AMO 2016 Grade 2-3

1. What is the value of (10 + 9 + 8 + 7 + 6) – (5 + 4 + 3 + 2 + 1)?

2. On Wednesday, the store sign said that the new video game would be available in 33 days. On what day
of the week should the sign say that it will be available in only 2 days?

3. Each letter in the ordered list A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H represents a number. The numbers are not necesarrily
different, which means that two letters can represent the same number. The sum of the value of any
three adjacent letters is 20. When B = 6 and D = 9, what is the value of F?

4. In the addition shown, different letters represent different digits. What is the value
of A + B + C + D?

5. Three students are in an election. Twenty-five votes are cast. Samantha has more votes than anyone
else. What is the least number of votes she could have?

6. The clock at Bernoulli Towers is slow. Every day, at noon, Karan corrects it from 11:30 am to 12:00 pm.
When Karan went on vacation for 6 consecutive days, he accidentally took the key with him. With no one
to reset the clock, it fell far behind. When Karan returned after vacation to correct the clock to noon,
what time did the clock show?

7. The number in the center of each box is the result of operations that use the four numbers in the corners
of the same box. Each of the four corner numbers in a box must be used exactly once. The same set of
operations is used for each box. What number should replace the N?

8. Find the least counting number which when divided by 5 gives a remainder of 1 and when divided by 12
gives a remainder of 3.

9. The Funny Book has its pages numbered in the following way: 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, ... That is, there
is one 1, two 2s, three 3s, four 4s, five 5s, and so on. How many actual pages will the Funny Book have if
it contains all pages that are numbered “1” through “20”, but not any that numbered “21”?

10. A bicyclist takes 2 minutes 30 seconds to travel a distance of 1 mile. At this rate, how many miles will the
bicyclist travel in 1 hour?

11. In a parking lot there are 60 cars, all of which are black and blue and all of which are Fords and Dodges.
There are 25 black Dodges. There are 18 blue cars. There are 25 Fords. How many blue Fords are there?

12. A Super-Brick is formed by arranging nine 1cm x 1cm x 1cm cubes into 3cm x 3cm
layer, 1cm thick. Two Super-Bricks are glued together into the L-shape shown. All
faces of the L-shapes are completely painted. What is the area of the painted surface
in cm2?
13. Tom’s number has four digits in increasing order. The tens digit is the sum of the hundreds digit and the
thousands digit. The ones digit is the sum of the other three. The sum of all four digits is 16. Find the last
ones digit in Tom’s number.

14. Consider the three-by-three grid shown (middle square removed). The counting numbers from 1 to 8 are
placed in each square so that:
- The top row adds to 9
- The bottom row adds to 21
- The left column adds to 13
- The right column adds to 15
What is the sum of A + B + C + D?

15. In the figure shown, the numbers 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, and 7 are to be placed one in each
empty square. The sum of the numbers in the left column, right column and the two
diagonals are the same. What is the greatest possible product of the 3 numbers across
the gray row?