28 2023 AMC Intermediate Questions

Intermediate Questions
Intermediate Questions
1. A 40-minute lesson started at 10:50 am. Exactly half way through the lesson the
fire alarm went off. At what time did the fire alarm go off?
(A) 10:30 am (B) 11:00 am (C) 11:10 am (D) 11:20 am (E) 11:30 am

2. Two rectangles have a vertex in common, as shown. 130◦

What is the size of the angle marked x◦ between
them?
(A) 10◦ (B) 20◦ (C) 30◦ x◦

(D) 40◦ (E) 50◦

2+3+4
3. What is the value of ?
7+8+9
1 2 3 4 1
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
6 7 8 9 2

4. How many 25 cm × 25 cm squares fit in a 1m

50 cm × 1 m rectangle?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 4 50 cm
(D) 6 (E) 8

5. Which one of these is equal to 57 × 953?

(A) 321 (B) 4321 (C) 54 321 (D) 654 321 (E) 7 654 321

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6. A parallelogram P QRS has an area of 60 cm2 Q

P
and side P Q of length 10 cm.
Which length is 6 cm?
(A) RQ (B) RS (C) QT
(D) P T (E) QS

S T R

7. Mei can travel to her grandma’s house by a direct route, or by a scenic route that
is 5 km longer. When she travels by the scenic route, and comes directly home, the
round trip is 35 km. How long is the direct route?
(A) 5 km (B) 12.5 km (C) 15 km (D) 20 km (E) 22.5 km

8. What is the value of ((20 )2 )3 ?

(A) 1 (B) 12 (C) 32 (D) 64 (E) 256

9. What must 0.05 be divided by to get 50?

(A) 1000 (B) 100 (C) 0.1 (D) 0.001 (E) 0.0001

10. In the right-angled triangle ABC shown, B

what is the value of y?
(A) 45 (B) 48 (C) 54
(D) 60 (E) 72 x◦ 3x◦ 2x◦ y◦
A C

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11. The number 11 can be written as the sum of three positive whole numbers in many
ways. In how many ways can this be done where the numbers are different and in
increasing order?
(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6 (E) 7

12. A two-digit number is reversed then added to itself. The answer cannot be
(A) 55 (B) 110 (C) 132 (D) 154 (E) 186

13. Amy designed this rectangular flag for her

fleet of yachts. What fraction of the flag is 2
shaded?
2 3 5
(A) (B) (C)
3 5 8 2
1 7
(D) (E)
2 12 2 2 2

c e
14. What is the largest possible whole-number value of the expression a × b + −
d f
where a, b, c, d, e, f are the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 in some order?
(A) 30 (B) 31 (C) 32 (D) 33 (E) 34

15. Four children named, from youngest to oldest, Abdul, Bipin, Cai and Denise have
ages which are equally spaced apart. Abdul and Bipin’s ages add to 18, whilst Cai
and Denise’s ages add to 34. How old is Denise?
(A) 14 (B) 16 (C) 18 (D) 19 (E) 20

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16. The country of Exponentia uses six-digit telephone numbers. At the moment, this
is plenty, since there are only 1000 phone numbers in use. However, increasing
population and phone usage means that the number of phone numbers needs to
double each year. Approximately how many years will it take for Exponentia to
run out of phone numbers?
(A) 5 (B) 10 (C) 20 (D) 30 (E) 40

17. A 15 cm × 15 cm square of origami paper is

dark blue on top and pale yellow underneath.
The top-left corner is folded down so that a
crease is made from the top-right corner to a
15 cm
point x cm above the bottom-left corner.
Once folded, the visible regions of yellow and
blue paper have equal areas. What is the value x cm
of x?
√ √ 15 cm
(A) 5 (B) 6 23 (C) 3 3 (D) 6 (E) 4 2

18. In this equation, the coefficient of y has been hidden, but we know that it is a
positive integer, 1 or more.
2x + y = 25
The equation has at least one solution where x and y are positive integers.
How many different values are possible for the hidden coefficient?
(A) 10 (B) 12 (C) 13 (D) 24 (E) 25

19. Farmer Smith had a square property that he extended

by buying a smaller square of land, creating the property
shown.
The new square of land increased the total perimeter of the
property by 10%.
By what percentage did the area of the property increase?
(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 6 (D) 8 (E) 10

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20. I hear that dogs age 7 dog years every year. My dog Ruby was born on my ninth
birthday. Four years from now, on our birthday, Ruby’s age in dog years will be
exactly four times my age in normal years. How old am I now?
(A) 10 (B) 12 (C) 13 (D) 15 (E) 17

21. An ancient beast guards a 2 km × 2 km 2 km

square building on an otherwise featureless
plain.
A 4 km-long unbreakable chain connects the
beast to the outside wall of the building,
2 km
as shown in the diagram. Neither the
beast nor the chain can cross into the area
occupied by the building.
What is the area that the beast can access,
in square kilometres? 1 km

(A) 9π (B) 10π (C) 11π (D) 12π (E) 13π

22. I have four numbers. When I add 3 to the first number, subtract 3 from the second
number, multiply the third number by 3 and divide the fourth number by 3, my
four answers are all equal.
My original 4 numbers added to 32. What is the sum of the largest two of these?
(A) 24 (B) 25 (C) 26 (D) 27 (E) 28

23. These two rectangular prisms have the

same surface area. Both x and y are x cm y cm
integers less than 10.
What is x + y?
4 cm 8 cm 6 cm 7 cm

(A) 5 (B) 7 (C) 11 (D) 12 (E) 13

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24. Sometimes a three-digit number is an exact multiple of its digit sum. For instance,
the digit sum of 102 is 1 + 0 + 2 = 3 and 102 = 3 × 34. If a three-digit number is
k times the sum of its digits, what is the smallest possible integer value of k?
(A) 9 (B) 10 (C) 11 (D) 12 (E) 13

25. Six identical equilateral triangles of side length 2 are

drawn outside a regular hexagon of side length 1,
defining a larger hexagon as shown.
What is the ratio of the area of the larger hexagon to
the area of the smaller hexagon?
(A) 5 : 1 (B) 6 : 1 (C) 7 : 1 (D) 8 : 1 (E) 9 : 1

26. Seána was arranging her collection of postage stamps into groups when a cat
jumped onto them and scattered the stamps. All she can remember is that when
she put them into groups of 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 she always had 1 stamp left over. When
she placed them into groups of 7 there were none left over.
What is the minimum number of stamps Seána could have had in her collection?

27. A square ABCD is inscribed in a right-angled F

triangle EF G as shown. B
The length of EG is 4 units and the length of EF is C
3 units.
A
As a fraction in simplest form, the side-length of the
a
square is . What is the value of a + b? E D G
b

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28. The elves have to choose who will go the annual magic conference. They sit in a
circle and the chief elf Elvin starts counting round the circle, starting with himself.
Every second elf counted drops out of the circle and the counting continues until
Elvin drops out. All those left in the circle go to the conference.
This year, there are 1000 elves in the circle. How many will go to the conference?

29. Two wheels are fixed to an axle as shown.

120 cm
Due to their different sizes, the two wheels

105 cm
trace two concentric circles when rolled on
level ground.

70 cm
In centimetres, what is the radius of the
circle traced on the ground by the larger
wheel?

30. A tromino is a shape made from three squares traced on gridlines. A 2 × 3 grid can
be tiled by trominoes in exactly three ways, as shown.

We count two tilings that are reflections of each other as different. Similarly, two
tilings that are rotations of each other are counted as different.
In how many different ways can a 3 × 6 grid be tiled by trominoes?

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