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Intermediate Division

Questions 1 to 10, 3 marks each

1. Of the following, which is closest to 14?

(A) 14.4 (B) 13.84 (C) 14.14 (D) 13.68 (E) 14.21

2. What is the value of (57 × 346) + (43 × 346)?

(A) 14 878 (B) 19 722 (C) 31 500 (D) 34 600 (E) 46 300

3. What is the value of x in the diagram?

80◦
(A) 40 (B) 50 (C) 60 120◦
(D) 70 (E) 80
x◦

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4. The average of 2024 and an unknown number is 2 . What is the unknown number?
2

(A) 2019 (B) −2019 (C) 2029 (D) −2029 (E) −2024

5. What is the area of the shape drawn in

the grid?

(A) 7 (B) 8 (C) 9

(D) 10 (E) 11

6. Let p be 12% of 300 and q be 6% of 600. What is the difference between p and q?

(A) 0 (B) 2 (C) 6 (D) 12 (E) 30

7. The largest integer n for which 0.6n is less than 17 is

(A) 9 (B) 10 (C) 11 (D) 26 (E) 28

8. Pat has 12 eggs, 2 kg of flour, and 2 L of milk. His pancake

recipe calls for 2 eggs, 250 g of flour and 400 mL of milk.
He makes as many pancakes as he can while using the
ingredients in the proportions given in the recipe.
How much flour will he have left?
(A) None (B) 250 g (C) 500 g
(D) 625 g (E) 750 g

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9. Theo’s collection of toy dinosaurs is stored in two containers. He noticed that one
of the containers had 4 times as many dinosaurs in it as the other. He moved 18 to
the other container so that the two containers had the same number.
How many dinosaurs are in Theo’s collection?

(A) 40 (B) 45 (C) 50 (D) 55 (E) 60

10. Eiliyah is drawing an isosceles triangle on the 4

number plane. It has an area of 6 square units.
She has already plotted two vertices of the
triangle, at (1, 1) and (3, 1). 2
Which of the following could be the coordinates
of the third vertex of the triangle?
0 2 4 6
(A) (2, 3) (B) (2, 4) (C) (2, 6)
−2
(D) (2, −3) (E) (2, −5)

−4

Questions 11 to 20, 4 marks each

11. Yalis has to take a tablet every 9 hours. The course of medication is 15 tablets. He
takes his first tablet at 11 am on Tuesday. When will he take his last tablet?

(A) 2 pm Wednesday (B) 5 am Friday (C) 5 pm Sunday

(D) 4 am Monday (E) 8 pm Tuesday

12. How many digits are in the number 2024 ?

(A) 7 (B) 10 (C) 12 (D) 18 (E) 81

13. In the diagram, the concentric

circles are equally spaced, with radii
from 1 to 6, and the lines from the
100◦
origin are equally spaced 20◦ apart.
Which of these five areas is largest? E
(A) A (B) B (C) C ◦ 80◦ D
A 20 ◦
(D) D (E) E 40 60◦
B
C

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14. Kate and Jim exercise at their local beach, going from one end to the other and
back. Starting together, Kate jogs at a steady pace of 10 km per hour, while Jim
walks at 6 km per hour. They first meet again after 30 minutes. How long, in
kilometres, is the beach?

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

15. This star has order-10 rotational symmetry, with 10 internal

right angles as shown. What is the size of each of the obtuse
angles marked with a dot?

(A) 120◦ (B) 126◦ (C) 132◦

(D) 138◦ (E) 142◦

16. A game uses the two spinners shown. The

player who spins the higher number wins. 1 2
Equal spins are a draw. 1 2
6 3
What is the probability that player one
wins? 3 5 4
1 1 1 2 5 Player one Player two
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
2 3 6 3 6

17. When the number 9045 is split into two 2-digit numbers, the first number is twice
the second number: 90 = 2 × 45. Many other 4-digit numbers can be split into two
2-digit numbers where the first number is twice the second.
There is a unique 2-digit number that divides into all such 4-digit numbers. What
is this number?
(A) 18 (B) 35 (C) 45 (D) 52 (E) 67

18. Triangle ABC has a right angle at A, and side AC is twice as C

long as AB. Also M N is the perpendicular bisector of BC,
as shown.
In area, what fraction of △ABC is △CM N ? M
√
N
1 1 2 5 5
(A) (B) √ (C) (D) (E)
3 5 5 8 16 A B

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19. A researcher surveys 10 households and creates this

devices
scatterplot showing how many people and how
many internet-connected devices are in each house.
To help categorise her data, she adds a vertical line
representing the median number of people and a
horizontal line representing the median number of
devices.
One extra household is surveyed and the results are
added to the scatterplot. What will happen to the
median lines? people

(A) Both lines move. (B) Neither line moves.

(C) Only the vertical line moves. (D) Only the horizontal line moves.
(E) It depends on the location of the new point.

20. I make up all the 5 digit numbers that use each of the digits from 1 to 5 once.
I then arrange these 120 numbers in increasing order from 12 345 to 54 321.
Which number is the 42nd in this order?
(A) 15 234 (B) 21 354 (C) 23 154 (D) 24 531 (E) 24 513

Questions 21 to 25, 5 marks each

21. A tank in the shape of a rectangular
prism has dimensions as shown. It 12 cm
contains water to a depth of 12 cm. 24 cm
A solid cube of side 20 cm is placed 12 cm
into the tank, with one face flat on the 50 cm 40 cm
bottom of the tank.
By how much will the water level in the tank increase?

(A) 3 cm (B) 4 cm (C) 5 cm (D) 8 cm (E) 12 cm

22. February 2024 had 5 Thursdays. When will February next have 5 Thursdays?

(A) 2028 (B) 2044 (C) 2048 (D) 2052 (E) 2080

23. A group of tourists stayed in two rooms when visiting a museum. The average age
of the tourists in the first room was 45 and the average age of the tourists in the
second room was 20. When one tourist walked from the first room to the second,
the average ages in each room increased by 1. If the second group had 7 more
tourists at the beginning, what was the age of the tourist who moved rooms?

(A) 36 (B) 37 (C) 38 (D) 39 (E) 40

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24. Abi is walking beside a lake. In the distance she can see a tree and its reflection on
the surface of the lake. There is a depth indicator 5 metres away from her with its
0-metre mark at the lake surface level.

Depth
indicator

Abi

From Abi’s point of view, the top of the tree is in line with the 1.8-metre mark on
the depth indicator, while the reflection of the top of the tree is in line with the
1.1-metre mark. Abi’s eyes are level with the 1.5-metre mark. How tall is the tree
in metres?
(A) 9 (B) 9.5 (C) 10 (D) 10.5 (E) 11

25. Six maths students, Amy, Bao, Cecil, Daria, Emilia and Felipe are given
60 problems to complete over the weekend. Although none of them completes all
60, each completes at least 52 of the problems, and each one completes a different
number of problems. Also the order from least to most problems is the same as the
alphabetical order of their names. Finally, each of them completes k times as many
problems on Saturday as they do on Sunday, where k is a different whole number
from 1 to 6 for each of them.
Which of them completed 3 times as many problems on Saturday as on Sunday?

(A) Amy (B) Bao (C) Cecil (D) Daria (E) Emilia

For questions 26 to 30, shade the answer as an integer from 0 to 999

in the space provided on the answer sheet.
Questions 26–30 are worth 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 marks, respectively.

26. In the multiplication puzzle shown, a, b and c represent different digits.

a a b b
× c
c b b c

There is more than one way to solve this puzzle. What is the sum of all possible
three-digit numbers of the form abc?

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27. Rodney builds increasingly large shapes out of unit rods. The smallest uses six rods
and each larger shape adds a layer of hexagons around the previous shape.

Starting with 2024 rods, Rodney builds a single shape like this, as large as possible.
How many rods will he have left over?

28. Let x, y and z be positive integers satisfying the following three equations:

xy + x + y = 2024
yz + y + z = 2024
zx + z + x = 728.

What is the value of x + y + z?

29. Tim uses plug-in timers to automate his indoor plant

lighting. Each timer has a plug on the back, a socket on
18
1 6 29
17

1 72 0
1 6

5 1
1

1 1
5

2
the front, and a motorised dial that rotates once for every
18
9

23
1 72 0
4
2
1 3
5 1
1 1
1 6 2

1 0 2
18
19
12
1 23
24 hours that the plug has power.
2204 11
1 3 1 2
1
1 2 0
12 0 2
4 1 23
3
9

11
1 3 1 2
4

2
8

When the time on the dial is between 9:00 and 17:00, the
5 98

0
7

1
6

12 0
1
3

1
11
4

2
5 98
7
6

timer switch is on, so that any power on the plug is

0
3
4
5
7
6

switched through to the socket.

For fun, he plugs together three of his timers, all set to
time 0:00, with a lamp plugged into the front socket. How
many hours until the lamp turns on?

30. A triangle, △ABC, has sides AB = 18, AC = 24, and BC = 30. Point P is on side
AB and a line is drawn through P so that half of the perimeter of △ABC lies on
each side of the line and half of the area of △ABC lies on each side of the line.
What is the square of the distance CP ?

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