This document contains instructions and questions for a team maths challenge competition. It includes 10 multiple part maths questions on various topics that teams have 45 minutes to answer for points. The questions cover areas like percentages, coin sums, time calculations, number patterns, and summations.
This document contains instructions and questions for a team maths challenge competition. It includes 10 multiple part maths questions on various topics that teams have 45 minutes to answer for points. The questions cover areas like percentages, coin sums, time calculations, number patterns, and summations.
This document contains instructions and questions for a team maths challenge competition. It includes 10 multiple part maths questions on various topics that teams have 45 minutes to answer for points. The questions cover areas like percentages, coin sums, time calculations, number patterns, and summations.
This document contains instructions and questions for a team maths challenge competition. It includes 10 multiple part maths questions on various topics that teams have 45 minutes to answer for points. The questions cover areas like percentages, coin sums, time calculations, number patterns, and summations.
UK Group Round 2019 UKMT Regional Final United Kingdom Mathematics Trust
Question 1 The basic State Pension used to be £98.70 per week. This amount was increased by 2 12 % and rounded up to the nearest penny. What is the new basic State Pension in pounds, per week? [6 marks]
UK Group Round 2019 UKMT Regional Final United Kingdom Mathematics Trust
Question 2 Naomi had one £2 coin, two £1 coins, three 50p coins, four 20p coins, five 10p coins, six 5p coins, seven 2p coins and eight 1p coins in her purse. (a) Firstly Naomi bought some food, costing £5.39. As she was in a rush to pick up her children from school, she paid the exact amount with the least number of coins possible. How many coins did she have left in her purse? [3 marks]
(b) Next, Naomi went straight to school, arriving ten minutes
before she needed to pick up her children. Whilst waiting, she bought them some sweets, costing 99p. Having a bit of time, she decided to pay this exact amount with as many coins from her purse as possible. How many coins did she have left in her purse? [3 marks]
UK Group Round 2019 UKMT Regional Final United Kingdom Mathematics Trust
Question 3 (a) 14 × (d + e + f ) = ‘de f ’ where d, e and f represent different digits and ‘de f ’ is a three-digit number. What is the value of ‘de f ’? [3 marks]
(b) 19 × (a + b + b) = ‘abb’ where a and b represent different digits
and ‘abb’ is a three-digit number. What is the maximum possible value of ‘abb’? [3 marks]
UK Group Round 2019 UKMT Regional Final United Kingdom Mathematics Trust
Question 4 (a) Jo took 10% more time to run the second half of a marathon than she took to run the first half. It took her 1 hour 28 minutes to run the second half of the marathon. How long did Jo take to run the marathon, in hours and minutes? [3 marks]
(b) Usain Bolt ran the 200m in 19.19 seconds.
It took him 10% less time to run the second 100m than it took him to run the first 100m. How long in seconds did it take him to run the first 100m? [3 marks]
UK Group Round 2019 UKMT Regional Final United Kingdom Mathematics Trust
Question 5 In the Olympics, the order that a country is placed in the medal table is based firstly on the number of Gold medals they win, then the number of Silver medals and finally the number of Bronze medals. A possible outcome is:
UK Group Round 2019 UKMT Regional Final United Kingdom Mathematics Trust
Question 6 A digit is to be placed in each of the nine blank cells in the 3 × 3 grid shown below. Every pair of neighbouring digits vertically down or horizontally to the right forms a two-digit number. If all of the two-digit numbers are squares, what is the sum of the numbers that must be placed in the four corners?
UK Group Round 2019 UKMT Regional Final United Kingdom Mathematics Trust
Question 8 The sum of the page numbers, in a book, is less than 2019. The pages are numbered in order, from 1 to n. What is the largest possible value of n? [6 marks]
UK Group Round 2019 UKMT Regional Final United Kingdom Mathematics Trust
Question 9 A regular pentagon and a square share a common side, as shown. Another regular polygon shares a common side with the pentagon and a common side with the square. Part of this regular polygon is shown. How many sides does this regular polygon have? NOTE: The external angle of a regular polygon with n sides is 360 n °.
UK Group Round 2019 UKMT Regional Final United Kingdom Mathematics Trust
Question 10 The letters A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H each represent different primes. (a) A + B = 14 C − D = 17 What is the value of D × C − B × A? [3 marks]
(b) E + F + G = H What is the smallest possible value of H? [3 marks]
