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1. Calculate the value of

39×15 + 20×17 + 20×18 + 35×19.
2. If x is a positive number, then which of the following is NOT always true?

3. The number 2019 is the sum of two prime numbers. What is the
larger prime number?
4. Find the next number in the sequence below.
1, 5, 21, 57, 121, …
5. The “Fibonacci sequence” is a series of numbers where a number is
obtained by adding up the two previous terms before it. Starting the series
with two 1’s, we get the Fibonacci sequence 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, ….
Which of the following terms is an even number?

A. 55th
B. 56th
C. 57th
D. 58th
E. 59th

6. It is given that n! = n×(n − 1)×(n − 2)× …×3×2×1. For example, 4! =

4×3×2×1. Find the remainder when 1! + 2! + 3! + ⋯ + 10! is divided by
20.
7. The vertices A, B and C of the triangle below are on the circumference of the
circle. Point O is the centre of the circle and ∠BCA = 300. If the radius of circle is
1 cm and BC = √3 cm, find the area of triangle ABC in cm2.

8. The operator ☼ acts on two numbers to give the following

results: 2 ☼ 11 = 30
3 ☼ 10 = 36
5 ☼ 8 = 42
8 ☼ 9 = 72
Find the value of 20 ☼ 17.

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 9. Ben travels from his house to Sports Hall every Saturday. One Saturday,
instead of walking at his usual speed, he decided to walk slower at 1.2 m/s
and arrived at the destination 250 seconds later than his usual arrival time.
The next Saturday, he jogged at 3 m/s and arrived at the place 500
seconds earlier than his usual arrival time. What is Ben’s usual walking
speed?

10. Which of the following has the largest value?

11. Given that a > b > c, which of the following is equal to

A. 3c − 4a + b
B. 4a − b − 3c
C. c − b
D. 4a − 3b − c
E. 4a − b − 3c

12. How many numbers do appear in both

sequences below? 9, 14, 19, 24, … , 494, 499
9, 16, 23, 30, … , 492, 499

13. Of the 150 students, 120 have Facebook accounts, 75 have Instagram
accounts and 50 have Snapchat accounts. What is the maximum number of
students who have no accounts in these 3 social media websites?
14. Amy, Betty, Cathy, Denny and Eddy are confused about today’s day of
the week.
• Amy: “All I know is that yesterday was not Friday.”

• Betty: “Tomorrow is Tuesday.”

• Cathy: “No, today is Tuesday.”

• Denny: “The day after tomorrow is Tuesday.”

• Eddy: “Today is not Sunday, not Monday and not Tuesday.”

If only one of them is correct, which day is today?

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 15. Only 2 out of the 4 figures below will form a 3 by 3
cube as shown on the right. Which 2 figures can
form a 3 by 3 cube?

P. Q

R. S.

16. Find the smallest positive multiple of 15 which consists of the digits 1 and 0
only?
17. How many zeros are there in the quotient of (10100 − 1) ÷ 11?
18. The integers from 1 to 100 are written down on the whiteboard. Richard
underlined all numbers divisible by 3, then all numbers divisible by 5, and
then all numbers divisible by 9. How many numbers are underlined exactly
twice?
19. In the following, all the different letters stand for different digits.

What is the value of the four-digit number “PLAY”?

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 20. The bar chart below shows the number of smartphones sold in Town A in the
second half of year 2016. For example, 1400 smartphones were sold in
September. Starting from August, the number of smartphones sold in each
month is equal to the average number of smartphones sold in the previous
month and in the following month. How many smartphones were sold in July,
2016?

21. Find the sum of the digits of A, where

22. Find the integer A if only 2 statements below are true and one statement
is false.
1) A + 41 is a perfect square
2) The last digit of A is 1.
3) A − 48 is a perfect square.
23. Nash is creating 6-letter words using the letters from the word ‘CODE’. He needs
to use exactly two C’s to form such words (Examples are CDECEO and ECECEE).
How many different 6-letter words can Nash form?
24. In quadrilateral ABCD, BC = 10√3 cm and CD = 20 cm. It is given that
∠ADC = ∠ABC = 900 and ∠BCD = 5× ∠DAB. If the area of quadrilateral
ABCD is m√3 cm2, what is the value of m?

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 25. How many rectangles are there in the figure below?

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