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EUROPEAN ‘KANGAROO’ MATHEMATICAL CHALLENGE

‘GREY’
Thursday 20th March 2003

Organised by the United Kingdom Mathematics Trust and the

Association Kangourou des Mathématiques, Paris

This paper is being taken by students in twenty-six European countries.

RULES AND GUIDELINES (to be read before starting):

1. Do not open the paper until the Invigilator tells you to do so.
2. Time allowed: 1 hour
No answers, or personal details, may be entered after the allowed hour is over.
3. The use of calculators, rulers and measuring instruments is forbidden.
4. Candidates in England and Wales must be in School Year 9 or below.
Candidates in Scotland must be in S2 or below.
Candidates in Northern Ireland must be in School Year 10 or below.
5. Use B or HB pencil only. For each question mark at most one of the options A, B, C,
D, E on the Answer Sheet. Do not mark more than one option.
6. Five marks will be awarded for each correct answer to Questions 1 - 15.
Six marks will be awarded for each correct answer to Questions 16 - 25.
7. Do not expect to finish the whole paper in 1 hour. Concentrate first on Questions 1-15.
When you have checked your answers to these, have a go at some of the later questions.
8. The questions on this paper challenge you to think, not to guess. You get more marks
and more satisfaction, by doing one question carefully than by guessing lots of
answers.

Enquiries about the European Kangaroo should be sent to: Maths Challenges Office,
School of Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT.
(Tel. 0113 343 2339)
 1. There are 17 trees along the road from Basil’s home to a swimming pool. On his way to and
from a swim Basil marks some trees with a red stripe. On his way to the pool he marks the
first tree, the third tree, the fifth tree and so on. On his way back again, he marks the first tree
he comes to, the fourth tree, the seventh tree and so on, missing out two trees each time. By
the time he gets home, how many trees have no mark?
A 4 B 5 C 6 D 7 E 8
2. This piece of paper was folded in half twice, and then second fold
had two equilateral triangles cut out of it.
Which diagram shows how the paper will look when first fold
it is unfolded again?

A B C D E

3. A straight line is drawn across a 4 × 4 grid (like a chessboard). What is the greatest number of
1 × 1 squares which can be divided into two by the line?
A 3 B 4 C 6 D 7 E 8
4. For a hexagon (with six sides like these) the greatest
possible number of interior right-angles is:
A 2 B 3 C 4 D 5 E 6
5. There used to be 5 parrots in my cage. Their average value was €6000. One day
while I was cleaning out the cage the most beautiful parrot flew away. The average
value of the remaining four parrots was €5000. What was the value of the parrot
that escaped?
A €1000 B €2000 C €5500 D €6000 E €10000
6. A bottle and a glass together hold the same amount of water as a jug. A bottle holds the same
as a glass and a tankard together. Three tankards hold the same as two jugs. How many
glasses would one tankard hold?
A 3 B 4 C 5 D 6 E 7
7. The net on the right can be cut out and folded to make a cube. a
Which face will then be opposite the face marked x? b x c
d e
A a B b C c D d E e
8. Start with a positive integer with 2 digits. Crossing out the units digit gives a new single digit
number. If you multiply this new number by an integer x you get the original number back.
What is the greatest possible value of x?
A 9 B 10 C 11 D 19 E 20
9. A transparent square sheet of film lies on a table. The letter is drawn (like this) on the
sheet. We turn the sheet clockwise through 90°, then turn it over what is now the left edge of
the sheet, and then turn it through 180°. Which figure can we now see?
A B C D E
10. If you multiply each of the following five numbers by 256, which one gives a product ending
with the greatest number of zeros?
A 7500 B 5000 C 3125 D 1250 E 10000
11. Jeffrey fires three arrows at each of four archery targets.

He scores 29 points on the first target, 43 on the second and 47 on the third.
How many points does Jeffrey score on the fourth target?
A 31 B 33 C 36 D 38 E 39
12. The mass of an empty coal-truck before it is loaded is 2000 kg. At the start of the day its load
of coal made up 80% of the total mass. At the first stop, the driver unloaded a quarter of the
coal. What was the mass of the coal on the truck as a percentage of the total mass after the
first stop?
A 20% B 25% C 55% D 60% E 75%
13. Two squares of the same size, and with their edges
parallel, cover a circle with a radius of 3 cm, as
shown. In square centimetres, what is the total
shaded area?
6π
A 8 (π − 1) B 6 (2π − 1) C (9π − 25) D 9 (π − 2) E
5
14. You have six sticks of lengths 1 cm, 2 cm, 3 cm, 2001 cm, 2002 cm and 2003 cm.
If you were to choose three of these sticks to form a triangle, how many different choices of
three sticks could you successfully make?
A 1 B 3 C 5 D 6 E more than 20
15. A cuboid has been built using 3 shapes (not necessarily different) each
made from 4 little cubes as shown. The shape shaded black is
completely visible, but both of the others are only partially visible.
Which of the following shapes is the unshaded one?

A B C D E

16. If you write down all the positive factors of 12, excluding 1 and 12 itself, you’ll find that the
largest is 3 times the smallest. For how many positive integers n is it true that, in the list of
the positive factors of n excluding 1 and n itself, the largest is 15 times the smallest?
A 0 B 1 C 2 D infinitely many E another answer
17. Pooh was celebrating his birthday with a party when Owl happened to pass by. Pooh, Tigger,
Piglet, Eeyore and Christopher Robin were sitting on the five seats around Pooh's circular
table. Owl asked everyone to shout out the name of one of his immediate neighbours at the
table. The names Pooh and Eeyore were called out twice each and Christopher Robin's name
once. From this information which of the following is definitely the case?
A Pooh and Eeyore are not neighbours. D The situation described is impossible.
B Piglet and Tigger are not neighbours. E None of A – D is correct.
C Piglet and Tigger are neighbours.
18. In a rectangle ABCD, the points P, Q, R and S are the D R C
midpoints of sides AB, BC, CD and AD respectively, and T is T
the midpoint of the line RS. What fraction of the area of ABCD
is the triangle PQT ? S Q

5 1 1 1 3
A B C D E A P B
16 4 5 6 8
19. Mary had 6 cards with one positive whole number written on each card. She chose 3 cards and
worked out the total of the numbers. She replaced the three cards, selected another 3, worked
out their total, until she had considered all of the 20 possible choices of 3 cards. Mary then
discovered that 10 totals were equal to 16, and that the other 10 totals were equal to 18. What
was the smallest number on the cards?
A 2 B 3 C 4 D 5 E 6
20. Carl tries to divide the large shape of squares into smaller pieces T
using only copies of the T-piece and the F-piece shown on the
right. (Pieces may be turned over or around.) What is the smallest F
possible number of the T-pieces that he can achieve?
A 1 B 2 C 3 D 4 E Carl can’t succeed
21. On a bookshelf there are 50 mathematics and physics books. No two physics books stand side
by side, but every mathematics book has a mathematics book next to it. Which of the
following statements need not be true?
A The number of mathematics books is at least 32.
B The number of physics books is at most 17.
C There are 3 mathematics books standing together.
D If the number of physics books is 17, then one of them is the first or the last on the shelf.
E Among any 9 consecutive books, at least 6 are mathematics books.
22. In the diagram the large square is divided into 25 smaller squares. X
Adding up the sizes of the five angles XPY , XQY , XRY , XSY and Y P
XTY , what total is obtained? Q
R
A 30° B 45° C 60° D 75° E 90° S
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23. The diagram shows a spiral of isosceles triangles. The largest angle in
each of the triangles is 100°. The grey triangle is number 0. Each of the 1
following triangles (numbered 1, 2, 3, ...) join by one edge to the previous 2
one, as shown. As you can see triangle 3 only partially covers triangle 0. 0
What is the number of the first triangle that exactly covers triangle 0? 3
A 10 B 12 C 14 D 16 E 18
24. Roo draws 10 points on a large piece of paper, making sure that no three points are in a
straight line. He then draws a straight line joining each pair of points. If Kanga drew a straight
line across Roo’s diagram, without going through any of Roo’s original points, what is the
greatest possible number of Roo’s lines that it could cross?
A 20 B 25 C 30 D 35 E 45
25. In triangle ABC, AB = AC, AE = AD and angle BAD = 30°. A
What is the size of angle CDE?
A 10° B 15° C 20° D 25° E 30° E

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EUROPEAN ‘KANGAROO’ MATHEMATICAL CHALLENGE

‘GREY’
Thursday 18th March 2004

Organised by the United Kingdom Mathematics Trust and the

Association Kangourou des Mathématiques, Paris

This paper is being taken by students in twenty-six European countries.

RULES AND GUIDELINES (to be read before starting):
1. Do not open the paper until the Invigilator tells you to do so.
2. Time allowed: 1 hour.
No answers, or personal details, may be entered after the allowed hour is over.
3. The use of rough paper is allowed; calculators and measuring instruments are
forbidden.
4. Candidates in England and Wales must be in School Year 9 or below.
Candidates in Scotland must be in S2 or below.
Candidates in Northern Ireland must be in School Year 10 or below.
5. Use B or HB pencil only. For each question mark at most one of the options A, B, C,
D, E on the Answer Sheet. Do not mark more than one option.
6. Five marks will be awarded for each correct answer to Questions 1 - 15.
Six marks will be awarded for each correct answer to Questions 16 - 25.
7. Do not expect to finish the whole paper in 1 hour. Concentrate first on Questions 1-15.
When you have checked your answers to these, have a go at some of the later questions.
8. The questions on this paper challenge you to think, not to guess. You get more marks,
and more satisfaction, by doing one question carefully than by guessing lots of
answers.

Enquiries about the European Kangaroo should be sent to: Maths Challenges Office,
School of Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT.
(Tel. 0113 343 2339)
http://www.ukmt.org.uk
1. What is the value of 2004 − 200 × 4?
A 400800 B 400000 C 2804 D 1200 E 1204
2. An equilateral triangle ACD is rotated anti-clockwise around B A
its corner A.
Through what angle has it been rotated when it covers
equilateral triangle ABC for the first time?
A 60° B 120° C 180° D 240° E 300°
C D

3. In order to get 50 in the last box of the following chain, what positive number do you have to
start with?

? Multiply by 0.5 Multiply by 1/3

50 Add 1 Square the number

A 18 B 24 C 30 D 40 E 42
4. Roo has 16 cards: 4 spades (fl), 4 clubs (†), 4 diamonds (‡) and 4 hearts fl ?
(fi). He wants to place them in the square shown, so that every row and †fl
every column has exactly one card of each suit. The diagram shows how ‡
Roo started. How many of the 4 cards can be put in place of the question fi
mark?
A none B 1 C 2 D 3 E 4
5. What is the value of the expression (1 − 2) − (3 − 4) − (5 − 6) −… − (99 − 100)?
A 0 B 49 C – 48 D 48 E 50
6. The diagram shows a net of a cube, with three dotted lines added.
If you folded the net into a cube and then cut along the dotted lines
you would have a hole in the cube. What would be the shape of
the hole?
A an equilateral triangle B a rectangle, but not a square
C a right-angled triangle D a square E a hexagon
7. Maija has a rectangular patio in her garden. She decides to make the patio larger by increasing
both its length and width by 10%. What is the percentage increase in the area of the patio?
A 10% B 20% C 21% D 40% E 121%
8. An ice-cream van sells nine different flavours of ice cream. A large group of children
gathered by the van and each of them bought a double-scoop cone with two different flavours
of ice cream. If none of the children chose the same two flavours, what is the largest possible
number of children in the group?
A 9 B 36 C 72 D 81 E 90
9. A chain is made from circular links, with external
radius 3 cm and internal radius 2 cm, as shown in the
diagram. The length of the chain is 1.7 m.
2cm ...
How many rings are used?
m
3c

A 17 B 21 C 30 D 42 E 85 1.7 m
10. In the first year of two consecutive years there were more Thursdays than Tuesdays. If neither
of these years was a leap year, which day of the week were there more of in the second year?
A Friday B Saturday C Sunday D Monday E Tuesday

11. The diagram shows a square ABCD and two semicircles with A B
diameters AB and AD.
If AB = 2, what is the area of the shaded region?
3 π
A 1 B C 2π D E 2
4 2
D C

12. ABC is an isosceles triangle with AB = AC = 5 cm and ∠BAC > 60°. The length of the perimeter
of the triangle is a whole number of centimetres. How many such triangles are possible?
A 1 B 2 C 3 D 4 E 5

13. Alfonso the Ostrich has been training for the Head in the Sand
Competition in the Animolympiad. He buried his head in the sand
last week and pulled it out at 8.15 am on Monday to find he had
reached a new personal record – he had been underground for 98
hours and 56 minutes. When did Alfonso bury his head in the sand?
A On Thursday at 5.19 am B On Thursday at 5.41 am C On Thursday at 11.11 am
D On Friday at 5.19 am E On Friday at 11.11 am

14. Five children are each asked to choose one of the numbers: 1, 2 or 4. When their chosen
numbers are multiplied together, which one of the following numbers could be the result?
A 100 B 120 C 256 D 768 E 2048

15. Boris has a big box of building bricks. Each brick is 1 cm long, 2 cm wide and
3 cm high. What is the smallest number of bricks he would need to build a cube?
A 12 B 18 C 24 D 36 E 60
16. The average age of Grandmother, Grandfather and their 7 grandchildren is 28 years.
The average age of the 7 grandchildren is 15 years.
If you know that Grandfather is 3 years older than Grandmother, how old is Grandfather?
A 71 B 72 C 73 D 74 E 75
17. One evening, an enclosure contained a number of kangaroos. All of a sudden a kangaroo got
up and said: “There are 6 of us here” and jumped out of the enclosure. Then another kangaroo
jumped out of the enclosure and said: “Every kangaroo who jumped out before me was lying.”
After that the rest of the kangaroos jumped out one by one, saying the same thing as the
second kangaroo, until there were no kangaroos left in the enclosure. How many kangaroos
had told the truth?
A 0 B 1 C 2 D 3 E 4
18. In a square with sides of length 6 cm the points A and B are on 6 cm
one of the axes of symmetry, as shown. The shaded area is
equal to each of the two unshaded areas.
What is the length of AB? A
B
A 3.6 cm B 3.8 cm C 4.0 cm D 4.2 cm E 4.4 cm
19. Olivier chose to put some of his magazines on his bookshelf. Each of the magazines has
either 48 or 52 pages. Which one of the following numbers cannot be the total number of
pages of the magazines on the bookshelf?
A 500 B 524 C 568 D 588 E 620
20. Consecutive numbers have been entered diagonally x
criss-crossing the square on the right. Which of the
following numbers could x not be?
A 128 B 256 C 81
D 121 E 400
11
10 12
4 9
3 5 8
1 2 6 7

21. The sum of the digits of 2004 is 6 and 2004 is also divisible by 12. How many four-digit
numbers have both these properties?
A 10 B 12 C 13 D 15 E 18
22. In the diagram on the right, the triangle is equilateral.
What is the area of the large circle divided by the area of the
small circle?
A 12 B 16 C 9 3 D π2 E 10

23. Some positive whole numbers are written on the faces of a cube, and at each vertex we write
the number equal to the product of the numbers on the three faces adjacent to that vertex.
The sum of the numbers at the vertices is 70. Then the sum of the numbers on the faces is:
A 12 B 35 C 14 D 10 E impossible to work it out
24. In the diagram, ABCD is a parallelogram. If B C
AA1 = 4 cm, DD1 = 5 cm and CC1 = 7 cm,
what is the length of BB1 ?
A 9 cm B 11 cm C 12 cm C1
D1
D 16 cm E 21 cm
B1
A D

A1

25. The number N is the product of the first 100 positive whole numbers. If all the digits of N
were written out, what digit would be next to all the zeros at the end?
A 2 B 4 C 6 D 8 E 9
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EUROPEAN ‘KANGAROO’ MATHEMATICAL CHALLENGE

‘GREY’
Thursday 17th March 2005

Organised by the United Kingdom Mathematics Trust and the

Association Kangourou Sans Frontières

This paper is being taken by students in twenty-nine European countries.

RULES AND GUIDELINES (to be read before starting):
1. Do not open the paper until the Invigilator tells you to do so.
2. Time allowed: 1 hour.
No answers, or personal details, may be entered after the allowed hour is over.
3. The use of rough paper is allowed; calculators and measuring instruments are
forbidden.
4. Candidates in England and Wales must be in School Year 9 or below.
Candidates in Scotland must be in S2 or below.
Candidates in Northern Ireland must be in School Year 10 or below.
5. Use B or HB pencil only. For each question mark at most one of the options A, B, C,
D, E on the Answer Sheet. Do not mark more than one option.
6. Five marks will be awarded for each correct answer to Questions 1 - 15.
Six marks will be awarded for each correct answer to Questions 16 - 25.
7. Do not expect to finish the whole paper in 1 hour. Concentrate first on Questions 1-15.
When you have checked your answers to these, have a go at some of the later questions.
8. The questions on this paper challenge you to think, not to guess. You get more marks,
and more satisfaction, by doing one question carefully than by guessing lots of
answers.

Enquiries about the European Kangaroo should be sent to: Maths Challenges Office,
School of Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT.
(Tel. 0113 343 2339)
http://www.ukmt.org.uk
 1. In the grid on the right there are eight kangaroos. A kangaroo may
jump into any empty cell. Find the least number of the kangaroos
which have to jump into an empty cell so that in each row and in each
column there are exactly two kangaroos.
A 0 B 1 C 2 D 3 E 4

2. How many hours are there in half of a third of a quarter of a day?

1 1
A 3 B 3 C 2 D 2 E 1
3. The diagram shows a cube with edges of length 12 cm. An ant crawls P
from the point P to the point Q along the route shown. What is the
length of the ant's path?
Q
A 40 cm B 48 cm C 50 cm D 60 cm
E more information is needed
4. In a triangle PQR, the angle at P is three times the angle at Q and is also half the angle at R.
What is the angle at P?
A 30° B 36° C 54° D 60° E 72°
5. The diagram shows the ground plan of a room. Adjoining walls a
are perpendicular to each other. The letters a and b on the plan
show the lengths of some of the walls. What is the area of the b
room? aa
A 3ab + a2 B 8a + 2b C 3ab − a2 D b2 − a2 E 3ab a a
6. Jane cut a sheet of paper into 10 pieces. Then she took one of the pieces and cut it into 10
pieces. She went on cutting in the same way three more times, making five times altogether.
How many pieces of paper did she have at the end?
A 36 B 40 C 46 D 50 E 56
7. A number of crows flew into a street and all but one of the crows perched on the roof-tops.
Each roof-top had just one crow on it. Later in the day the same number of crows perched in
pairs on the roof-tops, leaving just one roof-top with no crow. How many roof-tops were there
in the street?
A 2 B 3 C 4 D 5 E 6
8. A group of children is planning a trip. The children calculate that if each of them gives €14
for the travel expenses, they will be €4 short. But if each of them gives €16, they will have €6
more than they need. How much should each of the children give so that they have exactly the
right amount for the trip?
A €14.40 B €14.60 C €14.80 D €15.00 E €15.20
9. In the diagram, the five circles have the same radii and touch as shown.
The square joins the centres of the four outer circles. The ratio of the
area of the shaded parts of all five circles to the area of the unshaded
parts of all five circles is
A 5:4 B 2:3 C 2:5 D 1:4 E 1:3
10. A security guard works for four days consecutively, then has the next day off, works four
more days, has a day off, and so on. Today is a Sunday and a day off. On how many days
does the guard work before next having a day off on a Sunday?
A 7 B 35 C 30 D 28 E 24
11. Which of the following cubes can be folded from the net on the right?

A B C D E

12. From noon until midnight Clever Cat sleeps under an oak tree, and from midnight until noon
he tells stories. A poster on the oak tree reads:
‘Two hours ago Clever Cat was doing the same thing as he will be doing in one hour's time.’
For how many hours in a day is the statement on the poster true?
A 3 B 6 C 12 D 18 E 21
13. The diagram shows an equilateral triangle and a regular pentagon.
What is the value of x?
A 124 B 128 C 132 D 136 E 140
x°

14. Valeriu chooses a three-digit number and a two-digit number. The difference between the two
numbers is 989. What is the sum of the two numbers?
A 1000 B 1001 C 1009 D 1010 E more information is needed
15. The diagram shows a length of string wound 1 2 3 n−2 n−1 n
over and under n equal circles. The sum of the
…
diameters of the circles is d cm. What is the
length of the string in cm?
d cm

A 12 πd B πdn C 2πdn D πd E dn
16. For a natural number n greater than one, by the ‘length’ of the number we mean the number of
factors in the representation of n as a product of prime numbers. For example, the ‘length’ of
the number 90 is 4, since 90 = 2 × 3 × 3 × 5. How many odd numbers between 2 and 100 have
‘length’ 3?
A 2 B 3 C 5 D 7 E another answer

17. Peter has a three-digit code for a padlock. He has forgotten the code but he knows that all
three digits are different. He also knows that if you divide the first digit by the second digit
and then square the result you get the third digit. How many three-digit codes have this
property?
A 1 B 2 C 3 D 4 E 5

18. Two rectangles ABCD and DBEF are shown in the diagram. F
What is the area of the rectangle DBEF?
C
A 10 cm2 B 12 cm2 C 13 cm2 D 14 cm2 E 16 cm2 D
3 cm E
A 4 cm B
19. How many two-digit numbers are there which are more than trebled when their digits are
reversed?
A 6 B 10 C 15 D 22 E 33
20. Five straight lines intersect at a common point and five
triangles are constructed as shown. What is the total of the 10
angles marked on the diagram?
A 300° B 450° C 360° D 600° E 720°

21. The average of 10 different positive integers is 10. What is the greatest possible value that
any of these integers could have?
A 10 B 45 C 50 D 55 E 91
y
22. Gregor's computer is tracing out a path in the first quadrant as 4
shown in the diagram. In the first second the computer draws
the line from the origin to (1, 0) and after that it continues to 3
follow the directions indicated in the diagram at a speed of
1 unit length per second. 2
Which point will the traced path reach after exactly 2 1
minutes?
x
A (10, 0) B (1, 11) C (10, 11) D (2, 10) E (11, 11) O
1 2 3 4

23. Every other day Renate tells the truth for the whole day.
Otherwise she lies for the whole day. Today she made exactly four of the following
statements. Which statement could she not have made today?
A My name is Renate.
B I have a prime number of friends.
C I have the same number of girls who are friends as boys.
D Three of my friends are older than me.
E I always tell the truth.
24. How many ways are there of writing 100 as the sum of two or more consecutive positive
integers written in increasing order?
A 1 B 2 C 3 D 4 E none
25. Let a and b be the lengths of the two shorter sides of the right-angled
triangle shown in the diagram. The longest side, D, is the diameter of
the large circle and d is the diameter of the small circle, which touches
all three sides of the triangle.
Which one of the following expressions is equal to D + d ?
1
A (a + b) B 2(a + b) C 2 (a + b) D ab E a2 + b2
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EUROPEAN ‘KANGAROO’ MATHEMATICAL CHALLENGE

‘GREY’
Thursday 16th March 2006

Organised by the United Kingdom Mathematics Trust and the

Association Kangourou Sans Frontières

This paper is being taken by students in twenty-nine European countries.

RULES AND GUIDELINES (to be read before starting):
1. Do not open the paper until the Invigilator tells you to do so.
2. Time allowed: 1 hour.
No answers, or personal details, may be entered after the allowed hour is over.
3. The use of rough paper is allowed; calculators and measuring instruments are
forbidden.
4. Candidates in England and Wales must be in School Year 9 or below.
Candidates in Scotland must be in S2 or below.
Candidates in Northern Ireland must be in School Year 10 or below.
5. Use B or HB pencil only. For each question mark at most one of the options A, B, C,
D, E on the Answer Sheet. Do not mark more than one option.
6. Five marks will be awarded for each correct answer to Questions 1 - 15.
Six marks will be awarded for each correct answer to Questions 16 - 25.
7. Do not expect to finish the whole paper in 1 hour. Concentrate first on Questions 1-15.
When you have checked your answers to these, have a go at some of the later questions.
8. The questions on this paper challenge you to think, not to guess. You get more marks,
and more satisfaction, by doing one question carefully than by guessing lots of
answers.

Enquiries about the European Kangaroo should be sent to: Maths Challenges Office,
School of Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT.
(Tel. 0113 343 2339)
http://www.ukmt.org.uk
1. The point O is the centre of a regular pentagon. How much of the
pentagon is shaded?
O
A 10% B 20% C 25% D 30% E 40%

2. Granny told her grandchildren: “If I bake 2 pies for each of you, I’ll have enough pastry left
for 3 more pies. But I won’t be able to bake 3 pies for each of you, as I’ll have no pastry left
for the last 2 pies.” How many grandchildren does Granny have?
A 2 B 3 C 4 D 5 E 6

3. Which of the following is a net for the cube with two holes
shown alongside?

A B C D E

4. In a class there are 21 students. No two of the girls in the class are friends with the same
number of boys in the class. What is the largest number of girls that could be in the class?
A 5 B 6 C 9 D 11 E 15

5. The solid shown on the right is made from two cubes. The small cube with
edges 1 cm long sits on top of a bigger cube with edges 3 cm long. What is
the surface area of the whole solid?
A 56 cm2 B 58 cm2 C 60 cm2 D 62 cm2 E 64 cm2

6. Two sides of a triangle are each 7 cm long. The length of the third side is a whole number of
centimetres. What is the longest possible perimeter length of the triangle?
A 14 cm B 15 cm C 21 cm D 27 cm E 28 cm

7. If it’s blue, it’s round. If all the statements A It’s red

If it’s square, it’s red. in the box are true, B It’s a blue square
It’s either blue or yellow. which of A, B, C, C It’s red and round
If it’s yellow, it’s square. D or E can be D It’s yellow and round
It’s either square or round. deduced? E It’s blue and round

8. Three Tuesdays of a month fall on even-numbered dates.

What day of the week was the twenty-first day of the month?
A Sunday B Monday C Wednesday D Thursday E Friday

9. Alex, Hans and Stan saved up some money to buy a tent for a camping trip. Stan saved 60%
of the price. Alex saved 40% of what was left of the price and Hans’ share of the price was
€30. What was the price of the tent?
A €50 B €60 C €125 D €150 E €200
10. A squadron of aliens is travelling through space in a spaceship. Each alien is either green or
orange or blue. Green aliens have two tentacles, orange aliens have three tentacles and blue
aliens have five tentacles. In the spaceship there are as many green aliens as orange ones and
there are 10 more blue aliens than green ones. Altogether they have 250 tentacles. How many
blue aliens are there in the spaceship?
A 15 B 20 C 25 D 30 E 40

11. If Jumpy the Kangaroo hops using just his left leg he jumps forward 2 m.
If he hops using just his right leg, he jumps forward 4 m.
If he hops using both legs, he jumps forward 7 m.
What the smallest possible number of jumps Jumpy needs in order to cover a distance of
exactly 1000 m?
A 140 B 144 C 150 D 175 E 176

12. The rectangle shown in the diagram on the right is divided into 7 squares.
The sides of the grey squares on the right are all 8 cm long.
What is the length in cm of the side of the black square?
A 15 B 18 C 20 D 24 E 30

13. What number is increased by 500% when it is squared?

A 5 B 6 C 7 D 8 E 10

14. How many different shapes of isosceles triangles have at least one side of length 2 cm and an
area of 1 cm2?
A 0 B 1 C 2 D 3 E 4

15. Max and Moritz have drawn out a 5 × 5 grid on the playground, together P
with three obstacles. They want to walk from P to Q using the shortest
route, avoiding the obstacles and always crossing a common edge to go
from the centre of one square to the centre of the next. How many such
shortest paths are there from P to Q? Q
A 6 B 8 C 9 D 11 E 12

16. A train consists of five carriages: I, II, III, IV and V. In how many ways can the carriages be
arranged so that carriage I is nearer to the locomotive than carriage II is?
A 120 B 60 C 48 D 30 E 10

17. Belinda is making patterns using identical matchsticks. The 1×1, 2×2 and
3×3 patterns are shown on the right. How many matchsticks should
Belinda add to the 30×30 pattern in order to make the 31×31 pattern?
1st 2nd 3rd
A 124 B 148 C 61 D 254 E 120

18. What is the first digit of the smallest positive whole number which has the sum of its digits
equal to 2006?
A 1 B 3 C 5 D 6 E 8
19. John can’t be bothered to match up his socks by colour in pairs and instead he mixes up his 5
pairs of black socks, 10 pairs of brown socks and 15 pairs of grey socks in a box. Tomorrow
John is going on a school trip for a week. What is the smallest number of socks he needs to
take out to guarantee that he will have at least 7 pairs of socks all of the same colour?
A 21 B 31 C 37 D 40 E 41

20. The sum of three positive numbers is equal to 20.06 and the product of the two largest
numbers is p. Which of the following statements is necessarily true?
A p ≤ 99 B p ≥ 0.001 C p ≠ 75 D p ≠ 25
E None of A – D is necessarily true

21. Inge rides a bicycle from her home to school at a constant speed. If she increases her speed by
3 m/s, she will arrive at school three times as fast. How many times as fast will Inge arrive at
school if, instead, she increases her original speed by 6 m/s?
A 4 B 4.5 C 5 D 6 E 8

22. The product of two integers, both greater than 1, is 25 × 32 × 5 × 73 and their sum is S.
Which one of the following statements could be true?
A S is divisible by 3 B S is divisible by 5 C S is divisible by 8
D S is divisible by 49 E None of conditions A – D can be satisfied

23. The regular pentagon PQRST in the diagram has been reflected R
in the line PQ so that vertex T is reflected to point U , as shown. S Q
Then the new pentagon is reflected in PU , so that vertex Q is
reflected to point V , as shown. This process is repeated, on each 1
P
occasion reflecting in the line determined by the new edge T
through P. 2
V U
What is the least number of such reflections that are needed to
return pentagon PQRST to its original position?
A 6 B 10 C 12 D 15 E 20

24.
M I S S I S S I P P I

K I L I M A N J A R O

In the diagram above there are 11 cards, each printed with two letters. The diagram below
shows a rearangement of the cards, but only the top letters are shown.
P S I S I M I S S P I

Which one of the following sequences of letters could appear on the bottom row of the second
diagram?
A ANJAMKILIOR B RLIIMKOJNAA C JANAMKILIRO
D RAONJMILIKA E ANMAIKOLIRJ

25. If x = 12 + 22 + 32 + … + 20052 and y = 1 × 3 + 2 × 4 + 3 × 5 + … + 2004 × 2006, then the

value of x − y is
A 2000 B 2004 C 2005 D 2006 E 0
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EUROPEAN ‘KANGAROO’ MATHEMATICAL CHALLENGE

‘GREY’
Thursday 15th March 2007

Organised by the United Kingdom Mathematics Trust and the

Association Kangourou Sans Frontières

This paper is being taken by students in over thirty countries in Europe and beyond.
RULES AND GUIDELINES (to be read before starting):
1. Do not open the paper until the Invigilator tells you to do so.
2. Time allowed: 1 hour.
No answers, or personal details, may be entered after the allowed hour is over.
3. The use of rough paper is allowed; calculators and measuring instruments are
forbidden.
4. Candidates in England and Wales must be in School Year 9 or below.
Candidates in Scotland must be in S2 or below.
Candidates in Northern Ireland must be in School Year 10 or below.
5. Use B or HB pencil only. For each question mark at most one of the options A, B, C,
D, E on the Answer Sheet. Do not mark more than one option.
6. Five marks will be awarded for each correct answer to Questions 1 - 15.
Six marks will be awarded for each correct answer to Questions 16 - 25.
7. Do not expect to finish the whole paper in 1 hour. Concentrate first on Questions 1-15.
When you have checked your answers to these, have a go at some of the later questions.
8. The questions on this paper challenge you to think, not to guess. You get more marks,
and more satisfaction, by doing one question carefully than by guessing lots of
answers.

Enquiries about the European Kangaroo should be sent to: Maths Challenges Office,
School of Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT.
(Tel. 0113 343 2339)
http://www.ukmt.org.uk
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1. What is the value of ?
2 + 0 + 0 + 7
A 1003 B 75 C 223 D 213 E 123

2. The robot in the diagram has been programmed to move in a

straight line and, if it meets a wall (shown by bold lines), to turn 4
right by 90° and then to continue straight on. If it cannot go 3
straight or turn right it will stop. What will happen to this robot?
2
A It will stop at P2. B It will stop at P1.
C It will stop at T1. D It will stop at S1. 1
E It will never stop. P Q R S T

3. Sasha marks the points J (2006, 2007), K (2007, 2006), L (Ŧ2006,Ŧ2007), M (2006,Ŧ2007)
and N = (2007,Ŧ2006) on a grid with x and y-axes. Which points could he join to make a line
parallel to the x-axis?
A J and M B K and N C K and L D J and K E L and M

4. What is the least possible number of small squares that we should shade
in the diagram on the right for the whole diagram to have a line of
symmetry?
A 6 B 5 C 4 D 3 E 2

5. The number x is a negative integer. Which of the following expressions is greater than all the
others?
A x+1 B 2x C −2x D 6x + 2 E x−2

6. In the diagram six circles of equal size touch adjacent circles and the
sides of the large rectangle. Each of the corners of the small rectangle
is the centre of one of the circles. The perimeter of the small rectangle
is 60 cm. What is the perimeter of the large rectangle in centimetres?
A 80 B 100 C 120 D 140 E 160
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7. A survey for washing-up liquid revealed that of all customers bought Jinx and 13 bought
3
Kleenz. Nobody bought both. After an advertising campaign for Kleenz the only change in
sales was that 14 of those people who had bought Jinx were now buying Kleenz instead.
Which of the following is true?
5 3
A 12 of the customers now buy Jinx. B 4 of the customers now buy Kleenz.
7 2
C 12 of the customers now buy Jinx. D 3 of the customers now buy Kleenz.
1
E 2 of the customers now buy Kleenz.

8. In the diagram, each of the squares touches adjacent

squares at its corners and the line GH along one of its
edges. The line GH is 24 cm long. What is the total G H
perimeter, in centimetres, of all the squares?
A 64 B 84 C 96 D 128 E 144
 9. A palindromic number is one that reads the same backwards as forwards, for example 13531.
What is the difference between the smallest 5-digit palindromic number and the largest 6-digit
palindromic number?
A 989989 B 989998 C 998998 D 999898 E 999988

10. What percentage of the integers 1, 2, 3, 4, ... , 9998, 9999, 10 000 are square numbers?
A 1% B 1.5% C 2% D 2.5% E 3%

11. By drawing 9 lines, 5 horizontal and 4 vertical, one can form 12 small
rectangles, as shown on the right. What is the greatest possible number
of small rectangles one can form by drawing 15 lines, either horizontal
or vertical?
A 22 B 30 C 36 D 40 E 42

12. To what power should we raise 44 to get 88?

A 2 B 3 C 4 D 8 E 16

13. In the diagram, VWX and XYZ are congruent equilateral V

triangles and angle VXY = 80°. What is the size of angle Y
VWY ?
A 25° B 30° C 35° D 40° E 45° 80°

W X
Z

14. Each object shown is made up of 7 cubes. Which of P, Q, R and S can be obtained by rotating T?

P Q R S T

A P and R B Q and S C only R D none of them E P, Q and R

15. Andrew starts his afternoon walk along a flat path at an average speed of 4 km/h. Then he
climbs a hill at an average speed of 3 km/h. On reaching the top, he comes straight back down
at a speed of 6 km/h and then goes back on the flat path at the speed of 4 km/h again. The
walk takes him 2 hours altogether. What is the total distance he walks?
A 6 km B 7.5 km C 8 km D 10 km E It is impossible to tell.

16. The diagram shows a square of side 2 m with lines drawn to its
sides from the centre O. The points A, B, C and D are all on
different sides of the square. The lines OA and OB are
perpendicular as are the lines OC and OD. What is the shaded
area in square metres?
A 1 B 2 C 2.25 D 2.5
E It depends on the position of points B and C.
17. A calculator is working normally except that the keypad on the calculator is broken and when
the 1 is pressed nothing happens. How many different 6-digit numbers could you type for
which the display would show only the 4-digit number 2007?
A 12 B 13 C 14 D 15 E 16

18. Together, Alan and Bill weigh less than Charlie and Dan. Together, Charlie and Edwina
weigh less than Bill and Frances. Which of the following is definitely true?
A Together, Alan and Edwina weigh less than Dan and Frances.
B Together, Dan and Edwina weigh more than Charlie and Frances.
C Together, Dan and Frances weigh more than Alan and Charlie.
D Together, Alan and Bill weigh less than Charlie and Frances.
E Together, Alan, Bill and Charlie weigh the same as Dan, Edwina and Frances.

19. In the 4-digit code for his padlock, Valeriu wishes the first digit to be the number of noughts in
the code, the second to be the number of 1s, the third to be the number of 2s and the fourth to be
the number of 3s. How many such 4-digit numbers could he choose for his padlock code?
A 0 B 2 C 3 D 4 E 5

20. The positive integer n has exactly 2 factors. The next integer, n + 1, has exactly 3 factors.
How many factors has the number n + 2?
A 2 B 3 C 4 D 5 E It depends on the value of n.

21. Nick and Pete each chose four numbers from the nine numbers in the 4 12 8
diagram on the right. There was one number which neither of them
chose. Nick found that the total of his numbers was three times Pete's 13 24 14
total. Which number was not chosen? 7 5 23
A 4 B 7 C 14 D 23 E 24

22. Five integers are written around a circle in such a way that no two or three consecutive
numbers have a sum which is a multiple of 3. Of the five numbers how many are themselves
multiples of 3?
A 0 B 1 C 2 D 3 E It is impossible to determine.

23. Marta wants to use 16 square tiles like the one shown to form a 4 × 4
square design. The tiles may be turned. Each arc bisects the sides it meets
and has length p cm. She is trying to make the arcs connect to make a long
path. What is the length, in centimetres, of the longest possible path?
A 15p B 20p C 21p D 22p E 25p

24. When the 3-digit integer m is divided by 9, the sum of the digits of the result is 9 less than the
sum of the digits of m. How many such 3-digit numbers are there?
A 1 B 2 C 4 D 5 E 11

25. A strange calculator is able to do the following operations: to multiply by 2 or by 3 or to raise

to the power 2 or to the power 3 (i.e. to square or to cube). If one enters the number 15, which
of the following numbers can one obtain using precisely five operations?
A 28 × 35 × 56 B 26 × 36 × 54 C 23 × 33 × 53 D 28 × 34 × 52 E 2 × 32 × 56
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EUROPEAN ‘KANGAROO’ MATHEMATICAL CHALLENGE

‘GREY’
Thursday 24th April 2008

Organised by the United Kingdom Mathematics Trust and the

Association Kangourou Sans Frontières

This paper is being taken by students in over thirty countries in Europe and beyond.
RULES AND GUIDELINES (to be read before starting):
1. Do not open the paper until the Invigilator tells you to do so.
2. Time allowed: 1 hour.
No answers, or personal details, may be entered after the allowed hour is over.
3. The use of rough paper is allowed; calculators and measuring instruments are
forbidden.
4. Candidates in England and Wales must be in School Year 9 or below.
Candidates in Scotland must be in S2 or below.
Candidates in Northern Ireland must be in School Year 10 or below.
5. Use B or HB pencil only. For each question mark at most one of the options A, B, C,
D, E on the Answer Sheet. Do not mark more than one option.
6. Five marks will be awarded for each correct answer to Questions 1 - 15.
Six marks will be awarded for each correct answer to Questions 16 - 25.
7. Do not expect to finish the whole paper in 1 hour. Concentrate first on Questions 1-15.
When you have checked your answers to these, have a go at some of the later questions.
8. The questions on this paper challenge you to think, not to guess. Though you will not
lose marks for getting answers wrong, you will undoubtedly get more marks, and more
satisfaction, by doing a few questions carefully than by guessing lots of answers.

Enquiries about the European Kangaroo should be sent to: Maths Challenges Office,
School of Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT.
(Tel. 0113 343 2339)
http://www.ukmt.org.uk
1. In the diagram, a square with sides of length 4 cm and a triangle with
the same perimeter as the square are joined together to form a
pentagon. What is the perimeter of the pentagon?
A 12 cm B 24 cm C 28 cm D 32 cm 4 cm
E It depends on the size of the triangle

2. Flora the florist has 24 white, 42 red and 36 yellow roses. What is the greatest number of
bunches she can make if she uses all of these flowers and all the bunches are identical?
A 4 B 6 C 8 D 10 E 12

3. How many different squares can be drawn in total by joining the dots
with line segments in the part of the square lattice as shown on the
right?
A 2 B 3 C 4 D 5 E 6

4. The English mathematician Augustus de Morgan, who died in 1871, claimed that he became
x years old in the year x2. When was he born?
A 1806 B 1848 C 1849 D 1871 E More information is needed

5. In the diagram, three lines intersect at one point, forming angles of

108° and 124°, as shown. What is the size of the angle marked x°? 108° 124°

A 56° B 55° C 54° D 53° E 52° x°

6. A shape is made by cutting all the corners off a cube, as shown in the
diagram. How many edges does the shape have?
A 24 B 30 C 36 D 42 E 48

7. Dan has nine €2 coins and his sister Ann has eight €5 coins. What is the smallest number of
coins that must change hands so that Dan and Ann end up with equal amounts of money?
A 4 B 5 C 8 D 12 E It is impossible

8. Neda decided to take the ferry from the mainland to visit the four islands P, Q, R and S. The
island Q can be reached by ferry only from island P or from the mainland. Ferries connect
islands P and R, and each of them with the mainland. Island S only has a ferry connection
with island P. What is the smallest number of ferry journeys that Neda needs to take in order
to visit all the islands and return to the mainland?
A 4 B 5 C 6 D 7 E 8

9. Tom and Jerry started with identical rectangular sheets of paper. Each of them cut his sheet
into two. Tom obtained two rectangles, each with a perimeter of 40 cm while Jerry obtained
two rectangles, each with a perimeter of 50 cm. What was the perimeter of Tom’s original
sheet of paper?
A 40 cm B 50 cm C 60 cm D 80 cm E 90 cm
10. One face of a cardboard cube is cut along its diagonals, as shown.
Which of the following are not nets for this cube?

1 2 3 4 5

A 1 and 3 B 1 and 5 C 3 and 4 D 2 and 4 E 3 and 5

11. Mark marked out the points J , K, L and M on a straight line, so that JK = 13 cm,
KL = 11 cm, LM = 14 cm and MJ = 12 cm. What is the distance, in cm, between the
two points furthest apart?
A 14 B 38 C 50 D 25 E More information is needed

12. Four tangent circles, each of radius 6 cm, are inscribed in a P T Q

rectangle PQRS as shown in the diagram. The sides of the
rectangle touch two of the circles at T and U . What is the area
of triangle RU T in cm2 ?
S U R
A 27 B 45 C 54 D 108 E 180

13. Gar the Magician wrote each of the numbers from 1 to 7, one on each of seven cards, and
placed them in his hat. He offered the hat to two other magicians, Kan and Roo. Kan took, at
random, 3 cards from the hat and Roo took 2 cards (so that there were 2 cards left in the hat).
Kan told Roo: “I can deduce that the sum of the numbers of your cards is even”. What was the
sum of the numbers on Kan’s cards?
A 6 B 9 C 10 D 12 E 15

14. In triangle FGH, the point I lies on FH so that GI bisects angle FGH. Also, FG = FH and
GI = GH. What is the size of the angle FIG?
A 90° B 100° C 108° D 120° E More information is needed

15. A wooden cube measuring 11 cm by 11 cm by 11 cm is made from 113 centimetre cubes.

What is the greatest number of centimetre cubes visible from any point?
A 328 B 329 C 330 D 331 E 332

16. In the subtraction calculation on the right, each of the letters K, A, N, KAN
G, R and O represents a different digit. −GAR
What is the largest possible value of the number ‘KAN’? OO
A 987 B 876 C 865 D 864 E 785

17. In Miss Quaffley’s class, the girls make up more than 45% of the pupils, but less than 50%.
What is the smallest possible number of girls in her class?
A 3 B 4 C 5 D 6 E 7
18. Mr Ross always tells the truth on Thursdays and Fridays but always tells lies on Tuesdays.
On the other days of the week he tells the truth or tells lies, at random. For seven consecutive
days he was asked what his first name was, and on the first six days he gave the following
answers, in order: John, Bob, John, Bob, Pit, Bob. What was his answer on the seventh day?
A John B Bob C Pit D Kate E More information is needed

19. Heidi and Peter went for a mountain walk from Obersee to Salzbau. They left Obersee at
12 noon and the sign there said that Salzbau was 2 hours and 55 minutes away. At one
o’clock they sat down for lunch under another sign which said that Salzbau was now only
1 hour and 15 minutes away. After stopping for 15 minutes for lunch, they continued their
walk at the same speed as before without any further breaks. At what time did they reach
Salzbau?
A 2:00 pm B 2:30 pm C 2:55 pm D 3:10 pm E 3:20 pm

20. How many sets of three prime numbers have the property that the product of the three
numbers is exactly five times their sum? (The order of the three numbers is not important).
A 0 B 1 C 2 D 4 E 6

21. F is the set of all five-digit numbers whose digits have a product equal to 15.
T is the set of all five-digit numbers whose digits have a product equal to 25.
Which of the following statements is true?
A Set F has twice as many members as set T B Set T has twice as many members as set F
C Set F has 2/3 more members than set T D Set T has 2/3 more members than set F
E Both sets have the same number of members

22. Four identical dice are arranged in a row as shown in the diagram.
Although each die does have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 dots, the sum of the
numbers of dots on each pair of opposite faces is not necessarily 7.
What is the total number of dots on the six touching faces of the dice?
A 19 B 20 C 21 D 22 E 23

23. Tildash wishes to draw a number of straight lines on a piece of paper so that all of the angles
10°, 20°, 30°, 40°, 50°, 60°, 70°, 80° and 90° are formed between the lines. What is the
smallest possible number of lines Tildash needs to draw?
A 8 B 7 C 6 D 5 E 4

24. The highest common factor of two positive integers m and n is 12, and their lowest common
multiple is a square number.
n m n m
How many of the five numbers , , , and mn are square numbers?
3 3 4 4
A 1 B 2 C 3 D 4 E More is information needed

25. A triangle T has an area of 1 cm2. Let M be the product of the perimeter of T and the sum of
the three altitudes of T. Which of the following statements is false?
A There are triangles T for which M > 1000 B M > 6 for all triangles T
C There are triangles T for which M = 18 D M > 16 for all right-angled triangles T
E There are triangles T for which M < 12
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EUROPEAN ‘KANGAROO’ MATHEMATICAL CHALLENGE

‘GREY’
Thursday 19th March 2009

Organised by the United Kingdom Mathematics Trust and the

Association Kangourou Sans Frontières

This competition is being taken by 5 million students in over 40 countries worldwide.

RULES AND GUIDELINES (to be read before starting):

1. Do not open the paper until the Invigilator tells you to do so.
2. Time allowed: 1 hour.
No answers, or personal details, may be entered after the allowed hour is over.
3. The use of rough paper is allowed; calculators and measuring instruments are
forbidden.
4. Candidates in England and Wales must be in School Year 9 or below.
Candidates in Scotland must be in S2 or below.
Candidates in Northern Ireland must be in School Year 10 or below.
5. Use B or HB pencil only. For each question mark at most one of the options A, B, C,
D, E on the Answer Sheet. Do not mark more than one option.
6. Five marks will be awarded for each correct answer to Questions 1 - 15.
Six marks will be awarded for each correct answer to Questions 16 - 25.
7. Do not expect to finish the whole paper in 1 hour. Concentrate first on Questions 1-15.
When you have checked your answers to these, have a go at some of the later questions.
8. The questions on this paper challenge you to think, not to guess. Though you will not
lose marks for getting answers wrong, you will undoubtedly get more marks, and more
satisfaction, by doing a few questions carefully than by guessing lots of answers.

Enquiries about the European Kangaroo should be sent to: Maths Challenges Office,
School of Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT.
(Tel. 0113 343 2339)
http://www.ukmt.org.uk
1. Which of the following calculations results in an even number?
A 2×0+0+9 B 2+0+0+9 C 200 − 9 D 200 + 9 E 200 × 9

2. The star on the right is formed from 12 identical equilateral triangles.

The length of the perimeter of the star is 36 cm.
What is the length of the perimeter of the shaded hexagon?
A 12 cm B 18 cm C 24 cm D 30 cm E 36 cm

3. The product of four different positive integers is 100. What is the sum of these four integers?
A 10 B 12 C 14 D 15 E 18

4. In the diagram on the right, QSR is a straight line, P

∠QPS = 12° and PQ = PS = RS.
What is the size of ∠QPR? 12°

A 36° B 42° C 54° D 60° E 84°

Q S R

5. Which of the following knots consist of more than one loop of rope?

P Q R S T
A P, R and T B R, S and T C P, R, S and T
D all of P, Q, R, S and T E none of A, B, C or D

6. How many positive integers n exist for which n2 has the same number of digits as n3 ?
A 0 B 3 C 4 D 9 E infinitely many

7. The diagram on the right shows nine points in a square array. What is
the smallest number of points that need to be removed in order that no
three of the remaining points are in a straight line?
A 1 B 2 C 3 D 4 E 7

8. Nick measured all six of the angles in two triangles – one acute-angled and one obtuse-angled.
He remembered that four of the angles were 120°, 80°, 55° and 10°.
What is the size of the smallest angle of the acute-angled triangle?
A 5° B 10° C 45° D 55° E more information needed

9. The diagram shows four circles each of which touches the largest square
and two adjacent circles. A second square has its vertices at the
midpoints of the sides of the largest square and the central square has its
vertices at the centres of the circles.
What is the ratio of the total shaded area to the area of the outer square?
A π : 12 B 1:4 C (π + 2) : 16 D 1:3 E π:4
10. A magical island is inhabited entirely by knights (who always tell the truth) and knaves (who
always tell lies). One day 25 of the islanders were standing in a queue. The first person in the
queue said that everybody behind was a knave. Each of the others in the queue said that the
person immediately in front of them in the queue was a knave. How many knights were there
in the queue?
A 0 B 12 C 13 D 24 E more information needed

11. The diagram shows a solid with six triangular faces. At each vertex 1
there is a number and two of the numbers are 1 and 5, as shown. For
each face the sum of the numbers at the three vertices of each face is
5
calculated, and all the sums are the same. What is the sum of all five
numbers at the vertices?
A 9 B 12 C 17 D 18 E 24

12. In the equation E×I×G×H×T = T×W×O, the same letter stands for the same digit and
F×O×U ×R
different letters stand for different digits.
How many different possible values are there for the product T×H×R×E×E?
A 1 B 2 C 3 D 4 E 5

13. In each of the squares in the grid, one of the letters P, Q, R and S must P Q
be entered in such a way that adjacent squares (whether connected by
R S
an edge or just a corner) do not contain the same letter. Some of the
letters have already been entered as shown. Q
What are the possibilities for the letter in the shaded square?
Q

A only Q B only R C only S D either R or S, but no others

E it is impossible to complete the grid

14. The diagram shows a regular 9-sided polygon (a nonagon or an

enneagon) with two of the sides extended to meet at the point X.
What is the size of the acute angle at X? X
A 40° B 45° C 50° D 55° E 60°

15. The diagram shows the first three patterns in a sequence in

which each pattern has a square hole in the middle. How
many small shaded squares are needed to build the tenth
pattern in the sequence?
A 76 B 80 C 84 D 92 E 100

16. How many ten-digit numbers are there which contain only the digits 1, 2 or 3, and in which
any pair of adjacent digits differs by 1?
A 16 B 32 C 64 D 80 E 100
17. An ant crawls carefully around the edges of a cube, starting at point P
and in the direction of the arrow. At the end of the first edge he
chooses to go either left or right. He then turns the other way at the end
of the next edge and continues like this, turning right or left alternately P
at the end of each successive edge. After how many edges does the ant
return to point P for the first time?
A 2 B 6 C 8 D 9 E 12

18. The fractions 13 and 15 have been placed on the 1 1

number-line shown on the right. At which 5 a b c d e 3
position should the fraction 14 be placed?
A a B b C c D d E e

19. Three cuts are made through a large cube to make eight smaller
cuboids, as shown in the diagram on the right. What is the ratio of the
total surface area of these eight cuboids to the total surface area of the
original cube?
A 1:1 B 4:3 C 3:2 D 2:1 E 4:1

20. When Tina chose a number N and wrote down all of its factors, apart from 1 and N, she
noticed that the largest of the factors in the list was 45 times the smallest factor in the list.
How many numbers N could Tina have chosen for which this is the case?
A 0 B 1 C 2 D more than 2 E more information needed

21. A square has been dissected into 2009 smaller squares so that the sides of each smaller square
are a whole number of units long. What is the shortest possible length of the side of the
original square?
A 44 B 45 C 46 D 47 E 48

22. In a quadrilateral PQRS, PQ = 2006, QR = 2008, RS = 2007 and SP = 2009.

Which interior angles of the quadrilateral are necessarily less than 180°?
A P, Q, R and S B P, Q and R C Q, R and S D P, Q and S E P, R and S

23. If I place a 6 cm by 6 cm square on a triangle, I can cover up to 60% of the triangle. If I place
the triangle on the square, I can cover up to 23 of the square. What is the area of the triangle?
A 22.8 cm2 B 24 cm2 C 36 cm2 D 40 cm2 E 60 cm2

24. Peter wishes to write down a list of different positive integers less than or equal to 10 in such
a way that for each pair of adjacent numbers one of the numbers is divisible by the other.
What is the length of the longest list that Peter could write down?
A 6 B 7 C 8 D 9 E 10

25. In a triangle PQR, ∠PQR = 20° and ∠PRQ = 40°. The point S lies on QR so that PS bisects
∠QPR, and PS = 2 units. How many units longer than PQ is QR?
A 1 B 1.5 C 2 D 4 E more information needed
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Solutions to the European Kangaroo Grey Paper
1. B The square (and hence the triangle) has perimeter 16 cm. From 2 × 16 cm, we
have to subtract 2 × 4 cm for the common side. Thus the perimeter of the
pentagon is 24 cm.

2. B The highest common factor of 24, 36 and 42 is 6, so Flora can make 6 bunches,
each consisting of 4 white, 6 yellow and 7 red roses.

3. C There are four possible squares:

4. A The square numbers around 1871 are 422 = 1764, 432 = 1849 and 442 = 1936.
These lead to birth years of 1722, 1806 and 1892, and only 1806 is consistent
with the date of de Morgan's death.

5. E One can see that y + 124 = 180, so y = 56.

Then x = 108 − 56 = 52. 108° 124°
y°
x°

6. C A cube has 12 edges, but truncating each of the 8 corners will create 3 extra edges
at each one. Hence the new shape has 12 + 8 × 3 = 36 edges.

7. B Let Dan give Ann t €2 coins and Ann give David f €2 coins, so that Dan has
€ (18 − 2t + 5f ) and Ann has € (40 − 5f + 2t).
For Ann and David to end up with the same amounts, we have
18 − 2t + 5f = 40 − 5f + 2t and so 5f − 2t = 11. Clearly f ≥ 3 and t ≥ 0,
so the minimum value of f + t is 3 + 2 = 5.

8. C To visit S requires a journey from P to S and one back.

Simply to visit each of P, Q and R and return to the
mainland requires at least 4 journeys (having, as
Q R
destination, each of P, Q, R and the mainland). So at P S
least 6 journeys are needed and the map shows one
possible route.

9. C Let the original rectangle have sides of length 2a cm

and 2b cm, where a ≥ b, with perimeter (4a + 4b) cm.
2a
Then Tom's rectangles have lengths of a and 2b with
a
perimeter 2a + 4b = 40, and Jerry's rectangles have
lengths of 2a and b with perimeter 4a + 2b = 50. 2b b
Adding these gives 6a + 6b = 90, so
4a + 4b = 23 (6a + 6b) and so the perimeter is 60 cm.
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10. E In diagram 3 the triangles at the top and
bottom will fold up in such a way as to overlap 3 5
with one of the square faces as indicated. In
diagram 5 the triangles at the bottom will fit
together but the triangle at the top will overlap
with one of the square faces.

11. D If K lies between J and L then JL would be JK + KL = 13 + 11 = 24. So in

this case either JM = 24 + 14 or JM = 24 − 14 neither of which is 12. Thus K
does not lie between J and L, and since JK = 13 > 11 = KL, we must have the
order shown below (or its reflection).
K L J

11 2
Point M cannot be on the same side of J as K , because JM = 12 and LM = 14,
and so M must be at the opposite extreme to K , as shown below (or its reflection).
K L J M

11 2 12
Hence the distance between the two points furthest apart is 11 + 2 + 12 = 25.

12. D The height of triangle RU T is the diameter of a circle, i.e. 12 cm; the base length is
3 radii, i.e. 18 cm. Hence the area is 12 × 18 × 12 = 108 cm2.

13. D If Kan can deduce that the numbers on Roo's cards have an even total, they must be
either both even or both odd. Kan cannot be certain that both numbers are even as
he cannot have selected all four of the odd numbered cards. He can only be certain
if he has selected all three of the even numbered cards, leaving Roo only odd
numbered cards. Thus the sum of the numbers on Kan's cards was
2 + 4 + 6 = 12.

14. C Let ∠FGI = ∠HGI = x°. G

Then ∠FHG = ∠FGH = 2x° and so ∠GIH = 2x°, x°
as shown in the diagram. x°
F
From the angle sum of triangle HIG, 5x = 180 and
so x = 36. Hence ∠FIG = 180° − 2 × 36° = 108°.
2x°
2x°
I
H

15. D One can see the greatest number of centimetre cubes when looking at three faces at
once. There are 113 = 1331 centimetre cubes altogether, of which none of the 10
cm by 10 cm by 10 cm cube underneath or behind can be seen. Hence one can see
at most 1331 − 1000 = 331 cubes.
[Alternatively: One can count the three faces of 112 cubes, giving a total of
3 × 121 = 363 cubes, but then one would have to subtract the cubes along the
three edges counted twice and then add back the cube for which three faces are
visible, to get 363 − 3 × 11 + 1 = 331 cubes.]
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16. D First we can observe that the difference between ‘KAN’ and ‘GAR’ is less than
100, and so, since K ≠ G, K = G + 1.
Next we must have N < R, because if N ≥ R, the difference between ‘KAN’ and
‘GAR’ would be at least 100.
Let R = N + x, where 1 < x < 9. Then ‘OO’ = 100 − x, and hence O = 9, K ≤ 8
and R = N+1. Since we are seeking the largest value for KAN, we try K = 8.
In that case G = 7 and A ≤ 6. Once again, we try A = 6. Then, R ≤ 5 and, since
R = N+1, N ≤ 4. So 864 is the largest possible value for KAN and we have
864 − 765 = 99.

17. C If we consider possible numbers g of girls in a class of size c, we need

g g
0.45 < < 0.5. If we try g = 1, there is no such c, since if c = 1 or c = 2, is
c c
g
too large and if c > 2, is too small.
c
Likewise for g = 2 or 3 or 4.
5
However g = 5 with c = 11 leads to a fraction of = 45115 %.
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18. A Since he does not give the same name on two consecutive days, the six days cannot
include both a Thursday and a Friday. But one of the six days must be a Thursday
or a Friday. If the six days were to run from Saturday to Thursday, he would not be
able to give the same answer on the Tuesday and Thursday (but he does). So the
only conclusion is that the six days run from Friday to Wednesday: his truthful
answer on Friday is John and so it will be the same when he tells the truth on the
following Thursday.

19. A Before lunch Peter and Heidi had walked for 60 minutes, a distance that the sign
indicated might have taken 1 hour and 40 minutes, the difference between 2 hours
60
and 55 minutes and 1 hour and 15 minutes – they have used only 100 = 35 of the
time allowed. Maintaining this progress after lunch, they should cover the
remaining distance in 35 of the 75 minutes foreseen by the sign, a time of 45
minutes. Having spent 15 minutes on lunch, they should reach Salzbau at 2 pm.

20. B Let x, y and z be three prime numbers with the property that xyz = 5(x + y + z).
Since xyz must be divisible by 5, it follows that one of x, y or z is divisible by 5
which in turn means that one of x, y, z is actually 5. Assume that z = 5. Then we
have 5xy = 5 (x + y + 5), i.e. xy = x + y + 5. This equation can be rewritten
as xy − x − y = 5 which leads to (x − 1) (y − 1) = 6. Since x − 1 and y − 1
are both positive integers, we need only consider the factorisations 6 = 1 × 6 or
6 = 2 × 3. So we may suppose either that x − 1 = 1 (and so y − 1 = 6) or
that x − 1 = 2 (and soy − 1 = 3). This gives either (x, y) = (2, 7) or
(x, y) = (3, 4) but as 4 is not prime, the second possibility must be rejected so the
only possible set is {2, 5, 7}.

21. A For a 5-digit number to have a digit product of 15, one digit must be 3, one 5 and
three digits are 1. There are five places to put the 3, and then four places to put
the 5. So there are 20 numbers in F.
For a 5-digit number to have a digit product of 25, two digits must be 5 and three
digits are 1. There are five places to put the first 5 and then four places to put the
second 5; but the same number is obtained if the first 5 and the second 5 are
interchanged. So there are only 20 ÷ 2 = 10 distinct numbers in T.
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22. B It is clear that the face with 3 dots is surrounded by faces with
1, 2, 4 and 6 dots; so the face opposite must have 5 dots.
Moreover the face with 4 dots must be opposite the face with
1 dot. So the net of the cube will look as on the right:

Separating the dice, we have .

The faces between the first and second dice are 5 and 1, between the second and
third dice are 4 and 6 and, finally, between the third and fourth are 2 and 2. So their
sum is 20.

23. D Suppose it were possible for Tildash to form all nine angles by drawing only four
lines. Each pair of lines corresponds to one angle less than or equal to 90°. But
there are only six ways of choosing two lines from four and there are nine angles to
make, so she must draw at least five lines.
The diagram below shows how she can use just five lines to form all nine angles.

24. B Since the highest common factor of m and n is 12, let m = 12a and n = 12b
where a and b are coprime. Then the lowest common multiple is 12ab, which is a
square number. Since 12ab = 4 × 3ab, 3ab must be square number, and so ab
must be a multiple of 3. Since a and b are coprime, exactly one of a and b is a
multiple of 3.
Without loss of generality, let a be the multiple of 3; say a = 3c. Because
3ab = 9cb is a square number and b and c are coprime, both b and c are squares
too; say c = d 2 and b = e2. Thus m = 12a = 36d 2 and n = 12e2. Then
2 2 2 n 2
4 = 9d and 3 = 4e are square numbers, whereas 3 = 12d , 4 = 3e and
m n m

mn = 36 × 12d 2e2 are not.

25. E Let the sides of triangle T have lengths a, b and c and the corresponding altitudes
have lengths Ha, Hb and Hc.
By the triangle inequality, we have a + b > c, b + c > a and c + a > b and so
a + b + c > 2c, a + b + c > 2a and a + b + c > 2b.
Also, since triangle T has area 1, we have 12 aHa = 1, 12 bHb = 1 and 12 cHc = 1
and so aHa = 2, bHb = 2 and cHc = 2.
Now let us consider M.
M = ( a + b + c) ( H a + H b + H c )
= ( a + b + c) H a + ( a + b + c) H b + ( a + b + c) H c
> 2aHa + 2bHb + 2cHc = 4 + 4 + 4 = 12
so M > 12.
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Examples of the valdity of the options A, B, C and D are shown below.

Option A: There are triangles T for which M > 1000.

Take the right-angled triangle with sides as shown in the diagram.
≈25
0.08

25
Here the sum of the sides exceeds 50 and the sum of the altitudes exceeds 25 and
so M > 50 × 25 = 1250.

Option B: M > 6 for all triangles T.

Clearly this is true because from above M > 12.

Option C: There are triangles T for which M = 18.

2
This is true as one can take a equilateral triangle with sides of length 4 . Then
3
(
Ha = Hb = Hc = 3, and so M = 3 × 4 (3 × 3) = 18.
4 2
3 ) 4

Option D: M > 16 for all right-angled triangles T.

Note that in this case, since T is a right-angled triangle, we can take the
perpendicular sides to be a, b and so c is the hypotenuse. Thus the area is 12 ab
which gives ab = 2. From this we have Ha = 2a = b, Hb = 2b = a and we still
have Hc = 2c . Also, by Pythagoras' Theorem, c2 = a2 + b2. So

(
M = ( a + b + c) ( H a + H b + H c ) = ( a + b + c) b + a +
2
c )
= ( a + b) + ( a + b) c +
2
( 2
c )
+ 2.
But (a + b)2 = a2 + b2 + 2ab = c2 + 4. So

M = (c2 + 4) + (
c2 + 4 c +
2
c )
+ 2 > (c2 + 4) + (
c2 c +
2
c)+ 2

= (c2 + 4) + (c2 + 2) + 2 = 2c2 + 8.

Finally, we need to obtain the size of c2 which can be done by comparing c2 and
2ab.
c2 − 2ab = a2 + b2 − 2ab = (a − b)2 ≥ 0.
Hence c2 ≥ 2ab = 4. Thus
M > 2 × 4 + 8 = 16.