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International mathematical contest «KANGAROO»

The time of the contest is 75 minutes. There is exactly one correct answer among the answers (А - E). The test volume
and content do not imply to be solved completely. There can be found some tasks in the test which are not from the
school program.

March 26, 2024 Grade 11

3 points

1. A pattern is made of equal pentagons. Which of the tiles below,

when placed in the central hole, will form a self-intersecting loop?

(A) (B) (C)

(D) (E)

2. Which of these integers is two less than a multiple of ten, two more than a square, and two times
a prime?

(A) 78 (B) 58 (C) 38 (D) 18 (E) 6

3. A young kangaroo cut a pizza into six equal slices. After eating one slice, he
arranged the remaining slices with equal gaps between slices. What size is the
angle of each gap?

(A) 5◦ (B) 8◦ (C) 9◦

(D) 10◦ (E) 12◦

4. Juuso has an unusual habit of drawing the xy-plane with the positive coordinate axes pointing left
and down. What would the graph of the equation y = x + 1 look like in a coordinate system drawn
by Juuso?

x 1 x 1 x 1 x 1 1
1 1 1 1 1
y y y y
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

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5. Kaito has manipulated a die. The probabilities of rolling a 2, 3, 4 or 5 are still each, but the
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probability of rolling a 6 is twice the probability of rolling a 1. What is the probability of rolling a 6?
1 1 7 2 5
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
4 6 36 9 18

6. Which of the expressions below has the same value as 1615 + 1615 + 1615 + 1615?

(A) 1619 (B) 431 (C) 460 (D) 1660 (E) 4122

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7. Beaver wishes to color the squares and triangles of the following figure so that no two neighbouring
figures, even those sharing a single vertex, are the same color.

What is the least number of colors needed?

(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6 (E) 7

8. There are 6 glasses on a table with their open ends up. In any one move, we turn over exactly 4
of them. What is the least number of moves required to have all glasses upside down?

(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 6

9. A student started with the number 1 and multiplied it by either 6 or 10. He then multiplied the
result by either 6 or 10, and continued this procedure many times. Which of the following cannot be
one of the numbers he obtained?
(A) 2100320 5 80 (B) 2903205 80 (C) 2903205 70
(D) 2110380 530 (E) 250550

10. A black trail and a grey trail cross a park, as shown. Each trail divides the
park into two regions of equal area. Which of the following must be true about
the areas A, B and C?
1
(A) A = C (B) B = A + C (C) B = (A + C)
2
2 3
(D) B = (A + C) (E) B = (A + C)
3 5

4 points
11. Exactly one of these statements about a certain positive integer n is true. Which statement is
true?
(A) n is divisible by 3 (B) n is divisible by 6 (C) n is odd
(D) n = 2 (E) n is prime

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12. A triangular pyramid ABCD has sides of length 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. The points M , N , P , Q, R
and S are the midpoints of the edges of the pyramid, as shown.
A

5
7
6

D
B 9

8
10
C
What is the perimeter of the closed hexagonal line MNPQRS M ?

(A) 19 (B) 20 (C) 21 (D) 22 (E) 23

13. A quadrilateral ABCD has two right angles at B and C, A

where AB = 4, BC = 8 and CD = 2. Point X lies on BC.
What is the minimum value of AX + DX?
√ D
(A) 9 2 (B) 12
(C) 13 (D) 10 B C
(E) None of the previous X

14. John has a number of all black or all white unit cubes and wants to build a 3 × 3 × 3 cube using 27
of them. He wants the surface to be exactly half black and half white. What is the smallest number
of black cubes he can use?
(A) 14 (B) 13 (C) 12 (D) 11
(E) None of the previous

15. A diagonal, a semicircle and a quadrant are drawn in a square of side 6 cm.
What is the area, in cm2, of the shaded part?

(A) 9 (B) 3π (C) 6π − 9 (D) 10π/3 (E) 12

16. The figure shows four squares. The smaller ones have side lengths
a, b and c. The vertices A and C of two of the smaller squares coincide
with two diagonally opposite vertices of the large square. The vertex B a
of the third small square is on the side of the large one. Which of the
following expressions represents the side length of the largest square? b c
1 √ 2 √
(A) 2(a + b + c) (B) a + b2 + c 2 (C) (a + b)2 + c 2
√ √
(D) (b − a)2 + c2 (E) a2 + ab + b2 + c2

17. We have two positive numbers p and q, with p < q. Which of these expressions is the largest?
p + 3q p + 2q p+q 2p + q 3p + q
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
4 3 2 3 4

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18. How many three-digit numbers are there that contain at least one of the digits 1, 2 or 3?

(A) 27 (B) 147 (C) 441 (D) 557 (E) 606

19. I write down a 4-digit non-zero number N = pqrs. When I place a decimal point between the q
and the r, I find that the resulting number pq.rs is the average of the two-digit numbers pq and rs.
What is the sum of the digits of N ?

(A) 14 (B) 18 (C) 21 (D) 25 (E) 27

20. Two candles of equal length start burning at the same time. One of the candles will burn down
in 4 hours, the other in 5 hours, each at their own constant rate. How many hours will they have to
burn before one candle is 3 times the length of the other?
40 45 63 47
(A) (B) (C) (D) 3 (E)
11 12 20 14

5 points

21. Andre has six cards with one number written on each side of each card. The pairs of numbers
on the cards are (5, 12), (3, 11), (0, 16), (7, 8), (4, 14) and (9, 10).
The cards can be placed in any order in the blank spaces of the figure.
+ + − − − =
?
What is the smallest result he can get?
(A) −23 (B) −24 (C) −25 (D) −26 (E) −27

22. Kangaroo solves the equation ax 2 + bx + c = 0, and Beaver solves the equation bx 2 + ax + c = 0,
where a, b, c are pairwise distinct non-zero integers. It turns out that the equations share a solution.
Which of the following must be true?

(A) The common solution must be 0.

(B) The quadratic equation ax2 + bx + c = 0 has exactly one real solution.
(C) a > 0
(D) b < 0
(E) a + b + c = 0

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23. I have a strip of paper that is 12 cm long and 2 cm wide. I
make a crease across it at 45◦ and then fold it, so that the two
parts of the strip are aligned in a right angle, as shown.
What is the smallest possible length, in cm, of XY ?
√ √ √
(A) 6 2 (B) 7 2 (C) 10 (D) 8 (E) 6 + 2 Y

24. Rasika has several unbiased 12-sided dice, each with faces labelled 1 to 12. When rolling all the
dice at once, the probability of rolling a 12 exactly once is equal to the probability of rolling no 12s.
How many dice does Rasika have?

(A) 8 (B) 9 (C) 10 (D) 11 (E) 12

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25. A polynomial p(x) satisfies the relation p(x + 1) = x2 − x + 2p(6) for every real x. What is the
sum of the coefficients of p?

(A) −40 (B) −6 (C) 12 (D) 40

(E) None of the previous

26. The values of x, y and z satisfy 2x = 3, 2y = 7 and 6z = 7. Which of the following gives the
relationship between x, y and z?
y x y x 1
(A) z = (B) z = +1 (C) z = − 1 (D) z = (E) z = y −
1+x y x y−1 x

27. A strip of paper consists of eight squares. Initially each square contains the number 0. In
every move ,we chose 4 consecutive squares and add one to each of the numbers in those squares.
The figure on the right shows the outcome after a number of moves but unfortunately some ink
is covering some of the squares. What number is written on the square with the question mark?

30 42 36 ? 14

(A) 24 (B) 30 (C) 36 (D) 48

(E) None of the previous

28. A function f : R −→ R satisfies f (20 − x) = f (22 + x) for all real x. It is known that f has
exactly two roots. What is the sum of these two roots?

(A) −1 (B) 20 (C) 21 (D) 22

(E) None of the previous

29. Twelve points are equally spaced on a circle. How many triangles containing a 45◦ angle can be
formed by choosing three of these points?

(A) 48 (B) 60 (C) 72 (D) 84 (E) 96

30. A special four-digit number abcd satisfies the equation abcd = aa + bb + cc + dd. What is the value
of a?
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 6