PART 1 – Each question is worth 3 marks.

1. The numbers A, B, C, D, and E follow the same pattern as 2, 3, 5, 8, and 13.

If D and E are the numbers in the sequence D, E, 36, -108, and 324, what is
the value of A?

A. -20 B. -36 C. -16 D. 30

2. The sum of six consecutive even integers is 6. What is the smallest of these
integers?

A. -4 B. -3 C. -2 D. -1

3. What is n in 22n-3 = 815?

A. 12 B. 32 C. 24 D. 48

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4. What is the smallest number P to make a perfect cube?
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A. 26 B. 4 C. 26 D. 52

5. What is the units’ digit of 27(32022 – 32021) when it is written in standard form?

A. 1 B. 2 C. 6 D. 7
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6. The line ax + 2y = 6 is perpendicular to the line y= 5 x + 4.
What is the value of a?

A. 10 B. 6 C. 2 D. 3

7. Numbers 1 to 100 are written in a row such that no space separates the
digits as shown below. Any group of 4 successive or adjacent digits is
called quadros, such as (1234), (5678), (9101).

12345678910111213141516171819202122232425...979899100
Which of the following groups of four digits is not a quadros?

A. 7888 B. 7989 C. 7686 D. 8991

8. A number is called hexaprime if it has exactly 6 distinct prime factors.

Which of the following is a hexaprime?

A. 630 B. 5460 C. 7098 D. 170 170

9. How many non-real roots does the polynomial (x2 + 5 x + 6)(x3 + 2x – x2 – 2)

= 0 have?

A. 1 B. 2 C. 4 D. 5
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10. What is the result when the minimum positive value of −2𝑥2 +4𝑥+45 is added
to √25 + 3𝑥2√16?

A. 7 B. 21 C. 29 D. 30

11. The axis of symmetry of y = ax2 + bx + 10 is x = 3. What is the minimum

value of y = ax2 + bx + 10?

A. 1 B. 19 C. 31 D. 17

12. Points on a plane were positioned such that the distance between any
two points horizontally and vertically is 2 units. How many triangles have
an area of 4 square units can you draw in the set of points below?

A. 6 B. 10 C.12 D. 15
13. Segment AB is tangent to circle O. The area of the triangle is 35 cm2 with
AB=10 cm. What is the circumference of Circle O?

A. 14𝜋 B. 9𝜋 C. 16𝜋 D. 49𝜋

14. The vertical and horizontal distances from X leading towards Y are shown
in the diagram below. What is the shortest distance from X to Y?
X
1
10

9 2
10
6

Y
A. 16 B. 20 C. 21 D. 29
15. An n-sided polygon has 70 diagonals less than an (n+5)-sided polygon.
How many sides does the n-gon have?

A. 15 B. 13 C. 17 D. 18

16. Twin years are years with only two repeated digits, like 2020 and 1199.
How many years from 2021 to 2900 are twin years?

A. 19 B. 26 C. 36 D. 156

17. How many different triangles can be formed using the blue points below?

A. 16 B. 18 C. 19 D. 20
18. How many ways are there to go from A to B following the directions of the
arrowheads in the triangular track and if only upward and leftward
movements in the rectangle grid are allowed?

A. 4 B. 30 C. 45 D. 60

19. Malee used the digits 7, 9, 5, 6, and 2 without repetition to form 4-digit
odd numbers and 2-digit even numbers greater than 70. How many more
odd numbers than the even numbers did he form?

A. 72 B. 66 C. 60 D. 68
20. Justine and his 5 classmates try to count the number of ways they can
arrange themselves to sit on the 6 chairs, composed of 3 yellow and 3
black chairs, but none of them should sit on any of the black chairs. How
many possible arrangements can they make?

A. 360 B. 120 C. 60 D. 30

21. The 5 identical lighter sacks of rice made up the 25% of the total number
of sacks of rice in the warehouse. The 6 identical heavier sacks of rice
made up the 60% of the total sacks. How many lighter sacks of rice are
there in the warehouse?

A. 4 B. 6 C. 10 D. 13

22. In a test of 15 items, a student gets 2 points for every correct answer, zero
for every unattempted question and 1-point deduction for every incorrect
answer. Chatri wants to find out how many students are in his class if at
least 3 students have the same score? Negative scores are possible.

A. 37 B. 45 C. 75 D. 91
23. The number of squares that can be seen at the top, front, and side views
of the figure is illustrated by the tile blocks shown below. Which tile block
illustration best describes the solid figure below?

top front side

A. C. 8 10 8
9 9 7

B. 10 9 7 D. 8 10 9

24. Looping numbers are numbers with repeated digits in between two other
digits. The middle digits are different from the first and the last digits. The
numbers 3005 and 45554 are looping numbers. How many 5-digit looping
numbers are there in all?

A. 81 B. 648 C. 729 D. 746

25. The sum of every three adjacent numbers in a row is 112. The first and the
third numbers are 24 and 69, respectively. What is the 200th number in the
row?

A. 19 B. 24 C. 69 D. 112

PART II – Each question is worth 5 marks.

1. What is the remainder when 100x100 –99x99 + 98x98 – 97x97 + . . . + 4x4 – 3x3 +
2x2 – x + 1 is divided by x+1?

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2. If x = 5 3 5 3 5√… , what is x6?
3. A rectangular glass window has a length that is 2 cm more than twice its
width. Its perimeter is 58 cm. The window is made up of six triangles of the
same areas. A spider is at the common vertex of the triangles. How far is
the spider from the nearest width of the rectangular window?

4. Stickers with letters SIMSO MATH are to be arranged in the boxes below.
Chomcai placed correctly the S , I, and M in the first 3 boxes but made
mistakes in arranging the remaining letters. At most how many possible
mistakes did he make?

S I M

5. Somsak has 23 pieces of triangular and square papers. The combined

vertices is 85. After cutting a number of squares along the two diagonals,
the total number of vertices became 125? How many triangles does he
have after cutting some squares?

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