2020

Junior Questions
1. How many 1 x 1 squares are in this diagram?

(A) 16 (B) 18 (C) 20 (D) 24 (E) 25

2. What is half of 2020?

(A) 20 (B) 101 (C) 110 (D) 1001 (E) 1010

3. What is the perimeter of this triangle?

(A) 33m(B) 34m (C) 35m (D) 36m (E) 37m

4. I stepped on the train at 8.48 am and got off at 9.21 am. How
many minutes did I spend

on the train?

(A) 27 (B) 33 (D) 87 (C) 43 (E) 93

5. What is the value of y in this triangle?

(A) 10° (B) 30° (C) 50°

(D) 70° (E) 80°

6. 2-(0-(2-0)) =
(A) - 4 (B) - 2 (C) 0 (D) 2 (E) 4
7. In the grid, the total of each row is given at the end of the row, and the total of each
column is given at the bottom of the column.
The value of N is

(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5

8. A letter G is rotated clockwise by 135°. Which of the following

pictures best represents the final image?

1+ 2+ 3+4 +5 1+2
9. − =¿
1+2+3+ 4 1+ 2+ 3

(A) 3 (B) 5/6 (C) 1 (D) 7/6 (E) 2

10. Sebastien is thinking of two numbers whose sum is 26 and whose difference is 14. The
product of Sebastien's two numbers is

(A) 80 (B) 96 (C) 105 (D) 12 (E) 132

11. A country consists of two islands as shown on this map.

In square kilometres, its area is

(A) between 100 and 1000

(B) between 1000 and 10 000

(C) between 10 000 and 100 000

(D) between 100000 and 1 000 000

(E) greater than 1 000 000

12. 123456 - 12345 + 1234 - 123 + 12 - 1 =

(A) 33333 (B) 101010 (C) 111111 (D) 122223 (E) 112233

13. Lily is 2020 days old. How old was she on her last birthday?

(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 7 (E) 8

14. A piece of paper is folded twice as shown and cut along the dotted lines. Once unfolded,
which letter does the piece of paper most resemble?

(A) M (B) O (C) N (D) B (E) V

15. An equilateral triangle is subdivided into a number of smaller

equilateral triangles, as shown. The shaded tri-angle has side
length 2. What is the perimeter of the large triangle?

(A) 24 (B) 27 (C) 30

(D) 33 (E) 36

16. Triangle XYS is enclosed by rectangle PQRS as shown in the

diagram. In square centimetres, what is the area of tri- angle
XYS?
 (A) 82 (B) 88 (C) 94
(D) 112 (E) 130

17. Four teams play in a soccer tournament. Each team plays one game against each of the
other three teams. Teams earn 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw and 0 points for a
loss. After all the games have been played, one team has 6 points, two teams have 4
pointsand one team has 3 points. How many games ended in a draw?

(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3 (E) 4

18. An isosceles triangle has a perimeter of 28 cm and sides of integer length. How many
different such triangles can be made?
(A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 7 (D) 8 (E) 9
19. In the grid shown, the numbers from 1 to 4 must appear once in each
row and column. Also, the sum of numbers in each of the four regions
separated by red lines must be the same. What is the sum a + y?

(A) 8 (B) 7 (C) 6

(D) 5 (E) 4

20. Anupam has a cardboard square with a perimeter of 400 centimetres. He draws a
horizontal line and a vertical line on the square and cuts along these lines to create four
rectangles.
What is the largest possible sum of the perimeters of these four rectangles, in
centimetres?

(A) 400 (B) 600 (C) 800 (D) 1000 (E) 1200

21. The ends of the tangled string shown are pulled in the direction of the arrows so that the
string either untangles or forms a simpler knot.
 Which of the following best matches the knot, or otherwise, that is formed when the
string
is tightened?

22. Mr Atkins wrote some homework questions for his class to practise order of operations.
One of the questions was 2 + 3 × (4 + 3), with answer 23.
However, one of his students just worked from left to right and ignored the brackets,
writing 2 + 3 = 5, 5 × 4 = 20, 20 + 3 = 23, the correct answer.
Mr Atkins thought that this was fascinating, so he tried to come up with another question
where working left to right gave the right answer. He tried 5+ 4×(7+ ). What number
should he put in the box?
(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 6 (D) 8 (E) 10
23.My friend and I took a maths test with 10 questions. Question 1 was worth 1 mark,
question 2 was worth 2 marks, question 3 was worth 3 marks, and so on. Correct answers
scored full marks and incorrect answers scored 0 marks.
We both scored the same number of marks and correctly answered the same number of
questions. However, we didn’t solve exactly the same set of questions as each other.
What is the maximum score that I could have received for the test?
(A) 44 (B) 46 (C) 48 (D) 50 (E) 52
24. A light rail network has 21 drivers, but not all of them are required at the same time:
 • 15 drivers are required for the Friday night shift.
• 12 drivers are required for the Saturday morning shift.
• 9 drivers are required for the Sunday morning shift.

Given that every driver must work on at least one of these shifts, what is the maximum
number of drivers that can work on all three shifts?
(A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 7 (D) 8 (E) 9

25.A bag contains exactly 50 coins. The coins are either worth 10 cents, 20 cents or 50 cents,
and there is at least one of each. The total value of the coins is $10.
How many different ways can this occur?
(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 8 (D) 12 (E) 16

26.The digits 1 to 9 are used exactly once each to make three 3-digit numbers. The second
number is three times the first number. The third number is five times the first number.
What is the second number?

27. Madeleine types her three-digit Personal Identification Number

(PIN) into this keypad.
All three digits are different, but the buttons for the first and
second digits share an edge, and the buttons for the second
and third digits share an edge.
For instance, 563 is a possible PIN, but 536 is not, since 5 and
3 do not share an edge. How many possibilities are there for
Madeleine’s PIN?
28. Starting with a 9 × 9 × 9 cube, Augusta removed as
few 1 × 1 × 1 cubes as possible so that the resulting
sculpture had front view, top view and side view all
the same, as shown.
How many 1 × 1 × 1 cubes did Augusta remove?

29. A different integer from 1 to 10 is placed on each

of the faces of a cube. Each vertex is then assigned
a number which is the sum of the numbers on the
three faces which touch that vertex.
Only the vertex numbers are shown here.
What is the product of the 4 smallest face numbers?

30. My grandson makes wall hangings by stitching together 16

square patches of fabric into a 4 × 4 grid. I asked him to use
patches of red, blue, green and yellow, but to ensure that no patch
touches another of the same colour, not even diagonally.
The picture shows an attempt which fails only because
two yellow patches touch diagonally.
In how many different ways can my grandson choose
to arrange the coloured patches correctly?