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Scarborough Math Olympics 2011

Team: Team Members Name: Score: ID# /32 points

Instructions Make sure that you have entered your team name and your name in the box provided above. You have a maximum of 40 minutes to complete this event. Please wait for the Olympic Officials instruction to begin. Questions are worth 1, 2, or 3 points as indicated. Where applicable, use appropriate units in your answer. Questions can be done in any order. Calculators, rulers and graph paper are allowed. Be sure to hand in all sheets.

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PART A: 1 point for each question 1. The perimeter of the figure made with 9 squares is 32 cm. Find its area.

Answer

2.

Find the value of

2 2 2 + + . 10 100 1000

3.

In the diagram find the value of x.

4.

Mary buys bagels for $6.60 per dozen. She spends $16.50 for the bagels and then sells all of them for $23.70. What is her average profit per bagel?

5.

If Jolly walks of a kilometre in 12 minutes, what is her walking speed in kilometres per hour?

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PART A: 1 point for each question 6. If x is x% of y what is y?

Answer

7.

What is the unit digit of 384 ?

8.

If 6 cats eat 6 packages of cat food in 6 days, how many packages will 12 cats eat in 12 days?

9.

A lumber company cut 20% of the trees in one quarter of a forest and 10% of the trees in the rest of this forest. What percentage of the trees was cut in the forest?

10. A cube is cut by a plane as shown. The resulting cut would be a triangle. If the plane can cut the cube in any direction, what is the maximum number of vertices of the resulting shape?

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PART B: 2 points for each question. Answer in the space provided. 11. A student multiplied two 2-digit numbers on a chalkboard. Then he erased all the numbers and replaced them with boxes: x = How do we know that he made a calculation mistake?

12. When I use a calculator to calculate 430, my calculator says 1.152921505E18. Which statement is true and why? a. 4
30

is exactly equal to 1.152921505 x 10

18

b. 4

30

is approximately equal to 1.152921505 x 10

18

13. In how many ways can a straight line cut a regular hexagon in half? What do all the cutting lines have in common?

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Scarborough Math Olympics 2011 PART B: 2 points for each question. Answer in the space provided. 14. An apple is in the shape of a ball of radius 31 mm. A worm gets into the apple and digs a tunnel of total length 61 mm, and then leaves the apple. (The tunnel need not be a straight line.) Can you cut the apple with a straight cut through the center so that one of the two halves is not rotten? Explain your reasoning.

15. A frog is at the bottom of a 30 metre well. Each day he summons enough energy for one 3 metre leap up the well. Exhausted, he then hangs there for the rest of the day. At night, while he is asleep, he slips 2 metres backwards. How many days does it take him to escape from the well?

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PART C: 3 points for each question. Circle your answer. 16. If a, b, c, and d represent different digits, and abc + dcb = 1000 then what is the value of a + b + c + d?

17. A train that is one kilometre long goes through a tunnel that is one kilometre long. If the train travels 20 kilometres per hour, how long will it take to pass through the tunnel?

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Scarborough Math Olympics 2011 PART C: 3 points for each question. Circle your answer. 18. If x + 2y = 11 and 2x + y = 28, what is x + y?

19. D is a midpoint of AC (AD=DC, BD is a median of ABC). Points E and F divide BD into three equal parts (BE = EF = FD). AB = 1 and AF = AD. Find the length of CE. Explain your reasoning.

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