SIMOC, Secondary 4 Contest

SIMOC SECONDARY 4 MOCK TEST

Section A

1. S is a set containing exactly 3 elements. How many subsets does S have?

(a) 3
(b) 5
(c) 6
(d) 7
(e) 8

2. The diagram shows a hemispherical bowl of radius 10 cm sitting on a table such that
the top circular surface is horizontal. The bowl contains some water. The volume of
the water is V cm3 and its deepest depth is 3 cm.

Which one of the following statements is true?

(a) V < 18

(b) V = 18
(c) V > 18
(d) V cannot be found
(e) None of the above

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3. Find the value of + + + ⋯+ .
√1+√2 √2+√3 √3+√4 √99+√100

(a) √9
(b) 9
(c) √99
(d) 99
(e) None of the above

4. There are n balls in a bag. Three of the balls are blue and the rest are red. The balls are
identical except for the colour. Sam randomly takes out two balls from the bag. The
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probability that the two balls taken out are blue is 2. Find the value of n.

(a) 6
(b) 8
(c) 10
(d) 12
(e) None of the above

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5. The diagram shows a triangle ACE. The lines AD and BE intersect at the point F. The
lines BD and CF intersect at the point G. How many triangles are there in the diagram
altogether?
E

D
F G

A B C
(a) 18
(b) 19
(c) 20
(d) 21
(e) None of the above

6. Solve the inequality |n|3 + |n|2 + |n| + 1  0.

(a) 1
(b) 0
(c) 1
(d) 2
(e) No real solutions

7. Ben throws a ball into the air. The path of the ball can be modelled by the equation

h = 3t 2 + 6t + 2,

where t, in seconds, is the time from the moment the ball is thrown, and h, in metres,
is the height of the ball above the ground. Find the difference in height between the
ball at its highest point and at the point from which it is thrown.

(a) 2 metres
(b) 3 metres
(c) 4 metres
(d) 5 metres
(e) None of the above

8. The roots,  and , of a quadratic equation satisfy the following inequality:

2 + 2 < 0.

What can you conclude about the nature of the roots of the quadratic equation?

(a) The two roots are real and distinct

(b) The two roots are real and equal
(c) The two roots are non-real
(d) No conclusion can be drawn
(e) None of the above

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9. The diagram shows four cubes in which some of the corners have been removed. Two
of the cubes have exactly the same shape. Which are the two cubes?

A B C D

(a) A and C
(b) A and D
(c) B and C
(d) B and D
(e) C and D

10. Find the third digit of the product 714 138  716 888, given the following:

p = log10 714 138

q = log10 716 888
Third digit of p + q = 7
Third digit of pq = 2
Third digit of 10p+q = 1
Third digit of 10pq = 9

(The third digit in this question refers to the third digit counting from the left.)

(a) 7
(b) 2
(c) 1
(d) 9
(e) None of the above

11. Consider the following pattern:

01
10
41
61
82
798  3

What is 4689  ?

(a) 1
(b) 2
(c) 3
(d) 4
(e) 5

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12. Given that x2  x + 1 = 0, find the value of x 4  .
x4

(a) 4
(b) 2
(c) 1
(d) 4
(e) Undefined

13. If the five-digit number 54N52 is divisible by 56, find N.

(a) 6
(b) 7
(c) 8
(d) 9
(e) None of the above

14. The diagram shows a room in the shape of a cuboid of dimensions 9 metres by
6 metres by 4 metres. An ant is at the ceiling corner X. It crawls along the ceiling /
wall / floor to reach the opposite floor corner Y. It so happens that the ant has moved
along the shortest possible path. Find the length of this path.

X
Y
4m
6m
9m

(a) √205 ( 14.3)

(b) 4 + √117 ( 14.8)
(c) √241 ( 15.5)
(d) 6 + √97 ( 15.8)
(e) None of the above

15. Find the last digit of 1 + 3 + 32 + 33 + … + 32015.

(a) 0 [Ans: Period = 4: 1, 4, 3, 0]

(b) 1
(c) 2
(d) 3
(e) 4

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Section B

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16. Find the smallest whole number n for which is a factor of 180.
n

17. A data set contains 12 whole numbers. The mean, median and mode of the data set are
all equal to 4. The smallest number is 3. What is the largest possible number?

18. In the following alphametic, all the different letters stand for different digits. Find the
three-digit sum YES.

Y Y
E E
+ S S
Y E S

19. There are ten stacks of coins. One of the stacks contains 10 identical counterfeit coins.
Each of the remaining nine stacks contains 10 genuine coins. All the genuine coins
are identical. The mass of a genuine coin is 5 g while the mass of a counterfeit coin is
4.4 g.
Charles does not know which stack contains counterfeit coins. He takes 1 coin from
Stack 1, 2 coins from Stack 2, 3 coins from Stack 3, and so on, until he takes 10 coins
from Stack 10. Then he puts all the coins on a weighing machine and finds that the
mass of all the coins is x g.
Find, in terms of x, which stack contains the counterfeit coins.

20. The following is a conversation between Isabelle and Joanne who met on a bus.

Isabelle: I have three children. Assuming that their ages are whole numbers, the
product of their ages is 288, and the sum of their ages is the bus number of
this bus that we are on.
Joanne: Of course I know the bus number, but I still don’t know their ages.
Isabelle: Oh, I forgot to tell you that two of my youngest children have the same age.
Joanne: Oh, now I know their ages.

So what are the ages of the three children?

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21. There are 2015 workers, and 2015 switches numbered 1 to 2015.
The first worker turns on all the 2015 switches.
The second worker then turns off every switch with an even number, i.e. 2, 4, 6, …
The third worker then ‘reverses’ every third switch, i.e. if the switch is ‘on’, he will
turn it off; but if the switch is ‘off’, he will turn it on.
The fourth worker then ‘reverses’ every fourth switch, and so on until the 2015th
worker has ‘reversed’ the 2015th switch.
What is the switch with the largest number that will remain ‘on’ in the end?

22. The diagram shows a diagonal passing through 6 squares of a 4-by-3 rectangle. Find
the number of squares passed through by a diagonal for a m-by-n rectangle.

1 1 1 1
23. Find the value of + + +. . . + .
1 1+2 1+2+3 1+2+3+ ... + 2015

24. The diagram shows a triangle ABC where AB = AC, BC = AD and BAC = 20. Find
ADB.
A

20

B C

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25. If a triangle XYZ is such that XY2 = 74 cm2, YZ2 = 116 cm2 and XZ2 = 370 cm2, find
the area of the triangle. (Hint: 74 = 52 + 72; 116 = 42 + 102; 370 = 92 + 172; you can
use any other method.)