Hua Xia Cup – Chinese Mathematics Competition 2020 Trial

Grade 7 Question Paper

Time Allowed: 1 hour 15 minutes
There are 20 questions in total
Total Score: 120 marks
Section A: Questions 1 to 10 (5 marks each)
Section B: Questions 11 to 20 (7 marks each)

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Organizer： Chinese Mathematical Teaching Research Association

The Organizing Committee of Hua Xia Cup
Co-organizer： Hong Kong Mathematical Olympiad Association
Section A: Questions 1 to 10 (5 marks each)

1) Find the largest five-digit number which is divisible by both 15 and 37.

3  2x
2) Find the value of x which satisfy equation 6 x.
5

If your answer is a fraction, its simplest form should be given, and make sure the answer is either a proper
fraction or a mixed fraction.
If your calculation result can be rationalized, you must rationalize the calculation result.
3) Find the largest integral value of x which satisfies inequality 2 x  3  12  3x .

 x  1  x  2 
2
4) Expand, simplify and express in descending order of power of x.

If your answer is a fraction, its simplest form should be given, and make sure the answer is either a proper
fraction or a mixed fraction.
If your calculation result can be rationalized, you must rationalize the calculation result.
  x, if x  0 6  7  16   2 
5) Let x be a real number. Define x   . Find the value of .
 x, if x  0  3  2
2 3

6) Given A  x . If the supplementary angle of A is 3 times as the complementary angle

of A , find the value of x.

If your answer is a fraction, its simplest form should be given, and make sure the answer is either a proper
fraction or a mixed fraction.
If your calculation result can be rationalized, you must rationalize the calculation result.
7) There is a cube. It is cut into some identical small cubes (no material is left). The total surface
area becomes 3 times of the original one. How many small cubes are there?

8) Given 2 x  3 y  9 and 7 x  4 y  12 . Find the value of x  y .

If your answer is a fraction, its simplest form should be given, and make sure the answer is either a proper
fraction or a mixed fraction.
If your calculation result can be rationalized, you must rationalize the calculation result.
9) Given x and y are both positive integers. 5x  7 y  120 . Find the least possible value of
x y.

10) Given x is a positive integer. 3x  7  13 and 2 x  6  7 . Find the sum of possible value
of x.

If your answer is a fraction, its simplest form should be given, and make sure the answer is either a proper
fraction or a mixed fraction.
If your calculation result can be rationalized, you must rationalize the calculation result.
Section B: Questions 11 to 20 (7 marks each)

11) Refer to the figure, given that AB / / DE . ABC  110 . Reflex CDE  240 . If
BCD  x , find the value of x.

D
E

A
B
Question 11

12) Refer to the figure, AB / /CD . PA bisects BAC . PC bisects ACD . If

APC : PCA  5: 2 , PAB  x , find the value of x.
A B

C D
Question 12

If your answer is a fraction, its simplest form should be given, and make sure the answer is either a proper
fraction or a mixed fraction.
If your calculation result can be rationalized, you must rationalize the calculation result.
13) Find the remainder when 1  2  3   2020 is divided by 11.

14) Refer to the figure, in ABC , D is a point on BC. E is a point on AD. Given the areas of
ABE , BDE and ACE are 15, 33 and 10 respectively. Find the area of ABC .

B D C

Question 14

If your answer is a fraction, its simplest form should be given, and make sure the answer is either a proper
fraction or a mixed fraction.
If your calculation result can be rationalized, you must rationalize the calculation result.
15) 5 football teams join a single-cycle league. Each two of them compete once. A team gets 3
points for each win, 1 point for each draw and 0 points for each lose. The following are the
results:
All of the 5 teams get different points;
3 of the 5 teams never get a loss.
How many points can the third-ranked team get at most?

16) There are three bottles of salt solution, 600 grams each, in concentration of 30%, 50% and
60%. In order to make a bottle of 1200-gram salt solution in concentration of 45%, at least
how many grams of salt solution in concentration of 30% has to be used?

If your answer is a fraction, its simplest form should be given, and make sure the answer is either a proper
fraction or a mixed fraction.
If your calculation result can be rationalized, you must rationalize the calculation result.
  a, if a  0
17) Let a be a real number. Define a   . Given that x and y are real numbers and
 a, if a  0
2 x  3  y  2  0 . Find the value of 1   x  y    x  y    x  y     x  y  .
2 3 9

18) Find the value of 2  4  4  6  6  8   40  42 .

If your answer is a fraction, its simplest form should be given, and make sure the answer is either a proper
fraction or a mixed fraction.
If your calculation result can be rationalized, you must rationalize the calculation result.
 7 5 5 22 31 7
19) Find the value of      .
12 12 18 117 234 72

20) There are 7 number cards ‘1’, ‘2’, ‘3’, ‘4’, ‘5’, ‘0’ and ‘0’. How many ways are there to form
a five-digit even number by using 5 of the 7 cards?

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If your answer is a fraction, its simplest form should be given, and make sure the answer is either a proper
fraction or a mixed fraction.
If your calculation result can be rationalized, you must rationalize the calculation result.