Int’l Math Challenge VIII CATEGORY 2 March 9, 2019

1. A horse trainer has some carrots for the horses. He gives each horse 4 carrots and has 2
carrots left over. If he wants to give each horse 6 carrots, he needs another 22 carrots.
How many horses are there in his stables?

a) 4
b) 5
c) 11
d) 12

2. In these pyramids, the numbers in two squares are added to give the number in the one
above. By doing this, we can fill in any blank squares. Complete these pyramid and find
the value of 𝑛.

a) 4
b) 5
c) 6
d) 7

3. If 750 × 45 = 𝑝, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛 749 × 44 𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑠

a) 𝑝 − 750
b) 𝑝 − 749
c) 𝑝 − 794
d) 𝑝 − 795

4. Calculate the expression 10 × 4 − 2 × 842 ÷ 4: ÷ 2 ÷ 12 + 9 =?

a) 47
b) 41
c) 22
d) 9
Int’l Math Challenge VIII CATEGORY 2 March 9, 2019

5. Calculate the expression [(2? + 2? )A ÷ (2A + 2A )] ÷ 2 + 2C

a) 2
b) 13
c) 17
d) 19

6. Twenty-five coins are either 1, 2, or 3 Dollars. How many more 1$ than 3$ were there if
the total value of all was 49 $?

a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
d) 𝑏𝑜𝑡ℎ 𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑎𝑙 𝑖𝑛 𝑛𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑠

J
7. A tank is full. When 440 liters of water added to
K

L
the tank, it is then full. How many additional
M

liters of water are required to fill the tank?

a) 165
b) 320
c) 360
d) 440
Int’l Math Challenge VIII CATEGORY 2 March 9, 2019

8. Diane keeps ants and spiders as pets. She counted the legs and heads of these pets and
found that there were 136 legs and 21 heads. How many spiders were there?
Note to Math Challengers!
Ants are insects and therefore have six legs.
Spiders are air-breathing arthropods that
have eight legs.

a) 4
b) 5
c) 6
d) 7

9. Jock decided to swim 10 km up his local river without leaving the river. He swam
2 km every hour then floated on his back for 10 minutes. Each time he floated, the
current dragged him back 1 km. How long did it take Jock to complete the swim?

a) 10 h 10 min
b) 10 h 20 min
c) 10 h 30 min
d) 10 h 50 min

10. If 𝑝% 𝑜𝑓 𝑞 𝑖𝑠 𝑘, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑞% 𝑜𝑓 𝑝 𝑖𝑠

Q RS RQ
a) b) c) d) 𝑘
JCC JCC JCC

T VU ? V[W A
11. Evaluate if = ; 𝑎𝑛𝑑 =
U WT X W ?

\ \ AC JC
a) b) c) d)
JC AC \ \
Int’l Math Challenge VIII CATEGORY 2 March 9, 2019

V]W U]T V U ?
12. Evaluate ∙ if = =
V T W T A

A ? AL K
a) b) c) d)
? A K AL

]
13. There is going to be a raise in the salaries of workers at a company. The boss offers to
the workers two options;
Option 1: There will be 200 $ increase in salary
X
Option 2: There will be increase equivalent to of the worker’s salary.
JL
All the workers chose the first option which is more profitable. What could be the
maximum amount of a worker’s salary before the raise?

a) 748 $
b) 749 $
c) 750 $
d) 751 $

14. The women’s world record for running 400 meters was set in Canberra at 47.60 seconds.
Which of the following is closest to the runner’s average speed, in kilometers per hour?

a) 20
b) 26
c) 28
d) 30

15. In a school of 1000 students, 570 are girls. One quarter of students travel to school by
bus, and 313 boys do not go by bus. How many girls travel to school by bus?

a) 7
b) 63
c) 133
d) 153
Int’l Math Challenge VIII CATEGORY 2 March 9, 2019

16. What is the area, in square centimeters, of the polygon marked out on the 1-cm grid
below?

a) 18.5
b) 19
c) 19.5
d) 20

17. A solid is formed from a cube by cutting off the corners in such a way that the vertices
of the new solid will be at the midpoints of the edges of the original cube. How many
edges will the new solid have?

a) 12
b) 24
c) 36
d) 18

18. On a farm, the ratio of horses to cows is 3 ∶ 2 and ratio of cows to goats is 4 ∶ 3
The ratio of goats to horses is

a) 5∶7
b) 3∶8
c) 3∶5
d) 1∶2
Int’l Math Challenge VIII CATEGORY 2 March 9, 2019

Aa]K ?b]d b[d

19. Given = = ; 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑏 + 𝑐.
b[c a]X d]K

a) −12 b) −6 c) 6 d) 12

20. What is the midpoint of the line segment which starts at (-3, -3) and ends at (5, 7)?

a) ( -1 , 2 )
b) (1,2)
c) ( -1 , -2 )
d) ( 1 , -2 )

21. Which two points among the choices below have the largest distance between
them?

a) RQ b) AQ c) AP d) AR

22. What is the slope of a line that passes through the points (8, 3) and (8, -4)?

a) -1
b) -2
c) 1/2
d) infinity
Int’l Math Challenge VIII CATEGORY 2 March 9, 2019

23. In a coordinate plane, point A whose ordinate and abscissa are equal A(k , k) sits on the
line 3𝑥 − 4𝑦 + 1 = 0. Find the distance of A to the origin.

a) 1
b) 2
c) √2
d) √3

24. Five positive integers have a mean of 10, a median of 10 and only one mode which is
12. What is the difference between the largest and the smallest of these numbers?

a) 3
b) 5
c) 6
d) 7

25. Six people are standing in a line. The height of the first person is 150 cm and the height
of the sixth person is 180 cm. The height of each other person is the average of heights of
the person directly in front and the person directly behind. What is the height of the
fourth person in the line?

a) 165 cm
b) 168 cm
c) 170 cm
d) 172 cm

26. There are n people sitting equally spaced around a circle. The people are numbered in
order around the circle from 1 to n. Person 31 notices that person 7 and person 14 are the
same distance from him. How many people are sitting around the circle?

a) 41
b) 40
c) 39
d) 38
Int’l Math Challenge VIII CATEGORY 2 March 9, 2019

27. The diagram shows two small squares in opposite corners of

a large square. The squares have sides of length 1cm, 2cm,
and 7cm.

What is the area of the shaded pentagon?

a) 16 cm2
b) 18 cm2
c) 20 cm2
d) 22 cm2

28. The circumference of each circle is 24 cm. What is the

perimeter of the red region?

a) 6 cm
b) 8 cm
c) 12 cm
d) 16 cm

29. Jenny measures three sides of a rectangle and gets a total of 80 cm. Ali measures three
sides of the same rectangle and gets a total of 88 cm. What is the perimeter of the
rectangle?

a) 112
b) 122
c) 144
d) 156

30. Find the unknown angle x in the figure if AD=DC, AE=BC

o p = 75C ?
and 𝑚k𝐴𝐶𝐵

a) 35C
b) 40C
c) 45C
d) 50C
Int’l Math Challenge VIII CATEGORY 2 March 9, 2019

31. A glasshouse is in the shape of a square pyramid. Calculate the area of one of the
triangular faces to the nearest square meter if the side of the square is 16 m and the height
of the pyramid is 15 m.

a) 112
b) 122
c) 136
d) 144

32. Three circles are touching each other so that

the distance between each pair of centers is 8
cm, 9 cm and 13 cm. What is the radius of
the middle-sized circle?

a) 4
b) 5
c) 6
d) 7

33. A box contains 6 green and 3 red caps. The probability of picking the first 2 caps from
the same color caps is…

A J L A
a) b) c) d)
? A JA \

34. Gerry sent three letters to three girlfriends who live in the same building which has only
3 flats and 3 post-boxes. The postman put the letters into three different boxes without
looking at the name of the recipient. What is the probability that all girls received their
letters correctly?

J J J J
a) b) c) d)
? A K \
Int’l Math Challenge VIII CATEGORY 2 March 9, 2019

35. Ekrem plays a game with the following rules;

1. if the sum of the numbers on top is 8, he wins
2. if the sum of the numbers on top is not 8, he loses

Since we know that the number on the top of the first die Ekrem rolled is an odd number,
what is the probability for Ekrem to win the game?

A J J J
a) b) c) d)
\ JM JA \

36. Zehra has three jackets, one black, one brown and one blue. She has four shirts, white,
blue, red and yellow. She has three pairs of trousers, brown, white and yellow. How
many combinations of jacket, shirt and trousers are possible if no two items are of the
same color?

a) 23
b) 25
c) 26
d) 27

37. Twelve points are marked on a square grid as shown. How

many squares can be formed by joining 4 of these points?

a) 6
b) 9
c) 11
d) 13
Int’l Math Challenge VIII CATEGORY 2 March 9, 2019

38. All the numbers and letters in the following box are different than each other such that
three numbers in vertical, horizontal and diagonals add up to the same total. Which
number should go in the box E?

a) 10
b) 13
c) 15
d) 17

39. Jane has rabbits, kittens, and chickens.

All of them are rabbits except three,
all of them are kittens except four,
and all of them are chickens except five.
How many chickens does she have?

a) 1 b) 2
b) 3 d) Logical error, cannot solve

40. The shape is formed from four identical arcs, each a quarter of a
circle of radius 5 cm. What is the area of the shape in square
centimeters?

a) 100 − 20𝜋
b) 100 − 25𝜋
c) 25𝜋 + 25
d) 25𝜋