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Po Leung Kuk 21 Primary Mathematics World Contest Individual Contest 2018

This document contains 15 math problems from an individual contest. The problems cover a range of topics including arithmetic, geometry, algebra, and combinatorics. They involve calculating units digits, distances, areas of shapes, ratios, arrangements, and points in a tournament. The goal is to solve each problem and provide the answer or value requested.

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Po Leung Kuk 21 Primary Mathematics World Contest Individual Contest 2018

This document contains 15 math problems from an individual contest. The problems cover a range of topics including arithmetic, geometry, algebra, and combinatorics. They involve calculating units digits, distances, areas of shapes, ratios, arrangements, and points in a tournament. The goal is to solve each problem and provide the answer or value requested.

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Po Leung Kuk

21st Primary Mathematics World Contest


Individual Contest 2018

1. Let . What is the unit digit of A?

2. There are 4 children standing in a line.

The distance between Amy and Cindy is 12 m longer than the


distance between Cindy and Don. The distance between Amy and
Billy is 3 m shorter than the distance between Billy and Don. What
is the distance, in m, between Billy and Cindy?

3. We put some balls into 10 boxes such that each box has a different
number of balls with the following conditions on the number of
balls in each box:
(1) cannot be less than 11;
(2) cannot be 13;
(3) cannot be a multiple of 5.
What is the least total number of balls needed to satisfy these three
conditions?

4. A square piece of paper of area 100 cm2, is folded in half along the
dotted line as shown below. Every fold thereafter is exactly
through the midpoint of the line segment. What is the area, in cm 2,
of the shaded region in the last figure?

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21st Primary Mathematics World Contest
Individual Contest 2018

5. In the diagram below, of the small circle is shaded, and of the


large circle is shaded. What is the ratio of the shaded area of the
small circle to the shaded area of the large circle?

6. A rectangle of length 4 cm and width 3 cm is in position I. Rotate


the rectangle clockwise about point B to position II. Then rotate
the rectangle clockwise about point C to position III, and rotate
the rectangle clockwise about point D to position IV. Points A, B,
C, D and E lie on a straight line. How long, in cm, is the distance
that point A travels? (Let )

I II III IV

A B C D E

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21st Primary Mathematics World Contest
Individual Contest 2018

7. There are 4 different story books, 3 different comic books and 2


different language books to be arranged in a row. The story books
are required to be put together, the comic books are required to be
put together and the language books are required to be put
together. How many different arrangements of the nine books are
possible?

8. The rectangle ABCD has area 30 cm2. Points E, F, G and H lie on


the line segments AB, BC, CD and DA respectively. Suppose
cm and cm, find the area, in cm2, of
quadrilateral EFGH.
D G C

H
F

A E B
9. In the diagram below, the two right-angled isosceles triangles,
ABC and DEC, are put together such that D, A, C are collinear
and B, E, C are collinear. AB and DE intersect at point F. Points G
and H lie on the line segments DC and BC respectively. If the
shaded region EFGH is a square, then what is the ratio of the area
of ABC to the area of DEC?
D

F G

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B E H C
Po Leung Kuk
21st Primary Mathematics World Contest
Individual Contest 2018

10. A grid should be filled with a number in each square such


that the sum of the three numbers in each row, column and the two
main diagonals are equal. The partially completed grid is shown
below. What is the value of a?

a 16 20
2

11. In the diagram below, point P is inside parallelogram ABCD. If the


area of ABP and BPC is 73 cm2 and 100 cm2, respectively,
find the area, in cm2, of BPD.

A D

B C

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21st Primary Mathematics World Contest
Individual Contest 2018

12. In the figure below, is parallel to . Find the value of


.
A1 A2
x

A3 123

132 A4

A5 109

A6
113

A7 117

y
A8 A9

13. The fraction is obtained as a sum of three positive fractions


each less than 1 with single digit denominators. Find the largest
(greatest) of these fractions in simplest form.
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21st Primary Mathematics World Contest
Individual Contest 2018

14. Sixteen husband and wife couples attend a party. This party has the
condition that every husband will shake hands with all the other
guests except his own wife and wives do not shake hands with
other wives. Find the total number of handshakes between the
thirty-two people at the party.

15. In a hockey tournament, a win is worth 2 points, a draw is worth 1


point and a loss is worth 0 points. There are ten teams, and each
team plays every other team exactly once. What is the maximum
number of teams with at least 12 points at the end of the
tournament?

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