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    INDIVIDUAL CONTEST PROBLEMS

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    Po Leung Kuk 1 Primary Mathematics World Contest (1997)
    English Version

    1. Evaluate

    2. In the multiplication in the image, each letter and each box represent a single digit. Different letters
    represent different digits but a box can represent any digit. What does the five-digit number
    stand for?

    3. Peter is ill. He has to take medicine every hours, medicine every hours and medicine every
    hours. If he took all three medicines at a.m. on Tuesday, when will he take them altogether again?

    4. Each of the three diagrams in the image shows a balance of weights using different objects. How many
    squares will balance a circle?

    5. Two squares of different sizes overlap as shown in the given figure. What is the difference between the
    non-overlapping areas?

    6. John and Mary went to a book shop and bought some exercise books. They had each. John could
    buy large and small ones. Mary could buy large and small ones and had left. How much was a
    small exercise book?

    7. of girls and of boys in a class got an . If there are only students in the class who got
    and the ratio of boys and girls in the class is , how many students are there in the class?

    8.

    9. A chemist mixed an acid of concentration with the same acid of concentration, and then
    added liters of distilled water to the mixed acid. As a result, he got litres of the acid of
    concentration. How many milliliter of the acid of concentration that the chemist had used? ( litre =
    milliliters)

    10. Mary took chickens to the market. In the morning she sold the chickens at each and she only
    sold out less than half of them. In the afternoon she discounted the price of each chicken but the price
    was still an integral number in dollar. In the afternoon she could sell all the chickens, and she got totally
    for the whole day. How many chickens were sold in the morning?

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    11. A rectangle is made up of five small congruent rectangles as shown in the given figure. Find
    the perimeter, in cm, of if its area is .

    12. In a die, and , and , and appear on opposite faces. When dice are thrown, product of
    numbers appearing on the top and bottom faces of the dice are formed as follows:

     number on top face of 1st die times number on top face of 2nd die
     number on top face of 1st die times number on bottom face of 2nd die
     number on bottom face of 1st die times number on top face of 2nd die
     number on bottom face of 1st die times number on bottom face of 2nd die

    What is the sum of these products?

    13. A truck moved from to at a speed of and returns from to at . It traveled


    rounds within hours. What is the distance between and ?

    14. If we make five two-digit numbers using the digits exactly once, and the product of the
    five numbers is maximized, find the greatest number among them.

    15. How many paths from to consist of exactly six line segments (vertical, horizontal or inclined)?

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