Category 2
Category 2
Category 2
2. Start with the easier questions, you can always come back to the
questions you leave.
3. The time allocated for the exam is 60 minutes. You will start when the
invigilator tells you to start.
4. You are required to comply with the directions given by the head
invigilator before the examination.
5. Those who are taking the exam with a mobile phone MUST make sure
that during the examination no one calls.
6. If anything in the examination is unclear, you can contact the invigilator.
7. Where permitted you may use a translation dictionary.
8. Students must not give or receive assistance of any kind during the
exam. Any cheating, any attempt to cheat, assisting others to cheat,
participating therein, or engaging in such improper conduct is a serious
violation and will generally result in disqualifying.
A) 10 A) 9 999 999
B) 11 B) 1 888 888
C) 19 C) 987 654 321
D) 20 D) 1 111 104
A) 9⋅8⋅7⋅3
B) 9⋅8⋅7⋅5
C) 9⋅8⋅7⋅2
D) 9⋅8⋅3⋅5
8. One chicken eats 200 𝑔 food per day. How 12. How many natural divisors does a product
many chickens will eat 8 𝑘𝑔 of food in 4 of three prime numbers have?
days?
A) 3
A) 10
B) 6
B) 8
C) 8
C) 12
D) 9
D) 6
13. Calculate:
9. How many three-digit numbers can be
written only with even number? 1 1 1 1 1
(1 − ) ⋅ (1 − ) ⋅ (1 − ) ⋅ … ⋅ (1 − ) ⋅ (1 − )
2 3 4 21 22
A) 900
1
B) 450 A)
2
C) 500 1
B)
D) 100 10
1
C)
22
1
10. How many squares exist on the picture? D)
2⋅3⋅4⋅…⋅22
A) 15
B) 20
C) 18
D) 24
15. Speed of the dog is 4600 𝑑𝑚/𝑚𝑖𝑛, speed of 19. Calculate the sum:
the cat is 8 𝑚/𝑠 and speed of the mouse is
27 𝑘𝑚/ℎ. Which one is faster? 1 + 3 + 5 + ⋯ + 97 + 99
A) Dog A) 2500
B) Cat B) 5050
C) Mouse C) 5000
D) Dog and Cat D) 4950
16. Alex has 3 pairs of shoes, 4 pants and 5 t- 20. The letters in the word MATHEMATICIAN
shirts. How many different ways of putting were put in a box. What is the chance of
clothes are there? getting letter A?
A) 12 A) 3 out of 9
B) 24 B) 3 out of 10
C) 30 C) 3 out of 13
D) 60 D) 3 out of 11
17. Jim thought of a number. Jack multiplied 21. Alex received a container of fresh eggs. He
Jim's imaginary number by 4 and then 1
sold of the eggs in the morning and sold
added 15. Jane multiplied Jim's imaginary 3
number by 15 and added 4. What number 320 eggs in the afternoon. At the end of the
1
did Jimmy come up with if Jack and Jane day, he found that of the eggs were not
got the same answer? 4
sold. How many eggs did he receive in the
beginning?
A) 1
B) 2 A) 768
C) 3 B) 448
D) 4 C) 1224
D) 549
23. To complete the grid below, each of the 25. These steps are made of blocks. How many
digits from 1 to 4 must occur exactly once blocks are needed to make 100th step?
in each row and in each column. What
number should replace 𝑋?
1 2
2 3
4 A) 100
𝑿 B) 250
C) 1010
A) 1 D) 5050
B) 2
C) 3
D) 4
A) 1
B) 2
C) 3
D) 4
INSTRUCTIONS
2. Start with the easier questions, you can always come back to the
questions you leave.
3. The time allocated for the exam is 60 minutes. You will start when the
invigilator tells you to start.
4. You are required to comply with the directions given by the head
invigilator before the examination.
5. Those who are taking the exam with a mobile phone MUST make sure
that during the examination no one calls.
6. If anything in the examination is unclear, you can contact the invigilator.
7. Where permitted you may use a translation dictionary.
8. Students must not give or receive assistance of any kind during the
exam. Any cheating, any attempt to cheat, assisting others to cheat,
participating therein, or engaging in such improper conduct is a serious
violation and will generally result in disqualifying.
A) 7660
B) 28
C) 109
D) 163
A) 20
2. There are 12 bicycles in the garden, with 2 B) 24
or 3 wheels. Total number of wheels are 30.
C) 26
How many bicycles are with 2 wheels?
D) 34
A) 3
B) 4
C) 6 5. What will be the sum of the digits 𝐴, 𝐵, and
𝐶 if 𝐴 + 𝐵𝐵 + 𝐴 = 𝐶𝐶𝐶?
D) 8
A) 10
B) 15
3. Consider 𝑋Δ𝑌 = 𝑋 + 2 × 𝑌 and
C) 16
𝑋Ω𝑌 = 𝑋 × 𝑌. What will be (107Δ115)Ω6?
D) 20
A) 228
B) 2022
C) 1332 6. How many three-digit numbers can be
written only with even number?
D) 80730
A) 900
B) 450
C) 500
D) 100
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7. The length, width and height of an 11. Find the last digit of the product of two
aquarium is 10 𝑐𝑚, 20 𝑐𝑚 and 30 𝑐𝑚. What numbers ending with 3.
will be the water volume if a quarter of the
aquarium is filled? A) 1
B) 3
A) 1000
C) 7
B) 1500
D) 9
C) 2000
D) 3000
1 + 3 + 5 + ⋯ + 197 + 199
15. The 7-digit numbers 74𝐴52𝐵1 and 19. Let the operation ∗ be defined by
326𝐴𝐵4𝐶 are multiples of 3. Which one of 𝑎 ∗ 𝑏 = 𝑎𝑏 − 𝑎 − 𝑏 + 2. If 7 ∗ 𝑏 = 13, what is
the following is the value of 𝐶? the value of 𝑏?
A) 1 A) 1
B) 2 B) 2
C) 3 C) 3
D) 6 D) 4
16. How many numbers are there in the 20. Find value of 𝑥.
sequence below?
10
3+ =9
11, 14, 17, 20, … , 71, 74 6
2+
5−𝑥
A) 20
A) 22
B) 21
B) 23
C) 22
C) 24
D) 23
D) 25
A) 18
B) 20
C) 22
D) 24
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A) 1
B) 2
A) 11 C) 3
B) 12 D) 8
C) 3
D) 4
25. How many small cubes are there in the
image below?
5, 7, 11, ? , 35, 67
A) 15
B) 17
C) 19 A) 1
D) 23 B) 32
C) 23
D) 18
INSTRUCTIONS
2. Start with the easier questions, you can always come back to the
questions you leave.
3. The time allocated for the exam is 60 minutes. You will start when the
invigilator tells you to start.
4. You are required to comply with the directions given by the head
invigilator before the examination.
5. Those who are taking the exam with a mobile phone MUST make sure
that during the examination no one calls.
6. If anything in the examination is unclear, you can contact the invigilator.
7. Where permitted you may use a translation dictionary.
8. Students must not give or receive assistance of any kind during the
exam. Any cheating, any attempt to cheat, assisting others to cheat,
participating therein, or engaging in such improper conduct is a serious
violation and will generally result in disqualifying.
1. A group of 50 people take a taxi to visit the 4. The sum of the ages of a family 5 years ago
Houston Zoo. A maximum of 4 people can is 57. The sum of their ages 3 years from
take a taxi together. Accordingly, at least now is 89. How many people does this
how many taxis are needed for this group? family have?
A) 11 A) 1
B) 12 B) 2
C) 13 C) 3
D) 14 D) 4
E) 15 E) 5
2. When adding the below, the numbers are 5. What is the remainder of dividing the
first rounded to hundreds and the result is smallest five-digit number with different
found. Then, these numbers are first digits by 5?
completed to tens and a result is found
again. What is the difference between these A) 0
two results?
B) 1
7528 + 4162 C) 2
D) 3
A) 10
E) 4
B) 20
C) 40
D) 80
6. Alex and Ben have a total of $400. If Alex
E) 100 1
gives of his money to Ben, their money
3
becomes equal. How many dollars did Alex
have in the beginning?
3. A vehicle can travel 120 𝑘𝑚 on 6 liters of
gasoline. How many liters of gasoline are A) 100
needed to travel 600 kilometers? B) 120
A) 12 C) 180
B) 24 D) 240
C) 30 E) 300
D) 36
E) 48
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7. A water canister is half full. Twenty glasses 9. The total price of 4 pencils and 6 erasers is
are fully filled with half of the water in it. $20. Therefore, which of the following
1 cannot be found?
Then of 20 glasses is drunk. Half of the
5
remaining glasses are poured back into the
canister. According to the last situation,
how much of the canister is full?
6
A)
10
7
B)
20
2
C)
5
3
D) A) 2 pencils and 3 erasers
4
9 B) 6 pencils and 9 erasers
E)
10 C) 8 pencils and 12 erasers
8. Can creates the number pattern below by D) 10 pencils and 14 erasers
writing the powers of 2 side by side as the E) 10 pencils and 15 erasers
number of his powers. Accordingly, what is
the number in step 20 of this number
pattern divided by the number in step 10?
10. 𝑁 is a natural number other than zero and
2, 4, 4, 8, 8, 8, 16, 16, 16, 16, …
one, and the number ★ = 6𝑁– 6. ★ is a
natural number that satisfies the equation.
A) 2
Accordingly, which of the following is
B) 4 definitely true for the number ★?
C) 8
A) It is divisible by 10.
D) 16
B) It is divisible by 9.
E) 32
C) It is divisible by 6.
D) It is divisible by 5.
E) It is divisible by 7.
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11. Given the figures below, what is the sum of 13. According to the multiplication table with
𝑎 + 𝑏 + 𝑐 + 𝑑 + 𝑒? positive integers below, which of the
following is the result of the expression
(𝑎 + 𝑐)– (𝑏 + 𝑑)?
× 𝒂 𝒃
𝒂 𝟏𝟔 𝒅
𝟕 𝒄 𝟑𝟓
A) 5
B) 7
A) 90 C) 9
B) 180 D) 11
C) 235 E) 13
D) 270
E) 360
14. The first three steps of a pattern modeled
with unit squares are given below.
Accordingly, how many unit squares are in
12. The figure below was created by joining step 8 of this pattern?
four squares. If the perimeters of the two
smallest squares are 8 𝑐𝑚 and 12 𝑐𝑚,
respectively, what is the side length of the
largest square, in centimeters?
A) 19
B) 22
C) 25
D) 28
E) 31
A) 7
B) 8
C) 9
D) 10
E) 11
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15. The age difference between Ata and his 18. A man buys 4.5 liters of milk more than the
father is 26. What will be the age difference previous day every day. This man buys till
between Ata and his father after 15 years? the end of the 4th day. He buys a total of 57
liters of milk. How many liters of milk did he
A) 11 buy on the first day?
B) 18
A) 7.5
C) 26
B) 10.5
D) 35
C) 12
E) 41
D) 13.5
E) 15
16.
A) 30
B) 31 A) 60
C) 32 B) 120
D) 40 C) 150
E) 41 D) 180
E) 300
A) 207
B) 209
C) 211
D) 213
E) 215
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20. Below is an equilateral triangle with a 23. Paul and John were given an allowance of
common point 𝐴 and a rectangle. Starting $30 each by their father. When Paul gives $6
from point 𝐴, two ants are walking at to John, how many dollars will John's
constant and equal speed, one on the side money be more than Paul's money?
of the equilateral triangle and the other on
the side of the rectangle. When these two A) 3
ants meet again at point 𝐴, how many
B) 6
centimeters would an ant have walked?
C) 9
D) 12
E) 18
2. Start with the easier questions, you can always come back to the
questions you leave.
3. The time allocated for the exam is 60 minutes. You will start when the
invigilator tells you to start.
4. You are required to comply with the directions given by the head
invigilator before the examination.
5. Those who are taking the exam with a mobile phone MUST make sure
that during the examination no one calls.
6. If anything in the examination is unclear, you can contact the invigilator.
7. Where permitted you may use a translation dictionary.
8. Students must not give or receive assistance of any kind during the
exam. Any cheating, any attempt to cheat, assisting others to cheat,
participating therein, or engaging in such improper conduct is a serious
violation and will generally result in disqualifying.
1. A large pizza is served in 20 slices. If this 4. In the figure below, the spider has formed
pizza is shared equally among 4 people, regular hexagonal webs. How many
how many slices of pizza will each person centimeters of web did this spider weave?
get?
A) 4
B) 5
C) 6
D) 8
A) 20
3. The sum of the money of Ian and Daniel is B) 24
$200. If $40 is added to Ian’s money and
C) 28
$20 is added to the Daniel’s money, the
amount of money they have will be equal. D) 32
How much money does Ian have?
A) 90
B) 85
C) 80
D) 75
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6. The figure below is made up of congruent 8. The ant below is moving from one end of
unit squares. Find the expression for the the branch to the other. When the ant
location of spider relative to the location of comes to point 𝐴, the measure of angle 1
the ant? increases by 40°. What will be the new
measure of 120° angle?
A) 12.5
B) 12.45
C) 12.075
D) 12.8
A) 25
B) 50
C) 60
D) 75
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10. Which of the forms below will form a cube 12. A truck is loaded with 1785 𝑘𝑔 of cargo.
when folded? Then, 425 𝑘𝑔 of this load is unloaded, and
615 𝑘𝑔 of other cargo is loaded instead.
How many kilograms of cargo are in the
truck in the last case?
A) I
B) II A) 1955
C) III B) 1965
D) IV C) 1975
D) 1985
A) 18 A) 8
B) 23 B) 32
C) 31 C) 72
D) 39 D) 144
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14. There is a pattern between the numbers 16. The perimeters of the equilateral triangle
below. Find what number should be written and the square given below are equal. If
instead of “?”. the length of one side of the triangle is
7.8 𝑐𝑚, what is the length of one side of the
square in centimeters?
A) 1600
B) 4000
C) 8000
D) 16000
A) 5.85
15. Which of the numbers on the boxes below B) 5.95
are prime numbers?
C) 6.05
D) 6.15
A) 1
B) 3
C) 4
D) 6
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18. In the figure below, a line will be drawn 20. A car can travel 100 miles with $40 of
through two points. The line drawn is gasoline. When there is a 25% increase in
perpendicular to line 𝑑. Which of the gasoline, how many miles can it travel with
following points is on this line? $40 gasoline?
A) 60
B) 70
C) 75
D) 80
A) 𝐴 and 𝐷 A) 4
B) 𝐴 and 𝐸 B) 3
C) 𝐵 and 𝐷 C) 2
D) 𝐵 and 𝐶 D) 1
24. On the number line below, 2 to 3 is divided 25. 𝐴, 𝐵 and 𝐶 are natural numbers. According
into four equal parts, and 3 to 4 are divided to the information given below, what is 𝐵?
into five equal parts. What is the sum of the
corresponding to points 𝐴 and 𝐵?
A) 6
B) 6.1
C) 6.2 A) 18
D) 6.3 B) 20
C) 22
D) 24