International Math Challenge VII CATEGORY 1 February 24, 2018

1) What is 5) In the pattern below, how many white cells will

𝟐𝟎 − 𝟏𝟗 + 𝟏𝟖 − 𝟏𝟕 + 𝟏𝟔 − 𝟏𝟓 + 𝟏𝟒 − 𝟏𝟑 + 𝟏𝟐 − 𝟏𝟏 + 𝟏𝟎 − 𝟗 ?
be in the fourth shape?

A) 6 B) 17 C) 8 D) 19

A) 57 B) 59 C) 63 D) 65
2) If 3 x 2018 = 2017 + 2019 + a then a is
equal to?
A) 2016 B) 2017 C) 2018 D) 2019

6) (6 ? 3) + 4 − (2 − 1) = 5

To make this statement true, the question mark

between 6 and 3 should be replaced by

A) + B) × C) ÷ D) −
3) Aisha chose a whole number and multiplied it
by 3. Which of the following numbers could not be
her answer?
A) 23 B) 27 C) 39 D) 51
7) On a map, a 12-centimeter length represents 72
kilometers. How many kilometers does a 17-
centimeter length represent?

A) 6 B) 102 C) 204 D) 864

4) Six weights, weighing 1kg, 2kg, 3kg, 4kg, 5kg and
6kg were placed into three boxes – two weights in
each box. The weights in the first box weigh 9kg
altogether, and those in second box weigh 8kg.
Which weights are in the third box?

A) 5 and 2 B) 6 and 1 C) 3 and 1 D) 4 and 2

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8) What digit {0, 1, 2, … ,9} is used the most when 11) A group of children riding on bicycles and
all the whole numbers from 1 to 100 are written on tricycles rode past Billy Bob’s house. Billy Bob
a paper? counted 7 children and 19 wheels. How many
tricycles were there?
A) 0 B) 1 C) 3 D) 9
A) 2 B) 4 C) 5 D) 6

9) Alice can weigh some certain objects on a digital

scale as in the figure. What is the weight of a
triangular ∆ object in kg units?

12) Charlie, the ape, ate 100

bananas from May 1 through May 5.
Each day he ate six more bananas
than on the previous day. How many
A) 3 B) 5 C) 6 D) 12 bananas did Charlie eat on May 5?

A) 20 B) 22 C) 30 D) 32

10) Three dice with faces

numbered 1 through 6 are stacked
as shown. Seven of the eighteen
faces are visible, leaving eleven
faces hidden (back, bottom,
between). The total number of dots
13) The value of 1111 × 1111 is …
NOT visible in this view is
A) 1243421 B) 1234321 C) 1244321 D) 1123411

A) 21 B) 22 C) 31 D) 41

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14) Ploy paid for 4 identical cheese pizzas with a 17) Jasmine had some rice in her kitchen. She gave
$20 bill, and got $3.60 as change, how much did 1 1
of it to her sister Sarah and cooked of the
one pizza cost? 4 6
remaining. What fraction of the initial rice does
A) $3.00 B) $4.10 C) $6.25 D) $5.75 remain in her kitchen after cooking?

A) 1/12 B) 2/3 C) 5/8 D) 7/12

15) $1 can buy 2 bottles of coke. 3 bottle caps can

be exchanged for 1 bottle
of coke. If Smith had $15 2 2 3
cash, at most how many 18) The value of + × =?
3 9 4
bottles of coke he could
buy with all his money?
A) 5/6 B) 2/3 C) 5/9 D) 1
A) 30 B) 40 C) 43 D) 44

1 19) Evaluate the product in the multiplication

16) Tied has eaten of a pizza and Tem has eaten sentence.
5
3
of the rest. What portion of the pizza is left for 1 1 1 1
4 (1 + ) × (1 + ) × (1 + ) × … .× (1 + ) =?
Vichet? 2 3 4 100

A) 25 B) 50 C) 100 D) 50.5
A) 1/20 B) 2/3 C) 5/8 D) 1/5

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1 1 23) A mother has 3 children who are 2, 6 and 10

20) The number halfway between and is
4 6 years old. The age of mother is a multiple of all her
children’s ages. What could be her least possible
A) 5/12 B) 5/24 C) 1/5 D) 1/8 age?

A) 20 B) 30 C) 36 D) 60

24) A whole number larger than 2 leaves a

remainder of 2 when divided by each of
the numbers 3, 4, 5 and 6. The smallest such
21) Evaluate the division sentence number lies between which two
numbers?
1 1
( + )
3 4 =?
1 1 A) 40 - 49 B) 60 - 79 C) 80 - 89 D) 90 - 99
( − )
3 4

A) 7 B) 12/7 C) 7/12 D) 12

25) For any positive integer n, define 𝑛 to be

the sum of the positive factors of n. For example,
6 = 1+2+3+6 = 12
22) Look at the numbers 4, 8, 12, 15, 20 and 24.
Which number does not belong to the group? Find 11 ?

A) 12 B) 20 C) 24 D) 28
A) 4 B) 8 C) 15 D) 24

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26) The least common multiple of two numbers is 29) Which one is the most matching box-and-
105 and the greatest common divisor is 5. Which of whisker plot for the data set;
the following could be the sum of the numbers? 11, 14, 14, 15, 16, 16, 17, 17, 18, 19 of ages of
workers at their first job?
A) 21 B) 25 C) 49 D) 50 A)

B)

27) What is the average of 13,14,15,16,17,18,19?

C)
A) 15 B) 15.5 C) 16 D) 16.5

D)

28) The mean of a set of five different positive

integers is 15. The median is 18. The maximum
possible value of the largest of these five integers
is

A) 35 B) 36 C) 37 D) 39

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30) What is the median 33) If A is 10% of C, and B is 25% of C, what

for the below data set of percent of B is A?
times winning the
A) 2.5 B) 15 C) 35 D) 40
basketball tournament for
Overseas Elite team.

A) 2 B) 3 C) 4 D) 5

34) If 10% of a number is 100, what is 100% of the

number?

31) What is the

A) 1000 B) 110 C) 100 D) 10
mean number
of words in the
BOOK Titles of
10 books as in
the bar graph
below?

A) 3 B) 3.1 C) 3.4 D) 2.4

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35) If of our letters are bills, the ratio of bills to
5
other letters is:

A) 8:3 B) 8:5 C) 2:3 D) 3:2

32) The ratio of Mary’s age to Alice’s age is 3 : 5.

Alice is 30 years old. How old is Mary?

A) 15 B) 18 C) 20 D) 50

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39) A square and a triangle have equal perimeters.

36) 3 out of 5 dentists recommend sugar-free
chewing gums, what percent do not recommend The lengths of the three sides of the triangle are
sugar-free gums? 6.1 cm, 8.2 cm and 9.7 cm. What is the area of the
square in square centimeters?

A) 20% B) 30% C) 40% D) 60%

A) 24 B) 25 C) 36 D) 64

37) I need 12 oranges to make 3 glasses of orange

juice. How many oranges do I need to make 10 40) A square is divided
glasses of orange juice? into equal lengths as in
the figure. What is the
A) 30 B) 36 C) 40 D) 46 ratio of shaded area to
the square’s area?

A) 3/16 B) 1/8 C) 5/16 D) 3/8

38) Find the area of the given figure

13 cm

4 cm
10 cm

8 cm

A) 82 𝑐𝑚 2 B) 76 𝑐𝑚 2 C) 46 𝑐𝑚 2 D) 35 𝑐𝑚 2