KSF 2019 KSF 2019 KSF 2019 KSF 2019 - Problems Problems Problems Problems Junior Junior Junior Junior (Class 9 (Class 9 (Class 9 (Class 9 & & & & 10 10 10 10) ) ) )

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KSF 2019 - Problems Junior (Class 9 & 10)

10)
Time Allowed: 150 minutes
SECTION ONE - (3 point problems)

1. The mean of two numbers is 2019. One of the numbers is 2021. What is the other
number?

(A) 2017 (B) 2018 (C) 2020


(D) 2022 (E) 2023

2. Which of the following has the largest value?

 
(A) (B) (C) 3 − 2
 
(D) 2 − 3 (E) 3 − 2
2 − 3

3. A barber wants to write the word SHAVE on a board in such a way that a client looking
in to the mirror reads the word correctly. How should the barber write it on the board?

(A) (B) (C)

(D) (E)

4. How many different sums of dots can you get by rolling three standard dice
simultaneously?

(A) 14 (B) 15 (C) 16


(D) 17 (E) 18

5. Five identical glasses are filled with water. Four of them contain the same amount of
water. Which one contains a different amount?

(A) (B) (C)

(D) (E)

6. A park has five gates. Monica wants to enter through one gate and to exit through a
different one. In how many ways can she enter and exit the park?

(A) 25 (B) 20 (C) 16


(D) 15 (E) 10

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Time Allowed: 150 minutes
7. The weight of each of three kangaroos is a different whole number. The total weight of
them is 97 kg. How much can the lightest of them weigh at most?

(A) 1 kg (B) 30 kg (C) 31 kg


(D) 32 kg (E) 33 kg

8. Which of the following statements is true for the marked angles in the given figure of
nine identical squares?

(A) = (B) 2 + = 90° (C) + = 60°


(D) 2 + = 90° (E) + = 45°

9. Inside each unit square a certain part has been shaded. In which square is the total
shaded area the largest?

(A) (B) (C)

(D) (E)

10. On each of three pieces of paper a five digit number is written as shown. Three of the
digits are covered. The sum of the three numbers is 57263. Which are the covered digits?

(A) 0, 2 and 2 (B) 1, 2 and 9 (C) 2, 4 and 9


(D) 2, 7 and 8 (E) 5, 7 and 8

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KSF 2019 - Problems Junior (Class 9 & 10)
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Time Allowed: 150 minutes
SECTION TWO - (4 point problems)

11. A square has vertices  ,  ,  ,  labelled clockwise. An equilateral triangle is


constructed with labels  ,  ,  labelled clockwise. What is the size of angle  in
degrees?

(A) 30 (B) 45 (C) 135


(D) 145 (E) 150

12. The numbers , , ,  are distinct positive integers chosen from 1 to 10. What is the
 
least possible value + could have?


  !$
(A) (B) (C)
!" !# $%
# %
(D) (E)
#" &

13. The flag of Kanguria is a rectangle with side lengths in the ratio 3: 5. The flag is
divided into four rectangles of equal area as shown. What is the ratio of the side lengths of
the white rectangle?

(A) 1: 3 (B) 1: 4 (C) 2: 7


(D) 3: 10 (E) 4: 15

14. A 3 × 2 rectangle can be exactly covered by two of the L-shape figures in two
different ways as shown below.

In how many different ways can the figure below be covered by the L-shape figures?

(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3


(D) 4 (E) 48

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15. The triathlon consists of swimming, running, and biking. The biking is three-quarters
three
of the total distance; the running is one-fifth;
one and the swimming is 2 km.
km What is the total
distance of this triathlon, in km?
km

(A) 10 (B) 20 (C) 38


(D) 40 (E) 60

16. The triangle  is divided by segments , 2 and 2 into four triangles whose
areas are equal. Determine the ratio of 2: .

(A) 1 (B) 9:8 (C) 8:7


(D) 7:6 (E) 6:5

17. The given shape is made of parts of three equal circles of radius / that have their
centres on a straight line. The middle circle passes through the centres of the other two, as
shown. What is the perimeter of the shape?

!",- %,- ,-√


(A) (B) (C)
  

(D) 2./√3 (E) 4./

111111111111
18. The seven digits of the telephone number  add up to the two digit
number 111
. What is the sum   ?

(A) 8 (B) 9 (C) 10


(D) 11 (E) 12

19. 60 apples and 60 pears are packed into boxes so that each box contains the same
number of apples, and no two boxes contain the same number of pears. What is the
largest possible number of boxes that can be packed in this way?

(A) 20 (B) 15 (C) 12


(D) 10 (E) 6

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20. The diagram shows a net of an octahedron. When this is folded to form the
octahedron, which of the labelled line segments will coincide with the line segment
marked with the 3?

(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3


(D) 4 (E) 5

SECTION THREE - (5 point problems)

21. A square has two of its vertices on a semicircle and the other two on the diameter of
the semicircle as shown.

The radius of the circle is 1 cm. What is the area of the square?

$ ,
(A) 4 (B) $ 4 (C) 1 4
%

$ 
(D)  4 (E) 4
√

22. Two dots are marked in a disc that is rotating around its centre. One of them is 3 cm
further than the other to the centre of the disc and moves at a constant speed that is 2.5
times as fast as the other. What is the distance from the centre of the disc to this far point?

(A) 10 cm (B) 9 cm (C) 8 cm


(D) 6 cm (E) 5 cm

23. The integers from 1 to 99 are written in ascending order without gaps. The sequence of
digits is then divided into triplets of digits:

123456789101112 … 979899 ⟶ 123


456
789
101
112
… 979
899
.

Which of the following is not one of the triplets?

(A) 222
(B) 444
(C) 464

(D) 646
(E) 888

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24. How many planes pass through exactly three vertices of a given cube?

(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 4


(D) 8 (E) 12

25. A graph consists of 16 vertices and some edges that connect them, as in the picture. An
ant is now at the vertex labelled . At each move, it can walk from one vertex to any
neighbouring vertex crawling along a connecting edge. At which of the vertices labelled 7,
8, /, 9, : can the ant be after 2019 moves?

(A) only 7, / or 9, not 8 and : (B) only 7, /, 9 or :, not 8


(C) only 8 (D) only :
(E) all of these are possible

26. The positive integers , , and  each have three digits, and for each integer the first
digit is the same as its last digit. Also  = 2 + 1 and  = 2 + 1 . How many
possibilities are there for the integer ?

(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2


(D) 3 (E) more than 3

27. On each vertex of a square, one positive integer is placed. For any two numbers joined
by an edge of the square, one is a multiple of the other. However, for any two diagonally
opposite numbers, neither is a multiple of the other. What is the smallest possible sum of
the four numbers?

(A) 12 (B) 24 (C) 30


(D) 35 (E) 60

28. What is the least number of elements we have to delete from the set {10, 20, 30, 40, 50,
60, 70, 80, 90} so that the product of the elements remaining in the set is a perfect square?

(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3


(D) 4 (E) 5

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29. Given triangle  of area 9, let  be the midpoint of . Take points 7, 8, / on lines
, , , respectively, as shown in the picture, and such that 7 = 2 ∙ , 8 = 3 ∙ 
and / = 4 ∙ .

What is the area of triangle 78/?

(A) 9 (B) 29 (C) 39


!
(D)  9 (E) 0 (i.e. 7, 8, / are collinear).

30. If any digit of a given 4-digit number is deleted, the resulting 3-digit number is a
divisor of the original number. How many 4-digit numbers have this property?

(A) 5 (B) 9 (C) 14


(D) 19 (E) 23

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