1. 5 congruent rectangles are positioned in a square with side length 24 as shown in the diagram.

How big is the area of one of these rectangles ?

(A) 12 cm2 (B) 16 cm2 (C) 18 cm2 (D) 32 cm2

2. In triangle ABC, AD is the angle bisector of the angle at A and BH is the height from side AC.
The obtuse angle between BH and AD is four times the size of angle  DAB. How big is the
angle  CAB ?



H • 
C D B

(A) 30º (B) 45º (C) 60º (D) 75º

3. The sides of a rectangle are 6 cm and 11 cm long. You select one of the long sides. Then the
angle bisectors of the angles at the ends of this side are drawn. They split the opposite long
side into three pieces. How long are these pieces ?
(A) 1 cm, 9 cm, 1 cm (B) 5 cm, 1 cm, 5 cm
(C) 3 cm, 5 cm, 3 cm (D) 4 cm, 3 cm, 4 cm
Ans. (B)

4. The quadrilateral ABCD has right angles only in corners A and D. The numbers in the diagram
give the respective areas of the triangles in which they are located. How big is the aera of ABCD
?

A B
• 5
T
1
S
0
•
D C

(A) 60 (B) 45 (C) 40 (D) 35

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5. On a pond 16 lilly pads are arranged in a 4 × 4 grid as can be seen in the diagram. A frog sits
on a lilly pad in one of the corners of the grid. The frog jumps from one lilly pad to another
horizontally or vertically. In doing so he always jumps over at least on lilly pad. He never lands
on the same lilly pad twice. What is the maximum number of lilly pads, including the one he is
sitting on, on which he can land ?
(A) 16 (B) 14 (C) 8 (D) 6
Ans. (A)

6. A 5 × 5 square is covered with 1 × 1 tiles. The design on each tile is made up of three dark
triangles and one light triangle. The triangles of neighboring tiles always have the same color
where they join along an edge. The border of the large square is made of dark and light
triangles. What is the smallest number of dark triangles that could be amongst them ?
(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 7
Ans. (B)

7. The side length of a triangle are 6, 10 and 11. An equilateral triangle has the same perimeter as
this triangle. How long is one side of the equilateral triangle ?
(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 8 (D) 16
Ans. (D)

8. The diagram consists of three squares each one side length 1. The midpoint of the topmost
square is exactly above the common side of the two other squares. What is the area of the
section colored grey ?

3 7 1
(A) (B) (C) 1 (D)
4 8 3
Ans. (C)

9. A square with area 30 is split into two by its diagonal and then split into triangles as shown in
the diagram. Some of the areas of the triangles are given in the diagram. Which of the line
segments a, b, c, d, e of the diagonal is the longest ?

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2 cm2
a
b
2
5 cm
c 9 cm2
d
4 cm2 e

(A) a (B) b (C) c (D) d (E) e

10. Florian has seven pieces of wire of lengths 1 cm, 2 cm, 3 cm, 4 cm, 5 cm, 6 cm and 7 cm. He
uses some of those pieces to form a wire model of a cube with side length 1. He does not want
any overlapping wire parts. What is the smallest number of wire pieces that he can use ?

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

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11. In the trapezium PQRS the sides PQ and SR are parallel. Also RSP = 120º and RS = SP =
3

PQ . What is the size of angle PQR ?

S R
120º

?
Q
P

(A) 15º (B) 22.5º (C) 25º (D) 30º

12. What is the sum of the two marked angles?

(A) 150° (B) 180° (C) 270° (D) 320°

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13. In the rectangle ABCD the side AD is 10 cm long. M and N are the midpoints of the sides AB and
CD respectively. How big is the grey area?

A M B

D C
N

(A) 50 cm2 (B) 80 cm2 (C) 100 cm2 (D) 120 cm2
Ans. (C)

14. Within the square ABCD there are four identical rectangles (see diagram). The perimeter of
each rectangle is 16 cm. What is the perimeter of this square?
D C

A B

(A) 16 cm (B) 20 cm (C) 32 cm (D) 28 cm

15. A 3 cm wide strip of paper is dark on one side and light on the other. The folded strip of paper
lies exactly within a rectangle with length 27 cm and width 9 cm (see diagram). How long is the
strip of paper?
6 cm

27 cm 3 cm

(A) 36 cm (B) 48 cm (C) 54 cm (D) 57 cm

16. In a square with area 36 there are grey parts as shown in the diagram. The sum of the areas of
all grey parts is 27. How long are the distances a, b, c and d together?

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a b

d
(A) 4 (B) 6 (C) 8 (D) 9
Ans. (D)

17. The diagram shows a pentagon and indicates the length of each side. Five circles are drawn
with centers A, B, C, D and E. On each side of the pentagon the two circles that are drawn
around the ends of that side touch each other. Which point is the center of the biggest circle?

D
17
13 C

14
E

14 B
16
A

(A) A (B) B (C) C (D) D

18. In the picture on the right we can see three squares. The corners of the middle square are on
the midpoints of the sides of the larger square, and the corners of the smaller square are on the
midpoints of the sides of the middle square. The area of the small square is 6 cm 2. What is the
are of the big square ?

(A) 9 cm2 (B) 18 cm2 (C) 15 cm2 (D) 12 cm2

19. Each area in the picture on the right should be colored using one of the colors, red (R), green
(G), blue (B) or orange (O). Areas which touch must be different colors. Which color is the area
marked X ?

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R
O X
G

(A) red (B) blue (C) green (D) orange

20. A square piece is cut into six rectangular pieces as shown on the right. The sum of the
perimeters of the six pieces is 120 cm. How big is the are of the square ?

(A) 48 cm2 (B) 64 cm2 (C) 110.25 cm2 (D) 144 cm2
Ans. (A)

21. On the inside of a square with side length 7cm another square is drawn with side length 3 cm.
Then a third square with side length 5 cm is drawn so that it cuts the first two as shown in the
picture on the right. How big is the difference between the black area and the grey aera ?

(A) 0 cm2 (B) 10 cm2 (C) 11 cm2 (D) 15 cm2

22. In a convex quadrilateral ABCD with AB = AC, the following holds true : BAD = 80º, ABC =
75º, ADC = 65º . How big is BDC ? (Note: In a convex quadrilateral all internal angles are
less than 180º.)
(A) 10º (B) 15º (C) 20º (D) 30º
Ans. (B)

23. The figure on the left consists of two rectangles. Two sides lengths are marked : 11 and 13. The
figure is cut into three parts along the two lines drawn inside. These can be put together to
make the triangle shown on the right. How long is the side marked x ?

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11

13

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

24. The diagram shows an isosceles triangle, where the height is marked and its area is split up into
equally wide white and grey stripes. Which fraction of the area of the triangle is white?

2 1 2 3
(A) (B) (C) (D)
5 3 3 4
Ans. (A)

25. The diagram shows two rectangles whose sides are parallel to each other. By how much is the
perimeter of the bigger rectangle greater than the perimeter of the smaller rectangle?

2m
3m 4m

3m

(A) 12 m (B) 16 m (C) 20 m (D) 21 m

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