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4.1 3 points problems
C3-001 (#16668). What is the result of (33 + 3333 + 333333 + 33333333) − (3 + 333 + 33333 +
3333333)?
(A) 30000000 (B) 30303030 (C) 36363636 (D) 60000000 (E) 60606060

C3-002 (#16673). At the picture are 4 bumper cars. The arrows show their direction and
how far they drive in 5 seconds.
2 3

4
1

Which two of the cars will collide first?

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

1
C3-003 (#16678). A gray circle with two holes is put on top of a clock as shown.
12 1 1
11
8 9 10

2 3 4

5 6 7 5

The gray circle is turned around the center such that the number 8 appears in one hole.
Which numbers
1 is it possible to see in the other hole?

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(A) 4 and 12 (B) 1 and 5 (C) 1 and 4 (D) 7 and11 (E) 5 and 12

C3-004 (#16690). Kristina folds the transparent paper in the dashed line.

Which number appears?

1
(A) (B) (C)

(D) (E)

1 1 1

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C3-005 (#16694). 2023/(2 + 0 + 2 + 3) =

(A) 198 (B) 269 (C) 179 (D) 289 (E) 301

C3-006 (#16696). James writes down the natural numbers in order, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ... He
stops when he has used the digit ”3” 15 times. What is the last number he wrote?
(A) 37 (B) 38 (C) 39 (D) 43 (E) 45

C3-007 (#16697). Which of the alternatives is not equal to 2943 − 2578?

(A) 2743 − 2378 (B) 2953 − 2588 (C) 2940 − 2575 (D) 3843 − 3478 (E) 2900 − 2545

C3-008 (#16707). 20 + 23 =
(A) 1 (B) 7 (C) 8 (D) 9 (E) 10

C3-009 (#16750). John has 150 coins. When he throws them on the table, 40% of them
show heads and 60% of them show tails. How many tails does he need to turn over to have
equal numbers of heads and tails?
(A) 10 (B) 15 (C) 20 (D) 25 (E) 30

C3-010 (#16754). In the following,

⋆ ⋆ ⋆
+ =
3 4 ⋆
what should replace the ⋆ to make the statement true?
4 3 7 12
(A) 1 (B) (C) (D) (E)
3 4 12 7
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C3-011 (#16755). The number 21 and another number have a sum and product which are
equal. What is that sum?
(A) 21.05 (B) 22 (C) 22.05 (D) 22.1 (E) 23.05

C3-012 (#16764). For how many 3-digit numbers does the sum of the digits equal 25?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 6 (E) 12

C3-013 (#16765). Two standard six-sided dice are rolled. What is the probability that the
sum of the two uppermost faces is prime?
14 15 17 18 19
(A) 36
(B) 36
(C) 36
(D) 36
(E) 36

1 1 1
C3-014 (#16794). How many minutes are there in 6
of 4
of 2
of a day?

(A) 20 (B) 30 (C) 40 (D) 45 (E) 60

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C3-015 (#16795). What is the sum of the largest three-digit multiple of 4 and the smallest
four-digit multiple of 3?
(A) 1996 (B) 1997 (C) 1998 (D) 1999 (E) 2000

C3-016 (#16796). A farmer had three sons. She gave half her sheep to her eldest son, one
third to the middle son, and one ninth to the youngest son. There was one sheep left. How
many sheep were there to begin with?
(A) 18 (B) 24 (C) 36 (D) 42 (E) 60

C3-017 (#16797). Which of the following has the largest value?

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

C3-018 (#16822). Find the missing part.

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

C3-019 (#16826). Two-thirds of two-fifths of a number is 60. What is that number?

(A) 4 (B) 16 (C) 64 (D) 120 (E) 225

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C3-020 (#16860). Since my birth, exactly 10 000 days have passed. What am I?
(A) a baby (B) a child (C) a teenager (D) an adult (E) an old person

C3-021 (#16881). The Kangaroo competition will take place on 2023-03-16. This date has
the digit sum 2 + 0 + 2 + 3 + 0 + 3 + 1 + 6 = 17. How many days in March 2023 have the digit
sum 23?
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3 (E) 4

C3-022 (#16974). The teacher drew a shape on the board and asked the students to state
one of the characteristics of that shape. Sara: The figure has two parallel sides. Maryam: The
shape has two equal sides. Tarannom: The figure has two equal angles. Bahar: The figure has
two open angles and only three equal sides. What shape can it be?
(A) square (B) rectangle (C) rhombus
(D) parallelogram (E) equilateral trapezoid

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C3-023 (#16979). Five kangaroos were playing. In this game, we have a dice with the
numbers 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, and 7 written on its faces. Each kangaroo rolls the dice three times
and writes down the number on the dice. Each player’s score is equal to the product of the
multiplication of three numbers, and the one who gets the most score is the winner. After the
end of the game, each kangaroo said his score. First kangaroo: 30; Second kangaroo: 16; The
third kangaroo: 21; The fourth Kangaroo: 5; The fifth kangaroo: 12. How many kangaroo gave
their scores incorrectly?
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3 (E) 4

C3-024 (#17001). I have multiplied a single-digit natural number once by 4 and once by 6,
then I have multiplied the result of these multiplications together. I got the number 216. What
is the number that I had chosen in the beginning?
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 7

C3-025 (#17047). During transportation eggs from a warehouse to a store every 10th egg is
broken. Eggs are transported in packages of 20 eggs. What is the minimum number of packages
must be loaded into the lorry to deliver to the store at least 200 not broken eggs?
(A) 10 (B) 11 (C) 12 (D) 13 (E) 14

C3-026 (#17077). Which is the value of

77772
5555 × 2222
after the simplifications?
7 49 77
(A) 1 (B) (C) (D) (E) 49
10 10 110
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C3-027 (#17194). Three players

Tom, John and Lily threw the darts
for 6 times each. The darts landing
on the same ring worth the same
points. Tom and John got 34 and
46 points respectively as shown be-
low. How many points did Lily get? Tom John Lily
(A) 37 (B) 38 (C) 39 (D) 40 (E) 41

C3-028 (#17197). An ant is climbing along the three sides of an equi-

lateral triangle. The speeds at which it travels along the three sides are
5 cm/min, 15 cm/min and 20 cm/min. What is the average speed for 
DNNJO 
DNNJO

the ant to complete the whole journey?

80 180 40
(A) 10 (B) 11
(C) 19
(D) 15 (E) 3

DNNJO

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C3-029 (#17242). What figure cannot stand in the same row with the figures on the picture?

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

C3-030 (#17265). A number is written at each vertex of a triangular pyra-

mid, but these numbers are now invisible. At each edge of the pyramid we
write the sum of the two numbers at its endpoints. Three of these numbers
are shown. What is the number at the edge with the question mark?
(A) 11 (B) 12 (C) 13 (D) 14
(E) we cannot be sure

C3-031 (#17279). In the equation W · E · L · O · V · E = K · A · N · G · A · R · O ·

O the same letters denote the same digits and the different letters denote the different digits.
What is the value of the product G · E · O ?
(A) 0 (B) 6 (C) 12 (D) 16 (E) 24

C3-032 (#17296). Which of the shapes below can be divided into two trapezoids by cutting
along a straight line?

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

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C3-033 (#17305). The picture shows an ornament made of 4
concentric semicircles. The smallest semicircle has radius 1. The
four regions A, B, C and D all have the same area. What is the
radius of the largest semicircle?
4 AB C D
(A) π
(B) 2 (C) 3 (D) π (E) 4

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C3-034 (#17320). The square in the picture is made of 6 identical

rectangles, each with side length a and width b. What is the value
of ab ?

(A) 6
(B) 3
(C) 2
(D) 32
3
(E) 2

C3-035 (#17338). There are stools and chairs in the room. Each stool has 3 legs, each chair
has 4 legs. When people are sitting on all the chairs and stools, there are 39 legs in the room.
How many persons were in the room ?
(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6 (E) 7

C3-036 (#17370). After having played 200 games of chess, my winning rate is exactly 49%.
How many additional games should I play and win for my winning rate to increase to 50%?
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3 (E) 4

C3-037 (#17375). If I calculate 20% of a number and add it to the initial number, I get
300 as a result. If instead I subtract it from the initial number, what result do I get?
(A) 320 (B) 240 (C) 280 (D) 150 (E) 200

C3-038 (#17390). If a = b + 2c, a + c = b + d and b = d + c, then

(A) d = 2c (B) a = 3c (C) a = 6c
(D) a = b + 2d (E) b = 2a + 2d
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C3-039 (#17405). A new figure is obtained from a given square after cutting
four equal squares from its corners with total area 64 cm2 . What is the side of
the given square if the perimeter of the new figure is equal to the sum of the
perimeters of the cut small squares?
(A) 8 cm (B) 16 cm (C) 32 cm
(D) 64 cm (E) 128 cm

C3-040 (#17458). We calcule the 10% of the 10% of an amount. What percentage of that
amount represents the result?
(A) The 100% (B) The 20% (C) The 11% (D) The 10% (E) The 1%

C3-041 (#17484). In two hours, Jennifer solves the problem. She solves each math problem
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in the second hour. How many problems did she solve in all?
(A) 34 (B) 38 (C) 40 (D) 44 (E) 48

C3-042 (#17504). A regular prism is given. The dimensions are ac-

cording to the sketch. How many such prisms can be placed together to
make the smallest cube?
(A) x = 12
(B) x = 8
(C) x = 6
(D) x = 14
(E) x = 10

C3-043 (#17544). Selin’s age is a two digit prime number ab in 2022 and she has two children
with the ages a and b in 2022 which are also prime. In 2026 the ages of these three person
again will be primes separately. What is the sum of all these three people’s ages in 2022?
(A) 55 (B) 53 (C) 51 (D) 49 (E) 47

C3-044 (#17564). Two right isosceles triangles form a quadrilateral which is a trapezium
but not a parallelogram. Then the ratio of their areas is
√
(A) 1 : 1. (B) 2 : 1. (C) 2 : 1. (D) 3 : 1. (E) 32 : 1.

C3-045 (#17566). Michael had three gray square stickers with an area of 25 cm2 which he
stuck on a white rectangle. These three gray stickers have full side contact with each other and
do not overlap. The four apex of the stickers are touching the sides of the rectangle, two of
which are in the middle of the shorter sides (see it in the picture).

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The surface area of a white rectangle, expressed in cm2 , is
(A) 136 (B) 125 (C) 149 (D) 150 (E) 172

C3-046 (#17583). Tom has written the pattern of letters ABBCCC 2023 times to obtain
the line of letters ABBCCCABBCCCABBC . . .. For which values is the statement ”The nth
letter in the line is X” false?
(A) X = A, n = 2023 (B) X = B, n = 203 + 232 (C) X = C, n = 20 · 23
(D) X = B, n = 3202 (E) X = A, n = 20 + 23

C3-047 (#17593). Three watermelons were weighed two at a time, in every possible way.
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watermelon weigh?
(A) 2 (B) 5 (C) 7 (D) 8 (E) 9

C3-048 (#17601). In a triangle ABC, AC = 10 cm. and the distance from the midpoint of
BC to the midpoint of AC is 4 cm. Calculate the area of the triangle ABC.
(A) 40 cm2 (B) 41 cm2 (C) 42 cm2 (D) 43 cm2 (E) 44 cm2

C3-049 (#17610). M , N and O are the midpoints of BC,

CD and AC. If the area of ABCD is 40 cm2 , what is the
area of M CN O?
(A) 5 cm2 (B) 10 cm2
(C) 12.5 cm2 (D) 15 cm2
(E) 20 cm2

C3-050 (#17661). In some prime numbers, the sum of the digits is also prime. How many
number less than 100 have this properties?
(A) 10 (B) 11 (C) 12 (D) 13 (E) 14

C3-051 (#17708). Let a is integer. How many different values can an expression a − (a −
(a − (a − 2023))) have?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) infinitely many

C3-052 (#17784). We will call a two-digit prime number prime-all if both its digits are
also prime. What is the smallest prime-all number?
(A) 13 (B) 18 (C) 19 (D) 23 (E) 29
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C3-053 (#17785). We will call a two-digit number power-less if none of its digits can be
written as an integer number to a power greater than 1. For example, 53 is power-less, but 54
is NOT power-less since 4 = 22 . What is the largest power-less number?
(A) 75 (B) 77 (C) 83 (D) 97 (E) 99

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C3-054 (#17895). Three rectangles are stacked against a wall, and

their areas are 30, 48, and 77, as shown in the diagram. The lengths of
some line segments are provided on the diagram. What is the length
of the side of the question mark?
(A) 5.5
(B) 6
(C) 6.5
(D) 7
(E) 7.5

C3-055 (#17907). Today is Thursday. What day will it be in 2023 days?

(A) Tuesday (B) Wednesday (C) Thursday (D) Friday (E) Saturday

C3-056 (#17948). A tiller wants to tile a floor of dimensions

4 m × 6 m using identical tiles. No overlaps or gaps are allowed.
Which of the following types of tiles he cannot use?

(A) (B) (C)

(D) (E)

C3-057 (#17969). The integer numbers from 1 to 8 should be distributed in

the boxes of the grid shown, in such a way that the sums of the boxes in each
row are both equal and also the sums of the numers in the 4 columns are equal.
Numbers 3, 4 and 8 are already there. What number goes in the shaded box?

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(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 5 (D) 6 (E) 7

C3-058 (#17970). The rectangle in the picture is divided into 30

equal squares, as shown. If the perimeter of the shaded region is 240 cm,
what is the area of the rectangle?
(A) 480 cm2 (B) 750 cm2 (C) 1080 cm2
(D) 1920 cm2 (E) 2430 cm2

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C3-059 (#18001). To open a safe, you have to press three

different numbers. The sum of the three numbers must be
7 13 11
32, and it is possible to use different combinations of numbers.
What is the smallest number that can be included in this sum? 4 9 12

(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 7 16 2 8

(D) 8 (E) 9

C3-060 (#18006). Anna has 5 circular discs, all of them are

of different sizes. How many different towers can Anna construct
by putting three circular discs one on another, if every circular
disc must be smaller than the one immediately below it?
(A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 8 (D) 10 (E) 15

4.2 4 points problems

C4-001 (#16671). The picture shows a circle of radius 3 and four circles of radius 1.

What is the area of the gray part?

(A) Less 1than 6π (B) 6π (C) between 6π and 7π
(D) 7π (E) more than 7π

C4-002 (#16698). The mean of three numbers is 2023. The smallest number is 2022. What
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is the largest of the three numbers?

(A) 2023 (B) 2024 (C) 2025 (D) 2026 (E) impossible to say

C4-003 (#16699). The mean of nine numbers is 30. One new number is added to the
collection, which increases the mean to 31. What number was added?
(A) 40 (B) 36 (C) 20 (D) 15 (E) 10

C4-004 (#16700). In a box there are 10 balls, numbered 0, 1, 2, ... 7, 8, 9. Alex draws
at random 4 balls with numbers 6, 1, 0 and 3. He notes that there are equal many even and
odd numbers. In how many different ways can he pick four balls with two even and two odd
numbers?
(A) 144 (B) 121 (C) 108 (D) 100 (E) 81

C4-005 (#16701). ABC is a three digit number and ABC − CBA = 2XY . What digit is

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

C4-006 (#16702). How many triangles with vertices at the dots can
be constructed?
(A) 16 (B) 17 (C) 18
(D) 19 (E) 10

C4-007 (#16703). A two digit number multiplied with the sum of its digits is 144. What is
the number?
(A) 12 (B) 24 (C) 36 (D) 48 (E) 72

C4-008 (#16760). In a certain game, an attacking player rolls a regular six-sided die and
hits if they roll their target number or above. If they hit, the opponent also gets to roll a
six-sided die to keep the attacking player from scoring a point. This is called a save. In this
round, the attacking player needs to roll a 5 or 6 to hit and the opponent needs to roll a 4, 5,
or 6 to save. What is the probability that the attacking player will score a point in this round?
(A) 1/12 (B) 1/6 (C) 1/3 (D) 1/2 (E) 2/3

C4-009 (#16763). When Sim and Sam met, each already had children. Then they had
children together. Now the total of all their children is 12 and each has 7 children. How many
children did Sam and Sim have together?
(A) 5 (B) 4 (C) 3 (D) 2 (E) 1

C4-010 (#16767). Four different whole numbers are chosen so that the sum of any two of
them is larger than any of the numbers and the positive difference between any two of them is
smaller than any of the numbers. What is the smallest possible sum of the four numbers?

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(A) 18 (B) 19 (C) 20 (D) 21 (E) 22

C4-011 (#16792). Helen has five rings, stacked as in the left diagram. She wants to arrange
the rings so that each ring is on top of a larger ring as in the right diagram.

However, in a single move, Helen can only take several (some or all) rings from the top and
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What is the minimal number of moves needed to make the desired arrangement?
(A) 6 (B) 5 (C) 4 (D) 7 (E) 8

C4-012 (#16798). The value of S is defined as: S = 3 ∗ 3 ∗ 3 ∗ 3 ∗ 3, where each asterisk is

to be replaced by a symbol chosen from +, −, ×, ÷ and all four symbols must be used. What
is the largest possible value of S?
(A) 3 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 9 (E) 11

C4-013 (#16799). The height of Georgina the giraffe is two and a half metres plus half of
her height. The height of Geoffrey the giraffe is three and a third metres plus one third of his
height. Who is taller and by how much?
(A) Georgina - by half a metre (B) Geoffrey - by half a metre
(C) Georgina - by a third of a metre (D) Geoffrey - by a third of a metre
(E) Georgina and Geoffrey are the same height

C4-014 (#16809). Fernanda has a wooden plank of 2 cm thickness, 7 cm width, and 15 cm

length. She wants to cut out some square pieces such that by stacking them to obtain a cube.
What is the sum of all edges of this cube?
(A) 48 cm (B) 60 cm (C) 36 cm (D) 24 cm (E) 72 cm

C4-015 (#16821). At the table there are twice as many children as adults. If all adults left
the table, the average age of people at the table would decrease five times. Which number can
be the adults’s sum age?
(A) 90 (B) 91 (C) 92 (D) 93 (E) 94

C4-016 (#16831). Marie sat a test involving answering 20 questions on Physics and 30
questions on Chemistry. She answered 70% of the Physics questions correctly and her overall
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success rate was 78%. How many of the Chemistry questions did Marie answer correctly?
(A) 14 (B) 20 (C) 25 (D) 30 (E) 39

C4-017 (#16839). Bobur introduced a new operation on numbers a ∗ b = (a − 2b) · (2a − b).
What is the value of 20 ∗ 23?
(A) −676 (B) −442 (C) −9 (D) 442 (E) 460

C4-018 (#16850). Vlad went to visit his friend. After having walked a 1/3 of the way, he
realized that he had forgotten the gift. He called his brother and asked his brother to meet him
taking a gift with him. They met exactly in the middle of the path traveled by Vlad before
returning. After that Vlad continued his way and reached the destination 12 minutes later than
he could have had if he had not returned. How much time would it require for Vlad to reach
his friend?
(A) 24 minutes (B) 36 minutes (C) 48 minutes
(D) 1 hour (E) 1 hour 12 minutes

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C4-019 (#16852). Diana thought of a positive integer less than 10. Then she multiplied it
by 5, added another positive integer less than 5 and doubled the result. It turned out 46. What
is the sum of the numbers that Diana was thinking of?
(A) 6 (B) 7 (C) 8 (D) 9 (E) 10

C4-020 (#16863). This rose is made with only two kinds of rhombuses
: the thin ones (dark gray) and the large ones (white or light gray). How
much is the largest angle of the large rhombus?
(A) 106◦ (B) 108◦ (C) 110◦
(D) 112◦ (E) 120◦

C4-021 (#16870). Beaver and Kangaroo are creating number sequences. Beaver starts with
a1 = 5, and in each step he then calculates the number an+1 by adding 2 to the previous number
an . Kangaroo says: “I have a secret formula that lets me calculate an directly for any value of
n, without worrying about any previous values.” Which of the following is Kangaroo’s secret
formula?
(A) 5 + 2n (B) 3 + 2n (C) 7 + 2n (D) 5 − 2n (E) 7 − 2n

C4-022 (#16875). There are round holes in exactly two facing pages of my book.

What does the book look like when I turn the page?

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

C4-023 (#16876). Matchsticks can be used to write digits as shown in the illustration. In
order to write the number 15, for example, you need 7 matchsticks, and you need the same
number of matchsticks to write the number 8.

How many different positive integers can you write using exactly six matchsticks in this way
(noting that the lead digit can never be 0)?
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 5 (D) 16 (E) 20

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C4-024 (#16885). I bought 10 apples and 10 pears, of different sizes. Each pear weights
more than each apple but less than any pair of apples. I was lucky and I succeeded in preparing
3 bags with pears and apples in such a way that in each bag the weight of the pears is the same
as the weight of the apples. I have used as many pears as possible. How many?
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 5 (D) 7 (E) 10

C4-025 (#16899). The measures in meters of the edges of a given right parallelepiped are
integer numbers. The volume of the parallelepiped is 2023 m3 . Which of the following four
numbers
1054, 4318, 4638, 8094
can give the full surface area of the parallelepiped in square meters?
(A) Only 8094 (B) Only 1054 (C) Only 1054 and 8094
(D) All of them but 4318 (E) All of them

C4-026 (#16930). In the shape below, all semicircles are equal. What is the radius of the

semicircles?
(A) 12 (B) 16 (C) 18 (D) 22 (E) 36

C4-027 (#16932). We have a number of circular beads that we have

arranged them on the table as follows: first, five black circles are on the
bottom row and the rest are white. At each stage, a white circle can
be colored black, only if there are two black circles under it. After five
stages, how many forms can the last arrangement have?
(A) 5 (B) 7 (C) 8 (D) 11 (E) 13
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C4-028 (#16944). We define the following two new operations for integers:
⌈x⌉odd = the smallest ODD integer larger than x
⌈x⌉even = the smallest EVEN integer larger than x
What is the value of ⌈20⌉even + ⌈23⌉odd ?
(A) ⌈20⌉odd + ⌈23⌉even (B) ⌈21⌉even + ⌈22⌉odd (C) ⌈21⌉odd + ⌈22⌉even
(D) ⌈20⌉even + ⌈23⌉even (E) ⌈20⌉odd + ⌈23⌉odd

C4-029 (#16952). Let p be a positive integer. A positive integer n of at least three digits is
said to be p − special if the following is true: the number given by the first two digits of n (in
the given order), the number given by the second and the third digits of n, the number given
by the third and the fourth digits of n and so on until there are available digits in n are all
divisible by p. Consider the following possible values for p: 13, 17, 19, 23. For how many of
them there exist p-special numbers as big as we like?
(A) 0 (none) (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3 (E) 4 (all)

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C4-030 (#16956). How many of the 6-digit positive integers that can be written by using
exactly one time all the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 are divisible by 15?
(A) 720 (B) 360 (C) 120 (D) 60 (E) 24

C4-031 (#16997). The following two statements are true: “There are diamonds in some
rings. Diamonds are expensive.“ This means that
(A) all expensive rings contain diamonds.
(B) all rings are expensive.
(C) cheap rings also exist.
(D) rings with diamonds are cheap.
(E) some rings are expensive.

C4-032 (#17005). A park in Trigland is the shape of an

equilateral triangle with the perimeter of 63 metres. There
are 6 congruent hexagonal tulip flower beds and they are
touching with their points. There are also daffodil flower
beds in the shape of congruent equilateral triangles (pic.).
What part of the area of the park do the tulip beds make
up?
(A) 2/5 (B) 3/4
(C) 13/49 (D) 14/49
(E) 36/49

C4-033 (#17065). The area of a paralaleogram shown in the picture

equals 300 cm2 . Areas of blue and yellow triangle are 100 cm2 and 40 cm2
respectively. What is the area od red triangle? The diagram is not to
scale.

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(A) 20 cm2 (B) 50 cm2 (C) 10 cm2 (D) 30 cm2 (E) 25 cm2

C4-034 (#17066). The sum of 2023 consecutive integer numbers is 2023. What is the sum
of digits of the largest number?
(A) 4 (B) 7 (C) 5 (D) 3 (E) another number

C4-035 (#17075). A rectangle of area 105 m2 has sides of integer length, in metres. Which
of the following lengths could not possibly be its perimeter?
(A) 44 m (B) 52 m (C) 61 m (D) 76 m (E) 212 m

C4-036 (#17076). Five people were trying to guess what type of animal lives in the park.
Their guesses where

ˆ elephant or cat,

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ˆ kangaroo or cat,

ˆ kangaroo or dog,

ˆ elephant or cow,

ˆ kangaroo or cow.

If only one of the guesses is correct, what animal lives in the park?
(A) elephant (B) kangaroo (C) dog
(D) cat (E) cow

C4-037 (#17087). ABC is a 3-digit number and AB is a 2-digit number. For how many
numbers ABC the quotient ABC
AB
is an integer?

(A) 1 (B) 9 (C) 10 (D) 90 (E) 100

C4-038 (#17104). The pin number of a student consists of the digits

1, 2, 3, 4, 5 used once each, in some order. His friend tried to guess this
pin number. He made the four guesses, as shown on the piece of paper.
Unfortunately each guess is completely wrong because all the digits are
in the wrong positions. If a, b, c are the first three digits (from left to
right) of the pin number, how much is a + 2b + 3c?
(A) 15 (B) 16 (C) 17 (D) 18 (E) 19

C4-039 (#17105). A math wiz wrote the number 1015 as a sum of numbers 777
using only the digit 7 for a total of 10 times, as shown (777 once, 77 three times 77
and 7 once). Now he wants to write the number 2023 as a sum of numbers using
+ 77
only the digit 7 for a total of 19 times. How many times will he use the number
77
77?
7
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(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6 1015

(E) such a task is impossible

C4-040 (#17106). Thor and Odin were competing on an archery com- 7

petition throwing arrows on the target shown. Each had a score of 250. 12
Somebody observed that on one of the numbers both Thor and Odin had 14

at least one arrow. Which is that number? 21

(A) 7 (B) 12
(C) 14 (D) 21
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C4-041 (#17107). From the set of numbers 1 to 12 the maths a a+b (multi-
teacher deleted four of them. He placed the other eight at the ple of 3)
corners of an octagon in such a way that the sum of each pair b
of neighbouring numbers is a multiple of 3. Which numbers did
the teacher delete?
(A) 1, 5 , 9, 12 (B) 3, 5, 7, 9 (C) 3, 6, 9, 12
(D) 5, 6, 7, 8 (E) 1, 2, 11, 12

C4-042 (#17108). At a distant country they have new regulations

10
for measuring the time of the day. One full day is divided in two 9 1

equal parts, at midnight and midday. But now instead of dividing

8 2
these time intervals in 12 hours of 60 minutes each, they use 10 “new
hours” of 100 “new minutes” each. If a clock shows new time 8:25,
7 3
what is the time at that instant in our usual way of measuring time?
6 4
(A) 7:54 (B) 8:15 (C) 8:25 5
(D) 9:15 (E) 9:54

C4-043 (#17109). Inside an equilateral triangle a point P is chosen. A

From P we draw three segments parallel to the sides, as shown. If the
lengths of the segments are 2 m, 3 m and 6 m, what is the perimeter 3
of the triangle? P
2
(A) 22 m (B) 26 m 6
(C) 33 m (D) 34 m B C
(E) 36 m

C4-044 (#17128). Katya read the book, which has 450 pages, in 5 days. On the first day
she read 16% of the book. On the second day she read twice as many as on the previous day.

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On the third day she read a one third of the rest part. On the fourth day she read 25% of the
rest part. How many percent of the whole book did Katya read on the fifth day?
(A) 21% (B) 26% (C) 38% (D) 62% (E) 75%

C4-045 (#17136). In the rectangle shown, the area of triangle II is 24. The area of triangle
I is one third of II and the area of triangle III is four times as large as that of I. What is the
area of triangle IV?

III
II
IV
I

(A) 10 (B) 12 (C) 16 (D) 24 (E) 40

C4-046 (#17150). Let a and b be positive integer numbers such that 56a = 65b. Then a + b
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(A) 121 (B) 100 (C) 111 (D) 56 (E) 65

C4-047 (#17178). The circus has ten telephone numbers. They

are consecutive numbers starting from the one shown. Unfortu-
nately at the moment an elephant is hiding some of the digits. How
many of these ten numbers are multiples of 8?
(A) none (B) one (C) two
(D) three (E) we cannot be sure

C4-048 (#17195). In a motorcycle rally, the players must observe the following rules before
they set off:

ˆ The first motorcycle can set off as soon as it gets ready.

ˆ The motorcycle gets ready when the last motorcycle has left for four minutes or more, it
can set off immediately.

ˆ The motorcycle gets ready when the last motorcycle has left for less than four minutes,
it can’t set off until the last motorcycle has left for four minutes.

The following shows the time at which 9 motorcycles get ready respectively:
10:00 10:07 10:09 10:13 10:18 10:23 10:29 10:31 10:36
How many motorcycles must wait for one minute or more?
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 6

C4-049 (#17196). A triangle has side lengths of a, b and c, all natural numbers. Given
a ≤ b ≤ c and b = 5, how many different triangles can be formed?
(A) 12 (B) 13 (C) 14 (D) 15 (E) 16
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C4-050 (#17220). In the game “Jumping Grid”, the

player stands outside the grid at first and can take one      
or two steps forward at a time. How many ways does the
player have to arrive at the grid numbered 6?
(A) 6 (B) 8 (C) 11 (D) 13 (E) 15

C4-051 (#17221). In the multiplication problem, each letter represents

one digit from 0, 1, 2, ..., 9. Different letters represent different digits. What
does the letter ”C” represent?
(A) 9 (B) 8 (C) 4 (D) 2 (E) 1

C4-052 (#17229). The gardener plants daisies (d) and violets (v) to a flowerbed in the form
of a regular hexagon. Herewith he plants violets only in the corners of the flowerbed (see the
picture). What is the minimum number of violets he must plant so that at least 9 violets grow
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(A) 24 (B) 27 (C) 30 (D) 48 (E) 54

C4-053 (#17302). A full gas bottle contains gas for 150 hours cooking. After 45 hours of
cooking the bottle weighs 7,3 kg. After 105 hours of cooking the bottle weighs 5,3 kg What is
the weight of a full gas bottle?
(A) 7,8 kg (B) 8,0 kg (C) 8,3 kg (D) 8,8 kg (E) 9,3 kg

C4-054 (#17303). In a quiz teams of 4 persons are competing. The teams have to answer 4
questions. Each person who gives a right answer scores 1 point. If every person of a team gives
a good answer to the same question, the team receives an extra point for this question. What
number of points can not be the final score of a team?
(A) 16 (B) 17 (C) 18 (D) 19 (E) 20

C4-055 (#17304). In a miniature town all buildings are copies of real buildings at a scale
1:25. The doors of a certain real building can be painted with 7.5 l paint. How much cl do you
need for the same doors in the miniature copy?
(A) 1 (B) 1.2 (C) 1.4 (D) 1.5 (E) 1.6

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C4-056 (#17306). By drawing 9 lines (4 horizontal and 5 vertical) one has
made a table of 12 cells. If he had used 6 horizontal and 3 vertical lines, he would
have got 10 cells only. How many cells you can get at most if you draw 17 lines?
(A) 36 (B) 42 (C) 44 (D) 50 (E) 56

C4-057 (#17327). AE and CF are altitudes of the acute triangle ABC, K is the middle
point of AC. What is the measure of the angle ∠KF E given that the angle ∠F KE = 40◦ ?
(A) 50 (B) 60 (C) 70 (D) 75 (E) 80

C4-058 (#17337). The basin has several filling taps, each of which fills the empty basin in 5
hours and one emptying faucet that empties a full basin in 6 hours. When faucets were turned
on all at the same time, the empty basin was filled in 72 minutes. Find the number of faucets
filling the basin.
(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6 (E) 7

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C4-059 (#17346). 5 teams participated in the football championship, and each team played
one game with the others. Known goals scored by teams in the championship and the number
of missed goals (3-5 means scored 3, missed 5 goals) are 10-11, 4-1, 4-2, 1-3. Find out how
many points all teams scored together, if it is known that the winning team gets 3 points, the
losing team gets 0 points, and in case of a draw each of the two teams gets 1 point.
(A) 18 (B) 21 (C) 24 (D) 25 (E) 26

C4-060 (#17364). A gardener wants to de-

sign a garden. He has 4 plans to choose from,
as shown. Each of them uses an 1 × 1, an 1 × 3
and an 1×5 rectangle. Which of the four gardens
has the largest perimeter?
(A) plan A
(B) plan B
(C) plan C
(D) plan D
(E) they all have the same perimeter

C4-061 (#17372). Points M and N are the midpoints of two

sides of the rectangle. What is the total area of the shaded trian-
gles?
(A) 6 cm2 (B) 8 cm2 (C) 10 cm2
(D) 11 cm2 (E) 12 cm2

C4-062 (#17386). If the length of a rectangle increases by 20% and the width decreases by
20%, then the area of the rectangle
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(A) decreases by 20% (B) decreases by 4% (C) does not change

(D) increases by 20% (E) increases by 4%

C4-063 (#17398). Five contestant bikers A, B, C, D and E participated in a bike race. Mile,
Petar, Gorjan, Sava, Dimitar and Lazar predicted their results in the following way: CDBEA,
ABDEC, EADBC, CEADB, DAECB, BACED respectively. The resulting placement of each
biker has been correctly predicted by them at least twice. What is the resulting placement of
the bikers?
(A) BAECD (B) CADEB (C) EABCD (D) DABCE (E) AECDB

C4-064 (#17402). Two circles are with integer radius lengths. If the difference
of their areas is 11π cm2 , what is the sum of their perimeters?
(A) 22π cm (B) 23π cm (C) 24π cm (D) 25π cm (E) 26π cm

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C4-065 (#17422). Four positive integers are given. We make the following operation: we
choose three of them, calculate their arithmetic mean and then we add the fourth number. This
can be made on four different ways, and the results are 17, 21, 23 and 29. Find the biggest
number from the given four numbers.
(A) 12 (B) 15 (C) 21 (D) 24 (E) 29

C4-066 (#17423). If x, y, z are integers, find the smallest value of the expression
√ p p p
x2 + 1 + (x − y)2 + 4 + (y − z)2 + 1 + (z − 10)2 + 9.

√ √ √
(A) 7 (B) 13 (C) 4 + 109 (D) 3 + 2 (E) 149

C4-067 (#17426). Peter builds a picture using the

pattern shown in the figure until he runs out of straight
sticks. He had 2023 round sticks and 2023 straight sticks
available. How many circle sticks did he have left over?
(A) 349 (B) 674 (C) 1349 (D) 1674 (E) 1800

C4-068 (#17447). Some students are standing in a circle. There are three girls in total and
there are no two girls who are standing one beside the other. There are exactly three boys who
are standing next to each other. What is the maximum possible amount of boys in the circle?
(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 7 (E) 8

C4-069 (#17455). Four rectangles are arranged as

shown. The dimensions of three of them are given. What
is the area of the fourth (shaded) rectangle?
(A) 36 m2 (B) 44 m2

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(C) 45 m2 (D) 48 m2
(E) 52 m2

C4-070 (#17459). Helena and Ivan have 20 and 50 euro-cent coins. Helena has 64 coins of
20-cent and some of 50-cent. Ivan has 104 20-cent coins and some 50-cent coins. We know that
they both have exactly the same number of coins. How many euros does Helena have more
than Ivan?
(A) 0 12 euro (B) 4 euro (C) 8 euro (D) 12 euro
(E) Ivan has more money than Helena.

C4-071 (#17460). We have a die with the faces marked, as usual, with 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6
points. We rolled it 4 times and the average number of points we counted is 4. Which of the
following situations is impossible to have occurred?
(A) We got (exactly) one 5 (B) We got (exactly) two 4’s (C) We got (exactly) three 3’s
(D) We got (exactly) two 2’s (E) We got (exactly) one 1

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C4-072 (#17462). How many numbers, each of four different digit numbers, chosen from 1,
2, 3, 4, or 5, are divisible by 3?
(A) None (B) 4 (C) 12 (D) 24 (E) 120

C4-073 (#17463). Triangle ABC is equilateral. The two angles

marked in gray are equal. What is the measure of the angle ∠EF C?
(A) 20◦ (B) 30◦
(C) 45◦ (D) 60◦
(E) It may depend on the position of points D and E.

C4-074 (#17464). We multiply an integer number of two different digits by one of its digits
and after we multiply the result we got by the other digit and the final result is 1950. What is
the sum of its two digits?
(A) 8 (B) 18 (C) 10 (D) 11 (E) 12

C4-075 (#17465). A cat is three times faster than a mouse it chases. If the mouse runs at
2 m/s and is 12 m ahead of the cat, how many time will take the cat to catch him?
(A) 2 s (B) 3 s (C) 4 s (D) 5 s (E) 6 s

C4-076 (#17472). The numbers from 1 to 9 can be placed, one in each square, so that the
result of the subtraction is 33333.
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We have already been told in which position the 3 must be placed. Which number will be in
the square indicated with the symbol ∗ ?
(A) 6 (B) 7 (C) 1 (D) 9 (E) 8

C4-077 (#17473). The mean of 21 consecutive integers is 37. Which is the largest of these
integers?
(A) 45 (B) 47 (C) 55 (D) 56 (E) 57

C4-078 (#17485). If the length of one side is 10 cm, what is the area of
blue?
(A) 41.12 (B) 48.25 (C) 54.12 (D) 64.25 (E) 68.12

C4-079 (#17503). The teacher gave a slightly more difficult task in math class. The number
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following is true:
(A) The number of girls is less than the number of students who solved the task
(B) The number of girls is equal to the number of students who solved the task
(C) The number of girls is greater than the number of students who solved the task
(D) The number of students who did not solve the task is equal to the number of girls
(E) The number of students who did not solve the task is equal to the number of students
who solved the task.

C4-080 (#17505). Three equilateral triangles with areas A, B, C are drawn

on the sides of a right-angled triangle as in the diagram below. These areas
are related by the equation:
1 1 1 3 3 3
(A) A 2 + B 2 = C 2 (B) A + B = C (C) A 2 + B 2 = C 2
5 5 5
(D) A2 + B 2 = C 2 (E) A 2 + B 2 = C 2

C4-081 (#17511). The function S(n) is defined for positive integers n by S(n) = sum of the
digits of n. For example, S(723) = 7 + 2 + 3 = 12. The sum S(1) + S(2) + S(3) + ... + S(99)
equals
(A) 746 (B) 862 (C) 900 (D) 924 (E) 936

C4-082 (#17535). Place four positive integers in the corners of a square Q0 . At the first
step, create a new square Q1 inside the square Q0 with corners at the midpoints of the sides of
previous square. In each new corner place the positive difference between the two neighbouring
numbers. Repeat the process until the labels of the four vertices of the square Qi have the
same parity. Which sequence cannot label a square Qi with i ≥ 1?
(A) 1, 1, 1, 1 (B) 1, 2, 3, 4 (C) 7, 5, 4, 1 (D) 2, 5, 7, 8 (E) None

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C4-083 (#17540). Cangui invited some friends to her birthday party. In the end, everyone
said goodbye with a hug. Cangui counted 28 hugs. How many friends came to the party?
(A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 7 (D) 8 (E) 9

C4-084 (#17545). We know followings about the school numbers of 5 friends in same class:
ˆ The school number of 3 of them is a multiple of 3.

ˆ The school number of 4 of them is a multiple of 4.

ˆ The school number of 5 of them is a multiple of 5.

What can be the lowest school number of the child with the highest school number?
(A) 150 (B) 120 (C) 100 (D) 80 (E) 60

C4-085 (#17550). In Istanbul, which is one of the most crowded cities in the world, vehicles
will be restricted from entering traffic: every vehicle will be banned for chosen 3 days. However,

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in order for a flower distributor company to fulfill orders, 12 vehicles must be used every day of
the week. According to this, at least how many vehicles does this company need in order not
to interrupt its business?
(A) 18 (B) 20 (C) 21 (D) 24 (E) 27

C4-086 (#17567). There are two points P i Q on the segment XY such that |XP | : |Y P | =
2 : 5 and |XQ| : |Y Q| = 3 : 5. What part of the length of the segment XY is the length of the
segment P Q?
1 2 5 2 37
(A) 5
(B) 3
(C) 56
(D) 5
(E) 56

C4-087 (#17568). 300 fishermen took part in a fishing contest. It appeared that each
participant caught 3 or 4, or 10 fish, and all together caught 2023. What is the maximal
possible number of fishermen that caught 10 fish?
(A) 150 (B) 160 (C) 170 (D) 180 (E) 200

C4-088 (#17570). Friends: Ada, Barbara, Celeste and Daria are sitting on the bench and
waiting for the train, that takes them to the camp:
— Daria doesn’t want to sit next to Celeste;
— Barbara is not sitting next to Ada;
— Celeste and Ada are not sitting next to each other.
How many ways can they be sited on the bench according to their preferences?
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3 (E) 4

C4-089 (#17597). ABCD is a square with an area of 36 cm2 . The L

point X divides the side AB in two so that AX = 2XB. The points M
K
and N are on the line AB so that M A = BN = XB. The point K is on
the line XD so that KM is parallel to the side DA. The point L is on D C
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the line XC so that LN is parallel to CB. Find the area of the triangle
KXL.
(A) 46 cm2 (B) 48 cm2 (C) 50 cm2 (D) 52 cm2 (E) 54 cm2 M N
A X B

C4-090 (#17612). The diagram shown is not

to scale. Find the size of angle y in degrees.
(A) 20 (B) 40
(C) 60 (D) 72
(E) 80

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C4-091 (#17613). Vince has cut his initial out of card. The dimen-
sions, in cm, are shown on the diagram, and the shape is symmetrical.
What is the area of the V shape?
(A) 32 cm2 (B) 36 cm2 (C) 40 cm2
(D) 48 cm2 (E) 56 cm2

C4-092 (#17615). Arthur and Zeke live 27 12 km apart. Arthur walks at 6km/h and Zeke at
4km/h. If they both leave home at 2pm and walk steadily towards each other, how far from
Zeke’s place will they meet?
(A) 9km (B) 11km (C) 13,km (D) 13.75km (E) 16.5km

C4-093 (#17616). What is the value of fraction

2
1+ 3
1 + 1+4
when written as a decimal?
(A) 1.25 (B) 1.5 (C) 2.25 (D) 3.25 (E) 3.9

C4-094 (#17650). From a 20cmx20cm square sheet, 5cm squares are cut at the corners and
the tabs are folded, joining the adjacent cuts to form an open box. So the volume of the box
is equal to:
(A) 625 cm3 (B) 500 cm3 (C) 375 cm3 (D) 250 cm3 (E) 125 cm3

C4-095 (#17671). Sam is super clever. She walks through a two-storey maze. She knows
that the maze has two floors of 3 × 3 rooms. She knows where the entrance and exit are.
However, she does not know where the doors are or where the stairs are. In which room is Sam
when she is completely sure of the remainder of her route?

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OUT A C D
B E

IN
ground floor first floor
(A) A (B) B (C) C (D) D (E) E

C4-096 (#17724). A is given as a 5 digit positive number. If we add 2 to the left side of
the number A we obtain number B, or if we add 2 to the right side of the number A we obtain
number C. If we know that C = 3B, then what is the sum of the digits of A?
(A) 8 (B) 12 (C) 15 (D) 19 (E) 25

C4-097 (#17783). A kangaroo wants to hop for a distance of 100 m. If he draws a semi-circle
of length 2π m with each jump, how many jumps will he need overall?
(A) 20 (B) 25 (C) 40 (D) 50 (E) 100

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C4-098 (#17786). We will call a rectangle square-ish if its length and width are integer
values and differ by exactly 1 unit. Which of the following is the perimeter of a square-ish
rectangle?
(A) 16 (B) 27 (C) 34 (D) 39 (E) 43

C4-099 (#17789). One side of a square has a length of 2x and another has a length of 6 − x.
Which of the following represents its perimeter?
(A) 4 (B) x − 4 (C) x + 4 (D) 4x (E) x4

C4-100 (#17790). Ellie and Valery play a game with 7 coins where they simply call heads
or tails at the same time. If they both choose the same outcome, Ellie wins the coin. If not,
Valery wins. The game ended with Ellie winning more coins than Valery. Ellie called more
heads than tails overall. At most, how many heads could Valery have chosen?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 7

C4-101 (#17791). Maryam wanted to make studying for her exams in Mathematics, Physics,
and Chemistry, fun. She decided to roll a dice, and study for each exam as many hours as the
number on the side opposite to the one that the dice shows. The sum of the numbers from the
three dice rolls was 9. She spent most of her time studying for Physics and only 2 hours for
Chemistry. How many hours did Maryam study for the Mathematics exam?
(A) 1 hour (B) 2 hours (C) 3 hours (D) 4 hours (E) 5 hours

C4-102 (#17820). Theodorika wrote down three consecutive natural numbers in their natural
order, but instead of the digits she used symbols: □♢♢, ♡△△, ♡△□. Which number is next?
(A) ♡♡♢ (B) □♡□ (C) ♡△♢ (D) ♡△♡ (E) ♡♢□
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C4-103 (#17821). In a horse jumping competition, 4 seconds are added to the racing time for
each knockdown of an obstacle. Which of the following racing times and numbers of knockdowns
gives the best result?
(A) 2 minutes 23 seconds, 1 knockdown (B) 2 minutes 10 seconds, 2 knockdowns
(C) 2 minutes 22 seconds, 3 knockdowns (D) 2 minutes 4 seconds, 4 knockdowns
(E) 2 minutes 2 seconds, 5 knockdowns

C4-104 (#17822). The square in the diagram has side 2 cm

length 10 cm. The square is divided into two parts by a
straight line. What is the ratio of the areas of these two
parts?
(A) 9 : 11 (B) 6 : 7 (C) 10 : 11 3 cm
(D) 7 : 9 (E) 11 : 13

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C4-105 (#17823). How many ways are there to choose 4 natural numbers greater than 1
and less than 10 so that exactly 2 are odd, 0 are squares, 2 are even and 3 are prime?
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 6

C4-106 (#17825). Bruno thinks of a 3-digit number and the number with the same digits
in reverse order. Which of the following numbers could be their difference?
(A) 378 (B) 295 (C) 196 (D) 495 (E) 154

C4-107 (#17826). Replace the square and the triangle with natural numbers such  5
that the equation is correct. How many solutions are there? =
12 △
(A) 3 (B) 5 (C) 9 (D) 10 (E) 12

C4-108 (#17845). The figure shows a straight line passing through all the
sides of a quadrilateral. At most how many sides of an 7-gon can one straight
line intersect without passing through any of the vertices?
(A) 3 (B) 5 (C) 4 (D) 6 (E) all 7

C4-109 (#17859). Peter drew 7 intersecting circles. What is the largest number of intersec-
tion points he can get?
(A) 14 (B) 21 (C) 28 (D) 35 (E) 42

C4-110 (#17862). Each edge of a cube is colored either red or blue so that every face has
at least one red edge. What is the smallest possible number of red edges of the cube?
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 6

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C4-111 (#17877). The product of five different integers is 2023. What is their sum?
(A) −17 (B) −7 (C) 0 (D) 7 (E) 17

C4-112 (#17893). We fill in each cell of the pyramid shown in the

picture using different positive integers. Cell above every 2 cells contains
product of numbers in the respective cells. What is the smallest number
that can end up in the gray cell?
(A) 96 (B) 256
(C) 2023 (D) 4320
(E) 7560

C4-113 (#17920). The edges of the square ABCD are 1 cm long. How many points are
there on the plane that are exactly 1 cm away from two of the vertices of this square?
(A) 4 (B) 6 (C) 8 (D) 10 (E) 12

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C4-114 (#17929). How many positive integers n exist that solve both inequalities below?
3 n 23 4 3 6
< < and < <
8 4 12 17 n 11
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3 (E) more than 3

C4-115 (#17940). There are 100 students in a classroom. 90 of them study English, 80 of
them study German, 70 of them study French and 60 of them study Spanish. There are no
students studying in all four languages. How many students are studying both English and
German?
(A) 40 (B) 50 (C) 60 (D) 70 (E) 80

C4-116 (#17953). In the word KANGOUROU each letter has a weight, identical letters
have the same weight. It is known that KNGR weighs 16, AOU weighs 9, KANG weighs 13, R
weighs 5. How much does the word KANGOUROU weigh?
(A) 25 (B) 32 (C) 34 (D) 36 (E) 43

C4-117 (#17959). Given a right angle. What is the least number of rays
we need to draw inside it so that for any value 10◦ , 20◦ , 30◦ , 40◦ , 50◦ , 60◦ ,
70◦ , 80◦ there is a pair of rays whose angle between them is equal to the
given value?
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4
(D) 5 (E) 6

C4-118 (#17963). Carl wants to write the numbers from 1 to 7

into circles in the picture so that the sums of all triples of numbers
on one line are equal. What number should he insert into the center?
(A) 1, 4 or 7 (B) only 1
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(C) only 4 (D) only 7

(E) it’s impossible

C4-119 (#17978). Carol wants to write the numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4 in the

cells of a 4 × 4 square in such way that each number occur exactly one time
in each row, in each column and in each of two diagonals. She has already
entered three numbers, as shown in the figure. What number should she
enter in the cell marked with a question mark?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) any except 1

C4-120 (#17980). Let A, B, C be distinct digits such that six times the 3-digit number
ABC is equal to the 3-digit number CCC. Find the value of A + B + C.
(A) 11 (B) 13 (C) 17 (D) 14 (E) 15

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C4-121 (#17999). A square is made of six rectangles. Inside each

rectangle the area is written in cm2 . The length of the smallest rectangle 3 cm 6 15

is 3 cm. What is the area of the rectangle in the middle? 14

?
(A) 18 cm2 (B) 20 cm2 (C) 24 cm2 12

(D) 28 cm2 (E) 30 cm2 14

C4-122 (#18011). Leon has drawn several closed paths on a

rectangular prism and then unfolded it into a net (see the pic-
ture). How many paths were drawn?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5

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C5-001 (#16686). Some children sit on coloured chairs in a circle. If all the children move 2
chairs to their right, then they all sit on a chair of the same colour as before. If all the children
move 9 chairs to her left, then they all sit on a chair of the same colour as before. What is
certainly true?
(A) There are at least 18 chairs
(B) There are at least 3 different colours of chairs
(C) All chairs have the same colour
(D) If a child moves 7 chairs to their left, then it sits on a chair of a different colour than
before
(E) There are exactly 2 colours of chairs

C5-002 (#16776). An equilateral triangle is cut into two equal

areas by a diagonal line as shown. The line cuts one side into lengths

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of 1 and 2 units. The other side is cut into lengths of b and 3 − b. 2 3−b
What is the value of b?
3 3
(A) 2
(B) 4
1 b
4
(C) 1 (D) 9
9 3
(E) 4

C5-003 (#16823). At the table there are twice as many children as adults. If all adults left
the table, the average age of people at the table would decrease five times. All people’s ages
are natural numbers greater than 1. If the adults’s sum age is 156, what is the largest number
of people who can sit at that table?
(A) 9 (B) 12 (C) 15 (D) 18 (E) 21

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C5-004 (#16836). The pin code of a credit card consists

of four different digits with sum 8. The product of the first
two digits is equal to the 2-digit number consisted of the
third and the forth digit. How many such pin codes exist?
(A) 0 (B) 1
(C) 2 (D) 3
(E) more than 3

C5-005 (#16864). A prime number has exactly two different divisors, namely 1 and itself.
We call a positive integer n almost prime, if it has exactly three different divisors, namely 1, n
and a unique number k with 1 < k < n. We are given the following list of numbers:

3, 4, 6, 9, 12, 16, 20, 22, 25.

How many of these numbers are almost prime?

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

C5-006 (#16898). The fees for one child to be enrolled in a summer camp are 60 euros. If a
child likes to take part in a planned excursion, 25 euros more are required. The total amount
(fees + excursion if any) payed by the enrolled children is 4320 euros. More than 80% of the
participants have asked for the excursion. What is the number of the participants?
(A) 55 (B) 54 (C) 53 (D) 52 (E) 51

C5-007 (#16909). In order to study the degradation of train tracks due to the passage of
trains, several kilometers of a track have been equipped with a system of sensors placed on the
rails with equal spacing in correspondence with one end of the railroad ties. More precisely, on
one of the rails a sensor is placed every 60 ties and on the other rail one sensor is placed every
28 ties; for both rails the system begins with a sensor placed on both ends of a tie. The system
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ends after the fifth occurrence of a sensor at both ends. How many sensors have been used in
the system?
(A) 114 (B) 112 (C) 110 (D) 90 (E) 88

C5-008 (#16921). The radius of the quarter circle and the circle in
the figure below are equal. We wrapped a thread around the quarter
circle twice. Then, we wrapped the same thread around the circle once.
2 meters were left. How many square meters is the area of the circle?
(π ≈ 3)
(A) 8 (B) 12 (C) 16 (D) 24 (E) 32

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C5-009 (#16936). In how many ways can the numbers 1 to 9 be placed

in the areas of the shape below so that the multiplication of the numbers
of any two adjacent areas is at most 15? (Two areas that have a common
side are called ”adjacent”)
(A) 12 (B) 8 (C) 32 (D) 24 (E) 16

C5-010 (#16949). A circle and a square, both of area 1, have the same center. Let A any of
the points of the square that have the biggest distance to the circle and let a be such a distance;
let B any of the points of the circle that have the biggest distance to the square and let b such
a distance. What is a + b?
√ √ √
(A) 2−1
2
(B) 2√1 π (C) π (D) 4 π
(E) None of the previous values

C5-011 (#16950). Mary has started to write all the positive integers in increasing order,
without breaks: 1234567891011... and so on. She plans to stop as soon as a block of three
consecutive non-zero digits in decreasing order appears for the first time. How many digits has
she written in total when she quits writing?
(A) 289 (B) 533 (C) 622 (D) 854 (E) 921

C5-012 (#16999). Ten 4-person families went on an excursion together. At least how many
participants of the excursion have to take part in an ice breaker, so that we could say with
certainty that at least one person from each family took part?
(A) 11 (B) 21 (C) 28 (D) 31 (E) 37

C5-013 (#17003). Jake wrote six “neighbouring” one-digit numbers

(numbers that are one apart) onto six pieces of paper, each number on
a separate paper. He stuck these bits of paper onto the heads and tails

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sides of three coins. Then he flipped these three coins three times. On
the first flip, he got all heads and he saw the numbers 6, 7 and 8. On
the second flip, the sum of the numbers he saw was 23, on the third
flip it was 17. What was the sum of the numbers on the tails sides of
the coins?
(A) 18 (B) 19 (C) 20
(D) 23 (E) 24

C5-014 (#17012). Lea poured 200 ml of water into each of two vases. Both of them were
cuboids with the same square base, but different heights. In the first vase, the water reached
exactly one third of the way up, in the second one, it reached exactly halfway up. How many
millilitres of water did Lea have to our into the first vase for it to reach half way up?
(A) 50 (B) 100 (C) 150 (D) 200 (E) 300

C5-015 (#17019). Sue and Peter wanted to return home from a trip by train. However,
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a third of the ticket cost, Peter was missing a quarter. If the ticket was 7 ¿ cheaper, and they
pooled their cash together, they could buy two tickets. How much did one ticket cost?
(A) 24 euros (B) 17 euros (C) 12 euros (D) 10 euros (E) 9 euros

C5-016 (#17020). The final of the orienteer-

ing race had a uniquely designed track START-
S1-S2-S3-FINISH (pic.). Sections S1-S2 a S3-
FINISH were parallel. The lengths of some sec-
tions were noted on the map. What was the
length of the track, from start to finish?
(A) 2000 m (B) 2200 m
(C) 2400 m (D) 2500 m
(E) 2900 m

C5-017 (#17029). A regular hexagon is divided in 4 quadrilaterals and

one small regular hexagon. The area of the shaded region and the area of
the small hexagon has the ratio 43 . What is the ratio area small hexagon
area big hexagon
?
3 1 2
(A) 11
(B) 3
(C) 3
3 3
(D) 4
(E) 5

C5-018 (#17060). Kangaroo Jack has to make a path from the point S to point F on the
board showed in the picture. Every time that Jack jumps, he must go to the square in the row

above. For instance, from the point A he must jump to point B or to point C . In
how many different ways (paths) can Jack move from point S to point F?
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(A) 8 (B) 10 (C) 12 (D) 24 (E) 32

C5-019 (#17067). Which of the following figures can be rotated 80◦ clockwise about its

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center and have its final orientation appear the same as the original orientation?

(A) (B) (C)

(D) (E)

C5-020 (#17222). There are four containers A, B,

C and D of the same height with the upper end open.
On a rainy day, they are placed on the open ground
to hold rain water. Let the time to fill the containers
A B C D
be tA , tB , tC , and tD . Which of the following is right?
(A) tB > tD > tC > tA (B) tA > tC > tD > tB
(C) tC > tA = tB > tD (D) tC > tB > tA > tD
(E) tB > tC > tD > tA

C5-021 (#17251). Andy, Bella and Cam have 59 coins between the three of them. First,
Andy gives Bella half of his coins. Then, Bella gives Cam half of her coins. Finally, Cam gives
Andy a third of his coins. Andy ends up with 22 coins. Bella had 22 coins before Andy gave

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her half of his coins. How many coins did Cam start with?
(A) 13 (B) 14 (C) 59 (D) 24 (E) 9

C5-022 (#17266). Several mice live in three neigh-

bouring houses. Yesterday night every mouse left its
house and moved to one or the other of the other two
taking the shortest path. The numbers in the picture
shows the number of mice per house, yesterday and
today. How many mice crossed the path shown by
the arrow?
(A) 9 (B) 19 (C) 11 (D) 12 (E) 16

C5-023 (#17341). Marisa wrapped a gift using wrapping paper, and then considered the
amount of ribbon needed for four different ways to tie the gift by wrapping a ribbon around
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132 cm 138 cm

116 cm 190 cm
All the bows use the same amount of ribbon. What is the area of wrapping paper, in cm2 ,
Marisa needed to cover the surface of the box?
(A) 1,202 cm2 (B) 1,272 cm2 (C) 1,346 cm2 (D) 1,420 cm2 (E) 1,516 cm2

C5-024 (#17365). On a piece of paper are drawn 100 red and

100 green dots. These are then split randomly into 100 pairs. For
every pair consisting of two red dots the teacher writes on the board
the number +1 and for every pair consisting of two green dots he
writes the number −1. He ignores the pairs that consist of one red
and one green dot. An example is shown. When he is done he adds
all the numbers on the board. Which of the following is a possible
sum?
(A) +1 (B) +2 (C) +25 (D) +50
(E) none of the previous is possible

C5-025 (#17366). The picture shows six

photo’s of animals, in groups of three. Each
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animal has a number on it. Grand Pa wants to

put the photo’s in the family album in a row,
one after the other. He wishes that neighboring
photos should a) be of different type of animals
and b) have exactly one number in common. If
the first (leftmost) photo is the one with the
kangaroo’s numbered 1, 2, 3, which should be
the second photo in the album?
(A) the elephants numbered 3, 4, 9
(B) the frogs numbered 4, 3, 5
(C) the frogs numbered 8, 6, 3
(D) the frogs numbered 5, 5, 6
(E) such an arrangement is impossible

C5-026 (#17385). Davor and Kiril bought three sacks with potatoes X, Y and Z. When

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they measured the weight of the sacks, they concluded that in the sack Z there is a quarter of
the total weight that is in the sacks X and Y , and in the sack Y there is three sevenths of the
total weight that is in the sacks X and Z. Davor took the sack X, and Kiril the sacks Y and
Z?
(A) Davor took (X + Y + Z)/3 potatoes more than Kiril?
(B) Kiril took ((X + Y )/2)Z potatoes more than Davor?
(C) They took the same amount of potatoes?
(D) Davor took (X + Y )/2 potatoes more?
√
(E) Kiril took XY potatoes more?

C5-027 (#17456). The following shape consists of identical

squares. What is the largest number of 2 × 1 domino’s (as the
one shown) that we can place in the figure? The domino’s must
be placed horizontally or vertically covering squares and should
not overlap each other.
(A) 8 (B) 9 (C) 10 (D) 11 (E) 12

C5-028 (#17466). We say that a person, on his birthday, verifies ”P-property”, if the number
of the year is a multiple of the age he is turning. If Joana was born in 2003 how many times
will she had fulfilled P-property on the day of year 2023 that she turns 20?
Hint: you may know that 2003 is a prime number.
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 7 (E) None

C5-029 (#17467). A diagonal of a convex polygon is any segment joining two non-consecutive
vertices. In a certain convex polygon the number of diagonals is 8 times the number of sides.
How many vertices does this polygon have?
(A) 16 (B) 18 (C) 19 (D) 27 (E) More than 27

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C5-030 (#17468). In a box we have blue, yellow and red balls. We know that 17 balls are
not red, that 27 balls are not blue and 20 balls are not yellow. How many balls are there in
total?
(A) 64 (B) 54 (C) 47 (D) 44 (E) 32

C5-031 (#17469). I am in a row in wich there is, in total, a number of people that is a
multiple of 3. I notice that I have as many people in front as behind. Behind me I see two
friends, one in 19th place in the row and the other in 28th. Which position am I in?
(A) 14 (B) 15 (C) 16 (D) 17 (E) 18

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C5-032 (#17470). The figure shows two regular igual hexagons, side
24 cm, (drawn with a different thickness) that one results from displac-
ing the other along one side a distance MN. The area of the central
(irregular) hexagon, colored gray, on which the two hexagons overlap is
half the area of each starting hexagon. What is the length of MN?
(A) 6 (B) 8 (C) 12 (D) 16 (E) 18

C5-033 (#17471). In a trapezium 7 strips of the same width are

drawn and painted alternately gray and white, parallel to the two
parallel sides of the trapezium as shown in the figure. If the total
area of the gray strips is 48 cm2 , what is the total area of the white
strips?
(A) 36 (B) 39 (C) 42 (D) 45 (E) 48

C5-034 (#17614). 30 students were going on a bus and sharing the cost equally. At the
last minute 3 students couldn’t go, so the cost for the remaining students went up by $2 each.
What was the original charge per student?
(A) $16 (B) $18 (C) $20 (D) $24 (E) $30

C5-035 (#17707). Francis calls a positive integer sevenly if all its digits are non-zero and if
writing its any two adjacent digits in their given order one gets a number divisible by 7. How
many sevenly 10-digit numbers are there?
(A) 164 (B) 196 (C) 260 (D) 324 (E) 388

C5-036 (#17710). Let a, b are positive integers, a > b. We divide their product by their
sum and get 5. How many different values can their difference a − b can have?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) infinitely many
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C5-037 (#17717). How many 4-digit non-increasing (st.: 4332, 7532) numbers we have?
(A) 715 (B) 714 (C) 550 (D) 549 (E) 120

C5-038 (#17727). We have special piece ”Kangaroo” on a special chess board with the area
of 1000x1000 squares. ”Kangaroo” stone is at the center of 19x19 square region and threatens
other squares except the row and column where it is on. So, how many ”Kangaroo” piece can
we put on this board which any of them not threatens any other ”Kangaroo” piece?
(A) 200000 (B) 100000 (C) 52000 (D) 50000 (E) 25000

C5-039 (#17787). Maria and Sarah were sitting across each other. Maria wrote a three-digit
number on a paper in front of her and asked Sarah for its largest prime divisor. Sarah said it
was 31. Maria was surprised as she was certain that it was 109. What was the hundreds-digit
in the number Maria wrote?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 6 (D) 8 (E) 9

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C5-040 (#17788). We will call a number curly if its digits are only 3, 6, 8, 9, or 0. Each
digit can be used more than once. How many three-digit curly numbers are divisible by 3?
(A) 12 (B) 18 (C) 19 (D) 48 (E) 49

C5-041 (#17792). Charlie rolled a pair of dice 3 times and recorded the sum of the two
numbers he got each time. The sums were 5, 7, and 9. One odd number appeared in all three
rolls. Which of the following pairs was rolled in one of the attempts?
(A) (1, 4) (B) (1, 6) (C) (2, 3) (D) (2, 5) (E) (4, 5)

C5-042 (#17827). In the triangle ABC with ∡ACB = 32◦ the side AB is extended beyond
A by the length of the side AC to the point D and beyond B by the length of the side BC to
the point E (diagram not to scale). What is the size of the angle DCE?
C b

◦
32

b b b b

D A B E
◦ ◦ ◦
(A) 72 (B) 90 (C) 96 (D) 100◦ (E) 106◦

C5-043 (#17828). In the final round of a piano competition, 3 judges evaluate the perfor-
mances of the 3 remaining pianists. Each judge decides for an order of the 3 pianist. What is
the number of possible evaluations where any two of the judges decided for the same order and
the third for a different order?
(A) 45 (B) 90 (C) 30 (D) 120 (E) 24

C5-044 (#17864). A rugby team scored 24, 17 and 25 points respectively in the seventh,
eigth and ninth matches of the 2022 season. Their points-per-game average was higher after 9

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games that it was after the first 6 games. Their average after 10 games was greater than 22.
What is the least number of points they could have scored in the 10th game?
(A) 23 (B) 24 (C) 25 (D) 26 (E) 27

C5-045 (#17866). In the triangle ABC an angle ∠BAC = 72◦ , point M is midpoint of BC,
line segment CT is bisector of ∠BCA and T M ⊥ BC. Find ∠ABC.
(A) 18◦ (B) 36◦ (C) 42◦ (D) 48◦ (E) 72◦

C5-046 (#17867). Let A, B, C are different nonzero digits such that A·BBB +C = CBBB.
How many such values of B are there?
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3 (E) more than 3

C5-047 (#17892). Hermione, Harry, Ron, Fred and George entered the Griffindor common
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was not fourth and George was not fifth to enter. In how many possible orders could they have
arrived?
(A) 11 (B) 20 (C) 24 (D) 44 (E) 48

C5-048 (#17899). What is the largest possible number of numbers 1, 2, 3, . . . , 29, 30 that
can be chosen such that no chosen number equals double another chosen number?
(A) 15 (B) 16 (C) 18 (D) 20 (E) 22

C5-049 (#17914). In how many different ways can we read the word BA-
NANA from the following table, if we always step to a cell that shares an B A N
edge with the previous cell, and only use each cell once? A N A
(A) 6 (B) 8 (C) 10 (D) 12 (E) 16 N A N

C5-050 (#17919). The sum and product of 12 integers are both 12. Out of the options
below, which one is definitely not one of the 12 numbers?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 6

C5-051 (#17923). Snowwhite organised a chess competition for the seven dwarfs, in which
each player played one game with every other player. On Munday, Grumpy played 1 game,
Sneezy played 2, Sleepy 3, Bashful 4, Happy 5 and Doc played 6 games. How many games did
Dopey play?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5

C5-052 (#17955). In a camp, every student likes music or sports. Exactly 30% of those
who likes music also likes sports. Exactly 40% of those who likes sports also likes music.
Approximately, what percentage of all students in the camp like both music and sports?
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(A) 10% (B) 12% (C) 21% (D) 35% (E) 70%

C5-053 (#17956). Alex plays tennis only on Sunday mornings and only if it is not raining.
After tennis, Alex always goes to the pool to swim. Today he played tennis. Which of the
following statements is certainly true?
(A) Tomorrow is Sunday. (B) Yesterday Alex was at the pool.
(C) Next Sunday Alex will play tennis. (D) Yesterday was a rainy day.
(E) It did not rain this morning.

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