AUSTRALIAN MATHEMATICS COMPETITION SPONSORED BY THE COMMONWEALTH BANK AN ACTIVITY OF THE AUSTRALIAN MATHEMATICS TRUST ‘AusrmALian MarieMarics TRust & ConmonwealthBank & OS TEACHER 2015 JUNIOR DIVISION AUSTRALIAN SCHOOL YEARS 7 and 8 TIME ALLOWED: 75 MINUTES INSTRUCTIONS AND INFORMATION GENERAL 1. Do not open the booklet until told to do so by your teacher. 2. NO calculators, maths stencils, mobile phones or other calculating aids are permitted. Scribbling paper, graph paper, ruler and compasses are permitted, but are not essential. . Diagrams are NOT drawn to scale. They are intended only as aids. |. There are 25 multiple-choice questions, each with 5 possible answers given and 5 questions that require @ whole number answer between 0 and 999. The questions generally get harder as you work through the paper. There is no penalty for an incorrect response. This is a competition not a test; do not expect to answer all questions. You are only competing against your ‘own year in your own country/Australian state so different years doing the same paper are not compared 6. Read the instructions on the answer sheet carefully. Ensure your name, school name and school year are entered, It is your responsibility to correctly code your answer sheet. 7. When your teacher gives the signal, begin working on the problems. ‘THE ANSWER SHEET 1. Use only lead pencil. 2. Record your answers on the reverse of the answer sheet (not on the question paper) by FULLY colouring the circle matching your answer. 3. Your answer sheet will be scanned. The optical scanner will attempt to read all markings even if they are in the wrong places, so please be careful not to doodle or write anything extra on the answer sheet. If you want to change an answer or remove any marks, use a plastic eraser and be sure to remove all marks and smudges. INTEGRITY OF THE COMPETITION ‘The AMT reserves the right to re-examine students before deciding whether to grant official status to their score. ‘AMT Pusu 2015 nurr- Late Acw 082 950.381Junior Division Questions 1 to 10, 3 marks each 2015 + 201.5 equals (A) 2036.5 (B) 2116.5 (C) 2225.5 (D) 2216.5 (B) 2115.5 ‘The value of x in the diagram is (A) 100° (B) 130° (C) 110° © (D) 120° (B) 90° 30 Za" ‘The trip to school takes 23 minutes. I need to be at school at 9:05am. The latest I can leave home is (A) 8:46am (B) 8:37am (C) 8:52am (D) 8:42am (E) 8:48am, ‘What is the value of 100 twenty-cent coins? (A) 820 (B) 810 (©) 8200 (D) 82 (E) $100 ‘What is the area of this triangle in square centimetres? 2em_ (A)10 (B)12. (C)l4 (D)7_ (BYE When the bell rang, there were 3 teachers and 6 students in the classroom. Several students arrived after the bell. Once everyone had arrived, there were 4 students for every teacher. How many students arrived after the bell? (A) 18 (B) 12 (6 (D)3 (9 ‘A movie lasts for 24 hours. The movie is shown in two equal sessions, For how many minutes does each session last? (A) 85 (B) 70 (C) 80 (D) 65 (E) 75J2 Four unit squares are laid out in five different arrangements as shown below. Which one has the largest perimeter? T F “de a | “f= Ari, Bryce, Cy and Erie are members of our school’s basketball team. Ari is 186cm tall. He is 14cm taller than Bryce who in turn is 6cm shorter than Cy. Eric is 11cm taller than Cy. Eric’s height is (A) 183cm (B) 205em (C) 178cm (D) 189cm (B) 177cm 10. ‘Ana, Ben, Con, Dan and Eve are sitting around a ta- ble in that order. Ana calls out the number 1, then Ben calls out the number 2, then Con calls out the number 3, and so on. After a person calls out a num- ber, the next person around the table calls out the next number. Anyone who calls out a multiple of 7 must immediately leave the table. ‘Who is the last person remaining at the table? (A) Ana (B) Ben (C) Con. (D) Dan (B) Eve 1. Questions 11 to 20, 4 marks each 5 ; Fh of 38 is equal to (A) 76 (B) 19 ©? () 23 (B) 10Ts 12. The diagram shows a circle and a square with the same centre. What fraction of the circle is shaded? 5 4 3 6 2 ai @f ©2 OF ©} 13. In the addition below ©, y and 2 represent three different digits. + ele alas What is the value of x + y+ 2? (A) 9 (B)s (C) 10 (D)7 (E) 6 14. A cube has the letters A, C, M, T, H and 8 on its six faces. Here are two views of Which one of the following could be a third view of the same cube? Me We NS) Wl 8 SVU 15. Five students are to be photographed in a row with the tallest in the centre and the shortest two at the ends. If no two students are the same height, how many different arrangements are possible? (A) 6 (B)2 (C) 10 (D) 5 (E)416. d4 Three boys and three girls all celebrate their birthday today, but they are each different ages. The youngest is 1 year old. ‘The sum of the ages of the three girls is the same as the sum of the ages of the three boys. What is the smallest possible total of all six ages? (A) 22 (B) 24 (C) 28 (D) 21 (E) 26 17. Jenna measures three sides of a rectangle and gets a total of 80cm. Dylan measures three sides of the same rectangle and gets a total of 88cm. What is the perimeter of the rectangle? (A) 120m (B) 132cm (C) 96em (D) 168cm (&) 156em 18. Jim is running five laps of the school oval. When he is 3 of the way round his fourth lap, what fraction of his run has he completed? 2 ®} ©? ©) one 19. How many two-digit numbers have the property that the sum of the digits is a perfect square? (A) 15 (B) 18, (0) 13 (D) 19 ®)17 20. On this cube, opposite faces add to the same sum and all faces are prime numbers. (Note that 1 is not prime.) What is the smallest possible total of the faces which cannot be seen? (A) 41 (B) 35 (©) 45 (D) 47 (8) 37 ae21. J5 Questions 21 to 25, 5 marks each A recipe requires 2kg sugar, 4kg butter, and 6 kg flour to make 8 cakes. How many cakes can you make if you have 9kg sugar, 17kg butter and 28 kg flour? (A) 40 (B) 34 (©) 37 (D) 32 (E) 36 22, ‘Two ordinary dice are rolled. The two resulting numbers are multiplied together to create a score. The probability of rolling a score that is a multiple of six is 1 rs Os © ©} © 23. Jill and Jack are exercising at a beach. ‘They both start from the car park at one end of the beach. Jill runs at a constant speed and Jack walks at a constant speed. ‘When Jill turns at the end of the beach to run back, she notices that Jack is then halfway along the beach. How far along the beach will Jack be when Jill next passes him? (A) Two-thirds of the way (B) Five-sixths of the way (C) Three-quarter of the way (D) Five-eighths of the way (E) Seven-cighths of the way 24, 10 cents, 20 cents and 40 cents. Using the coins in my pocket, I can pay exactly for any amount up to and including 200 cents. © What is the smallest number of coins I could have? (Ay12 (B)1l0 «6 (DS YB The country of Numismatica has six coins of the following denominations: 1 cent, 2 cents, 4 cents, (ww) 25. In the diagram, PT = TS = SQ = QR, Q ZPQR = 90° and ZQPR = 2°. h Then « is equal to (A) 20 (B) 25 (C) 27.5 LrJ6 For questions 26 to 30, shade the answer as an integer from 0 to 999 in the space provided on the answer sheet. Question 26 is 6 marks, question 27 is 7 marks, question 28 is 8 marks, question 29 is 9 marks and question 30 is 10 marks. 26. I write down three different positive whole numbers that add to 96. The sum of any two is divisible by the third. What is the largest of these three numbers? 27. At a football match, one-third of spectators support the Reds and the rest support 28. A 3 x 2 flag is divided into six squares, as shown. Each the Blues. At half-time 345 Blues supporters leave because their team is losing, and the remaining Blues supporters now make up one-third of the total. How many Reds supporters are there? square is to be coloured green or blue, so that every square shares at least one edge with another square of the same colour. In how many different ways can this be done? 29, Zoltan has a list of whole numbers, all larger than 0 but smaller than 1000. He notices that every number in his list is either one-third of another number in the list or three times another number in the list. What is the largest number of different whole numbers that can be on Zoltan’s list? 30. In a stack of logs, each row has exactly one fewer log than the row below. With 9 logs, the tallest possible stack is shown. ‘With 2015 logs, how many rows are there in the tallest possible stack?Australian Mathematics Competition Five Book Set PU Ae eS eo e opens ‘These Australian Mathematics Competition books each contain seven years of questions and solutions from the secondary papers. 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