SIMOC, Secondary 2 Contest

SIMOC SECONDARY 2 MOCK TEST

Section A

1. The LCM of 4, 9 and n is 108. Find the least value of n.

(a) 3
(b) 9
(c) 27
(d) 36
(e) 81

2. The diagram shows a triangle ACE. The lines AD, BE and CF intersect at the point G.
How many triangles are there in the diagram altogether?
E

D
F G

A B C

(a) 14
(b) 15
(c) 16
(d) 17
(e) None of the above

3. A particular month has 5 Saturdays. The first and the last day of the month are not
Saturdays. What day is the first day of the month?

(a) Thursday
(b) Friday
(c) Saturday
(d) Sunday
(e) Monday

4. Three men, Albert, Ben and Charles, and three women, Denise, Evelyn and Fiona,
met at a restaurant.
Each of the men is married to exactly one of the women, and vice versa.
Albert’s wife and Denise’s husband do not know each other.
Evelyn’s husband and Ben’s wife do not know each other.
Ben knows everybody.
Who is Fiona’s husband?

(a) Albert
(b) Ben
(c) Charles
(d) It cannot be determined from the given information
(e) None of the above

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5. The diagram shows a circle with centre O. ABC and EDC are straight lines. Given
that AOE = 80 and BOD = 20, find ACE.

A
B
C
20
80 O D

(a) 20
(b) 25
(c) 30
(d) 35
(e) None of the above

6. If the four-digit number 66N2 is divisible by 28, find N.

(a) 2
(b) 3
(c) 5
(d) 7
(e) 9

7. A television set has a 30-inch screen size, i.e. the length of the diagonal of the screen
is 30 inches. The aspect ratio of the screen is 4 : 3. Find the height of the screen.
Leave your answer to the nearest whole number if necessary. (Note: The aspect ratio
of the screen refers to the ratio of the width of the screen to its height.)

(a) 13 inches
(b) 18 inches
(c) 21 inches
(d) 24 inches
(e) None of the above

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8. Given that x2  x + 1 = 0, find the value of x 3  .
x3
(a) 3
(b) 1
(c) 2
(d) 3
(e) Undefined [common mistake because x is undefined]

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9. The diagram shows a diagonal passing through 6 squares of a 4-by-3 rectangle. Find
the number of squares passed through by a diagonal for a 18-by-12 rectangle.

(a) 12
(b) 18
(c) 24
(d) 30
(e) None of the above

10. There are two circles, each of radius 8 cm, lying on a plane and tangential to each
other (i.e. the two circles just touch each other at one point). Find the number of
circles of radius 16 cm lying on the same plane and tangential to the first two circles.

(a) 2
(b) 3
(c) 4
(d) 5
(e) None of the above

11. The diagram shows a point E inside a rectangle ABCD such that AE = 14 cm, DE =
16 cm and CE = 8 cm. Find the length of BE.

A B

14 E

16 8
D C
(a) 2 cm
(b) 3 cm
(c) 4 cm
(d) 5 cm
(e) 6 cm

12. A list of whole numbers from 1 to 2015 is written on a sheet of paper. All the
multiples of 5 are then struck off from the list. What is the last digit of the product of
the remaining numbers?

(a) 3
(b) 4
(c) 5
(d) 6
(e) None of the above

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13. The diagram shows a spherical cap, which is obtained by making a straight cut across
𝜋ℎ(3𝑟 2 +ℎ2 )
a sphere. The volume of a spherical cap is given by , where h is the height
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and r is the radius of the cap.

A cylindrical hole 6 cm long has been drilled straight through the centre of a solid
sphere. What is the volume of the remaining solid?
(Note: Volume of cylinder =   radius2  height)

(a) 27 cm3

14. Five rectangular sheets of paper can be put up on a bulletin board by using a
minimum of 11 thumbtacks if the corners are overlapped as shown in the diagram,
where the black dots represent thumbtacks and the dotted lines represent the edges of
the sheets of paper that are covered by other sheets of paper.

What is the minimum number of thumbtacks required to put up 18 rectangular sheets

(a) 27
(b) 28
(c) 29
(d) 30
(e) None of the above

15. Find the next term of the following sequence: 2, 12, 1112, 3112, 132112, …

(a) 332112
(b) 422112
(c) 432112
(d) 1113122112
(e) None of the above

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Section B

16. Fill in the missing number in the box.

  31  37 + 41  431 = 2015

17. Find the smallest prime factor of 9991.

18. What is the largest product that can be formed from using the digits 2, 3, 4 and 5, and
one multiplication sign? You are only allowed to combine the digits to form two
numbers, e.g. 2  345, but you are not allowed to use indices, e.g. 23  45 is not
allowed.

19. Find the last digit of 1 + 2 + 22 + 23 + … + 22015.

20. The following is a conversation between Esther and Frank who met on a bus.

Esther: I have three children. Assuming that their ages are whole numbers, the
product of their ages is 72, and the sum of their ages is the bus number of
this bus that we are on.
Frank: Of course I know the bus number, but I still don’t know their ages.
Esther: Oh, I forgot to tell you that my two youngest children have the same age.
Frank: Oh, now I know their ages.

So what are the ages of the three children?

21. A data set contains 10 whole numbers. The smallest number is 2 and the largest
number is 7. The mean, median and mode of the data set are all equal to 3. List the 10
numbers in ascending order (i.e. from the smallest to the largest).

22. The maximum number of parts that can be obtained from cutting a circle using 3
straight cuts is 7. What is the maximum number of parts that can be obtained from
𝑎𝑛2 +𝑏𝑛+𝑐
cutting a circle using n straight cuts? Express your answer in the form of .
𝑑
(Note: Do not count the parts outside the circle.)

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23. Two towns, A and B, lie to the north of a straight road running in the East-West
direction (as shown in the diagram below). Unfortunately they are neither connected
to the road nor to each other. The people living in the two towns decide to build two
new roads, one from each town, to the existing road, such that the route connecting
the two towns via the existing road will be the shortest. Given that AC = 10 km, BD =
20 km and CD = 40 km, find the length of the shortest route.

Town B

Town A
20 km
10 km
Road
C 40 km D

24. The diagram shows 12 identical match sticks, each of length one unit, forming a
square with an area of 9 square units.

Use the same 12 match sticks to form a figure with an area of 4 square units. The
entire length of each match stick must be used.

25. In the following exact long division, the letter X can stand for different digits. Find
the eight-digit dividend.

XX8XX
XXXXXXXXXXX
 XXX
XXXX
 XXX
XXXX
XXXX
0