Upper Primary “IMC 国际数学竞赛”（新加坡）

Grand Final
IMC International Mathematics Contest (Singapore)
Practice Set 1

Part I. Multiple Choice Problems (Each problem is worth 5 points, for a total of 40 points).
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1 5
1. Find the simplified value of 7 3  4.
8
6
271
A． B．27 C．20 D．14
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Answer: C
13 6
Suggested Solution: 7    4  20
3 8

2. The square of a positive integer has 5 factors. For example the square of 4, 4216has 5 different factors,
they are 1,2,4,8,16. How many factors does the cube of any perfect square have?
A．7 B．6 C．5 D．4
Answer: A
Solution: Since (a23a6, then the number of factors is 617.

3. Find the maximum number of regions that can be formed when 2 straight lines and 2 triangles are drawn.
A．11~20 regions B．21~30 regions C．31~40 regions D．41~50 regions
Answer: A
Solution: Refer to the figure below; a maximum of 18 regions can be formed.
4. The 2016 IMC organizing committee assigned to each participating country a code number as follows:
Country # 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Country China Hong Kong Taiwan Singapore Malaysia Indonesia Korea
Country # 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
Country Vietnam Philippines Thailand India Iran Myanmar Nepal
The delegates from China who attended this event were surprised that the total number of delegates reached
"□□□□□" persons (each box represents a digit, it may or may not be the same). The team leader of each
participating country discovered that this five-digit number as divisible by their assigned code number. After
the organizing committee rechecked all assigned code numbers, they found out two countries that are
neighboring in the chart have wrong code numbers. Find the five-digit number.
A．90090 B．60060 C．30030 D．20020
Answer: B
Solution: By observation, the assigned code numbers 8 and 9 are incorrect, hence when computing the

LCMof 1, 2,3, 4,5, 6, 7,10,11,12,13,14  3  4  5  7  11  13  60600.

5. A roadwork project consists of 2 contractors doing the job. Company A does twice as much work compared
to Company B. After Company A’s few days of working, they realized that they only need 100 meters to
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complete their task. Moreover, the amount of work they already completed was of the whole project.
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How long was the road to be constructed?
A．1400 B．2800 C．3000 D．4200
Answer: D
Suggested Solution: Let x be the amount of work to be done by Company B, 2x be for Company A.
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Therefore, 2 x  100   2 x  x   , x1400, so the total is 140034200 meters．
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6. Using the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 only once, form as many prime numbers as you can using the said digits
so that the sum is as small as possible. What is the sum of the said combination?
A．111 B．113 C．461 D．471
Answer: A
Solution: From the set of numbers, we know that 4 and 6 should be on the ten’s digit, so the smallest
possible primes are 61 and 43, and then we leave 2 and 5 as 1 digit numbers, to get the sum as
254361111.

7. There are four squares with side length 1 that are located on the corners of the bigger
square with side length 2 as shown in the figure. What is the area of the shaded
region?
A．0.8 B．1.6 C．2.0 D．2.4
Answer: B
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Solution: Refer to the figure below, you will see that the shaded region is of the bigger square, therefore
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1 2 1
2
area= 22   1.6. 1 1
5 2
2
2
1
1 2
2 1
8. Using only the numbers 2,0,1 and 6, you need to form all non-zero natural numbers and arrange them from
smallest to largest. What is the 2016th number of the sequence?
A．166165 B．166166 C．166200 D．166201
Answer: C
Solution: Since we are using 2, 0, 1, and 6 only, we need to find the corresponding value of 2016 in base 4.
Since 2016133200(4)  166200.

Part II. Fill in the Blanks (Each problem is worth 5 points, for a total of 40 points).
    1
 1 1 1   1   1 1   1  4
9. Calculate:      4     4  
 2 3 4  1 1   2 3   1 1 1 1
      
 2 3  2 3 2 3
Answer: 3
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 b
Solution: Let a   , b  , then original expression   a  b      a    
2 3 4 a b b a a
b a a b
1  1    1   3.
a b b a

10. What is the smallest possible value of n such that 6868


68 is divisible by 28?
(68 times)

Answer: 3
Solution: Since we are checking for divisible by 28, it must be both divisible by 4 and 7. Since 68 is
divisible by 4, we just need to check the divisibility by 7. By inspection, the smallest possible combination
is 686868 is divisible by 7, therefore the n=3.

11. Complete the division problem and determine the dividend?

Answer: 3606
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Suggested Solution: By observation, we discover in the 3rd row 0 and 4th
0
rd th 1
row 1 will yield 6, so 3 row must be 100 while 4 row number must
6
be 91, and we know that from multiplication: 91  13  7, so the divisor is 13.
Hence, the inverse division is the multiplication sentence:
13  277  5  3606.

12. By adding one digit n in front of a four-digit number2016 to form a five-digit number n2016 such that this

newly formed five-digit number is divisible by n. For example, 42016 is divisible by 4. What is the sum of
all the possible values of n?
Answer: 40
Suggested Solution:
From the given information, possible values of n are 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 and 9.
So, the sum of all the possible values of n is 1234678940．
13. What is the area of the shaded region in the figure with a circle inscribed in a
right-angled triangle with sides of length 3, 4 and 5? (Use  = 3.14)
Answer: 2.86
Suggested Solution: From the given information, radius of the circle is 34521.
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Thus, the area of the shaded region is  4  3    12  2.86.
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14. There are six students A, B, C, D, E and F standing in a line to take picture, A must stand on either end of
the line, B and C want to stand side by side, D and E don’t want to follow one another. How many ways
are there to arrange a line for taking the photo?
Answer: 48

Solution: P22  P22  P32  C21  48 ways.

15. Andy and Sam start walking at the same time from opposite ends A and B, respectively. Randy is moving to
the direction of B and Sam to the direction of A. When they arrive at their destination, they immediately
return to their original places. They keep repeating the same process for several times. It is known Randy’s
speed is 2.5 times than Sam’s speed, the distance when the two meet for the second time and the fourth time
is 200 meters. What is the distance between City A and City B in meters?

Randy 0 4 5 8

Sam
0 2 6 10
Answer: 2100
Suggested Solution: The ratio in time that Randy and Sam completed one whole round is2:5. From the line
3 1
chart of the given situation provided, we conclude that 200      2100.
 7 3

16. Using the 1  2 and 1  3 blocks in Figure 1, we need to

create a 2016 pattern that is found in Figure 2. (Figure 2 12
provides 1 solution). How many ways can we create the
2016 pattern? 13
Figure 1 Figure 2

Answer: 330
Suggested Solution: Notice that the dimensions of each digit is 3  6 units, To form numeral 2, there are a
total of 5 ways of doing it，11 ways for numeral 0， 2 ways for numeral 1, and 3 ways for numeral 6.
Therefore, there are a total of 51123330 ways.
Part III. (Each problem is worth 10 points, for a total of 20 points. Show your COMPLETE solutions to
get full marks.)
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17. Refer to isosceles right-angled △ABC at the right, ABC90°, D is the E
midpoint of AB, AECD, andAE4cm. What is the area of △ABC?
D
A C
Answer: 40
Suggested Solution: Let ADa，since D is the midpoint, BDa. Since △ABCis isosceles,BC2a. Also, you
AE ED 4 ED
see that△ADE and △CDBare similar (AA postulate), therefore,  ,  , ED  2. Then by
CB BD 2a a

Pythagorean theorem, 2a2  2  20  40.

18. Select 15 different numbers from the sequence of numbers 4, 7, 10, 13, …, 64, 67, 70 to form another group.
What is the maximum sum of any 2 numbers selected from the set of the 15 different numbers?
Answer: 83
Solution: There is a total of 7013124 numbers in the sequence. As such, you can create 14 “groups”
of numbers from the sequence namely: 1、4、7、10、{13，70}、{16，67}、{19，64} up until {40，43}.
Using the pigeonhole principal, since we are getting 15 numbers from the set, there is at least one pair of
numbers that whose sum is 83, if sum is less than 83, then there are fewer than 15 numbers that were
selected.

Answer Key to IMC Grade 5 Grand Final

Number 1 2 3 4 5 6
Answer C A A B D A
Remarks
Number 7 8 9 10 11 12
Answer B C 3 3 3606 40
Remarks 33 3 pts

Number 13 14 15 16 17 18
Answer 2.86 48 2100 330 40 83
Remarks 3.143 pts 963 pts 2703 pts