on the board. Exactly two of them are divisible
by 2 and exactly 13 of them are divisible by 13. Let M be the greatest of these numbers. What is the
smallest possible value of M ?
(A) 169 (B) 260 (C) 273 (D) 299 (E) 325
# 29. On a pond there are 16 water lily leaves in a 4 by 4 pattern as shown. A frog sits on a leaf
in one of the corners. It then jumps from one leaf to another either horizontally or vertically. The
frog always jumps over at least one leaf and never lands on the same leaf twice. What is the greatest
number of leaves (including the one it sits on) that the frog can reach?
(A) 16 (B) 15 (C) 14 (D) 13 (E) 12
# 30. A 5 × 5 square is made from 1 × 1 tiles, all with the same pattern, as shown. Any two adjacent
tiles have the same colour along the shared edge. The perimeter of the large square consists of grey
and white segments of length 1. What is the smallest possible number of such unit grey segments?
(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 7 (E) 8
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Answer of Questions
1 B 1 D 1 C 1 D 1 B 1 C
2 A 2 D 2 D 2 D 2 A 2 C
3 D 3 A 3 D 3 A 3 E 3 B
4 B 4 D 4 A 4 B 4 A 4 C
5 C 5 A 5 A 5 E 5 C 5 E
6 D 6 E 6 D 6 E 6 A 6 E
7 D 7 E 7 B 7 B 7 B 7 E
8 B 8 C 8 B 8 E 8 B 8 D
9 A 9 E 9 B 9 B 9 E 9 D
10 C 10 E 10 C 10 D 10 C 10 C
11 D 11 B 11 E 11 E 11 C 11 A
12 E 12 D 12 B 12 B 12 C 12 B
13 C 13 B 13 D 13 C 13 B 13 B
14 D 14 B 14 B 14 E 14 D 14 C
15 B 15 C 15 B 15 E 15 A 15 D
16 D 16 B 16 D 16 C 16 E 16 D
17 B 17 B 17 A 17 B 17 E 17 A
18 D 18 C 18 D 18 E 18 C 18 B
19 E 19 B 19 E 19 D 19 D 19 A
20 D 20 C 20 A 20 A 20 C 20 C
21 E 21 A 21 D 21 E 21 D 21 E
22 D 22 D 22 A 22 D 22 D 22 D
23 A 23 D 23 E 23 B 23 D 23 E
24 A 24 D 24 C 24 D 24 B 24 A
25 E 25 C 25 C 25 D
26 D 26 A 26 C 26 A
27 B 27 B 27 B 27 C
28 C 28 C 28 E 28 B
29 C 29 A 29 B 29 D
30 E 30 B 30 C 30 D
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KSF 2015 - selected problems Cadet
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?
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?
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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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
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Answer of Questions
1 D 1 E 1 B 1 E 1 B 1 E
2 C 2 A 2 C 2 B 2 E 2 A
3 B 3 E 3 A 3 E 3 B 3 A
4 C 4 E 4 A 4 A 4 E 4 A
5 B 5 B 5 B 5 D 5 B 5 D
6 E 6 E 6 E 6 A 6 C 6 D
7 B 7 B 7 D 7 C 7 E 7 B
8 E 8 A 8 E 8 D 8 A 8 E
9 C 9 D 9 A 9 C 9 D 9 C
10 B 10 B 10 A 10 D 10 C 10 B
11 C 11 C 11 D 11 B 11 B 11 C
12 C 12 C 12 E 12 C 12 C 12 D
13 A 13 B 13 C 13 B 13 C 13 E
14 E 14 D 14 C 14 D 14 A 14 C
15 D 15 C 15 D 15 E 15 B 15 B
16 E 16 A 16 C 16 C 16 D 16 A
17 D 17 C 17 B 17 C 17 D 17 C
18 D 18 D 18 C 18 B 18 B 18 C
19 D 19 D 19 E 19 A 19 D 19 C
20 C 20 E 20 B 20 B 20 E 20 A
21 C 21 C 21 E 21 C 21 A 21 D
22 A 22 D 22 C 22 C 22 B 22 A
23 A 23 D 23 D 23 D 23 C 23 D
24 D 24 C 24 C 24 A 24 D 24 C
25 B 25 D 25 C 25 E
26 C 26 D 26 A 26 D
27 B 27 E 27 B 27 C
28 D 28 C 28 D 28 B
29 E 29 C 29 B 29 D
30 D 30 D 30 B 30 D
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cubes. Exactly one of the cubes is grey. On
the first day, the grey cube changes all its
neighbouring cubes to grey (two cubes
are neighbours if they have a common
face). On the second day, all the grey cubes
do the same thing. How many grey cubes are
there at the end of the second day?
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Q. No. PreEcolier Level Q. No. Ecolier Level Q. No. Benjamin Level Q. No. Cadet Level Q. No. Junior Level Q. No. Student Level
1 D 1 E 1 C 1 C 1 D 1 D
2 B 2 E 2 E 2 A 2 B 2 C
3 D 3 A 3 A 3 C 3 D 3 B
4 E 4 A 4 C 4 D 4 A 4 A
5 C 5 D 5 E 5 B 5 B 5 A
6 B 6 B 6 B 6 A 6 D 6 B
7 C 7 A 7 D 7 C 7 C 7 C
8 A 8 C 8 C 8 D 8 D 8 E
9 D 9 B 9 C 9 B 9 B 9 E
10 C 10 B 10 B 10 C 10 E 10 E
11 E 11 C 11 A 11 E 11 D 11 D
12 C 12 B 12 C 12 E 12 A 12 D
13 B 13 D 13 C 13 C 13 E 13 C
14 B 14 A 14 D 14 B 14 C 14 E
15 A 15 C 15 B 15 E 15 B 15 B
16 E 16 D 16 E 16 D 16 E 16 B
17 E 17 D 17 A 17 D 17 D 17 B
18 A 18 B 18 D 18 B 18 C 18 B
19 D 19 D 19 A 19 D 19 B 19 A
20 D 20 C 20 C 20 B 20 A 20 C
21 B 21 A 21 D 21 D 21 C 21 C
22 D 22 C 22 B 22 D 22 C 22 E
23 E 23 E 23 D 23 E 23 B 23 D
24 C 24 B 24 B 24 D 24 E 24 E
25 B 25 E 25 E 25 A
26 D 26 C 26 A 26 C
27 D 27 A 27 C 27 B
28 E 28 E 28 A 28 A
29 C 29 C 29 B 29 E
30 E 30 A 30 A 30 C
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Answer of Problems
1 D 1 E 1 B 1 B 1 B 1 C
2 C 2 A 2 C 2 C 2 E 2 A
3 B 3 E 3 E 3 C 3 B 3 C
4 A 4 C 4 D 4 A 4 C 4 A
5 A 5 A 5 B 5 B 5 E 5 C
6 A 6 E 6 A 6 E 6 C 6 B
7 E 7 C 7 E 7 D 7 E 7 A
8 C 8 A 8 C 8 D 8 C 8 C
9 D 9 E 9 B 9 B 9 A 9 B
10 A 10 E 10 D 10 A 10 C 10 B
11 C 11 B 11 D 11 E 11 C 11 A
12 E 12 C 12 C 12 A 12 E 12 B
13 E 13 D 13 C 13 D 13 D 13 E
14 C 14 D 14 C 14 A 14 C 14 D
15 B 15 A 15 D 15 E 15 B 15 B
16 B 16 D 16 E 16 A 16 B 16 D
17 B 17 C 17 E 17 B 17 A 17 E
18 C 18 B 18 D 18 B 18 C 18 C
19 C 19 A 19 B 19 B 19 D 19 D
20 E 20 C 20 C 20 D 20 A 20 D
21 E 21 C 21 A 21 C 21 D 21 C
22 D 22 B 22 D 22 C 22 E 22 E
23 D 23 E 23 D 23 B 23 C 23 E
24 B 24 B 24 B 24 A 24 E 24 D
25 C 25 D 25 B 25 E
26 C 26 A 26 E 26 D
27 D 27 D 27 A 27 D
28 D 28 E 28 B 28 A
29 E 29 D 29 D 29 E
30 C 30 D 30 A 30 A
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Answer of Problems
1 E 1 B 1 A 1 D 1 C 1 A
2 D 2 E 2 C 2 E 2 E 2 D
3 D 3 C 3 B 3 C 3 C 3 A
4 D 4 E 4 B 4 B 4 C 4 A
5 B 5 D 5 D 5 C 5 E 5 C
6 B 6 D 6 E 6 B 6 A 6 E
7 B 7 D 7 D 7 E 7 B 7 A
8 C 8 A 8 C 8 C 8 B 8 B
9 B 9 D 9 C 9 D 9 A 9 B
10 D 10 A 10 A 10 D 10 B 10 D
11 D 11 B 11 E 11 B 11 D 11 B
12 A 12 E 12 B 12 C 12 D 12 D
13 C 13 E 13 E 13 D 13 B 13 A
14 C 14 C 14 A 14 C 14 E 14 D
15 C 15 C 15 A 15 A 15 B 15 D
16 B 16 D 16 C 16 D 16 A 16 D
17 A 17 D 17 C 17 D 17 D 17 B
18 D 18 C 18 E 18 B 18 E 18 C
19 A 19 B 19 A 19 A 19 D 19 B
20 C 20 A 20 A 20 B 20 A 20 E
21 D 21 B 21 C 21 E 21 B 21 A
22 B 22 D 22 C 22 C 22 C 22 D
23 E 23 E 23 D 23 B 23 E 23 B
24 E 24 B 24 C 24 B 24 C 24 D
25 B 25 D 25 D 25 C
26 D 26 A 26 D 26 B
27 B 27 B 27 A 27 B
28 C 28 E 28 D 28 A
29 C 29 C 29 C 29 C
30 E 30 C 30 D 30 B
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KSF 2019 - Problems Cadet (Class 7 & 8)
Time Allowed: 150 minutes
SECTION ONE - (3 point problems)
1. Which cloud contains four even numbers?
(A) (B) (C)
(D) (E)
2. How many hours are there in ten quarters of an hour?
(A) 40 (B) 5 and a half (C) 4

(D) 3 (E) 2 and a half
3. A 3 × 3 × 3 cube is built from 1 × 1 × 1 cubes. Then some cubes are

removed from front to back, from left to right and from top to bottom, as
shown. How many 1 × 1 × 1 cubes are left?
(A) 15 (B) 18 (C) 20

(D) 21 (E) 22
4. Three rings are linked as shown in the diagram. Which of the following diagrams also
shows the three rings linked in the same way?
(A) (B) (C)
(D) (E)
5. Which of the diagrams below cannot be drawn without lifting your pencil off the page
and without drawing along the same line twice?
(A) (B) (C)
(D) (E)
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6. Five friends met. Each of them gave a cupcake to each of the
others. They then ate all the cupcakes they had been given. As a
result, the total number of cupcakes they had decreased by a
half. How many cupcakes did the five friends have at the start?
(A) 20 (B) 24
(C) 30 (D) 40 (E) 60
7. In a race, Lotar finished before Manfred, Victor finished after Jan, Manfred finished
before Jan and Eddy finished before Victor. Who finished
ished last of these five runners?
(A) Victor (B) Manfred (C) Lotar

(D) Jan (E) Eddy
8. The pages of the book Juliet is reading are all numbered. The numbers used on the
pages contain the digit 0 exactly five times and the digit 8 exactly six times.
ti What is the
number of the final page?
(A) 48 (B) 58 (C) 60

(D) 68 (E) 88
9. A large square is divided into smaller squares. What fraction of the large square is
colored grey?

(A) (B) (C)

(D) (E)

10. Andrew divided some apples into six equal piles. Boris divided the same number of
apples into five equal piles. Boris noticed that each of his piles contains two more apples
than each of Andrew's piles. How many apples does Andrew have?
(A) 60 (B) 65 (C) 70

(D) 75 (E) 80
SECTION TWO - (4 point problems)
11. Four-digit integers are written on each of three pieces

of paper. The pieces of paper are arranged so that three
of the digits are covered, as shown. The sum of the three
four-digit integers is 10126. Which are the covered
digits?
(A) 5, 6 and 7 (B) 4, 5 and 7 (C) 4, 6 and 7

(D) 4, 5 and 6 (E) 3, 5 and 6
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12. In the diagram, = = and angle
= 20°. What is the size of angle ?
(A) 50° (B) 60° (C) 65°

(D) 70° (E) 75°
13. Which of the following 4 × 4 tiles cannot be formed by combining the two given
pieces?
(A) (B) (C)
(D) (E)
14. Alan, Bella, Claire, Dora, and Erik met at a party and shook hands exactly once with
everyone they already knew. Alan shook hands once, Bella shook hands twice, Claire
shook hands three times and Dora shook hands four times. How many times did Erik
shake hands?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3

(D) 4 (E) 0
15. Jane is playing basketball. After a series of 20 shots, Jane had scored 55% of the time.
Five shots later, her scoring rate had increased to 56%. On how many of the last five shots
did she score?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3

(D) 4 (E) 5
16. Cathie folded a square sheet of paper exactly in half twice and then cut it in the middle
twice, as shown in the diagram. How many of the pieces that she obtains are squares?
(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5

(D) 6 (E) 8
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17. Michael keeps dogs, cows, cats and kangaroos as pets. He tells Helen that he has 24

pets in total and that of them are dogs, are NOT cows and are NOT cats. How many

kangaroos does Michael keep?
(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 6

(D) 7 (E) 8
18. Some identical rectangles are drawn on the floor. A triangle of base 10cm
10 and height
6cm is drawn over them, as shown, and the region inside the rectangles and outside the
triangles is shaded. What is the area of the shaded region?
(A) 10 cm2 (B) 12 cm2 (C) 14 cm2

(D) 15 cm2 (E) 21 cm2
19. Julio has two cylindrical candles with different heights and diameters. The first candle
lasts 6 hours, while the second candle lasts 8 hours. He lit both candles at the same time
and three hours later both candles were the same height. What was the ratio of their
original heights?
(A) 4: 3 (B) 8: 5 (C) 5: 4

(D) 3: 5 (E) 7: 3
20. Aylin wants to create a path of matches using as few matches as

possible. She places each match on the piece of paper like the one
shown, along one of the dotted lines. Her path returns to the left-hand
hand
end of her original match. The numbers shown in some of the cells are
equal to the number of matches around that cell.How many matches
are in this path?
(A) 12 (B) 14 (C) 16

(D) 18 (E) 20
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SECTION THREE - (5 point problems)
21. The integers from 1 to , inclusive, are equally spaced in order round a circle. The
diameter through the position of the integer 7 also goes through the position of 23, as
shown. What is the value of ?
(A) 30 (B) 32 (C) 34

(D) 36 (E) 38
22. Liam spent all his money buying 50 soda bottles at the store for 1 Euro each. He sells
each bottle at the same higher price. After selling 40 bottles, he has 10 Euros more than he
started with. He then sells all the remaining bottles. How much money does Liam now
have?
(A) 70 Euro (B) 75 Euro (C) 80 Euro

(D) 90 Euro (E) 100 Euro
23. Natasha has many sticks of length 1. The sticks are coloured either blue, red, yellow or
green. She wants to make a 3 × 3 grid, as shown, so that each 1 × 1 square in the grid
has four sides of different colours. What is the smallest number of green sticks that she
could use?
(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5

(D) 6 (E) 7
24. An ant would like to walk along a marked line on the surface of a cube until it returns
to its starting point. From which one of the following nets could a cube be made so that
such a journey is possible?
(A) (B) (C)
(D) (E)
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25. Elisabeta had a large bag of 60 chocolates. She started by eating one 10th of them on
Monday, then one 9th of the remainder on Tuesday, then one 8th of the rest on
Wednesday, then one 7th on Thursday and so on until she eats half of the remaining
chocolates from the previous day. How many chocolates does she have left?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3

(D) 4 (E) 6
26. Prab painted each of the eight circles in the diagram either
red, yellow or blue such that no two circles that are joined
directly are painted the same colour. Which two circles are
necessarily painted the same colour?
(A) 5 and 8 (B) 1 and 6 (C) 2 and 7

(D) 4 and 5 (E) 3 and 6
27. When Ria and Flora compared their savings, they found that the ratio of their savings
was 5:3. Then Ria bought a tablet for 160 Euro and the ratio of their savings changed to
3:5. How many Euro did Ria have before buying the tablet?
(A) 192 (B) 200 (C) 250

(D) 400 (E) 420
28. Some three-player teams enter a chess tournament. Each player in a team plays exactly
once against every player from all the other teams. For organisational reasons, no more
than 250 games can be played in total. At most, how many teams can enter the
tournament?
(A) 11 (B) 10 (C) 9

(D) 8 (E) 7
29. The diagram shows the square with , and the
midpoints of the sides , and respectively. What fraction of
the square is shaded?

(A) (B)

(C) (D) (E)
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30. A train is made up of 18 carriages. There are 700 passengers travelling on the train. In
any block of five adjacent carriages, there are 199 passengers in total. How many
passengers are in the middle two carriages of the train?
(A) 70 (B) 77 (C) 78

(D) 96 (E) 103
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Answer of Problems
Q. No. PreEcolier Q. No. Ecolier Q. No. Benjamin Q. No. Cadet Q. No. Junior Q. No. Student
1 D 1 E 1 B 1 E 1 A 1 A
2 A 2 C 2 C 2 E 2 B 2 E
3 C 3 A 3 C 3 C 3 E 3 E
4 C 4 D 4 E 4 D 4 C 4 D
5 E 5 A 5 E 5 D 5 B 5 C
6 B 6 A 6 D 6 D 6 B 6 E
7 C 7 D 7 D 7 A 7 C 7 B
8 C 8 B 8 C 8 B 8 B 8 C
9 E 9 B 9 B 9 D 9 A 9 D
10 B 10 C 10 A 10 A 10 B 10 D
11 D 11 C 11 C 11 A 11 C 11 D
12 A 12 E 12 C 12 B 12 C 12 B
13 B 13 B 13 C 13 E 13 E 13 E
14 B 14 A 14 B 14 B 14 B 14 E
15 E 15 D 15 A 15 C 15 D 15 D
16 D 16 D 16 C 16 C 16 E 16 C
17 E 17 E 17 B 17 D 17 A 17 A
18 D 18 C 18 C 18 B 18 C 18 B
19 A 19 B 19 A 19 C 19 D 19 A
20 D 20 E 20 B 20 C 20 E 20 E
21 B 21 B 21 C 21 B 21 A 21 B
22 C 22 E 22 E 22 B 22 E 22 B
23 D 23 D 23 D 23 C 23 B 23 C
24 A 24 A 24 C 24 E 24 D 24 E
25 D 25 E 25 C 25 A
26 B 26 A 26 C 26 D
27 D 27 C 27 D 27 E
28 A 28 E 28 B 28 C
29 D 29 E 29 A 29 B
30 C 30 D 30 C 30 C
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1 D 1 E 1 E 1 B 1 B 1 D
2 E 2 E 2 E 2 A 2 D 2 B
3 A 3 A 3 D 3 C 3 E 3 B
4 E 4 A 4 B 4 A 4 A 4 A
5 A 5 E 5 E 5 E 5 B 5 C
6 D 6 D 6 C 6 E 6 C 6 E
7 E 7 E 7 A 7 D 7 B 7 D
8 D 8 C 8 B 8 B 8 E 8 D
9 C 9 C 9 C 9 D 9 C 9 E
10 C 10 C 10 E 10 B 10 A 10 D
11 E 11 D 11 A 11 A 11 D 11 E
12 C 12 E 12 E 12 C 12 B 12 B
13 B 13 D 13 A 13 B 13 B 13 B
14 A 14 A 14 B 14 C 14 B 14 B
15 B 15 D 15 C 15 C 15 A 15 B
16 D 16 B 16 C 16 C 16 C 16 A
17 D 17 B 17 E 17 A 17 E 17 B
18 D 18 C 18 D 18 D 18 D 18 A
19 C 19 A 19 B 19 B 19 A 19 C
20 C 20 D 20 A 20 E 20 D 20 B
21 B 21 D 21 B 21 A 21 B 21 D
22 E 22 D 22 E 22 A 22 C 22 E
23 C 23 B 23 B 23 D 23 E 23 D
24 B 24 D 24 C 24 B 24 D 24 D
25 D 25 C 25 C 25 E
26 D 26 C 26 C 26 C
27 B 27 E 27 C 27 A
28 A 28 D 28 A 28 A
29 E 29 D 29 B 29 C
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Answer of Problems
1 E 1 C 1 D 1 A 1 C 1 E
2 B 2 C 2 A 2 E 2 B 2 A
3 A 3 B 3 E 3 D 3 B 3 D
4 D 4 B 4 D 4 B 4 B 4 E
5 A 5 E 5 B 5 A 5 B 5 A
6 D 6 C 6 C 6 A 6 C 6 B
7 E 7 D 7 B 7 B 7 C 7 E
8 B 8 C 8 E 8 E 8 C 8 C
9 D 9 A 9 E 9 B 9 D 9 C
10 D 10 E 10 D 10 E 10 E 10 D
11 C 11 E 11 B 11 D 11 B 11 D
12 E 12 C 12 B 12 E 12 C 12 D
13 A 13 C 13 D 13 C 13 A 13 D
14 C 14 E 14 B 14 B 14 A 14 A
15 B 15 D 15 C 15 D 15 A 15 B
16 D 16 B 16 A 16 C 16 E 16 A
17 D 17 D 17 E 17 B 17 E 17 B
18 A 18 E 18 C 18 C 18 C 18 B
19 C 19 D 19 D 19 E 19 C 19 E
20 C 20 A 20 B 20 C 20 E 20 C
21 B 21 D 21 A 21 C 21 E 21 E
22 C 22 E 22 B 22 D 22 E 22 B
23 E 23 D 23 A 23 B 23 A 23 E
24 C 24 A 24 C 24 B 24 E 24 D
25 E 25 D 25 B 25 B
26 C 26 B 26 D 26 A
27 D 27 C 27 D 27 A
28 B 28 D 28 D 28 C
29 B 29 A 29 C 29 B
30 E 30 C 30 D 30 B
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Answer of Problems
1 B 1 A 1 E 1 E 1 D 1 E
2 E 2 E 2 E 2 B 2 A 2 B
3 B 3 C 3 B 3 C 3 C 3 B
4 B 4 C 4 D 4 B 4 C 4 D
5 D 5 E 5 B 5 C 5 D 5 D
6 B 6 D 6 C 6 A 6 B 6 B
7 B 7 A 7 C 7 D 7 B 7 A
8 E 8 C 8 C 8 B 8 C 8 D
9 A 9 B 9 A 9 A 9 C 9 E
10 E 10 C 10 D 10 C 10 D 10 A
11 A 11 A 11 C 11 D 11 B 11 D
12 D 12 B 12 B 12 D 12 D 12 D
13 A 13 E 13 E 13 E 13 D 13 E
14 D 14 B 14 D 14 A 14 D 14 B
15 C 15 E 15 A 15 C 15 E 15 A
16 C 16 C 16 B 16 B 16 A 16 D
17 D 17 B 17 D 17 D 17 A 17 C
18 A 18 C 18 B 18 B 18 E 18 B
19 E 19 B 19 A 19 D 19 C 19 B
20 D 20 E 20 E 20 B 20 B 20 D
21 C 21 C 21 D 21 B 21 B 21 C
22 C 22 B 22 C 22 C 22 D 22 A
23 A 23 C 23 D 23 D 23 D 23 E
24 C 24 D 24 C 24 A 24 E 24 C
25 E 25 D 25 C 25 B
26 D 26 B 26 C 26 C
27 B 27 A 27 E 27 C
28 D 28 C 28 D 28 D
29 B 29 E 29 A 29 A
30 D 30 B 30 C 30 B
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33rd INTERNATIONAL KANGAROO MATHEMATICS CONTEST 2023
KSF - Problems Cadet (Class 7 & 8)
SECTION ONE - (3 point problems)
1. The diagram shows a set of horizontal and vertical lines with one part removed. Which
of the following could be the missing part?
f-
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(A) --+---+- (B) I II (C) ---+1111+--1
(D) I II (E) I II
2. Which of the shapes below cannot be divided into two trapezia by a single straight
line?
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(A) triangle
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(B) rectangle
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(C) t rapezium
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(D) regular hexagon
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(E) square
3. A grey circle with two holes in it is placed on top of

a clock-face. as shown. The grey circle is turned
around its centre such that an B appears in one
hole. Which two numbers could be seen in the other
hole?
(A) 4 or 12 (B) 1 or 5 (C) 1 or 4

(D) 7 or 11 (E) 5 or 12
4. Werner wants to write a number at each vertex and on each edge of the rhombus
shown. He wants the sum of the numbers at the two vertices at the ends of each
edge to be equal to the number written on the edge. What number will he write
instead of the question mark?
(A) 11 (B) 12
(C) 13 (D) 14
(E) 15
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5. Kristina has a piece of transparent paper with some lines marked on it. She folds it
along the dashed line. What can she now see?
.I I. :. II. :. .I I
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(A) 12:6 gI (B) 12:6:61
(D) I2 : E3 . 6 I (E) I 5 . E3 : g I
6. A tiler wants to tile a floor of dimensions 4m x 6m using
identical tiles. No overlaps or gaps are allowed. Which of the
following tiles could not be used?
(A) EB (B) E r o
(e) Eb (o) cEB

7. John has 150 coins. When he throws them on the table, 40% of them show heads and
60% of them show tails. How many coins showing tails does he need to turn over to
have the same number show heads as show tails?
(A) 10 (B) 15 (e) 20

(D) 25 (E) 30
8. The diagram shows the initial position, the direction of travel and how far four
bumper cars move in five seconds. Which two cars will collide?
B c
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A "-'--:- " "
(A) A and B (B) A and C (e) A and 0

(D) Band C (E) C and 0
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9. Anna has five circular discs, each of a different size. She decides to build a tower
using three of her discs so that each disc in her tower is smaller than the disc below
it. How many different towers could Anna construct?
(A) 5 (8) 6 (C) 8

(0)10 (E) 15
10. Evita wants to write the numbers 1 to 8 in the boxes of the grid shown, so that the
sums of the numbers in the boxes in each row are equal and the sums of the
numbers in the boxes in each column are equal. She has already written numbers 3, 4
and 8, as shown. What number will she write in the shaded box?
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(A) 1 (8) 2 (C) 5
(D) 6 (E) 7
SECTION TWO - (4 point problems)
11. Theodorika wrote down three consecutive whole numbers in order, but instead of
digits she used symbols so wrote 000, \)~~, \)~o. What would she write next?
(A) \)\)O (8) 0\)0

(D) \)00 (E) \)~\)
12. The diagram shows five equal semicircles and the lengths of some line segments.
What is the radius of the semicircles?
(A) 12 (8) 16
(C) 18 (D) 22
(E) 36
13. Some edges of a cube are to be coloured red so that every face of the cube has at
least one red edge. What is the smallest possible number of edges that could be
coloured red?
(A) 2 (8) 3 (C) 4

(D) 5 (E) 6
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14. Matchsticks can be used to write digits. as shown in the diagram.
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How many different positive integers can be written using exactly six matchsticks in
this way?
(A) 2 (8) 4 (e) 6

(D) 8 (E) 9
15. The edges of a square are 1 em long. How many points on the plane are exactly 1 em
away from two of the vertices of this square?
(A) 4 (8) 6 (e) 8

(0)10 (E) 12
16. Triangle ABC is isosceles with LABC = 40°. The two marked B
angles. LEAB and LDCA. are equaL. What is the size of the
angle LCFE?
(A) 55°
(8) 60°
(e) 65°
(D) 70°
A L . . -_ _ _--'L--">l C
(E) 75°
17. Tom. John and lily each shot six arrows at a target. Arrows hitting anywhere within
the same ring score the same number of paints. Tom scored 46 paints and John
scored 34 paints. as shown. How many paints did lily score?
Tom John Lily
(A) 37 (8) 38 (e) 39

(D) 40 (E) 41
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18. The diagram shows a rectangle made from three grey squares, each of area 25 cm 2 ,
inside a larger white rectangle. Two of the vertices of the grey rectangle touch the
mid-points of the shorter sides of the white rectangle and the other two vertices of
the grey rectangle touch the other two sides of the white rectangle.
What is the area, in cm2 , of the white rectangle?
(A) 125 (8) 136 (C) 149

(D) 150 (E) 172
19. Angelo drew two lines meeting at a right-angle. What is the smallest number of
extra lines he could draw inside his right-angle, as shown, so that for any of the
values 10°, 20°, 30°, 40°,50°,60°, 70° and 80°, a pair of lines can be chosen with the
angle between them equal to that value?
(A) 2 (8) 3 (C) 4

(D) 5 (E) 6
20. The sum of 2023 consecutive integers is 2023. What is the sum of digits of the
largest of these integers?
(A) 4 (8) 5 (C) 6

(D) 7 (E) 8
SECTION THREE - (5 point problems)
21. Some beavers and some kangaroos are standing in a circle. There are three beavers
in total and there are no two beavers who are standing next to another beaver. There
are exactly three kangaroos who are standing next to another kangaroo. What is the
largest possible amount of kangaroos in the circle?
(A) 4 (8) 5 (C) 6

(D) 7 (E) 8
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22. An ant is waLking aLong the sides of an equiLateraL triangLe. The speeds at which it
traveLs aLong the three sides are 5cm/min. 15cm/min and 20cm/min. as shown.
5cm/min;;
0(
20cm/min
What is the average speed. in em/min. at which the ant waLks the whoLe perimeter
of the triangLe'?
(A) 10 (B) 80 (e) 180

11 19
(D) 15 (E) 40
3
23. Snow White organised a chess competition for the seven dwarves. in which each
dwarf played one game with every other dwarf. On Mondav. Grumpv played 1 game.
Sneezy played 2. SLeepy 3. BashfuL 4. Happv 5 and Doc played 6 games. How many
games did Oopev play on Mondav'?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (e) 3

(D) 4 (E) 5
24. Elizabetta wants to write the numbers 1 to 9 in the regions of the shape shown so
that the product of the numbers in any two adjacent regions is not more than 15.
Two regions are said to be adjacent if they have a common edge. In how many ways
can she do this'?
(A) 12 (B) 8 (e) 32

(D) 24 (E) 16
25. Martin is standing in a queue. The number of peopLe in the queue is a muLtipLe of 3.
He notices that he has as many peopLe in front of him as behind him. He sees two
th th
friends. both standing behind him in the queue. one in 19 pLace and the other in 28
pLace. In which position in the queue is Martin'?
(A) 14 (B) 15 (e) 16

(0)17 (E) 18
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26. Some mice live in three neighbouring houses. Last night, every mouse left its house
and moved to one or the other of the other two houses. always taking the shortest
route. The numbers in the diagram show the number of mice per house. yesterday
and today. How many mice used the path shown by the arrow?
(A) 9 (B) 11 (e) 12

(0)16 (E) 19
27. Bart wrote the number 1015 as a sum of numbers using only the
digit 7. He used a 7 a total of 10 times. as shown. Now he wants to
777
write the number 2023 as a sum of numbers using only the digit 7. 77
using a 7 a total of 19 times. How many times will he use the + 77
number77?
77
(A) 2 (B) 3 7
(e) 4 (D) 5 1015
(E) 6
28. A regular hexagon is divided in four quadrilaterals and one smaller regular hexagon.
The area of the shaded region and the area of the small hexagon are in the ratio ~.
3
· th t· area small hexagon .,

Wha t IS era 10 •
area big hexagon
(A)~ (B) ~ (e) ~

11 3 3
(D) ~ (E) ~
4 5
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29. Jake wrote six consecutive numbers onto six white pieces of paper, one number on
each piece. He stuck these bits of paper onto the top and bottom of three coins.
Then he tossed these three coins three times. On the first toss, he saw the numbers
6, 7 and 8, as shown, and then coloured them red. On the second toss, the sum of
the numbers he saw was 23 and on the third toss the sum was 17. What was the
sum of the numbers on the remaining three white pieces of paper?
(A) 18 (8) 19 (C) 23

(D) 24 (E) 30
30. A rugby team scored 24 points, 17 points and 25 points in the seventh, eighth and
ninth games of the 2022 season. Their average points-per-game was higher after 9
games than it was after their first 6 games. Their average after 10 games was more
than 22. What is the smallest number of paints that they could have scored in their
10th game?
(A) 22 (8) 23 (C) 24

(D) 25 (E) 26
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33rd International Kangaroo Mathematics Contest 2023
Answer of Problems
1 D 1 D 1 C 1 E 1 A 1 C
2 B 2 C 2 D 2 A 2 D 2 C
3 A 3 B 3 D 3 A 3 D 3 E
4 A 4 C 4 B 4 B 4 D 4 D
5 E 5 C 5 D 5 C 5 C 5 B
6 C 6 E 6 B 6 D 6 D 6 A
7 B 7 C 7 D 7 B 7 D 7 D
8 D 8 E 8 B 8 B 8 B 8 B
9 D 9 A 9 C 9 D 9 E 9 E
10 C 10 A 10 C 10 E 10 E 10 E
11 C 11 E 11 C 11 E 11 E 11 C
12 E 12 A 12 C 12 C 12 B 12 A
13 C 13 D 13 D 13 B 13 C 13 E
14 B 14 D 14 B 14 C 14 C 14 B
15 D 15 B 15 D 15 E 15 D 15 B
16 A 16 A 16 D 16 D 16 E 16 D
17 A 17 C 17 B 17 D 17 D 17 C
18 C 18 B 18 E 18 D 18 D 18 D
19 A 19 B 19 A 19 B 19 B 19 C
20 B 20 D 20 B 20 A 20 C 20 C
21 D 21 B 21 D 21 B 21 B 21 A
22 E 22 B 22 D 22 C 22 C 22 B
23 B 23 C 23 B 23 C 23 A 23 B
24 B 24 D 24 C 24 E 24 D 24 E
25 E 25 D 25 A 25 D
26 B 26 B 26 C 26 A
27 C 27 E 27 D 27 E
28 C 28 A 28 D 28 E
29 C 29 A 29 B 29 C
30 B 30 C 30 A 30 C
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STT Năm Đề Đáp án

1. There are eight kangaroos in the cells of the table

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

2. How many hours are there in half of a third of a quarter of a day?

3. We have a cube with edge 12 cm. The ant moves on the

(A) 15% (B) 20% (C) 25% (D) 40%

(A) 30 (B) 36 (C) 54 (D) 60

6. The diagram shows the ground plan of a room. The

(A) 2ab + a(b − a) (B) 3a(a + b) − a2

(A) 36 (B) 40 (C) 46 (D) 50

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

(A) 62 (B)63 (C) 64 (D) 65

(A) 200 (B) 150 (C) 100 (D) 50

(A) 167 (B) 334 (C) 501 (D) 1002

(A) Rs.14.40 (B) Rs.14.60 (C) Rs.14.80 (D) Rs.15.20

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

(A) 31 (B) 12 (C) 34 (D) 7

16. Which of the following cubes has been folded

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

17. The diagram shows an equilateral triangle and

(A) 108° (B) 120° (C) 132° (D) 136°

(A) L and M (B) O and N (C) R and P (D) M and S

(A) 1000 (B) 1001 (C) 1009 (D) 1010

(A) 3/4 (B) 2/3 (C) 1/2 (D) 5/6

(A) 10 cm2 (B) 12 cm2 (C) 14 cm2 (D) 16 cm2

(A) 3 (B) 5 (C) 7 (D) non of these

(A) 0 m (B) 1 m (C) 1.5 m (D) 2.5 m

24. How many degrees are the sum of the 10

(A) 300 (B) 360 (C) 600 (D) 720

(A) 10 (B) 14 (C) 55 (D) 60

Cadet: Class (7-8)

A) 300 B) 500 C) 600 D) 700

11. If it’s blue, it’s round. That means:

21. Shaheen is making patterns with toothpicks

Level Cadet: Class (7 & 8) Max Time: 1 Hour &

A) 1003 B) 223 C) 213 D) 123

A) 989989 B) 989998 C) 998998 D) 999898

A) 160 cm B) 120 cm C) 100 cm D) 80 cm

Q10. x is a strictly negative integer. Which is the biggest?

Q15. ABC and CDE are equal equilateral triangles. If angle

A) 25o B) 30o C) 35o D) 40o

N Ecolier Benjamin Cadet Junior Student

Cadet Level: Class (7 & 8) Max Time: 2 Hours

How many pieces of string are there in the picture?

A) 1806 B) 1848 C) 1849 D) another answer

A) 1 and 3 B) 1 and 5 C) 3 and 4 D) 3 and 5

A) 27 cm2 B) 45 cm2 C) 54 cm2 R

A) 100º B) 108º C) 120º D) impossible to determine

A) 329 B) 330 C) 331 D) 332

A) 876 B) 865 C) 864 D) 785

A) Akbar B) Ali C) Amir D) another answer

A) 396 B) 404 C) 405 D) other answer.

Q2) How many axes of symmetry does the figure have?

Q4) The perimeter of the figure is equal to

A) trapezium B) right angled triangle C) square

A) 12 pieces B) 15 pieces C) 18 pieces D) 30 pieces

A) 27 min B) 30 min C) 36 min D) 45 min

Q14) In quadrilateral ABCD we have AD = BC, ∠DAC = 50º,