2018 AMO

Grade 4 Old Questions

1. What is the value of (88 + 66 + 44 + 11) - (77 + 55 + 33 + 22).

2. David scored three times as much as Jim in a game. The sum of their scores is 1032 points. What is

David’s score?

3. The figure shown is crated by overlapping three 2 cm by 6 cm rectangles. What is the perimeter, in

cm of the H - shaped figure?

4. Sammy has $10 on Monday and gets $2 every Sunday after allowance. Tammy has $50 on the same

Monday and spends $3 every Sunday on snacks. After how many weeks will they have the same

amount of money on a Monday?

5. Given that A + B = 20

B + C = 32

A +B+C = 44, find the sum of C and A.

6. Find the value of 78 + 65 + 52 + 39 + 26 + 13.

7. How many of the first 40 even whole numbers contain the digit 4?

8. Orville has L-tiles, each made up of three 1x1 square(as shown). What is the greatest number of

these L-tiles that can fit into a 7x5 rectangle so long as there is no overlap? (Note: The L-tiles can be

rotated in order to fit better but not cut.)

9. In the following cryptarithm, each different letter represented a different digit. Find the first three

digits of the largest possilbe sum.(Example, if your answer is 1234, then write 123.) PART

+ TRAP
10. Marci looked at a clock and realized that the number of hours that had passed since midnight was

three times the number of hours remaining until noon. What time did the clock shown?

(Disregard the colon in your answer. Example, if your answer is 3:00, write 300)

11. Sigmund is a collector if coins from different countries. When his coins are arranged in piles of 13,

there are 9 coins left over. When his coins are arranged in piles of 11, there are 9 coins left over.

When Sigmund’s coins are arranged in piles of 143, how many coins are left over?

12. In the figure, the whole numbers from 1 through 7 are to be placed, one per square. The sum of

the numbers in the left column, the sum of the numbers in the right column, and the sum of the

numbers in each diagonal are the same. What is the least possible producy of the numbers across the

gray row?

13. Three brothers have the same birthday, but were born in different years. Four yeas ago, the oldest

brother’s age was 5 times the age of the youngest brother. At that time, the age of the middle brother

was 3 times the age of the youngest brother. Today, the middle brother’s age is twice the age of the

youngest brother. Today, how old is the oldest brother?

14. A rectangular billboard has a length greater than its height and has an area of 60 square meters.

There are lights around the perimeter of the billboard, one every meter. There are 34 lights around

the perimeter of the billboards. Find the length, in meters, of the longer side of the billboard.

15. In the following ctyptarithm, each different letter represents a different digit in the 6-digit

numbers. If B is not 0, find the first three digits of the smallest possible sum.

(Example, if your answer is 12345, then write 123.)

BETTER

BITTER

+BATTER

BUTTER
16. Each of the whole numbers 1 through 9 is written on cards, one number per card. Three cards are

given to each of three players. The sum of the Player One’s cards is 15. The sum of the Player Two’s

cards is 24. Who received the greatest number of even digits?

(Write 001 if is was Player One, 002 if it was Player Two, 003 if it was Player Three.)

17. Annie is making pattern of dots. The first four figures are shown below. How many dots will the

7th figure contain?

18. Following only the paths shown, what is the number of the different paths that go from A to B to C

to D and touch each of those points exactly once?

19. Kenneth writes the whole numbers in order as shown below. The 1 st number in Row 1 is 1. The 1 st

and 2nd numbet in Row 2 are 2 and 3, respectively and so on. What is the 27 th number in Row 27?

20. Each number from 1 through 16 is written one to a box. A path is formed by placing consecutive

numbers in adjacent boxes horizontally or vertically, but not diagonally. Two numbers are shown. Find

the largest possible sum of the numbers in th starred(*) boxes. (Adjacent boxes means that boxes

next to each other).