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1. Four good friends want to take a photo sitting in a row. In how many
ways can they arrange their sitting position?
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2. There is exactly one handshake exchanged between every two people.

How many handshakes are exchanged among 11 people?
55

3. In how many ways can the digits 1, 2, 3 and 4, be arranged into a 4 -digit
number without repeating the digits?
24

4. Nadia has 2 fifty-cent stamps and 2 eighty-cent stamps. How many

different postages can she make up by using one, two, three or all the
stamps?
8

5. 40 pupils queued in a line. The first pupil of the queue was asked to leave,
the second pupil stayed, the third pupil left the queue, the fourth one
stayed, … this process was repeated until the last pupil remained in the
queue. What was the original position of the last remaining pupil in the
queue?
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6. There are one yellow flag, one green flag and one blue flag. Different
signals can be made using at least one flag. How many different signals
can these flags make?
7

7. Darrell had 10 pieces of $1 notes, 5 pieces of $2 notes and 2 pieces of $5

notes. He needed $10 to purchase a storybook. In how many ways could
he make up $10 using the dollar notes that he had?
10
8. Alice, Ben and Charles are going to enrol for the following clubs.
Mathematics
Creative Writing
Arts and Craffs
Concert Band
If each of them is allowed to enrol for only one club, how many different
conbinations are there?
64
9. A die of 6 faces is numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. In how many ways will
the sum be an even number if the die is thorwn twice?
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10.James’ father brings him out to a restaurant for dinner. The menu for kids
is shown below.
Starter Main Course Beverage
Salad Mexican Chicken Chocolate
Clam Chowder Korean Beef Tea
Braised Cod Fish Fruit Juice
James is to choose one item from each category for his order. In how
many ways can he place his order?
18

11.Cindy used red and green pens to write all 3-digit positive integers in
increasing order. All the even numbers were written in red and all the odd
numbers were written in green. How many among all the digits “6” were
written in red?
Abc
A=6⇒ 𝑐: 5; 𝑏: 10 ⇒ 50
𝑏 = 6; 𝑎: 9; 𝑐: 5 ⇒ 45
𝑐 = 6; 𝑎: 9; 𝑏: 10 ⇒ 90
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12.How many 3-digit positive integers have the property that the product of
all of its digits is equal to 18?
15
13.Let n be a positive integer such that all of its digits are distinct and that its
digit sum is 17. If n < 2020, how many different possible values of n are
there?
2 + 7.6 + 4 + 7.6 = 90
14.How many 3-digit numbers can be form from the digits 1, 2 and 3.
6
15.How many 3-digit positive integers have the property that the product of
all of its digits is equal to 12?
15
16.How many 3-digit positive integers have the property that the product of
all of its digits is equal to 18?
15
17.How many 3-digit positive integers have the property that the product of
all of its digits is equal to 24?
21
18.John used white and yellow pens to write all 2-digit positive integers in
increasing order. All the even numbers were written in white and all the
odd numbers were written in yellow. How many among all the digits “5”
were write in yellow?
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19.Cindy used red and green pens to write all 3-digit positive integers in
increasing order. All the even numbers were written in red and all the odd
numbers were written in green. How many among all the digits “6” were
written in red?
185

20.How many 3-digit numbers such that all of its digits are distinct and that
its digit sum is 12?
48
21.In how many ways can we pay a bill of $500 by a combination of $10,
$20 and $50 notes?
156
22.How many four-digit numbers can be formed such that the leading digit
cannot be 0, the sum of all the digits is 9 and it can contain at most one
“0”?
+) If there is no 0:
𝑎 + 𝑏 + 𝑐 + 𝑑 = 9 ⇒ (𝑎 − 1 ) + (𝑏 − 1 ) + (𝑐 − 1 ) + (𝑑 − 1 ) = 5
3
6.7.8
⇒ 𝐶5+4−1 = 𝐶83 = = 56
6
+) If it has 0
2
3. 𝐶7+3−1 = 3. 𝐶92 = 108
Ans: 56 + 108 = 164
23.Let n be a positive integer such that all of its digits are distinct and that its
digit sum is 17. If n < 2020, how many different possible values of n are
there?
90
24.In how many different ways can you walk from A to B in the direction 
or , without passing through P and Q?

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25.The figure below illustrates a 7-row brick wall and 2 holes (shaded in
black). We want to choose a brick in each row such that any two bricks
chosen in any adjacent rows are connected (two bricks are connected if
they share at least a portion of their sides). In how many different ways
can we choose the 7 bricks?

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26.In the diagram below, how many different squares can be formed which
contains the unit square with the inside it?

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27.How many rectangles are there in the figure below?

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28.The figure on the left shows a 3 x2 table with 12 grid points. Three grid
points are chosen to form a right triangle. The figure on the right shows
two such right triangles. How many right triangles can be formed?

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29.Each of the digits 1 to 9 is placed, one per , into the I shape figure that
was lying on the table. If the digit placed inside each black-shaded 
must be bigger than 2 than their neighboring digits that are inside the
plain , how many ways of doing such kind of arrangement are there?
Take not that we only consider the position of “I” as shown in the figure
below?

3120
30.Each hexagon is coloured either red, yellow or blue, such that no two
hexagons connected by a line segment have the same colour. In how
many different ways can we colour the figure?

288
31.In the figure shown below, colour each of the equilateral triangles with
any one of 4 colours: blue, yellow, green or red so that no two triangles
will have the same colour. How many different possible ways of
colouring the figure are there? (Two ways of colouring the figure are
considered the same if we can obtain one colouring from another by
rotating the entire figure, reflecting the figure however counts as a
different colouring.)

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32.The organizer wants to paint the figure below which comprises of 7
dotted grid squares with characters written on it

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Each grid square should not be of the same colour as any of its adjacent
grid squares. For example, the grid square with S cannot have the same
colour as those with M, O, 1 and 7. If there are four different colours to
choose from, in how many different ways can the organizer paint the
figure?
216
33.A 3x3 grid has a pattern of black and white squares. A pattern is called
balanced if each 2x2 subgrid contains exactly two squares of each color,

as seen in the first example

The pattern in the second example is unbalanced because the bottom-right

2x2 subgrid contains three white squares.

Counting rotations and reflections as different, how many balanced 3x3
patterns are there?
12
34.At the IMC awarding ceremony, a “Hide and Seek” game was introduced.
The emcee requested each of the following countries: China, Singapore,
Indonesia, Thailand, India and South Korea to send two students to
participate in the game. One student must cover his eyes with a
handkerchief and look for another student from his same country; and at
the end of the game, only students of two countries one of it is South
Korea were able to find their own country partner while the others didn’t.
How many ways can these six students from the participating countries
perform this new game?
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35.How many ways can the four-digit 2016 be formulated with the use of
either 1  1 piece of square or 1  2 pieces of squares to assemble any
digit using a grid paper?

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