SASMO 2017, Secondary 1 (Grade 7) Contest

SASMO 2017 Secondary 1/Grade 7 Contest

Question 1
What is the remainder when 1234 × 567 is divided by 5?

A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
E. 8

Question 2
Given that 17 × A = 10172 − 10002 , what is the value of A?

A. 17
B. 217
C. 1117
D. 2017
E. None of the above

Question 3
Find the average of the following 100 numbers.
−1, 2, −3, 4, −5, 6, … , −99, 100

A. 0.5
B. 1
C. 50
D. 50.5
E. None of the above

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Question 4
Which of the following has the largest value?

6
A. 7
10
B. 11
12
C. 13
16
D. 17
18
E. 19

Question 5
It would cost Danny $15.50 to buy three Banana smoothies and four Mango
smoothies. Buying five Banana smoothies and six Mango smoothies would cost
him $24.50. What is the price, in dollars, of 2 Banana smoothies?

A. $2
B. $2.50
C. $5
D. $7.50
E. None of the above

Question 6
Find the next term of the following sequence:
2017, 2016, 2012, 2003, 1987, ?

A. 1982
B. 1971
C. 1962
D. 1951
E. None of the above

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Question 7
100 students participated in a survey about usage of social media sites Facebook,
Instagram and YouTube. All of them are using at least one of these sites. It was
found that all who use Instagram also use Facebook. 40 students use YouTube,
30 use Instagram, 8 use all the three sites and 12 use YouTube ONLY. Determine
the number of students who use Facebook ONLY.

A. 10
B. 38
C. 58
D. 80
E. None of the above

Question 8
The operator ☼ acts on two numbers to give the following results:
4 ☼ 8 = 86
8 ☼ 9 = 910
6 ☼ 12 = 128
15 ☼ 20 = 2017
Find the value of 17 ☼ 17.

A. 1719
B. 1720
C. 2013
D. 2017
E. None of the above
F.

Question 9
It is given that 𝑛! = 𝑛 × (𝑛 − 1) × (𝑛 − 2) × … × 3 × 2 × 1. For example, 4! =
4 × 3 × 2 × 1. Find the remainder when 1! + 2! + 3! + ⋯ + 10! Is divided by 10.

A. 3
B. 4
C. 5
D. 6
E. None of the above

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Question 10
Five friends of James are playing a riddle game in which James has to determine
who is hiding his key.

Antonio: “It is not Eric. It is Bruce.”

Bruce: “It is not Chris. It is not Eric.”
Chris: “It is Eric. It is not Antonio.”
Daniel: “It is Chris. It is Bruce.”
Eric: “It is Daniel. It is not Antonio.”

If each of them says only one true sentence, who is hiding James’s key?

A. Antonio
B. Bruce
C. Chris
D. Daniel
E. Not enough information to determine

Question 11
How many different 4-digit numbers can be formed using the digits 1 or 7 only?
(Example: 1111 and 1717)

A. 8
B. 10
C. 12
D. 14
E. 16

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Question 12
The figure below shows a parallelogram 𝐴𝐵𝐶𝐷, and p, q, r and s each denotes
the area of the triangle as shown in the figure. Which of the following relations
among the areas is ALWAYS true?
A B
p

s
D C

A. 𝑝+𝑟 =𝑞+𝑠
B. 𝑞−𝑝 =𝑟−𝑠
C. 𝑝+𝑞 =𝑟+𝑠
D. 2 × (𝑝 + 𝑠) = 𝑞 + 𝑟
E. Impossible to determine

Question 13
A whole number has the same remainder when divided by 7, by 9, or by 11.What
is the greatest 3-digit whole number that satisfy these criteria?

A. 693
B. 694
C. 695
D. 696
E. None of the above

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Question 14
2017
What is the 2017th digit after the decimal point of the decimal form of ?
7

A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
E. None of the above

Question 15
Only 2 out of the 4 figures below will form a 3 by 3 cube
as shown on the right. Which 2 figures can form a 3 by 3
cube?

P. Q

R. S.

A. P, Q
B. P, R
C. P, S
D. Q, R
E. Q, S

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Question 16
The hour hand of a certain clock is 3.5 cm long. How far does the tip of the
22
hour hand travel in a 24-hour period? (Use 𝜋 = 7 . Give your answer in cm)

Question 17
The bar chart below shows the number of smartphones sold in City A in the
second half of year 2016. For example, 700 smartphones were sold in
September. Starting from September, the number of smartphones sold in each
month is equal to sum of the smartphones sold in the previous two months.
What is the average number of smartphones sold in the second half of year
2016?

29

Number
of smartphone
(in Hundreds)

Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

Month

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Question 18
Find the 2-digit whole number that is equal to the square of the sum of its
digits.

Question 19
It is given that 𝑞, 𝑟, 𝑠 and 𝑡 are integers. The product (𝑞 6 + 𝑟 6 ) × (𝑠 6 + 𝑡 6 ) is
equal to 65. What is the value of 𝑞 6 + 𝑟 6 + 𝑠 6 + 𝑡 6 ?

Question 20
Adam and Steve left a school at the same time. They walked to the same train
station. Adam’s speed was 50 m/min. After 8 minutes, Steve was ahead by 240
metres. If Steve arrived at the train station 6 minutes ahead of Adam, how far
is the school from the train station? (Give your answer in metres)

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Question 21
In quadrilateral ABCD below, ∠ADC = 3 × ∠ABC and ∠DAB = ∠BCD = 900 .
What is the area of quadrilateral ABCD if AD = 10 cm and BC = 30 cm?

Question 22
The number 2017 is a prime number and it can be expressed as sum of cubes
of different whole numbers in three different ways:
2017 = 23 + 43 + 63 + 93 + 103 ,
2017 = 13 + 23 + 43 + 63 + 123 ,
2017 = 13 + 43 + 63 + 83 + 93 + 𝑎3 + 𝑏 3 + 𝑐 3 .
If 𝑎, 𝑏, 𝑐 are different prime numbers, find the value of 𝑎 + 𝑏 + 𝑐.

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Question 23
In the following, all the different letters stand for different digits.
H A H A
+ H A A H
S A S M O

What is the value of 𝑆 + 𝐴 + 𝑆 + 𝑀 + 𝑂?

Question 24
Determine the sum of the digits in the product of
18 × ⏟ 11 … 11 × ⏟33 … 33 .
101 𝑑𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑡𝑠 101 𝑑𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑡𝑠

Question 25
How many triangles are there in the right figure?

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Solutions to SASMO 2017 Secondary 1/Grade 7

Question 1
Last digit of a whole number would indicate the remainder upon division by 5.

Last digits Remainder when divided by 5

0 or 5 0
1 or 6 1
2 or 7 2
3 or 8 3
4 or 9 4

The last digit of the product 1234 × 567 is the last digit of 4 × 7, which is 8.
Since the last digit is 8, then the remainder should be 3 based on table.

Answer: (C)

Question 2

Using the difference of squares formula: 𝑎2 − 𝑏 2 = (𝑎 − 𝑏)(𝑎 + 𝑏) ,

10172 − 10002 = (1017 − 1000)(1017 + 1000) = 17 × 2017
Therefore, A = 2017.

Answer: (D)

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Question 3
Method 1:
Sum of each pair is −1 + 2 = −3 + 4 = ⋯ = −99 + 100 = 1
Therefore, the sum of the 100 numbers is 1 × 50 = 50.
50 1
Average is then = 2 = 𝟎. 𝟓 .
100

Method 2:
50
Sum of odd numbers is −(1 + 3 + 5 + ⋯ + 99) = − (100 × ) = −2500
2
50
Sum of even numbers is 2 + 4 + 6 + ⋯ + 100 = 102 × = 2550
2
50
The sum of 100 numbers is then 2550 − 2500 = 50. Hence, the average is =
100

𝟎. 𝟓 .

Answer: (A)

Question 4
1 1 1 1 1 1 1
The fraction is the smallest among , 11 , 13 , , 19 . Since is subtracted
19 7 17 19
18 18
from 1 to get , then the largest value among the five options is .
19 19

Answer: (E)

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Question 5
5 × 𝐵𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑛𝑎 + 6 × 𝑀𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑜 = 24.50 (1)
3 × 𝐵𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑛𝑎 + 4 × 𝑀𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑜 = 15.50 (2)
Subtracting the two equations, we get
2 × 𝐵𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑛𝑎 + 2 × 𝑀𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑜 = 9 .
It follows that
4 × 𝐵𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑛𝑎 + 4 × 𝑀𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑜 = 18 (3)
Subtracting equation (2) from equation (3), we obtain
1 𝐵𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑛𝑎 = 2.50
2 𝐵𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑛𝑎 = 5
Two banana smoothies cost $5.
Answer: (C)

Question 6
The differences of consecutive terms are 1, 4, 9, 16, which are perfect squares.
The next perfect square is 25. So, the next term is 1987 - 25 = 1962.
Answer: (C)

Question 7
The distribution can be easily visualized using Venn diagram:

Facebook Instagram

22
3 0
8 8
2 0
0
12

Youtube

Therefore, 38 students who use Facebook only.

Answer: (B)
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Question 8
Given Reversed order Reversed order + 2
4, 8 84 86
8, 9 98 100
6, 12 126 128
15, 20 2015 2017
17, 17 1717 1719

Answer: (A)

Question 9
When an integer is divided by 10, the remainder is the last digit of the integer.
Number Last digit
1! 1
2! 2
3! 6
4! 4
5! 0
6! 0
7! 0
8! 0
9! 0
10! 0

The last digit of 1! + 2! + 3! + ⋯ + 10! is the last digit of 1 + 2 + 6 + 4 + 0 + 0 +

0 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 13 , which is 3.
Answer: (A)

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Question 10
Case 1: Antonio’s first sentence is false, but the second sentence is true.
1st sentence 2nd sentence Conclusion
Antonio False True It is Eric
Bruce True False
Chris True True
Daniel False False
Eric False True

This case contradicts the given that each of them says only one true and only
one false, since Chris said 2 true statements and Daniel said 2 false sentences.

Case 2: Antonio’s first sentence is true, but the second sentence is false.
1st sentence 2nd sentence Conclusion
Antonio True False Not Eric, not Bruce
Bruce False True It is Chris
Chris False True Not Antonio
Daniel True False Not Bruce
Eric False True Not Daniel

Case 2 is possible; hence, it is Chris who is hiding James’ key.

Answer: (C)

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Question 11
Method 1:
There are two options (1 or 7) for each place value. A 4-digit number has 4
place values, then the total number that satisfy the conditions is 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 =
𝟏𝟔.
Method 2:
Listing the numbers in increasing order, we get
1111, 1117, 1171, 1177,
1711, 1717, 1771, 1777,
7111, 7117, 7171, 7177,
7711, 7717, 7771, 7777,
giving a total of 16 numbers.

Answer: (E)

Question 12

In the figure above, area of Δ𝐷𝐸𝐶 and area of Δ𝐴𝐹𝐵 are the same because
they have the same height (height of parallelogram) and the same base (𝐴𝐵 =
𝐷𝐶).
Since quadrilateral 𝐸𝐻𝐹𝐺 is the common region of Δ𝐷𝐸𝐶 and Δ𝐴𝐹𝐵, then 𝒑 +
𝒒 = 𝒓 + 𝒔.

Answer: (C)

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Question 13
The smallest divisor is 7, then the possible remainders are 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6.
The number that satisfies the conditions above must be at most 6 more than the
multiple of LCM (least common multiple) of 7, 9 and 11.
The LCM of 7, 9 and 11 is 693. The next multiple of 693 is already a 4-digit
number. So, the greatest 3-digit whole number that satisfies the conditions is 693
+ 6 = 699.

Answer: (E)

Question 14
2017
The fraction is equal to 288. ̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅
142857, where ̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅
142857 means that the series
7

of digits ‘142857’ is repeated indefinitely. The length of the repeated series is 6.

Since
2017
gives a remainder of 1, then this 2017th digit is the 1st digit in the repeated
6

series, which is 1.

Answer: (A)

Question 15
The sum of cubes of the pair must be equal to 3 × 3 ×
3 = 27. The only pair that gives a sum of 27 cubes is P
and S.

Answer: (C)

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Question 16
The tip of an hour hand traces a full circle every 12 hours. Therefore, the tip of
an hour hand traces 2 full circles in a 24-hour period. Then it travels
2 × (2𝜋) × (3.5) = 𝟒𝟒 𝑐𝑚.

Answer: 44

Question 17
Let x, y be the number of smartphones (in hundreds) sold in July and August,
respectively.
Then, we have the following:

September: x + y = 7
October: y + 7
November: 7 + (y + 7) = y + 14
December: (y + 7) + (y + 14) = 2y + 21

Since 2y + 21 should be 29, then y = 4. It follows that x = 7 – y = 7 – 4 = 3.

Converting to hundreds, we obtain:

July is 300, August is 400, September is 700, October is 1100, November is

1800 and December is 2900.

300 + 400 + 700 + 1100 + 1800 + 2900

𝐴𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑒 = = 𝟏𝟐𝟎𝟎
6

Answer: 1200

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Question 18
The condition implies that 9 is a divisor of this 2-digit number because of the
divisibility test for 9. (A number is divisible by 9 if the sum of its digits is
divisible by 9).

The only 2-digit perfect squares that are divisible by 9 are 36 and 81, but only
81 satisfies the condition since (8 + 1)2 = 𝟖𝟏.

Answer: 81

Question 19
Since 65 = 1 × 65 = 5 × 13 and 𝑞, 𝑟, 𝑠 and 𝑡 are integers, then
(𝑞 6 + 𝑟 6 ) × (𝑠 6 + 𝑡 6 ) = 65 × 1 or (𝑞 6 + 𝑟 6 ) × (𝑠 6 + 𝑡 6 ) = 5 × 13.
The former has integer solution if exactly one is 2, exactly one is 0 and the rest
are 1, since (26 + 16 ) × (06 + 16 ) = 65 × 1.
The latter has no integer solution.
Therefore, 𝑞 6 + 𝑟 6 + 𝑠 6 + 𝑡 6 = 26 + 16 + 06 + 11 = 𝟔𝟔 (The sum is the same if
the values are switched).

Answer: 66

Question 20
After 8 minutes, Adam was 50 × 8 = 400 𝑚 away from the school, and Steve
was 400 + 240 = 640 𝑚 away from the school. Therefore, Steve’s speed was
640
= 80 𝑚/𝑚𝑖𝑛 and he could travel 80 × 6 = 480 𝑚 in 6 minutes.
8

Let 𝑥 be the distance between the school and train station. Then,
𝑥 𝑥 + 480
= ,
50 80
which gives 𝑥 = 𝟖𝟎𝟎.

Answer: 800

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Question 21
∠ADC + ∠ABC = 3600 − 900 − 900 = 1800 . Since
∠ADC = 3 × ∠ABC , then ∠ABC = 450 and
∠ADC = 1350 .

Extend AB and DC until they meet at point E to

produce isosceles right-angled Δ𝐵𝐶𝐸.

Then, 𝐴𝑟𝑒𝑎 𝑜𝑓 𝐴𝐵𝐶𝐷 = 𝐴𝑟𝑒𝑎 𝑜𝑓 Δ𝐵𝐶𝐸 − 𝐴𝑟𝑒𝑎 𝑜𝑓 Δ𝐷𝐴𝐸.

Since Δ𝐵𝐶𝐸 and Δ𝐷𝐴𝐸 are isosceles right-angled triangles, it follows that

30 × 30 10 × 10
𝐴𝑟𝑒𝑎 𝑜𝑓 𝐴𝐵𝐶𝐷 = − = 𝟒𝟎𝟎 𝑐𝑚2
2 2

Answer: 400

Question 22
From the given, 23 + 43 + 63 + 93 + 103 = 13 + 43 + 63 + 83 + 93 + 𝑎3 + 𝑏 3 +
𝑐 3 , then

23 + 103 = 13 + 83 + 𝑎3 + 𝑏 3 + 𝑐 3 .

Hence, 𝑎3 + 𝑏 3 + 𝑐 3 = 495. The highest cube of a prime number less than 495
is
73 = 343. Thus, we have the options 2, 3, 5, 7 for values of a, b, c.
It can be checked that 33 + 53 + 73 = 495. Then 𝑎 + 𝑏 + 𝑐 = 3 + 5 + 7 = 𝟏𝟓.

Answer: 15

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Question 23
The value of S should be 1, because the sum of any 4-digit numbers can never
be 20,000 and more. (S = 1)
Since the value of A + A ends in 1, then there should be a carry-over 1 from the
previous addition because A + A is even for any value of A. So, it’s either A = 0
or A = 5.
If A = 0, then there should be no carry-over to H + H. It follows that H + H ends
in 0, which means that H can only be 5. But since A + H ends in letter O, then
letter O must be 5 as well, which is not allowed because H is already 5. A cannot
be 0.
Then A must be 5. (A = 5)
So, A + A gives a carry-over of 1 to H + H. Since H + H + 1 ends in 5, then H =
2 or
H = 7. But H cannot be 2, because the sum of the 4-digit numbers must be 5-
digit number.
H must be 7. (H = 7)
Because A + H = 5 + 7 = 12, then letter O = 2. Also, 1 + H + A = 13, then M
= 3.
Therefore, S+A+S+M+O = 1 + 5 + 1 + 3 + 2 = 12.

Answer: 12

Question 24
Method 1:

18 × ⏟
11 … 11 × ⏟
33 … 33 = 2 × 9 × ⏟
11 … 11 × ⏟
33 … 33
101 𝑑𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑡𝑠 101 𝑑𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑡𝑠 101 𝑑𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑡𝑠 101 𝑑𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑡𝑠

=2 ×⏟
99 … 99 × ⏟
33 … 33 = 2 × (1 ⏟
00 … 00 − 1) × ⏟
33 … 33
101 𝑑𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑡𝑠 101 𝑑𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑡𝑠 101 𝑧𝑒𝑟𝑜𝑠 101 𝑑𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑡𝑠

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= (1 ⏟ 66 … 66 = (66
00 … 00 − 1) × ⏟ ⏟ … 66 ⏟ 66 … 66 )
00 … 00 − ⏟
101 𝑧𝑒𝑟𝑜𝑠 101 𝑑𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑡𝑠 101 𝑑𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑡𝑠 101 𝑧𝑒𝑟𝑜𝑠 101 𝑑𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑡𝑠

= 66
⏟ …6 5 ⏟
33 … 33 4
100 𝑑𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑡𝑠 100 𝑑𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑡𝑠

Sum of digits is 6 × 100 + 5 + 3 × 100 + 4 = 𝟗𝟎𝟗.

Method 2:
By pattern observation, we get

Sum of digits
18 × 1 × 3 = 54 9
18 × 11 × 33 = 6534 18
18 × 111 × 333 = 665334 27

So, if we are multiplying 18 by ⏟

11 … 11 and ⏟
33 … 33 , then the sum of digits
101 𝑑𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑡𝑠 101 𝑑𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑡𝑠

must be 101 × 9 = 𝟗𝟎𝟗.

Answer: 909

Question 25
Let “n-part triangle” be a triangle with n regions.
1-part triangle: 6
2-part triangle: 6
3-part triangle: 7
4-part triangle: 3
5-part triangle: 4
7-part triangle: 2
10-part triangle: 1

Number of triangles = 6 + 6 + 7 + 3 + 4 + 2 + 1 = 𝟐𝟗

Answer: 29
111