Hwa Chong Institution SMOPS 17th April 2010

Asia Pacific Mathematical Olympiad

for Primary Schools 2010

First Round
2 hours
(150 marks)

1. Find the value of

(SMOPS 2010 Q.1)

2. Find the value of .

(SMOPS 2010 Q.2)

3. Find the total number of ways to arrange 3 identical white balls and 3 identical
black balls in a circle on a plane. The two layouts below are considered as one
way of arrangement.
(SMOPS 2010 Q.3)

4. Given that one and only one of the following statements is true, which one is
true?
(a) All of the statements below are correct.
(b) None of the statements below is correct.
(c) One of the statements above is correct.
(d) All of the statements above are correct.
(e) None of the statements above is correct.

(SMOPS 2010 Q.4)

5. Let n be a whole number greater than 1. It leaves a remainder of 1 when

divided by any single digit whole number greater than 1. Find the smallest
possible value of n.
(SMOPS 2010 Q.5)

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6. M and N are mid-points of the lines AD and BC respectively. Given that the
area of ABCD is 2000cm2, and the area of the shaded region ANCM = cm2,
find the value of .
(SMOPS 2010 Q.6)

7. Your pocket money had previously been decreased by ________ %. To get

back to the same amount of pocket money before the decrease, you need to
have an increase of 25%.
(SMOPS 2010 Q.7)

8. A circle of diameter 2 cm rolls along the circumference of a circle of diameter

12 cm, without slipping, until it returns to its starting position. Given that the
smaller circle turns about its centre, find the value of .
(SMOPS 2010 Q.8)

9. Find the last digit of the number

(SMOPS 2010 Q.9)

10. Three bus services operate from the same bus interchange. The first bus service
leaves at 24 minute intervals, the second at 30 minute intervals and the third at
36 minute intervals. All three services leave the bus interchange together at
0900. Find the number of minutes that has passed when they next leave the
interchange together.
(SMOPS 2010 Q.10)

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11. Twenty five boys position themselves in a 5 by 5 formation such that the
distances between two adjacent boys in the same row or the same column are
equal to 1 m. The two dark circles indicate a pair of boys whose distance is
exactly 5 m. given that there are n pairs whose distance apart are exactly 5m,
find the value of n.
(SMOPS 2010 Q.11)

12. When Albert begins walking up slope AB (1 km distance), across level ground
BC (12 km distance), and down slope CD (3km distance), Daniel begins his
journey in the opposite direction from D at the same time. Given that the
speeds of both travelling up the slope, on level ground and down slope are 2
km/h, 4 km/h and 5 km/h respectively, find the number of hours that has passed
when they meet.
(SMOPS 2010 Q.12)
B C

A
D

13. Find the value of .

(SMOPS 2010 Q.13)

14. Three identical circles have at most three points of contacts as shown below.
Find the least number of identical circles required to have nine points of
contact.
(SMOPS 2010 Q.14)

15. A goat in a horizontal ground is tied to one end of a 14 m long rope. The other
end of the rope is attached to a ring which is free to slide along a fixed 20 m
long horizontal rail. If the maximum possible area that the goat can graze is x
m2, find the value of x. [Ignore the dimension of the ring and take
(SMOPS 2010 Q.15)

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16. The 13 squares are to be filled with whole numbers. If the sum of any three
adjacent numbers is 21, find the value of x.
(SMOPS 2010 Q.16)

4 9 x

17. A square is divided into three rectangles of widths , and , as shown.

If and the areas of the shaded regions A, B and C are 8 cm2, x
cm2 and 2 cm2 respectively, find the value of x.
(SMOPS 2010 Q.17)
C

18. Given that , find the largest whole number

smaller than S.
(SMOPS 2010 Q.18)

19. The figure comprises five identical squares. , , and are vertices of the
squares. cuts at and angle = , find the value of .
(SMOPS 2010 Q.19)
A C

20. Find the smallest whole number that is not a factor of

.
(SMOPS 2010 Q.20)

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21. A square has its four vertices touching a circle and its four sides touching
another smaller circle as shown below. If the area of the larger circle is x times
that of the smaller one, find the value of x.
(SMOPS 2010 Q.21)

22. P, Q, R, S and T are equally spaced on a straight rod. If the rod is first rotated
180 about T, then 180 about S and finally 180 about P, which point’s
position remains unchanged?
(SMOPS 2010 Q.22)

P Q R S T

23. Given that the product of four different whole numbers is 10,000, find the
greatest possible value of the sum of the four numbers.
(SMOPS 2010 Q.23)

24. An equilateral triangle PQR of side 32 cm has three equilateral triangles cut off
from its corners to give rise to a hexagon ABCDEF. Another equilateral
triangle LMN of side x cm gives rise to the same hexagon when subjected to the
same treatment. If AB = 8 cm, BC = 15 cm, CD = 9 cm, DE = 10 cm, EF = 13
cm and FA = 11 cm, find the value of x.
(SMOPS 2010 Q.24)

25. The order of the following three numbers

A B C
from largest to smallest is _______.

(1) A, B, C (2) A, C, B (3) B, C, A (4) B, A, C (5) C, A, B (6) C, B, A

(SMOPS 2010 Q.25)

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26. B and D lie on AC and CE respectively and AD cuts BE at F. If BC = 2AB, AF

= 2FD, area of EFD = x cm2 and area of BCDF = 1750 cm2, find the value of x.
(SMOPS 2010 Q.26)
A
B
F

E C
D

27. In the diagram, AD = DC = CB, angle ADC = 110 , angle DCB = 130 , and
angle ABC = , find the value of x.
(SMOPS 2010 Q.27)
B
B

C
A C
A

D
D

28. The figure comprises twelve equilateral triangles. Find the total number of
trapezia in the figure. Here we define a trapezium to be a 4-sided figure with
exactly one pair of parallel sides.
(SMOPS 2010 Q.28)

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29. The following 5 by 5 grid consists of 25 unit squares. Find the largest number
of unit squares to be shaded so that each row, each column and each of the two
main diagonal lines has at most 2 unit squares that are shaded.
(SMOPS 2010 Q.29)

30. Find the value of x.

(SMOPS 2010 Q.30)

3 7 x

1 2 1 3 1 4

4 15 40

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Number of correct answers for Q1 to Q10 : _______ Marks ( ×4 ) : _______

Number of correct answers for Q11 to Q20 : _______ Marks ( ×5 ) : _______
Number of correct answers for Q21 to Q30 : _______ Marks ( ×6 ) : _______

Answers:

SMOPS 2010

1 16 8

2 17 10

3 4 18 200

4 (e) 19 45

5 2521 20 29

6 1000 21 2

7 20 22 Q

8 2520 23 1257

9 8 24 34

10 360 25 (4)

11 8 26 250

12 27 55

13 53361 28 30

14 6 29 10

15 1176 30 13

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