RIPMWC 2013 Round 1
RIPMWC 2013 Round 1
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A. 36
B. 35
C. 34
D. 33
E. None of the above
A. 3012
B. 3021
C. 3033
D. 3042
E. None of the above
3. The number of positive integers less than 2013 divisible by neither 5 nor 7 is
A. 1370
B. 1374
C. 1378
D. 1380
E. None of the above
4. How many whole numbers less than 4444 give reminder 12 when divided by 14, 14
when divided by 16, and 16 when divided by 18?
A. 5
B. 6
C. 7
D. 8
E. None of the above
5. Calculate:
A. 324
B. 252
C. 288
D. 280
E. None of the above
6. Four chemicals, W, X, Y and Z are mixed together using the following procedure: One
part of W is mixed with three parts of X to get 10 ml of mixture A. Two parts of
mixture A is then mixed with three parts of Y to get 10 ml of mixture B. Finally, four
parts of the mixture B is mixed with one part of Z to get 10 ml of mixture C. What is
the ratio of W to Z in the mixture C?
A. 2:7
B. 3:8
C. 4:9
D. 2:5
E. None of the above
7. Look at the picture, there are 3 ways of going from A to B. You can only move left to
right, top to bottom or diagonally from top to bottom. You cannot pass twice on the
same line for each way.
Following the same rule, how many different ways are there to go from C to D?
A. 45
B. 39
C. 41
D. 43
E. None of the above
8. In the ancient kingdom of Utopia, its citizens can use n coins to buy anything that
costs 1 cent, 2 cents, 3 cents, … and so on up to $1 without needing any change.
Given that coins only come in the denomination of 1 cent, 5 cents, 10 cents, 20 cents
and 50 cents, what is the smallest possible value of n?
A. 8
B. 9
C. 10
D. 11
E. None of the above
9. In PQR, CAR, ABP and BCQ are straight lines such that AR = AC, BP = BA and
CQ = CB. If the area of ABC is 2.4 cm! , then find the are of PQR in cm! .
A. 16
B. 16.2
C. 16.6
D. 17
E. None of the above
10. 20 pupils chose to study English, Malay and Tamil. Each Pupil must select at least 2
languages. There were 12 pupils studying English, 15 studying Malay and 18 studying
Tamil. How many pupils studied all the 3 languages.
A. 3
B. 4
C. 5
D. 6
E. None of the above
11. The natural numbers are arranged in a triangular array as shown below and the rows
are labelled.
1 Row 1
2 3 Row 2
4567 Row 3
8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Row 4
… …
Find the sum of the middle 2 numbers which are in the same row as 2013.
(For example, in Row 4, the middle 2 numbers are 11 and 12 and their sum is 23)
A. 3067
B. 3070
C. 3071
D. 3074
E. None of the above
12. A window has 25 transparent panes in the form of grid as shown below. In how many
ways can one colour 22 of these panes blue so that the window looks the same from
inside and outside the house.
A. 50
B. 52
C. 56
D. 60
E. None of the above
13. Anthony was investigating a new game similar to chess, except it is played on a
triangular board and a King can move one square right or up (but not left of down).
He is counting the number of ways, T! , T" and T# to get from A to B on different sized
boards. He has investigated boards of size 2, 3, and 4 and found that T! = 1, T" = 2
and T# = 5.
Find the value of T$ .
A. 14
B. 15
C. 16
D. 17
E. None of the above
14. Three women X, Y and Z started their morning walk around a circular track from the
same point A. with X and Y going in the anti-clockwise direction and Z going in the
clockwise direction. The speeds of both X and Y are 170 meters per minute and 130
meters per minute respectively. Z met X after 18 minutes. She then met Y after another
3 minutes.
Find the circumference of the circular track in meter.
A. 4260
B. 4520
C. 4800
D. 5040
E. None of the above
15. Evaluate
A.
B.
C.
D.
A.
B.
C.
D.
A. 14
B. 18
C. 27
D. Cannot be determined
E. None of the above
A. 46
B. 48
C. 50
D. 52
E. None of the above
19. School X and Y participated in RI Primary Mathematics World Contest 2012. Both
schools did well with all their participants obtaining either high distinction, distinction
or merit. The number of high distinction from each school was the same. The Ratio of
the percentage of pupils who obtained high distinction from School X to that from
School Y was 5 : 6. The ratio of the number of pupils who obtained distinction from
School X to that from School Y was 7 : 4. The percentage of pupils who obtained
distinction was 20% for both schools. If 40% of the pupils from School X obtained
merit, what was the percentage of the pupils from School Y who obtained high
distinction?
A. 36
B. 38
C. 40
D. 44
E. None of the above
A. 8
B. 98
C. 12
D. 42
E. None of the above