Junior Division

Questions 1 to 10, 3 marks each

1. The value of 95 − 83 is

(A) 2 (B) 8 (C) 11 (D) 12 (E) 22

2. 0.5 expressed as a fraction is

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5. When I start a journey, the tripmeter reads 789 km. When I finish it reads 901 km.
The distance travelled, in kilometres, is

(A) 102 (B) 108 (C) 110 (D) 112 (E) 288

6. The change from $50 if you bought 7 bottles of orange juice at 70 c per bottle
should be

(A) $45.10 (B) $49.10 (C) $41.90 (D) $44.10 (E) $45.90
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7. A tetromino is a shape consisting of four squares joined along their edges. Here
are three different tetrominoes:-

Which of the tetrominoes below cannot be obtained by a rotation, in the plane,

of one of the above tetrominoes?

(A) (B) (C)

(D) (E)

8. The area, in square centimetres, of one face of a cube whose volume is 64 cm3 is

(A) 8 (B) 16 (C) 24 (D) 32 (E) 64

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10. The average of five numbers is 4. Four of them are 1, 2, 3 and 4. What is the
other?

(A) 6 (B) 7 (C) 8 (D) 9 (E) 10

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Questions 11 to 20, 4 marks each

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If the numbers 1 and 4 are placed as shown, then the sum of the row or column is

(A) 8 (B) 9 (C) 10 (D) 11 (E) 12

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14. Using only 5 c, 10 c and 20 c coins, in how many ways can you make up 35 cents?

(A) 4 (B) 6 (C) 5 (D) 8 (E) 7

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16. The middle date of the year in 2006 is

(A) 29th June (B) 30th June (C) 1st July (D) 2nd July (E) 3rd July

17. Gina has three children and one of them is a teenager. When she multiplies their
ages together the result is 770. How old is the teenager?

(A) 13 (B) 14 (C) 15 (D) 16 (E) 17

18. A 1 × 1 × 1 cube is cut out of a 10 × 10 × 10 cube. Then a 2 × 2 × 2 cube is cut

from the remainder followed by a 3 × 3 × 3 cube and so on. What is the largest
cube which can be cut out?

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

19. The digits 3, 4, 5 and 6 can be put together to form 24 different four-digit numbers.
If these numbers are arranged from smallest to largest, which number is in the
thirteenth position?

(A) 3654 (B) 4563 (C) 5346 (D) 5436 (E) 6345
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20. The corner of a rectangular piece of paper is folded as shown in figure 1, then
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Questions 21 to 30, 5 marks each

21. In aerial view, an apartment block is composed of a number of square apartments

and a number of square gardens, joined to form a rectangular block. Apartments
must have at least one window, either to the outside or to one of the gardens. For
example, in the 3 × 4 block below, the apartment marked ∗ has a window onto the
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What is the smallest number of gardens required for such a 6 × 6 square block?

(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 7 (E) 8

22. The number 22006 ends in what digit?

(A) 0 (B) 2 (C) 4 (D) 6 (E) 8

23. The nine squares of a 3 × 3 grid painted on a wall

are to be coloured red, white and blue so that no R W B
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24. How many different pairs of 2-digit numbers multiply to give a 3-digit number with
all digits the same?

(A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 7 (D) 8 (E) 9

25. We will call a number N green if 6 × N contains none of the digits 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4.
There are two digits such that every green number contains at least one of them.
One of these two digits is 1. What is the other?

(A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 7 (D) 8 (E) 9

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

the space provided on the answer sheet.

26. What is the sum of the digits of all 2-digit numbers from 10 to 99?

27. Each of the students in a class writes a different 2-digit number on the whiteboard.
The teacher claims that no matter what the students write, there will be at least
three numbers on the whiteboard whose digits have the same sum. What is the
smallest number of students in the class for the teacher to be correct?

28. A 5 cm by 5 cm by 4 cm block is built from one hundred 1 cm × 1 cm × 1 cm cubes,

each of which is coloured red or white. The cubes are arranged in such a way that
no two cubes which touch along a face are the same colour. What is the number
of red faces in the interior of the block?

29. The vertices of a cube are each labelled with one of the integers 1, 2, 3, . . ., 8.
A face-sum is the sum of the labels of the four vertices on a face of the cube. What
is the maximum number of equal face-sums in any of these labellings?

30. It is a surprising fact that 1 × 2 × 3 × 4 × 5 × 6 = 8 × 9 × 10. It is even more

surprising that 8 × 9 × 10 × 11 × 12 × 13 × 14 is equal to another such product of
consecutive whole numbers. What is the smallest number in this other product?
Answer to AMC test paper (Junior 2006)