Singapore and ASEAN Schools Math Olympiads (SASMO) 2013 Middle Primary 3 and 4 Authors: Merlan Nagidulin Henry Ong © Excel League Pte Ltd All Rights Reserved Ho part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted by any means, electronic ot mechanical, including okecsprng' and recording, of by any formation oF retrieval sytem, without the prior permission oF the publisher.Vv. Math Olympiad Challenges Question 1 Find the number A such that the following statement is true: 5x 104+6x 10> 11xA Question 2 What is the missing number 8 which satisfies the given equation? 2x BES X4-14=B4+3xX246 1Question 3 ‘Suppose WV is a whole number. For how many values of N less than 150 is, uM 2 2. + also a whole number? Question 4 For how many values of N is 7Question 5 A bag contains a total of 15 balls of 5 different colours. Each colour has a unique ‘number of balls in the bag. What is the least number of balls to be picked (without looking) to ensure three different coloured balls are picked? Question 6 Seven 50 ¢coins and eight $1 coir are equally distributed (randomly) among five children. What is the difference between the maximum amount and the minimum amount a child can receive? (Give your answer in dollars) 38Question 7 A palindromic numbers a number that remains the same when its digits are reversed. E.g. 4554 is a palindromic number. How many palindromic numbers are there between 100 and 999, inclusive? Question 8 If two different natural numbers have the same digits but in reverse order, each number is called the palimage of the other. For example, 12 and 21 are palimages of each other. What is the maximum difference between two-digit palimages?Question 9 Alan runs at a rate of 100 meters per 15 seconds. At this rate, how much distance will he cover in 15 minutes? Give your answer in kilometers. Question 10 Ina construction company, 10 workers complete one-tenth of their total in 10 hours. How long will SO workers take to complete their entire work? 20Question 11 If January 1%, 2005 was a Monday, on what date will the 55" Monday from January 1, 2005 be? Question 12 The average of 5 numbers is 7.6. What number should be added to increase the average of the number to 8? aQuestion 13 In the following pattern, how many black squares are there in the 19" image? 1 Image 24 Image 34 Image 4 Image Question 14 A certain number of children stand in a line in ascending height order. The 10" child from the front is also the 16" child from the back. How many children must be added at the back such that the 5" chi the back? from the front becomes the 36" child from 2Question 15 ‘Among a certain group of kids, the first kid gets 1 sweet, the second kid gets 2 more sweets than the first kid, the third kid gets 3 more sweets than the second kid and 0 on. How many more sweets does the 12" kid get in comparison to the 6" kid? Question 16 Rico walks from point A to point B on a straight path at a speed of 2 km/h. Alice walks from point B to point A on the same path at a speed of 5 km/h. If Rico starts walking from point A at the same time as Alice starts walking from point B, and the distance between points A and B is 14 km, how far would Alice have walked before she crosses Rico? ”Question 17 How many degrees does the minute hayd sweep between the time 9:00 AM and 11:50 AM? Question 18 A, B, C are different numbers to be caosen from the set {4, 7, 8, 10}. Find the difference between the largest and smallest values of AXB Cc aQuestion 19 Given on the right is a series of numbers following a specific pattern. (1,2) refers to the number in the first row second column, What is the number in (10,2)? Question 20 A circle with centre 0 is inscribed in a square ABCD A as shown in the figure. If the perimeter of square Va ABCD is 16 cm, find the area of the circle in cm?.. K Give your answer in terms of cm? . a Columa, 4 [6 9 fiz [a5 17 |i9 [ai 24 |27 [30 B cQuestion 21 In the given figure, arc AOD represents a semicircle. With *—*——t centre at 0. Length of AB = a where ABCD is a square. Find the area of the given figure. q Question 22 Let ABCDEFGH be a cuboid such that AB = 10cm, BC = 2em, BF = Sem. How many cubes of length + cm would be required to fill the cuboid? 6Question 23 Given C > 0, for how many values of B is the given product valid? eke BB Question 24 IFBD is a diagonal in a rectangle ABCD where AB = 10,AD = 5,AE = 2,FC = 4.as shown in the figure, find the value Area of triangle AED | Area of triangle BCF ‘Area of triangle BED © Area of triangle BFD . 27Question 25 ‘ABCD is a square park where AB = 100 m. The shaded area represents grass and the solid areas represent congruent squares of concrete. If EF = Sm, what is the ratio of the area | Fa covered by grass to the area covered by concrete? Question 26 Andy's current age is 40. Five years from now, his age will be equal to the sum of the ages of his two sons, Mike and Rick. If Mike is 3 years older than Rick, what is Rick’s current age? 28ion 27 Que: ‘3 x 3 grid contains 9 numbers. Each number is halved to obtain the number on the left. Each number is multiplied by + to obtain the number above. If the sum of the numbers is 182, what is the number in the top right corner? Question 28 ‘A square is divided into three congruent rectangles as shown in figure 1. If the middle rectangle is rearranged to form figure 2, what is the ratio of the perimeter of figure 1 to the perimeter of figure 2? IN B A B 2»Question 29 In the zoo, there are 45 heads of monkeys and lions. There are twice as many monkeys as lions. How many lions are there? Question 30 Ina group of 35 students, there are 9 girls more than boys. What is the number of girls? 30Question 31 Jason has eaten 45 chocolates in 5 days. Every day, he ate 2 chocolates more than the previous day. How many chocolates did he eat on the first day? Question 32 Find missing number and complete the number pattern. OOOVOO aQuestion 33 The sum of Tom's age and Jerry's age is 25. What will the sum of their ages be after nine years? Question 34 The +k (star) has a number value of? O+rA =26 Ath =34 A+ =35 O+r0=*% nQuestion 35 ‘There were 17 pieces of paper. Some of them were cut into four parts. Altogether, there are now 32 pieces of paper. How many pieces were cut into four parts? Question 36 What is the smallest possible number of children in a family if each child has at least two brothers and two sisters? BQuestion 37 Ina box, there are six smaller boxes, each one of them contains seven even smaller boxes. How many boxes are there in total? Question 38 ‘What is the value of the following? TS4+ 7S +75 +75 + 75+ 7S4+7S +75 +75 +754 7S +75 +754 75475 + TS + 75475475 +75 + ISH IS+IS +75Question 39 Observe the following number pattern and fill in the box with the correct answer. "1 35 32 46 34 25 1645 3966 2 Question 40 ‘There are 47 boys and 29 girls in a group. Every week, 6 more boys and 9 more girls join the group. After how inany weeks will there be the same number of boys and girls in the group? 8Question 41 ‘A box has five pens in five colours: red, green, blue, white and yellow. The green pen is the first pen on the left. The yellow pen is next to the green pen and the red pen, The white pen is next to the red pen and the blue pen. What is the order of the pens in that box? Question 42 How many rectangles are in this picture? 36Question 43 Whaat is the next number in the following pattern 1,3, 11, 123, 2? Question 44 There are parrots and rabbits in a pet store. The number of parrots is 50 more than that of rabbits and the total number of legs of the parrots is 40 more than that of the rabbits. How many parrots are there in the pet store? 7Question 45 How many three-digit numbers are there in which all digits on the left are larger ok for a pattern) than digits on the right? (Hi