20 2023 AMC Junior Questions

Junior Questions
Junior Questions
1. Kurt paved his courtyard in the pattern shown.
How many 1 × 1 pavers are in his courtyard?
(A) 28 (B) 30 (C) 32
(D) 34 (E) 36

2. Which of the following expressions has the smallest value?

(A) 3 + 2 (B) 3 − 2 (C) 3 × 2 (D) 3 ÷ 2 (E) 32

3. The numbers on the top corners of these

five playing cards add to 21.
♥♥♣
2 5 7
5
♥ ♥ ♥
♣♠ ♠♣ ♠
What is the number on the hidden card?
♥ ♠ ♠
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 5 ♣ ♠ ♥ ♥

♠ ♣
♣ 2 ♠♣
♥ 5♥ ♥
(D) 7 (E) 9 ♠ 5
7

4. What is the value of x in this diagram?

80◦
(A) 50 (B) 60 (C) 70
(D) 80 (E) 100 x◦ x◦

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5. These two clocks show opening and closing

times of my local Marine Discovery Centre. 11 12 1 11 12 1
For how long is it open each day? 10 2 10 2
9 3 9 3
(A) 5 hours and 40 minutes 8 4 8 4
7 6 5 C 7 6 5
(B) 6 hours and 20 minutes O L D
P EN OS E
(C) 6 hours and 40 minutes
(D) 7 hours and 20 minutes
(E) 7 hours and 40 minutes

2+3+4
6. What is the value of ?
7+8+9
1 2 3 4 1
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
6 7 8 9 2

7. How many 25 cm × 25 cm squares fit in a 1m

50 cm × 1 m rectangle?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 4 50 cm
(D) 6 (E) 8

8. This graph shows the water stored Water in tank, May 2023
in my rainwater tank last May.
50
What was the increase in water in
Water stored (kL)

the tank between the 10th and the 40

30th of May?
30
(A) 32 kL (B) 37 kL (C) 40 kL
20
(D) 42 kL (E) 43 kL
10
0
1 5 10 15 20 25 30
Day in May

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9. The sum of the ages of Ali, Bey and Cam is 32 years. What will be the sum of
their ages in 3 years time?
(A) 33 years (B) 35 years (C) 38 years (D) 41 years (E) 96 years

10. A parallelogram P QRS has an area of 60 cm2 Q

P
and side P Q of length 10 cm.
Which length is 6 cm?
(A) RQ (B) RS (C) QT
(D) P T (E) QS

S T R

11. Mei can travel to her grandma’s house by a direct route, or by a scenic route that
is 5 km longer. When she travels by the scenic route, and comes directly home, the
round trip is 35 km. How long is the direct route?
(A) 5 km (B) 12.5 km (C) 15 km (D) 20 km (E) 22.5 km

12. In the game of Nurdle, players try to guess a three-digit 5 3 5

number. After each guess, the digits are marked with one × ⊙ ×
of the following three symbols: 1 2 3
✓ if the digit is correct and in the right place × ✓ ⊙
⊙ if the digit is correct, but is not yet in the right place
× if the digit is not in the three-digit number at all.
Mike’s guesses so far are shown.
How many different three-digit numbers fit the clues he has so far?
(A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 7 (D) 8 (E) 9

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13. In this triangle, the number in the centre of each side is

the sum of the two numbers at the ends of the sides.
What is the sum of the three numbers at the ends of 48 34
the sides?
(A) 46 (B) 52 (C) 59 (D) 64 (E) 68
46

14. A fuel tank is 40% empty. Then 40 litres of fuel is removed. The tank is now
40% full. How many litres are in a full tank?
(A) 40 (B) 100 (C) 160 (D) 200 (E) 400

15. The game Tutu uses 4 standard dice with opposite

faces adding to 7. The dice are rolled and randomly
arranged into a 2 × 2 block.
A block’s score is the sum of the 4 numbers showing
on top plus the sum of the 8 numbers showing
around the outside.
What is the largest possible score for the block
shown?
(A) 44 (B) 46 (C) 48 (D) 50 (E) 52

16. The five clocks below are all showing the wrong time. One clock is 3 minutes away
from the correct time and another is 7 minutes away.
Which clock is closest to the correct time?
(A)
9:5 5 (B)
9:5 8 (C)
1 0:0 0
(D)
1 0:0 4 (E)
1 0:0 7

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17. I wrote a list of all multiples of 7 between 1 and 500. Then I looked at the last
digit of each number in my list.
Which digit appeared most often as the last digit?
(A) 1 (B) 3 (C) 7 (D) 9
(E) None of (A)–(D), because there is no single last digit that appears most often

18. Amy designed this rectangular flag for her

fleet of yachts. What fraction of the flag is 2
shaded?
2 3 5
(A) (B) (C)
3 5 8 2
1 7
(D) (E)
2 12 2 2 2

19. To unlock a security door, Daniyal enters a code on

the keypad shown. To make it easy to remember: 1 2 3
• the code has 10 digits
4 5 6 7
• the code uses every digit exactly once
• the code steps from button to button only if
the two buttons touch
8 9 0
• the code is as large as possible.

What is the 5th digit of Daniyal’s code?

(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 6 (E) 7

20. Jake had 3 times as many gold balloons as blue balloons, and no other colours.
Then some blew away, leaving him with 5 times as many blue balloons as gold
balloons.
What is the smallest number of balloons that Jake could have started with?
(A) 15 (B) 20 (C) 24 (D) 30 (E) 100

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21. Li attempted to multiply a single-digit number by 36, but he accidentally multi-

plied by 63 instead. His answer was 189 larger than the correct answer.
What was the correct answer to the multiplication?
(A) 180 (B) 189 (C) 216 (D) 252 (E) 288

22. The numbers from 1 to 12 are to be placed on

the vertices of the 5 interconnected squares in
this diagram. The sum of the 4 vertices of any
of the 5 squares is a constant. What is this
constant?
(A) 26 (B) 28 (C) 30
(D) 32 (E) 34

23. Ann is running round her favourite running course at a steady pace of 5 minutes
per kilometre. She passes a marker which she knows is one-quarter of the way
round. One minute and 40 seconds later, she passes another marker which is
one-third of the way round. How long will it take her to run the whole course?
(A) 18 minutes (B) 20 minutes (C) 20 minutes and 40 seconds
(D) 22 minutes and 30 seconds (E) 24 minutes

24. Jaz unlocked a secret level in the game Numbercraft. She

NUMBERCRAFT
entered a 6-digit code where the sum of the first three
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digits equals the sum of the last three digits. Further, she
gained a bonus, since her code had four 7s in a row.
For instance, she could have entered 077770. 7 8 9
How many different codes could she have entered to get the
4 5 6
secret level and the bonus?
(A) 10 (B) 18 (C) 20 (D) 27 (E) 64 1 2 3
0

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25. Two identical dice have faces labelled A, C, H,

M, S and T.

C
T
The diagram shows what they look like when
placed in front of a mirror, but the reflection of H

C
the second dice has been left blank.

S
What does the reflection of the second dice M A T H
look like?
A S

MS

S
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E) A M

M
A
M

M
A

C
26. I start with a number, multiply it by 10, and then subtract a multiple of 9 that is
less than 100. My answer is 5347. What number did I start with?

27. Amelia noticed that the names of three friends, Mei, Emma and Liam, were all
made from letters of ‘Amelia’. She chose different values from 0 to 9 for each of
A, E, I, L and M so that

M +E+I = E+M +M +A = L+I +A+M

What is the largest possible value of A + M + E + L + I + A?

28. There are three sets of three parallel lines in a plane.

Lines in different sets are not parallel, and every pair
of non-parallel lines intersect. The diagram shows
one way to do this, but for other arrangements the
number of points of intersection varies.
Find the largest possible number of intersection
points and the smallest possible number of intersec-
tion points, then multiply these two numbers.

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29. A two-digit number has the property that when it is divided by the sum of its
digits the result is 4 with remainder 3. What is the sum of all two-digit numbers
with this property?

30. Donna likes all numbers that are not divisible by 3 and Sandra likes all numbers
that have no digits divisible by 3. How many four-digit numbers are there that
both Donna and Sandra like?

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