1.
Four chocolate bars cost 6 EUR more than one chocolate bar. What is the cost of one chocolate bar?
2.
From the top of a lighthouse, a kangaroo can see as far as 5 km. How far can 10 kangaroos see from the top of the same lighthouse?
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 fi rst time?
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?
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?
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?
8.
Alice lies on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays and tells the truth on every other day. Bob lies on Thursdays, Fridays, and Sundays, and tells the truth on every other day. One day, Alice said: “Today is Monday” and Bob confirmed: “Yes, it is true”. Which day of the week was it?
11.
Part B: Each correct answer is worth 4 points.
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?
12.
Ms 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 m
2 . What was the area of the pea bed before the change?
13.
Susan made a pizza in the shape of a rectangle. Then she cut it into N smaller pieces by seven straight cuts. Each cut was parallel to a side of the pizza . Which of the numbers below cannot be the number, N , of the pieces?
14.
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"?
15.
In a competition to attract customers through dis counts, three cell phone stores, A - cell, B - cell, and C - cell, decreased the price of a particular model that they initially sold for $100, three times: for Christmas, Boxing Day and the New Year. A - cell decreased by 10% for Christmas, by further 20% for Boxing Day, and by another 30% in the New Year. B - cell did 20% each of the three times. Finally, C - cell reduced by 30%, then by 10%, then by 20%, respectively. At which store(s) is the phone least expensive in the New Year?
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?
17.
A piece of cheese is cut into a large number of pieces. During the course of the day, a n umber 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 could have seen stealing cheese?
18.
At the airport there is a moving walkway 500 metres long, which moves at a speed of 4 km/hour. Ann and Bill step on the walkway at the same time. Ann walks at a speed of 6 km/hour on the walkway , while Bill stand s still. When Ann come s to the end of the walkway, how far is she ahead of Bill?
19.
A magical talking square originally has sides of length 8 cm. If he tells the truth, then his s ides 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?
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 positions were occupied by the same face of the cube?
21.
Part C: Each correct answer is worth 5 points.
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?
22.
In the diagram ABCD is a square, M is the midpoint of AD and MN is perpendicular to AC . What is the ratio of the area of the shaded triangle MNC to the area of the square?
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?
24.
An egg timer is made of three separate hourglasses with sand, glued together to a lower and an upper wooden base. Once the timer is turned over from still, their sand runs out in 3, 4 and 5 minutes, respectively. No hourglass can be turned over separately from the others. An egg needs to boil for 7 minutes in order to be tastiest. From the still position, what is the minimum number of times one needs to turn the egg timer over, in order to measure 7 minutes accurately?
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?
26.
A boo k contains 30 stories, each starting on a new page. The lengths of the se stories are 1, 2, 3,..., 30 pages , respectively . The first story starts on the first page. What is the largest number of stories that can start on an odd - numbered page?
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, fi rst by 3o , then by a further 9o , then by a further 27o , and so on (at the nth step it is rotated by a further ( 3n )o ). 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).
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?
29.
A triangle is divided into four triangles and three quadrilaterals by three straight line segments , as shown . The sum of the perimeters of the three quadrilateral s 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?
30.
In the centre of every cell of a 5x5 board stands one kangaroo. Suddenly, a thunder strikes, and each kangaroo is startled so that it jumps over the side of its cell into a neighbouring cell, possibly joining one or more other kangaroos there. What is the greatest possible number of cells that are now empty?
