Kangaroo Math Questions 2021

Level: Kadett, Grade:7 + 8

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Time: 75 min.
30 starting points
each correct answer to questions 1. – 10.: 3 points
each correct answer to questions 11. – 20.: 4 points
each correct answer to questions 21. – 30.: 5 points
each questions left unanswered: 0 points
each incorrect answer: minus ¼ of the points for the question

Please write the letter (A, B, C, D, E) of the correct

answer in the square under the question number
(1 - 30). Write clearly and carefully!

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

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3 points problems

1. Which of the following symbols for signs of the Zodiac has an axis of symmetry?

(A) Saggitarius (B) Scorpio (C) Leo (D) Cancer (E) Capricorn

2. The figure shows three concentric circles with four lines passing through their com-
mon centre. What percentage of the figure is shaded?

(A) 30% (B) 35% (C) 40% (D) 45% (E) 50%

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3. What is the value of ?
2+ 0 +2+1

(A) 42 (B) 64 (C) 80 (D) 84 (E) 105

4. How many four-digit numbers have the property that their digits, from left to right, are consecutive and in
ascending order?

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

5. When the 5 pieces are fitted together correctly, the result is a rectangle
with a calculation written on it. What is the answer to this calculation?

(A) −100 (B) −8 (C) −1 (D) 199 (E) 208

6. Each of the five vases shown has the same height and each has a volume of 1 litre. Half a litre of water is
poured into each vase. In which vase would the level of the water be the highest?

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

7. A student correctly added the two two-digit numbers on the left of

the board and got the answer 137. What answer will he get if he adds
the two four-digit numbers on the right of the board?

(A) 13 737 (B) 13 837 (C) 14 747 (D) 23 737 (E) 137 137

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8. A cube 3  3  3 is made from 1  1  1 white, grey and black cu-
bes, as shown in the first diagram. The other two diagrams show
the white part and the black part of the cube. Which of the fol-
lowing diagrams shows the grey part?

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

9. A bike lock has four wheels numbered with the digits 0 to 9 in order. Each of the
four wheels is rotated by 180° from the code shown in the first diagram to get the
correct code. What is the correct code for the bike lock?

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

10. Byron is 5cm taller than Aaron, but 10cm shorter than Caron. Darren is 10cm taller than Caron, but 5cm
shorter than Erin. Which of the following statements is true?

(A) Aaron and Erin are equal heights (B) Aaron is 10cm taller than Erin (C) Aaron is 10cm shorter than Erin
(D) Aaron is 30cm taller than Erin (E) Aaron is 30cm shorter than Erin

4 points problems

11. A rectangular chocolate bar is made of equal squares. Neil breaks off two complete strips of squares and
eats the 12 squares he obtains. Later, Jack breaks off one complete strip of squares from the same bar and
eats the 9 squares he obtains. How many squares of chocolate are left in the bar?

(A) 72 (B) 63 (C) 54 (D) 45 (E) 36

12. A jar one fifth filled with water weighs 560 g. The same jar four fifths filled with water weighs 740 g.
What is the weight of the empty jar?

(A) 60 g (B) 112 g (C) 180 g (D) 300 g (E) 500 g

13. The area of the large square is 16 cm2 and the area of each small square is 1 cm2.What
is the total area of the central flower in cm2?

7 11
(A) 3 (B) (C) 4 (D) (E) 6
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14. Costa is building a new fence in his garden. He uses 25 planks of wood, each of which are 30 cm long.
He arranges these planks so that there is the same slight overlap between any two adjacent planks.

The total length of Costa's new fence is 6.9 metres. What is the length in centimetres of the overlap between
any pair of adjacent planks?

(A) 2,4 (B) 2,5 (C) 3 (D) 4,8 (E) 5

15. Five identical right-angled triangles can be arranged so that their larger acute angles
touch to form the star shown in the diagram. It is also possible to form a different star
by arranging more of these triangles so that their smaller acute angles touch. How many
triangles are needed to form the second star?

(A) 10 (B) 12 (C) 18 (D) 20 (E) 24

16. Five squares are positioned as shown. The small square indicated has area 1.
What is the value of ℎ?

(A) 3 m (B) 3.5 m (C) 4 m (D) 4.2 m (E) 4.5 m

17. There are 20 questions in a quiz. Each correct answer scores 7 points, each wrong answer scores −4 points,
and each question left blank scores 0 points. Eric took the quiz and scored 100 points. How many questions
did he leave blank?

(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3 (E) 4

18. A rectangular strip of paper of dimensions 4cm 13cm is folded as shown in the
diagram. 2 rectangles are formed with areas 𝑃 and 𝑄 where P = 2Q . What is the
value of x?

(A) 5 cm (B) 5,5 cm (C) 6 cm (D) 6,5 cm (E) 4 2 cm

19. A box of fruit contains twice as many apples as pears. Christy and Lily divided them up so that Christy had
twice as many pieces of fruit as Lily. Which one of the following statements is always true?

(A) Christy took at least one pear. (B) Christy took twice as many apples as pears.
(C) Christy took twice as many apples as Lily. (D) Christy took as many apples as Lily got pears.
(E) Christy took as many pears as Lily got apples.

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20. Three villages are connected by paths as shown. From Downend to Uphill, the
detour via Middleton is 1km longer than the direct path. From Downend to Middle-
ton, the detour via Uphill is 5km longer than the direct path. From Uphill to Middle-
ton, the detour via Downend is 7km longer than the direct path. How long is the
shortest of the three direct paths between the villages?

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

5 points problems

21. 5 friends talk about their collected astro-pins planets: , moons: or stars: . Xenia says: "I have
an even number of pins", Zach: "Half of my pins are planets, Sue: "I don't have any moons", Paul: "I have more
moons than stars" and Yvonne: "I have more stars than planets". Below are the collections of the 5 friends.
Which set of pins belongs to Yvonne?

(A) (B) (C)

(D) (E)

22. In a particular fraction the numerator and denominator are both positive. The numerator of this fraction
is increased by 40%. By what percentage should its denominator be decreased so that the new fraction is
double the original fraction?

(A) 10% (B) 20% (C) 30% (D) 40% (E) 50%

23. A triangular pyramid is built with 20 cannon balls, as shown. Each cannon ball is labelled
with one of A, B, C, D or E. There are 4 cannon balls with each type of label. The picture shows
the labels on the cannon balls on 3 of the faces of the pyramid. What is the label on the hidden
cannon ball in the middle of the fourth face?

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

24. The 6-digit number 2ABCDE is multiplied by 3 and the result is the 6-digit number ABCDE2. What is the
sum of the digits of this number?

(A) 24 (B) 27 (C) 30 (D) 33 (E) 36

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25. A box contains only green, red, blue and yellow counters. There is always at least one green counter
amongst any 27 counters chosen from the box; always at least one red counter amongst any 25 counters
chosen; always at least one blue amongst any 22 counters chosen and always at least one yellow amongst any
17 counters chosen. What is the largest number of counters that could be in the box?

(A) 27 (B) 29 (C) 51 (D) 87 (E) 91

26. 2021 coloured kangaroos are arranged in a row and are numbered from 1 to 2021. Each kangaroo is col-
oured either red, grey or blue. Amongst any three consecutive kangaroos, there are always kangaroos of all
three colours. Bruce guesses the colours of five kangaroos. These are his guesses: Kangaroo 2 is grey; Kanga-
roo 20 is blue; Kangaroo 202 is red; Kangaroo 1002 is blue; Kangaroo 2021 is grey. Only one of his guesses is
wrong. What is the number of the kangaroo whose colour he guessed incorrectly?

(A) 2 (B) 20 (C) 202 (D) 1002 (E) 2021

27. A 3  4  5 cuboid consists of 60 identical small cubes. A termite eats its way along
the diagonal from 𝑃 to 𝑄.This diagonal does not intersect the edges of any small cube
inside the cuboid. How many of the small cubes does it pass through on its journey?
(A) 8 (B) 9 (C) 10 (D) 11 (E) 12

28. In a town there are 21 knights who always tell the truth and 2000 knaves who always lie. A wizard divided
2020 of these 2021 people into 1010 pairs. Every person in a pair described the other person as either a knight
or a knave. As a result, 2000 people were called knights and 20 people were called knaves. How many pairs of
two knaves were there?

(A) 980 (B) 985 (C) 990 (D) 995 (E) 1000

29. In a tournament each of the 6 teams plays one match against every other
team. In each round of matches, 3 take place simultaneously. A TV station has
already decided which match it will broadcast for each round, as shown in the
diagram. In which round will team D play against team F?

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

30. The diagram shows a quadrilateral divided into 4 smaller quadrilaterals with a com-
mon vertex K. The other labelled points divide the sides of the large quadrilateral into
three equal parts. The numbers indicate the areas of the corresponding small quadrilat-
erals. What is the area of the shaded quadrilateral?

(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 6.5 (E) 7

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