Kangaroo Math 5pts - 2
Kangaroo Math 5pts - 2
Kangaroo Math 5pts - 2
(5pts 2009-2023)
1) A white and a black pig weigh together 320 kg. The black pig weighs 32 kg
more than the white one. How much does the white pig weigh?
2) Anna and Peter live in the same street. On one side of Anna’s house
there are 27 houses, and on the other side 13 houses. Peter lives in the
house right in the middle of the street. How many houses are there
between Anna’s and Peter’s houses?
A) 6 B) 7 C) 8 D) 14 E) 21
3) A secret agent wants to crack a six digit code. He knows that the sum of
the digits in the even positions is equal to the sum of the digits in the odd
positions. Which of the following numbers is the code?
A) 20 B) 24 C) 36 D) 40 E) 48
5) In a vase there is one red, one blue, one yellow and one white flower.
Maja the bee visits each flower exactly once. She begins with the red flower
and she never flies directly from the yellow to the white flower. In how
many different ways can she visit each flower?
A) 1 B) 2 C) 3 D) 4 E) 6
7) Sylvia draws shapes made up of straight lines which are each 1cm long. At
the end of each line she continues in a right angle either to the left or right.
At every turn she notes down either a or a on a piece of paper. The
same symbol always indicates a turn in the same direction. Today her notes
show . Which of the following shapes could she have drawn
today if A indicates her starting point?
8) In Funny-Foot-Land men and women wear the same sort of shoes. Each
man has a left foot that is two sizes bigger than the right foot. Each woman
has a left foot that is one size bigger than the right foot. However, shoes are
only sold in pairs of the same size. To save money some friends decide to
buy shoes together. After putting on their new shoes two shoes are left over
one of size 36 and one of size 45. What is the minimum number of people
in that group?
A) 5 B) 6 C) 7 D) 8 E) 9
9) In Funny-Foot-Land men and women wear the same sort of shoes. Each
man has a left foot that is two sizes bigger than the right foot. Each woman
has a left foot that is one size bigger than the right foot. However, shoes are
only sold in pairs of the same size. To save money some friends decide to
buy shoes together. After putting on their new shoes two shoes are left over
one of size 36 and one of size 45. What is the minimum number of people
in that group?
A) 5 B) 6 C) 7 D) 8 E) 9
10) Which number must replace the questionmark, if the total of the
numbers in each row is the same?
19) Two years ago the cats Tim and Tom were together 15 years old. Now
Tom is 13 years old. In how many years will Tim be 9 years old?
A) 1 B) 2 C) 3 D) 4 E) 5
22) lines are drawn on a piece of paper and some of the lines are
given numbers. The paper is cut along some of these lines and then folded
as shown in the picture. What is the total of the numbers on the lines that
were cut?
A) 16 B) 17 C) 18 D) 20 E) 21
23) Andrew, Stefan, Robert and Marko meet each other at a concert in
Zagreb. They come from different cities: Paris, Dubrovnik, Rome and Berlin
(not necessarily in this order)
- Andrew and the friend from Berlin arrive first in Zagreb. Neither of the two
have been to Paris or Rome
- Robert is not from Berlin, but he arrives with the friend from Paris.
- Marko and the friend from Paris enjoyed the concert very much.
From which city does Marko come?
A) Paris B) Rom C) Dubrovnik D) Berlin E) Zagreb
24) Berti’s friends add together the day and the month of their birthdays.
They each get the answer 35, but no two have the same birthday. What is
the maximum number of friends Berti has?
A) 7 B) 8 C) 9 D) 10 E) 12
25) Four girlfriends Masha, Sasha, Dasha and Pasha sit on a bench as seen.
First Masha exchanged places with Dasha. Then Dasha exchanged places
with Pasha. At the end the girls sat on the bench in the following order from
left to right, as shown in the picture: Masha, Sasha, Dasha, Pasha.
In what order from left to right did they sit in the beginning?
28) You have the three cards shown in the picture. You can form different
numbers with them, for example 989 or 986. Altogether, how many different
3-digit numbers can you form with these three cards?
34) The classmates of Thomas are twice as many girls as boys. How many
children could be in the class?
(A) 30 (B) 20 (C) 24 (D) 25 (E) 29
(A) 975 (B) 999 (C) 1083 (D) 1173 (E) 1221
36) Anna, Laura, Lisa and Katharina wanted to take a photo together. Anna
and Katharina are best Friends and wanted to stand next to each other. Lisa
also wanted to stand next to Anna. In how many different ways can the
photo be taken, if their wishes are to be met?
(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6 (E) 7
40) In football you get 3 points for a win, no points for a loss, and 1 point for
a draw. A team has played 36 matches and has 80 points. What is the
maximum number of matches the team could have lost?
41) The number 35 has the property that it can be divided by its unit digit,
because 35 divided by 5 is exactly 7. The number 38 does not have this
property. How many numbers bigger than 21, but smaller than 30 have this
property?
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 6
42) In February 2013 Schnurrli the tomcat slept for exactly three weeks. For
how many hours in this month was he awake?
(A) 168 (B) 192 (C) 216 (D) 240 (E) 504
43) Andi, Betti, Clara and Dani were born in the same year. Their birthdays
are on the 20th February, 12th April, 12th May and 25th May, but not
necessarily in that order. Betti and Andi were born in the same month. Andi
and Clara were born on the same day in different months. Who is the
oldest?
(A) Andi (B) Betti (C) Clara (D) Dani
(E) There is not enough information to answer the question.
45) Chrissi wants to sell 10 glass marbles which each have a different weight.
Their weights are: 1 dag, 2 dag, 3 dag, 4 dag, 5 dag, 6 dag, 7 dag, 8 dag, 9 dag
and 10 dag. They should be packed into bags two at a time, so that each
bag has the same weight. Which two marbles will be put into the same bag?
(A) 3 and 6 (B) 3 and 7 (C) 3 and 8 (D) 3 and 9 (E) 3 and 10
46) Baris has a few dominoes as shown in the picture. He wants to lay them
in a line according to the rules of dominoes, that is that two dominoes can
only be laid together if the neighbouring squares have the same number of
dots in them. What is the biggest number of these dominoes that he can lay
in a single line?
47) Peter has bought a rug that is 36 dm wide and 60 dm long. On the rug
you can see squares that contain either a sun or a moon, as shown in the
picture. As you can see there are exactly nine squares along the width of the
rug. The total length of the rug cannot be seen. How many moons would
you see, if you could see the entire rug?
(A) 68
(B) 67
(C) 65
(D) 63
(E) 60
48) Beatrice has a few grey tiles that all look exactly like
the one pictured. At least how many of these tiles does
she need in order to make a complete square?
(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 6 (D) 8 (E) 16
50) Seven children stand in a circle. Nowhere are two boys found standing
next to each other. Nowhere are three girls found standing next to each
other. What is possible for the number of girls? The number of girls can…
(A) ... only be 3. (B) ... be 3 or 4. (C) ... only be 4.
(D) ... be 4 or 5. (E) ... only be 5.
(A) ... only be 3. (B) ... be 3 or 4. (C) ... only be 4. (D) ... be 4 or 5.
(E) ... only be 5.
(A) Carriage and Aeroplane (B) Carriage and Bus (C) Carriage and Tram
58) Albin has put each of the digits from 1 to 9 in the fields of the table. In
the diagram only 4 of these digits are visible. For the
field containing the number 5, Albin noticed that the
sum of the numbers in the neighbouring fields is 13.
(neighbouring fields are fields which share a side). He
noticed exactly the same for the field containing the
digit 6. Which digit had Albin written in the grey field?
(D) 3 (E) 4
65) Thomas drew a pig and a shark. He cuts each animal into three pieces.
Then he takes one of the two heads, one of the two middle sections and
one of the two tails and lays them together to make another animal. How
many different animals can he make in this way?
68) Tick, Trick and Track are triplets. Their brother Franz is exactly 3 years
older. All four children are having their birthdays today. How old can the
four brothers be altogether?
69) In a magic garden there are magic trees. On each tree there are either 6
pears and 3 apples or 8 pears and 4 apples. In total there are 25 apples on
the magic trees. How many pears in total are hanging on the magic trees
altogether?
71) Karin wants to place five bowls on a table so that they are ordered
according to their weight. She has already placed the bowls Q, R, S and T in
order, where Q is lightest and T is heaviest. Where does she have to place
bowl Z?
72) Eva writes seven numbers on a piece of paper, one of which is 201. She
adds up these seven numbers and gets 2016. Now she substitutes the 201
by the number 102 and again adds up the seven numbers. Which result
does she get now?
(A) 1815 (B) 1914 (C) 1917 (D) 2115 (E) 2118
73) Leo has built a stick made up of 27 building blocks. He splits the stick
into two pieces in a way so that one part is twice as long as the other. He
keeps repeating this again and again. He takes one of the two pieces and
splits it up so that one piece is twice as long as the other. Which of the
following pieces can never result in this way?
74) Five sparrows on a rope look in one or the other direction (see diagram).
Every sparrow whistles as many times as the number of sparrows he can see
in front of him. Azra therefore whistles four times. Then one sparrow turns in
the opposite direction and again all sparrows whistle according to the same
rule. The second time the sparrows whistle more often in total than the first
time. Which sparrow has turned around?
(A) Azra (B) Bernhard (C) Christa (D) David (E) Elsa
75) Max builds this construction using some small equally big cubes.
If he looks at his construction from above, the plan on the right tells the
number of cubes in every tower. How big is the sum of the numbers
covered by the two hearts?
76) Georg starts his training at 5o’clock in the afternoon. It takes him 5
minutes to get to the bus stop. The bus journey takes 15 minutes. Then he
has to walk for 5 minutes to get to the pitch. The bus comes at 6 o’clock in
the morning for the first time and then every 10 minutes.
What is the latest possible time he has to leave the house in order to be at
the pitch on time?
77) Four brothers have eaten 11 biscuits altogether. Everyone has eaten at
least one biscuit but all of them have eaten a different amount of biscuits.
Three of the brothers ate 9 biscuits altogether, where one of them got
exactly 3 biscuits. How many biscuits did the boy who had the most biscuits
eat?
79) Five boys share 10 bags of marbles between themselves. Everyone gets
exactly two bags:
Alex gets 5 marbles, Bob 7, Charles 9 and Dennis 15. Eric gets the two bags
that are left over. How many marbles does he get?
(A) 9 (B) 11 (C) 13 (D) 17 (E) 19
(C) 3 (D) 4
(E) 5
82) Leonie has hidden a Smiley behind some of the
grey boxes.The numbers state how many Smileys
there are in the neighbouring boxes. Two boxes are
neighbouring if they have one side or one corner in
common.
How many Smileys has Leonie hidden?
(D) 87 (E) 98
84) In order to slay a dragon, Mathias has to cut off all of its heads. As soon
as he has cut off 3 heads, a new one grows back immediately. After Mathias
has cut off 13 heads the dragon is dead. How many heads did the dragon
have initially?
(D) D (E) E
What does the tile on the far right look like after the third reflection?
89) Lea should write the numbers 1 to 7 in the fields of
the given figure. There is only one number allowed in
every field. Two consecutive numbers are not allowed
to be in adjacent fields. Two fields are adjacent if they
have one edge or one corner in common. Which
numbers can she write into the field with the question mark?
(A) all 7 numbers (B) only odd numbers (C) only even numbers
stand for?
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4
(D) 5 (E) 6
92) Anna uses 32 small grey squares to frame a 7 cm
by 7 cm big picture. How many small grey squares
does she have to use to frame a 10 cm by 10 cm big
picture?
(D) 48 (E) 52
93) The pages of a book are numbered with 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and soon. The digit
5 appears exactly 16 times. What is the maximum number of pages the book
can have?
95) There live exactly 15 animals on a farm : cows, cats and kangaroos. We
know that exactly 10 animals are not cows and exactly 8 animals are not
cats.How many kangaroos live on the farm?
97) One of the 5 children Alex, Bartek, Cora, Dani and Emil has eaten a cake.
(A) Alex (B) Bartek (C) Cora (D) Dani (E) Emil
98) From above, the corridor of a school looks like in the diagram.
A cat walks along the dotted line drawn in the middle of the room. How
many meters does the cat walk?
101) The sum of the points on the opposite sides of a common dice is 7.
This dice is placed in the first square as shown in the figure, and then rolled
as shown in the figure, to the fifth square. When the dice reach the last
square, what is the product of the numbers of points shown on the two
colored vertical faces?
(D) 18 (E) 24
102) Five friends decided to spend their vacations together. In a
conversation, Adam said, "Yesterday was Wednesday." Beto said, "Tomorrow
will be Friday". Carlos said: "The day before yesterday was Tuesday”. David
then said, "The day after tomorrow is Saturday". Finally, it was Eli's turn:
"Today is Monday". One of them was wrong. Who was wrong?
(A) Adam (B) Beto (C) Carlos (D) David (E) Eli
103) The teacher wrote the numbers 1 to 8 on the board. Then he covered
the numbers with triangles, squares and a circle. The sum of the numbers
covered with the triangles equals the sum of the numbers covered with the
squares and the number covered with the circle is a
quarter of that sum. What is the sum of the numbers
covered with the triangles and the circle?
104) Joana has several sheets of paper with the drawing of a parrot .
She wants to paint only the head, tail and wing of the parrot, red, blue or
green, and the head and tail may have the same color, but the wing may
not have the same color as the head or tail. How many leaves can she
paint, so that there are not two parrots painted the same way?
(D) F (E) G
109) The numbers 1 to 9 are placed in the squares shown with a number in
each square. The sums of all pairs of neighbouring numbers are shown.
Which number is placed in the shaded square?
111) A box has fewer than 50 cookies in. The cookies can be divided evenly
between 2, 3, or 4 children. How- ever, they cannot be divided evenly
between 7 children because 6 more cookies would be needed. How many
cookies are there in the box?
(E) 1 and 4
(A) 1 and 2 (B) 1 and 4 (C) 1 and 5 (D) 2 and 3 (E) 4 and 5
121) The big cube is made up of three different kinds of building blocks (see
diagram).How many of the little white cubes are needed for this big cube?
123) An underground line has the six stations A, B, C, D, E and F. The train
stops at every station. After reaching the end of the line A or F the train
continues in the opposite direction. The
train conductor starts his journey in
station B.
125) Three boys enter a room one after the other.Hermann is not the first.
Felix is not the second. Clemens is not the third. How many different orders
are there for the boys to enter the room?
126) Five clocks are hanging on the wall. One clock is one hour ahead.
Another one is one hour late and one is correct. Two clocks have stopped
working. Which clock shows the correct time?
128) Else has two machines R and S.If she puts a square piece of paper into
machine R it is rotated:
She wants to produce the following picture: In which order does Else
use the two machines so that she gets this picture?
(A) SRR (B) RSR (C) RSS (D) RRS (E) SRS