Australian Mathematics Competition

sponsored by the Commonwealth Bank

an activity of the australian mathematics trust

A u s t r a l i a n M at h e mat i c s T r u s t

NAME

YEAR TEACHER

2014
JUNIOR DIVISION
AUSTRALIAN SCHOOL YEARS 7 and 8
TIME ALLOWED: 75 MINUTES

INSTRUCTIONS AND INFORMATION

GENERAL
1. Do not open the booklet until told to do so by your teacher.
2. NO calculators, 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 country/Australian state 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 2014 amtt limited acn 083 950 341

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Questions 1 to 10, 3 marks each

1. What is the value of 17 + 16 + 14 + 13?

(A) 60 (B) 61 (C) 63 (D) 68 (E) 70

2. In the diagram the value of x is

50◦
(A) 80 (B) 70 (C) 60
x◦ 120◦
(D) 50 (E) 40

3. What is the perimeter of the figure below in centimetres?

1 cm
2 cm
8 cm

10 cm

(A) 21 (B) 30 (C) 36 (D) 39 (E) 78

4. This week at my lemonade stand I sold $29 worth of lemonade, but I had spent $34
on lemons and $14 on sugar. My total loss for the week was

(A) $1 (B) $9 (C) $19 (D) $21 (E) $29

1
5. The value of is
0.04
(A) 15 (B) 20 (C) 25 (D) 40 (E) 60

5 3
6. If of a number is 30, what is of the number?
6 4
(A) 22.5 (B) 24 (C) 25 (D) 27 (E) 40
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7. A map, 40 cm wide and 20 cm high, is folded along the dashed lines indicated to form
a 10 cm × 10 cm square so that it just fits in its envelope. It is then pinned to a notice
board.

Which one of the following could be the pattern of pinholes on the map?

(A) (B) (C)

(D) (E)

8. This diagram is called an open square of order 4, since the

three sides are all the same length and each side has four
posts spaced evenly along it. The total number of posts
which would be evenly spaced along an open square of order
10 would be
(A) 26 (B) 27 (C) 28
(D) 30 (E) 32

9. A train is scheduled to leave the station at 10:14 am and it takes 2 hours and 47 min-
utes to arrive at its destination. If the train leaves 8 minutes late, when does it
arrive?
(A) 7:28 am (B) 7:35 am (C) 12:09 pm (D) 1:01 pm (E) 1:09 pm

10. Consecutive numbers are written on five separate cards, one on each card. If the sum
of the smallest three numbers is 60, what is the sum of the largest three numbers?

(A) 62 (B) 63 (C) 64 (D) 65 (E) 66

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Questions 11 to 20, 4 marks each

11. The width of a rectangle is one-third of its length. If its area is 108 cm2 then its
perimeter in centimetres is

(A) 54 (B) 48 (C) 42 (D) 36 (E) 24

12. Six people are standing in a line. The height of the first person is 150 cm and the
height of the sixth person is 180 cm. The height of each other person is the average
of the heights of the person directly in front and the person directly behind. What
is the height of the fourth person in the line?

(A) 165 cm (B) 168 cm (C) 170 cm (D) 172 cm (E) 174 cm

13. An unusual tower is built with cubes starting with one in the bottom layer, then 4
in the second layer, 9 in the third, then 16, and so on. Altogether 91 cubes are used
to build the tower. How many layers does the tower have?

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

14. At my school, there are 76 students who are placed as evenly as possible in six classes,
so that no two classes differ in size by more than one student. How many classes at
the school have exactly 12 students?

(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 6

15. Four equilateral triangles of the same size are arranged

with horizontal bases inside a larger equilateral trian-
gle, as shown. What fraction of the area of the larger
triangle is covered by the smaller triangles?
2 1 4
(A) (B) (C)
3 2 9
4 16
(D) (E)
7 25

16. After 9 weeks Mikayla has an average mark of 5 out of 10 in the weekly spelling tests.
What is the minimum number of extra weeks now required to raise her average to 7?

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

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17. Anne has four cards, each with a different number written on it. She makes a list
of all the different totals that can be obtained by choosing two or more cards and
adding the numbers on them. What is the maximum number of different totals that
she could have in her list?
(A) 7 (B) 8 (C) 9 (D) 10 (E) 11

18. In the months of March, April and May, my lawn grows 0.7 cm every day. On the
day that it reaches a height of 20 cm, I always mow it back to a height of 2.5 cm. If I
mow my lawn on the first day of March, how many times in total do I need to mow
the lawn during these three months?

(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 6

19. There are n people sitting equally spaced around a circle. The people are numbered
in order around the circle from 1 up to n. Person 31 notices that person 7 and person
14 are the same distance from him. How many people are sitting around the circle?

(A) 42 (B) 41 (C) 40 (D) 39 (E) 38

20. A 3 by 5 grid of dots is set out as shown. How many

straight line segments can be drawn that join two of
these dots and pass through exactly one other dot?

(A) 14 (B) 20 (C) 22

(D) 24 (E) 30

Questions 21 to 25, 5 marks each

21. What is the sum of ten consecutive two-digit whole numbers where the first and last
numbers are perfect squares?

(A) 205 (B) 210 (C) 215 (D) 225 (E) 230

22. A hotel has rooms that can accommodate up to two people. Couples can share a
room, but otherwise men will share only with men and women only with women.
How many rooms are needed to guarantee that any group of 100 people can be
accommodated?
(A) 50 (B) 51 (C) 67 (D) 98 (E) 99
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23. A three-digit number, written abc, is called fuzzy if abc is divisible by 7, the two-digit
number bc is divisible by 6, the digit c is divisible by 5 and the three digits a, b and c
are all different. How many fuzzy numbers are there?

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

24. If a is the number 1111 . . . 1111, with 100 digits all 1, and b is the number 999 . . . 999
with 50 digits all 9, how many digits are 1 in the number a − b?

(A) 49 (B) 50 (C) 97 (D) 98 (E) 99

25. Zac has three jackets, one black, one brown and one blue. He has four shirts, one
white, one blue, one red and one yellow. He has three pairs of trousers, one brown,
one white and one yellow. How many combinations of jacket, shirt and trousers are
possible if no two items are of the same colour?

(A) 23 (B) 25 (C) 26 (D) 27 (E) 29

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 a grid 3 units high and 4 units

wide that uses 31 matches. How many matches would
you need to create a grid of squares that is 13 units
high and 33 units wide?

27. Eighteen points are equally spaced on a circle, from which you will choose a certain
number at random. How many do you need to choose to guarantee that you will
have the four corners of at least one rectangle?
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28. In a 3 × 3 grid of points, many triangles can be formed using 3 of the points as
vertices. Three such triangles are shown below. Of all these possible triangles, how
many have all three sides of different lengths?

29. How many three-digit numbers are there in which one of the digits is the sum of the
other two?

30. What is the largest three-digit number with the property that the number is equal
to the sum of its hundreds digit, the square of its tens digit and the cube of its units
digit?
 Junior 2014 Answers
Question Answer
1 A
2 B
3 C
4 C
5 C
6 D
7 A
8 C
9 E
10 E
11 B
12 B
13 B
14 A
15 E
16 C
17 E
18 C
19 B
20 C
21 A
22 B
23 D
24 D
25 A
26 904
27 11
28 40
29 126
30 598