Mathemania For Primary

1. How many numbers, which are only allowed to contain the digits 1,2 or 3 are
bigger than 10 and smaller than 32 ? The digits can be used more than once
in the numbers.

(A) 2 (B ) 4 (C) 6 (D) 7 (E ) 8

2. The rabbit family Hoppel eat cabbages and carrots. Each day they eat either
10 carrots or 2 cabbages. In the whole of last week they ate 6 cabbages. How
many carrots did the rabbit family eat last week?

(A) 20 (B ) 30 (C) 34 (D) 40 (E ) 50

3. Some pirates are climbing onto a ship one after the other using a rope. Their
leader is exactly in the middle. He is the eighth pirate to climb onto the ship.
How many pirates board the ship?

(A ) 16 (B ) 15 (C ) 12 (D ) 8 (E ) 7

4. Ten friends go to Robert’s birthday party. Six of which are girls. How many
boys in total are at the party?

(A) 4 (B ) 5 (C ) 6 (D ) 7 (E ) 8

5. Grandma stands in the courtyard calling her cat and all her chickens. After a
little while 20 legs are running towards her. How many chickens does
Grandma have?
(A) 11 (B) 9 (C) 8 (D) 6 (E ) 4
6. A house has 12 rooms. Each room has two windows and one light. Only when
the light is on in a room, both windows are illuminated. Yesterday evening
18 windows were illuminated. In how many of the rooms was the light off?

(A)2 (B )3 (C ) 4 (D )6 (E ) 9

7. Lisa has several sheets of construction paper like this and

She wants to make 7 identical crowns:

For that she cuts out the necessary parts.

What is the minimum number of sheets of construction paper that she has
to cut up?

(A) 7 (B ) 9 (C) 10 (D) 11 (E ) 13

8. A kangaroo always does ten jumps within a minute. Then he has a three
minute break.
How many minutes does it need in order to do 50 jumps?

(A ) 4 (B ) 5 (C ) 16 (D ) 17 (E )21

9. Alice has 3 white, 2 black and 2 grey pieces of paper. First she cuts every of
paper that is not black into two pieces.Then she halves every piece of paper
that is not white. How many pieces of paper does she obtain in total?

(A ) 14 (B ) 16 (C ) 17 (D ) 18 (E ) 20
10. The road from Anna’s to Mary’s house is 16 km long. The road from Mary’s
to John’s house is 20 km long . The road from the crossing to Mary’s house is
9 km long. How long is the road from Anna’s to John’s house?

(A ) 7 km (B ) 9 km (C ) 11 km (D ) 16 km (E ) 18 km

11. In the figure , an arrow pointing from one person to another means that the
first person is shorter than the second. For example, person B is shorter than
person A. Which person is the tallest?

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

(E ) Person E
12. Stan has five toys: a ball, a set of blocks, a game, a puzzle and a car. He puts
each toy on a different shelf of the bookcase. The ball is higher than the
blocks and lower than the car. The game is directly above the ball. On which
shelf can the puzzel not be placed?

(A ) 1 (B ) 2 (C ) 3 (D ) 4 (E ) 5

13.Whenever Ko Ko the koala bear is awake, he always eats 50 grams of leaves

in one hour. Yesterday Ko Ko slept for 20 hours. How many grams of leaves
did he eat yesterday?

(A) 0 grams (B) 50 grams (C) 100 grams (D) 200 grams
(E ) 400 grams

14.A bowl was full with sweets. Raphael took half of them out. Afterwards
Emanuel took out half of the remaining sweets. Now there are only 12
sweets left in the bowl. How many sweets were in the bowl to begin with?

(A) 12 (B) 18 (C) 20 (D) 24 (E ) 48

15.In the figure on the right a few of the small squares will be painted grey. In
so doing no square that is made from four small grey squares must
appear. At most how many of the squares in the figure can be painted grey?

(A) 18 (B) 19 (C) 20 (D) 21 (E ) 22

16. There are 10 balls, numbered 0 to 9 in a basket. John and George play a
game. Each person is allowed to take three balls from the basket and
calculate the total of the numbers on the balls. What is the biggest possible
difference between the john and Georges totals?

(A) 1 (B ) 12 (C) 18 (D) 19 (E ) 21

17. Thomas drew a pig and a shark. He cuts each animal into three pieces. Then
he takes one of the two heads, one of the two middle sections and one of
the two tails and lays them together to make another animal. How many
different animals can he make in this way?

(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E ) 8

18. Anna, Berta, Charlie, David and Elisa baked biscuits at the weekend. Anna
baked 24, Berta 25, Charlie 26, David 27 and Elisa 28 biscuits. By the end of
the weekend one of the children had twice as many, one 3 times , one 4
times, one 5 times and one 6 times as many biscuits as on Saturday. Who
baked the most biscuits on Saturday?

(A) Anna (B ) Berta (C) Charlie (D) David (E) Elisa

19.Peter wants to guess Paul’s password. He already knows the following: The
three last characters are digits. There are at most three capital letters in the
password. Which of the following passwords could be Paul’s?

(A )PAUL 123 (B) P0a1u2L3 (C) 1234Lluuaapp4321 (D) Paulin3

(E ) 123PAUL

20.Hannes has a game board with 11 spaces. He places one coin each on eight
spaces that lie next to each other. He can choose on which space to place his
first coin. No matter where Hannes starts some spaces will definitely be
filled. How many spaces will definitely be filled?

(A) 1 (B) 2 (C)4 (D) 5 (E) 6

21.In a magic garden there are magic trees. On each tree there are either 6 pears
and 3 apples or 8 pears and 4 apples. In total there are 25 apples on the
magic trees. How many pears in total are hanging on the magic trees
altogether?

(A) 35 (B) 40 (C) 45 (D) 50 (E) 56

22.A small zoo has a giraffe, an elephant, a lion and a turtle. Susi wants to visit
exactly two of the animals today but does not want to start with the lion .
How many different possibilities does she have , to visit the two animals one
after the other?
(A ) 3 (B) 7 (C)8 (D)9 (E ) 12
23.The big rectangle consists of various squares of different sizes. Each of the
three smallest squares has area 1. How big is the area of the big rectangle?

(A) 65 (B) 71 (C) 77 (D) 87 (E ) 98

24.Each of the four balls weights either 10 or 20 or 30 or 40 grams. Which ball

weights 30 grams?

(A) A (B) B (C) C (D) D (E) It can be A or B

25.Many years ago, 1st of March was a Sunday. Which day of the week was 1st
of April in that year?

26. There are 10 white marbles, 10 blue marbles and 10 orange marbles in a
bag. How many marbles must Frederick take from the bag, without looking
before the gets the first orange marble?
27.In how many ways can the snake reach its prey? (Only and movements
are allowed.)

28.16 adventurers arrived at a river bank. There was only one boat to bring them
across the river. The maximum capacity of the boat was 4 people. How many
trips were necessary to bring all the adventurers across the river?

29.Jonathan atended a maths camp that lasted for a few days. The clock
indicated 12 0’clock noon when he returned home . If Jonathan had left his
house 100 hours ago, what time did he leave home to attend the camp?

30.In how many ways can you form the word “ OLYMPIC” ?

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