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3 points

# 1. A mushroom grows every day. Mary takes a picture of the mushroom each day from Monday to
Friday. Which of these pictures was taken on Tuesday?

(A) (B) (C)

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# 2. Which piece completes the pattern?

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1
1

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

# 3. Tim shades all the squares in the grid where the result is 20. Which pattern does he get?

16 + 4 19 + 1 28 − 8
1

2 × 10 16 − 4 7×3

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

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# 4. Which of the following figures has the largest shaded area?

(A) (B) (C)

(D) (E)

# 5. Which one of the figures below can you make with these pieces?

(A) (B) (C)

(D) (E)

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# 6. Elli draws this square with chalk on the pavement. She starts jumping from number 1. Each time she
jumps,
she always jumps to a number that is 3 more than the number she is standing on. What is the largest
number Elli can jump onto?

1 5 8 11
4 7 10 14
24 23 13 18
21 19 16 20

(A) 11 (B) 14 (C) 18 (D) 19 (E) 24

# 7. Jorge glues these 6 stickers to the faces of a cube. The pictures shows the cube in two positions.
Which sticker is on the opposite face to the duck?

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

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# 8. Casper has the following 7 shaded pieces. He uses some of these pieces to fully cover this white grid
without overlap. He uses as many different pieces as possible. How many pieces does Casper use?

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

4 points

# 9. Cindy colours each region on the pattern either red, blue or yellow. The regions that touch each other
have different colours. The outer region of the pattern is coloured red. How many regions is coloured red?

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

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# 10. Loes looks at the pyramid from above. What does Loes see?

(A) (B) (C)

(D) (E)

# 11. Dennis ties a horse 1 meter from a corner of a 7 meter by 5 meter house, using a rope with length 11
meter. Dennis places 5 piles of dry grasses as shown below. How many of the piles could the horse reach?

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

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# 12. Lonneke builds a fence using poles with length 1 meter. The picture shows a fence with

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length 4 meter. How many poles does Lonneke need to build a fence with length 10 meter?

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(A) 22 (B) 30 (C) 33 (D) 40 (E) 42

# 13. Every time the kangaroo goes up 7 steps, the rabbit goes down 3 steps.

On which step do they meet?

(A) 53 (B) 60 (C) 63 (D) 70 (E) 73

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# 14. The sum of three numbers is 50. Karin subtracts a secret number from each of these three numbers.
She gets 24, 13 and 7 as the results. Which one of the following is one of the original three numbers?

(A) 9 (B) 11 (C) 13 (D) 17 (E) 23

# 15. Amelie wants to build the following figure using 10 of these given shapes. When two shapes share a side,
the corresponding numbers match. Four shapes have already been placed. Which number goes in the triangle
marked with X?

5
4
1

3 3 2 3
2 2
4 5
1

1
4

4
3

4
5

5 5
1 2 2 3

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

# 16. Farid has two types of sticks: short ones, measuring 1 cm and long ones, measuring 3 cm.

With which of the combinations below can he make a square, without breaking or overlapping the
sticks?

(A) 5 short and 2 long (B) 3 short and 3 long (C) 6 short

(D) 4 short and 2 long (E) 6 long

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5 points

# 17. A standard dice has 7 as the sum of the dots on opposite faces. The dice is put on the first square
as shown and then rolls towards the right. When the dice gets to the last square, what is the total
number of dots on the three faces marked with the question marks?

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(A) 6 (B) 7 (C) 9 (D) 11 (E) 12

# 18. 6 people each order one scoop of ice cream. They order 3 scoops of vanilla, 2 scoops
of chocolate and 1 scoop of lemon. They top the ice creams with 3 cherries, 2 wafers and 1
chocolate chip. They use one topping on each scoop, such that no two ice creams are alike.
Which of the following combinations is not possible?

(A) chocolate with a cherry (B) vanilla with cherry (C) lemon with a wafer

(D) chocolate with a wafer (E) vanilla with a chocolate chip

# 19. The Queen tries to find out the three names of Rumpelstiltskin’s wife. She asks her:
"Are you called Adele Lilly Cleo?"
"Are you called Adele Laura Cora?"
"Are you called Abbey Laura Cleo?"
Each time exactly one name and its position was right.
What is the name of Rumpelstiltskin’s wife?

(A) Abbey Lilly Cora (B) Abbey Laura Cora (C) Adele Laura Cleo
(D) Adele Lilly Cora (E) Abbey Laura Cleo

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# 20. A teacher writes the numbers from 1 to 8 on a board. The teacher then covers the numbers with
triangles, squares and a circle. If you add the four numbers covered by the triangles, the sum is 10. If you
add the three numbers covered by the squares, the sum is 20. Which number is covered by the circle?

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

# 21 . Jane has some pictures of parrots. She wants to colour only the head, tail and wings of each parrot
either red, blue or green so that all three colours are used on each picture. She colours one parrot’s head red,
its wings green and its tail blue. How many more parrots can she colour so that all the parrots are coloured
differently?

(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 9

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# 22. Several teams came to the summer Kangaroo camp. Each team has 5 or 6 members. There
are 43 people in total. How many teams are at this camp?

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

# 23. Which key would it be impossible to cut into three different figures of five shaded squares?

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

# 24. Ann replaces letters in the calculation KAN − ROO + GA with numbers from 1 to 9 and then
calculates the result. The same letters are replaced by the same numbers. Different letters are replaced by
different numbers. What is the largest possible result she could get?

(A) 925 (B) 933 (C) 939 (D) 942 (E) 948

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3 points

# 1. Erik has 4 bricks:

Which of the cubes shown below can he make with his 4 bricks?

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

# 2. When you put the 4 puzzle pieces together correctly, they form a rectangle with a calculation
on it. What is the result of this calculation?

(A) 6 (B) 15 (C) 18 (D) 24 (E) 33

# 3. Alaya draws a picture of the sun.

Which of the following answers is part of her picture?

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

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# 4. How many fish will have their heads pointing towards the ring when we straighten the line?

(A) 3 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 7 (E) 8

# 5. Five boys competed in a shooting challenge. Ricky scored the most points. Which target was
Ricky’s?

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

# 6. A measuring tape is wrapped around a cylinder.

Which number should be at the place shown by the question mark?

(A) 33 (B) 42 (C) 48 (D) 53 (E) 69

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# 7. Denise fired a silver and a gold rocket at the same time.

The rockets exploded into 20 stars in total.
The gold rocket exploded into 6 more stars than the silver one.
How many stars did the gold rocket explode into?

(A) 9 (B) 10 (C) 12 (D) 13 (E) 15

# 8. Rosana has some balls of 3 different colours.

Balls of the same colour have the same weight.
What is the weight of each white ball ?

6 kg 14 kg 10 kg

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

4 points

# 9. Nisa has 3 different types of cards in a game: apple , cherry and grapes .
She chooses 2 cards from the set and swaps their places.
She wants to arrange the cards so that all the cards with the same fruit on are next to each other.
For which set is this not possible?

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(A) (B) (C)

(D) (E)

# 10. 18 cubes are coloured white or grey or black and are arranged as shown.

The figures on the right show the white and the black parts.
Which of the following is the grey part?

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

# 11. Sofie wants to pick 5 different shapes from the boxes.

She can only pick 1 shape from each box.
Which shape must she pick from box 4?

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

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# 12. In an ice cream shop there is some money in a drawer.

After selling 6 ice creams, there are 70 euros in the drawer.
After selling a total of 16 ice creams, there are 120 euros in the drawer.
How many euros were there in the drawer at the start?

(A) 20 (B) 30 (C) 40 (D) 50 (E) 60

# 13. The 5 balls shown begin to move simultaneously in the directions indicated by their arrows.

When two balls going in opposite directions collide, the bigger ball swallows the smaller one and
increases its value by the value of the smaller ball.
The bigger ball continues to move in its original direction, as shown in the following example.

What is the final result of the collisions of the 5 balls shown?

50 48 49 50 49
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

# 14. On a tall building there are 4 fire escape ladders, as shown.

The heights of 3 ladders are at their tops.
What is the height of the shortest ladder?

(A) 12 (B) 14 (C) 16 (D) 20 (E) 22

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# 15. The Koala ate some leaves from 3 branches.

Each branch had 20 leaves.
The Koala ate a few leaves from the first branch and then ate as many leaves from the second
branch as were left on the first branch.
Then it ate 2 leaves from the third branch.
How many leaves in total were left on the 3 branches?

(A) 20 (B) 22 (C) 28 (D) 32 (E) 38

# 16. Nora plays with 3 cups on the kitchen table. She takes the left-hand cup, flips it over, and puts
it to the right of the other cups.

The picture shows the first move.

What do the cups look like after 10 moves?

(A) (B) (C)

(D) (E)

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5 points

# 17. Eva has the 5 stickers shown:

She stuck one of them on each of the 5 squares of this board

so that is not on square 5, is on square 1, and is adjacent to and .

On which square did Eva stick ?

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

# 18. 7 cards are arranged as shown.

Each card has 2 numbers on with 1 of them written upside down.
The teacher wants to rearrange the cards so that the sum of the numbers in the top row is the
same as the sum of the numbers in the bottom row.
She can do this by turning one of the cards upside down.
Which card must she turn?

(A) A (B) C (C) D (D) F (E) G

# 19. Mia throws darts at balloons worth 3, 9, 13, 14 and 18 points.

She scores 30 points in total. Which balloon does Mia definitely hit?

3 9
13 14 18

(A) 3 (B) 9 (C) 13 (D) 14 (E) 18

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# 20. The numbers 1 to 9 are placed in the squares shown with a number in each square.
The sums of all pairs of neighbouring numbers are shown.

Which number is placed in the shaded square?

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

# 21. A box has fewer than 50 cookies in.

The cookies can be divided evenly between 2, 3, or 4 children.
However, they cannot be divided evenly between 7 children because 6 more cookies
would be needed.
How many cookies are there in the box?

(A) 12 (B) 24 (C) 30 (D) 36 (E) 48

# 22. Elena wants to write the numbers from 1 to 9 in the squares shown.
The arrows always point from a smaller number to a larger one.
She has already written 5 and 7.
Which number should she write instead of the question mark?

(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 6 (E) 8

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# 23. Each of the 5 boxes contains either apples or bananas, but not both.
The total weight of all the bananas is 3 times the weight of all the
apples. Which boxes contain apples?

(A) 1 and 2 箱子 1 和 2 (B) 2 and 3 箱子 2 和 3 (C) 2 and 4 箱子 2 和 4

(D) 3 and 4 箱子 3 和 4 (E) 1 and 4 箱子 1 和 4

# 24. Martin placed 3 different types of objects, hexagons , squares and triangles , on sets of
scales, as shown.

What does he need to put on the left-hand side on the third set of scales for these scales to balance?

(A) 1 square (B) 2 squares (C) 1 hexagon

(D) 1 triangle (E) 2 triangles

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