A u s t r a l i a n M a t h e ma t i c s C o m p e t i t i o n

an activity of the australian mathematics trust

t h u r s d ay 4 A u g u s t 2 011

junior Division Competition Paper

australian School Years 7 and 8
time allowed: 75 minutes

Inst r uction s a nd I nf or m ati on

GENERAL
1. Do not open the booklet until told to do so by your teacher.
2. NO calculators, slide rules, log tables, 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 with 5 possible answers given 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 State or Region 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.

©AMT Publishing 2011 amtt limited acn 083 950 341

 Junior Division

Questions 1 to 10, 3 marks each

1. The value of 2011 − 1102 is

(A) 1111 (B) 1191 (C) 1001 (D) 989 (E) 909

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3. I left for a walk at 2:15 pm and returned at 3:20 pm. How long was I out walking?

(A) 50 minutes (B) 55 minutes (C) 60 minutes (D) 65 minutes (E) 70 minutes

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5. The value of 888 − (88 − 8) is

(A) 808 (B) 880 (C) 800 (D) 792 (E) 2011

6. We know that 5 × 7 × 11 = 385. What is the value of 0.5 × 0.7 × 0.11?

(A) 38.5 (B) 3.85 (C) 0.385 (D) 0.0385 (E) 0.00385
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7. In the diagram, lines P T , QU, RV and SW intersect at O.

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8. The value of 24 + 42 is

(A) 16 (B) 32 (C) 34 (D) 36 (E) 64

9. Warren reads 20 pages in 30 minutes. At this rate how long will it take him to
read 66 pages?

(A) 1 hr 34 min (B) 1 hr 36 min (C) 1 hr 37 min

(D) 1 hr 38 min (E) 1 hr 39 min

10. Each of the following 2-digit numbers has one digit covered. Which of the five
numbers is the only possible multiple of 12?

(A) 3 (B) 9 (C) 5 (D) 3 (E) 5

Questions 11 to 20, 4 marks each

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12. Billy counts backwards by 7, starting at 5907. When he reaches a single-digit

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(A) 4 (B) 6 (C) 7 (D) 8 (E) 9

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(A) 0.01 (B) 0.1 (C) 1 (D) 10 (E) 100

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16. The numbers on the six faces of this cube are consecutive even numbers.

If the sums of the numbers on each of the three pairs of opposite faces are equal,
find the sum of all six numbers on this cube.

(A) 196 (B) 188 (C) 210 (D) 186 (E) 198
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17. If m and n are positive whole numbers and mn = 100, then m + n cannot be equal
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(A) 25 (B) 29 (C) 50 (D) 52 (E) 101

18. In the following addition, some of the digits are missing.

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The sum of the missing digits is

(A) 23 (B) 21 (C) 20 (D) 18 (E) 15

19. If Peter lost 20 kg in weight he would then weigh 4 times as much as his pet wombat.
Together they weigh 200 kg. How much does the wombat weigh?

(A) 30 kg (B) 36 kg (C) 40 kg (D) 164 kg (E) 170 kg

20. Two tourists are walking 12 km apart along a flat track at a constant speed of
4 km/h. When each tourist reaches the slope of a mountain, she begins to climb
with a constant speed of 3 km/h.

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What is the distance, in kilometres, between the two tourists during the climb?

(A) 16 (B) 12 (C) 10 (D) 9 (E) 8

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Questions 21 to 25, 5 marks each

21. Each of thirty-four students wrote a story. All thirty-four stories were of different
lengths ranging from 1 to 34 pages. These were put into a single book where the
book starts at page 1, each new story begins on a new page and there are no blank
pages. What is the largest possible number of stories that start at an odd page
number of such a book?

(A) 8 (B) 9 (C) 17 (D) 26 (E) 33

22. The six faces of a dice are numbered −3, −2, −1, 0, 1, 2. If the dice is rolled twice
and the two numbers are multiplied together, what is the probability that the
result is negative?
1 1 11 13 1
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
2 4 36 36 3

23. A grocer packed 52 boxes of oranges each with the same number of oranges in it
and had 8 oranges left over. If he had packed 2 less oranges in each box, he would
have filled 60 boxes. How many oranges did he have?

(A) 540 (B) 480 (C) 840 (D) 720 (E) 900

24. A square-based pyramid is built using cubical blocks, 1 on top, 4 on the next layer,
9 on the next, 16 on the next, and so on.
What is the minimum number of blocks needed if the pyramid is to be dismantled
and rebuilt into 2 separate cubes with no blocks left over?

(A) 55 (B) 91 (C) 140 (D) 204 (E) 285

25. In 4P QR, U is the midpoint of RQ, P U = RU , P T bisects 6 RP Q and

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

the space provided on the answer sheet.

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. The diagram shows the net of a cube. On each face there is an integer: 1, 2011,
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27. An arrangement of numbers has different differences when the differences between
neighbours are all different. For example, the numbers
1 4 2 3
have differences 3, 2 and 1 − all different.
If the numbers from 1 to 6 are arranged with different differences, and with 3 in
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28. Which two-digit number is equal to the sum of its first digit plus the square of its
second digit?

29. The first digit of a six-digit number is 1. This digit 1 is now moved from the first
digit position to the end, so it becomes the last digit. The new six-digit number is
now 3 times larger than the original number. What are the last three digits of the
original number?

30. Joe the handyman was employed to fix house numbers onto the doors of 80 new
houses in a row. He screwed digits on their front doors, numbering them from 1
to 80. Then he noticed that there were houses already numbered 1 to 64 in the
street, so he had to replace all the numbers with new ones, 65 to 144. If he re-used
as many digits as possible (where he could use an upside down 6 as a 9 and vice
versa), how many new digits must he have supplied?