2015 CIMC Keystage III Team
2015 CIMC Keystage III Team
Competition
TEAM
CONTEST
Time60 minutes
Instructions:
Do not turn to the first page until you are told to do so.
Remember to write down your team name in the space indicated on every page.
There are 10 problems in the Team Contest, arranged in increasing order of
difficulty. Each question is printed on a separate sheet of paper. Each problem is
worth 40 points. For Problems 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9, only answers are required. Partial
credits will not be given. For Problems 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10, full solutions are
required. Partial credits may be given.
The four team members are allowed 10 minutes to discuss and distribute the first
8 problems among themselves. Each student must attempt at least one problem.
Each will then have 35 minutes to write the solutions of their allotted problem
independently with no further discussion or exchange of problems. The four
team members are allowed 15 minutes to solve the last 2 problems together.
No calculator, calculating device, electronic devices or protractor are allowed.
Answer must be in pencil or in blue or black ball point pen.
All papers shall be collected at the end of this test.
English Version
10
Total
Sign by Jury
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B
28
C
17
E
23
25
G
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2. Find the sum of all four-digit perfect squares such that if each of its digits is
reduced by the same amount, the resulting four-digit number is still a perfect
square. (Different reduction amounts may be used for different perfect squares.)
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3. A hexagon has six angles of 120 . The lengths of four consecutive sides are
2000 cm, 2005 cm, 2010 cm and 2015 cm. Calculate the circumference, in cm, of
this hexagon.
2010
2005
2015
2000
Answer:
cm
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4. There is a 44 grid posted on the wall. Find the number of ways of placing two
identical red counters and two identical blue counters on four different squares of
the grid such that no column or row has two counters of the same color.
Answer:
ways
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perfect squares
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6. Kelly is younger than 100 and Kerry is older than 9. Kellys age becomes Kerrys
age when it is multiplied by a fraction whose denominator is 999 and whose
numerator is a three-digit number with 5 as the tens digit. How many possible
values of Kerrys age are there?
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7. In the diagram below, each hexagon contains one of the numbers 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 18,
20 and 36. Each number appears once except that 6 appears twice. Each arrow
contains one of the operations 1 , 2 , +3 , 3 , +4 , 4 , 9 and +16 . Each
operation appears once except that 1 appears twice. Complete the diagram so
that each operation applied to the number in the preceding hexagon yields the
number in the succeeding hexagon. Note that one of the hexagon succeeds no
arrows while another one succeeds two arrows.
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cm2
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9. Find the largest six-digit number with distinct digits which is a perfect square and
its digits follow an increasing order from left to right.
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85 25
25
30
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