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3 point problems
2. When the letters of the word MAMA are written vertically above one another, the word
has a vertical line of symmetry. Which of these words also have a vertical line of symmetry
when written in the same way?
(A) ROOT (B) BOOM (C) BOOT (D) LOOT (E) TOOT
3. A triangle has sides of length 6, 10 and 11. An equilateral triangle has the same perimeter.
What is the length of each side of the equilateral triangle?
5. The panels of Fergus' fence are full of holes. One morning, one of the
panels fell flat on the floor. Which of the following could Fergus see as
he approaches his fence?
7. A game consists of dropping a ball from the top of the board with
interleaved rows of pins. The ball bounces to either the right or to the left
each time it hits a pin. One possible route for the ball to take is shown
below. How many different routes could the ball take to reach bin B?
(A) 40 cm
(B) 48 cm
(C) 76 cm
(D) 81 cm
(E) 90 cm
9. The diagram shows a rectangle of dimensions 7 × 11 containing two circles that each touch
three of the sides of the rectangle. What is the distance between the centres of the two circles?
10. Square 𝐴𝐵𝐶𝐷 has sides of length 3 cm. The points 𝑀 and 𝑁 lie on 𝐴𝐷
and 𝐴𝐵 so that 𝐶𝑀 and 𝐶𝑁 split the square into three pieces of the same
area. What is the length of 𝐷𝑀 ?
4 point problems
11. Martha multiplied two 2-digit numbers correctly on a piece of paper. Then she scribbled out
three digits as shown. What is the sum of the three digits she scribbled out?
12. A rectangle is divided into 40 identical squares. The rectangle contains more than one row of
squares. Andrew found the middle row of squares and coloured it in. How many squares did he
not colour?
13. Philip wants to know the weight of a book to within half a gram. His weighing scales only
weigh to within 10 grammes. What is the smallest number of identical copies of this book that
Philip should weigh together to be able to do this?
14. A lion is hidden in one of three rooms. A note on the door of room 1 reads "The lion is here".
A note on the door of room 2 reads "The lion is not here".
A note on the door of room 3 reads "2 + 3 = 2 × 3".
Only one of these sentences is true. In which room is the lion hidden?
16. Her three brothers are 1, 2, and 5 years younger than Sophie. Next year, if Sophie will add
the ages of her brothers, the result will be 20 more than Sophie's age then. How old is Sophie
today?
17. A hotel on an island in the Caribbean advertises using the slogan "350 days of sun every
year!''. According to the advert, what is the smallest number of days Willi Burn has to stay at the
hotel in 2018 to be certain of having two consecutive days of sun?
20. Eleven points are marked from left to right on a straight line. The sum of all the distances
between the first point and the other points is 2018. The sum of all the distances between the
second point and the other points, including the first one, is 2000. What is the distance between
the first and second points?
5 point problems
21. There are three candidates for one position as class monitor and 130 students are voting.
Suhaimi has 24 votes so far, while Khairul has 29 and Akmal has 37. How many more votes does
Akmal need in order to be elected?
22. The diagram shows a net of an unfolded rectangular box. What is the volume of the box?
24. Simon and Ian decide to have a race. Simon runs around the
perimeter of the pool shown in the diagram while Ian swims lengths of the
pool. Simon runs three times faster than Ian swims. Ian swam six lengths
of the pool in the same time Simon ran around the pool five times.
How wide is the pool?
25. Freda's flying club designed a flag of a flying dove on a square grid as
shown. The area of the dove is 192 cm². All parts of the perimeter of the
dove are either parts of a circle or straight lines. What are the dimensions
of the flag?
26. Domino tiles are said to be arranged correctly if the number of spots at the ends that touch for
any two adjacent dominoes are the same. Paulius laid six dominoes in a line as shown in the
diagram. He can make a move by either swapping the position of any two dominoes or by
rotating one dominoe. What is the smallest number of moves he needs to make to arrange all the
tiles correctly?
27. Points N, M and L lie on the sides of the equilateral triangle ABC, such that
NM BC, ML AB and LN AC as shown in the diagram.
The area of triangle ABC is 36. What is the area of triangle LMN?
(D) 16 (E) 18
Grade 7 - 8
28. Azmi, Burhan and Choo went shopping. Burhan spent only 15% of what Choo spent.
However, Azmi spent 60% more than Choo. Together they spent 55 USD.
How much did Azmi spend?
29. Viola is practising the long jump. The average distance she has jumped so far today is
3.80 m. On her next jump, she jumped 3.99 m and her average increased to 3.81 m.
What distance must she jump with her next jump to increase her average to 3.82 m?
(A) 3.97 m (B) 4.00 m (C) 4.01 m (D) 4.03 m (E) 4.04 m
30. In isosceles triangle 𝐴𝐵𝐶, points 𝐾 and 𝐿 are marked on sides 𝐴𝐵 and 𝐵𝐶 respectively so that
𝐴𝐾 = 𝐾𝐿 = 𝐿𝐵 and 𝐾𝐵 = 𝐴𝐶. What is the size of angle 𝐴𝐵𝐶 ?