AUSTRALIAN MATHEMATICS CoMmPETITION
SPONSORED BY THE COMMONWEALTH BANK
AN ACTIVITY OF THE AUSTRALIAN MATHEMATICS TRUST
Avery Manneuanigs Pest & Conmonwealthia
INSTRUCTIONS AND INFORMATION
GENERAL
1. Do not open the booklet until told to do so by your teacher.
2. NO calculators, maths stencils, mobile phones or other calculating aids are permitted. Scribbling paper, graph
paper, ruler and compasses are permitted, but are not essential.
. Diagrams are NOT drawn to scale, They are intended only as aids.
There are 25 multiple-choice questions, each with 5 possible answers given and 5 questions that require a
whole number answer between 0 and 999. The questions generally get harder as you work through the paper.
There is no penalty for an incorrect response.
. This is a competition not a test; do not expect to answer all questions. You are only competing against your
‘own year in your own country/Austraian state so different years doing the same paper ate not compared.
3. Read the instructions on the answer sheet carefully. Ensure your name, school name and school year are
entered. It is your responsibility to correctly code your answer sheet.
- When your teacher gives the signal, begin working on the problems.
THE ANSWER SHEET
1. Use only lead pencil,
2, Record your answers on the reverse of the answer sheet (not on the question paper) by FULLY colouring the
Circle matching your answer.
3. Your answer sheet will be scanned. The optical scanner will attempt to read all markings even if they are in
the wrong places, so please be careful not to doodle or write anything extra on the answer sheet. If you want
to change an answer or remove any marks, use a plastic eraser and be sure to remove all marks and smudges.
INTEGRITY OF THE COMPETITION
‘The AMT reserves the right to re-examine students before deciding whether to grant official status to their score. Senior Division
Questions 1 to 10, 3 marks each
The expression that has the same meaning as 927° is
~9 3 1 3 9
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The value of
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13.
‘The value of VIF2+5+4+-~ + 994100 lies between
(A) Mand 15 (B) 25 and 26 (C) 30 and 31. (D) 71 and 72 (B) 100 and 101
14,
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e+e e+e a+b
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15.
In the diagram, PS = 5, PQ = 3, APQS is
right-angled at Q, ZQSR = 30° and QR = RS. Q R
‘The length of RS is S
w¥ (8) v8 @2 %
43 P s
(0) ws 4 °
16.
Billy, a seasonal worker in the town of Cowra, collected an even number of buckets
of cherries on his first day. Each day after that he increased the number of buckets
he picked by 2 buckets per day. In the first 50 days he collected 3250 buckets. The
number of buckets Billy collected on the 50th day was
(A) 66 (B) 10. (C) 114 (D) 116 (EB) 120 qv.
S4
A farmer walks 1 km east across his paddock, then 1 km north-east and then another
km east. Find the distance, in kilometres, between the farmer's initial position and
his final position
(A) ve+2v20 (8) VIO VED) 24VE | V H+ 2V00
18.
‘Two machines move at constant speeds around a circle of circumference 60cm,
starting together from the same point. If they travel in the same direction then they
next meet after 20 seconds, but if they travel in opposite directions then they next
meet after 5 seconds. At what speed, in centimetres per second, is the faster one
travelling?
(A) 60 (B) 65 (c) 70 (D) 75 (B) 85
19.
‘The equation 2? — ka + 374 = 0 has two integer solutions. How many distinct values
of k are possible?
(A)2 (B) 4 (C)6 (D) 8 (BE) 10
20.
Given that f(z) ==> and fusr(e) = filfola)), then froua(e) equals
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Aiast Ooms Oram Os © 2014(« + 1)
21,
Questions 21 to 25, 5 marks each
Starting with 2 of a tank of fuel, I set, out to drive the 550 km from Scone to Canberra.
At Morisset, 165 km from Scone, I have 3 of a tank remaining. If I continue with the
same fuel consumption per kilometre and without refuelling, what happens?
(A) I will arrive in Canberra with 5 of a tank to spare.
(B) will arrive in Canberra with 2 of a tank to spare
(©) I will run out of fuel precisely when I reach Canberra.
(D) I will run out of fuel 110m from Canberra.
(E) I will run ous of fuel 220 km from Canberra. S85
22. Thanom has a roll of paper consisting of a very long sheet of
thin paper tightly rolled around a cylindrical tube, forming
the shape indicated in the diagram.
Initially, the diameter of the roll is 12cm and the diameter
of the tube is dem, After Thanom uses half of the paper,
the diameter of the remaining roll is closest to
(A) Gem (B) 8em (C) 85cm
(D) 9em (B) 9.5em
23. For every 100 people living in the town of Berracan, 50 live in two-person households,
30 live in three-person households and 20 live in four-person households, What is the
average number of people living in a household?
(A) 20 (B) 25 (27 (D) 28 (B) 3.0
24. In the diagram, QS, RTand SV are
tangents to the circle. The length of
RS is 1m and CSRT = 60°. What is
the diameter of the circle, in metres?
(A)84+V3 (B)4 (O) 2v542
(D) v8 © @
25. The sequence
2,2, 27
for all m > 1. What is the first term in the
is defined by a; = 2 and any
sequence greater than 1000! 7
(Ala =?" Byag=2" (Cha=2” Da =2 Baga 26.
27.
28.
S6
For questions 26 to 30, shade the answer as an integer from 0 to 999
in the space provided on the answer sheet.
Question 26 is 6 marks, question 27 is 7 marks, question 28 is 8 marks,
question 29 is 9 marks and question 30 is 10 marks.
‘What is the largest three-digit number with the property that the number is equal
to the sum of its hundreds digit, the square of its tens digit and the cube of its units
digit?
Igor wants to make a secret code of five-letter words. To make them easy to say, he
follows these two rules:
(i) no more than two consonants or two vowels in succession
(ii) no word to start or end with two consonants
He rejects the letter ‘Q’ as too hard, so he has 20 consonants and 5 vowels to choose
from. If Nis the number of code words possible, what are the first three digits of N?
Consider the sequence a1, a2, @3, a4, ... such that a, = 2 and for every positive
integer n,
y41 = dn +Pn» Where Pp is the largest, prime factor of ay.
The first few terms of the sequence are 2, 4,6, 9,12, 15,20. What is the largest value
of n such that ap is a four-digit number?
29.
A lattice point in the plane is a point whose coordinates are both integers. Consider a
triangle whose vertices are lattice points (0, 0), (4,0), and (0,b), where a > b. Suppose
that the triangle contains exactly 74 lattice points in its interior, not including those
lattice points on the sides of the triangle. Determine the sum of the areas of all such
triangles.
30.
A polynomial p(2z) is called self-centered if it has integer coefficients and p(100) = 100.
If p(2) is a self-centred polynomial, what is the maximum number of integer solutions
k to the equation p(k) = k®?
