Singapore Math Kangaroo Contest 2019

Secondary 4 / Grade 10 Contest Paper

School:

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Please DO NOT OPEN the contest booklet until the Proctor has given permission to start.

2. Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes

3. There are 30 questions in this paper. Each question scores 3 points in Section A, 4 points in
Section B and 5 points in Section C. No points are deducted for Unanswered question.
1 point is deducted for Wrong answer.

4. Shade your answers neatly in the answer entry sheet.

5. PROCTORING: No help should be given to any student in any way during the contest.

6. No calculators are allowed.

7. All students must fill and shade in your Name, Index number, Level and School in the
Answer sheet provided.

8. Students are not allowed to leave the venue within the first hour of the contest and 15 minutes before
the end of the contest.

9. Students must show detailed working and transfer their answers to the answer entry sheet.

10. No spare papers can be used in writing this contest. Enough space is provided for your
working of each question.

11. Students are not allowed take any answer script, reference materials and contest paper out of the
venue.
Rough Working
 Singapore Math Kangaroo Contest 2019 – Secondary 4 / Grade 10

Section A (Correct – 3 points | Unanswered – 0 points | Wrong – deduct 1 point)

Question 1
Calculate 20 × 19 + 20 + 19.
(A) 389 (B) 399 (C) 409 (D) 419 (E) 429

Question 2
A toy train takes exactly 1 minute and 11 seconds to complete one round on a course. How long does
it take to complete six rounds?
(A) 6 minutes 56 seconds (B) 7 minutes 6 seconds (C) 7 minutes 16 seconds
(D) 7 minutes 26 seconds (E) 7 minutes 36 seconds

Question 3
What is the mirror image of the word SHAVE?

(A) SHAVE (B) SHAV E (C) EVAHS

Question 4
How many different sums can you get by rolling three standard dice simultaneously?
(A) 14 (B) 15 (C) 16 (D) 17 (E) 18

Question 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)

1
 Singapore Math Kangaroo Contest 2019 – Secondary 4 / Grade 10

Question 6
A park has five gates. Monica wants to enter through one gate and to exit through a different one.
How many ways can she enter and exit the park?
(A) 25 (B) 20 (C) 16 (D) 15 (E) 10

Question 7
The weights of three kangaroos are different integers. Their total weight is 97 kg. What is the greatest
possible weight of the lightest kangaroo?
(A) 1 kg (B) 30 kg (C) 31 kg (D) 32 kg (E) 33 kg

Question 8
Given that the figure consists of nine identical squares, which of the following statements is true?

(A) α = β (B) 2α + β = 90◦ (C) α + β = 60◦

Question 9
Which of the following unit squares has the largest fraction of its area shaded?

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

2
 Singapore Math Kangaroo Contest 2019 – Secondary 4 / Grade 10

Question 10
A five-digit integer is written on each of three pieces of paper. The pieces of paper are arranged so
that three of the digits are covered as shown below. The sum of the three 5-digit integers is 57263.
Which of the following are the covered digits?

1
5
7
2 4
8 0
2 3 3
2 1
(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

Section B (Correct – 4 points | Unanswered – 0 points | Wrong – deduct 1 point)

Question 11
A square has vertices A, B, C, D labelled clockwise. An equilateral triangle is constructed with
vertices A, E, C labelled clockwise. What is the measure (in degrees) of angle CBE?

(A) 30 (B) 45 (C) 135 (D) 145 (E) 150

Question 12
The numbers a, b, c and d are distinct positive integers chosen from 1 to 10. What is the least possible
a c
value of + ?
b d
2 3 14 29 25
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
10 19 45 90 72

Question 13
The flag of Kanguria is a rectangle with side lengths in the ratio 3 : 5. The flag is divided into four
rectangles with the same areas as shown below. 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

3
 Singapore Math Kangaroo Contest 2019 – Secondary 4 / Grade 10

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

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

(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 48

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

(A) 10 (B) 20 (C) 38 (D) 40 (E) 60

Question 16
A diluted juice consists of a concentrate and water in the ratio 1 : 7. A concentrate is in a 1-litre flask,
and the flask is half full. What fraction of the concentrate must be used to produce 2 litres of diluted
juice?
1 1 2 4
(A) (B) (C) (D)
4 2 7 7
(E) All of the concentrate.

Question 17
The shape below is made of parts of three equal circles of radius R. Their centres are on a straight
line. The middle circle passes through the centres of the other two. What is the perimeter of the
shape?

√
10πR 5πR 2πR 3 √
(A) (B) (C) (D) 2πR 3 (E) 4πR
3 3 3

4
 Singapore Math Kangaroo Contest 2019 – Secondary 4 / Grade 10

Question 18
The seven digits of the telephone number aaabbbb add up to the two-digit number ab. What is the
value of a + b?
(A) 8 (B) 9 (C) 10 (D) 11 (E) 12

Question 19
Sixty 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

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

(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5

Section C (Correct – 5 points | Unanswered – 0 points | Wrong – deduct 1 point)

Question 21
A square has two of its vertices on a semicircle and the other two on the diameter of the semicircle as
shown below. If the radius of the circle is 1 cm, what is the area of the square?

4 π 4 2
(A) cm2 (B) cm2 (C) 1 cm2 (D) cm2 (E) √ cm2
5 4 3 3

5
 Singapore Math Kangaroo Contest 2019 – Secondary 4 / Grade 10

Question 22
Points A and B are marked on a disc that is rotating around its centre. Point A is 3 cm farther than
Point B from the centre of the disc. Point A moves at a constant speed that is 2.5 times as fast as
Point B. What is the distance from the centre of the disc to Point A?
(A) 10 cm (B) 9 cm (C) 8 cm (D) 6 cm (E) 5 cm

Question 23
The integers from 1 to 99 are written in ascending order. 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)

Question 24
How many planes pass through exactly three vertices of a given cube?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 4 (D) 8 (E) 12

Question 25
A graph consists of 16 vertices and some edges that connect them as shown below. An ant is now at
the vertex labelled A. In each move, it can walk from one vertex to any neighbouring vertex crawling
along a connecting edge. At which of the vertices labelled P , Q, R, S and T can the ant be after 2019
moves?
A

T
P S
Q

R
(A) only P , R or S, not Q and T (B) only P , R, S or T , not Q
(C) only Q (D) only T
(E) all of these are possible

6
 Singapore Math Kangaroo Contest 2019 – Secondary 4 / Grade 10

Question 26
In each of the three-digit positive integers a, b and c, the hundreds and ones digits are the same. Also,
b = 2a + 1 and c = 2b + 1. How many possible values of a are there?
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3 (E) more than 3

Question 27
A positive integer is placed on each vertex of a square. For any two numbers joined by a side 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

Question 28
What is the least number of integers we have to delete from the set {10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90} so
that the product of the remaining numbers in the set is a perfect square?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5

Question 29
In the diagram below, the area of triangle ABC is S, and D is the midpoint of BC. Points P , Q and
R are on lines AB, AD and AC, respectively, such that AP = 2AB, AQ = 3AD and AR = 4AC.
What is the area of triangle P QR?

C
D
P A B

R
(A) S (B) 2S (C) 3S (D) 21 S
(E) 0 (i.e. P , Q, R are collinear).

Question 30
When any digit of a 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

7
Rough Working
Rough Working