28.
Captain Flint asked four of his pirates to write on a piece of paper how many International mathematical
gold, silver and bronze coins were in the treasure chest. Their responses are contest «KANGAROO»
shown in the diagram but unfortunately part of the paper was damaged.
The time of the contest is 75 minutes. There is exactly one correct answer among
the answers (А - E). The test volume and content do not imply to be solved completely.
There can be found some tasks in the test which are not from the school program.
March 26, 2024 Grade 7-8
3 point problems
1. Which of the following strings cannot be transformed
into the string on the right without cutting?
Only one of the four pirates told the truth. The other three lied in
all their answers. The total number of coins is 30.
Who told the truth?
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
(A) Tom (B) Al (C) Pit (D) Jim (E) we cannot be sure
2. A shape is made of equal-sized pentagonal tiles.
29. Alex drives from point A to point B, then immediately returns to A. Bob
drives from point B to point A, then immediately returns to B. They travel on the
same road, start at the same time and each travels at a constant speed. Alex’s
speed is three times Bob’s speed. They pass each other for the first time 15
minutes after the start. How long after the start will they pass each other for
the second time?
(A) 20 min (B) 25 min (C) 30 min
(D) 35 min (E) 45 min
Which of the following tiles can be placed in the space in the shape to produce
two closed curves?
30. In the pentagon ABCDE, ∠A = ∠B = 90◦, AE = BC and ED = DC. Four points
are marked on AB dividing it into five equal parts. Then perpendiculars are
drawn through these points, as shown in the diagram.
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
3. The first diagram shows a rhombus. The area of the first diagram is increased
by adding two right-angled triangles, as shown. By what percentage has the area
increased?
The dark shaded region has an area of 13 cm2 and the light shaded region has
an area of 10 cm2. What is the area, in cm2, of the entire pentagon?
(A) 45 (B) 47 (C) 49 (D) 58 (E) 60 (A) 20% (B) 25% (C) 30% (D) 40% (E) 50%
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20×24
4. What is the value of ? 24. A group of 50 students sit in a circle. They throw a ball around the circle.
2×0+2×4
Each student who gets the ball throws it to the 6th student sitting anti-clockwise
(A) 12 (B) 30 (C) 48 (D) 60 (E) 120 from where they are sitting, who catches it. Freda catches the ball 100 times.
In that time, how many students never get to catch the ball?
5. Julio cuts off the four corners of a regular (A) 0 (B) 8 (C) 10 (D) 25 (E) 40
tetrahedron, as shown. How many corners does the
shape that remains have?
25. Donggyu wants to complete the diagram so that each box in the middle
(A) 8 (B) 9 (C) 11 and top rows will contain the product of the values in the two boxes below
(D) 12 (E) 15 it and each box contains a positive integer. He wants the value in the top
box to be 720.
6. Ria has three counters marked 1, 5 and 11, as
shown. She wants to place them side by side to make
a four-digit number.
How many different four-digit numbers can she make?
(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 6 (D) 8 (E) 9
How many different values can the integer n take?
(A) 1 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6 (E) 8
7. A fruit bowl contains five types of fruit:
26. Farmer Fi is selling chicken and duck eggs. She has baskets holding 4, 6,
Al likes 12, 13, 22, and 29 eggs. Her first customer buys all the eggs in one basket.
Fi notices that the number of chicken eggs she has left is twice the number
of duck eggs. How many eggs did the customer buy?
Bob likes
(A) 4 (B) 12 (C) 13 (D) 22 (E) 29
Camila likes 27. Three angles α, β and γ are marked on squared paper, as shown.
Don likes
Eva likes
The fruit is shared so that everyone gets a different type of fruit and everyone
gets a type of fruit that they like.
Who gets ? What is the value of α + β + γ?
(A) Al (B) Bob (C) Camila (D) Don (E) Eva (A) 60о (B) 70о (C) 75о (D) 90о (E) 120о
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20. Nine cards numbered from 1 to 9 were placed facedown on the table. 8. The weight restriction notice for an elevator says it can carry either 12 adults
Aleksa, Bart, Clara and Deindra each picked up two of the cards. Aleksa said ”My or 20 children. According to the weight restrictions, what is the largest number
numbers add up to 6”. Bart said ”The difference between my numbers is 5”. of children that can ride in the elevator with nine adults?
Clara said ”The product of my numbers is 18”. Deindra said ”One of my numbers (A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6 (E) 8
is twice the other one”. All four made a true statement. Which number was left
on the table?
9. Four different positive integers are placed on a grid
(A) 1 (B) 3 (C) 6 (D) 8 (E) 9 and then covered up. The products of the integers in
each row and in each column are shown in the diagram.
5 point problems What is the sum of the four integers?
(A) 10 (B) 12 (C) 13
21. The digits 0 - 9 can be drawn with horizontal and vertical segments, as
shown. (D) 14 (E) 15
10. The length of a set of four well-parked and fitted supermarket trolleys
is 108 cm. The length of a set of ten well-parked and fitted supermarket
trolleys is 168 cm.
Greg chooses three different digits. In total, his digits have 5 horizontal
segments and 10 vertical segments. What is the sum of his three digits?
(A) 9 (B) 10 (C) 14 (D) 18 (E) 19
22. Tarek wants to shade two further squares on the
diagram shown so that the resulting pattern has
a single axis of symmetry. In how many different ways can What is the length of a single supermarket trolley?
he complete his pattern? (A) 60 cm (B) 68 cm (C) 78 cm (D) 88 cm (E) 90 cm
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 6
4 point problems
23. The diagram shows three semi-circles inside a rectangle. The middle semi-
circle touches the other two semi-circles which, in turn, each touch a shorter 11. Carina baked a cake and cut it into ten equal pieces. She ate one piece
side of the rectangle. The largest semi-circle also touches one of the longer and then arranged the remaining pieces evenly, as shown.
sides of the rectangle. The shortest distances from that side of the rectangle
to the other two semi-circles are 5 cm and 7 cm respectively, as shown.
What is the size of the angle between any two pieces?
What is the perimeter, in cm, of the rectangle?
(A) 5о (B) 4о (C) 3о (D) 2о (E) 1о
(A) 82 (B) 92 (C) 96 (D) 108 (E) 120
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12. Werner can make a 4 × 4 square, where the sum of the numbers in all four 16. A kangaroo jumps up a mountain and then jumps back down along the same
rows and all four columns is the same, from the three pieces: route. It covers three times the distance with each downhill jump as it does with
each uphill jump. Going uphill, it covers 1 metre per jump. In total, the kangaroo
makes 2024 jumps. What is the total distance, in metres, that the kangaroo
jumps?
(A) 506 (B) 1012 (C) 2024 (D) 3036 (E) 4048
and one further piece.
17. Gerard cuts a large rectangle into four smaller rectangles. The perimeters
Which of the following pieces is needed to complete his square? of three of these smaller rectangles are 16, 18 and 24, as shown in the
diagram.
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
13. A square has side-length 10 m. It is divided into
parts by three straight line segments, as shown. The
areas of the two shaded triangles are A and B. What
is the value of A – B ?
(A) 0 m2 (B) 1 m2 (C) 2 m2 What is the perimeter of the fourth small rectangle?
(D) 5 m2 (E) 10 m2 (A) 8 (B) 10 (C) 12 (D) 14 (E) 16
18. Water makes up 80 percent of the mass of fresh mushrooms. However,
14. Paula the penguin goes fishing every day and always brings back twelve fish
water makes up only 20 percent of the mass of dried mushrooms. By what
for her two chicks. Each day, she gives the first chick she sees seven fish and
percentage does the mass of the mushroom decrease during drying?
gives the second chick five fish, which they eat. In the last few days one chick
has eaten 44 fish. (A) 60 (B) 70 (C) 75 (D) 80 (E) 85
How many has the other chick eaten?
19. Teri the tiler is planning to make a large, square mosaic floor with a
(A) 34 (B) 40 (C) 46 (D) 52 (E) 58 repeating pattern, using hexagonal and triangular tiles, arranged as shown in
the diagram.
15. Johan had a large number of identical cubes. He made the structure on the
right by taking a single cube and then sticking another cube to each face. He
wants to make an extended structure in the same way so that each face of his
original structure will have a cube stuck to it.
Teri the tiler is planning to make a large, square mosaic floor with a repeating
pattern, using hexagonal and triangular tiles, arranged as shown in the
diagram.
How many extra cubes will he need to complete his extended structure?
(A) 1000 (B) 1500 (C) 3000 (D) 6000 (E) 9000
(A) 18 (B) 16 (C) 14 (D) 12 (E) 10
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