Mini

First Round

17 January 2018

1 2


1. 1 − 2
=

O0
A O
B 1
4 O
C 12 O
D 43 OE 54

2. What is the maximum number of Mondays which can be found in a period of 75 consecutive days?

O 10
A O
B 11 O 12
C O 13
D O 15
E

3. No answer given - In a certain type of bus, 62 passengers (excluding the driver) can be seated. If 692
students and 35 teachers are willing to go on a trip, what is the minimum number of buses of this type
needed in order to provide everyone with a seat?

4. A movie theater has eleven rows of chairs, numbered from 1 to 11. The rows with an odd number
have 15 chairs each and the rows with an even number have 16 chairs each. How many chairs are there
in this theater?

O 76
A O
B 165 O 170
C O 171
D O 186
E
5. A 3 × 3 grid contains the numbers one, two and three written in three different ways: Indo-Arabic,
Roman and with die dots. The three numbers and the three different ways of writing them appear in each
line and in each column. What will you find in the middle box (grey)?

1 II

O2
A OB 3 OC OI
D O III
E

6. No answer given - The sum of the figures of 2018 is divisible by 11. How many years will we have to
wait until the next time this occurs for the first time?

7. No answer given - Fred opens his piggy bank and finds that he has 11.20 e in coins. He has the
same number of 1 cent coins, 5 cents coins or 10 cents coins. He has no other coins. How many coins of
each sort does he have?

8. No answer given - If the length of the sides of a cube is multiplied by 5, by what number will its
volume be multiplied?

9. Peter and Paul are celebrating their common birthday at the restaurant with some friends. If the
bill is divided among all of them, each has to pay 30 e. But their friends do not want that Peter and
Paul pay anything, so that eventually the others now pay 40 e each. How many people were at the
restaurant, in addition to Peter and Paul?

O6
A OB 8 O 10
C O 30
D O 40
E
10. What is the double of 2.3 × 104 ?

O 4.6 × 10
A 4
O 2.3 × 20
D 4

O 2.3 × 10
B 8
O 4.6 × 20
E 4

O 4.6 × 10
C 8

11. In the grid below, a number in a white box is the sum of the two numbers above it, closer to it. For
example, 9 is the sum of 4 and 5. What number is x ?

O4
A OB 6 O7 C O8
D O 10
E

12. If the area of the parallelogram shown below is 6, what is the area of the shaded part?

O
A 1 O
B 2 O3
C O4
D O E It depends on the positions of A and B.

13. On a rail road, the distance from city A to city B is 70 km. A city C is located between A and B, at
40 km from A. If a train, driving at constant speed, left A at 10 h 07 and arrived at B at 10 h 49, at
what time did it drive through C ?

O 10 h 21
A O
B 10 h 24 O 10 h 27
C O 10 h 31
D O 10 h 35
E
14. If m and n are two odd natural numbers, which of the following number will also be odd?

O
A m+n OB m−n OC m·n O 3m + 7n O
D E None of these

15. No answer given - Isosceles trapezia are attached to and equilateral triangle of side 1 (see figure
below). Each trapezium has its non-parallel sides of length 1, and they are placed in such a way that
they end up forming embedded equilateral triangles.What is the length of the big base of the trapezium
whose area is 21 times bigger than the area of the original triangle?

16. What is the value of ab − (a + b) if a = 7 and b = 11

O
A 715 OB 693 OC 634 O 81
D O
E 59

17. No answer given - What is the smallest non zero natural number that can be divided by 8, 12 and
30?

18. No answer given - The first day, it was raining; the ice-cream shop did not sell much. The second
and third day, they sold each day double of what they had sold the previous day. On the fourth and fifth
day, they tripled the sales of the day before. On the 5th day, they sold 396 ice-cream cones. How many
cones were sold over the five days?

19. Bill is changing 600 dollars into euros, at the rate of 1.25 $ per euro. After Bill cancelled his trip, he
changed all his euros back into dollars at the new rate of 1.20 $ per euro. How many dollars did he
receive?

O 576
A O
B 600 O 625
C O 630
D O 720
E
 3
20. Which of the following are correct bounds for the fraction 7
?

O
A 14 < 3
7 < 1
3 O
D 21 < 3
7 < 3
5

O
B 31 < 3
7 < 2
5 O
E 53 < 3
7 < 2
3

O
C 41 < 2
5 < 1
2

21. 21. If ABCDEF is a regular hexagon with area 60, what is the area of triangle ACF ?

O 16
A O
B 18 O 20
C O 24
D O 30
E

22. 17.3765 represents the number 17.3765765765765.... Which of the following numbers is the biggest?

O 17.3765
A O 17.3765
D

O 17.3765
B O 17.3765
E

O 17.3765
C
23. If you have a discount of 10% first and then a discount of 20% on the same object, what single
discount is this equivalent to?

O 30%
A O
B 28% O 25%
C O 24%
D O 15%
E

24. How many squares do you see in the figure below?

O 18
A O
B 20 O 22
C O 31
D O 35
E

25. If p is a prime factor of 240, then necessarily

O p divides 30 ;
A O p divides 80 ;
D

O p divides 48 ;
B O None of the previous answers
E

O p divides 75 ;
C

O α = β = 45
A 0
O α<β
D

O α = β = 60
B o
O α>β
E

O α = β = 90
C o

26. No answer given - In the figure below, (not to scale), angle AF

\ D has a measure of 94o and angles
CIJ d have a measure of 80o . What is,in degrees the measure of F
d and CJI \ GH + GHI
[ ?

27. Audrey put twenty 0.20 e coins in a row on the table. Bernard then replaced one in every four
coins, starting on the 4th coin, by a 0.50 e coin. Later, Charlotte replaced one in every three coins,
starting on the 3rd coin by a 1 e coin. Finally, David replaced one in every six coins, starting at the 6th
by a 2 e coin. What is then the total amount of money on the table?
O 10.5 e O
A B 12.2 e O 13 e
C O 13.5 e O
D E Another answer

28. Trapezium ABCD verifies: AB k DC, |AB| = |AD| and |DB| = |BC|. If the measure of angle
\ is 110o , what is the measure of angle ABC
DAB [ ?

O 135 O
A o B 140o O 145 O 150 O Another answer
C o D o E

29. In the figure below, the dots on a side are splitting the side into segments of equal length. The area
of triangle ABC is 180; what is the area of the grey triangle?

O9
A O
B 18 O 27
C O 36
D O 45
E
30. The figure below is a rectangle; what is the value of p + q ?

O 17
A OB 18 O 20
C O 21
D O 22
E