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AMO(2013 Past Papers) Primary (5)

1. Write the value of this expression as a whole number.
( 20 + 40 + 60 + 80 + 100 + 120 ) – ( 10 + 30 + 50 + 70 + 90 +
110 )
2. The sum of the digits of the number 2010 is 3. What is the next larger
number whose digit-sum is also 3?

3. How many 2-digit numbers have one digit that is twice the other?

4. What is the sum of the digits in the arrangement below?

4 3 4

4 3 2 3 4

4 3 2 1 2 3 4

4 3 2 1 0 1 2 3 4

4 3 2 1 2 3 4

4 3 2 3 4

4 3 4

5. If the 5-digit number 3367N is divisible by 15, what is the digit N?

6. Find the value of 87 – 76 + 65 – 54 + 43 – 32 + 21 – 10

7. What is the value of ( 47 × 8 ) + ( 8 × 27 ) + ( 26 × 8 )?

8. What number does represent if + = 20 and + = 24 ?

9. In the pattern below, what will be the 78th letter written?

A B B C C D A B B C C D A … ( and so on )

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10. In a magic square, the sum of the numbers in each row and each column
is the same. If exactly one number is changed in this picture, the result is
a magic square. Which number must be changed?

22 1 16
9 13 19
10 25 4

11. Staci looks at the first and fourth pages of a chapter in her book. The sum
of their page numbers is 47. On what page does the chapter begin?

12. The digits 1 through 9 are placed in the boxes shown, one per box. In
each corner box is a prime number. In each box in the middle column is a
square number. In the 3 boxes of the middle row is the least 3-digit
number possible. What is that 3-digit number?

13. Vera makes vegetable trays. Each tray uses a kilogram of carrots. Vera
needs to make 25 trays. She buys carrots only in 2-kg bags. How many
bags of carrots must Vera buy to make the 25 trays?

14. How many numbers between 10 and 99 have digits that differ by 3?

15. Chloe divides the number N by 14 correctly and gets 5. Mia uses the
same value of Nas Chloe but she misreads the division sign as an addition
sign and finds the sum. What answer does Mia get?

16. Sara starts with the number 9 and counts by 7s. This result in the
sequence 9 , 16 , 23 , 30 , 37 , …

What is the twenty-fourth number in Sara’s sequence?

17. What number is one-half of one-third of one-fourth of 240?

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18. In a group of dogs and their owners, there are exactly 20 heads and 64
legs. How many dogs are in the group?

19. If you triple Jen’s age and subtract 16, the result will be the same as when
you double her age and add 8. How old is Jen?

20. Three friends play a series of 8 games. The winner of each game scores 8
points. Second place scores 3 points. Last place scores 0 points. At the
end of 8 games, Keri’s score is 20 points. In how many of the games did
Keri finish last?

21. Suppose the boxes are filled in with the digits from 0 through 6. Each
digit is written exactly once. What three-digit number is the correct
answer to the addition problem?

22. Grace chooses five different numbers from the list 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 ,

8, 9 ,10. Two of those numbers are 4 and 5, and they are the only two
numbers she picks that differ by 1. What is the greatest possible sum of
the five numbers?

23. A 7 × 7 square is marked off into forty-nine 1 × 1 small squares. Each of

the small squares along the edges of the large square is pointed blue. How
many small squares are pointed blue?

24. Juan uses the digits 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 and 6 to make two 3-digt numbers.
Each digit is use once. The numbers are subtracted. What is the greatest
possible difference?

25. Four volunteers can pack 12 boxes every 30 minutes. How many
additional volunteers are needed to pack 72 boxes every hour? [ Assume
all volunteers work at the same rate.]

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26. How many rectangles do you see in this picture?

27. What is the least prime number that is the sum of 3 different prime
numbers?

28. Beginning with the box labeled 1, form a path by placing the numbers 2
through 16 in the boxes, so that each consecutive number occupies an
adjacent box ( no diagonal path allowed ). Some numbers are already
written in. Find the sum of the numbers in the starred ( * ) boxes.

3
1
5 * *
16

29. Group A has 10 numbers with an average of 10. Group B has 20 numbers
with an average of 20. Group C has 30 numbers with an average of 30.
Group D has 40 numbers with an average of 40. The four groups are put
together. What is the average of the combined group?

30. Judy has two more sisters that she has brothers. Her brother, Mark, has
twice as many sisters as he has brothers. How many children are in their
family?

31. How many four-sided figures can be traced, using the lines in this
picture?

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32. This figure consists of two squares. Each side-length is a whole number
of centimeters. The combined areas of the squares is 100 cm2. What is the
perimeter of the entire figure?

33. At lunch, Hannah tells Dom, “ If you give me 4 grapes , we will each
have the same number of grapes.” Dom tells Hannah, “ If you give me 4
grapes, I will have five times as many grapes as you will have then.” How
many grapes does Hannah have?

34. The numbers 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 and 6 are placed in the diagram, one in each
circle. The sum of the numbers along side A is 13, along side B is 13 and
along side C is 6. What number is in the circle at the top of the diagram?

Side A
Side B

Side C

35. The region inside the circle can be cut into 2 parts by drawing 1 line
through it, as shown. What is the greatest number of parts that can be
formed by drawing 4 lines through the region?

36. How many 3-digit numbers are multiples of 21?

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37. A teacher surveyed 24 students and discovered that

* 18 of them like to play video games;

* 15 of them like to go to the movies, and

* 2 of them do not like either playing video games or going to the movies.
How many of the 31 students like both activities?

38. Jen plays a game where three kinds of pieces, each with an area of 5
square units, must be placed ( without overlap ) on a checkerboard. The
kinds of pieces are shown. They may be rotated. The screen is 8 units
high by 8 units wide. What is the greatest number of pieces that Jen can
place on the checkerboard?

39. The perimeter of a rectangular piece of paper is 50 cm. It is cut into 4

congruent rectangles as shown. What is the total of the perimeters of the
four smaller rectangles?

40. A rectangular solid that is 4 cm by 6 cm by 8 cm is painted on all six

faces. Then the solid is cut into cubes that measure 2 cm on each side.
How many of these cubes have only one face painted?
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41. Different letters represent different digits. If ADD + ADD + ADD =

SUMS and A is even, what is the 4-digit number SUMS?

42. A pile of coins sits on a table. Sara takes half of the coins plus 4 more.
Then Nick takes 2. Then Joe takes 2 more than half of what is left.
Finally Selena takes 5. Four coins remain on the table. How many coins
were on the table to start with?

43. The perimeter of rectangle ABCD is 36 cm. Suppose side AD is folded

up so that D lies on the midpoint of side AB and AE is the crease as
shown What is the area of figure ABCE?

A B

D C

D
A B

C
E

44. 1 blue marble and 2 green marbles cost 16 cents. 1 red marble and 2 blue
marbles also cost 16 cents. 1 green marble and 2 red marbles only cost 13
cents. How much does 1 green marble cost?

45. Different letters represent different digits. AB is an even 2-digit number.

EEE is a 3-digit number. Find the 2-digit number AB.

AB

M EEE

46. AB, CD , EF , GH and JK are five 2-digit numbers. Different letters

represent different digits. Find the greatest possible value of the fraction
below.
𝐴𝐵+𝐶𝐷+𝐸𝐹
𝐺𝐻−𝐽𝐾

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47. The region is formed by two overlapping rectangles. Determine the area
of the entire region. The lengths shown are in cm.

15
3 6
8

12

10

48. Every digit from 1 through 9 appears in the addition problem on the right.
Each digit is used exactly once. The addition problem yields a correct
answer. What is the three-digit number answer to the addition problem?
5 6 7

2
49. Lara starts at the bottom of a long staircase. She climbs exactly of the
3
1
stairs. Then, she goes back down exactly of the way to the bottom.
2
2
From that spot, she climbs exactly of the way to the top. Finally, from
3
there, she climbs 6 stairs to reach the top. How many stairs are in the
staircase?

50. A 4 × 4 × 4 cardboard box is going to be filled with colored 1 × 1 × 1

blocks. One red block is placed into the corner of the box. Next, the least
number of orange blocks are used to completely hide the red block from
view. Then, the least number of yellow blocks are used to hide the orange
blocks from view. At this point, how many blocks have been placed in
the box?

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AMO (2014 Past Papers), Primary 5

1. What is the value of the product 5 × 4 × 5 × 4 × 5 × 4 × 5?

2. Gregor is the first person standing on a line. His friend, Harold, is the 17th
person on that same line. How many people are standing between them
on the line?

3. What number does N represent in the equation 6 × 7 × 40 = 5 × 8 × N

4. Evaluate 10 × 234 + 10 × 342 + 10 × 423

5. Julio has 23 pencils. He puts the pencils into six boxes. Each box has at
least one pencil. There is a different number of pencils in each box. He
puts as many pencils as he can into the last box. How many pencils are in
the last box?

6. Madison has five stickers in a row on a piece of paper. The star is one to
the left of the puppy. The rainbow is to the right of the heart. The puppy
is three to the left of the kitten. Which sticker is in the middle of the row?

7. How many 2-digit odd numbers are greater than 30?

8. There are 8 marks evenly spaced from each other along a meter stick. The
first mark is at 27 cm. The eighth mark is at 62 cm. Where, in
centimeters, is the third mark?

9. In the grid shown, the number 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 and 6 are to be placed, one

per square. The sum of the numbers in the row going across is 11. The
sum of the numbers in the column going down is also 11. What is the
number in the box with the X.

1 1 1
10. Find the value of N for which = 6+𝑁
5

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11. For a certain 3-digit number;

* the digits are in increasing order

* the difference of the greatest and least digits is 7

* it is a multiple of 9 and greater than 200.

Find the 3-digit number.

12. The sum of five numbers divided by 5 is 10. A sixth number is added to
the sum of the original five numbers. This sum divided by 6 is 9. What is
the sixth number?

13. The numbers 541A3, 541B3 and 541C3 are all different multiples of 3.
The letters A , B and C represent digits within the numbers.

What is the product A × 𝐵 × C?

14. The areas of three small rectangles are shown in the diagram. The four
small rectangles make up a larger, fifth rectangle, ABCD. If every
measurement is a whole number, how many centimeters is the perimeter
of the rectangle ABCD?

B
A 21 sq cm 33 sq cm

35 sq cm

C D

15. Two square gardens are each 10m by 10m. They are enclosed by a
sidewalk of width 1m. There is also a shared sidewalk of width 1m
between gardens (as shown). Find the total area, in square meters, of the
sidewalks.

16. The sum of the page numbers of Chapter 3 ( of a certain book ) is 374. If
there are 11 pages in Chapter 3, on what page does Chapter 3 begin?

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17. How many different three-digit numbers of the form A5B are divisible by
9? Note that A and B could be the same digit.

18. E is one-quarter of the way from A to B. F is one-quarter of the way from

B to C. ABCD is a square with an area of 64 and has center X. What is
the area of the shaded region ( EXFB )?

E
A B

F
X

D C

19. Person A has some number of pieces of candy .

Person B has exactly one-half as many as Person A.

Person C has exactly one-third as many as Person A.

Person D has exactly one-quarter as many as Person A.

If D has at least 4 pieces of candy, what is the fewest number of pieces of

candy that the four have all together?

20. In the Marble Club, the average number of marbles the members have is
100. When person X joins the club with his 80 marbles, the average
number of marbles per member becomes 96. How many people,
including Person X, are in the Marble Club?

21. In the multiplication problem at the right, each letter represents a different
digit. What 4-digit number is represented by MATH?

MATH

×4

HTAM

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22. Each student in an art class has 48 identical 1cm cubes. Each student
glues all of his or her cubes together to make a rectangular solid. No two
solid are identical. What is the maximum number of students in that art
class?

23. Emily plays a game that uses a marker, a coin and a number line. Her
marker begins at zero on the number line. She flips the coin. If the coin
lands heads up, she moves her marker 3 units to the right. If the coin
lands tails up, she moves her marker 10 units to the right. Therefore there
are some numbers that the marker cannot land on, such as 1 , 2 , 4 and 5.
What is the greatest whole number on the number line that cannot be
landed on?

24. Each letter represents a different digit. What 4-digit number does NEAR
represent?

T E N T

+ E N T

R A R E S

25. A 3 × 3 × 3 cube is built our of twenty-seven 1 × 1 × 1 blocks. Then,

seven 1 × 1 × 1 blocks are removed. Specifically, the centre block for
each of the six faces of the cube is removed and the centre block of the
cube is removed. What is the total surface area of the modified cube?

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