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1.
S
E E
A A A
M M M M
C C C C C
2 2 2 2 2 2
0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
Beginning with the letter S at the top of the triangle and reading down, always passing from a letter to a diagonally adjacent
letter, in how many ways is it possible to read SEAMC2012
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2. If an item is sold for $x there is a profit of 15% on the cost price.

If the same item is sold for $y there is a loss of 15% on the cost price.
Find the ratio x : y in its lowest terms.
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3. Each letter in the sum below represents a digit.

AABA
+CCA
ABCC
What is the value of C?
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4. If you look at a clock and the time is 3:15, what is the angle between the hour and the minute hands?
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5. Let CHOPIN be a regular hexagon, and let OPERA be a regular pentagon. Find all possible values of measure of angle PIE.
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6.
x + y = 11
x + 27 = 3y + z
3z = 7x + 7
z=?
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7. One man can mow a field in 2 hours.

One man can mow a field in 3 hours.
If they all worked together at their respective speeds, how many minutes would it take to mow the field?
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8. How many minutes is it before 12 noon if 28 minutes ago it was three times as many minutes past 10am?
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9. Whole numbers 1 to 10 are arranged in this manner,

10 3 7 4 6 5 8 9 1 2
Each number can only move by crossing one number to its right at one time
How many times will you need to adjust the numbers so that it will become
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10?
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10. The Year 10 class had their election for year-level captain.
The candidates were Alec, Ann and Sue.
Alec and Ann together polled 65% of the votes,
Alec and Sue polled 40 votes between them, and
Ann polled 20 votes.
How many votes did the winner get?
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(3x-11)
11. Solve 16(81 ) = 64
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12. A poor pilgrim prayed to three saints in turn.

‘If you double the money in my purse, I will give $6 to the church.’
Each time he got his wish and gave the $6 to the church.
Afterwards he left with no money in his purse.
How much did he have at the start?
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13. FBCE is a rectangle and ABCD is a square of side 1. If AX has length x, find an expression for the length AF.
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14. The radius of the small circle in the diagram below is 6cm.
The shaded region is 2/3 of the small circle and 1/6 of the big circle.
Find the radius of the big circle.
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15. What is the units digit of
1 + 9 + 92  93  ...  92012 ?
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16. A regular hexagon is inscribed in a circle of radius 2 cm, so that its vertices lie on the circumference.
Find the area of the hexagon.
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17. The difference of the areas of two squares is 52 cm2.

The sum of their perimeters is 52 cm.
Find the length of the side of the larger square.
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18. A tortoise walks at a constant speed, and a hare runs y times as fast as the tortoise (y > 1).
In a race the tortoise starts x metres ahead of the hare, and at a given signal they both start off in the same direction and
continue to move in a straight line.
Express, in terms of x and y, the number of metres the hare must run to catch up with the tortoise.
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19. Sam and Sarah were shopping for stationery. They decided that they will spend all their money on either pencils, which cost
20 cents each, or pens, which cost 60 cents each and that they would not buy the same stationery. If Sam bought only pens,
he would have 8 more stationeries than Sarah. If he bought only pencils, he would have 36 more stationeries than Sarah.
How much more money has Sam than Sarah?
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20. Use the scissors (on your table) to cut a hole inside this sheet of paper so that your whole team can climb through the hole. If
you ‘break’ the hole open at any time, you do not get the mark. All three team members must go to the marker together and
climb through the hole without breaking it to get the mark.
21.125
21. A cylinder is formed from a rectangular sheet. Its enclosed volume is cubic units.

What is the area of the rectangular sheet?
2 2 units
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22. Below are four right triangles all sharing vertex A. Find the length of x.
60
x
1 30 45
30
A
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23. The figure below is a square of side length 4x. The shaded regions are formed by the overlap of the inscribed circle and the
four quarter circles with a diameter of 4x. Find the area of the shaded regions.
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24. A group of students are at a Mathematics competition. 15 girls leave the group. There are now 2 boys for each girl. After
this, 45 boys leave the group. There are now 5 girls for each boy. How many girls were originally in the group?
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25. Find the sum of all the prime numbers between 60 and 100 which are themselves the sum of exactly two prime numbers.
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26. In the triangle ABC, ABC = 90o, AB = 4 cm, BC = 6 cm and M is the mid-point of AC.
Find the length of BM.
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27. A ball is hit on a rectangular pool table, 2 m by 1 m, from a point X. It comes to rest at Y, as shown in the diagram. X is
0.6m from AD and 0.2m from DC. Y is 0.2 m from AD and 0.25m from AB. If the ball always rebounds at the same angle as
it hits the side, what is the distance traveled (in metres)?
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28. Three equal circles are inscribed in an equilateral triangle, touching all the sides and each other as shown.
A second equilateral triangle is formed by joining the centres of the circles, as shown.
Find the ratio of the area of the larger triangle to the smaller triangle.
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29. What number comes next in the sequence:

61, 691, 163, 487, 4201, ?
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30. A set contains five integers. When distinct elements of this set are added together two at a time, a complete list of the
different possible sums that result is:
637, 669, 794, 915, 919, 951, 1040, 1072, 1197.
What is the largest of the five integers in the set?
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31. In the following sequence of fractions, what is the 2012th fraction?
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2. If an item is sold for $x there is a profit of 15% on the cost price.

Find the ratio x : y in its lowest terms.

3. Each letter in the sum below represents a digit.

What is the value of C?

7. One man can mow a field in 2 hours.

One man can mow a field in 4 hours.

One man can mow a field in 6 hours.

9. Whole numbers 1 to 10 are arranged in this manner,

12. A poor pilgrim prayed to three saints in turn.

Find the radius of the big circle.

15. What is the units digit of

17. The difference of the areas of two squares is 52 cm2.

Find the length of the side of the larger square.

29. What number comes next in the sequence:

637, 669, 794, 915, 919, 951, 1040, 1072, 1197.

What is the largest of the five integers in the set?

31. In the following sequence of fractions, what is the 2012th fraction?

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