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Year 8
2013 CONTEST

Full Name： Year: Date： Time：

School Name： School Code：

Rules and Regulations

(Please read these rules and regulation carefully)

1. Please fill in your FULL name correctly, school name, school code and the date and time of
contest clearly in the spaces above. Those who do not fill in the required particulars will be
disqualified automatically.

2. Do not open the question booklet until you are told to do so. You may only use 2B pencil when
answering the questions.

3. No calculators and any unauthorised electronic devices (including mobile phones) are allowed
during the contest.

4. Strict silence must be observed at all times in the examination hall and please be reminded that
you MAY NOT leave your seat without permission.

5. If you have any request or enquiry, please raise your hand and wait for an invigilator.

6. Only one candidate is allowed to leave the hall at a time. You are required to return to the hall
within 10 minutes or else you will automatically be disqualified from the contest.

7. Each question in the contest have been verified by experienced trainers, thus no further
explanation will be given.

8. The time allowed for the paper is 120 minutes. You must stop writing when you are told to do
so.

9. You MUST fill in your answer in the answer sheet provided in second page of the question
booklet. You will not be awarded marks for any answer written in the question booklet.

10. Please be reminded that this is a contest and not an examination, do not expect to answer all
types of questions.

11. Please tear off the answer sheet carefully and returned to invigilator along with contest
paper. Participant only can bring back the contest papers on next week.

Scoring System
1. The correct answer to each problem will be awarded one (1) point. However, you will NOT be
penalised for each incorrect answer.

2. The organizer reserves the right to disqualify the event of malpractice to differentiate between
those outstanding students.

3. Contestants or a team who are disqualified from the contest will be forfeited any right to re-sit
this year.
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ANSWER SHEET
Year 8
2013 CONTEST

1 6 11 16 21

2 7 12 17 22

3 8 13 18 23

4 9 14 19 24

5 10 15 20 25
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MALAYSIA ASEAN SCIENCE
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2013 CONTEST

1 Five years ago, Amy’s age was three times Bob’s age. In two years
Amy’s age will be two times Bob’s age. How old is Bob now?

2 How many 2013-digit numbers exist, in which every two-digit

number is composed of two consecutive digits which is a
multiple of either 17 or 23?

3 Find the difference between the largest and the smallest possible
values of a , if 2  a  16 and 4  b  24 .
b

4 Determine all ordered triples of integers (x, y, z) which satisfy the

system.

( x  y )( x  y  z ) = 276
( y  z )( x  y  z ) = 207
( z  x )( x  y  z ) = 575

5 Six integers are marked on the real line (see the figure below). It is
known that at least two of them are divisible by 3, and at least two
of them are divisible by 5. Which numbers are divisible by 15?
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6 ABCD is a rectangle with CD = 13. E lies on

the side AB such that ED = 5 and EC = 12.
Find area of ABCD.

7 How many 3-digit integers have the property that their central
digit is the average of the other two digits?

8 Let C be the least number with the following property: 10C is a

perfect square and 6C is a perfect cube. Find C?

9 In isosceles triangle ABC, with AB=AC, DE is

perpendicular to AC. Angle CDA is 120° and
angle ACD is 50°. What is angle DCB?

10 Find the value of expression.

1 1 1
x 2  y 2  z 2 , if x  y  z  1 and   0
x y z
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11 Sixteen teams play in a football league. Each team plays one

game against another team. For each game the winning team
gets 1 point and the losing team gets 0 points. There are no
draws. After all the games have been played, the team scores
form an arithmetic sequence. How many points has the team in
last place received?

12 On the island of nobles and liars 25 people are standing in a

queue. Everyone, except the first person in the queue, said, that
the person before him in the queue is a liar, and the first man in
the queue, said, that all people, standing after him are liars. How
many liars are in the queue? (Nobles always speak the truth,
and liars always tell lies.)

13 Start with a number, double it and then subtract 1. After applying

this procedure 98 more times (starting each time from the
previous result), you get 2157  1 . Which was the number you
started with?

les, each with radius 5 cm, are arranged

ach circle touches two other circles at a
int as shown. Find the area of the
shaded region in terms of  .

15 Find the value of sum of

1 1 1 1
   
11 11  22 11  22  33 11  22  33    2013
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16 How many zeros does the following product

200 x 199 x 198 x ... x 3 x 2 x 1

end with?

17 How many 5-digit numbers contain at least one 5?

18 What is the last digit of

1 2
 32  72
2013 2013 2013
22

19 How many right-angled triangles can be formed by joining three

vertices of a given regular 10-gon?

20 A palindrome is a positive integer that is the same when read

forwards or backwards. For example, three palindromes are 8;
343 and 5578755. Determine the number of palindromes less
than 1000.
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21 Evaluate (in the simplest form)

22 What is the 63th element of the following sequence

1, 3, 4, 9, 10, 12, 13, 27, 28, 30, 31, 36,.......

23 If X 3  13  18 and X is real, find X 4  14 .

X X

24 An ordered list of four numbers is called a quadruple. A

quadruple ( a; b; c; d ) of integers with a; b; c; d  0 is chosen
at random such that 2 p  q  r  s  4
What is the probability that p  q  r  s  3 ?

25 What is the smallest possible value of a  b , if a and b are

positive integers such that
1 1 1 1
   2
2a 3a 3a b  2b