Junior 2017-2021 Past Papers

AMC Correct Answer Key
JUNIOR DIVISION 2017-2021
Question 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021

1 A C D D C
2 B E D E B
3 A B D B B
4 B A C B B
5 D E E B C
6 A E B E E
7 D E D A B
8 D C E E A
9 C E D C C
10 E C C D E
11 B C C D B
12 D B B E A
13 E C B B D
14 A B B A D
15 C B C B D
16 A D C C B
17 D B A B C
18 E D E B E
19 E A D A A
20 D A C C C
21 B D C D B
22 B D A E B
23 C A D D C
24 B C C C C
25 D D E D A
26 247 321 224 387 356
27 18 156 252 50 84
28 27 40 119 329 250
29 286 529 997 168 40
30 234 90 331 168 232
2020
2021
AUSTRALIAN
MATHEMATICS COMPETITION
Junior
Years 7–8
(AUSTRALIAN
SCHOOL YEARS)
Instructions and Information DATE
4–6 August
General
1. Do not open the booklet until told to do so by your teacher.
2. NO calculators, maths stencils, mobile phones or other calculating aids are
permitted. Scribbling paper, graph paper, ruler and compasses are permitted,
but are not essential.
3. Diagrams are NOT drawn to scale. They are intended only as aids.
4. There are 25 multiple-choice questions, each requiring a single answer, and TIME ALLOWED
5 questions that require a whole number answer between 0 and 999. The
questions generally get harder as you work through the paper. There is no 75 minutes
penalty for an incorrect response.
5. This is a competition not a test; do not expect to answer all questions. You are
only competing against your own year in your own country/Australian state so
different years doing the same paper are not compared.
6. Read the instructions on the answer sheet carefully. Ensure your name, school
name and school year are entered. It is your responsibility to correctly code
your answer sheet.
7. When your teacher gives the signal, begin working on the problems.
The answer sheet

1. Use only lead pencil.
2. Record your answers on the reverse of the answer sheet (not on the question
paper) by FULLY colouring the circle matching your answer.
3. Your answer sheet will be scanned. The optical scanner will attempt to read
all markings even if they are in the wrong places, so please be careful not to
doodle or write anything extra on the answer sheet. If you want to change an
answer or remove any marks, use a plastic eraser and be sure to remove all
marks and smudges.
Integrity of the competition

The AMT reserves the right to re-examine students before deciding whether
to grant official status to their score.
Reminder
You may sit this competition once, in one division only, or risk no score.
Copyright © 2021 Australian Mathematics Trust | ACN 083 950 341

2021 AUSTRALIAN MATHEMATICS COMPETITION
JUNIOR
Junior Division
Questions 1 to 10, 3 marks each
1. 2021 − 1202 =
(A) 719 (B) 723 (C) 819 (D) 823 (E) 3223
2. What is the perimeter

of this figure?
(A) 28 units
(B) 26 units
(C) 24 units
(D) 20 units
(E) 21 units
1 unit
3. The area of this triangle is

(A) 10 cm2 (B) 12 cm2 (C) 12.5 cm2
(D) 15 cm2 (E) 16 cm2
4 cm
6 cm
3
4. On the number line below, the fraction lies between
8
P Q R S T U
0 1 1
2
(A) P and Q (B) Q and R (C) R and S (D) S and T (E) T and U
5. Which of the following is closest to 2021?

(A) 202 × 100 (B) 22 × 1000 (C) 20.2 × 100 (D) 10 × 20.2 (E) 100 × 2.2
JUNIOR
J2
6. In the diagram, AB is parallel to EF B

and DE is parallel to BC. What is D F
the value of x? x◦
43◦
(A) 43 (B) 47 (C) 133
A C
(D) 135 (E) 137 E
7. Mister Meow attempted the calculation 5 × 2 + 4, but accidentally swapped the

multiplication and addition symbols. His answer was
(A) too low by 2 (B) too low by 1 (C) still correct
(D) too high by 1 (E) too high by 2
8. Dad puts a cake in the oven at 11:49 am. The recipe says to bake it for 75 minutes.
When should the cake come out of the oven?
(A) 1:04 pm (B) 12:34 pm (C) 1:54 pm (D) 1:19 pm (E) 12:04 pm
9. Damon made up a joke and sent it as a text message to three people in his class.
These three each sent it to three other people in the class. No-one receiving the joke
had seen it before. Including Damon, how many people now know the joke?
(A) 9 (B) 11 (C) 13 (D) 15 (E) 16
10. I am shuffling a deck of cards but I accidentally drop a card on the ground every now
and then. After a while, I notice that I have dropped five cards.
From above, the five cards look like one of the following pictures. Which picture
could it be?
6
♦
6
♠
♠
♠ ♠
♠ ♠
6
4
♦
♦ ♦
♦
♦
♠ ♠
♠ ♠
(A) ♦ (B) (C)

♦
♦ ♦
♦
♠
♦♠♠
9
♦ 2♥ ♥
4
♦
♠
4
4
4
♠
♣
♦ 7 ♠ ♣ ♣ ♦
2 ♥
9
9
♦
♠ ♠
♠ ♠
♠
♣
♦
♦ ♣ ♣ ♥
♣ ♣
♣ ♣
♣ ♣
♦
♠ ♣
♦
6
♦
♣♣
♣♣
♠ ♠
♣
♥
♣
♥
♥
2
♣ ♣
♠
2 ♦
7
♠
6
♣
♣
♣
6
♠ ♠
♠ ♠
♥ ♥
♠ ♠
♠ ♠
♠ ♠
♠ ♠
7 2
♣
♣
♥
♥
♠
♣
9 ♣
♣ ♣
9
♣
9
♥
2
7
7
♠
♠
♠
♠
♠ ♠
♠ ♠
6 6
4
♦ ♦ ♦
♦
♠ ♠
♠ ♠
(D) ♦ (E) ♦
♦ ♦ 2♥ ♥
♦ ♥ ♥
2
4
4
♠
♦
9
9
♣
♦ ♦
♣ ♣
♣ ♣
♦ ♦
♣♣
♣♣
♣
♥
♣
♦ ♥ ♦ ♥ ♥
♠
2 2
7
6 6
♣
♣
♣
♣
♠ ♠
♠ ♠
♠ ♠
♠ ♠
♠ ♠
♠ ♠
♣
♣
♠
♠
♣ ♣
♣ ♣
9
9
7
7
♠
♠
JUNIOR
J3
11. To feed a horse, Kim mixes three bags of oats with one bag containing 20% lucerne
and 80% oats. If all the bags have the same volume, what percentage of the combined
feed mixture is lucerne?
(A) 3 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 20 (E) 60
12. Three squares with perimeters 12 cm, 20 cm and 16 cm

are joined as shown. What is the perimeter of the
shape formed?
(A) 34 cm (B) 40 cm (C) 41 cm (D) 42 cm (E) 48 cm
13. The odometer in my car measures the total distance travelled. At the moment, it
reads 199 786 kilometres. I’m interested in when the odometer reading is a palin-
drome, so that it reads the same backwards as forwards. How many more kilometres
of travel will this take?
(A) 25 (B) 125 (C) 15 (D) 205 (E) 2005
14. A square has an internal point P such that the perpen-

dicular distances from P to the four sides are 1 cm, 2 cm,
3 cm, and 4 cm.
How many other internal points of the square have this P
property?
(A) 1 (B) 3 (C) 5 (D) 7 (E) 9
15. How many different positive whole numbers can replace the to make this a true
statement?
1
+ <1
10 3
(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6 (E) 7
16. Three blocks with rectangular faces are placed

together to form a larger rectangular prism. 28
27
All blocks have side lengths which are whole
numbers of centimetres. The areas of some
of the faces are shown, as is the length of
one edge. 30
In cubic centimetres, what is the volume of 42
the combined prism?
(A) 360 (B) 540 (C) 600 3
(D) 720 (E) 900
JUNIOR
J4
17. I have four consecutive odd numbers. The largest is one less than twice the smallest.
Which of the following is the largest of the four numbers?
(A) 9 (B) 11 (C) 13 (D) 15 (E) 21
18. This is a square with sides of 10 metres. 3m

From the constructions shown, which of the areas is
the largest? A B
C
(A) A (B) B (C) C (D) D (E) E
4m
D 6m
4m E
19. Sandy, Rachel and Thandie collect toy cars. Altogether they
have 300 cars.
Rachel has grown up and decides to give her cars away. If she
gives them all to Sandy, then Sandy will have 180. If she gives
them all to Thandie, then Thandie will have 200.
How many cars does Rachel have?
(A) 80 (B) 90 (C) 100 (D) 110 (E) 120
20. A standard dice numbered 1 to 6 with opposite

sides adding to 7 is placed on a 2 by 2 square as
shown.
The dice is rolled over one edge onto each of the
four base squares in turn and then back on to the
original square, as indicated by the arrows.
Which side of the dice is now facing upwards?
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
21. Leonhard is designing a puzzle for Katharina. It has nine

squares in a 3 × 3 grid and a number of clues. Each clue
is a number 1, 2 or 3 placed in one of the squares.
Katharina then has to find a solution by placing 1, 2 or 3 in
each of the remaining squares so that no row or column has a
repeated number.
What is the smallest number of clues that Leonhard could
include so that his puzzle has exactly one solution?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5
JUNIOR
J5
22. Grandma and Grandpa took their three grandchildren to the cinema. They purchased
5 seats in a row. Each grandparent wanted to sit next to two of the grandchildren.
How many such seating arrangements are possible?
(A) 8 (B) 12 (C) 30 (D) 3 (E) 60
23. I have a 4 by 4 by 4 cube made up from 64 unit cubes. I paint 3 faces of the larger
cube. Then I pull the cube apart. Which of the following could be the number of
unit cubes with no paint on them?
(A) 16 (B) 21 (C) 24 (D) 28 (E) 36
24. Ben and Jerry each roll a standard dice. If Ben rolls
higher than Jerry, he wins; otherwise Jerry wins.
What is the probability that Ben wins?
1 1 5 17 1
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
6 3 12 36 2
25. In the diagram, P QR is isosceles, with Q

P Q = QR. S is a point on P R and T is
a point on P Q such that QT = QS, and
∠SQR = 20◦ . 20◦
The size of ∠T SP , in degrees, is T
(A) 10 (B) 12 (C) 15
x◦
(D) 20 (E) 24 P S R
For questions 26 to 30, shade the answer as an integer from 0 to 999

in the space provided on the answer sheet.
Questions 26–30 are worth 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 marks, respectively.
26. Starting with a 43 × 47 rectangle of paper, Sadako cuts the paper to remove the
largest square possible.
With the remaining rectangle, she again cuts it to remove the largest square possible.
She continues doing this until the remaining piece is a square.
What is the total perimeter of all the squares Sadako has at the end?
JUNIOR
J6
27. There are 14 chairs equally spaced around a circular table, and numbered from 1 up
to 14. How many ways are there to choose two chairs that are not opposite each
other?
28. A swimming medley consists of 100 metres of each of butterfly, backstroke, breast-
stroke and freestyle, in that order. I swim freestyle 3 times faster than breaststroke,
and butterfly twice as fast as breaststroke, and my backstroke is half as fast as my
freestyle. It takes me 6 minutes to swim the full medley. To the nearest metre, how
far will I have swum after 4 minutes?
29. An ant’s walk starts at the apex of a regular

octahedron as shown.
It walks along five edges, never retracing its
path. It visits each of the other five vertices
exactly once.
In how many different ways can the ant do
this?
30. Consider a 15×15 grid of unit squares. In the 1 2 3 14 15

square in row a and column b, we write the
2 4 6 28 30
number a × b.
We then colour the squares black and white 3 6 9 42 45
in a checkerboard fashion, so that the square
labelled 225 is coloured white. The diagram
shows the parts of the grid near each corner.
14 28 42 196 210
What are the last three digits of the sum of
the numbers in the white squares? 15 30 45 210 225
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2020 AMC
AUSTRALIAN MATHEMATICS COMPETITION
Junior Years 7–8

(Australian school years)
THURSDAY 30 JULY 2020
NAME
TIME ALLOWED: 75 MINUTES
INSTRUCTIONS AND INFORMATION
General
2. NO calculators, maths stencils, mobile phones or other calculating aids are permitted.
Scribbling paper, graph paper, ruler and compasses are permitted, but are not essential.
4. There are 25 multiple-choice questions, each requiring a single answer, and 5 questions that
require a whole number answer between 0 and 999. The questions generally get harder as
you work through the paper. There is no penalty for an incorrect response.
5. This is a competition not a test; do not expect to answer all questions. You are only
competing against your own year in your own country/Australian state so different years
doing the same paper are not compared.
6. Read the instructions on the answer sheet carefully. Ensure your name, school name and
school year are entered. It is your responsibility to correctly code your answer sheet.
The answer sheet

2. Record your answers on the reverse of the answer sheet (not on the question paper) by
FULLY colouring the circle matching your answer.
3. Your answer sheet will be scanned. The optical scanner will attempt to read all markings
even if they are in the wrong places, so please be careful not to doodle or write anything
extra on the answer sheet. If you want to change an answer or remove any marks, use a
plastic eraser and be sure to remove all marks and smudges.

The AMT reserves the right to re-examine students before deciding whether to grant official
status to their score.
Reminder: You may sit this competition once, in one division only, or risk no score.
Copyright © 2020 Australian Mathematics Trust

ACN 083 950 341
Junior Division
1. How many 1 × 1 squares are in this diagram?

(A) 16 (B) 18 (C) 20
(D) 24 (E) 25
2. What is half of 2020?

(A) 20 (B) 101 (C) 110 (D) 1001 (E) 1010
3. What is the perimeter of this triangle?

11 m 7m
(A) 33 m (B) 34 m (C) 35 m
(D) 36 m (E) 37 m
16 m
4. I stepped on the train at 8.48 am and got off at 9.21 am. How many minutes did I
spend on the train?
(A) 27 (B) 33 (C) 43 (D) 87 (E) 93
5. What is the value of y in this triangle?

(A) 10 (B) 30 (C) 50 80◦
(D) 70 (E) 90
70◦ y◦
6. 2 − (0 − (2 − 0)) =
(A) −4 (B) −2 (C) 0 (D) 2 (E) 4
7. In the grid, the total of each row is given at the end of the
8 6 16
row, and the total of each column is given at the bottom
of the column. N 9
The value of N is
7 9 20
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5
20 7 18
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8. A letter G is rotated clockwise by 135◦ . Which of the following pictures best repre-
sents the final image?
G
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
G
G
1+2+3+4+5 1+2
9. − =
1+2+3+4 1+2+3
5 7
(A) 3 (B) (C) 1 (D) (E) 2
6 6
10. Sebastien is thinking of two numbers whose sum is 26 and whose difference is 14.
The product of Sebastien’s two numbers is
(A) 80 (B) 96 (C) 105 (D) 120 (E) 132
11. A country consists of two islands as

0 100 200 300
shown on this map.
In square kilometres, its area is kilometres
(A) between 100 and 1000
(B) between 1000 and 10 000
(C) between 10 000 and 100 000
(D) between 100 000 and 1 000 000
(E) greater than 1 000 000
12. 123456 − 12345 + 1234 − 123 + 12 − 1 =
(A) 33333 (B) 101010 (C) 111111 (D) 122223 (E) 112233
13. Lily is 2020 days old. How old was she on her last birthday?
(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 7 (E) 8
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14. A piece of paper is folded twice as shown and cut along the dotted lines.

Once unfolded, which letter does the piece of paper most resemble?
(A) M (B) O (C) N (D) B (E) V
15. An equilateral triangle is subdivided into a number of

smaller equilateral triangles, as shown. The shaded
triangle has side length 2. What is the perimeter of
the large triangle?
(A) 24 (B) 27 (C) 30
(D) 33 (E) 36
16. Triangle XY S is enclosed by rectangle Q

P 6 cm X 10 cm
P QRS as shown in the diagram.
In square centimetres, what is the area
of triangle XY S?
8 cm
(A) 82 (B) 88 (C) 94
(D) 112 (E) 130
Y
6 cm
S R
17. Four teams play in a soccer tournament. Each team plays one game against each of
the other three teams. Teams earn 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw and 0 points
for a loss. After all the games have been played, one team has 6 points, two teams
have 4 points and one team has 3 points. How many games ended in a draw?
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3 (E) 4
18. An isosceles triangle has a perimeter of 28 cm and sides of integer length. How many
different such triangles can be made?
(A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 7 (D) 8 (E) 9
19. In the grid shown, the numbers from 1 to 4 must

appear once in each row and column. Also, the sum
of numbers in each of the four regions separated by
x
red lines must be the same.
What is the sum x + y ? 1 y
(A) 8 (B) 7 (C) 6
(D) 5 (E) 4 4
20. Anupam has a cardboard square with a perimeter of 400 centimetres. He draws a
horizontal line and a vertical line on the square and cuts along these lines to create
four rectangles. What is the largest possible sum of the perimeters of these four
rectangles, in centimetres?
(A) 400 (B) 600 (C) 800 (D) 1000 (E) 1200
21. The ends of the tangled string shown are pulled in the direction of the arrows so that
the string either untangles or forms a simpler knot.
Which of the following best matches the knot, or otherwise, that is formed when the
string is tightened?
(A) (B) (C)
(D) (E)
22. Mr Atkins wrote some homework questions for his class to practise order of opera-
tions. One of the questions was 2 + 3 × (4 + 3), with answer 23. However, one of his
students just worked from left to right and ignored the brackets, writing 2 + 3 = 5,
5 × 4 = 20, 20 + 3 = 23, the correct answer.
Mr Atkins thought that this was fascinating, so he tried to come up with another
question where working left to right gave the right answer. He tried 5 + 4 × (7 + ).
What number should he put in the box?
(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 6 (D) 8 (E) 10
2020 Australian Mathematics Competition — Junior J5
23. My friend and I took a maths test with 10 questions. Question 1 was worth 1 mark,
question 2 was worth 2 marks, question 3 was worth 3 marks, and so on. Correct
answers scored full marks and incorrect answers scored 0 marks.
We both scored the same number of marks and correctly answered the same number
of questions. However, we didn’t solve exactly the same set of questions as each
other.
What is the maximum score that I could have received for the test?
(A) 44 (B) 46 (C) 48 (D) 50 (E) 52
24. A light rail network has 21 drivers, but not all of them are required at the same time:
• 15 drivers are required for the Friday night shift.

• 12 drivers are required for the Saturday morning shift.
• 9 drivers are required for the Sunday morning shift.
Given that every driver must work on at least one of these shifts, what is the maximum
number of drivers that can work on all three shifts?
(A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 7 (D) 8 (E) 9
25. A bag contains exactly 50 coins. The coins are either worth 10 cents, 20 cents or 50
cents, and there is at least one of each. The total value of the coins is $10.
How many different ways can this occur?
(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 8 (D) 12 (E) 16

26. The digits 1 to 9 are used exactly once each to make three 3-digit numbers. The
second number is three times the first number. The third number is five times the
first number. What is the second number?
27. Madeleine types her three-digit Personal Identification

Number (PIN) into this keypad. 1 2 3
All three digits are different, but the buttons for the first
and second digits share an edge, and the buttons for the
4 5 6
second and third digits share an edge.
7 8 9
For instance, 563 is a possible PIN, but 536 is not, since
5 and 3 do not share an edge. 0
How many possibilities are there for Madeleine’s PIN?
28. Starting with a 9 × 9 × 9 cube, Augusta removed

as few 1 × 1 × 1 cubes as possible so that the
resulting sculpture had front view, top view and
side view all the same, as shown.
How many 1 × 1 × 1 cubes did Augusta remove?
29. A different integer from 1 to 10 is placed on 21

16
each of the faces of a cube. Each vertex is
then assigned a number which is the sum of
the numbers on the three faces which touch 14 9
that vertex.
Only the vertex numbers are shown here. 26 21
What is the product of the 4 smallest face
numbers?
19 14
30. My grandson makes wall hangings by stitching

together 16 square patches of fabric into a 4 × 4
grid. I asked him to use patches of red, blue,
green and yellow, but to ensure that no patch G B R Y
touches another of the same colour, not even di-
agonally. R Y G B
The picture shows an attempt which fails only
G B Y R
because two yellow patches touch diagonally.
In how many different ways can my grandson Y R G B
choose to arrange the coloured patches correctly?
2020 AMC — JUNIOR
AUSTRALIAN MATHEMATICS
COMPETITION
Junior Years 7 & 8
(Australian school years)
THURSDAY 1 AUGUST 2019
NAME:
TIME ALLOWED: 75 minutes
General
1 Do not open the booklet until told to do so by your teacher.
2 NO calculators, maths stencils, mobile phones or other calculating aids are permitted.
Scribbling paper, graph paper, ruler and compasses are permitted, but are not essential.
3 Diagrams are NOT drawn to scale. They are intended only as aids.
4 There are 25 multiple-choice questions, each requiring a single answer, and 5 questions that
require a whole number answer between 0 and 999. The questions generally get harder as
you work through the paper. There is no penalty for an incorrect response.
5 This is a competition not a test; do not expect to answer all questions. You are only
competing against your own year in your own country/Australian state so different years
doing the same paper are not compared.
6 Read the instructions on the answer sheet carefully. Ensure your name, school name and
school year are entered. It is your responsibility to correctly code your answer sheet.
7 When your teacher gives the signal, begin working on the problems.
The answer sheet

1 Use only lead pencil.
2 Record your answers on the reverse of the answer sheet (not on the question paper) by
FULLY colouring the circle matching your answer.
3 Your answer sheet will be scanned. The optical scanner will attempt to read all markings
even if they are in the wrong places, so please be careful not to doodle or write anything
extra on the answer sheet. If you want to change an answer or remove any marks, use a
plastic eraser and be sure to remove all marks and smudges.

The AMT reserves the right to re-examine students before deciding whether to grant official
status to their score.
Reminder: You may sit this competition once, in one division only, or risk no score.
Copyright © 2019 Australian Mathematics Trust AMTT Limited ACN 083 950 341
2019 AMC — Junior
Junior Division

1. 201 − 9 =
(A) 111 (B) 182 (C) 188 (D) 192 (E) 198
2. This rectangle is 5 cm wide and 4 cm tall.

What is its area in square centimetres?
(A) 9 (B) 10 (C) 18
(D) 20 (E) 40 4 cm
5 cm
3. The table shows the number of boys and Age 10 Age 11 Total
girls aged 10 or 11 in year 5.
How many boys aged 11 are in year 5? Girls 14 25 39
(A) 9 (B) 11 (C) 21 Boys 9 ? 46

Total 23 62 85
(D) 37 (E) 46
4. The circles are in a regular rectangular pattern.
A
♠
Some circles are hidden by the card.
♠
What fraction of the circles is hidden?
1 2 1
(A) (B) (C)
A
♠
3 3 4
1 1
(D) (E)
6 18
5. Which one of the following is the largest number?

(A) 4.05 (B) 4.45 (C) 4.5 (D) 4.045 (E) 4.54
1
6. What is 25% of ?
2
1 1 1
(A) (B) (C) (D) 1 (E) 2
16 8 4
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2019 AMC — Junior

7. We’re driving from Elizabeth to Renmark, and as we
leave we see this sign. A20
We want to stop at a town for lunch and a break, Main North Rd
approximately halfway to Renmark. Gawler 15
Which town is the best place to stop? Nuriootpa 47
Truro 60
(A) Gawler (B) Nuriootpa (C) Truro Blanchetown 106
(D) Blanchetown (E) Waikerie Waikerie 148
Renmark 230
8. This letterF is first rotated by 90◦ clockwise and then reflected in a horizontal line.
It will now look like this.
F
F
F
F
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
9. Edith wrote down the whole numbers from 1 to 20 on a piece of paper. How many
times did she write the digit 1?
(A) 9 (B) 10 (C) 11 (D) 12 (E) 13
10. Danny divided a whole number P by another whole number Q on his calculator and
got the answer 3.125.
Later, Danny forgot the two whole numbers, but he knew that both were under 30.
The value of Q is
(A) 5 (B) 7 (C) 8 (D) 10 (E) 25

11. Every row and every column of this 3 × 3 square must contain 1
each of the numbers 1, 2 and 3.
2 N
What is the value of N + M ?
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 6 M
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12. A piece of paper is folded in three, then a semi-circular cut and a straight cut are
made, as shown in the diagram.

When the paper is unfolded, what does it look like?

(A) (B) (C)
(D) (E)
13. What is the value of z?

(A) 30 (B) 35 (C) 45 z◦ 45◦
(D) 50 (E) 55
60◦ 50◦
111111111
14. =
111
(A) 11111 (B) 1001001 (C) 10001 (D) 10101 (E) 1001
15. Jill has the same number of brothers as she has sisters. Her brother Jack has twice
as many sisters as he has brothers. How many children are in the family?
(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 7 (D) 9 (E) 11
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16. The large rectangle shown has been divided into 6 smaller rectangles. The shaded
rectangle in the bottom-right corner has dimensions of 2 cm × 3 cm. The remaining
five rectangles all have the long side equal to twice the short side. The smallest of
these has a width of 1 cm.
1 cm
3 cm
2 cm
What is the total area of the original large rectangle, in square centimetres?
(A) 42 (B) 44 (C) 50 (D) 56 (E) 70
17. In my dance class, 14 students are taller than Bob, and 12 are shorter than Alice.
Four students are both shorter than Alice and taller than Bob. How many students
are in my dance class?
(A) 22 (B) 24 (C) 26 (D) 28 (E) 30
18. My washing machine has a digital display. It counts down Suds-o-matic
the time remaining until the end of the wash, although

sometimes I confuse the time remaining with the actual
time.
At 1.05 pm yesterday the washing machine displayed 2:41,
namely 2 hours and 41 minutes remaining.
When did the washing machine’s countdown display hap-
pen to agree with the actual time?
(A) 2.41 pm (B) 3.46 pm (C) 2.23 pm
(D) 1.36 pm (E) 1.53 pm
19. A seven-digit number is in the form 20AM C19, with all digits different. It is divisible
by 9.
What is the value of A + M + C?
(A) 6 (B) 9 (C) 12 (D) 15 (E) 18
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20. John, Chris, Anne, Holly, Mike and Nor- John 30
man are seated around a round table, each
with a card with a number on it in front of
them. Each person can see the numbers Norman Chris
in front of their two neighbours, and says 41 33
the sum of these two numbers.
John says 30, Chris says 33, Anne says 32,
Holly says 38, Mike says 36 and Norman Mike Anne
says 41. What number does Holly have in 36 32
front of her?
(A) 17 (B) 18 (C) 19
Holly 38
(D) 23 (E) 37

21. On this simple system of roads, how many ways are there to B
get from A to B without visiting any of the 9 intersections
more than once?
(A) 8 (B) 10 (C) 12 (D) 14 (E) 16
22. The average time for a class of 30 mathematics students to travel to school is 21
minutes. The boys’ average is 25 minutes and the girls’ average is 19 minutes. How
many boys are in the class?
(A) 10 (B) 12 (C) 14 (D) 15 (E) 18
23. A 4 cm × 4 cm board can have 1 cm3 cubes placed

on it as shown.
The board is cleared, then a number of these cubes
are placed on the grid. The front and right side
views are shown.
What is the maximum number of cubes there could
FRO S IDE
be on the board? NT HT
(A) 10 (B) 11 (C) 16 (D) 17 (E) 18 RIG
FRONT RIGHT SIDE

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24. Three athletes Andy, Bob and Chase took part in a 100-metre race, each running at
a constant speed. Andy won the race in 10 seconds.
When Andy crossed the finish line, Bob was 10 metres behind. When Bob crossed
the finish line, Chase was 10 metres behind Bob.
When Andy crossed the finish line, how far behind was Chase?
(A) 21 m (B) 20 m (C) 19 m (D) 18 m (E) 17 m
25. Seven squares and two equilateral triangles, all with the
same side lengths, are used to form the 3-dimensional ‘house
shape’ shown.
Which of the following diagrams does not show a net which
can be created by cutting along some of the edges and fold-
ing the shape flat?
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

26. A tower is built from exactly 2019 equal rods.

Starting with 3 rods as a triangular base, more rods are added
to form a regular octahedron with this base as one of its faces.
The top face is then the base of the next octahedron.
The diagram shows the construction of
the first three octahedra.
How many octahedra are in the tower
when it is finished?
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27. A positive whole number is called stable if at least one of its digits has the same value
as its position in the number. For example, 78247 is stable because a 4 appears in
the 4th position. How many stable 3-digit numbers are there?
28. When I divide an integer by 15, the remainder is an integer from 0 to 14. When I
divide an integer by 27, the remainder is an integer from 0 to 26.
For instance, if the integer is 100 then the remainders are 10 and 19, which are
different.
How many integers from 1 to 1000 leave the same remainders after division by 15
and after division by 27?
29. In a list of numbers, an odd-sum triple is a group of three numbers in a row that add
to an odd number. For instance, if we write the numbers from 1 to 6 in this order,
6 4 2 1 3 5
then there are exactly two odd-sum triples: (4, 2, 1) and (1, 3, 5).
What is the greatest number of odd-sum triples that can be made by writing the
numbers from 1 to 1000 in some order?
30. The Leader of Zip decrees that the digit 0, since it represents nothing, will no longer
be used in any counting number. Only counting numbers without 0 digits are allowed.
So the counting numbers in Zip begin 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, . . . , where the
tenth counting number is 11.
When you write out the first one thousand allowable counting numbers in Zip, what
are the last three digits of the final number?
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JUNIOR DIVISION
AUSTRALIAN SCHOOL YEARS 7 and 8

GENERAL
2. NO calculators, maths stencils, mobile phones or other calculating aids are permitted. Scribbling paper, graph
paper, ruler and compasses are permitted, but are not essential.
4. There are 25 multiple-choice questions, each requiring a single answer, and 5 questions that require a whole
number answer between 0 and 999. The questions generally get harder as you work through the paper.
There is no penalty for an incorrect response.
5. This is a competition not a test; do not expect to answer all questions. You are only competing against your
own year in your own country/Australian state so different years doing the same paper are not compared.
6. Read the instructions on the answer sheet carefully. Ensure your name, school name and school year are
entered. It is your responsibility to correctly code your answer sheet.
THE ANSWER SHEET

2. Record your answers on the reverse of the answer sheet (not on the question paper) by FULLY colouring the
circle matching your answer.
3. Your answer sheet will be scanned. The optical scanner will attempt to read all markings even if they are in
the wrong places, so please be careful not to doodle or write anything extra on the answer sheet. If you want
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Junior Division

1. What is 2 + 0 + 1 + 8?
(A) 9 (B) 10 (C) 11 (D) 38 (E) 2018
2. Callie has $47 and then gets $25 for her birthday. How much does she have now?
(A) $52 (B) $62 (C) $65 (D) $69 (E) $72
3. The value of 4 × 10000 + 3 × 1000 + 2 × 10 + 4 × 1 is

(A) 4324 (B) 43024 (C) 43204 (D) 430204 (E) 430024
4. Kate made this necklace from alphabet beads.

She put it on the wrong way around, showing the
back of the beads. What does this look like?
KAT E
(A)
E TAK KAT E E TAK
(B) (C)
KATE
(D)
E TAK (E)
5. What is the time 58 minutes before 5.34 pm?

(A) 5.32 pm (B) 5.36 pm (C) 6.32 pm (D) 6.12 pm (E) 4.36 pm
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6. What value is indicated on this charisma-meter?

(A) 36.65 (B) 37.65 (C) 38.65 36 38
(D) 37.15 (E) 37.3
7. Starting at 1000, Ishrak counted backwards, taking 7 off each time. What was the
last positive number he counted?
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 6
8. What is the value of z?

(A) 75 (B) 85 (C) 95 55◦
(D) 100 (E) 105
z◦
40◦
9. Five friends (Amelia, Billie, Charlie, David and Emily) are playing together and
decide to line up from oldest to youngest.
• Amelia is older than Billie who is older than Emily.

• David is also older than Billie.
• Amelia is not the oldest.
• Emily is not the youngest.
Who is the second-youngest of the five friends?

(A) Amelia (B) Billie (C) Charlie (D) David (E) Emily
10. A length of ribbon is cut into two equal pieces. After using one piece, one-third of
the other piece is used, leaving 12 cm of ribbon. How long, in centimetres, was the
ribbon initially?
(A) 24 (B) 32 (C) 36 (D) 48 (E) 50

11. 1000% of a number is 100. What is the number?
(A) 0.1 (B) 1 (C) 10 (D) 100 (E) 1000
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12. Nora, Anne, Warren and Andrew bought plastic capital

letters to spell each of their names on their birthday cakes. A NN E
Their birthdays are on different dates, so they planned to
reuse letters on different cakes.
What is the smallest number of letters they needed?
(A) 8 (B) 9 (C) 10 (D) 11 (E) 12
13. The cost of feeding four dogs for three days is $60. Using the same food costs per
dog per day, what would be the cost of feeding seven dogs for seven days?
(A) $140 (B) $200 (C) $245 (D) $350 (E) $420
14. What fraction of this regular hexagon is shaded?

1 2 3 3 4
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
2 3 4 5 5
15. Leila has a number of identical square tiles that she puts together edge to edge in a
single row, making a rectangle. The perimeter of this rectangle is three times that of
a single tile. How many tiles does she have?
(A) 3 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 8 (E) 9
16. James is choosing his language electives for next year. He has to choose two different
electives, one from Group A and one from Group B.
Group A Group B
Mandarin Mandarin
Japanese German
Spanish Arabic
Indonesian Italian
How many different pairs of elective combinations are possible?

(A) 7 (B) 8 (C) 12 (D) 15 (E) 16
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A B
17. In the diagram, ABCD is a 5 cm × 4 cm rectangle and the
grid has 1 cm × 1 cm squares. What is the shaded area, in
square centimetres?
(A) 1 (B) 1.5 (C) 0.5 (D) 2 (E) 3
D C
18. Fill in this diagram so that each of the rows, columns and
diagonals adds to 18.
What is the sum of all the corner numbers?
6
(A) 20 (B) 22 (C) 23
(D) 24 (E) 25 4
19. A square of paper is folded along a line that joins the midpoint of one side to a corner.
The bottom layer of paper is then cut along the edges of the top layer as shown.
When the folded piece is unfolded, which of the following describes all the pieces of
paper?
(A) a kite and a pentagon of equal area
(B) a rectangle and a pentagon of equal area
(C) an isosceles triangle and a pentagon, with the pentagon of larger area
(D) a kite and a pentagon, with the kite smaller in area
(E) a rectangle and a pentagon, with the rectangle larger in area
20. A 3-dimensional object is formed by gluing six identical cubes together. Four of the
diagrams below show this object viewed from different angles, but one diagram shows
a different object. Which diagram shows the different object?
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

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21. Approximately how long is a millimonth, defined to be one-thousandth of a month?
(A) 20 seconds (B) 70 seconds (C) 8 minutes (D) 40 minutes (E) 3 hours
22. The numbers from 1 to 8 are entered into the eight y

circles in this diagram, with the number 3 placed as
shown.
In each triangle, the sum of the three numbers is the 3
same. x
The sum of the four numbers which are at the corners
of the central square is 20.
What is x + y?
(A) 10 (B) 11 (C) 12 (D) 13 (E) 14
23. A long narrow hexagon is composed of 22 equilateral triangles of unit side length.
In how many ways can this hexagon be tiled by 11 rhombuses of unit side length?
Hexagon Rhombus
(A) 6 (B) 8 (C) 9 (D) 12 (E) 16
24. In this expression

1 1 1 1 1
3 4 5 6 7
we place either a plus sign or a minus sign in each box so that the result is the
smallest positive number possible. The result is
1 1 1
(A) between 0 and (B) between and
100 100 50
1 1 1 1
(C) between and (D) between and
50 20 20 10
1
(E) between and 1
10
25. In this subtraction, the first number has 100 digits and the second number has 50
digits.
111 . . . . 111 − 222
. . .
. . 222
100 digits 50 digits
What is the sum of the digits in the result?
(A) 375 (B) 420 (C) 429 (D) 450 (E) 475
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26. Using only digits 0, 1 and 2, this cube has a different

number on each face. 220
Numbers on each pair of opposite faces add to the
same 3-digit total.
121
What is the largest that this total could be? 201
27. I have a three-digit number, and I add its digits to create its digit sum. When the
digit sum of my number is subtracted from my number, the result is the square of
the digit sum. What is my three-digit number?
28. A road from Tamworth to Broken Hill is 999 km long. There are road signs each
kilometre along the road that show the distances (in kilometres) to both towns as
shown in the diagram.
0|999 1|998 2|997 3|996 ··· 998|1 999|0
How many road signs are there that use exactly two different digits?
29. In the multiplication shown, X, Y and Z are different non-zero digits.
X Y Z
× 1 8
Z X Y Y
What is the three-digit number XY Z?
30. Let A be a 2018-digit number which is divisible by 9. Let B be the sum of all digits
of A and C be the sum of all digits of B. Find the sum of all possible values of C.
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NAME
YEAR TEACHER
2017
JUNIOR DIVISION
AUSTRALIAN SCHOOL YEARS 7 and 8

GENERAL
2. NO calculators, maths stencils, mobile phones or other calculating aids are permitted. Scribbling paper, graph
paper, ruler and compasses are permitted, but are not essential.
4. There are 25 multiple-choice questions, each requiring a single answer, and 5 questions that require a whole
number answer between 0 and 999. The questions generally get harder as you work through the paper.
There is no penalty for an incorrect response.
5. This is a competition not a test; do not expect to answer all questions. You are only competing against your
own year in your own country/Australian state so different years doing the same paper are not compared.
6. Read the instructions on the answer sheet carefully. Ensure your name, school name and school year are
entered. It is your responsibility to correctly code your answer sheet.
THE ANSWER SHEET

2. Record your answers on the reverse of the answer sheet (not on the question paper) by FULLY colouring the
circle matching your answer.
3. Your answer sheet will be scanned. The optical scanner will attempt to read all markings even if they are in
the wrong places, so please be careful not to doodle or write anything extra on the answer sheet. If you want
to change an answer or remove any marks, use a plastic eraser and be sure to remove all marks and smudges.
INTEGRITY OF THE COMPETITION

The AMT reserves the right to re-examine students before deciding whether to grant official status to their score.

Junior Division
1. The value of 2 + 0 + 1 + 7 is
(A) 10 (B) 19 (C) 37 (D) 208 (E) 2017
2. What is the value of x in the diagram?

(A) 20 (B) 70 (C) 80 20◦
(D) 110 (E) 160 x◦
3. This rectangle is 3.2 m wide and 3 m tall. Its area is

(A) 9.6 m2 (B) 15 m2 (C) 90.6 m2
(D) 9.2 m2 (E) 6.5 m2 3m
3.2 m
4. Starting with 13, and counting by fives, you count 13, 18, 23, and so on. Which one
of the following numbers will be one of the numbers you count?
(A) 47 (B) 48 (C) 49 (D) 50 (E) 51
5. What fraction of these circles are shaded?

1 1 2 3 9
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
2 3 3 4 16
6. Of the following, which digit could be put in the box to make this three-digit number
divisible by 3?
1 7
(A) 1 (B) 3 (C) 6 (D) 8 (E) 9

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7. A pump runs for 150 minutes, using 8 litres of biodiesel. For how many hours can it
run with 32 litres of biodiesel?
(A) 6 (B) 7 (C) 8 (D) 10 (E) 12
8. Jonah returned from the shop with a bag carrying 780 g of fish, 1.35 kg of vegetables,
and 680 g of fruit for his mother. The bag itself weighed 150 g. The total weight, in
kilograms, that Jonah carried was
(A) 1.745 (B) 2 (C) 2.81 (D) 2.96 (E) 3
9. 1000% of 1 is
(A) 0.1 (B) 1 (C) 10 (D) 100 (E) 1000
10. Which one of the following numbers could be put in the box to make the fraction
between 7 and 8?
+3
6
(A) 47 (B) 25 (C) 32 (D) 37 (E) 41

11. Alice is playing with words. At each tick of her grandfather’s clock she swaps two
letters. What is the smallest number of clock ticks during which she can change
WORDS to SWORD?
(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 6 (D) 7 (E) 8
12. This pinwheel star is formed by rotating a right-angled triangle

around one of its corners. What is the angle at each of the nine
tips that are marked with dots?
(A) 30◦ (B) 40◦ (C) 45◦
(D) 50◦ (E) 60◦
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13. I have twelve paint tins each capable of holding twelve litres. Half of them are half
full. A third of them are a third full. The rest are one-sixth full. How many litres of
paint do I have in total?
(A) 48 (B) 50 (C) 52 (D) 54 (E) 56
14. How many ways are there of placing a single 3 × 1

rectangle on this grid so that it completely covers three
grid squares?
(A) 34 (B) 28 (C) 56
(D) 40 (E) 10
15. The time 2017 minutes after 10 am on Tuesday is closest to

(A) 7.30 pm Tuesday (B) 7.30 am Wednesday (C) 7.30 pm Wednesday
(D) 7.30 am Thursday (E) 7.30 pm Thursday
16. The bottom and left side of this triangle are divided
into 4 equal parts by the diagonal lines. What fraction
of the large triangle is shaded?
5 1 3
(A) (B) (C)
8 2 4
2 3
(D) (E)
3 5
4 5 7
17. Each of the fractions , , is in its simplest form. Which of the following could
n n n
be the value of n?
(A) 24 (B) 25 (C) 26 (D) 27 (E) 28
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18. The whole numbers from 1 to 7 are to be

7
placed in the seven circles in the diagram. In
each of the three triangles drawn, the sum of
the three numbers is the same.
Two of the numbers are given.
What is X + Y ? X
(A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 7
(D) 8 (E) 9
Y 4
19. Farhad, Greg and Huong were dismantling their marble madness machine and had
2017 marbles to share. They split them so that Farhad had exactly twice as many as
Greg, and Greg had twice as many as Huong, with as few left over as possible. How
many marbles were in Farhad’s share?
(A) 1008 (B) 504 (C) 288 (D) 1344 (E) 1152
20. Whole numbers greater than 1 are arranged in A B C D E

a table in the pattern shown. In which column 2 3 4
will the number 501 be found?
5 6 7
(A) A (B) B (C) C (D) D (E) E 8 9 10
11 12 13
14 15 16
17 18 19
.. ..
. .

21. Two rectangles overlap to create three 15
regions, each of equal area. The orig-
inal rectangles are 6 cm by 15 cm and
10 cm by 9 cm as shown. The sides of 6
the smaller shaded rectangle are each
a whole number of centimetres.
9
What is the perimeter of the smaller
shaded rectangle, in centimetres?
(A) 24 (B) 28 (C) 30 (D) 32 (E) 36
10
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22. A number is a palindrome if it reads the same forwards as backwards. The number
131131 is a palindrome; also the first pair of digits (13), the middle pair of digits
(11) and the last pair of digits (31) are prime numbers. How many such 6-digit
palindromes are there?
(A) 8 (B) 9 (C) 10 (D) 11 (E) 12
23. A triangular prism is to be cut into two pieces with

a single straight cut. What is the smallest possible
total for the combined number of faces of the two
pieces?
(A) 6 (B) 8 (C) 9
(D) 10 (E) 11
24. Ike and Seb were arguing over how 120 mL of soft drink had been shared between
them.
To settle the argument, their dad poured one-third of Ike’s drink into Seb’s glass,
and then he poured one-third of Seb’s drink back into Ike’s glass. Now they have an
equal amount.
How much soft drink did Ike originally have compared to Seb?
(A) 60 mL less (B) 30 mL less (C) the same
(D) 30 mL more (E) 60 mL more
25. A 3 × 3 grid has a pattern of black and white squares.

A pattern is called balanced if each 2 × 2 subgrid contains
exactly two squares of each colour, as seen in the first example.
The pattern in the second example is unbalanced because the
bottom-right 2 × 2 subgrid contains three white squares. balanced
Counting rotations and reflections as different, how many bal-
anced 3 × 3 patterns are there?
(A) 2 (B) 7 (C) 10 (D) 14 (E) 18
unbalanced
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Question 26 is 6 marks, question 27 is 7 marks, question 28 is 8 marks,
question 29 is 9 marks and question 30 is 10 marks.
26. All of the digits from 0 to 9 are used to form two 5-digit numbers. What is the
smallest possible difference between these two numbers?
27. A jigsaw piece is formed from a square with a combination of ‘tabs’ and ‘slots’ on at
least two of its sides.
Pieces are either corner, edge or interior, as shown.
corner piece edge piece interior piece

(two straight sides at right angles) (one straight side) (no straight sides)
We treat two shapes as the same if one is a rotation of the other, without turning it
over. How many different shapes are possible?
28. The reverse of the number 129 is 921, and these add to 1050, which is divisible by 30.
How many three-digit numbers have the property that, when added to their reverse,
the sum is divisible by 30?
29. I have a large number of toy soldiers, which I can arrange into a rectangular array
consisting of a number of rows and a number of columns. I notice that if I remove
100 toy soldiers, then I can arrange the remaining ones into a rectangular array with
5 fewer rows and 5 more columns.
How many toy soldiers would I have to remove from the original configuration to be
able to arrange the remaining ones into a rectangular array with 11 fewer rows and
11 more columns?
30. Mike multiplied at least two consecutive integers together. He obtained a six-digit
number N . The first two digits of N are 47 and the last two digits of N are 74. What
is the sum of the integers that Mike multiplied together?
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2. What is the perimeter

3. The area of this triangle is

5. Which of the following is closest to 2021?

6. In the diagram, AB is parallel to EF B

7. Mister Meow attempted the calculation 5 × 2 + 4, but accidentally swapped the

(A) ♦ (B) (C)

Questions 11 to 20, 4 marks each

12. Three squares with perimeters 12 cm, 20 cm and 16 cm

(A) 34 cm (B) 40 cm (C) 41 cm (D) 42 cm (E) 48 cm

14. A square has an internal point P such that the perpen-

(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6 (E) 7

16. Three blocks with rectangular faces are placed

18. This is a square with sides of 10 metres. 3m

(A) 80 (B) 90 (C) 100 (D) 110 (E) 120

20. A standard dice numbered 1 to 6 with opposite

Questions 21 to 25, 5 marks each

21. Leonhard is designing a puzzle for Katharina. It has nine

25. In the diagram, P QR is isosceles, with Q

For questions 26 to 30, shade the answer as an integer from 0 to 999

29. An ant’s walk starts at the apex of a regular

30. Consider a 15×15 grid of unit squares. In the 1 2 3 14 15

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THURSDAY 30 JULY 2020

TIME ALLOWED: 75 MINUTES

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1. How many 1 × 1 squares are in this diagram?

2. What is half of 2020?

3. What is the perimeter of this triangle?

5. What is the value of y in this triangle?

Questions 11 to 20, 4 marks each

11. A country consists of two islands as

12. 123456 − 12345 + 1234 − 123 + 12 − 1 =

15. An equilateral triangle is subdivided into a number of

16. Triangle XY S is enclosed by rectangle Q

19. In the grid shown, the numbers from 1 to 4 must

Questions 21 to 25, 5 marks each

(A) (B) (C)

• 15 drivers are required for the Friday night shift.

For questions 26 to 30, shade the answer as an integer from 0 to 999

27. Madeleine types her three-digit Personal Identification

28. Starting with a 9 × 9 × 9 cube, Augusta removed

29. A different integer from 1 to 10 is placed on 21

30. My grandson makes wall hangings by stitching

THURSDAY 1 AUGUST 2019

TIME ALLOWED: 75 minutes

INSTRUCTIONS AND INFORMATION

25. In the diagram, P QR is isosceles, with Q