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1. Multiple Choice
In amultiple choice exam, each candidate scores 4 points for every
Correct answer and loses 1 point for every incorrect answer.
Sarah answers all 100 questions and gets ascore of 210 marks,
How mnany questions did she answer correctly?

2. Adding Tricky Fractions

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Can you find the sum without using a calculator?
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
tt;t0tntnt4tit1822*242833
10 1112 14 15 18 22 24

3. See Axes
Each letter in this sum represents a different SEE
non-zero digit,
+ SE E
Which digit does X represent?
AXE S
4. ABCAddition
In this addition, a, b and c each represent a single abc
digit. + acb
What number does abc represent? C 4 a

5. Palindromic Milometer
When he began his three hour drive, Alan's milometer reading was
29792 miles, a palindromic number.

At the end of Alan's journey, his milometer reading was another

palindromic number.

Given that Alan never broke the speed limit of 75 miles per hour,
what was his greatest possible average speed?
1. Jam and Egg Sandwich
Each different letter in the multiplication on the right X
stands for a different digit.
Identical letters stand for the same digit. JA M
Work out the value which each letter represents.
2. So Many Sums SO
In this addition, each letter stands for adifferent + MA NY
digit, with S standing for 3.
SUMS
What is the value of Y x O?

Rolling Along the Trail

Apair of dice is thrown and the score is obtained by finding the
product of the two numbers when they land.
In five throws of both dice:

the second score is 5 more that the first;

the third score is 6 less than the second;
the fourth score is 11 more than the third;
the fifth score is 8 less than the fourth.

What was the score for each of these five throws?

4. Kangaroo Subtraction
In this subtraction, each of the letters K, A, N, G, R and KAN
Orepresents a different digit. GAR
What is the largest possible value of the number 'KAN'?
5. Operational Decision
Which symbol (+,-,+ or x) should replace to make the following
equation true?

1X2X (3 4+ 5) x (6x7+8+ 9) =2006

1. Quiz Question
There are 81 players taking part in a knock-out quiz tournament.
Each match in the tournament involves three players, and only the
winner remains in the tournament.

How many matches are required until there is an overall winner?

2. Sum of Ten
The sum of ten distinct positive integers is 100.
What is the largest possible value of any of the ten integers?
3. Filling Morecambe Bay
A notice on Morecambe Promenade reads: "It would take 20 million
years to fill Morecambe Bay from a bath tap."
Assuming that the flow from a bath tap is 6 litres per minute, what is
the approximate capacity of Morecambe Bay, in litres?
4. Roses and Carnations
Class 7H has collected £56 to buy a bunch flowers for their teacher.
Roses cost £3 each and carnations cost £2 each.

Assuming they spend all of their money, how many different possible
bunches do they have to choose from?

5. Bookshop
A book Costs £3.40 and a magazine costs E1.60.
If Clara spends exactly £23 on b0oks and
magazines, how many of
each does she buy?
6. Product of Fractions
Can you find an efficient way of calculating the
without using a calculator? product below,

5
1x L8 x1x 175 x
 1. Birthday Tables
Mark has lots of tables in his (large) house. Each circular table will
seat 5 people and each rectangular table will seat 8 people.
At his birthday party there will be 36 people, including himself. Mark
wants there to be no empty seats at any of the tables that are used.
How many tables of each type does Mark need to use in order to
achieve this? Is this the only possibility?
2. Currency Exchange
Dan has nine 20p coins and his sister Ann has eight 50p coins.
What is the smallest number of coins that must change hands so that
Dan and Ann end up with equal amounts of money?
3. Latin Multiplication
Ichoose three numbers from this number square, including 123
one number from each row and one number from each
column. Ithen multiply the three numbers together. 4 56
What is the largest possible product? 7 89
4. Product and Sum
Jim rolled some dice and was surprised that the sum of the sco res on
the dice was equal to the product of the scores on the dice.
One of the dice showed a score of 2, one showed 3 and one
showed 5. The rest showed a score of 1.

Howmany dice did Jim roll?

5. Anti-magic Square
A 4 by 4 "anti-magic square" is an arrangement of
the numbers 1 to 16 in a square, so that the totals 7
of each of the four rows and four columns and two
main diagonals are ten consecutive numbers in
Some order.

The diagram shows an incomplete antl-magic

square. Can you fill in the missing numbers
(L, 2, 8, 15 and 16) to complete it?
 1. Rain
On Aisha's holiday, 11 days had some rain.
by a clear afternoon.
A morning rain was always followed by a clear morning.
An afternoon rain was always preceded clear.
Atotal of 9 mornings and 12 afternoons were

How many days had no rain at all?

2. Almost Constant Digits

contain only the digits
How many ten-digit numbers are there which
1, 2or 3, and in which any pair of adjacent digits differs by 1?
3. Perfect Score
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100 children took part in a Mathematics competition consisting of
problems.
90 children solved the first problem
85 solved the second
80 solved the third
75 solved the last problem
What is the minimum number of children who could have answered
all the questions correctly?
4. Nine or Ten?
Convince yourself that when you roll two dice you are more likely to
Score 9 than 10.

If I roll 3 dice, which is more likely, a total score of 9, or a total score

of 10?

5. Counting Socks
A box contains two white socks, three blue socks and four grey socks.
Rachel knows that three of the socks have holes in them, but does
not know what colour these socks are.

She takes one sock at a time from the boX without looking.
How many socks must she take for her to be certain she has a pair of
SOcks of the same colour without holes?
 1. Would You Like a Jelly Baby? babies, 4 vanilla jelly
In Tom's pocket there are 8 watermelon jelly
babies and 4 butter popcorn jelly babies.
out of his
What is the smallest number of jelly babies he must take
pocket to be certain that he takes at least one of each flavOur?

2. Strange Dice
An unusual die has its six faces labelled 1, 2, 3, 5,7,9.
If two such dice are rolled, and the numbers rolled added together,
then how many different sums are possible?

Can you say which sums are most likely?

 1. Monkey Puzzle
Three monkeys Barry, Harry and Larry met for tea in their favourite
cafe,taking off their hats as they arrived. When they left, they each
put on one of the hats at random.

What is the probability that none of them left wearing thesame hat
as when they arrived?

2. Clubs
At Kaynem Daly High School, the Maths Club has 15 members and
the Science Club has 12.

If a total of 13 students belong tp aly one of the two clubs, how

many belong to both clubs?

3. School Dinners
Our school dinners offer the same basic choice each day:
Starter: soup or salad
Main course: pasta, fishcakes, pizza, burger or curry
Dessert: crumble, cake or fruit salad
Ichange my choice for each course every day,
30
trying each option in
turn, going back to soup after salad, to pasta after curry and crumble
after fruit salad. Today, Ishall sit down to soup, pasta and crumble.
How many school dinners will I have eaten before I next sit down to
the same combination again?

4. Pieces of Eight
square is divided into eight congruent triangles.
Two of these triangles are selected at random and
shaded black.

What is the probability that the resulting figure has at

least one line of symmetry?
3. Satnav Dilemma
How many
which do notdifferent routes are there fromS to T
go through
more than once? either of the points U and V

4. Birthday Party
You are told that 30
pupils have 25 different
birthdays between them.
What the largest number of
is
birthday? these pupils who could share the
same

5. Half and Half

The large equilateral triangle is fixed in position.
Two of the small equilateral triangles are to be
black and the other twO are to be painted white. painted

In how many ways can this be done?