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Math: IKMC preparation

PROBLEMs.1

1. A bridge is being build over a 120m wide river. One quarter of the bridge continues on land on the left
bank, another quarter continues on land on the right bank. How long is the bridge?
A) 150 m B) 180 m C) 210 m D) 240 m E) 270 m

2. In a park there are some cats and dogs. The number of cats feet is double the size of the number of
dogs noses. The number of cats is ??? of the number of dogs.
A) double the size B) half the size C) the same size D) a quarter the size E) a sixth of the size.

3. Which of the following is made using more than one piece of string?
A) I, III, IV and V B) III, IV and V C) I, III and V D) all E) None of these answers

II III IV V

4. The quadrilateral on the right has the following side lengths: AB = 11, BC = 7, CD = 9 and DA = 3.
The angles at points A and C are right angles. What is the area of the quadrilateral?
A) 30 B) 44 C) 48 D) 52 E) 60

5. The Ătowerñ in the diagram above is made up of a sqaure, a rectangle and an equlateral triangle. Each
of those three shapes has the same perimeter. The side length of the square is 9 cm. How long is the
side of the rectangle indicated?
A) 4 cm B) 5 cm C) 6 cm D) 7 cm E) 8 cm

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 6. In a dance group there are 39 boys and 23 girls. Every week 6 more boys and 8 more girls join the
group. After a few weeks there will be the same number of boys as girls in the dance group. How many
boys and girls will be in the dance group at that time?
A) 144 B) 154 C) 164 D) 174 E) 184

7. We want to build a box with the measurements 40 × 40 × 60 using all identical cubes. What is the
minimum number of cubes needed?
A) 6 B) 12 C) 96 D) 1200 E) 96000

8. Today is Sunday. Francis starts to read a book with 290 pages today. Sundays he reads 25 pages and on
all other days he reads 4 pages, with no exception. How many days does it take him to read the entire
book?
A) 5 B) 46 C) 40 D) 35 E) 41

9. When Liza the cat is very lazy and sits around the whole day, she drinks 60ml of milk. When she chases
mice she drinks a third more milk. In the past two weeks, she has chased mice on every second day.
How much milk has she drunk in the past two weeks?
A) 840ml B) 980ml C) 1050ml D) 1120ml E) 1960ml

10. Fridolin the hamster runs through the maze in the picture. 16 pumpkin seeds are laying on the path. He
is only allowed to cross each junction once. What is the maximum number of pumpkin seeds that he
can collect?
) 12 B) 13 C) 14 D) 15 E) 16

11. Paul wanted to multiply a whole number by 301 , but forgot to include the zero and multiplied by 31
instead. His answer was 372 . What should his answer have been?
A) 3010 B) 3612 C) 3702 D) 3720 E) 30720

12. In a tournament FC Barcelona scored a total of three goals, and conceded one goal. In the tournament
the team had won one game, lost one game and drawn one game. What was the score in the game that
FC Barcelona won?
) 2 : 0 B) 3 : 0 C) 1 : 0 D) 4 : 1 E) 0 : 1

PROBLEMs. 2

1. Two rectangles with measurements 8 × 10 and 9 × 12 overlap to some extend. The dark grey area is 37.
What is the area of the light grey part? A) 60 B) 62 C) 62,5 D) 64 E) 65

2. Eight cards that are numbered 1 to 8 are inside two boxes A and B so that the sum of the cards in
both boxes is identical. If there are exactly 3 cards in box A then which of the following statements is
definitely true:

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 A) Three cards in B are odd numbers.
B) Four cards in B are even numbers.
C) The card numbered 1 is not in B.
D) The card numbered 2 is in B.
E) The card numbered 5 is in B.

3. Andrea, Branimir, Celestin and Doris (but not necessarily in this order) are ranked one to four in a
fencing tournament. If you add Andreaôs, Branimirôs and Dorisôrank, your total is 6 . You obtain the
same number if you add Branimirôs and Celestinôs rank. Who won the tournament, if Branimir did
better than Andrea?
A) Andrea B) Branimir C) Celestin D) Doris E) It cannot be determined.

4. In the diagram opposite there is an object with 6 triangular faces. On each corner there is a number
(two are shown). The sum of the numbers on the corners of each triangle is the same. What is the sum
of all 5 numbers?
A) 9 B) 12 C) 17 D) 18 E) 24

5. The rooms in a hotel are numbered with three digit numbers each. The first digit determines the floor
and the last two digits the number of the room on each floor; e.g. room 125 is on the 1st floor, room
number 25. The hotel has 5 floors (from 1 to 5 ) and 35 rooms on each floor, i.e. on the 1st floor you
have room numbers 101 to 135 etc. How often does the digit 2 appear in all room numbers of the hotel?
A) 60 times B) 65 times C) 95 times D) 100 times E) 105 times

6. ABCD is a square with side length 10 cm. The distance of N to M measures 6 cm. Each area not shaded
grey is either a sqaure or an isosceles triangle. How big is the area shaded in grey?

A) 42 cm2 B) 46 cm2 C) 48 cm2 D) 52 cm2 E) 58 cm2

7. In the diagram on the below the total of each row and column is given. What is the value of □ ? A) 3
B) 4 C) 5 D) 6 E) 7

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 8. We want to paint each square in the grid with the colours A, B, C and D, so that neighbouring squares
always have different colours. (Squares which share the same corner point also count as neighbouring.)
Some of the squares are already painted. In which colour(s) could the grey square be painted?
A) A B) B C) C D) D E) There are two possibilities.

A B C D

9. If you are given the three corner points of a triangle and want to add a fourth point to make the four
corners of a parallelogram. In how many places can the fourth point be placed?
A) 1 B) 2 C) 3 D) 4 E) That depends on the triangle.

10. The 8 corners of the shape in the picture are to be labelled with the numbers 1, 2, 3 or 4 , so that the
numbers at the ends of each of the lines shown are different. How often does the number 4 appear on
the shape?
A) 1 B) 2 C) 3 D) 4 E) 5

11. 10 children are at a judo club. Their teacher has 80 sweets. If he gives each girl the same amount of
sweets, there are three sweets left over. How many boys are at the club?
A) 1 B) 2 C) 3 D) 5 E) 7

12. A cat had 7 kittens. The kittens had the colours white, black, ginger, black-white, gingerwhite, ginger-
black, and ginger-black-white. In how many ways can you choose 4 cats so that each time two of them
have a colour in common.
A) 1 B) 3 C) 4 D) 6 E) 7

13. Numbers are to be built using only the digits 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 in such a way that each digit is only used
once in each number. How many of these numbers will have the following property; The first digit is
divisible by one, The first 2 digits make a number which is divisible by 2, the first 3 digits make a
number which is divisible by three, the first 4 digits make a number which is divisible by 4 and all 5
digits make a number which is divisible by 5 .